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National Division Players’ Player: Kelly Smith (Arsenal) International Player of the Year: Rachel Unitt (Everton) International Young Player of the Year: Karen Carney (Birmingham City) Top Scorers ...

The 2005-06 National Division season was destined to end as expected, Arsenal completing a hat-trick of successive titles, but the big drama of the campaign came before it had even started. Birmingham ...

RUNAWAY ROVERS RACE TO TITLE There was no stopping ambitious Blackburn Rovers in their pursuit of National Division status, in only their second season of FA Women’s Premier League football. Promoted ...

Never mind jumpers for goalposts, it was headlights for floodlights in the early days of Birmingham City’s rise to FA Women’s Premier League prominence. Formed in 1968 and playing in regional leagues ...

From its controversial beginnings through major trophy triumphs and right up to its bitter end, Keith Boanas was a central figure in the seven-year history of Charlton Athletic’s first iteration of ...

In contrast to the straightforward success enjoyed by Chelsea in the previous season, the 2005-06 Southern Division witnessed a three-way tussle between Cardiff City, Bristol City and Watford. Bristol ...

An independent Regulatory Commission has imposed an action plan, £120,000 fine and warning upon West Ham United FC for misconduct in relation to crowd control during its Premier League fixture against ...

There were 15 awards handed out at the seventh annual FA Women’s Football Awards event, held at the Sheraton Park Lane Hotel, London on Tuesday 10 May. England Women’s National Coach Hope Powell, FA ...

2004-05 was the second in a run of seven successive National Division seasons – right up to the 2010 formation of the Women’s Super League – that saw an increasingly dominant Arsenal crowned champions ...

CHELSEA TAKE CHARGE Revitalised with summer signings and in their first season funded by the men’s club, rather than self-financed – multi-rich Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich had taken over at ...