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The Women’s Football Insight @wfinsight.bsky.social · 18d

Ballon d’Or

Aitana Bonmatí has won the Women’s Ballon d’Or again!

The Spanish superstar becomes the 1st women’s player to ever win the award 3 times & 3 times in a row!

She won the domestic treble last season with Barcelona and also reached the UWCL & Euros finals

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The Women’s Football Insight @wfinsight.bsky.social · 14h

NWSL 🇺🇸

Seattle Reign 1-1 Bay FC

Seattle Reign had to settle for a point at home to Bay FC

The hosts had to fight back from a goal down to salvage the point thanks to Jess Fishlock

Seattle are now unbeaten in their last 3 matches but haven’t secured their play off spot yet

The Women’s Football Insight @wfinsight.bsky.social · 15h

NWSL 🇺🇸

Orlando Pride 1-0 Portland Thorns

Reigning NWSL champions Orlando Pride are not giving up their crown without a fight

The hosts are unbeaten in their last 3 NWSL matches & they climb up into 3rd place in the league

Portland are still trying to secure a play off place

The Women’s Football Insight @wfinsight.bsky.social · 15h

NWSL 🇺🇸

Racing Louisville 1-1 Chicago Stars

Louisville & Chicago shared the points after a draw in the NWSL with all of the action taking place in the final 10 minutes

Bethany Balcer scored the goal to rescue the point for the home side as they try and secure a play off place

The Women’s Football Insight @wfinsight.bsky.social · 22h

Update for those wondering.

There should have been a 16th match. PSV Eindhoven 🇳🇱 v FC Minsk 🇧🇾

This match will be played as a one off game in Tirana, Albania

The Belarusian side did not receive a visa to enter the Netherlands so couldn’t complete the arranged 1st leg

The Women’s Football Insight @wfinsight.bsky.social · 22h

UEFA Europa Cup

Despite UEFA not promoting or acknowledging their own competition, I found the full set of results for the latest UWEC matches

From the 15 games, there were 0 away wins but big wins for Inter 🇮🇹, Eintracht Frankfurt 🇩🇪, BK Häcken 🇸🇪, Breiðablik 🇮🇸 & Hammarby 🇸🇪

The Women’s Football Insight @wfinsight.bsky.social · 1d

NWSL 🇺🇸

Angel City have announced the signing of Prisca Chilufya from Orlando Pride

The 26 year old Zambia international forward only joined Orlando before the start of the 2025 season

She also previously played in Liga MX with FC Juárez

The Women’s Football Insight @wfinsight.bsky.social · 2d

WSL 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Sonia Bompastor has been named the WSL Manager of the Month for September

She guided Chelsea to 4 wins from 4 games including an opening day victory over rivals Manchester City

Chelsea had scored 10 goals & conceded 2 in their 4 September WSL matches

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The Women’s Football Insight @wfinsight.bsky.social · 2d

WSL 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Chelsea striker Aggie Beever-Jones has been named the WSL Player of the Month for September

The 22 year old England international forward has scored 4 goals in her 4 WSL matches in September

Chelsea won every match & topped the league table

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The Women’s Football Insight @wfinsight.bsky.social · 2d

UWCL

A quick look at the UWCL table after match day 1

Incredible start for the Spanish sides as Barcelona, Atlético Madrid & Real Madrid sit in the top 3. They scored 19 goals between them!

Man United are the only WSL side to win & Wolfsburg pulled off a great 4-0 win over PSG

The Women’s Football Insight @wfinsight.bsky.social · 2d

UWCL

Manchester United 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 1-0 Vålerenga 🇳🇴

Manchester United kick off their UWCL league phase with 3 points against the Norwegian champions

A 1st half Maya Le Tissier penalty was enough for the WSL side to win the match

United’s next UWCL match will be away to Atlético Madrid

The Women’s Football Insight @wfinsight.bsky.social · 2d

League Cup 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Home wins in the League Cup as Southampton beat south coast rivals Portsmouth & West Ham beat WSL rivals Brighton

Seraina Piubel & Shekiera Martinez both scored to win it for West Ham

Michaela McAlonie scored the only goal of the game to win it for the Saints

The Women’s Football Insight @wfinsight.bsky.social · 3d

UWCL

FC Twente 🇳🇱 1-1 Chelsea 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Surprise result in the UWCL for the WSL champions as Chelsea share the points in a draw with FC Twente

The Dutch champions took the lead through Danique van Ginkel but they couldn’t hold on

Chelsea have now drawn their last 2 games in a row

The Women’s Football Insight @wfinsight.bsky.social · 3d

UEFA Europa Cup

HB Køge 🇩🇰 2-1 Glasgow City 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Glasgow City lose their 1st leg UEFA Europa Cup match in Denmark

Amy Anderson scored the only goal for the Scottish side but they will hope they can overturn it in the 2nd leg in Glasgow

The Women’s Football Insight @wfinsight.bsky.social · 3d

FIFA Women’s Champions Cup

Wuhan Jiangda 🇨🇳 1-0 Auckland United 🇳🇿

Wuhan Jiangda are through to the next round of the FIFA Women’s Champions Cup after beating Auckland United

They will face the African champions next to determine who will face Arsenal in the semi finals!

The Women’s Football Insight @wfinsight.bsky.social · 3d

SWPL Cup 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

The Scottish League Cup quarter final draw has been made

The standout tie of the round is the Edinburgh derby between Hearts & reigning Scottish champions Hibernian

Glasgow trio of Celtic, Rangers & Glasgow City all have home ties

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The Women’s Football Insight @wfinsight.bsky.social · 3d

NWSL 🇺🇸

Angel City 0-1 KC Current

Kansas City Current have now won 19 of their 23 NWSL matches this season!

The NWSL Shield winners are also unbeaten in their last 16 NWSL matches

Michelle Cooper scored the only goal of the game with her 1st touch after coming off the bench!

The Women’s Football Insight @wfinsight.bsky.social · 3d

UWCL

Barcelona 🇪🇸 7-1 Bayern Munich 🇩🇪

Incredible result in the UWCL!

Spanish champions Barcelona thrash German champions Bayern Munich after scoring 7 (SEVEN!)

A huge statement of intent from last season’s runners up despite all of the financial issues over the summer

The Women’s Football Insight @wfinsight.bsky.social · 3d

UWCL

Arsenal 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 1-2 Lyon 🇫🇷

Reigning European champions Arsenal lose at home to Lyon in their UWCL opener

Lyon fought back from behind to win the 3 points thanks to a Melchie Dumornay brace

The WSL side have now gone 4 games without a win & lost 2 in a row in all competitions

The Women’s Football Insight @wfinsight.bsky.social · 4d

Northern Super League 🇨🇦

The Northern Super League regular season is coming to an end but AFC Toronto keep winning

The Supporters’ Shield champions pick up their 15th win of the regular season after beating Calgary Wild

Only 3 points now separate Ottawa, Montreal & Vancouver

The Women’s Football Insight @wfinsight.bsky.social · 5d

WSL 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Chelsea have announced that Sjoeke Nüsken has signed a new deal until 2027 with the club

The 24 year old Germany international joined the club from Eintracht Frankfurt in 2023

She has won 2 WSL titles, the FA Cup & the League cup during her 2 years in London

The Women’s Football Insight @wfinsight.bsky.social · 5d

NWSL 🇺🇸

Chicago Stars 2-2 Utah Royals

Chicago Stars stay bottom of the NWSL after drawing with Utah Royals

Utah Royals are unbeaten in their last 8 but they thought they had it won

Chicago fought back from 2 goals down to salvage a point thanks to 17 year old Micayla Johnson

The Women’s Football Insight @wfinsight.bsky.social · 5d

NWSL 🇺🇸

Gotham 0-0 Seattle Reign

Gotham & Seattle Reign played out a goalless draw in the NWSL

Both sides are comfortable in the play off places but there are now only 3 points separating Gotham in 3rd & Racing Louisville down in 7th place

The Women’s Football Insight @wfinsight.bsky.social · 5d

NWSL 🇺🇸

Washington Spirit 2-1 San Diego Wave

A crazy game in Washington ended with the home side winning all 3 points after Rosemonde Kouassi’s brace

San Diego thought they rescued a point after Delphine Cascarino levelled the match in the 95th minute but the hosts never gave up

The Women’s Football Insight @wfinsight.bsky.social · 5d

NWSL 🇺🇸

Portland Thorns 2-1 Bay FC

Portland Thorns had to fight back from a goal down to win the 3 points against Bay

A brilliant 2nd half Olivia Moultrie brace secured the win for the hosts. The 1st brace of her career

Bay have now lost 12 of their 23 NWSL games this season

The Women’s Football Insight @wfinsight.bsky.social · 5d

NWSL 🇺🇸

NC Courage 1-3 Racing Louisville

Racing Louisville appear to be hitting form right at the perfect time

The away side make it 2 wins in a row & move 4 points clear in the play off places

Goals from Emma Sears (2) & Kayla Fischer won it for Louisville