Bristol Academy
Full name	Bristol Academy Women's Football Club
Nickname(s)	The Gas Girls
Founded	1998 as Bristol Rovers W.F.C.
Ground	The Hand Stadium, Clevedon
Capacity	3,500
Chairman	n/a
Manager	Gary Green
League	FA Women's Premier League
2005–06	Premier League, 5th
Home colours Away colours

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History

The team as it is now was founded in 1998, following a merger between the Bristol Rovers girls' teams and Welsh side Cable-Tel L.F.C.. This merger came about because up until this point Bristol Rovers only had girls teams up to the under 16 age group level, so when girls reached the age of 16 they were forced to leave the club. The merger with Cable-Tel meant that Bristol Rovers now had a senior squad, and more importantly it gave them a place in the Women's South West Combination league, only two levels below the top flight of women's football in England. This new merged team took the name Bristol Rovers W.F.C. and played their home games at The Beeches, the location of the training ground and administrative offices of Bristol Rovers F.C. The phrase mergers and acquisitions or M&A refers to the aspect of corporate finance strategy and management dealing with the merging and acquiring of different companies as well as assets. ... Motto: (Welsh for Wales for ever) Anthem: Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau Capital Cardiff Largest city Cardiff Official language(s) English, Welsh Government Constitutional monarchy  - Queen Queen Elizabeth II  - Prime Minister Tony Blair MP  - First Minister Rhodri Morgan AM Unification    - by Gruffudd ap Llywelyn 1056  Area    - Total 20,779 km² (3rd... The first team is the colloquial name given to the most senior team fielded by a football club. ... FA Womens Premier League logo The FA Womens Premier League National Division is at the top of the English womens football league pyramid. ... UEFA Womens Cup Final 2005 at Potsdam Womens association football is the most prominent team sport for women in many countries, and one of the few womens team sports with professional leagues. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Government Constitutional monarchy  - Queen Queen Elizabeth II  - Prime Minister Tony Blair MP Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq... OFFICE WORK IS SHITE!! NEVER WORK IN ONE! end of. ...

The name of the club was changed to Bristol Academy at the beginning of the 2005-06 season to reflect the added investment and commitment of the Bristol Academy of Sport, although it was decided that the team should continue to wear the Bristol Rovers kit and keep using their existing nickname of The Gas Girls. Invest redirects here. ...

The team, like their male counterparts, have been somewhat nomadic since their formation, having played home matches at The Beeches, Yate Town F.C.'s Lodge Road ground, Mangotsfield United F.C.'s Cossham Street Stadium, Bristol Rovers' Memorial Stadium, Fry's Sports Ground in Keynsham and The Hand Stadium in Clevedon. Communities of nomadic people move from place to place, rather than settling down in one location. ... Yate Town F.C. is a football club based in England. ... Mangotsfield United Football Club play in the Southern League Premier Division and are based around the city of Bristol. ... Cossham Street Stadium is home to Bristol based football club, Mangotsfield United F.C. of the Southern Premier League. ... Sports ground in Bristol, dedicated to the memory of the rugby players of the city killed during the Great War. ... J. S. Fry & Sons, Ltd. ... Keynsham (pronounced CANE-shm), is a town between Bristol and Bath in south west England. ... Map sources for Clevedon at grid reference ST3971 Clevedon Village - circa 1907 Clevedon seafront is extremely windswept, as witnessed by this tree. ...

League history

It took just two seasons to gain promotion to the FA Women's Premier League Southern Division, when they won the South West Combination in the 2000-01 season with Dave Bell managing the team to this success. After this Dave Bell left the club to join the academy set-up at Manchester United, and was replaced by Tony Ricketts. The FA Womens Premier League Southern Division is a league in the second level in the womens football pyramid in England, along with the Northern division. ... In an organised sport league, a season is the portion of one year in which regulated games of the sport are in session. ... Manchester Uniteds emblem Manchester United F.C. (often abbreviated to Man United or just Man U, pronounced man-yoo) is an English football club based at Old Trafford in Greater Manchester. ...

Tony Ricketts also achieved league success, with the team winning the Southern Division in the 2002-03 season and earning promotion to the FA Women's Premier League National Division. The first season in the top flight was a struggle, with the team narrowly avoiding relegation, but the team have firmly established themselves in the National Division with two fifth place finishes in the two seasons since then. FA Womens Premier League logo The FA Womens Premier League National Division is at the top of the English womens football league pyramid. ... In the sports leagues — especially soccer leagues — of many countries, relegation (or demotion) means the mandated transfer of the worst team(s) (often the bottom three) of a higher league into a lower league at the end of the season. ...

Cup history

In the short history of the team they have reached the semi-final of the FA Women's Cup three times. The first was in the 2000-01 season when they were still playing their league football in the South West Combination, playing in front of a club record crowd of over 3000 at the Memorial Stadium against Arsenal L.F.C.. The match ended in a 3-0 defeat. Two more unsuccessful semi-final matches were to follow in this competition, with Fulham L.F.C. in 2002-03 and, in the 2004-05 season, Charlton Athletic L.F.C. providing the opposition. This page is a candidate to be moved to Wiktionary. ... The Football Association Women’s Challenge Cup Competition, commonly referred to as the FA Womens Cup, is the top cup competition for womens football clubs in England - designed as an exact equivalent to the FA Cup. ... Arsenal Ladies Football Club are an English womens football club affiliated with Arsenal F.C. The club was founded in 1987 by Vic Akers, the kit manager for the Arsenal mens team, who today is still the clubs general manager, and turned semi-professional in 2002. ... Fulham LFC is the Ladies Football Club (LFC) associated with Fulham Football Club. ... Charlton Athletic Ladies Football Club (CALFC) play in the FA Nationwide Womens Premier League National Division, which is the top flight of womens Association Football in England. ...

The most successful competition for Bristol Rovers/Bristol Academy has been the Gloucestershire FA Women's Challenge Cup, which the team have only ever failed to win on one occasion since the team was formed. The single failure was during the 2003-04 season when Bristol Rovers were runners-up to Bristol City W.F.C., in what was their first ever defeat to their cross-city rivals.

Team honours

• FA Women's Premier League Southern Division: 1
  

2002-03

• FA Women's Combination - South West: 1
  

2000-01

• Gloucestershire FA Women's Challenge Cup: 7
  

1998-99, 1999-00, 2000-01, 2001-02, 2002-03, 2004-05, 2005-06

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Squad

Note: this is the squad for the 2005/06 season

No. Position Player GK Siobhan Chamberlain DF Rachel Axon DF Shelly Cox DF Helen Done DF Louise Hutton DF Emma Jones DF Grainne Kierans DF Kath Morgan DF Sarah El Nicky MF Dani Bird MF Stef Curtis MF Stacey Daniel

No. Position Player MF Michelle Green (captain) MF Natalie Holbrook MF Katie Holtham MF Carrie Kveton MF Claire Scanlan (player/assistant manager) MF Nicola Watts MF Hieke Zijlstra FW Tara Kidwell FW Claire Trafford FW Kate Ward FW Trudy Williams

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2006-07 season

FA Women's Premier League National Division

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Premier League Cup

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Goalscorers

External links

• Bristol Academy page on the Bristol Rovers website
• Bristol Academy page on the Filton College/Bristol Academy of Sport website