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🗓️ 2 September 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Ben, Ellen and Jen get us up to date on where we find these teams as we head into the new season. Hear from Fran Kirby as she goes into her second season with Brighton and the ambitions of the club.
Who are the big transfers that could make the difference, how newly promoted London City Lionesses will fair and what teams might struggle. The team also run us through the manager merry-go-round with lots of change since last season.
Jen and Ellen make their predictions for the season with their top three and those teams we could see go into the relegation play-offs!
Timecodes: 01:00 Welcome back & brand new feed 03:10Where we find the WSL teams 07:50 Fran Kirby 09:50 Michelle Agyemang under any pressure? 17:30 London City big signings 31:10 Transfers 35:30 Season predictions
5 LIVE COMMENTARIES: Chelsea v Manchester City at Stamford Bridge on Friday 5th September (7:30pm kick-off) Arsenal v London City Lionesses at the Emirates on Saturday 7th September (1:30pm kick-off) Liverpool v Everton at Anfield on Sunday 8th September (12:00pm kick-off)
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Women's Football Weekly with Ben Haynes, Ellen White and Jen Beattie. |
| 0:06.5 | Hi there, Football Daily listeners. |
| 0:08.5 | This is Ben Haynes here to tell you about the exciting news that the Women's Football Weekly has found a new home in its very own feed. |
| 0:15.9 | We've called it, unsurprisingly, BBC Women's Football Weekly, |
| 0:19.7 | where we'll continue to bring you the same content you've been enjoying here with the latest news, insights and analysis from across the women's game. |
| 0:27.3 | Episodes will be available every Tuesday as ever, alongside special, unfiltered player interviews from the biggest names in the WSL and beyond. |
| 0:35.6 | We're dropping today's episode here just so you don't miss it, but the second episode |
| 0:39.4 | will be in our brand new home next week. |
| 0:41.9 | So make sure you never miss an app, just search for BBC Women's Football Weekly and hit |
| 0:47.8 | subscribe once you get there. |
| 0:49.6 | And there's so much to get into today, but we'll be talking manager Mary go around, the latest |
| 0:53.8 | transfers, and Ellen and Jen will do us a whistlestop tour of where we find the 12 WSL clubs as we enter the new season. So we say a very warm welcome back to Ellen White and Gem Beatty. Woo! How are you two? Woo, whoa, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, new season. I think we're both really excited. |
| 1:11.5 | We're back, right? |
| 1:12.4 | Oh, so nice to you back, isn't it? |
| 1:11.8 | Yeah, so nice. I'm so excited. I think off the hype of this summer, I couldn't wait for a WS out to get going, so I'm so ready. I need to apologize to our world-class production team as well. Ellen White is the only one of us that has brought the brand new Mike Muff to the party with our hot pink new rebrand as well. If you haven't seen this, make sure you check out the Five Loaf Sports social channels. Can you see all our amazing content there as well. But Ellen is sporting the new Mike Muff, which looks absolutely wonderful. Look, we're going to get into London City Lionesses next week because there is so much to talk about there. I know everyone's very, very excited. We've got a special episode on them. We went down to the training ground, spoke to a load of the players and the manager as well, so we'll bring that to you next week. As I said, we've got a big preview coming up for Friday night on Thursday on the feed. But what we wanted to do now is just try and give everyone an |
| 2:02.2 | update because I feel like so much has happened. So we're going to whizz through the teams and |
| 2:06.4 | just try and get a little bit of an understanding of where everyone is at or at least where |
| 2:11.2 | Jen and Ellen think everyone's at. And I think it will make sense to go through alphabetically, |
| 2:16.0 | which does mean we start with one of the most |
| 2:17.6 | exciting stories of the season, Ellen, and we'll begin with Arsenal. Where is your head out on |
| 2:21.7 | Arsenal? I'm sure they're going to be very excited for the new season. Champions League |
| 2:26.3 | winners, obviously runners up in the WSEL last season. Huge one million pound signing, Olivia |
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