Remarkable rise of Liverpool women's football team continues as new challenge awaits

May 1 marked a special day in the history of Liverpool Feds Women’s Football Club.

A self-funded side founded in 1991, the Feds secured promotion to the third tier of the Women’s pyramid (National League Premier Division) after an outstanding run which saw the side lose only one of their 22 league fixtures in the 2021/22 season. The team, which is made up of part-time players, also reached the semi-final of the League Cup and the first-round proper of the FA Cup.

Beating off competition from Newcastle United Women to clinch top spot, the disappointment of past campaigns curtailed due to Covid and agonisingly missing out on moving up a level on more than one occasion in years gone by has been overcome in some style.

One individual who has witnessed the club’s impressive rise is Sue Carmichael, vice-chair of the Liverpool Feds, having started out as a player for the team during its founding days and then remaining part of the team for a total of 20 years.

Summing up the recent success of the club when speaking to the ECHO, Carmichael said: “It’s incredible what we’ve achieved. The club emerged from a college team in 1990, and I was part of that side. We won successive leagues and then got up to a combination league, where we got stuck for a while. The Women’s pyramid has changed and the nature of the team has changed in terms of the quality. The current side is high-quality, with an excellent manager. We’ve been pushing for promotion for seven or eight years now, so to finally win it is a huge achievement.

“It comes down to the dedication of volunteers at the club, of which there are around 40 or 50. There are no full-time staff, all of us do jobs outside of football. We have a very generous sponsor, who is a parent of