Brisbane Women's Premier League

Football league
Brisbane Women's Premier League (BPL)
Country Australia
Number of teams8
Current championsNone (no 2020 finals series)
Current premiersIpswich City
Websitewww.FootballBrisbane.com.au

The Brisbane Women's Premier League, BWPL, is the first tier of women's senior Football (Association Football) in Brisbane, Queensland and third overall in Australia.

The league saw changes in the 2016 Season with a new sponsor, being known as the Mt. Franklin Women's Premier League, and the introduction of a reserve league. Due to the late changes to the league it will exist with 12 clubs in 2016 and 4 clubs will be relegated and 2 promoted from the newly created Women's Capital League 1.

Current clubs

The teams for 2021 Season are shown in the table below.

Team Home Ground Location
Annerley Elder Oval Greenslopes
UQFC University of Queensland St Lucia
The Lakes Kinsellas Park North Lakes
Carina Brisbane Abruzzo Club Carina
Grange Lanham Park Grange
Robina Robina Common Robina
Broadbeach Nikiforides Family Park Broadbeach
Kangaroo Point Rovers Raymond Park Kangaroo Point

Previous seasons

Year Relegated Promoted Up Note
2016 Toowong, UQFC, Souths United, Olympic FC Virginia United, Moggill FC Four clubs relegated to adjust the league
2017 None (see note) Holland Park, Park Ridge, UQFC, Ipswich City Souths, The Gap, Easts, Logan, Capalaba, Mitchelton moved to NPL only due to Football Brisbane eligibility rule change. 2018 to be 8 team league.
2018 Holland Park, Park Ridge Taringa, North Brisbane, Coomera, Broadbeach, Southport, Robina Four Gold Coast clubs join BWPL to return to a 12 team league.
2019 Taringa, North Brisbane The Grange, Carina Southport also did not enter a team for 2020.
2020 None Kangaroo Point Rovers 2020 Premiers and runners up, Ipswich Bulls and Coomera disbanded their BWPL teams at the end of the season. Peninsula Power and Virginia entered teams in the NPL for 2021.

The teams for 2020 Season are shown in the table below.

Team Home Ground Location
Ipswich City Bulls Sutton Park Brassall
Peninsula Power A.J. Kelly Park Redcliffe
Annerley Elder Oval Greenslopes
UQFC University of Queensland St Lucia
The Lakes Kinsellas Park North Lakes
Virginia Albert Bishop Park
Carina Brisbane Abruzzo Club Carina
Grange Lanham Park Grange
Robina Robina Common Robina
Broadbeach Nikiforides Family Park Broadbeach
Coomera Viney Park Coomera

Honours

Year Premiers (Highest on the Table) Champions (Winners of the Grand Final)
2014 Ipswich Knights FC The Gap FC
2015 Logan FC Annerley FC
2016 Mitchelton FC Mitchelton FC
2017 Mitchelton FC Annerley
2018 Annerley Annerley
2019 The Lakes Peninsula
2020 Ipswich Bulls No Finals (covid)
2021 Broadbeach Broadbeach

References

Women's Competition Winners 2015

Women's Competition Winners 2013 - 2014