The 2025–26 Women's Super League will be the 15th season of the

Women's Super League The Women's Super League (WSL), also 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. Currently oper ...

(WSL) since it was formed in 2010. It will be the seventh season after the rebranding of the four highest levels of

women's football in England Women's association football, Women's football has been played in England for over a century, sharing a common history with the men's game in the country in which the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game were codified. Wome ...

. The season will begin on 6 September 2025 and end on 17 May 2026. Chelsea are the defending champions, having won their sixth consecutive and eighth overall title in the previous season. On 16 June 2025 it was announced that the WSL would be expanding to 14 teams from the 2026–27 season. As a result, 2025–26 WSL2 season will promote two teams, while the bottom side WSL team will play in a promotion/relegation play-off against the 3rd placed WSL2 side.

Teams

Twelve teams will contest the 2025–26 Women's Super League season.

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were confirmed as

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champions on the final day of competition. They replaced

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Teams

Personnel and kits

Managerial changes

League table

Results

Season statistics

Awards

References