The 2021–22 Birmingham City W.F.C. season was the club's 54th season in existence and their 11th in the FA Women's Super League, the highest level of the football pyramid, having been founding members of the league in 2011. Along with competing in the WSL, the club also contested two domestic cup competitions: the FA Cup and the League Cup.
Ahead of the 2021–22 season the team moved from Damson Park, where they had been based since 2014, to St Andrew's, the club's main stadium.
Manager Carla Ward resigned at the end of the previous campaign after only one season in charge having kept the team up with an 11th-place finish. Ward was replaced by Scott Booth who ended a six-year spell as manager of Glasgow City to take the role. Having only picked up one point from the opening seven league games and losing both League Cup games, Booth was sacked on 18 November 2021 after five months in charge. Tony Elliott took caretaker control for the WSL game against Chelsea on 21 November before Darren Carter was appointed interim manager later that day having left a coaching role at West Bromwich Albion to take the job.
On 4 May 2022, Birmingham City were relegated following a 6–0 defeat away at Manchester City with one game remaining. Members of the WSL since it was founded in 2011, it ended Birmingham's 20-year stint as a top-flight club having last been promoted as 2001–02 FA Women's Premier League Northern Division champions.
Squad
Preseason
FA Women's Super League
Results summary
Results by matchday
Results
League table
Women's FA Cup
As a member of the first tier, Birmingham City entered the FA Cup in the fourth round proper.
FA Women's League Cup
Group stage
Squad statistics Appearances
Starting appearances are listed first, followed by substitute appearances after the + symbol where applicable.
|colspan="14"|Players who appeared for the club but left during the season:
Transfers Transfers in DatePositionNationalityNameFromRef.17 July 2021FWJade Pennock Sheffield United23 July 2021DFLouise Quinn Fiorentina27 July 2021FWSarah Ewens CelticFWLucy Quinn Tottenham Hotspur28 July 2021FWLibby Smith Leicester City4 August 2021DFCecilie Sandvej FC Fleury 9127 August 2021MFJamie Finn Shelbourne28 August 2021GKMarie Hourihan Braga2 September 2021DFArabella Suttie Chelsea3 September 2021FWEleanor Ryan-Doyle Peamount UnitedFWEmily Whelan Shelbourne
Loans in DatePositionNationalityNameToUntilRef.6 August 2021GKEmily Ramsey Manchester United30 June 2022MFLisa Robertson Celtic30 June 2022
Transfers out DatePositionNationalityNameToRef.15 June 2021MFHeidi Logan Lewes26 June 2021GKHannah Hampton Aston Villa29 June 2021MFSarah Mayling Aston Villa30 June 2021MFElla Powell Loughborough Lightning1 July 2021FWClaudia Walker West Ham UnitedMFMollie Green Coventry United16 July 2021FWAbbi Grant Leicester City27 July 2021FWEmma Kelly Sunderland6 August 2021GKSophie Whitehouse Bristol City19 August 2021MFConnie Scofield Leicester City23 August 2021FWRuesha Littlejohn Aston Villa31 March 2022DFRebecca Holloway Racing Louisville
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