Scottish Women’s Premier League fixtures for 2025-26 season revealed | OneFootball

Scottish Women’s Premier League (SWPL) champions Hibernian will begin the defence of their title at home to Aberdeen, after the fixtures for the 2025-26 season were revealed.

Hibernian fended off Rangers and Glasgow City on the final day of last season to win their first title in 18 years.

Glasgow City, who finished three points behind Hibernian, will begin their quest for a 17th SWPL title against Motherwell.

Rangers – who are now managerless after Jo Potter decided to take over at Crystal Palace – start away at Montrose.

Celtic finished fourth last season and they face a difficult start away at Hearts who only finished one position below.

The final fixture of the opening weekend will see newly promoted Hamilton begin life back in the top-flight at home against Partick Thistle.

When does the 2025-26 SWPL season begin?

The SWPL season begins on Sunday, August 17th. All games are scheduled to kick-off at 2pm.

Other key dates for the SWPL season were released in February, including play-off competitions, the winter break and the Sky Sports Cup.

SWPL opening day fixtures

SWPL derby and standout fixtures for 2025-26 season

The SWPL fixture schedule for the 2025-26 season has several derbies take place on Matchday 4 on September 7th.

Celtic will host managerless Rangers, Hearts welcome champions Hibernian and Motherwell face newly promoted Hamilton Academical.

The reverse fixtures for those games are currently scheduled for Sunday, November 16th.

The first meeting between last season’s top two – Hibernian and Glasgow City – was originally pencilled in for Matchday 3 in August.

However, due to European matches, they will now face off on Wednesday, October 1st.

The return fixture between the pair will take place on Sunday, November 23rd.

Below, is a list of standout fixtures for the 2025-26 campaign.

Changes to 2025-26 SWPL season

The number of teams in the top-flight has been reduced for the 2025-26 SWPL season from 12 to 10.

To achieve the drop in numbers, last season’s campaign saw Spartans, Queen’s Park and Dundee United relegated to the second-tier of Scottish women’s football. Only Hamilton Academical were promoted to the top-flight.

In turn, the SWPL 2 has increased from 10 teams to 12.

SWPL teams will play each other home and away before the league splits into a top six and bottom four.

The side that finishes bottom of the SWPL will be relegated and they will be replaced by the side that finishes top of the second-tier.

Those who finish third and fourth in SWPL 2 will take part in a play-off quarter-final, where the winner will face the team that was second in SWPL 2 in a play-off semi-final. The winner will then take on whoever finishes ninth in the SWPL to determine who plays in the top-flight.