Sevilla Femenino · History

Sevilla FC Femenino is the women's football section of Sevilla FC, based in Seville, Andalusia. It has played in the Spanish top flight since 2017 and is part of Liga F, the professional league that has run Spain's top division since the 2022-23 season. Home matches are played at the Estadio Jesús Navas, which holds 8,000 spectators and stands inside the club's training complex. The club's own women's team was founded in 2008. From 2004, though, the Sevilla crest had already appeared at the top of the women's game through an agreement with CD Híspalis.

The Híspalis agreement (2004-2008)

The project's roots lie in CD Híspalis, a neighbourhood club from Seville founded in 1972 that set up its women's team in 1992. In 2004, when Híspalis was playing in the Superliga Femenina, Sevilla FC reached an agreement with it. Híspalis stayed independent, but it began competing under Sevilla's name, kit and badge and trained at Sevilla's facilities. Under that arrangement, the team finished as Superliga runner-up in 2005-06, level on points with RCD Espanyol, who won the title on goal difference. In 2006-07 it reached the semi-finals of the Copa de la Reina. The decline came quickly: in 2008 the team finished bottom and dropped to the second tier, and Sevilla ended its link with Híspalis.

A fresh start in regional football (2008-2011)

After the split, the club created its own women's team and entered it in the regional league for the 2008-09 season. The team won its league, but it did not have to climb the rest of the pyramid. In 2009 the Royal Spanish Football Federation expanded the Superliga and invited the women's sections of men's league clubs, so Sevilla went straight up to the top flight. It finished eleventh in its first season there, 2009-10, and reached the last 16 of the Copa de la Reina. The next season was harder: an 18th-place finish in 2010-11 meant relegation.

Between the first and second divisions (2011-2017)

Sevilla spent only one season in the Spanish second division. In 2011-12 the team won its group and came through the promotion play-offs against Oiartzun KE and CD Femarguín, so it returned to the top flight in May 2012. That same year the reserve side, Sevilla FC Femenino B, was also promoted to the second division. Back in the top flight, the first team spent three seasons near the bottom of the table: twelfth in 2012-13, fourteenth in 2013-14 and sixteenth in 2014-15, a finish that sent it down again. In the second division it was third in 2015-16 and top of its group in 2016-17, which earned a return to the Primera División.

Settling in the top flight (2017-2022)

Promotion in 2017 began the steadiest period in the team's history. After finishing twelfth in 2017-18, Sevilla were tenth in 2018-19. That season brought their best Copa de la Reina run up to that point: they beat Levante on penalties in the quarter-finals and reached the semi-finals, where they lost 3-1 to Real Sociedad in San Sebastián. They reached the semi-finals again in 2019-20, a competition delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The tie was finally played in October 2020, and FC Barcelona won 6-0. In the league, Sevilla were eleventh in 2019-20 and eighth in both 2020-21 and 2021-22, and they reached the cup quarter-finals in each of those two seasons.

The Liga F years (2022-2026)

When the top division turned professional, Sevilla joined Liga F from its first season, 2022-23. They finished seventh that year, the club's best league position since it was re-founded in 2008, and went out of the cup in the last 16. They were seventh again in 2023-24, when they reached the Copa de la Reina quarter-finals. In 2024-25 they finished ninth and went out in the last 16 of the cup once more. In 2025-26 Sevilla finished eighth in Liga F and again lost in the last 16 of the Copa de la Reina.