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Leeds United L.F.C.

Leeds Ladies F.C.
Leeds Ladies FC logo.jpg
Full name Leeds Ladies Football Club
Nickname(s) The Phoenix
Founded 1989
Ground Garforth Town AFC
Cedar Ridge
Garforth
Leeds
West Yorkshire
LS25 2PF
Ground Capacity 3,000
Chairperson Gary Cooper
Coach Lewis 'Muggy' Atkinson
League FA Women's Premier League Northern Division One
2015-16 5th, FA Women's Premier League Northern Division One
Website Club home page

Leeds Ladies Football Club are an English women's football club based in Leeds, West Yorkshire. They have competed in the FA Women's Premier League National Division between 2009 and 2014, and from 2014 to present in the FA Women's Premier League Northern Division 1

The club play their home matches at Wheatley Park, home of Garforth Town A.F.C., in Garforth, West Yorkshire.

Leeds Ladies have two senior teams: the first team competing in the WPL North Division 1 and second team in the respective reserves league. LLFC also have two junior sides: U16 and U15.

The club's most notable player was Sue Smith, who has played for over 10 years at international level for England, including at the 2007 Women's World Cup.

The team was originally the Leeds United Ladies team. The team announced they were changing their name to Leeds Carnegie Ladies F.C. in July 2008. This came to ensure all of the professional sports teams Leeds Met University were investing in carried the name of the university's sport department, Carnegie College (including Leeds Carnegie and Yorkshire Carnegie) On 8 July 2010 it was announced by Leeds United F.C. that to stop Leeds Carnegie Ladies from going out of existence the club would step in to provide funding again, bringing the club full circle back to Leeds United Ladies once more, a day under two years since the club was renamed Leeds Carnegie L.F.C.


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