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Arsenal 4-1 London City Lionesses: WSL – as it happened

Olivia Smith scored a spectacular equaliser on debut as Arsenal recovered from a slow start to overwhelm London City Lionesses5 min London City have made an assured start, with most of the early play taking places in the Arsenal half.2 min Chloe Kelly, supersub for England and starter for Arsenal, wins the first corner of the game on the left. Caldentey’s inswinger is chested away at the near post. Continue reading.....

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 15:04:52 GMT

Olivia Smith ignites Arsenal’s comeback win over WSL newcomers London City

Smith scoring for Arsenal? It just feels right. There was a standing ovation for the women’s game first £1m signing, Olivia Smith, on 61 minutes as she exited after a phenomenal debut goal in Arsenal’s defeat of London City.Smith is a different profile of forward to the legendary Kelly Smith, who is now part of the Gunners’ coaching staff, but at a club that lives and breathes its rich women’s football history it felt like a moment. Continue reading.....

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 15:00:47 GMT

‘It’s about time’: Marie Höbinger desperate to end Liverpool’s losing WSL derby run

Everton have won all five WSL meetings at Anfield but midfielder says playing at home can help in season-opener“We know it’s big shoes to fill, but we already made Anfield our training pitch so we’re looking forward to it.” That tongue-in-cheek remark was made by the Everton Women manager, Brian Sorensen, when addressing the Everton men’s fans last season after it emerged that Goodison Park was to become his team’s new home ground.It was clearly just a joke, but the message was clear. Everton’s women have played five Merseyside derbies at Anfield and have won them all without conceding a goal...

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 12:51:49 GMT

Chelsea’s Beever-Jones shows she is more than an impact player on bouncy opening night | Suzanne Wrack

Forward opens the scoring against Manchester City and could dominate her side’s front line this seasonOnce the smoke from the pyrotechnics cleared and the orange WSL-branded carpet was rolled up, as prolific striker Sam Kerr sat on the bench and club record signing, Alyssa Thompson, in the stands, it was the academy graduate Aggie Beever-Jones who stood by the centre circle ready to lead the line for Chelsea as they kickstarted the new season against Manchester City. That it was the 22-year-old forward who opened Blues’ account on Friday night was fitting. This is home.For all the hype about K..

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 21:06:35 GMT

Hamano strikes as Chelsea open WSL season with win over Manchester City

A new season, a new opposing manager, new signings, but the same old story: a Chelsea win. Only just, but a win is a win, especially in a tricky opening-night fixture, as Sonia Bompastor’s side embark on a quest for the club’s seventh consecutive Women’s Super League title.It saw Andrée Jeglertz lose his first game in charge of Manchester City; Bompastor, by contrast, is still yet to lose a league fixture in English football and Chelsea remain unbeaten in the WSL since May 2024, a run of 26 league games. Continue reading.....

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 21:00:32 GMT

Chelsea 2-1 Manchester City: WSL – as it happened

Aggie Beever-Jones and Maika Hamano scored to give the champions a hard-fought victory in the WSL season opener3 min City have started well. Bunny Shaw collects the ball on the left side of the area, shifts the ball to the side and blasts a shot that is pushed away the diving Hampton. Good save.2 min City captain Alex Greenwood has started at left-back, with Gracie Prior and Jade Rose as the centre-backs. Prior moves forward and gets her head to Hasegawa’s free-kick without being able to direct it on target. Continue reading.....

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 20:48:33 GMT

Arsenal’s Beth Mead: ‘Chelsea are lethal but we can play better football than them’

After lifting European titles with Arsenal and England this year, forward aims to knock WSL champions off their perchBeth Mead leans back slightly in her seat, the wall behind her displaying iterations of the Arsenal crest through decades of change and says: “It’s a tough club to walk away from.”After a year of gossip, wondering and a summer of speculation, the transfer window has shut and Mead is heading, hungrier than ever, into her ninth full season at the club she joined at 21. Continue reading.....

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 14:00:42 GMT

London City Lionesses break women’s football transfer record with £1.43m Geyoro signing

France midfielder Grace Geyoro joins WSL club from PSGManchester United manager Skinner says fee is ‘crazy’London City Lionesses have broken the world record for a women’s football transfer by signing the France midfielder Grace Geyoro from Paris Saint-Germain for €1.65m (£1.43m), the Guardian understands.The deal is believed to have gone to the wire on Thursday but was completed before the Women’s Super League’s transfer window closed at 11pm BST and the 28-year-old has become the third player to break the world record in the women’s game in less than two months. Continue reading.....

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 08:24:50 GMT

From Birmingham to Sunderland, which teams are set for WSL2 title tilt?

England’s rebranded second tier begins on Friday and our club-by-club guide features all the pre-season newsLast season: 2nd. Predicted finish: 2nd After missing out on promotion on the final day of last season, finishing two points behind London City Lionesses, Birmingham looked virtually WSL-ready on and off the pitch but were the victims of the old format’s lone promotion spot. Under Amy Merricks, they had the best defensive record in the division but too many draws ultimately cost Birmingham dearly. With a second automatic promotion spot up for grabs – and one playoff spot too – they shou..

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 07:00:17 GMT

Georgia Stanway: ‘If England win the World Cup I’ll happily retire – that’s all my dreams’

Lionesses and Bayern Munich midfielder on ‘stressful’ Euro 2025 success, ‘world-class’ Sarina Wiegman and online abuse suffered by playersGeorgia Stanway has more than 100 tiny tattoos inked into her skin and, stretching out her arms to show me some of them, she reveals that since helping England win a second consecutive Euros at the heart of their midfield this summer, “I’ve probably had about 10 new ones. Sometimes, I’ll be sat in the living room and say: ‘Ah, let’s just go to the studio.’”The numbers 19:32 stand out in blue on one arm and she says: “That’s the time the final whistle blew wh..

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 07:00:17 GMT

Chelsea Women complete signing of Alyssa Thompson from Angel City for £1.1m fee

20-year-old’s fee may break world record with add-onsGrace Clinton and Jess Park swap clubs in ManchesterChelsea have signed the USA winger Alyssa Thompson from Angel City for an upfront fee understood to be just shy of $1.5m (£1.1m), which sources say could climb close to a world-record sum with potential add-ons, on a dramatic transfer deadline day in the Women’s Super League.Thompson is understood to have put pen to paper on a five-year contract with just over an hour to spare before the window shut at 11pm. The 20-year-old completed a medical earlier on Thursday in London, after boarding a..

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 23:17:28 GMT

Women’s Super League 2025-26 previews No 12: West Ham

Shekiera Martinez is primed to be integral once again as the club close in on more investment to catch up with their rivalsGuardian writers’ predicted position: 11th (NB: this is not necessarily Sophie Downey’s prediction but the average of our writers’ tips)Last season’s position: 9th Continue reading.....

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 23:01:07 GMT

Sam Kerr poised for Chelsea return in Women’s Super League opener after injury

Striker in squad for Friday’s match with Manchester CityKerr missed 20 months because of a serious knee injurySam Kerr is poised to make her long-awaited return for Chelsea on Friday night after 20 months out because of a serious knee injury, when the Women’s Super League season gets under way.The Chelsea head coach, Sonia Bompastor, said on Thursday that the Australia striker would be in her squad when the defending champions host Manchester City at Stamford Bridge. Continue reading.....

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 15:47:53 GMT

World Cup qualifying preview and new WSL season kicks off – Football Weekly

Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Paul Watson, Jonathan Fadugba and Suzy Wrack to discuss a new Women’s Super League format and the race to reach the 2026 World CupRate, review, share on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Audioboom, Mixcloud, Acast and Stitcher, and join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter and email.On today’s pod: the international break is here, and England’s squad raises more questions than answers. No Trent Alexander-Arnold, no Phil Foden or Jack Grealish, but a surprise return for Ruben Loftus-Cheek and call-ups for Elliot Anderson and Djed Spence. The panel asks how..

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 13:52:02 GMT

Record transfers and a managerial merry-go-round – but can anyone stop Chelsea in the WSL?

The new season starts on Friday with Sonia Bompastor’s side chasing a seventh consecutive title but rivals have hopeAfter a breathless summer that included heart-stopping penalty shootouts, a swath of managerial changes and even the women’s game’s first £1m transfer fee, as the new Women’s Super League season arrives, the million-dollar question is, can anyone stop Chelsea?The defending champions have won six WSL titles in a row and they notched up a record points tally last term to win the championship by their largest margin yet – 12. Ominously for their rivals, they were trying to strengthe..

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 10:58:01 GMT

Women’s Super League 2025-26 previews No 11: Tottenham

Spurs will look to bounce back after a disappointing 2024-25 campaign and have brought in Martin Ho as their new managerGuardian writers’ predicted position: 10th (NB: this is not necessarily Suzanne Wrack’s prediction but the average of our writers’ tips)Last season’s position: 11th Continue reading.....

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 23:01:35 GMT

Manchester United and Manchester City agree deal to swap Clinton and Park

Both players were part of England squad at Euro 2025London City close to signing Barcelona’s Lucía CorralesManchester City and Manchester United have agreed a deal for the England midfielders Grace Clinton and Jess Park to swap clubs, in a transfer that it is understood would essentially mean City buying Clinton for an undisclosed sum plus Park.Both players have only one year remaining on their contracts and it is believed City had multiple bids to sign Clinton rejected by their local rivals, before United proposed the idea of bringing Park in the other direction as part of the deal. Continue ..

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 19:09:12 GMT

Khadija Shaw: ‘Sometimes you have to take a step back and think about your mental health’

In an exclusive interview, the Manchester City striker talks about the horrific racist abuse she suffered last season, playing with Viv Miedema and her hopes for 2025-26“It’s difficult,” says Khadija ‘Bunny’ Shaw. “Sometimes you have to take a step back and think about you and your mental health because if you’re not in a good place you won’t be able to perform. I wasn’t in a good place. It was about more than what happened in that match. There’s a lot that people didn’t and don’t know about.”Shaw is speaking for the first time about her decision to withdraw from Manchester City’s League Cup s..

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 17:00:28 GMT

Revealed: WSL and WSL2 players to get minimum salaries from this season

No WSL2 player will need part-time job now, says COONew wage spend framework introduced to ‘protect’ clubsMinimum salaries are being introduced in the Women’s Super League and WSL2 this season and will stop second-tier players needing part-time jobs on the side, Holly Murdoch, the chief operating officer of WSL Football, has told the Guardian.WSL2 has moved to fully professional criteria and its minimum “salary floor” has been agreed in collaboration with the Professional Footballers’ Association, Murdoch said. Previously, average salaries were understood to be so low at some clubs that many s..

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 11:00:07 GMT

Nike to provide free boots to players after extending WSL sponsorship deal

Company to provide gloves for keepers in WSL and WSL2Players previously bought own match-day equipmentNike has extended its Women’s Super League sponsorship deal in an innovative partnership, with the company to provide free boots to all players in the top two divisions who do not have endorsement contracts with other manufacturers.Sources with knowledge of the deal told the Guardian that approximately 250 players from the WSL and WSL2 have signed up to receive boots from Nike as part of the partnership, with many of them having been forced previously to buy their own match‑day and training fo..

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 07:00:17 GMT

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