2025–26 Scottish Women's Premier League

The 2025–26 Scottish Women's Premier League, known as the ScottishPower Women's Premier League for sponsorship reasons, was the 25th season of the Scottish Women's Premier League (SWPL), the top division of women's football in Scotland, and the fourth season organised by the Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL). The season began on 17 August 2025 and concluded on 24 May 2026.^[1] Hibernian were the reigning champions, having won their fourth league title in the previous season, their first title since 2006–07.^[2] Hamilton Academical were the newly-promoted team taking part.

Glasgow City were the early pacesetters and led the table by five points at the end of February 2026 when the league split into two groups, chased by Rangers, Celtic and Hearts; however, before another league fixture was played they had a serious setback when top scorer Nicole Kozlova was seriously injured on international duty.^[3] On 22 March, City lost to Rangers (though had sufficient strength to defeat the same opposition to win the SWPL Cup a week later)^[4] and on 5 April they lost to Hearts (having never previously done so), and were leapfrogged into top spot;^[5] meanwhile Rangers were still in contention but Celtic's challenge had already faded. Hearts, whose head coach Eva Olid had announced that she would be leaving the Edinburgh club at the end of the season,^[6] beat Rangers in March and again in April to close in on a maiden championship, while their city rivals and deposed champions Hibernian would still have an input in proceedings as their last-minute win over Glasgow City on 10 May ended the latter's hopes. In the penultimate round of fixtures, Hearts were unable to clinch the title in a goalless draw with City while Rangers narrowed the gap to two points by beating Celtic to take the battle to the final matchday for the fourth successive season.^[7]

Despite losing 2–0 to Hibs on the last day, Hearts finished as champions after Rangers conceded early goals against Glasgow City and eventually collapsed 6–0.^[8] As well as their own first-ever Scottish title in only their sixth year in the top division (under Olid for most of that time),^[6] Hearts became the sixth different winner of the SWPL in as many seasons and the fifth unique club to do so in as many seasons, both uncommon sequences in the sport. For Rangers it was the fourth year in a row in which they had narrowly missed out in the tight title races, and unlike in the previous seasons where winning the Women's Scottish Cup provided some consolation, this time their disappointment was compounded by a defeat to Celtic in the final a week after the league concluded.^[9]

In the relegation group, Hamilton Academical were outclassed and their fate had long been sealed, ending on a total of two points with over 100 goals conceded.^[10] Aberdeen finished some way behind Motherwell and Montrose and faced a relegation play-off with second-tier Queen's Park (who finished fourth in their division but eliminated Boroughmuir Thistle and Kilmarnock to reach the final); Aberdeen retained their divisional status with a 5-0 victory in Airdrie.^[11] The only promoted side would therefore be SWPL2 winners Spartans, bouncing back having been one of three clubs relegated a year earlier when the league was reduced from 12 to 10 teams.