Barclays WSL MW21 in Numbers
The penultimate weekend of the 2025/26 Barclays Women’s Super League season saw Manchester City edge closer to ending their decade-long wait for a title, while elsewhere, individual and team history was made. Here’s our pick of the stats from Matchweek 21…
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Manchester City are now one win from being crowned champions thanks to Rebecca Knaak’s 91st-minute winer against Liverpool, which extended their run of scoring at home in the BWSL to 30 games. They’ve not failed to find the net in a home league match for 903 days.
The last visiting side to keep a BWSL clean sheet at the Joie Stadium were Brighton & Hove Albion in November 2023 – with Manchester United the last do so in any competition, winning 2-0 in the semi-finals of last season’s FA Cup.
Knaak’s last-gasp goal ensured Man City will end the campaign with a 100% home record, something only previously achieved once in the BWSL’s 12-team era – by Chelsea in 2022/23.
15
Knaak’s decisive goal, following an Alex Greenwood corner, was Man City’s 15th from set-pieces in this season’s BWSL – more than twice as many as any other team.
Goals from dead-ball situations have accounted for 25.8% of the league-high total 58 scored by Andree Jeglertz’s side this term.
Man City are also the best in the BWSL when it comes to defending in such circumstances: supreme in both boxes, they’ve conceded one set-piece goal all campaign.
7
The race for the BWSL Golden Glove is tantalisingly poised, with at least three goalkeepers set to enter the final round of fixtures on seven clean sheets.
Just to up the stakes, two of those three are set to face each other as Hannah Hampton’s Chelsea host Phallon Tullis-Joyce’s Manchester United – Hampton and Tullis-Joyce having shared last season’s award. Ayaka Yamashita of Man City joins the pair on seven shutouts ahead of her side’s final-day trip to West Ham United.
A further four ‘keepers could still at least share the Golden Glove, with their respective teams having varying numbers of games left: Brighton’s Chiamaka Nnadozie, Spurs’ Lize Kop and Arsenal duo Daphne Van Domselaar and Anneke Borbe (though Van Domselaar currently has the gloves for the Gunners).
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64
Having drawn level with a brace against Everton in Matchweek 20, Sam Kerr surpassed Fran Kirby as Chelsea’s record BWSL scorer with 64 goals by bagging the opener in the Blues’ 3-1 win at Leicester City.
Kerr is now just two goals away from joining former teammate Kirby in third place on Chelsea’s all-time leading scorers list in all competitions, having found the net 114 times in 156 appearances.
The Australia captain continued her fine recent form in Sunday’s victory, making it eight goal contributions in six games across the BWSL, Champions League and FA Cup.
10
With their 2-1 home victory over London City Lionesses, Tottenham Hotspur have recorded 10 wins in a BWSL season for the first time – beating their previous best of nine in 2021/22.
Signe Gaupset and Olivia Holdt were on the scoresheet as Martin Ho’s team avenged a 4-2 loss in November’s reverse fixture.
Occupying fifth place with one game to go, Spurs are on course to equal their highest BWSL finish – which also came in the 2021/22 campaign.
