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Airdrie United FC Ladies
Full nameAirdrie United Football Club Ladies
Founded1990's[1]
Dissolved2012[1]
GroundExcelsior Stadium[2]
LeagueScottish Women's First Division[2]
2012Scottish Women's First Division, 9th[2]

Airdrie United F.C. Ladies we're a Scottish women's football club affiliated to Airdrie United FC until the club wound up their women's team in 2012.[1] The entire ladies squad had quit and defected to play under Cumberland Colts[1] midway through season 2012.[3]

Recent History

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United won promotion to the Scottish Women's First Division from the Scottish Women's Second Division West in the 2011 season as runners-up behind champions Kilwinning SC.[4] They secured automatic promotion as the best runners-up of the four regional Second Divisions.[4][5]

Midway through season 2012,[3] all 20 members of the ladies squad inlcuding player/manager Julie McSherry quit and defected to play under Cumberland Colts claiming they didn't get the financial backing they needed to stay.[1] McSherry, who had led the team for over 15 years, revealed they made the move reluctantly.[1] The team couldn’t afford the costs of facilities for games and training.[1] And with no youth set-up for a ladies team at United and not looking likely any time soon, they felt it was the right move.[1] The team finished the season as Airdrie United Colts.

Before the 2013 season began, United decided to wind up their women's team explaining there was no market for it now.[1] It left United without a women's team for the first time in over a decade.[1] The defection of the players and United's decision to wind up their squad allowed Cumbernauld Colts to take their place in the First Division.[1][6]

Recent Competition Record

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