Great Britain Women’s Premier Cup - NEW TROPHY IDEA

Most of my football blog posts are about Scottish men’s football. 

But here is an idea about Women’s football.
A Great Britain Women’s Premier Cup - New Trophy Idea.  

I think that Scotland, England, and Wales should have a new club trophy on top of domestic and European women’s football. I do not want the Scottish and Welsh sides to play in the English Leagues, as we are our own countries with our identities. But a cross border cup would be a great idea. It should be the Great Britain Women’s Premier Cup. Where the top division sides of England, play the top sides of the Scottish and Welsh Leagues.

It could be a group stage trophy. With the 12 teams from the English Top League. The top 6 sides from Scotland. Plus the top 2 Welsh League teams.

Organization of the Trophy.

This leaves a 20-team trophy.

So, if the teams are sorted into five groups of four.

Each team plays 6 games in the group stage, home and away. Then the winners of each groups, and the 3 best runner’s up go into the 8 teams knockout stages.

There is then a single leg straight knockout cup leading to a final. The final would be played at a neutral venue.

This would really help Welsh, and Scottish football grow. And it would be an extra trophy for teams to compete for.

The English teams, could use the trophy to try our fringe players in the group stages, and then take the later stages more seriously like big sides do in the men’s Scottish League Cup and English League Cup.  

Also, even more ambitious. would be to allow Northern and Republic of Ireland teams to take part. If they took part it could be a Great Britain and Ireland Women’s Premier Cup. But this may not be possible for Irish and Welsh clubs to travel these distances across the Irish Sea, in terms of expense, and distances. 

Also perhaps lower division English sides could play in the trophy, from the second tier of the English Women's football league system. Or even, from even lower division teams could play in the trophy.

It would really help Celtic soccer, without annexing the Scottish and Welsh identities. 
Travel could be aided, by having Welsh teams play English sides close to Wales, in the group stages. Plus with Scottish sides playing Northern English sides in the earlier group stages. 
Obviously the knockout stages would be drawn randomly with no regionalisation of the draws.
It would be a fun new trophy, to help Celtic soccer. 
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