CHERRIES Women have been handed a home start to the 2022-23 campaign, with Steve Cuss’s side set to welcome newly-promoted AFC St Austell Ladies at the Macra Community Stadium.

Cuss’s Cherries will be hoping to go one better next term after finishing as runners-up in the Women’s National League Division One South West, the fourth tier of the women’s game.

South West Regional Women’s Premier League champions St Austell will travel across the south coast from Cornwall to face Cherries on Sunday, August 21.

The side will then travel to Portishead the following weekend, on Sunday, August 28.

Home comforts will be hard to come by for Cherries during the business end of the season, with five out of their seven final games set to be on the road.

Their final home game will come against Maidenhead United on Sunday, April 16, 2023.

They will then end their season in West Sussex, away at Selsey on Sunday, April 30.

Cherries women’s fixture list in full:

August -
Sun 21:  AFC St Austell (h)
Sun 28: Portishead (a)
Wed 31: Moneyfields (h)

September -
Sun 4: Keynsham (a)
Sun 18: Swindon Town (a)
Sun 25: Cardiff City Ladies (h)

October -
Sun 2: Exeter City (a)
Sun 9: Larkhall Athletic (h)
Wed 12: Southampton Women’s (h)

November -
Sun 6: Maidenhead United (a)
Sun 27: Selsey (h)

December -
Sun 11: AFC St Austell (a)

January -
Sun 8: Portishead (h)
Sun 29: Keynsham (h)

February -
Sun 5: Swindon (h)
Wed 22: Moneyfields (a)

March -
Sun 5: Cardiff City Ladies (a)
Wed 15: Southampton Women’s (a)
Sun 19: Exeter City (h)

April -
Sun 2: Larkhall Athletic (a)
Sun 16: Maidenhead United (h)
Sun 30: Selsey (a)