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Bath City Women to host neighbours in South West League opener

Friday 1st August 2025 Richard Briggs, Reporter Sport

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Bath City Women will start their league season by hosting neighbours Bitton at the Cannon Clarke Stadium @ Twerton Park.

Action from last season’s Bath versus Bitton fixture in League Division One North | Photo © Simon Howe

The Romans will again compete in Shield Services Group South West Regional Women’s Football League Division One North, where they finished fourth in 2024-25.

And there are lots of derbies in the diary, with Bitton joined by AFC Brislington, Corsham Town, Downend Flyers, Mangotsfield United, Paulton Rovers, Stockwood Wanderers and Whitchurch among City’s opponents.

All fixtures for the 2025-26 campaign have now been released by the league, Bath taking on Bitton on Sunday 14th September.

The Romans’ first away match will see them at Cirencester Town on Sunday 21st September.

City’s league season will conclude at Stockwood on Sunday 1st March.

Bath City Women’s league fixtures in full:

  • September: 14th Bitton (H), 21st Cirencester Town (A), 28th Gloucester City Reserves (H).
  • October: 5th Downend Flyers (H), 19th Royal Wootton Bassett Town (H), 26th Mangotsfield United (H).
  • November: 2nd Paulton Rovers (A), 9th Corsham Town (A), 16th Whitchurch (H), 23rd AFC Brislington (H), 30th Bitton (A).
  • December: 7th Cirencester Town (H), 14th Gloucester City Reserves (A).
  • January: 4th Downend Flyers (A), 11th Stockwood Wanderers (H), 18th Royal Wootton Bassett Town (A), 25th Mangotsfield United (A).
  • February: 1st Corsham Town (H), 8th Paulton Rovers (H), 15th Whitchurch (A), 22nd AFC Brislington (A).
  • March: 1st Stockwood Wanderers (A).

All of Bath’s home games will be played at the Cannon Clarke Stadium @ Twerton Park (2pm).

The Romans are one of 538 clubs accepted into this season’s Adobe Women’s FA Cup.

City – along with 158 other sides – are exempt to the first qualifying round, which will be played on Sunday 7th September.

The draw for this stage and the preliminary round, which will be played on Sunday 24th August, will be announced by the Football Association on Monday 4th August.

Winning clubs in the first qualifying round will each receive £1,800 prize money, with the losers getting £450 apiece.

The final will be at Wembley Stadium on Sunday 31st May.

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