The 2020–21 Scottish Women's Premier League was the 20th season of the SWPL, the highest division of women's football in Scotland since 2002. The league season was played in two divisions, SWPL 1 with eight teams and SWPL 2 with 10 teams.[1] Glasgow City were the defending champions, having won the last completed championship in 2019. The league was known as the Scottish Building Society Scottish Women's Premier League for sponsorship reasons.[2]
The previous season, 2020, was interrupted by the coronavirus pandemic and was subsequently declared null and void.[3] Following this cancellation, Scottish Women's Football reverted to the winter-season format last used in 2008–09.[4] The new season started on 18 October 2020 and concluded on 4 July 2021. It had been agreed that there would be no relegation from SWPL 1, and that there would be 10 teams in the top division in 2021–22.[5] The 2020–21 season was interrupted for more than three months by the pandemic; SWPL 1 played no games between January and March.[6] [7] [8]
Glasgow City won the championship by three points from Celtic, the runners-up.[9] This was Glasgow City's 14th national league title in succession, the most in Scottish senior football history, and five fewer than the world record in women's football at the time, 19, by SFK.[10] [11]
Aberdeen won the SWPL 2 title, and won promotion alongside the runners-up, Hamilton Academical.[12] [13] Partick Thistle were later added as a third promoted club, after Forfar Farmington withdrew from the SWPL.
| Team | Location | Head coach | Home ground | Capacity | data-sort-type="number" | 2019 position | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Fran Alonso | 1,000 | align=center | 3rd | ||||
| Ryan McConville | 6,777 | align=center | 7th | ||||
| Cumbernauld | Broadwood Stadium | 8,086 | 1st | ||||
| 1,000 | align=center | 1st in SWPL 2 | |||||
| Dean Gibson | 3,000 | align=center | 2nd | ||||
| 10,101 | align=center | 6th | |||||
| 500 | align=center | 4th | |||||
| Debbi McCulloch | 3,000 | align=center | 5th |
| Team | Location | Head coach | Home ground | Capacity | data-sort-type="number" | 2019 position | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emma Hunter Stuart Bathgate | align=center | 1st in SWFL 1 North | |||||
| Suzy Shepherd | 1,000 | align=center | 5th in SWFL 1 South | ||||
| Regional Performance Centre | align=center | 3rd | |||||
| Craig Joyce | New Tinto Park | align=center | 6th | ||||
| Gary Doctor | 6,018 | align=center | 2nd | ||||
| Andy Gardner | 17,889 | align=center | 4th | ||||
| Lochinch | align=center | 5th | |||||
| Mark Kirk | 1,000 | align=center | 4th in SWFL 1 South | ||||
| Jason McCrindle | McDiarmid Park | 10,696 | align=center | 7th | |||
| Craig Beveridge | 1,000 | align=center | 8th in SWPL 1 |
| Competition: | Scottish Women's Premier League 1 |
| Season: | 2020–21 |
| Winners: | Glasgow City |
| Continentalcup1: | Champions League |
| Continentalcup1 Qualifiers: | Glasgow City Celtic |
| Matches: | 84 |
| Total Goals: | 344 |
| League Topscorer: | Lizzie Arnot (16 goals) |
| Biggest Home Win: | (25 April 2021) |
| Biggest Away Win: | (1 November 2020) |
| Highest Scoring: | (25 April 2021) |
| Longest Wins: | Seven games: Glasgow City |
| Longest Unbeaten: | 14 games: Glasgow City |
| Longest Winless: | 11 games: Forfar Farmington |
| Longest Losses: | 10 games: Forfar Farmington |
| Prevseason: | 2020 |
| Nextseason: | 2021–22 |
| Competition: | Scottish Women's Premier League 2 |
| Season: | 2020–21 |
| Matches: | 92 |
| Total Goals: | 350 |
| League Topscorer: | Bayley Hutchison (5 goals) |
| Biggest Home Win: | (29 November 2020) |
| Biggest Away Win: | (25 October 2020) |
| Highest Scoring: | (25 October 2020) (10 November 2020) |
| Longest Wins: | Six games: Aberdeen |
| Longest Unbeaten: | Six games: Aberdeen Dundee United |
| Longest Winless: | 11 games: Stirling University |
| Longest Losses: | Six games: Stirling University |
| Prevseason: | 2020 |
| Nextseason: | 2021–22 |
| Updated: | 9 June 2021 |
| Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lizzie Arnot | Rangers | 16 |
| 2 | Sarah Ewens | Celtic | 14 |
| 3 | Zoe Ness | Rangers | 12 |
| 4 | Kirsty Howat | Glasgow City Rangers | 11 |
| 5 |  Aoife Colvill | Glasgow City | 9 |
| Donna Paterson | Forfar Farmington | ||
| 7 | Chloe Craig | Celtic | 8 |
| Priscila Chinchilla | Glasgow City | ||
| 9 | Ode Fulutudilu | Glasgow City | 7 |
| Becky Galbraith | Spartans |
| Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bayley Hutchison | Aberdeen | 9 |
| 2 | Francesca Ogilvie | Aberdeen | 4 |
| Eva Thomson | Aberdeen | ||
| Robyn Smith | Dundee United | ||
| 5 | 6 players | 3 | |
| No. | Player | For | Against | Date | Score | Ref | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zoe Ness | Rangers | Heart of Midlothian | 18 October 2020 | 5–1 | [15] | |
| 2 | Kirsty Howat | Glasgow City | Forfar Farmington | 1 November 2020 | 8–1 | [16] | |
| 3 | Donna Paterson | Forfar Farmington | Heart of Midlothian | 8 November 2020 | 3–0 | [17] |