Emma Doherty commits to Galway United ahead of new Women’s Premier Division season

Galway United have announced that Emma Doherty has re-signed for their senior women’s team ahead of the 2025 season.

The 20-year-old Buncrana native has committed to The Tribeswomen once more and heads into her second term at the club.

Doherty started out at the likes of Illies Celtic and Buncrana Hearts before she signed for Sligo Rovers in 2022, making her debut in the SSE Airtricity Women’s Premier Division that same year. 

She made her debut against DLR Waves at the Showgrounds in March and scored her first goal for the club a week later in a 2-1 win over Cork City. 

Doherty had an instant impact at Rovers scoring 11 goals in 26 games that year and winning the SSE/LOI Player of the Month for June/July for her fine form. 

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Doherty’s efforts also saw her earn a place in the league’s Team of the Year at the time. She kept that form up and played 50 games for Sligo Rovers, scoring just under 30 goals in that time.

She then hooked up with Galway in 2024 and featured in 17 league games in total, for Rovers and United and netted on four occasions that term. 

That Included scoring in three successive games for United when she was on target against Peamount United, Sligo Rovers and Treaty United.