Southampton Saints L.F.C.
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| Full name | Southampton Saints Girls and Ladies Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) | The Saints |
| Founded | 1979 as Red Star Southampton W.F.C. |
| Ground | First Team: Sholing FC, Silverlake Arena, VT Sportsground, Portsmouth Road, Southampton, Hampshire, SO19 9PW |
| Owner | Southampton Saints G&L FC Committee |
| Chairperson | Tracey Wheeler |
| Manager | Adam Lee |
| League | FA Women's Premier South West Division One |
| 2015–16 | FA Women's Premier South West Division One, 6th |
Southampton Saints Girls and Ladies Football Club is an English women's football club formerly affiliated with Southampton F.C.. They play in the FA Women's Premier South West Football League, after winning the Southern Region Women's Football League in 2009–10.
At the end of the 2013–14 season the South West Combination WFL dissolved and the team moved into FA Women's Premier League - Division One South West. They finished 4th out of the 9 teams in the newly formed leagues' first season.
The club began in 1979 as Red Star Southampton, competing in the Home Counties League then the Southern Regions League. In 1991 Red Star won the Southern Region Division One and became founder members of the FA Women's Premier League National Division. In August 1991 the club were in Russia as guests of FC Spartak Moscow during the collapse of the Soviet Union. The first season at national level saw Red Star finish second in the League to Doncaster Belles and also lose the 1992 WFA Cup final 4–0 to the same opponents.
Red Star failed to build on their promising start and were relegated from the top flight in 1994–95. In summer 1995 the club became known as Southampton Saints due to affiliation with Southampton F.C., winning promotion as Southern Premier League champions in 1995–96.
However the club's second spell in the top-flight lasted only a season, as 1996–97 ended in another relegation. Southampton Saints then won the 1997–98 Southern Premier League and secured a mid-table finish in the 1998–99 National Premier League – being named Most Improved Side at the annual FA Awards. In 1999 the club reached its second FA Women's Cup final (not including the ten reached by Southampton W.F.C. in the first 11 years of the competition). This time they were beaten 2–0 by Arsenal Ladies, before a crowd of 6,450 at The Valley.
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