​Sea­soned lo­cal foot­ball cam­paign­ers, De­fence Force, will play no part in this year’s Women’s Foot­ball League (WoLF), which kicked off on Sat­ur­day at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um in Bal­main, Cou­va.

​The "army/coast guard com­bi­na­tion" team placed sec­ond in the league last year be­hind Club San­do but is no­tably ab­sent from this year’s 10 com­pet­ing teams, re­port­ed­ly due to a change in man­age­ment with­in the T&T Reg­i­ment.

​WoLF pres­i­dent Leti­tia Mo­ra, who as­sumed lead­er­ship from Vanet­ta Flan­ders in 2024, de­liv­ered open­ing re­marks at a cer­e­mo­ny at­tend­ed pri­mar­i­ly by ex­ec­u­tive mem­bers, as teams opt­ed to re­main fo­cused on the up­com­ing match­es. Mo­ra not­ed that the open­ing marked an­oth­er ex­cit­ing chap­ter for women's foot­ball in T&T.

​“TT Wolf con­tin­ues to stand as a plat­form for op­por­tu­ni­ty, de­vel­op­ment and em­pow­er­ment, giv­ing our ath­letes a chance to grow and com­pete in healthy com­pe­ti­tion,” Mo­ra said. “As we kick off this new sea­son, we look for­ward to com­pet­i­tive match­es, sports­man­ship, uni­ty, and con­tin­ued progress for women's foot­ball across our na­tion.”

​Mo­ra al­so an­nounced a new ad­di­tion to the league, a Knock­out Com­pe­ti­tion. This tour­na­ment will fea­ture a "sis­ter isle" show­down, with Trinida­di­an teams fac­ing off against To­bag­on­ian sides dur­ing a mid-sea­son break. The pri­ma­ry league for­mat will re­main a round-robin among the 10 par­tic­i­pat­ing teams to de­ter­mine the cham­pi­on.

​Be­fore the new sea­son com­menced, the league cel­e­brat­ed the stand­outs of 2025. De­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Club San­do were of­fi­cial­ly pre­sent­ed with their tro­phies, medals, and a cash prize. De­spite their ab­sence this sea­son, De­fence Force mem­bers were recog­nised for their run­ner-up fin­ish, fol­lowed by Jew­els of To­ba­go and To­ba­go Chi­cas in third and fourth place, re­spec­tive­ly.

​In­di­vid­ual ac­co­lades were dom­i­nat­ed by Tye­sha Grif­fith of the Uni­ver­si­ty of T&T (UTT), who was named Most Valu­able Play­er (MVP) and claimed the "Most Goals" award for her 29-goal haul. Oth­er top ho­n­ours went to Nico­lette Craig (Best Goal­keep­er) and Niki­ta Go­sine (Most Out­stand­ing Youth Play­er).

​Fol­low­ing the for­mal­i­ties, the ac­tion shift­ed to the pitch where Trend­set­ter Hawks took on the reign­ing cham­pi­ons, Club San­do, as the lat­ter be­gan their ti­tle de­fence.

HO­N­OUR ROLL

Best Goal­keep­er: Nico­lette Craig (De­fence Force)

Most Goals: Tye­sha Grif­fith (UTT) 29 Goals

MVP: Tye­sha Grif­fith

Out­stand­ing youth play­er: Niki­ta Go­sine (De­fence Force)

Out­stand­ing coach: Bri­an Lon­don (De­fence Force)

Spir­it of WoLF: Diego Mar­tin Women's FC

League re­sults: Medals, Tro­phies and uni­forms

1 Club San­do

2 De­fence Force

3 Jew­els SC

4 To­ba­go Chi­cas (on­ly to col­lect uni­form)