Following a thumping 12-0 victory in the Women\u2019s FA Cup last time out, Oxford City return to league action as they travel to take on Reading.<\/p>\n
Much like City, Reading head into the clash after progressing in the cup last time out, and, in a parallel between the two sides, a lightning start for the Royals saw them score within just two minutes, just as Yasmin Edwards did for the Hoops last weekend.<\/p>\n
Launched in 2006, a rich history for Reading Women has seen them rise through the ranks to compete in the top tier of women\u2019s football, earning promotion to the FA Women\u2019s Super League in 2015, where they stayed for eight seasons.<\/p>\n
Relegated from the division in 2023, Reading finished 10th out of the 12 teams competing in the second tier the following season and then withdrew from the Women\u2019s Championship in June 2024 following financial difficulties, reentering the football pyramid in tier five for the 2024\/25 season, where they have competed since.<\/p>\n
After operating under Reading FC Community Trust, the Women\u2019s side was brought back into the main club structure in June 2026, with home games returning to the Select Car Leasing Stadium following a stint where the women played at Slough Town\u2019s Arbour Park.<\/p>\n
In a new, positive chapter, the club aims to focus on growing community impact and strengthening the pathway to the Women\u2019s First Team, as they target the foundations needed to rise up the football pyramid once again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following a thumping 12-0 victory in the Women\u2019s FA Cup last time out, Oxford City return to league…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-294043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}