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.
The Premier League Women’s competition is the top tier of women’s football run by North West Sydney Football (NWSF), the regional body created through the merger of the North West Sydney Women’s Football Association and the Gladesville Hornsby Football Association. The 2025 Grand Finals Weekend was staged on August 30–31, with the Flying Bats clinching the championship in the decisive match against WPHC on Sunday.
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.
Prior to defeating WPHC in the Grand Final, the Flying Bats also beat the Epping Football Club Women’s AA2 team 3–0 in the lead-up to the decider.
The club describes itself as “the world’s oldest and largest LGBTQIA+ women’s and non-binary football club,” and its policies allow male players to self-identify onto the team.
On its website, the Flying Bats published a detailed Gender and Sex Diversity Policy, which states: “We know that the topic of trans women in sport has been used as a political football in recent years, which makes our support for this part of our community even more urgent and important … A core part of our mission as a club is to challenge these wider cultural attitudes, to actively call out transphobic, homophobic and biphobic abuse when and where it happens on and off the field, and to make football a safe and accessible space for everyone.”
The club has frequently attracted controversy for having several trans-identified males on their roster, though the exact number for the Winter season is unknown as the Flying Bats have taken steps to obscure the identities of their players.
During the 2024 iteration of the North West Sydney Football Women’s Premier Competition, intense measures were taken to prevent spectators from even taking photo of the team. Security guards conducted bag checks and required all who attended the game to turn over their recording devices.
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.
An Australian football team with FIVE male players has won the Northwest Sydney Football Women’s Premier Competition.
The Flying Bats, an “inclusive” football club for “self-identified women,” has won every game they competed in this summer.https://t.co/Isvhj5tP0y
— REDUXX (@ReduxxMag) August 26, 2024
In 2024, the Flying Bats were awarded a $1,000 prize after winning the North West Sydney League pre-season Beryl Ackroyd Cup, following a season in which they went undefeated in all their Women’s Premier League matches. The victory sparked significant public outcry and pushed the Flying Bats into international headlines.
Amid the club’s landslide victories during the 2024 season, six rival clubs whose women’s teams had faced the Flying Bats convened an informal meeting on March 17, 2024, to raise and share their concerns. The North West Sydney Football Association soon learned of this gathering and responded by scheduling a hearing with the clubs involved.
In an email to club presidents, NWSF CEO Matthew Geracitano instructed them to attend and issued a warning against engaging in “hate speech.” Attached to the email was a digital packet titled “Online Hate Speech” produced by the eSafety Commission.
Above the attachment, one sentence was highlighted in yellow: “If individuals responsible for posting seriously harmful material do not comply with a removal notice, we can seek civil penalties or fines against perpetrators (up to $111,000).”
The North West Sydney Football Association is explicitly in favor of allowing trans-identified males to participate in women’s sport, and has put forward regulations stating that “players may register and participate on the basis of their gender identification.”
There are a total of at least nine trans-identified males known to be playing football within the women’s leagues, though their identities have been protected and withheld by Australian media.
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