An Australian football team with multiple male players has won the Women’s Premier League in North West Sydney for the second year in a row, securing the title of 2025 Champions. The Flying Bats FC, a club described as being for “self-identified women and non-binary people”, defeated West Pennant Hills Cherrybrook FC (WPHC) 3–0 in the Grand Finals at Christie Park on August 31.
It is the second consecutive year the Flying Bats have beaten WPHC in the title decider, having also defeated them in the 2024 Women’s Premier League Grand Final. Despite finishing the 2025 regular season as minor premiers with more ladder points and the league’s strongest record, WPHC failed to score a single goal against the Flying Bats in the grand final match.
As previously revealed by Reduxx, there were at least five players on the team in 2024 who were confirmed to be male, including trans activist Riley Dennis. Dennis, who is originally from the United States, was accused of severely injuring female players while participating on another women’s team in Australia prior to joining the Flying Bats.
Can there be two leagues:
A. League with women players.
B. League with teams that accept women players and men who identify as women.
This would mean that teams which wish to compete with men identifying as women in them, then that League operates in that way. It would mean that teams which wish to compete with women in them would be in a League enabling them to operate in that way.
It would mean that one League operates according to ‘diversity’ with acquiescence of all teams and players. It would mean that one League operates according to safety and fairness as considered by all teams in that League, that is with acquiescence of all teams and players.