Arsenal Women to play all WSL video games at Emirates Stadium from subsequent season

Arsenal have showed their ladies’s staff will play all 11 in their Women’s Super League house fits at Emirates Stadium subsequent season.

The newly topped European champions hosted 9 league fits on the Emirates throughout 2024/25, with a median attendance of 34,000 – and a top of 56,748 in February’s 5-0 win over Tottenham.

Next season’s UWCL League Phase fits will proceed to be performed at Meadow Park in Borehamwood, with the later knockout rounds held on the membership’s primary stadia.

Other home video games, together with all cup competitions, may also be staged at Borehamwood.

Match-going crowds have endured to upward thrust at Arsenal in contemporary campaigns, with greater than 415,000 tickets bought throughout 2024/25, up 20 in keeping with cent at the earlier season. The Emirates capability is solely over 60,000.

Head trainer Renee Slegers stated: “I’m so pleased with the adventure we have now been on with our supporters this season. From Borehamwood to the Emirates, at the street to each and every WSL and European vacation spot we visited, and naturally the entire method to Lisbon, they have proven up and we have now fuelled every different to a ancient season for our membership.

“For us, this is just the beginning, and bringing every WSL match to the Emirates is another step for more supporters to be part of this special journey. We’ll come back next season, with fire in our hearts, more determined, more ambitious, and more together than ever.”

Fellow WSL facets Aston Villa and Leicester hosted all their house league video games at their primary membership grounds closing season, whilst it used to be lately introduced Goodison Park will turn out to be the house of Everton Women forward of the boys’s facet shifting to Bramley-Moore Dock.

‘Arsenal proceed to be gold common’

Analysis via Sky Sports’ Laura Hunter:

Arsenal have lengthy been the gold-standard instance of the WSL’s rising industrial worth. Historically, they’re this nation’s maximum a success membership in spite of Chelsea dominating locally for the previous 5 – 6 years. But closing season they got here to the fore as soon as once more, appearing precisely why they draw in such giant crowds on a constant foundation via trumping Barcelona to be topped European champions for the second one time.

No different ladies’s staff has controlled to domesticate one of these unswerving fanbase. Chelsea, with all their a large number of titles and trophies, can not appear to compare Arsenal’s pull, staging seven WSL video games at Stamford Bridge closing season however averaging a long way smaller attendances.

And it’s possible you’ll say, ‘who cares so long as you are successful’. But Arsenal’s dedication to producing a greater matchday revel in than opponents has turn out to be the envy of the league. The Emirates is all the time a vibe, and that transmits at the pitch. This is the way forward for ladies’s soccer and the Gunners proceed to paved the way with a best-in-class technique that places lovers on the center of the membership’s enlargement.