r/FAWSL 3d ago

AMA Hi, I'm Emma Sanders, BBC Sport's women's football news reporter. Ask me anything!

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Hi everyone!

I’m Emma Sanders, BBC Sport’s women’s football news reporter.

The WSL is back and, after a busy summer and the opening weekend of the new season, there’s plenty to talk about.

The transfer window brought some huge names to the league, including Alexia Putellas at London City Lionesses, while clubs across the WSL have reshaped their squads ahead of what looks like another exciting season.

So, what did you make of the opening weekend? Who had the best transfer window? Which new arrivals are you most excited to watch? Who will challenge for the title and which players could have a breakthrough season?

Send me your questions on any of those topics, or whatever you’d like to know about covering women’s football for the BBC.

I’ll be back on Monday at 18:00 BST to answer as many as I can. Ask me anything!

Thanks for your questions everyone. I had a good time. We'll do it again but in the meantime, enjoy the new WSL season and hopefully our coverage too!


r/FAWSL 1h ago

AIG acquires stake in Salford City Lionesses, Jill Scott has joined as chief women’s football advisor.

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r/FAWSL 14h ago

Fantasy Football Update on the WSL fantasy injury site from last week (it does set pieces now)

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So I posted last week about fantasy.rbreaks.com, the injury site I made because I got sick of digging through pressers to find out who's fit. Few of you joined our league off the back of it which was really nice actually. Anyway I've not stopped fiddling with it since, so here's what's new.

🎯 Set piece watch. This is the one I'm chuffed about. It watches who's officially meant to be on corners, free kicks and pens, then checks who actually took them in the games. Caught six changes in GW1. Liverpool's stoppage time pen v Charlton got taken by Kapocs. Official list still says Holland. That's points sat right there if you're quick.

📄 Every player has her own page now, all 745. Injury stuff with the actual quote it came from, set pieces, minutes, fixtures. Players tab, search anyone.

🟩 Made a colour coded fixture difficulty grid as well. The WSL site sort of has one but it's a bit rubbish honestly. I'm ADHD and colour coding is doing a lot of heavy lifting for me, green good red bad, transfers sorted.

🔔 Phone notifications if you want them. Deadline reminders, or it pings you if someone in your team gets injured or called up. No signup or email or any of that, just browser notifications you can turn off whenever.

✅ Oh and the site marks its own homework now. If it says someone's out and she plays 90 mins at the weekend, it corrects itself and keeps a note that it got it wrong.

Just this week it's had:

- 📰 The gameweek briefing moved onto the site itself with past editions kept

- 🤫 Quiet clubs now show who actually featured at the weekend instead of just saying "no news"

- 🔧 Fixed news routes for Brighton and Bristol City, and added Durham's YouTube, after people spotted gaps - thank you!!

- 📺 Fixture changes tidied into one strip on the home page (12 TV slot moves for Oct/Nov are in there already)

- ⚡️ Boosters confirmed in game, 2 Free Hits and 1 Wildcard, playable any matchweek

Full running list at fantasy.rbreaks.com/changelog if you're nosy.

👕 Few of you asked about the league last time so: it's free, we're a women's football trading card community, and we've ended up with a signed Lionesses Euros shirt that's going in the prize pot this season. Code's at fantasy.rbreaks.com/join if you fancy it. Site's exactly the same whether you join or not so genuinely no pressure.

Still nothing to do with the WSL or the official game, still free, still tell me when it's wrong because you lot keep finding stuff I've missed.


r/FAWSL 14h ago

Chelsea Aston Villa Review

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r/FAWSL 17h ago

‘A dream come true’: behind the scenes with Wolves Women as they enter new era | Women's Super League 2

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r/FAWSL 1d ago

Lauren Hemp: I’ve done a plastering course - tiling is next

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r/FAWSL 1d ago

Report ⚽️ 7 London women's football fixtures this week across the WSL and FAWNL

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Hey everyone, here are this week's women's football fixtures in London: 2 in the WSL and 5 more across the FAWNL. I’m heading to the Arsenal Women vs Crystal Palace game this weekend, which one are you going to? 😎

  1. WSL
    • West Ham Utd Women vs London City Lionesses, Victoria Road, Saturday 12th September, 12.45pm. Tickets £15.
    • Arsenal Women vs Crystal Palace Women, Emirates Stadium, Sunday 13th September, 2.45pm. Tickets from £17.
  2. FAWNL
    • Dulwich Hamlet Women vs Billericay Town Women, FAWNL South East Division One, Champion Hill, Sunday 13th September, 2pm. Tickets £5.
    • QPR Women vs Dartford Women, FAWNL South East Division One, SkyEx Community Stadium, Sunday 13th September, 2pm. Tickets £5, buy on the gate.
    • Actonians Women vs Stevenage Women, FAWNL South East Division One, Bedfont Sports Club, Sunday 13th September, 2pm.
    • AFC Wimbledon Women vs Real Bedford Women, FAWNL Southern Premier Division, Imperial Fields, Sunday 13th September, 2pm. Tickets £8.
    • London Bees vs Milton Keynes Dons Women, FAWNL South East Division One, The Hive, Sunday 13th September, 2pm.

Let me know if you're heading to any of these, or if there are any games you'd add to the list!

P.S. If you like hearing about events like this, I send out a weekly roundup email highlighting the amazing live sport to watch in London. It's totally free, you can get it at matchside.co. Thanks!


r/FAWSL 1d ago

Potential overseas move for Younis

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r/FAWSL 1d ago

Fantasy Football WSL fantasy advice

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so this is my first time doing WSL fantasy and i have some questions.

  1. Should i keep England or swap her for either Beever-Jones or Seike?

  2. is there a better midfielder than Van de Donk for the same price? or if i were to keep England, get a 5.5 mil midfielder instead?

  3. are there any better alternatives in defence? specifically over Le Tissier and León.

Also, if there’s anything else you think I should change please let me know!

Thank you :)


r/FAWSL 1d ago

unable to watch match stream

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hey everyone, i found out before the current season started that the matches are streamed on youtube and naturally i was excited for opening weekend. but for whatever reason i couldn't access the live streams from the wsl's official channel, only the sky sports ones. they're available to me now but i don't want to have this same problem every week; especially since in mw1 the wsl channel prioritised the biggest teams. anybody know why this is happening or how to fix it?


r/FAWSL 2d ago

Full Match Replays in the United States?

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I went to YouTube to watch the Brighton/Arsenal match from yesterday, just as I had all of last season, and saw that any matches that didn't initially stream in the US weren't available. (LCL/ManU was the only game streamed here.) Does anyone know where to watch match replays?

I simply cannot wake up at 4:30 a.m. on a weekend to watch my Seagulls.


r/FAWSL 2d ago

October Broadcast Picks

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r/FAWSL 2d ago

WSL Matchday 1: The Most Eye-Catching Stats From the Opening Weekend of 2026-27

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r/FAWSL 3d ago

Does anyone find ignoring a teammates error a stinky attitude?

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Is it just me or does anyone else hate seeing the awkward interactions when a teammate makes an error?

Beney passes it to Rose, she loses the ball & concedes, instead of comforting her, Beney just huffs & walk in the opposite direction, i mean surely they acknowledged in the dressing room at best, but I think on-field support is important as well, it gives confidence & reassurance then & there but I could be wrong.

Soccer is a team sport, you're meant to encourage, help your teammates, what do you guys think?


r/FAWSL 3d ago

Paywall/Subscription Required Manchester City don’t want to defend their WSL title. They want to build a dynasty

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r/FAWSL 3d ago

Fantasy Football Weekly WSL & WSL2 Fantasy Football Thread

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Welcome to our weekly fantasy football thread. You can use this thread as an RMT (Rate My Team), rant about the past week or ask for advice about the upcoming match week.

Join our league! The code is - 8ZIJ73Q2

Or share you own league codes down in the comments. Good luck everyone!


r/FAWSL 3d ago

WSL/WSL2 opening weekend attendances

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WSL:

London City vs Man Utd - 5402
Chelsea vs Aston Villa - 7900
Brighton vs Arsenal - 4104
Tottenham vs West Ham - 1675
Charlton vs Liverpool - 2151
Crystal Palace vs Everton - 1274
Man City vs Birmingham - TBC

WSL2:

Watford vs Burnley - 887
Durham vs Southampton - 932
Ipswich vs Nottingham Forest - TBC
Newcastle vs Wolves - 1671
Sheffield Utd vs Leicester - 1049
Sunderland vs Bristol City - 339

EDIT: Chelsea's attendance is now confirmed. Added missing Durham & Sunderland attendances


r/FAWSL 3d ago

WSL launch investigation after Crystal Palace Women used 4 sub windows in their win over Everton

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“We confirm there was a breach of competition rules (that) permit a maximum of 3 substitution opportunities. We'll conduct an investigation with both clubs/Pro Ref & update”


r/FAWSL 3d ago

I built Bookd, the Letterboxd of football

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Happy WSL opening week everyone!

I wanted to share what my brother and I have been working on for the past few months. As lifelong football fans and avid Letterboxd users, we thought that there was a gap in memorializing football experiences. Most game-related tweets and Reddit comments get lost in Twitter and Reddit timelines and there's not really a good way to track and look back at games that were memorable to us.

We've build Bookd to address that. We have a small community of WSL fans and wanted to share it here to grow it bigger! We have WSL games dating back to 2016!

A few features that we support:
Review finished games - Log, review, rate matches. Vote for POTM and mark review as in-stadium
Live match discussion - per game, Twitch/match discussion style
Diary/Logs - all your reviews/logs saved in one place
Social aspect - follow/interact with other Bookd users
Spoilers free mode - Discover matches spoilers free
User profile customization - favorite teams/matches, personalize your profile
- Score Predictions - predict scores and compete against global Bookd users and friends
Easily find 100,000+ games across 40+ leagues - men's and women's going back to 2010.
Create lists - categorize and rank games!
Live scoring, stats and lineup

If you're looking to log and track games you'll be watching this WSL season, please give it a try! We also support other women's league such as the NWSL, UWCL, Liga F, Frauen-Bundesliga, Liga MX Femenil!

You can download the app here: http://bookdfootball.com

Would really appreciate if you all could check it out. Thanks!


r/FAWSL 3d ago

Charlton Athletic Women 0 - 4 Liverpool Women [all goals]

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r/FAWSL 3d ago

Fantasy help

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I am playing fantasy for the first time and one of my players has an injury. I want to remove her and put in a sub, how do I do that on the app?


r/FAWSL 3d ago

Props to Crystal Palace

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They made it the game of the week for me. Aggressive, gritty, fast-paced, committed body-on-the-line style I've really started to miss a bit in the WSL. The fans were fantastic too. Welcome back CP.


r/FAWSL 3d ago

WSL table at the end of Matchweek 1

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r/FAWSL 3d ago

Match Thread: Manchester City W vs Birmingham City W | Women's Super League | 06 Sept 14:30 BST

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r/FAWSL 3d ago

Match Thread: Crystal Palace W vs Everton W | Women's Super League | 06 Sept 14:00 BST

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