# 2024–25 Colchester United W.F.C. season

The 2024–25 season is the 2nd season in the history of Colchester United Women's Football Club and their first season in the Essex County Women's Football League Premier Division. In addition to the domestic league, the club would also participate in the Essex County Women's Football League Cup and the BBC Essex Women's Cup.

## Season Summary

On 26 February the club announced through its Instagram page that Simon King had stepped down as head coach due to personal reasons after one year in charge. King had lead the team to promotion and a League Cup victory in their first-ever season.

## Transfers
### In

| Date | Pos. | Player | From | Fee |
| 26 July 2024 | CB | Learna Daniels | - | - |
| 27 July 2024 | - | Lucy Yewman | - | - |
| 28 July 2024 | AM | Louise Kaine | - | - |
| 28 July 2024 | - | Billie-Jo Williams | - | - |

### Out

| Date | Pos. | Player | To | Fee |
| 25 July 2024 | MF | Hayleigh Jenkins | Released | N/A |
| 25 July 2024 | MF | Kira Wealls | Stanway Pegasus Women FC | N/A |
| 25 July 2024 | GK | Jess Clark | Released | N/A |
| 30 July 2024 | DF | Rosie Mowatt | Released | N/A |
| 30 July 2024 | DF | Jodie Morgan | Released | N/A |
| 31 July 2024 | MF | Caitlin White | Released | N/A |
| 28 September 2024 | DF | Deben Howlett | Stanway Pegasus Women FC | N/A |
| 13 October 2024 | GK | Rosa Devall | Transfer | N/A |

## Pre-season and friendlies

On 16 July, Colchester announced their pre-season friendlies, against Stevenage, Hutton Football Club and Southend. On the 29 July the club announced a further fixture to take place against Capel Plough Football Club.
On the 29 August the club announced via it’s Instagram page that the final pre-season fixture would take place on the 1 September against A.F.C. Sudbury.
Win  Draw  Loss  Fixtures

## Competitions
### Essex County Women's Football League - Premier Division
#### League table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion, qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Hashtag United FC Women Reserves | 16 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 68 | 14 | +54 | 38 | Promotion to FA WNL Division One South East |
| 2 | Colchester United | 16 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 52 | 21 | +31 | 38 | |
| 3 | She Can Play Panthers | 15 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 61 | 14 | +47 | 34 | |
| 4 | Brentwood Town FC Ladies | 15 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 40 | 24 | +16 | 28 | |
| 5 | Brightlingsea Regent Ladies FC | 14 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 20 | 29 | −9 | 13 | |
| 6 | Hutton FC Women Reserves | 15 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 12 | 68 | −56 | 9 | |
| 7 | Chigwell Women FC | 11 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 7 | 45 | −38 | 6 | |
| 8 | Southminster United Ladies FC | 15 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 11 | 56 | −45 | 6 | Relegation to Division One |

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: 4 March 2025. Source:

#### Results by round

| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 |
| Ground | H | H | A | H | A | A | A | H | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H |
| Result | D | W | W | W | W | D | W | W | W | L | W | L | W | W | W | W |
| Position | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Points | 1 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 13 | 14 | 17 | 20 | 23 | 23 | 23 | 26 | 29 | 32 | 35 | 38 |

#### Matches

Win  Draw  Loss  Fixtures

### BBC Essex Women's Cup

Win  Draw  Loss  Fixtures

### Essex County Women's Football League Cup

Win  Draw  Loss  Fixtures

## Statistics
### Appearances and goals

    As of match played 9 March 2025
List includes all first team players and any other matchday squad players
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Premier Division | Premier Division | BBC Essex Women's Cup | BBC Essex Women's Cup | Essex County Women's Football League Cup | Essex County Women's Football League Cup |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| 1 | GK | ENG | Jamie-Louise Newstead | 12 | 0 | 9+0 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 2 | DF | ENG | Jacqueline Craddock-Ball | 19 | 8 | 15+0 | 8 | 3+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | ENG | Sophie Farrow | 8 | 0 | 5+2 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 4 | MF | ENG | Cassie Craddock-Ball | 19 | 7 | 15+0 | 6 | 3+0 | 1 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 5 | MF | ENG | Niamh Gamble | 16 | 0 | 12+1 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 6 | DF | ENG | Tahlia Roome | 6 | 1 | 4+1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 1 |
| 7 | MF | ENG | Ruby Vinton | 8 | 2 | 6+1 | 2 | 1+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | ENG | Thalia Adams | 16 | 0 | 13+1 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 9 | FW | ENG | Ruby Greenleaf | 16 | 11 | 8+4 | 8 | 3+0 | 3 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 10 | MF | ENG | Lindsey Morgan | 17 | 9 | 13+0 | 9 | 3+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| - | FW | ENG | Camilla Morgan | 0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 11 | MF | ENG | Emily Ager | 19 | 3 | 7+8 | 1 | 2+1 | 1 | 0+1 | 1 |
| 12 | FW | ENG | Louise Kaine | 9 | 4 | 6+1 | 2 | 1+0 | 2 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 13 | GK | ENG | Owen Hoskin | 7 | 0 | 5+1 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| - | MF | ENG | Sophie Vale | 0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 14 | DF | ENG | Karys Paton | 14 | 0 | 5+7 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 15 | MF | ENG | Learna Daniels | 18 | 0 | 15+0 | 0 | 3+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 16 | MF | ENG | Jasmine Cox | 7 | 10 | 6+1 | 10 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 17 | DF | ENG | Leah Pope | 18 | 1 | 10+4 | 0 | 3+0 | 1 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 18 | FW | ENG | Ella Cahill | 17 | 2 | 4+10 | 2 | 1+1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 20 | FW | ENG | Billie-Jo Williams | 12 | 4 | 3+5 | 2 | 3+0 | 2 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 21 | MF | ENG | Lucy Yewman | 11 | 1 | 4+4 | 1 | 2+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| Players who featured but departed the club permanently during the season: ||||||||||||
| 6 | DF | ENG | Deben Howlett | 2 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 13 | GK | ENG | Rosa Devall | 0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |