Launceston City FC apply for Women's State League (30/8/24)

Launceston City FC will apply to Football Tasmania to join the Women's Super League for the 2025 season. Video by Aaron Smith (30/8/24)

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00:00So, Launceston City are obviously in the process of applying for a Women's Super League licence

00:03mate, I suppose.

00:04How important would it be for the club and what would it mean to have a WSO licence to

00:08extend the pathway?

00:09Oh, it's huge.

00:10We've been working at this for a long time.

00:13With our academies, our Opel Juventus Academy, we've got under fives right through to senior

00:18women and senior men, NPL under 21, so they play at state level.

00:24We need somewhere for our women to play at state level.

00:26Yeah, no, there's girls that are keen to come back, absolutely.

00:29They were disappointed to have to go to other clubs, but they need to be at our club.

00:33They've quite often spent most of their juniors and most of their playing career here, but

00:37have had to move purely on the back of us not having a WSO licence.

00:42At the moment, if they want to play any higher than Northern Championship women, they've

00:45got to go to other clubs and that's just not on.

00:48We want to provide the pathway, we want to keep them here at the club.

00:51We like our women playing here at the club, they're part of the culture and I think it's

00:55only fair that they get to play statewide.

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