Nottingham Forest Women back on top with Wolves drawing at Rugby | OneFootball

FA WNL Division 1 North leaders Cheadle Town after victory at Leeds United. (Photo: @CheadleStingers)

Nottingham Forest return to top spot in FA Women’s National League Northern Premier Division with Wolves drawing at Rugby Borough.

Northern Premier Division

Derby County 0-4 Burnley (Att: 282) Liverpool Feds 2-0 Stourbridge (Att: 97) Rugby Borough 1-1 Wolverhampton Wanderers Sporting Khalsa 0-4 Stoke City (Att: 70) Halifax 0-2 Nottingham Forest West Bromwich Albion 0-2 Hull City (Att: 78)

Nottingham Forest lead the table again after their first-half brace at Halifax and Wolves’ draw at Rugby, where Angela Nixon’s goal for Borough was cancelled out from distance by Beth Merrick.

Burnley scored four at Derby to move within three points of Wolves, Stoke had a similar win at Sporting Khalsa as they rose to fourth.

Izzy Gigg got both goals for Hull as they moved within a point of hosts West Brom, Courtney Willis was also at the double for Liverpool Feds as they beat Stourbridge.

Southern Premier Division

Billericay Town 2-4 Exeter City Cheltenham Town 1-2 Oxford United Milton Keynes Dons 0-2 Gwalia United Plymouth Argyle 2-1 Lewes (Att: 479) Watford P-P Ipswich Town Hashtag United 3-0 AFC Wimbledon (Att: 79)

Hashtag moved five points clear with a 3-0 defeat of Wimbledon, Exeter City up to second with all three points at Billericay and four goals before the break.

Oxford United went fourth but had to come from behind at Cheltenham, where Phoebie Poole got their decisive second goal.

Charlotte Whitmore and Georgia Wilson scored as Plymouth beat Lewes at Home Park but they remain in the bottom two on goal-difference as Gwalia won at MK Dons.

Division 1 Midlands

Barnsley Women 2-1 Northampton Town (Att: 154) Boldmere St Michaels 2-1 Worcester City Lincoln City 0-6 Leafield Athletic Peterborough United 3-0 Notts County (Att: 246) Sutton Coldfield Town 3-0 Lincoln United (Att: 67) Solihull Moors 0-2 Loughborough Lightning

Barnsley Women beat Northampton 2-1, with the Cobblers replaced at the top by Peterborough, 3-0 winners over Notts County, Six-goal Leafield are level on points with Northampton, Loughborough also gained ground with three points on the road,

Division 1 North

AFC Fylde 1-3 York City Huddersfield Town 0-1 Durham Cestria (Att: 68) Leeds United 1-2 Cheadle Town Stingers (Att: 196) Middlesbrough 2-1 Chorley (Att: 420) Norton & Stockton Ancients 1-1 Doncaster Rovers Belles (Att: 104) Stockport County 1-0 Barnsley FC (Att: 70)

Cheadle won at Leeds to open up a four-point lead, Middlesbrough saw off Chorley with Lauren Robson’s winner to leapfrog them into second position.

Durham Cestria are within a couple of points of Huddersfield whom they beat with a Lucy Noble goal five minutes from time.

York’s win at Fylde got them out of the relegation zone, Norton dropped in when held by Doncaster but over whom they have three games in hand.

Stockport got the only goal against Barnsley FC through Jess Brady, to take seventh spot from them.

York City tackle Fylde. (Photo: John Shirras)

Division 1 South East

Actonians 1-0 Dulwich Hamlet (Att: 52) AFC Sudbury 1-0 Ashford Town Chesham United 0-0 Queens Park Rangers (Att: 58) London Bees 3-0 Cambridge United (Att: 103) Real Bedford 1-1 Norwich City (Att: 162) Chatham Town 2-0 London Seaward (Att: 80)

Real Bedford stayed unbeaten after Abbie Bensted’s goal cancelled out Norwich’s opener by Natasha Snelling, Chatham replacing them at the top with victory over London Seaward.

There were single-goal home wins for Actonians and AFC Sudbury, London Bees are fifth following the win against Cmabridge, Chesham and QPR ended goalless.

Division 1 South West

Bournemouth Sports 3-2 Abingdon United Keynsham Town 0-3 AFC Bournemouth (Att: 69) Portishead Town 0-0 Maidenhead United (Att: 47) Southampton Women 0-3 Moneyfields (Att: 83) Swindon Town 0-2 Bristol Rovers Worthing 1-1 Bridgwater United

Moneyfields stayed top with all three goals at Southampton Women, AFC Bournemouth are second after a similar scoreline at Keynsham.

Bristol Rovers’ Megan Jarvis and Nia Rees were on target at Swindon as they went fourth, Jasmine Hughes grabbed an 87th-minute winner for Bournemouth Sports.

Worthing were held 1-1 by Bridgwater, Portishead are a point closer to escaping the drop zone after their goalless match with Maidenhead.

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