{"id":650098,"date":"2026-05-05T20:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T20:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/650098\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T20:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T20:58:11","slug":"treble-winners-maxwell-and-mcdaniel-make-reds-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/650098\/","title":{"rendered":"Treble winners Maxwell and McDaniel make Reds return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cliftonville have confirmed Northern Ireland internationals Danielle Maxwell and Louise McDaniel have returned to the club after spending last season at <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/soccer\/teams\/burnley\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Burnley;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Burnley&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Burnley<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Both players played a key role Cliftonville&#8217;s two title winning seasons in 2022 and 2024 before moving to <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/soccer\/teams\/england-women\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:England;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;England&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">England<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Maxwell scored 11 league goals and McDaniel netted the opener in the 5-0 Irish Cup final win against Lisburn Rangers as the Reds won a domestic treble and enjoyed an &#8216;invincible&#8217; Women&#8217;s Premiership campaign in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Winger Maxwell, who previously had a short stint at Blackburn Rovers, won the Women&#8217;s Premiership Player of the Year award in 2023 and 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old scored in Northern Ireland&#8217;s 4-0 World Cup qualifying win over Malta at Mourneview Park last month.<\/p>\n<p>McDaniel originally joined the Reds in 2021 after spells with Linfield, Hearts and Blackburn Rovers and was part of Northern Ireland&#8217;s Euro 2022 squad.<\/p>\n<p>Cliftonville, who relinquished the Premiership title to Glentoran last season, opened the new season with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/articles\/c809lknkypzo?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Blink%5D-%5Bsport%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:5-0 win over Lisburn Ladies;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;5-0 win over Lisburn Ladies&quot;}\" class=\"link \">5-0 win over Lisburn Ladies<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778014691_227_.gif\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cliftonville have confirmed Northern Ireland internationals Danielle Maxwell and Louise McDaniel have returned to the club after spending&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[71348,26261,49,48,158651,241502,588,241503,462,6987,1521,82,241504],"class_list":["post-650098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-blackburn-rovers","tag-burnley","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cliftonville","tag-danielle-maxwell","tag-england","tag-louise-mcdaniel","tag-mlb","tag-northern-ireland","tag-reds","tag-sports","tag-women39s-premiership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}