Brentford Women's team 21/22

[Jay Bee]

This season the women's first team will play in Step 6, in the catchily named London and South East Regional Womens Football League Division 1 North....having finished runners up and secured promotion from Greater London Women's Football League (Premier division). The division had 7 teams in it last season and now has 10 so I think we have partly benefitted from league expansion. One division below Fulham. QPR also applied for and got promotion to step 4, so remain two steps below them.

London & South East Regional Women's
This should be a link to the league table for div 1 North for 21/22 Table | Division 1 North | London & South East Regional Women's

London and South East Women's Regional Football League - Wikipedia - this is not yet up to date for 21/22.

Season kicks off on 22nd August. The ladies are playing a friendly at Bedfont sports club - next to Heathrow - against Clapton CFC right now. Is this the normal home ground?

The ladies development team played in step 9 last season, Greater London Women's Football League Division 2 (North), but won the league.
Greater London Women's Football League - Wikipedia
I am yet to discover whether they are also taking a step up.

 

[Jay Bee]

Friendly full time 1-0 to Brentford

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1421853420240125954

Looks like last season's kit, I know this was discussed as an issue in the past. Maybe excusable in pre-season....

 

[Jay Bee]

Initial league fixtures for the women's first team here -

Official website of Brentford Football Club - 2021/22 Women's Fixtures & Results

www.brentfordfc.com

9 Sunday fixtures between August and November. Bedfont sports ground is the home ground.

Rest of the fixtures tbc per there and the FA's website.

Development / B team on a second tab, just friendlies so far.

There was a double header friendly last Sunday per this picture.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1424041052235780097

Presumably the development team were playing Luton reserves.

It is good to see publicity in the new stadium. If the club want to promote the women's team, though, less good to see nothing about these fixtures in advance on the official site or the club's own social media. Appreciate there is rather a lot else going on at the moment in BFC land, but if you're staging 2 football matches it takes seconds to fire off a couple of tweets to let the world know.

 

[Jay Bee]

London and South East Women's Regional Football League - Wikipedia - this is not yet up to date for 21/22.

This is now up to date to show the first team's opponents for 21/22, with the usual Wikipedia map. Closest league opponents are London Sport E Benfica, who play in Paddington, and Walton Casuals.

The ladies development team played in step 9 last season, Greater London Women's Football League Division 2 (North), but won the league.
Greater London Women's Football League - Wikipedia
I am yet to discover whether they are also taking a step up.

Also confirmed that the Women's B team (formerly the development team) will play at step 8, Greater London Women's Football League Division 1 (North), following winning step 9 last season.

B team league table and fixtures here: Greater London Women's Football League
That league kicks off on 5th September.

Looks like the home games tend to alternate between the two teams rather than playing back to back on the same day.

 

[Jay Bee]

Yesterday's big kick off at Rectory Park, Northolt.... Sport London e Benfica 1 Brentford Women 2
Some line-up info here [FA website]
though not sure this is totally reliable... did we really only have ten players?

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1429753433691729920

Brand new kit alert for the ladies team too. Good news.

Only the result reported on the official site, though the chairman has his finger on the pulse

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1429762496647270400

The OS does have a detailed write up of pre-season for both teams and interview with Karleigh and the B team head coach Review of pre-season for Brentford WFC

 

[Jay Bee]

Yesterday's game against Clapham United was postponed.

Bees United wrote a feature to mark 30 years of the women's team, actually published in May but linked from the OS yesterday

Bees United look at Brentford WFC

 

[Jay Bee]

Red hot news from the women's B team

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1434532616913424391

 

[rebus]

Yesterday's game against Clapham United was postponed.

Bees United wrote a feature to mark 30 years of the women's team, actually published in May but linked from the OS yesterday

Bees United look at Brentford WFC

The original Brentford women’s team was originally Feltham women who started around 1970.

They became quite successful and from memory played in a regional league just below the national set up but changed thier name to Hampton in the mid 1990s. I’m assuming Amy’s team was a reserve or junior side when it started.

 

[Jay Bee]

The original Brentford women’s team was originally Feltham women who started around 1970.

They became quite successful and from memory played in a regional league just below the national set up but changed thier name to Hampton in the mid 1990s. I’m assuming Amy’s team was a reserve or junior side when it started.

So they were Feltham, then Brentford, then Hampton? How confusing.

The article says Amy's team in 1991 were "the first time women played in a league in Brentford colours..." even if this sentence is entirely accurate it seems odd to badge them as the first if there was a separate predecessor team. Seems as though all teams were only informally linked to the BFC until relatively recently. Anyway there is continuity for 30 years with Amy's involvement in this team so 30 years is a significant landmark.

 

[rebus]

So they were Feltham, then Brentford, then Hampton? How confusing.

The article says Amy's team in 1991 were "the first time women played in a league in Brentford colours..." even if this sentence is entirely accurate it seems odd to badge them as the first if there was a separate predecessor team. Seems as though all teams were only informally linked to the BFC until relatively recently. Anyway there is continuity for 30 years with Amy's involvement in this team so 30 years is a significant landmark.

The article is incorrect, and yes, it’s a significant landmark. Amy and Roger kept it going for years when no one else would.

 

[SpiderBee]

 

[SpiderBee]

0-0 draw at Sutton

 

[SpiderBee]

0-0 draw at Sutton

Highlights -

 

[GABS]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1450823605667962889

 

[N5022N122]

I was looking in the OS at staff and noticed we have a family affair of sorts for the B team with three staff called Crook. Can anyone sued some light on the staff generally in the women's team first and B.

 

[Ealing Bee]

I was looking in the OS at staff and noticed we have a family affair of sorts for the B team with three staff called Crook. Can anyone sued some light on the staff generally in the women's team first and B.

"The team was formed [in 1990] by Roger Crook in response to the demands from his daughter Amy to play football."
A special anniversary

As well as playing, Amy has also worked for Brentford Football in the Community (as was), from around the same time, or soon after.

As such, she's a terrific asset to the club. Dunno who Cameron Crook is, but very possibly related?

 

['Ayes B]

Believe our ladies teams both got promoted last season and are both doing well in their new divisions this season.

 

[N5022N122]

Thx ealing.

 

[rebus]

The training ground plans are interesting. They have training pitches and facilities for women. This indicates to me we will relaunch the women’s side. One possible Avenue is taking over Hounslow women’s FC. They play in a much higher league.

 

[TW3Bee]

The training ground plans are interesting. They have training pitches and facilities for women. This indicates to me we will relaunch the women’s side. One possible Avenue is taking over Hounslow women’s FC. They play in a much higher league.

Formerly known as QPR Women, which were formed after a merger with Wembley Mill Hill, who had quite a rivalry with Hampton Ladies when they were managed by Alan Devonshire, about 25 years or so ago, when I used to watch them of a Sunday.

 

[rebus]

Formerly known as QPR Women, which were formed after a merger with Wembley Mill Hill, who had quite a rivalry with Hampton Ladies when they were managed by Alan Devonshire, about 25 years or so ago, when I used to watch them of a Sunday.

Yes, they used to be Brentford Ladies until they left en masse and changed their name to Hampton.

 

['Ayes B]

The training ground plans are interesting. They have training pitches and facilities for women. This indicates to me we will relaunch the women’s side. One possible Avenue is taking over Hounslow women’s FC. They play in a much higher league.

That would make us equal to MK Dons in my eyes

 

[rebus]

That would make us equal to MK Dons in my eyes

They changed their name from QPR to Hounslow.

 

[Lionel Bart-At]

They changed their name from QPR to Hounslow.

They did. Worth mentioning that QPR still have a women's team playing at a higher level (National League Division One South East), born out of the Development Squad three seasons ago, when the youth set-up head coach was tasked with running the whole operation.

Previously, there had been no real connection between the two set-ups. This move I believe was initiated to provide a pathway from youth to adult football and also recognize the quality of player coming through the ranks, at a time when the now Hounslow Women had suffered several relegations.

 

[Comic Book Guy]

Didn't know where else to put this and apologies if been posted already, but think its great from the club:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1497213536082272258

 

[rebus]

The original Brentford women’s team was originally Feltham women who started around 1970.

They became quite successful and from memory played in a regional league just below the national set up but changed thier name to Hampton in the mid 1990s. I’m assuming Amy’s team was a reserve or junior side when it started.

Got to the bottom of this. Brentford ladies changed their name from Feltham in 1988 and then in 1996 changed again to Brentford and Hampton Ladies FC.

Alan Devonshire was their manager in 1995/1996 alongside his role at Osterley, which I’m sure @SpiderBee can talk more about. I assume they dropped the Brentford name after a short while.

The current team were a separate side called Brentford Beechams formed in the early 1990s, later changing to Brentford Women’s and Girls’ FC.

 

[SpiderBee]

Got to the bottom of this. Brentford ladies changed their name from Feltham in 1988 and then in 1996 changed again to Brentford and Hampton Ladies FC.

Alan Devonshire was their manager in 1995/1996 alongside his role at Osterley, which I’m sure @SpiderBee can talk more about. I assume they dropped the Brentford name after a short while.

The current team were a separate side called Brentford Beechams formed in the early 1990s, later changing to Brentford Women’s and Girls’ FC.

Yes, Alan managed Osterley before moving for his 1st spell at Maidenhead United.

 

[belvederebee]

How did they get on in their cup final on 22nd May?

 

[rebus]

How did they get on in their cup final on 22nd May?

They beat Islington Borough 2-0 apparently.

 

[wanderer paul]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1528387259019436032

 

[wanderer paul]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1528392371351724033

 

[belvederebee]

They beat Islington Borough 2-0 apparently.

Thanks. Nothing on BFC website.

 

['Ayes B]

Thanks. Nothing on BFC website.

Coverage of the ladies teams has been really poor this season.

In previous years we often got goal updates on Twitter from @BrentfordFCW and usually the full time result. Now we get nothing

 

[Paul O'Brien]

Thanks. Nothing on BFC website.

Yes. I though that was pretty poor.

We cover the B Team Cup Finals in detail for the men's team, but not the women's team.