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The 2016 FA WSL was the sixth edition of the FA WSL since it was formed in 2010. The WSL 1 was expanded to nine teams. The WSL 2 included one team promoted from the FA Women's Premier League for the first time. The season started on 23 March and Chelsea were the defending WSL 1 champions.
The 2016 FA WSL Cup final was the sixth final of the FA WSL Cup, England's secondary cup competition for women's football teams and its primary league cup tournament. [2] Manchester City defeated Birmingham 1-0 in extra time.
A shortened bridging season took place, branded as the FA WSL Spring Series, with teams playing each other once from February to May 2017. [15] Following the 2017–18 FA WSL season, WSL 1 was renamed back to the FA Women's Super League, becoming a fully professional league for the first time, with eleven teams for the 2018–19 season.
The 2016 season is Manchester City Women's Football Club's 28th season of competitive football and its third season in the FA Women's Super League and at the top level of English women's football, having been promoted from the FA Women's Premier League before the 2014 season. [1]
The 2016 season was Arsenal Ladies Football Club's 29th season since forming in 1987. The club participated in the sixth edition of the FA WSL, England's top flight for women's football since 2011. Arsenal also played in the FA Women's Cup and the FA WSL Cup, winning the final of the former against Chelsea in May. This was the last full WSL ...
Pedro Martínez Losa and Kelly Smith with the FA WSL Cup, 2015. 2014 saw 18 teams enter, with the new WSL 2 teams joining the WSL teams. There are three groups of six teams. In 2015 for the first time a quarter-final stage was played. For 2016 the cup changed to a true knock-out format and abolished the group stage.
The FA WSL Spring Series was an interim edition of the FA WSL between the sixth and seventh full seasons. The Spring Series ran from February to May 2017 to bridge the gap from the 2016 FA WSL season which ran from March to September as a summer tournament, and the 2017–18 season which started in September 2017. [1] [2]
[2] [3] Also, for the first time, a team from the FA Women's Premier League earned promotion to WSL 2, effectively connecting the WSL to the rest of the English women's football pyramid. [ 4 ] This will leave WSL 1 with nine teams and WSL 2 with 10 teams for the 2016 season , and with the process repeated the following year, both WSL 1 and WSL ...