That’s all from us today. Thank you for joining us this WSL season. We’ll be back next weekend for coverage of the Women’s Champions League final and the following week for the Women’s FA Cup final.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend!
Suzanne Wrack’s match report is in:
City head coach Andrée Jeglertz is embracing the moment!
Trophy lift
Alex Greenwood lifts the trophy! What a moment!
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Each of the Manchester City players are getting a moment of their own to collect their medals. Alex Greenwood will get hers with the trophy at the end.
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The City players are making their way onto the pitch, ready to get their hands on the WSL trophy.
We’re still waiting for the trophy lift. You can’t blame the City players if they’re too busy partying away in the dressing room. Let the celebrations begin!
The final 2025-26 WSL table
| Pos | Team | P | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Man City Women | 22 | 43 | 55 |
| 2 | Arsenal Women | 22 | 39 | 51 |
| 3 | Chelsea Women | 22 | 24 | 49 |
| 4 | Man Utd Women | 22 | 16 | 40 |
| 5 | Tottenham Hotspur Women | 22 | -3 | 36 |
| 6 | London City Lionesses | 22 | -7 | 27 |
| 7 | Brighton & Hove Albion Women | 22 | -1 | 26 |
| 8 | Everton Women | 22 | -12 | 23 |
| 9 | Aston Villa Women | 22 | -20 | 20 |
| 10 | West Ham Women | 22 | -25 | 19 |
| 11 | Liverpool FC Women | 22 | -13 | 17 |
| 12 | Leicester Women | 22 | -41 | 9 |
Manchester City are now gearing up for the big trophy lift. Each player has ‘Champions 26’ on the back of their shirt.
Time to party!
Full-time
Chelsea 1-0 Manchester United
Liverpool 1-3 Arsenal
West Ham 1-4 Manchester City
Brighton 1-2 Tottenham
London City Lionesses 2-1 Aston Villa
Everton 1-0 Leicester City
GOAL! London City Lionesses 2-1 Aston Villa (Freya Godfrey, 90+3)
Godfrey wins it late for London City Lionesses! An excellent end to the club’s debut WSL season!
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GOAL! Everton 1-0 Leicester City (Maz Pacheco, 90+6)
We have a goal at Goodison! I repeat, we have a goal at Goodison!
Pacheco wins it late for Everton!
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Full-time: West Ham 1-4 Manchester City
The league champions end their campaign with a dominant win.
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Chelsea 1-0 Manchester United: Sam Kerr receives a standing ovation as she walks off the pitch on her final Chelsea appearance. She is replaced by Mayra Ramírez, who is on for her first appearance of the season.
Chelsea 1-0 Manchester United: Hampton has been forced off with an injury. She heads straight down the tunnel and is replaced by Livia Peng.
GOAL! Brighton 1-2 Tottenham (Toko Koga, 90+2)
Oh my goodness! Koga strikes from around 40 yards out!
Baggaley comes out of her box to make a clearance but sends the ball straight to Koga, who makes the most of it by firing the ball home from distance!
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Chelsea 0-1 Manchester United: Sam Kerr has just a few minutes to score that all-important 117th Chelsea goal. There are thousands of Blues fans in the crowd who would love to see her do it.
GOAL! West Ham 1-4 Manchester City (Laura Coombs, 80)
What a moment. Laura Coombs on her final Manchester City appearance. Her final outing as a professional footballer. Incredible!
A cross is sent into the box from the right. Shaw goes for the header but flicks it behind to Coombs, who takes a touch before shooting. Her attempt takes a deflection before flying into the net.
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GOAL! Brighton 1-1 Tottenham (Olivia Holdt, 81)
Spurs are level!
Gunning-Williams makes her way into the Brighton box and looks to pass towards the penalty spot. Symonds blocks it but makes a complete mess of the attempted clearance and gifts Tottenham the ball back. Holdt eventually wins possession and fires the ball home.
Everton 0-0 Leicester City: Elsewhere, it’s still goalless at Goodison Park. Apologies for the lack of updates from there, but I can’t say there has been too much to talk about.
GOAL! West Ham 1-3 Manchester City (Khadija Shaw, 72)
Shaw restores the two-goal advantage!
A long ball is sent through to the striker, who makes her way into the box before sliding her shot home.
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GOAL! Liverpool 1-3 Arsenal (Zara Shaw, 74)
Liverpool get one back!
Holland sends a corner into the box and Arsenal fail to make the clearance, allowing Shaw to fire it home from close range.
GOAL! London City Lionesses 1-1 Aston Villa (Daniëlle van de Donk, 73)
Van de Donk levels things up at the CopperJax Community Stadium!
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Chelsea 1-0 Manchester United: Hampton is down and both teams are taking a moment to have a breather.
GOAL! West Ham 1-2 Manchester City (Seraina Piubel, 62)
The Hammers get one back!
West Ham make the most of the high City line as the ball is switched over to Morgan on the right. She cuts inside before squaring a pass across goal and Piubel is there to tap it in.
GOAL! West Ham 0-2 Manchester City (Khadija Shaw, 57)
Shaw strikes for City!
The ball is sent through to Fujino on the right, who fires a low cross into Shaw in the box. The striker blasts her shot straight into net from close range.
That is her 20th league goal this season.
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Chelsea 1-0 Manchester United: The visitors are gifted a chance – but they can’t make the most of it. Zigiotti snatches the ball from the high Chelsea backline before making a break forward. She can go one-on-one with Hampton but instead makes the pass and the move eventually breaks down.
Chelsea 1-0 Manchester United: Huge chance for United to level the score! Park, who was introduced at half-time, receives the ball on the left and crosses into Wangerheim, who goes for the header, but her attempt rattles the inside of the post!
GOAL! Brighton 1-0 Tottenham (Madison Haley, 49)
Brighton lead at the Amex Stadium!
Seike makes a run down the right and into the box before going for goal. Her effort slips through the arms of Kop and straight into the path of Haley, who is gifted a simple tap-in.
We’re back under way for the final 45 minutes of the season!
Leicester City will end the WSL campaign at the bottom of the table, but they will not be automatically relegated.
Because the league is expanding to 14 teams from next season, a play-off will take place between Leicester and Charlton - the third-placed WSL2 side - next weekend. Whoever wins that game will earn the final place in the league. Birmingham and Crystal Palace have already been promoted from the second division.
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Half-time scores
Chelsea 1-0 Manchester United
Liverpool 0-3 Arsenal
West Ham 0-1 Manchester City
Brighton 0-0 Tottenham
London City Lionesses 0-1 Aston Villa
Everton 0-0 Leicester City
Half-time
At the break, Manchester City, Arsenal, Chelsea and Aston Villa lead.
GOAL! London City Lionesses 0-1 Aston Villa (Lynn Wilms, 45+2)
We have our first goal at the CopperJax Community Stadium as Wilms fires Aston Villa ahead in added time!
Chelsea 1-0 Manchester United: It’s been all Chelsea in the last 10 minutes. Kerr is on the hunt for that record-breaking strike.
Liverpool 0-3 Arsenal: The first goal of the game, initially given to Blackstenius, has now been credited to Russo.
GOAL! Liverpool 0-3 Arsenal (Alessia Russo, 37)
Russo makes it three for Arsenal!
The Gunners win the ball in midfield and break forward. A pass is played to Pelova on the right, who makes her way into the box before squaring the ball across goal. It finds Russo at the back post, who slots home her shot with ease.
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GOAL! Chelsea 1-0 Manchester United (Sam Kerr, 34)
Sam Kerr fires Chelsea in front with an absolute beauty of a strike!
James sends a cross into the box and Kerr moves towards it before attempting a first-time volley on the half-turn and sending the ball straight into the net.
That goal sees her move level with Fran Kirby as Chelsea’s all-time top goalscorer. Can she get her 117th today to break that record?
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GOAL! Liverpool 0-2 Arsenal (Mariona Caldentey, 32)
Caldentey makes it two with a thumping strike!
A corner is played short to McCabe, who passes it back to Caldentey in the box. The Spaniard goes by herself and drills home a powerful shot from a tight angle.
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West Ham 0-1 Manchester City: Hemp has been forced off due to injury. It looks like it could possibly be an ankle issue. She is replaced by Kerolin.
Chelsea 0-0 Manchester United: Chelsea come within inches of scoring – and I don’t think it was even meant to be a shot!
Carpenter makes a run down the right before sending the ball into the box, but it flies over Tullis-Joyce and rattles the back post! A huge let-off for Manchester United.
GOAL! Liverpool 0-1 Arsenal (Alessia Russo, 22)
The deadlock has been broken at Anfield! Russo receives a pass from Caldentey on the left and sends a cross in to Blackstenius, but it runs all the way past Falk and into the net.
As things stand, Arsenal will finish second in the table.
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Chelsea 0-0 Manchester United: Tullis-Joyce makes a brilliant save to tip over a powerful strike from James.
The corner is taken, but nothing comes of it and United go on the counter attack. Malard eventually gets the ball back and fires her shot just over the crossbar.
GOAL! West Ham 0-1 Manchester City (Jade Rose, 13)
We have a goal!
Greenwood sends a corner into the box and Rose is given enough time to bring the ball down before poking it into the net.
The WSL champions lead!
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Brighton 0-0 Tottenham: Koga intercepts a poor clearance from Baggaley and sets the ball to Holdt, who goes for an audacious chip but fires her shot just over the bar.
We’re about 10 minutes into each game, but no goals just yet. I’m quite surprised – I thought we’d have at least one by now!
Chelsea 0-0 Manchester United: The visitors are forced into an early change after just six minutes, with Lundkvist replacing Riviere.
Chelsea 0-0 Manchester United: Riviere is down after pulling up off the ball. It looks to be a lower leg or ankle injury.
Kick-off
Here we go!
The teams are out across the grounds. Millie Bright is visibly emotional as she leads the Chelsea squad out for the final time at Stamford Bridge.
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As always, feel free to message in with any thoughts, feelings, predictions and observations today.
I’d also like to know your picks for player of the season, goal of the season and signing of the season…
With it looking very likely that Khadija Shaw will move on this summer, the question is, how do you replace her?
The striker is on track to win her third consecutive Golden Boot, having scored 19 goals in 21 appearances so far this season. In the event that she leaves, whoever is signed to replace her will have a huge task at hand to even try to replicate those numbers.
Some key players will bid farewell to their respective clubs today, marking the end of an era.
Club legends Beth Mead and Katie McCabe will play their final match in Arsenal red, alongside Victoria Pelova and Laia Codina. Naomi Williams and Manuela Zinsberger are also poised to leave north London this summer.
Sam Kerr will make her final appearance for Chelsea today, with Stamford Bridge also bidding farewell to Millie Bright following her retirement from professional football.
And a huge question mark still surrounds the future of Khadija Shaw, who is likely to leave Manchester City upon the end of her contract.
Team news: Everton v Leicester City
Everton starting line-up: Brosnan; Kitagawa, Fernández, Mace, Blundell; Vignola, Galli, Hayashi, Payne; Kramzar, Momiki.
Subs: Wheeler, Gago, Ramsey, Lawley, Harbert, Snoeijs, Stenevik, Pacheco, Jones.
Leicester starting line-up: Keane; Mayling, Tierney, Kees, Thibaud, Ale; van Egmond, McLoughlin, Jansson; Cain, O’Brien.
Subs: Baker, Swaby, Payne, Goodwin, Rantala, Ayane, Draper, Williams, Mouchon.
Team News: London City Lionesses v Aston Villa
London City Lionesses starting line-up: Lete, Pattinson, Kennedy, Kardinaal, Fernández; Kumagai, Geyoro, Pérez; Godfrey, Cascarino, Goodwin.
Subs: Orman, Goldie, Corrales, Van de Donk, Linari, Franssi, Roddar, Parris, Marcetto.
Aston Villa starting line-up: Roebuck; Wilms, Patten, Maritz, Deslandes, Nighswonger; Taylor, Kendall, Jean-Francois; Hijikata, Hanson.
Subs: D’Angelo, Maltby, Staniforth, Round, Salmon, Nunes, Mullett, Daly.
Team news: Brighton v Tottenham
Brighton starting line-up: Baggaley, Rule, Hayes, Minami, Vanegas; Symonds, Cankovic; Kirby, Olislagers, Seike; Haley.
Subs: Nnadozie, Mpome, Kafaji, Noordam, Rayner, Tvedten, Camacho, McLaughlan, Tsunoda.
Tottenham starting line-up: Kop; Morris, Koga, A Nilden, Blakstad; Gaupset, Spence; Hamano, Holdt, Vinberg; Tandberg.
Subs: Heeps, Rybrink, Bartrip, Ahtinen, Summanen, Dennis, M. Nilden, Gunning-Williams, England.
Team news: West Ham v Manchester City
West Ham starting line-up: Szemik; Endo, Nyström, Cascarino, Belloumou; Morgan, Zelem, Siren; Piubel, Asseyi, Ueki.
Subs: Walsh, Hansen, Bose, Zadorsky, Tennebø, Martinez, Wandeler, Hanshaw.
Manchester City starting line-up: Cumings, Rose, Greenwood, Ouahabi, Beney; Blindkilde Brown, Hasegawa; Hemp, Fujino, Fowler; Shaw.
Subs: Keating, Clinton, Coombs, Wienroither, Kerolin, Casparij, Lohmann, Prior, Murphy.
Katie McCabe captains Arsenal in her final match for the club. Beth Mead, Laia Codina and Victoria Pelova, who are also leaving, also start.
Gemma Evans and Gemma Bonner, who will leave Liverpool this summer, have been named on the bench for the Reds.
Team news: Liverpool v Arsenal
Liverpool starting line-up: Falk; Bergström, Fisk, Clark, Bernabé; O’Sullivan, Nagano, Maclean; Enderby, Olsson, Jøsendal.
Subs: Kirby, Evans, Shimizu, Kapocs, Holland, Bonner, Csillag, Shaw, Trueman.
Arsenal starting line-up: Van Domselaar; Fox, Wubben-Moy, Codina, McCabe; Pelova, Caldentey; Mead, Russo, Foord; Blackstenius.
Subs: Borbe, Williamson, Catley, Hinds, Holmberg, Little, Maanum, Kelly, Smith.
Mayra Ramírez has been named in the Chelsea squad for the first time this season following a long injury absence. Meanwhile, Sam Kerr starts her final match for the club.
Team news: Chelsea v Manchester United
Chelsea starting line-up: Hampton; Carpenter, Buchanan, Buurman, Charles; Walsh, Cuthbert, Nüsken; Thompson, James, Kerr.
Subs: Peng, Spencer, Baltimore, Sarwie, Kaptein, Potter, Kaneryd, Ramírez, Beever-Jones.
Man Utd starting line-up: Tullus-Joyce; Sandberg, George, Le Tissier, Riviere; Zigiotti, Miyazawa, Toone; Rolfö, Wangerheim, Malard.
Subs: Rendell, Janssen, Lundkvist, Turner, Awujo, Park, Naalsund, Schüller, Terland.
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Today’s fixtures:
Chelsea v Manchester United
Liverpool v Arsenal
West Ham v Manchester City
Brighton v Tottenham
London City Lionesses v Aston Villa
Everton v Leicester City
How things stand going into the final day…
| Pos | Team | P | GD | Pts |
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| 1 | Man City Women | 21 | 40 | 52 |
| 2 | Arsenal Women | 21 | 37 | 48 |
| 3 | Chelsea Women | 21 | 23 | 46 |
| 4 | Man Utd Women | 21 | 17 | 40 |
| 5 | Tottenham Hotspur Women | 21 | -4 | 33 |
| 6 | Brighton & Hove Albion Women | 21 | 0 | 26 |
| 7 | London City Lionesses | 21 | -8 | 24 |
| 8 | Everton Women | 21 | -13 | 20 |
| 9 | Aston Villa Women | 21 | -19 | 20 |
| 10 | West Ham Women | 21 | -22 | 19 |
| 11 | Liverpool FC Women | 21 | -11 | 17 |
| 12 | Leicester Women | 21 | -40 | 9 |
Preamble
How are we here already? It only feels like a few weeks ago we were gearing up for the season to start, and now it’s the final day. Time flies!
On the opening day of the campaign, 253 days ago, Manchester City suffered a 2-1 defeat to Chelsea. Fast-forward eight months and they will today be crowned WSL champions for the first time in a decade. It’s been an incredible season for Andrée Jeglertz and his players, who will finally get their hands on the trophy this afternoon following their match against West Ham at the Chigwell Construction Stadium.
It’s quite rare that there is not much to play for on the final day of a WSL season – the biggest battle today will likely remain between Arsenal and Chelsea for second place, which means one less round of qualification for the Champions League. The Gunners travel to Anfield to face Liverpool, while Chelsea host Manchester United at Stamford Bridge.
Elsewhere, Brighton face Tottenham, London City Lionesses end their debut WSL season against Aston Villa, and Everton take on last-placed Leicester City.
I’ll be guiding you through all the action, with each game kicking off at 1pm BST – join me!