Description Available in: Southampton F.C. Women are an English women's football club based in Southampton founded in 2017. The club will play in the FA Women's Championship in the 2022–23 season after winning promotion from the FA Women's National League South. They are affiliated with Premier League side Southampton.
The club applied for, and were granted, upward club movement in the summer of 2021, being placed in the FA Women's National League Southern Premier Division for the 2021–22 season.
In the 2021–22 season, the club won the FA Women's National League Southern Premier Division to earn a chance to get promoted to the second-tier by beating the FA WNL Northern Premier Division champions in a play-off. On 21 May 2022, Southampton earned a first ever promotion to the FA Women's Championship by defeating Wolverhampton Wanderers 1-0 in the play-off.