Final day in the Barclays WSL in numbers
The final day of the 2025/26 Barclays Women’s Super League was one of emotional farewells, last-gasp winners and more. Here’s our pick of the stats from Matchweek 22 in the top flight…
348
The end of the 2025/26 season marked the end of an era for two Arsenal legends. Beth Mead and Katie McCabe will both leave the club this summer, having made 347 BWSL appearances between them.
Republic of Ireland great McCabe joined the Gunners back in 2015 and has gone on to play 181 games in the English top flight; ex-England star Mead arrived in 2017 and has featured 167 times in the competition.
McCabe and Mead have won every major trophy on offer with Arsenal, helping them to the 2018/19 BWSL title.
4
Four players scored their first BWSL goal of the season on the final day: Everton’s Mayumi Pacheco, Liverpool’s Zara Shaw, London City Lionesses’ Danielle van de Donk and Manchester City’s Jade Rose.
Pacheco’s goal was her first since joining Everton from Aston Villa last summer, while Rose’s was her very first in the competition.
Former Arsenal midfielder Van de Donk, meanwhile, found the net in the BWSL for the first time since returning to England after four seasons in France with Lyon.
55
Champions Man City’s 4-1 win at West Ham United ensured they equalled their highest BWSL points total of 55 and ended the campaign four points ahead of runners-up Arsenal.
City had previously finished on 55 points in 2020/21 and 2023/24, though they had to settle for second place on both those occasions.
Andree Jeglertz’s team dropped just 11 points over the course of the 2025/26 campaign, winning 18 games out of 22 – including 11 out of 11 at home.
7
Hannah Hampton’s eighth clean sheet of the season in Chelsea’s 1-0 win over Manchester United ensured the England goalkeeper claimed the BWSL Golden Glove for the second season running.
In shutting out United, Hampton drew pulled ahead of her opposite number Phallon Tullis-Joyce, with whom she shared the award last term.
Having shared the award last term, Hampton becomes the first two-time winner of the BWSL Golden Glove.
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The final day of the 2025/26 BWSL season saw three winning goals in stoppage time, as three sides rounded off the campaign in dramatic fashion.
Freya Godfrey struck three minutes into stoppage time to clinch a 2-1 victory for London City Lionesses at home to Villa and, with it, seal a top-half finish in the club’s maiden top-flight season.
Toko Koga found the net in the second minute of time added on for Tottenham Hotspur to triumph by the same scoreline away to Brighton & Hove Albion, while the aforementioned Pacheco got the only goal of the game in the 96th minute as Everton beat Leicester City at home.
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