Grassroots North Wales Women’s Football Awards 2025-26

Women’s Player of the Season – Kirstie Kural (Wrexham Foresters)

Scoring a ridiculous 66 goals in just 18 matches at whatever standard you play is a more than good reason to make you a leading player of the season contender.
However, there is so much more than goals alone that make Kirstie Kural our standout woman player of 2025-26.
Her performance in Sunday’s northern tier 3 play-off victory for Wrexham Foresters against Llangefni Town said everything about this inspirational character.
Not only did she haul her team back into the winner-takes-all clash from 2-0 down with a pair of late goals to force a penalty shoot-out……..
She then wrote her own fairytale by stepping in between the posts to replace stand-in keeper Kate Tasker and saved three kicks to ensure Foresters edged through 4-3 on pens.
The player-manager’s effect on those around her has done as much to make newly-founded Foresters the success they are as has her phenomenal goalscoring – believed to be a North Wales record tally by a woman in a single season.

Team of the Season – Connah’s Quay Nomads

To win one league title with an undefeated record is an immense achievement – to do it back-to-back is something else.
Nomads were crowned Tier 2 Adran North champions for a second season in succession under manager Jordan Parry, who has since stepped down.
In both campaigns they have been different class. The only setback has been defeats in both their promotion play-off finals.
That being said, the fact undefeated T2 champions are forced to enter a play-off to be promoted to the Adran Premier is downright scandalous. That’s a debate for another day, but for now let’s celebrate the mighty Nomads.

Young Player of the Season – Beth Roberts (Flint Town United)

Two very different types of season – but both highly impactive.
Young striker Beth Roberts burst onto the scene in 2024-25 when she scored a stunning 53 goals in 19 matches for new senior side CPDM Henllan to win the Goalden Girl title.
This season, she signed for Tier 2 club Flint Town United. The goals output was not as prolific but the performances were exceptional.
Her work-rate, strength, skill and ability to score a cracking goal – none more so than her stunner in a 4-0 win over CPDM Bangor – made her a major success story.
Her studies away from North Wales now take over, but hopefully we will see her back at some stage. What a talent.

Most Improved Player of the Season – Catrin Roberts (Llangefni Town)

Five seasons as a Llangefni player and with every passing campaign she has just got better and better.
This Ynys Môn representative is an insanely hard-working, committed defender-midfielder who was as influential as any in Cefni being crowned the inaugural North Wales Coast Women’s League champions this season.
Closing in on 100 club appearances, Catrin scores goals, provides assists and would be any manager’s first name on the team-sheet.

Manager of the Season – Dan Gregg (Llangefni Town)

Our Manager of the Season, not just because he and invaluable assistant Liam Ewing have led Llangefni to their greatest achievement yet in landing their first league title.
Dan rises above the rest because of his amazing resilience. Without going into too much detail, Llangefni has suffered a lot of setbacks in recent times, but this man never lets his head drop – or the heads of those around him.
After Sunday’s heartbreaking promotion play-off defeat, some managers no doubt would have said they’d had enough (at the time even if they would later change their mind) but Dan was already talking about bouncing back next season mere minutes after the final whistle.
The way Dan and Liam have transformed Llangefni Town Ladies from raw novices in 2021-22 into a match-winning machine in 2025-26 is a pure inspiration. Dan has brought some tremendous talent into North Wales senior football. No-one is more thorough or better prepared.

Goalkeeper of the Season – Katie Spruce (Llangefni Town)

If there was any doubt over who was North Wales’ female goalkeeper of the season, then Katie’s phenomenal performance in Sunday’s play-off against Foresters rubber-stamped the award.
She actually saved three penalties in the shoot-out, but was adjudged to have moved off her line for two of them.
Spot-kicks aside, some of those stops she made, especially from the relentless Kirstie Kural, were out of this world.
I’d seen Katie play some blinders before, but Sunday was the best. Not surprised she suffered a broken finger as a result of her heroics. So many people were congratulating her after the game which was great to see,
Oh, and she conceded less goals than anyone this season.

Defender of the Season – Scarlett Gregson (Kinmel Bay)

Maybe not an obvious choice, but I saw a few Kinmel Bay performances this season and this young lady really made her mark.
Not just a strong, elegant, skilful defender, she is also developing nicely into a potential wing-back.
Still only 17, she made 17 first-team appearances in 2025-26 and bagged quite a few goals for the under-17s.
One to watch closely in the future.

Midfielder of the Season – Lleucu Williams (CPDM Henllan)

It was a tough season for Henllan, who lost some key quality players to other clubs and had to deal with a lack of numbers and quite a few injuries.
But despite all this, the Vale of Clwyd villagers held their own, and no-one more typified the determination and footballing ability of the team more than 18-year-old dazzler Lleucu.
The Ysgol Glan Clwyd star struck nine goals in 14 appearances for Henllan, including a couple of beauties against champions Llangefni.
Because of the departures and absentees, very young players like captain Magi Pierce and Lleucu had to step up and be leaders – and how great they proved to be!

Winger of the Season – Llywela Edwards (CPDM Y Felinheli)

Two magnificent seasons at Felinheli now for this dynamic winger and 21 goals in 41 appearances.
Llywela has added so much to this Felin side and there was no more fitting match-winner in the NWCFA Women’s Challenge Cup final against CPDM Bangor.
Always a crucial outlet down the flanks, Llywela truly knows where the goal is and her worth was proven again when she had a great night at the team’s end-of-season presentations.

Forward of the Season – Ella Jones (Connah’s Quay Nomads)

This outstanding young striker won her FOURTH Adran North League championship medal in 2025-26 – two with Nomads and the other pair in a Llandudno shirt.
Sadly had her season cut short by injury (speedy recovery please) but still finished far and away the leading markswoman in Adran North with 20 goals in nine outings.
In five senior football seasons, this 21-year-old has piled up 84 goals in 64 appearances and it would have been considerably more but for injury lay-offs.

Comeback of the Season – Ffion Jones (Airbus UK Broughton)

What a difference this highly influential figure made when she returned to the Airbus squad at the start of 2026.
In just 10 matches, she knocked in a total of 21 goals, failing to find the net in just one of those games.
Ffion’s stunning efforts helped Airbus roar into the runners-up spot in the inaugural Central Wales North League table. They were also the only team to take a point off the champions Wrexham Foresters in 2025-26, Ffion on the mark in a 2-2 draw.

Goal of the Season – Beth Roberts (Flint Town United)

November 16, 2025, was the day Beth Roberts worte herself into Adran League wonder goal folklore.
Late on in a game against CPDM Bangor at the Essity Stadium, Beth received the ball wide left, was veered away from goal at first by covering defenders, but then turned on a sixpence to leave her opponents standing before firing a missile into the top right-hand corner.
The ground erupted as Beth typically reacted in a no-fuss manner as if this was the sort of thing she does in training every week (and probably does!).

Game of the Season – Wrexham Foresters v Llangefni Town

Vanessa Williams had a huge hit with Save The Best Till Last.
That easy-listening ballad could have been the ideal anthem for the May 31 season-closer for the right to play in Tier 2 Adran North next term.
However, the way Foresters and Cefni went about it, a far more pumped-up number like Phantom of the Opera by Iron Maiden would have been more apt.
What a game though. Heading into the last 15 minutes, Llangefni were 2-0 up and looking set for victory, only for Kirstie Kural to launch a one-woman mission to save the day by scoring a double to force a penalties contest.
And this was no ordinary shoot-out, with misses, saves, great kicks, and, most remarkably of all, the inspirational Kural swapping her outfield jersey for a goalkeeper’s one and keeping out three pens to guide the Foresters to the tightest of victories.
Both sides were an absolute credit to women’s football.