Central Coast Mariners (Women's Football)
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| Surname | Central Coast Mariners FC | ||
| Seat | Gosford , New South Wales | ||
| founding | 2008 | ||
| resolution | 2010 | ||
| Colours | yellow blue | ||
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| Venue | Central Coast Stadium , Gosford | ||
| Places | 20,059 | ||
| league | W-League | ||
| 2009 | 2nd place (season) 3rd place (play-offs) |
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The Central Coast Mariners Women were an Australian women's football team based in Gosford , New South Wales . The professional team was founded in 2008 and played in the W-League , the highest women's soccer league in the country , until mid-2010 . The team was part of the Central Coast Mariners FC football club, whose professional men's team still plays in the A-League to this day .
history
2008/09 - foundation and first season
For the 2008/09 season, the Australian Football Association founded the professional women's football league , the W-League . In the same year, the Central Coast Mariners FC decided to set up a women's team in addition to its professional men's team playing in the A-League . The team was one of the eight founding members of the new league. The Australian Stephen Roche was hired as coach. At the end of its first season, the team only reached sixth place in the table and thus did not move into the W-League play-offs .
2009 - Second and final season
After the disappointing result of the previous season, the women's team was able to achieve second place in the table at the end of this season. This was the first time that the Central Coast Mariners Women entered the play-offs. In the semifinals, the team met the Brisbane Roar Women . At home in Central Coast Stadium, the Central Coast Mariners lost to the Brisbane Roars 0-1.
Despite the very successful season, the club announced in 2010 that it would no longer have a women's team in the coming 2010/11 season. The reason given was a lack of funding. With that, the Central Coast Mariners Women left the W-League and stopped playing.
In the following two seasons, the W-League consisted of only seven teams, until the 2012/13 season the Western Sydney Wanderers Women joined the league.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mariners sink. (No longer available online.) In: thewomensgame.com. July 29, 2010, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on January 29, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
