1990s

In 1995 Shelbourne F.C. took over the women's football club Welsox F.C.. Welsox played in both the Civil Service League and the Dublin Women's Soccer League and had won the FAI Women's Cup in both 1992 and 1994. They were also DWSL runners-up in 1995. After coming under the Shelbourne umbrella, they also finished as FAI Women's Cup runners-up in 1997 and 1999 and were DWSL runners-up in 1998, 1999 and 2000. Future Republic of Ireland women's national football team manager Susan Ronan played for both Welsox and Shelbourne during this era. Following its integration into Shelbourne, the club was administered mainly, though not exclusively, by women on a voluntary basis while it received financial and logistical support from the men's club. However, in 2002, following a change in management and coaching staff, the original Shelbourne Ladies team disbanded and a core group of players moved to Templeogue United to merge with an existing girls' team.^{[2][3][4][5][6][7][8]}

Revival

After a five-year period of inactivity, Shelbourne Women's F.C. was revived in 2007 by Mick Neville, then serving as a director of coaching at Shelbourne F.C., and coach Keith O'Neill. The club initially fielded schoolgirl teams in the North Dublin Schoolboys/girls League before also joining the Metropolitan Girls League and the Dublin Women's Soccer League.^[8][9][10]

Women's National League

In 2015 Shelbourne Ladies merged with Raheny United's senior women's team. This effectively saw Shelbourne Ladies takeover Raheny United's place in the Women's National League.^[11] During the subsequent 2015–16 season, Shelbourne Ladies finished as runners-up in FAI Women's Cup, the WNL Shield and the Women's National League. All three competitions were won by Wexford Youths.^[12][13][14] However Shelbourne Ladies did win the WNL Cup after defeating UCD Waves 3–2 in the final at Richmond Park on 1 May 2016.^[15] In 2016 Shelbourne won the FAI Women's Cup after defeating Wexford Youths 5–0 in the final.^[16] The most notable individual performance to come out of the game was undoubtedly that of Shels' Leanne Kiernan, who scored a hat-trick and picked up the 'player of the match' award for her efforts.^[17]

The team won their first league championship when they finished the shortened 2016 season in first place.^[18] They qualified for the 2017–18 UEFA Women's Champions League with that title. In March 2019 Shelbourne announced a number of steps intended to boost "equality and parity of esteem for all of our players". They dropped the word Ladies from the women's team's name and moved WNL home games from the AUL Complex to the main stadium at Tolka Park.^[19]

Shelbourne Women U18

Shelbourne Women U18 won the 2015 WFAI Intermediate Cup, defeating St Catherine's 6–0 in the final.^[20] Shelbourne Women U18 also reached the semi-finals of the 2015 FAI Women's Cup, defeating two members of the Women's National League along the way.^[21] In the last sixteen they defeated Cork City 3–2^[22] and in the quarter-finals they won 4–0 against Castlebar Celtic. In the semi-final they lost 4–0 to the Shelbourne Women senior team. ^[23]

Current squad

As of 28 February 2022.^[24]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

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No. Pos. Nation Player 3 DF  IRL Jessie Stapleton 4 DF  IRL Pearl Slattery (captain) 5 DF  IRL Shauna Fox 6 MF  IRL Alex Kavanagh 8 DF  IRL Rachel Graham 10 FW  IRL Noelle Murray 11 MF  IRL Megan Smyth-Lynch 12 MF  IRL Keeva Keenan

No. Pos. Nation Player 13 DF  IRL Leah Doyle 15 FW  IRL Jemma Quinn 16 FW  IRL Lia O'Leary 17 FW  IRL Taylor White 18 MF  IRL Aoife Kelly 19 MF  IRL Kate O'Dowd 20 GK  IRL Amanda McQuillan 22 FW  USA Gloria Douglas — MF  USA Heather O'Reilly — MF  USA Emma Starr — DF  USA Isabelle Glennon — GK  IRL Courtney Maguire

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Former players

Shelbourne

• Women's National League
  • Winners: 2016, 2021, 2022 3
  • Runners-up: 2015–16, 2018, 2023
• FAI Women's Cup
  • Winners: 2016, 2022: 2
  • Runners-up: 1997, 1999, 2015, 2021, 2023: 5
• WNL Cup
  • Winners: 2016, 2017
• Dublin Women's Soccer League
  • Winners: 2015: 1
  • Runners-up: 1998, 1999, 2000: 3
• WNL Shield
  • Runners-up: 2015

Welsox

• Dublin Women's Soccer League
  • Runners-up: 1995: 1
• FAI Women's Cup
  • Winners: 1992, 1994: 2

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