Exeter City lost the FA Women’s National League Southern Premier leadership after defeat to Oxford United, Liverpool Feds stormed to victory at Derby County.
Northern Premier Division
Derby County 0-6 Liverpool Feds (Att: 294)
Nottingham Forest 1-1 Burnley (Att: 1,077)
Wolverhampton Wanderers 4-0 Hull City (Att: 387)
West Bromwich Albion 0-5 Rugby Borough
Nottingham Forest led through Melissa Johnson but Reanna Blades equalised for Burnley in the last ten minutes, before Rhema Lord-Mears was denied a winner by the home crossbar.
Goalscorer Reanna Blades on today’s performance ⚖️ pic.twitter.com/ZnGc38mqSS
— Burnley FC Women (@BurnleyFCWomen) September 15, 2024
Liverpool Feds stunned Derby with six goals on the road, Courtney Willis scoring twice and her first the only difference between the teams at the break.
Wolves’ 4-0 defeat of Hull featured two goals and an assist from Beth Merrick, Rugby ran out 5-0 winners at West Brom aided by a Yasmin Moxby treble.
Southern Premier Division
Exeter City 0-3 Oxford United
Cheltenham Town 1-1 Hashtag United
Lewes 0-0 Gwalia United (Att: 478)
Milton Keynes Dons 3-3 Billericay Town (Att: 600)
Oxford sent morning leaders Exeter to a 3-0 defeat at St James Park, all the goals coming in the last 15 minutes or so with Phoebie Poole netting a swift double. United moved level on points with the Grecians and Ipswich went top without playing.
MK Dons got off the mark when fighting back to draw with Billericay, whom they had trailed 2-0 and then 3-2. Annaliza Jacovides made it 3-3, Sydney Wootton earlier scored twice in as many minutes.
Cheltenham shared the points with Hashtag, behind to an own goal, Doris Greenwood replied for the hosts.
Lewes and Gwalia United played out a goalless draw, to make it three draws in five games.
Division 1 Midlands
Lincoln United 2-4 Northampton Town (Att: 77)
Loughborough Lightning 4-0 Worcester City (Att: 100)
Peterborough United 5-2 Sutton Coldfield Town (Att: 146)
Loughborough and Peterborough both extended their winning starts to a fifth match, but the Posh had to twice come from behind in beating Sutton Coldfield where Keir Perkins was on target twice.
Kim Farrow’s penalty helped Northampton to victory at Lincoln United, who missed one of their three penalties when 1-0 up.
Division 1 South East
Ashford Town 0-6 Cambridge United
Queens Park Rangers 2-0 London Seaward
Alysha Stojko-Down found the net three times in Cambridge’s six at Ashford, as they went up to fourth place.
QPR saw off London Seaward with efforts from Ashleigh Goddard and Jo Blodgett, as they registered their first win.
Division 1 South West
Swindon Town 6-0 Maidenhead United (Att: 408)
Swindon scored five times in the last half hour, as they made it five straight wins to go three points clear at the top.
League Cup Preliminary Round
Plymouth Argyle 3-0 London Bees (Att: 535)
Southampton Women 0-3 Moneyfields
Stourbridge 1-4 Middlesbrough (Att: 86)
York City 1-3 Huddersfield Town
Middlesbrough pulled off a 4-1 win at higher division Stourbridge to secure a home tie with Leeds, Huddersfield overcame an early deficit to progress at York and set up a home game with Hull.
Georgia Wilson bagged a first-half brace for Plymouth as they knocked out London Bees with a visit to Maidenhead now in the 1st round, Moneyfields won by the same margin at Southampton Women where Britt Jeal bagged a brace.
League Plate Preliminary Round
Actonians 3-0 Abingdon United
AFC Bournemouth 8-0 Portishead Town
AFC Fylde 2-1 Chorley
AFC Wimbledon H/W Arsenal Academy
Boldmere St Michaels 9-1 Lincoln City (Att: )
Chelsea Academy 1-2 Bristol City Academy (Att: )
Chesham United 3-2 Tottenham Hotspur Academy
Crystal Palace Academy 1-4 Southampton FC Academy
Halifax H/W Sheffield United Academy
Keynsham Town 4-1 Bristol Rovers
Leafield Athletic 1-2 (aet) Stockport County
Norton & Stockton Ancients 5-3 (aet) Doncaster Rovers Belles
Norwich City 1-0 Brighton & Hove Albion Academy
Sunderland Academy 2-4 Liverpool FC Academy
Norton defeated Doncaster 5-3 after extra-time despite trailing three times but Bianca Owens struck four goals, Chesham let a 2-0 lead slip against Spurs Academy but Gemma Fraser’s second goal won it for the hosts.
Jess Brady made a 70th-minute breakthrough for Stockport, only for Leafield’s Hayley Crackle to level deep into added time. Maria Figueiredo restored the advantage early in the extra half-hour and Athletic’s Crackle was sent off.
Norwich knocked out Brighton Academy thanks to an early penalty by Hope Strauss, Ruby Day and Bonnie Gready got the goals for Bristol City Academy as they won away to their Chelsea counterparts.
Fylde saw off Chorley 2-1 as Abi Duffell added their decisive second, Ikraam Mohamed scored two of Actonians three to eliminate Abingdon.
AFC Bournemouth’s Chloe Gilroy got three of the Cherries’ eight goals against Portishead, Boldmere went one better against Lincoln City.
— AFC Bournemouth Women (@AFCBournemouthW) September 15, 2024
