The club was founded in 1993 as 'Super Strikers' Girls Football Club, playing in a local six a-side league at Under 11. The founder members were all from a local school, Chandag Primary and came to the current manager, Barrie Newton, with a request to help them start a football team, as their sports teacher uttered the now infamous and classic comment:
'I'm far too busy with the boys team on a Saturday and girls can't play football anyway...'
The rest, as they say, is history!
Keynsham Town Ladies First (2005)
We continued playing six-a-side for about three years, before attracting additional players to enable us to start playing occasional eleven-a-side friendlies. We changed our name to 'Protel Super Strikers' after sponsorship from a local Telecom company, Protel. We also adopted a 'Celtic' style Green and White playing kit, which later became more dominant Green with Black.
In the season of 1998/99, we entered the South West Women's League in Division Two and finished third place. At the same time we changed our name to 'Keynsham Town Ladies FC' and became closely affiliated to 'Keynsham Town' men's club, sharing their clubhouse and facilities.
Keynsham Town Ladies First (2018)
The Ladies team has had large successful periods over the years and have previously played in the "FA Women's National League - Southern Premier Division" the third tier of English Women's football! - several members of our squad have WSL experience and also International caps!
In 2019, we won the
Women's Senior Somerset County Cup:
Our reserve side 'Keynsham Town Ladies Reserves' play in the "Women's National Reserve South West League" and is largely made up of players that played Youth Level at different stages at the club.
Keynsham Town Ladies celebrating (2019)
The club reached the Women's Senior Somerset County Cup final again in 2023, but narrowly missed out in the final, losing 2-0 to Bridgwater United.
However, with the club firmly back on an upward trajectory.
Further success arrived in 2024, when we again won the Women's Senior Somerset County Cup! - with a 4-0 victory over a resurging Yeovil Town Ladies.
This followed a superb FA Cup run, which saw the club reach the 4th Round Proper, for the first time, before losing out to Luton Town (1-0 away) and a lucrative tie against WSL1 side, Brighton & Hove Albion.
Keynsham Town Ladies celebrating (2024)
Keynsham Town Ladies Chairman, Mark Ranahan and Manager, Barrie Newton enjoying the Cup Final success (2024)