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2018 FA Girls’ Youth Cup Final and FA WSL Development Cup Final
She Kicks, issue 47, May 2018 p.7
Manchester City took both of the day’s finals at St George’s Park on 14 April, and the first was a first: the FA Girls’ Youth Cup, won 3-1 against Reading after Olivia Gaffney had headed the Royals in front on twenty-two minutes, with Maria Edwards scoring a hat-trick to turn it around. Thirty-four Regional Talent Clubs had entered the competition’s early stages, and City reached the final past Leicester City while Reading came through against Manchester United. Hours later City’s development side beat Birmingham City 3-1 in the FA WSL Development Cup final, Jess Park scoring twice. The page is a small record of a club winning across every age group in a single afternoon.
