Meet the Ynys Môn women’s football squad for the 2025 Orkney XX Island Games

Eight CPDM Bangor players, six Llangefni Town plus one apiece representing Y Felinheli, Huddersfield Town, Pontypridd United and MSB Woolton from South Liverpool make up the 18-strong Ynys Môn women’s football squad which will complete in next year’s International Island Games in Orkney.

At the last Games in 2023, Anglesey’s females achieved a best-ever placing of fifth although they were silver medallists in the one-off Inter-Games Tournament in 2019.

Among the Bangor contingent are defender Carol Lewis, who will take part in her fifth Island Games.

Prolific markswoman Jess Jones, of Llangefni Town, features among the attackers, while the experienced Charlotte Gill, a regular of past Games who plays for Huddersfield Town, is selected among the midfielders.

Here are the 2025 football groups for Orkney

Men’s Group
Ynys Môn
Menorca
Western Isles
Bermuda

Women’s Group
Ynys Môn
Menorca
Western Isles
Hitra

The Orkney 2025 International Island Games will take place from 12-18 July 2025.

Orkney will host the 20th International Island Games in its landmark 40th year since it all began.

YNYS MON WOMEN’S SQUAD – ORKNEY 2025
(ALL STATS UP TO AND INCLUDING OCTOBER 13, 2024)

GOALKEEPERS

Catrin Roberts (CPD Merched Bangor)
Aged just 16, Catrin joined Bangor this season and has made eight first team appearances.
Wales Under-16 international who represented the FAW Girls Academy North squad last season.

Lucy Richardson (Llangefni Town)
Nineteen-year-old keeper who joined Llangefni this season from CPDM Bangor where she represented the first team, plus the U19 and U17 sides.

DEFENDERS

Marissa George (Llangefni Town)
Consistent defender who joined Llangefni in 2022-23 and has made more than 60 appearances for the club.

Carol Lewis (CPDM Bangor)
Veteran set to complete in her fifth island games. She was a key defender when Ynys Môn won silver at the 2019 Inter-Games.
Spent all of her career at Amlwch Town before stepping up to tier 2 with Bangor this season.

Erin Burns (CPDM Bangor)
Rock-solid 17-year-old defender who made her debut for CPDM Bangor senior team last season and already has 30 apperances under her belt.
Formerly with Dreigiau Llanfairpwll.

Mared Roberts (Llangefni Town)
In her third season with Llangefni. Strong defender who has made in excess of 50 appearances for the islanders.

MIDFIELDERS

Nia Ginnelly (Llangefni Town)
Combative and wholehearted midfielder. Ever-present captain of Llangefni Town with more than 70 appearances clocked up, having been part of the team from day one.
Played in the successful 2023 Island Games team.

Ashleigh Jones (CPDM Bangor)
Joined Bangor this season and her experience and goals are proving vital to the Genero Adran North side.
A standout player at the last Island Games for Ynys Môn, she previously played senior football for Trearddur Bay and Amlwch Town.

Cerys Macdonand (CPDM Bangor)
Twin of Seren, Cerys is in her second season as a Bangor senior player and has netted five goals in 30 appearances.
Another former member of the successful Dreigiau Llanfairpwll side.

Seren Macdonald (CPDM Bangor)
Former Dreigiau Llanfairpwll star who has been a regular with the CPDM Bangor senior side since the start of last season.
Aged just 17 and with bags of potential, she has played in 23 league and cup matches for Bangor

Mia Roberts (CPDM Bangor)
Gifted midfielder who broke into the Bangor first team in 2021-22 and has been a regular apart from spending a brief time at Amlwch last season.
Made her mark in the great Penrhyn Bay sides which reached back-to-back FAW Under-16 Welsh Cup Finals.
Mia played in the 2023 Games for Ynys Môn and made the scoresheet.
Has made 56 first team appearances for Bangor women, notching 22 goals.

Charlotte Gill (Huddersfield Town)
Midfielder who plays for Huddersfield Town in the English pyramid.
Selected to represent Ynys Môn for a fourth time at the Island Games.
Playmaker who can score great goals. Netted for Anglesey in the 2017 Games.
Started her career with Tranmere Rovers at under-14 and remained at the club for five years. She then joined Blackpool Ladies for three years before moving to Liverpool Feds, Guiseley Vixens and latterly Huddersfield.

Yasmin Wilcox (Pontypridd United)
Still just 18, the gifted Yasmin played for Pontypridd in the Adran Premier last season and now represents the club in the tier 2 Genero Adran South and youth levels.
As a junior, she shone for Dreigiau Llanfairpwll and Caernarfon Town before making the step up to senior football with Trearddur Bay in 2022-23.

ATTACKERS

Jess Jones (Llangefni Town)
Not much more one can say about this 18-year-old goal machine.
Has netted 75 goals in 47 matches since joining Llangefni Town in 2022-23.
Last season became first woman player in many years to break the 50-goal mark in North Wales senior football.
Was a star of the last Island Games in Guernsey, netting twice. Former prolific markswoman with the Caernarfon Town Under-16 side.

Menna Evans (CPD Merched Bangor)
The fact she was tier 2 Genero Adran North Young Player of the Season in 2023-24 says plenty about this 18-year-old.
Has made 37 appearances for Bangor’s first team and knocked in 17 goals. Dynamic on the ball and pacy with the ability to take on defenders at will, she is truly one to watch in Orkney.

Hannah Owen (Llangefni Town)
Left or right winger, has notched 13 goals in 73 appearances for Llangefni going back to 2021-22
Won joint Most Improved Player award for Cefni in 2022-23.
Has been chosen to represent Ynys Môn for the second successive Island Games.

Ellie Jones (CPDM Y Felinheli)
Attacking wide player who started off with Llangefni Girls, then began her senior career with Bethel of the tier 2 Adran North before switching to Amlwch in 2021-22.
After two seasons at Lon Bach, she has returned to Bethel (now CPDM Y Felinheli) this term.
Has a great goalscoring record as a senior player – 36 goals in 57 appearances.
Played and scored for Ynys Mon at last Island Games.

Catrin Evans (MSB Woolton)
Currently represents MSB Woolton in the North West Women’s Regional League, where this season she has played in six games, providing three goals and three assists.
Is playing in the Liverpool area this term to be nearer her place of study.
As a senior has played for Bethel, Amlwch Town and CPDM Y Felinheli in North Wales, proving a prolific net-finder.
Attacking left-sided player. she scored a hat-trick as Felinheli lifted the NWCFA Women’s Challenge Cup last season.
In 2019, she netted for Ynys Mon in the Inter-Island Games final, which Anglesey lost 2-1.
Has bagged 48 goals over the three seasons she has completed in North Wales football (18 Bethel, 14 Amlwch Town, 16 Y Felinheli)

YNYS MON WOMEN’S FOOTBALL RECORD AT ISLAND GAMES (includes 2019 Inter-Games Tournament)

2001
Faroe Islands 7-0 Ynys Môn; Isle of Man 5-1 Ynys Môn. 6th place game: Guernsey 8-1 Ynys Môn.

2003
Guernsey 5-0 Ynys Môn; Ynys Môn 0-10 Gotland; Ynys Môn 2-0 Rhodes; 5th-6th place game: Ynys Môn 0-2 Isle of Wight.

2005, 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2013 – Did not enter

2015
Ynys Môn 2-5 Aland Islands; Isle of Wight 7-0 Ynys Môn; Guernsey 3-2 Ynys Môn. 9th place match: Greenland 4-0 Ynys Môn.

2017
Isle of Man 3-0 Ynys Môn; Ynys Môn 1 (Charlotte Gill pen) Aland Islands 4; Western Isles 4 Ynys Môn 1 (Philippa Jones)

2019 (Inter-Games Tournament)
Ynys Môn 3 (Lexi Crawley 3) Western Isles 1; Hitra 3 Ynys Môn 2 (Jordanne Greenough, Lexi Crawley); Ynys Môn 1 (Lexi Crawley) Jersey 0 (SF); Ynys Môn 1 (Catrin Evans) Isle of Man 2 (F)

2023 Guernsey
Ynys Môn 1 (Jess Jones 90+) Western Isles 6
Guernsey 2 Ynys Môn 3 (Ellie Jones, Jen Cox, Jess Jones)
Jersey 2 Ynys Môn 3 (Jen Cox, Mia Roberts, Cerys Gadd)

Record

Played: 21
Won: 5
Lost: 16
Goals For 24
Goals Against 83