Bohemian F.C. Women Explained

Clubname:Bohemians
Fullname:Bohemian Football Club Women
Nickname:Bohs
The Gypsies
Founded:2020
Ground:Dalymount Park, Phibsborough
Capacity:3,640
Manager:Ken Kiernan
League:SSE Airtticity Women's Premier Division
Season:2024
Position:8th
Current:2024 SSE Airtticity Women's Premier Division (League of Ireland Women)
Pattern B1:_Bohs_H_2024
Leftarm1:000000
Rightarm1:000000
Shorts1:000000
Socks1:000000
Pattern La2:_bohemian20t
Pattern B2:_bohemian20t
Pattern Ra2:_bohemian20t
Pattern Sh2:_bohemian20t
Pattern So2:_bohemian20t
Leftarm2:0000FF
Body2:0000FF
Rightarm2:0000FF
Shorts2:1100AA
Socks2:1100AA

Bohemian Football Club Women (Irish: Cumann Peile Bóithéamaigh na mBan), more commonly referred to as Bohemians or Bohs, is an Irish association football club based in Dublin. In February 2020 the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) announced the formation of the club as an expansion team for the upcoming 2020 Women's National League season. It is the women's section of Bohemian FC. The senior team plays in the Women's National League while a junior team competes at Women's Under 17 National League and Women's Under 19 National League level.

History

On 27 November 2018 Bohemians were accepted into the Under-17 Women's National League, beginning with the 2019 season. Their aim was to grow the number of girls and women members in the club and eventually compete in the Women's National League.[1] The historic first game in the Under-17 Women's National League for Bohemians was played on 13 April 2019 against Cork City and ended in 0–2 defeat.

Just one year after being accepted to compete in the Under-17 Women's National League, Bohemians were accepted to the Women's National League on 18 February 2020.[2] The first match was originally scheduled for 15 March 2020, however, the team was made to wait until 8 August 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Republic of Ireland which delayed the start of the season. The game ended in a 4–1 defeat by Wexford Youth. Chloe Darby scored the consolation goal and wrote herself into the history books as Bohemians' first-ever goalscorer.[3]

Following a series of narrow defeats, Bohemians' inexperienced side finished bottom of the nine-team table in a truncated 2020 WNL season.[4] In the off-season the club launched a third team to compete in the new Under-19 Women's National League and announced plans to pay first team players' expenses.[5] After finishing sixth in the 2021 WNL season, the club announced that they would play all their 2022 home fixtures at Dalymount Park, instead of at the Oscar Traynor Centre where they had been based previously.[6] #

After the 2023 season, an article was published the 3rd of the December from the Bohemians website that Sean Byrne and has management team would be parting ways with the team.[7] On the same day. an article was posted announcing Ken Kiernan as the new head coach.[8]

Management team

PositionStaff
Senior Manager/Coach Ken Kiernan[9]
Senior Assistant manager/Goalkeeping coach David Henderson
Assistant coach Alan MurphyStrength & Conditioning coach Oran Donovan
Physio Paul Kirwan

Notes and References

  1. News: Bohemian FC to join Under-17 Women's National League . FAI Women's National League . 4 December 2018 . 23 December 2018.
  2. News: 2020 Women's National League to expand to nine teams . FAI Women's National League . 18 February 2020 . 18 February 2020 . 18 February 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200218200438/https://wnl.fai.ie/news/1145-2020-women-s-national-league-to-expand-to-nine-teams.html . dead .
  3. News: Wexford Youth vs Bohemians . Extratime.com . 8 August 2020 . 8 August 2020.
  4. News: Kelly . David . Family affair for Darby as Bohs make early strides after their long road . 27 March 2022 . . 3 April 2021.
  5. News: Additional support for Bohemians WNL team in 2021 . 27 March 2022 . . 30 December 2020.
  6. News: Kisbey-Green . Stephen . Bohs confirm all home WNL games to be played at Dalymount Park . 27 March 2022 . OTB Sports . 22 January 2022.
  7. Web site: DEPARTING WOMen's FIRST TEAM MANAGEMENT TEAM THANKED FOR DEDICATED SERVICE | Bohemian FC .
  8. Web site: Ken Kiernan appointed Bohemians women's team manager | Bohemian FC .
  9. Web site: Ken Kiernan appointed Bohemians women's team manager | Bohemian FC .