Women's Super League Archives

Arsenal 1-2 Manchester City: Women’s Super League – as it happened

by el-admin - February 7, 2021 0394

Thanks for reading. Suzanne Wrack will be filing later on a momentous day in the WSL. Gareth Taylor, the Manchester City manager, speaks. It’s all about the win. I think we can play better. The wind was blowing much harder than people watching at home will realise. An amazing goal

Chelsea v Manchester United: Women’s Super League – live!

by el-admin - January 17, 2021 0515

55 min: United sub: on comes Lauren James for Christen Press, who was coming back from illness. 54 min: United corner, achieved by pressing Chelsea back. That’s cleared but United are back on the attack. It’s been a good response from United. 53 min: Better pressing from United, and they

Manchester City’s Caroline Weir hits late WSL winner against Arsenal

by el-admin - December 13, 2020 0475

Bill Shankly famously said: “Some people believe football is a matter of life and death, I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.” In a year where a global pandemic has halted and contextualised sport, we have been reminded

All change in WSL: Spurs sack Hills and Amoros on day Beard leaves West Ham

by el-admin - November 19, 2020 0522

Tottenham have sacked their head coaches, Karen Hills and Juan Amoros, and replaced them with Rehanne Skinner on a hectic day of Women’s Super League changes. The move was announced hours after West Ham confirmed the departure of their manager, Matt Beard. Hills and Amoros leave with Spurs second from bottom

Women’s football is growing but can the FA keep pace with demand? | Flo Lloyd-Hughes

by el-admin - October 19, 2020 0666

It all kicked off on women’s football Twitter this month. Not because of something Phil Neville said, which is the usual cause of button bashing, but as a result of TV coverage, or lack thereof. Women’s football fans are a unique, loyal and opinionated tribe. So the news that very few

Miedema breaks WSL record with hat-trick as Arsenal hammer Tottenham

by el-admin - October 18, 2020 0523

Arsenal’s manager, Joe Montemurro, said Vivianne Miedema’s contract is “top of the list” and that the club will do “everything we can to make sure Viv remains a part of the group” after the 24-year-old Dutch striker scored a first-half hat-trick to become the Women’s Super League record goalscorer. Her 52-goal

Women’s Super League: talking points from the weekend’s action | Rachel Brown-Finnis

by el-admin - September 14, 2020 0473

Morgan confirms WSL’s star status The WSL has welcomed a dizzying array of talent in recent weeks, with Spurs’ addition of Alex Morgan the icing on the cake. I want to emphasise just how much it means to women’s football in England for players like Morgan, Tobin Heath, Christen Press, Rose

Chelsea Women sign Pernille Harder from Wolfsburg for world record fee

by el-admin - September 2, 2020 0715

Chelsea Women have signed Pernille Harder from the Champions League finalists Wolfsburg for a fee believed to be around £300,000, which would be a world record in the women’s game. The Denmark international, 27, is considered to be one of the best players in the world and the Wolfsburg Frauen sporting

USA star Rose Lavelle acquired by OL Reign ahead of expected Man City move

by el-admin - August 17, 2020 0515

OL Reign announced Sunday they have acquired American star Rose Lavelle in a trade with the Washington Spirit in exchange for a natural first round draft pick in the 2022 NWSL College Draft, $100,000 in allocation money and additional allocation money conditioned upon Lavelle’s future playing status in the National

Transfers provide a silver lining for WSL and may soon have a Bronze hue

by el-admin - July 16, 2020 0500

In what will be a seven-month stretch without domestic women’s football, interest in the comings and goings at clubs is reaching a new peak. The unpredictability of the effects of Covid-19 has added spice to the current transfer window. The window opened on 19 June but until the past week the