Southampton Women's FC (seen here in 1976) reached all of the first nine Women's FA Cup finals, winning seven of themCasting your eye at the fixture list, you would be forgiven for doing a double take. In the Women's FA Cup third round, Southampton FC Women and Southampton Women's FC are both in action on Sunday. Southampton Women's FC just happen to have a remarkable eight Women's FA Cups to their name, making them the second-most successful club in the competition's history, behind only record 14-time winners Arsenal. But it is the Romsey-based Southampton Women's FC whose formative years brought remarkable success despite the difficulties that followed the ban on females playing the game enforced by the Football Association. "It's a difficult one to go in to after Christmas but the FA Cup is just a cracking cup, isn't it?

Source: BBC January 04, 2020 06:33 UTC