The Club is sad to announce that we have had to make the really difficult decision to withdraw our Pwllheli Ladies side from the Genero Adran North for the 22-23 season.

The decision to withdraw from the Tier 2 league after working so hard to achieve the licencing criteria last year was incredibly difficult and painful. The squad achieved way beyond our expectations as a Club as they finished 5th last season and performed admirably against higher-ranked Cardiff City and Swansea City as part of our successful cup runs.

The Club faced a perfect storm over the summer as it became clear that, despite an intensive recruitment drive, we were unable to recruit a suitably qualified B licensed Coach once our original choice had to withdraw. Added to this problem was the fact that squad strength was likely to be an issue as several members of last season’s squad were likely to be unavailable due to personal and educational reasons. Our geographic position always makes recruitment of coaching and playing staff a challenge, and that is one of the drivers for our decision that we need to grow our own talent pool organically.

Rather than cross our fingers and hope for the best, we took the painful but honest decision to step down a level and apply to compete in the North Wales Women’s Football League. Our successful application to drop down one level gives us the breathing space required to address not only the strenuous coaching and administrative demands of Tier 2 competition. It also allows us to work on ensuring the long-term sustainability of women’s football in Pwllheli by developing a solid structure from the juniors upwards. What had been identified as a development area for our Club did, eventually, prove to be our main weakness.

However, whilst always sad to take such a step, the positive experiences both on and off the pitch, and our ambition to be a club for all in our locality has made us even more determined to ensure it won’t happen in the future. We are busy developing an exciting new coaching strategy and structure which will be announced very soon.

Our plan is to strengthen training, playing and coaching opportunities for girls and women in Pwllheli which will enable us to return to Tier 2 as soon as possible.