From Champions League triumphs to youth internationals, a packed 2025 delivers a transparent prime ten.
I attended 60 matches in 2025. Fifty 9 had been ladies’s video games and one was a males’s Premier League fixture. Of these, 20 had been Girls’s Tremendous League matches and 13 had been within the UEFA Girls’s Champions League, together with the ultimate in Lisbon. These are the ten video games I loved probably the most.
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10. Chelsea v AC Milan
A pre season pleasant adopted by a notably revealing publish match press convention involving AC Milan’s coaches and gamers. It was putting to listen to their perspective on the variations between the WSL and Serie A Femminile, one thing echoed later within the season by Roma’s supervisor after a Champions League match.
9. Sankt Pölten v Chelsea, NV Area
A brand new floor and a brand new metropolis, mixed with a protracted dialog with Sankt Pölten’s French defender Agathe Ollivier. The match was adopted by a memorable press convention, together with an amusing alternate involving Chelsea’s communications employees and Sonia Bompastor.
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8. Montreal Roses v Calgary Wild, Centre sportif Bois de Boulogne
An opportunity to expertise the launch of Canada’s new Northern Tremendous League. The event included an interview with French worldwide Charlotte Bilbault, in addition to time to meet up with Lydia Bedford, making it a very rewarding journey.
7. Portugal U19 v England U19, Mościce Tarnobrzeg
England collapsed after taking the lead, finally shedding 4–1. Regardless of the consequence, there have been clear indicators of promise throughout the squad, together with Lexi Potter, Laila Harbert and Rachel Maltby. The England coach’s publish match clarification of the defeat was particularly considerate and instructive.
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6. FC Nantes v Les Marseillaises, La Beaujoire
A sunny Sunday afternoon and a brand new attendance report for FC Nantes, with greater than 17,000 current for a 3–0 win. It was additionally notable to see Corinne Diacre relaxed and approachable within the combined zone following her dismissal as France head coach, a marked distinction to her earlier dealings with the press.
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5. Bayern Munich v Arsenal Girls, Allianz Area
A rare match in a powerful stadium. It stays tough to grasp how Arsenal allowed Bayern again into the sport after being in management. One of the vital dramatic collapses I’ve witnessed from Arsenal Girls, alongside the 6–0 defeat away to Umeå.
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4. Arsenal v Barcelona, Estádio José Alvalade
Arsenal’s second Champions League title, achieved as underdogs via disciplined and clever defensive organisation. The sense of collective reward for gamers and employees was palpable. The reminiscence is sharpened by the chaotic stadium logistics, together with a single, overwhelmed elevate making an attempt to serve tons of of individuals throughout seven flooring, and by the jubilant environment within the press field at full time.
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3. Arsenal v Lyon, Meadow Park
The best membership match I attended by way of depth, tempo, physicality and technical high quality. World class soccer from either side, performed at a unprecedented tempo.
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2. Lyon v Arsenal, Groupama Stadium
Arsenal overturning a house defeat with a commanding efficiency in Lyon was one other excellent second. Tactical missteps from Joe Montemurro, together with gamers used out of place, had been ruthlessly uncovered. It was an incredible show from Renée Slegers and her crew.
1. France v England, Letzigrund, Zurich
A top quality match that swung each methods, with all sides dominating in spells. France’s victory was deserved and massively satisfying, even when it was later adopted by their acquainted psychological collapse within the quarter finals. That group stage win, nonetheless, stood out because the spotlight of the yr.
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Trying forward, 2026 guarantees much more, with the FIFA Girls’s Champions Cup, the UEFA Girls’s Champions League, the FIFA U20 Girls’s World Cup involving France and England, and a packed calendar that may even embrace ladies’s futsal European qualifiers.