Loughborough Lightning FC
Loughborough Lightning's women's football club has two roots that came together. The playing side traces back to 1999, when Gail and Paul Fox founded Shepshed Foxes — renamed Loughborough Foxes in 2002 — to give local girls a chance to play; after 15 years in local leagues the Foxes climbed to the third tier by 2015. In 2021, that club combined with Loughborough University's high-performance women's football programme to form Loughborough Lightning, taking the name of the University's well-known "Lightning" sporting family that also fields elite netball, rugby and cricket teams. Based at Loughborough's world-class sporting facilities, the football side pairs competitive women's football with full sports-science, medicine and academic support — a distinctive university-backed high-performance model — and has continued to climb the national pyramid, winning promotion as Midlands division champions.
National League Northern Premier Division — Table
| Team | P | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Form |
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1
Rugby Borough WFC
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4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 9 | 12 | WWWW |
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2
Huddersfield Town Women
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4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 10 | DWWW |
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3
Stoke City FC Women
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4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 8 | 9 | WWLW |
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4
Liverpool Feds WFC
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4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 6 | WLWL |
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5
West Bromwich Albion F.C. Women
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4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 6 | LLWW |
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6
Loughborough Lightning FC
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4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 10 | -3 | 6 | LLWW |
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7
Norwich City Women FC
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4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 5 | DWLD |
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8
Boldmere St Michaels Women
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4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 11 | -5 | 4 | WLLD |
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9
Middlesbrough FC Women
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4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | -3 | 3 | LWLL |
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10
Derby County Women
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4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 8 | -5 | 3 | LLWL |
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11
Hull City Women
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4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 11 | -7 | 3 | WLLL |
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12
Peterborough United WFC
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4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 13 | -7 | 3 | LWLL |
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