The 1994 FA Women's Cup Final was the 23rd final of the FA Women's Cup

FA Women's Cup

The Football Association Women’s Challenge Cup Competition, commonly referred to as the FA Women's Cup, is the top cup competition for women's football clubs in England – designed as an exact equivalent to the FA Cup created 99 years earlier...

, England's primary cup competition

Single-elimination tournament

A single-elimination tournament, also called a knockout, cup or sudden death tournament, is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of each match or bracket is immediately eliminated from winning the championship or first prize in the event...

 for women's football teams. The showpiece event was played between Doncaster Belles and Knowsley United Women

Liverpool L.F.C.

Liverpool Ladies Football Club is a semi–professional women's football club affiliated with Liverpool Football Club and playing in the FA WSL...

 at Glanford Park

Glanford Park

Glanford Park is a football stadium in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England, and the current home of Scunthorpe United. It is the smallest stadium by capacity in the Championship ....

 in Scunthorpe

Scunthorpe

Scunthorpe is a town within North Lincolnshire, England. It is the administrative centre of the North Lincolnshire unitary authority, and had an estimated total resident population of 72,514 in 2010. A predominantly industrial town, Scunthorpe, the United Kingdom's largest steel processing centre,...

 on 24 April 1994. Knowsley United made its first final appearance, after losing the previous season's FA Women's Premier League Cup final at Wembley. Doncaster Belles entered their 11th final in 12 seasons, having won the trophy on five of those occasions.

Knowsley United entered the competition at the fourth round stage and beat Leyton Orient, Huddersfield Town

Huddersfield Town Ladies F.C.

Huddersfield Town Ladies F.C., are a women's football team based in West Yorkshire, England. They play their home games at The Canalside Sports Complex on Leeds Road, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire...

, holders Arsenal

Arsenal L.F.C.

Arsenal Ladies Football Club are an English women's association football club affiliated with Arsenal F.C.. Founded in 1987, they are the most successful club in English women's football having won 34 major trophies to date; which are 12 FA Women's Premier League titles, 11 FA Women's Cups, ten...

 and Stanton Rangers to reach the final. Doncaster Belles also entered at the fourth round and faced Millwall Lionesses

Millwall Lionesses L.F.C.

Millwall Lionesses Ladies Football Club were founded in March 1972 by Patricia Maslin and Rita Bullions. In a time when women's football was almost unheard of the group of women who made up the Lionesses were at first snubbed by Millwall FC but went on to became the first women's football team to...

, Bromley Borough

Charlton Athletic L.F.C.

Charlton Athletic Women's Football Club play in the FA Women's Premier League National Division in England. Between 2000, the year it was founded from Croydon Women's F.C. and 2007, Charlton had one of the most successful women's teams in England...

, Brighton & Hove Albion and Leasowe Pacific

Everton L.F.C.

Everton Ladies Football Club are a semi-professional women's association football team from the city of Liverpool, who compete in the FA WSL. They were runners-up to Arsenal in the 2009–10 Premier League National Division season. They have won the title once in 1998 and the FA Women's Cup on...

 before reaching the final. The Belles scored 25 goals and conceded two in their four matches.

Watched by a crowd of 1,674, Doncaster won the match 1–0, with a goal by Karen Walker

Karen Walker (footballer)

Karen Walker is an English former international football centre-forward. She played for Doncaster Belles for 17 years, starting at the age of 16, and began playing for England as a teenager, making 83 appearances and scoring a record 40 goals until she retired from international football in...

.

Match details

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style="font-size: 90%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">	DONCASTER BELLES:
GK		Tracey Davidson
DF		Mandy Lowe
DF		Louise Ryde
DF		Michelle Jackson
DF		Chantel Woodhead
MF		Gillian Coultard Gillian Coultard Gillian Coultard is a retired English football player, and former England captain. She is England Women's most capped international, with 119 appearances; she is also the highest capped outfield England international ever, with only goalkeeper Peter Shilton gaining more with 125...  (c)
MF		Julie Goodman
MF		Janice Murray
MF		Joanne Broadhurst Joanne Broadhurst Joanne "Jo" Broadhurst is a former English female footballer. She represented England at full international level and played for the leading English clubs Doncaster Belles, Arsenal and Croydon/Charlton Athletic.-Club career:...
FW		Karen Walker Karen Walker (footballer) Karen Walker is an English former international football centre-forward. She played for Doncaster Belles for 17 years, starting at the age of 16, and began playing for England as a teenager, making 83 appearances and scoring a record 40 goals until she retired from international football in...
FW		Gail Borman Gail Borman Gail Borman is a former English women's international footballer, who played club football for the Doncaster Belles. She was described by journalist Pete Davies, author of the book I lost my Heart to the Belles, as a "quick and elegant England striker."-Club career:In 1991–92 Borman hit 17...
Substitutes:
MF		Lorraine Young
MF		Sheila Edmunds
FW		Karen Skillcorn
DF		Ann Lisseman
DF		Julie Chipchase
Manager:
Paul Edmunds Paul Edmunds (footballer) Paul Edmunds is an English former professional footballer and manager.-Playing career:A pacy winger, Edmunds trained as a teacher in Sunderland and was called into Great Britain's 1979 World Student Games squad...

style="font-size: 90%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> KNOWSLEY UNITED: | GK   Jill Thomas DF   Sammy Hayward

Sammy Howarth

Samantha "Sammy" Howarth is an English international footballer. She played in the FA Women's Premier League National Division with Liverpool, Doncaster Belles and Tranmere Rovers...

DF   Clare Taylor

Clare Taylor

Clare Elizabeth Taylor MBE is the first woman to have played on a World Cup team in both cricket and football. She represented England at both cricket, as a member of the winning World Cup cricket team in 1993, and football . She was awarded the MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 2000 for her...

 (c) DF   Dianne Coughlin DF   Joy McQuiggan MF   Angie Gallimore MF   Cathy Gore MF   Kerry Davis

Kerry Davis

Kerry Davis is an English former international women's footballer. She played in all four games of England's 1995 FIFA Women's World Cup appearance.-Club career:...

MF   Donna Baker

Donna Baker

Donna Marie Baker is a former association football player who represented New Zealand at international level.Baker made her Football Ferns debut in a 0–0 draw with Australia on 28 November 1983 and ended her international career with 35 caps and 7 goals to her credit.Baker represented New Zealand...

  FW   Karen Burke FW   Marie Harper Substitutes: FW   Debbie Holland DF   Margie Parson MF   Nicki Barnes GK   Debbie Phillips DF   Pam Markey Player/Manager:   Angie Gallimore

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