The Merseyside club Leasowe Pacific won the trophy in the 1989 WFA Cup Final – the match was played on 22 April, in the aftermath of the Hillsborough disaster the previous week.

[2][3] The WFA Cup finalist clubs were Friends of Fulham, who had been the 1985 Cup-winners, and Leasowe Pacific, the runners-up of the 1988 Final against Doncaster Belles.

In the semi-finals, striker Louise Thomas scored a hat-trick for Leasowe against Nottingham Rangers, in a 3–0 win at Sincil Bank, Lincoln on 5 March.

[2] After the traumatic events, Leasowe decided to participate in the women's Cup Final as scheduled, when given the choice of cancelling by the organisers and by Friends of Fulham.

The Leasowe manager, Billy Jackson, who had played for the Liverpool junior team, said "I don't know whether we have [made] the right decision or not", adding that the general consensus in discussions favoured going ahead with the game.

Four players were singled out for praise in the Liverpool Echo match report: I imagine a good many sides would like to be able to call on a pair of strikers like Leasowe's Marie [Maria] Harper and Louise Thomas.

The pair have scored nearly 100 goals between them this season [...] The ball control of players like Fulham's attacking midfielder Hope Powell and their brilliant centre-back Marieanne Spacey, who recently turned down an offer to play professionally in Italy, had such a knowledgable critic as former PFA secretary Cliff Lloyd applauding with enthusiasm.