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The Women's Super League (WSL), known as the Barclays Women's Super League for sponsorship reasons, and formerly the FA WSL, is a professional association football league and the highest level of women's football in England. It was established in 2010 by the Football Association and features twelve fully professional teams.
Biggest title-winning margin: 7 points, Arsenal [1] [6] Smallest title-winning margin: 0 points, +2 goal difference ; Liverpool (+9) over Chelsea (+7). Both finished on 26 points, but Liverpool won the title on goal difference. Excluding the 2017 FA WSL Spring Series, it is the only time the WSL has been decided on goal difference. [1] [7] [8]
The team then beat Sunderland 4–0 in October 2015 to secure the FA WSL title and a League and Cup double. [31] Chelsea repeated that feat in the 2017–18 season, winning another FA WSL and Women's FA Cup double; in the same season, the team also reached the semi-finals of the UEFA Women's Champions League for the first time. [32]
The 2022–23 Aston Villa W.F.C. season was the club's 27th season under their Aston Villa affiliation, the organisation's 49th overall season in existence and their third season in the Women's Super League, the highest level of the football pyramid.
Before the first friendlies in pre-season, the squad saw some changes. Midfielders Viktoria Schnaderbeck, Lia Wälti, defender Tabea Kemme (coming from the German Bundesliga) and goalkeeper Pauline Peyraud-Magnin (from the French Division 1) joined the squad, while Arsenal legend Alex Scott retired to focus on her media career, Heather O'Reilly moved back to the States and Anna Moorhouse and ...
The team will play 8–11 WSL matches and Champions League 2024–25 matches at the Emirates, with the remainder of matches and one WCL Group Stage match (which was caused as a result of a fixture clash with Arsenal Men competing in the EFL Cup on 18 December) played at Meadow Park. [52] [53]
Along with competing in the WSL, the club also contested two domestic cup competitions: the FA Cup and the League Cup. In November 2022, a new club crest was unveiled to be used from the start of the 2023–24 season, [ 1 ] and it was later clarified that the new badge would be used exclusively on kits and training wear.
Prior to the 2017–18 season, Notts County of the WSL 1 folded prior to the Spring Series prompting the FA to invite FA WSL 2 clubs to apply and fill the vacancy. [10] Everton was awarded the invitation back into the top flight on 9 June 2017, and would compete in the WSL 1 for the 2017–18 season. [11]