| Competition: | Welsh Premier Women's Football League |
| Season: | 2017–18 |
| Winners: | Cardiff Metropolitan Ladies (5th title) |
| Relegated: | Caldicot Town Caernarfon Town |
| Continentalcup1: | UEFA Women's Champions League |
| Continentalcup1 Qualifiers: | Cardiff Metropolitan Ladies |
| League Topscorer: | Lyndsey Davies (22 goals)[1] |
| Biggest Home Win: | Cardiff Metropolitan 12-0 Caernarfon Town[2] |
| Biggest Away Win: | Caernarfon Town 1–8 Cardiff City[3] Caernarfon Town 0–7 Swansea City[4] Caernarfon Town 0–7 Abergavenny Women[5] |
| Highest Scoring: | Cardiff Metropolitan 12-0 Caernarfon Town[6] |
| Total Goals: | 402 |
| Matches: | 90 |
| Longest Wins: | 12 wins (Cardiff Metropolitan) |
| Longest Unbeaten: | 14 games (Cardiff Metropolitan) |
| Longest Losses: | 14 losses (Caernarfon Town) |
| Prevseason: | 2016–17 |
| Nextseason: | 2018–19 |
The 2017–18 Welsh Premier League was the ninth season of the Women's Welsh Premier League, the top level women's football league in Wales. The season began on 3 September 2017 and ended on 2 May 2018.
Cardiff Metropolitan Ladies won their fifth league title, five points clear of the previous season's winners Swansea City. Cyncoed Ladies won the Premier League Cup, the first piece of silverware that the team had won.[7] Swansea City won the FAW Women's Cup – the third time that they have won the trophy.[8]
Lyndsey Davies of Abergavenny Women won the Golden Boot for the second season in a row after scoring 22 goals.
Player of the Season was won by Cardiff City's Shannon Evans and Young Player of the Season was awarded to Ellie Lake of Swansea City.[9]
One of the league's founding teams Caernarfon Town were promoted back to the Premier League and Caldicot Town played their first season in the top flight. 10 teams ended up competing in the league.
| Team | City | Ground | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caernarfon Town Women | The Oval, Caernarfon | ||
| Caldicot Town | Jubilee Way, Caldicot | ||
| Cardiff City Women | Leckwith Athletics Stadium | ||
| Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cyncoed Campus | |||
| Cyncoed Ladies | Cardiff University Playing Fields, Llanrumney | ||
| Maesdu Park | |||
| Port Talbot Town Ladies | The Genquip Stadium | ||
| Rhyl FC's Corbett Sports Stadium | |||
| Baglan Playing Fields |
| Month | WPWL Manager of the Month | WPWL Player of the Month | References | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manager | Club | Player | Club | |||
| September | Joel Hutton | Cardiff City | Maxine Mudge | Abergavenny Women | align=center | [10] [11] |
| October | Kerry Harris | Cardiff Metropolitan | Louisha Doran | Llandudno Ladies | align=center | [12] |
| November/December | Kerry Harris | Cardiff Metropolitan | Ashleigh Harris | Caldicot Town | align=center | [13] |
| January | Fern Burrage | Cyncoed Ladies | Laura Wililams | Rhyl Ladies | align=center | [14] |
| February/March | Ian Owen | Swansea City Ladies | Alisha Young | Caldicot Town | align=center | [15] |
| Award | Winner | Club | |
|---|---|---|---|
| WPWL Player of the Season | Shannon Evans | Cardiff City | |
| WPWL Young Player of the Season | Ellie Lake | Swansea City Ladies | |
| WPWL Golden Boot | Lyndsey Davies | Abergavenny Women |
← 2016–17 · 2018–19 → This was the fifth season of the WPWL Cup and Cyncoed Ladies won the competition for the first time in their history.[16] Cyncoed beat Cardiff Metropolitan 1-0 after extra time. Jasmine Simpson of Cardiff Metropolitan scored the most goals in the competition with 4 in 4 games.