FA Women’s National League: Match Day One Round-up | OneFootball

Last season’s Northern Premier runners-up Wolves began with a win at Deby County. (Photo: @WolvesWomen)

The FA Women’s National League 2023/24 season is underway and amongst the drama Ipswich Town netted a 102nd-minute winner at Cardiff City LFC.

NORTHERN PREMIER DIVISION Derby County 1-2 Wolverhampton Wanderers Huddersfield Town 4-2 AFC Fylde (Att: 102) Liverpool Feds 2-3 Burnley (Att: 105) Newcastle United P-P Halifax Nottingham Forest 7-0 Stourbridge (Att: 636) West Bromwich Albion 3-1 Stoke City

Reigning Northern Premier champions Nottingham Forest put seven past promoted Stourbridge with well over 600 fans in attendance, Wolves’ two first-half goals at Derby County proved sufficient, Burnley got the better of Liverpool Feds 3-2 away.

SOUTHERN PREMIER DIVISION

Cardiff City LFC 1-2 Ipswich Town (Att: 250) Milton Keynes Dons 2-2 Oxford United Plymouth Argyle 0-6 Billericay Town (Att: 47) Portsmouth 5-0 Cheltenham Town (Att: 482) Rugby Borough 3-0 London Bees Chatham Town 1-3 Hashtag United (Att: 478)

Cardiff City Ladies had Kylie Nolan stretchered off in a 2-1 home defeat to Ipswich Town. Megan Wearing got the winner 12 minutes into the 18 added at the end of the second 45.

MK Dons were two down to Oxford United to fought back to draw with an injury-time leveller. Portsmouth had Isobel Collins sent off on 68 minutes but Sophie Quirk completed a hat-trick to help send Cheltenham Town to a 5-0 defeat.

DIVISION 1 MIDLANDS

Lincoln City 6-2 Notts County Northampton Town 2-1 Peterborough United (Att: 322) Sheffield FC 1-1 Loughborough Lightning Solihull Moors P-P Boldmere St Michaels Sporting Khalsa 3-1 Leafield Athletic (Att: 70) Sutton Coldfield Town 3-1 Leek Town

Alex Dicks of Northampton Town takes the ball past Neive Corry of Peterborough United. (Photo by Pete Norton/Getty Images)

Sutton Coldfield Town made a winning debut against Leek Town, Notts County went down 6-2 at Lincoln City. Lauren Purchase’s 17th-minute goal had Loughborough Lightning ahead at Sheffield FC, until Eden Hinchliffe rescued a point 11 minutes from time.

DIVISION 1 NORTH

Barnsley 4-0 Chorley Chester le Street Town 0-3 Durham Cestria (Att: 158) FC United of Manchester 1-7 Doncaster Rovers Belles Leeds United 2-1 Stockport County (Att: 411) Middlesbrough 0-0 Norton & Stockton Ancients (Att: 696) York City 3-4 Hull City (Att: 105)

Doncaster Rovers Belles sank returning FC United 7-1, Hull City won the seven-goal thriller at York City, Middlesbrough drew 0-0 watched by nearly 700.

DIVISION 1 SOUTH EAST

AFC Sudbury 1-2 Norwich City (Att: 203) Cambridge City P-P Cambridge United Haywards Heath Town 1-3 Ashford Town London Seaward 3-1 Actonians (Att: 62) Worthing P-P AFC Wimbledon

AFC Sudbury suffered heartbreak on their FAWNL debut, Norwich City taking the points in added time.

DIVISION 1 SOUTH WEST

Bridgwater United 1-5 Exeter City Keynsham Town 3-4 Maidenhead United (Att: 70) Portishead Town 4-2 Torquay United (Att: 170) Selsey 0-13 AFC Bournemouth (Att: 60) Southampton Women P-P Moneyfields Swindon Town 4-2 Abingdon United (Att: 158)

AFC Bournemouth ran riot with 13 goals at Selsey where Gemma McGuinness claimed a treble, Maidenhead United won by the odd goal in seven at Keynsham Town, while there were 4-2 debut defeats on the road for Torquay United and Abingdon United at Portishead Town and Swindon Town respectively.

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