The 2021–22 Scottish Women's Football Championship was the inaugural season of the SWF Championship after its formation as the third tier of women's football in Scotland.
The previous two planned seasons in 2020 and 2020–21 were both abandoned due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The league was split into two divisions – Championship North and Championship South. Planned to have 'approximately 12 teams each', the divisions in the inaugural season actually contained 9 and 17 teams respectively.
Montrose secured the Championship North title on 10 April, with a 4–1 win over their promotion rivals East Fife. In the Championship South, Gartcairn finished as the division winners on 24 April, ahead of 2nd-placed Rossvale. East Fife won the third available promotion place to SWPL 2, by winning the single-match promotion play-off 3–1 against Rossvale on 8 May in Alloa.
Teams Championship North Team Location Home ground2019 position Buchan Maud Maud Pleasure Park 4th Drybrugh Athletic Dundee Lochee Park 2nd in SWFL2 North/East Dundee West Dundee Charlotte Street Pitches 1st in SWFL2 North/East East Fife Leven King George V Park 6th Grampian Aberdeen Cults Academy Inverness Caledonian Thistle Inverness Millburn Academy 2nd Montrose Montrose Links Park 7th Stonehaven Stonehaven Mineralwell Park 11th Westdyke Westhill Lawsondale Pitches 9th Source:
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Championship South Team Location Home ground2019 position Airdrie Airdrie Excelsior Stadium 4th in SWFL2 South East/Central Ayr United Alloway Cambusdoon Sports Club 11th BSC Glasgow Clydebank Clydebank Community Sport Hub 5th in in SWFL2 West/Central Clyde Cumbernauld Broadwood Astro 3rd in in SWFL2 West/Central Edinburgh Caledonia Edinburgh Peffermill 3G 1st in SWFL2 South East/Central Edinburgh City Edinburgh Ainslie Park Falkirk Falkirk Falkirk Stadium 10th in SWFL2 South East/Central Gartcairn Airdrie MTC Park St Mirren Paisley Ralston Community Sports Centre Hutchison Vale Edinburgh WHEC Education Centre Livingston Blackburn New Murrayfield Park 9th Morton Greenock Cappielow 1st in in SWFL2 West/South West Renfrew Renfrew New Western Park 7th Rossvale Glasgow Huntershill Recreation Centre Gleniffer Thistle Paisley Ferguslie Sports Centre 4th in SWFL2 West/Central Stenhousemuir Stenhousemuir Ochilview Park 5th in SWFL2 South East/Central United Glasgow Glasgow Garscube Sports Complex 2nd in SWFL2 West/Central Source:
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SWPL play-offs For the first time, a system of promotion/relegation play-offs was introduced to the SWPL. The two runners-up from Championship North and Championship South were intended to take part in play-off semi-finals, with the winner playing the team finishing eighth in SWPL 2 in the play-off final to determine the last place in the 2022–23 SWPL 2.Scottish Women's Football announces new league structure, SheKicks.net, 20 September 2019 Instead, East Fife won promotion in a single promotion play-off, and no club was relegated from SWPL 2, due to expansion of the SWPL in 2022.
References
External links Championship North at SWF Championship South at SWF Women's Championship North 2021/2022, Soccerway Women's Championship South 2021/2022, Soccerway