Bristol Rovers W.F.C.


Bristol Rovers W.F.C. are a women's association football club based in Bristol in the United Kingdom, and are affiliated to Bristol Rovers F.C.. They are known colloquially as the Gas Girls in recognition of Bristol Rovers' unofficial nickname of The Gas.

History

launched their original women's team in 1998, and although they were successful the financial situation within the football club in the mid-2000s led to the funding for the women's team being cut and them being re-named Bristol Academy W.F.C. in 2005, eventually being re-branded again as Bristol City in 2016.
In 2019, fourteen years after the name disappeared from women's football, it was announced that a new Bristol Rovers Women's team was being launched in time for the 2019–20 season and that they would be playing in the Gloucestershire County Womens Football League. The first team was eventually accepted into Division One of the Gloucestershire League and the development team was granted a place in Division Two and a new logo was commissioned, based on the Bristol Rovers club badge and featuring a female pirate. They play their home games at Lockleaze Sports Centre in the Lockleaze area of Bristol, and are funded by the Bristol Rovers Community Trust.
The first team played their first competitive match on 8 September 2019, a 5–0 win away to Abbeymead Rovers.

Season by season

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