WSL season preview: Can anyone catch Chelsea?
Full Time: A show about women's soccer
The Athletic
4.8 • 756 Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
The English Women's Super League is back this weekend, and so, before the start of the 2025-26 season, the Full Time podcast is doing the perfect preview to break down all the key talking points, things to watch and players to know before it all kicks off.
Host Jillian Sakovits is joined by a panel of writers from The Athletic featuring Tamerra Griffin, Megan Feringa and Cerys Jones. Can anyone catch the reigning champions, Chelsea? Will Arsenal turn European glory into domestic dominance? And, are Michele Kang and London City Lionesses ready to disrupt the status quo. PLUS: The panel give their predictions and picks of the new arrivals to the WSL that you need to watch.
Articles referenced on the show:
Chelsea in advanced talks to sign USWNT’s Alyssa Thompson from Angel City
Everton Women’s record signing of Ruby Mace follows a ‘very stressful few weeks’
Ten new players to look out for in this season’s Women’s Super League
Women’s Super League: What’s new ahead of the 2025-26 season?
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HOST: Jillian Sakovits
GUEST: Tamerra Griffin, Megan Feringa, Cerys Jones
PRODUCER: Theo Lloyd-Hughes
VIDEO PRODUCER: Lia Griffin
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Emily Olsen
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| 0:00.0 | Disney Lullaby, a cute playlist with soothing lullaby versions of Disney songs. |
| 0:12.0 | The Disney Lullaby playlist. Listen now. |
| 0:20.2 | The Disney Lullaby playlist. Listen now. |
| 0:32.7 | Give me your biggest team to watch that could make a name for themselves in this 2025, 2025, 26 season. |
| 0:37.5 | Let me jump in ahead of Megan because I know she's going to say the same team as me, which is Everton. |
| 0:41.9 | I was waiting for this moment. |
| 0:46.3 | They're moving into Gooderson Park, which for sort of our listeners on the US side, who might not know, Everton Men moved out of Goodison Park, which is their kind of historic home |
| 0:50.3 | into a new stadium. |
| 0:51.4 | For me, they're definitely a team to watch. |
| 1:01.5 | Yeah. home into a new stadium. For me, they're definitely a team to watch. Hello, everybody. I'm Jillian Sackavits. A very warm welcome to full time. It is presented |
| 1:06.0 | by Amazon Prime. Coming up on today's show, we are going to get you all set for the English |
| 1:11.2 | Women's Super League. The season is almost back. It begins on Friday. So we're going to head |
| 1:16.4 | over across the pond to get you all caught up on everything you need to know. I'm going to be |
| 1:21.1 | joined by the brilliant trio from The Athletic in Megan Ferringa, Carish Jones, and as always, Tamara |
| 1:27.4 | Griffin to discover if anyone |
| 1:29.2 | can catch the reigning champions Chelsea after what was a nearly perfect season of winning |
| 1:34.4 | it all except for the Champions League. That was Arsenal, who will look to turn European glory |
| 1:39.4 | into domestic success this season. And also, can the Washington spirit owner, Michelle Kang, now the owner also of the London |
| 1:47.2 | City lionesses, disrupt the WSL? |
| 1:50.3 | And lastly, who are the exciting new faces to watch? |
| 1:53.7 | Let's get into it. |
| 2:00.6 | Disney Lullaby, a cute playlist with soothing lullaby versions of Disney songs. |
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