Page 19 - Women's Soccer Scene Issue No.28 2022-23

Gemma Grainger’s Wales will travel to California to face four-time FIFA Women’s World
Cup winners the USA on Sunday 9th July at the PayPal Stadium in San Jose (KO 21:00
BST).
The fixture will be the first time that both countries have met for a women’s
international fixture and will be Wales’ final match ahead of the UEFA Women’s Nations
League getting underway in September. It will also be the USA’s final preparation match
ahead of the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.
Speaking about the fixture, Gemma Grainger said: “To play the current world
champions in their final match before the World Cup is a fantastic opportunity. To be
asked to play them is a real compliment to our players, we’ll be playing top ranked teams
in the Nations League in September so it’s great we can prepare for that against one of the
best teams in the world.”
Ticket information for travelling fans will be released in due course.
The match will also be the next time that the Wales senior women’s team will be in
action, having just finished a double header of friendlies. They beat Northern Ireland 4-1
at the Cardiff City Stadium before travelling to Portugal and holding the home side to a 1-1
draw.

After confiming themselves as winners of the Plate Conference seven days earlier,
Pontypridd Utd rounded off by beating
their nearest rivals, Aberystwyth PREMIER DIVISION P W D L F A Pts GD
Town 3-0. Carys Bufton gave Ponty the CARDIFF CITY F.C. 19 16 3 0 67 11 51 56
lead on the stroke of half time and two SWANSEA CITY 19 12 5 2 51 17 41 34
CARDIFF MET WOMEN 19 10 2 7 34 38 32 -4
goals in quick succession, just after the THE NEW SAINTS 19 7 2 10 38 46 23 -8
hour, from Olivia Francis and Shannon PONTYPRIDD UTD 20 9 4 7 35 27 31 8
Greenway wrapped up the win and ABERYSTWYTH TOWN 20 7 3 10 31 37 24 -6
BARRY TOWN UTD 20 4 3 13 21 52 15 -31
ensured that Pontypridd went through ABERGAVENNY WOMEN * 20 2 2 16 14 63 2 -49
the Plate matches with an unbeaten
record. Abergavenny 0 Barry 4; Pontypridd 3 Aberystwyth 0.
Barry Town Utd also made sure
of ending up on a winning note, thanks to NORTH DIVISION P W D L F A Pts 0
WREXHAM 12 12 0 0 70 6 36 64
a 4-0 success away to Abergavenny CONNAH'S QUAY NOMADS 11 8 1 2 39 9 25 30
Women. Delia Ebbin opened the LLANDUDNO 11 7 1 3 34 16 22 18
scoring for Barry and Taite Trivett made CPDM Y FELINHELI * 12 5 2 5 25 38 11 -13
CPD Y RHYL 1879 12 3 1 8 19 50 10 -31
it two ahead of the interval. Holly Jenkins LLANFAIR UTD 12 2 1 9 11 36 7 -25
further increased their lead early in the AIRBUS UK BROUGHTON 12 1 0 11 8 51 3 -43
second half Trivett rounded off the
scoring on the hour mark with her second
goal.
SOUTH DIVISION P W D L F A Pts GD
The main focus this Sunday will be
BRITON FERRY LLANSAWEL 15 14 0 1 69 11 42 58
the Play-off match between North and CASCADE YC 16 11 1 4 40 26 34 14
South title winners Wrexham and Briton PONTARDAWE TOWN 14 7 0 7 36 34 21 2
Ferry Llansawel, with the winner being SWANSEA UNIVERSITY 15 3 2 10 21 42 11 -21
CALDICOT TOWN * 14 0 1 13 13 66 -2 -53
promoted to the Genero Adfran Premier, 0
which will take place at Newtown FC,
with a 4.30pm kick off.
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