IT may have ended in defeat, but it was an afternoon to remember for Worcester City Women, as they played in front of a record-breaking crowd on Sunday at Sixways.

The league clash between City and Shrewsbury Town Women was moved to Sixways, with a view to creating a big crowd for what was City's final home game of the season.

324 supporters filled the stand to the one side but it was not the result they or the City fans were after, as they were beaten 2-1 in what was an eventful final ten minutes. 

After what had been an uneventful game in truth, Shrewsbury finally broke the deadlock in the 80th minute when Zoe Griffiths reacted quickest to Veith's lob coming back off the crossbar to nod home the opener.

Two minutes had passed before the visitors doubled their lead. Grace Layton spotted City keeper Alisha Hine off her line and tried her luck from 40 yards, the ball eventually crossing the line despite Hine's best efforts to keep it out. 

The game had been turned on it's head but City did pull one back as a third goal of the game inside five minutes was scored by Olivia Mitcham via a header to give the hosts some late hope. 

But Shrewsbury held out for the three points to extend their lead over City in third place in the West Midlands Regional Women's Football League as Worcester remain fourth.

After the game, manager Matt Lock said: "Fair play to Shrewbury, they played incredibly well. They had a game plan and limited us to not a huge amount of possession and when we did have it, we didn't do enough with it. 

"But that's football. We cannot back up what we did on Tuesday (league cup win over Kidderminster Harriers) with this. It didn't go our way today but we need to be better at consistently managing ourselves and our emotions.

"I am not going to be too hard on the girls, we just need to scrub it off and move on.

"But the occasion, the number of fans we had in, this should be what we are aspiring to do on a more regular basis. Hopefully this puts women's football on the map in this area."