Glasgow City FC is the most successful women’s football team in the country. In 2011 the team won the Scottish Premier League for the 6th time in seven years and secured the domestic double by clinching the Scottish Cup in a final against Hibernian. The Club was founded in 1998 by two hugely ambitious individuals, Chairperson Carol Anne Stewart and Club Manager Laura Montgomery. Laura was one of the Club’s most successful players and retired at the end of last season.

In episode four of Glasgow City FC the team is in Glasgow to play against Icelandic Champions Valur Reykjavik in the last 32 of the Champions League. Amateur Club City FC has made history by becoming the first Scottish women’s side to reach this stage of the competition. They are also Scotland’s only representatives in the Champions League. The match attracts a considerable amount of media interest, and is attended by Stewart Regan CEO of the SFA and Government Minister for Commonwealth Games and Sport Shona Robison. 

Emma Woolley - “All my holidays are gone for the year, anything more that I have to take, even this trip is either unpaid leave or I have to work 6 days a week to make up the time, which is what I’m doing just now, but I’m quite lucky my boss is really supportive.... There is no personal life, if you’re working like 6 days a week, to make up the time, your only day off is Sunday, and Sunday is football, so it’s just constantly relentless, because you’re working constantly but if you want to be successful and you want to you know reach your targets and that then it’s just what you do! You never think about it!”

Click on the video to see a clip from episode four of 'Glasgow City FC'. 

If you missed the new episode you can catch it at 8pm on BBC ALBA this Sunday (5th of February) 

BBC ALBA IS AVAILABLE ON SKY 168, FREEVIEW 8, CABLE 188 AND FREESAT 110

 

PASSION, SKILL, COMMITMENT, DEDICATION, SUCCESS. THIS IS GLASGOW CITY FC, WHO PLAY AT THE TOP LEVEL OF SCOTTISH WOMEN’S FOOTBALL.