Chelsea vs Man City live: Sam Kerr returns for defending champions as WSL season gets underway

The WSL 2025/26 season is underway!

The two sets of players are welcomed on the Stamford Bridge field to a Pyro display mounting the return of the WSL.

We are only five minutes away from kick -off while the new WSL season begins!

The players are ready. Stamford Bridge is ready. We are so back.

Stay listening for the minute updates per minute of all the action!

She is not in the team this evening, but the record of the Chelsea club signed Alyssa Thompson was presented to the faithful of Stamford Bridge after his move from the deadline!

While the club’s rivalries reign this evening, the Euro winning lionesses receive their flowers before the start at Stamford Bridge.

Each player receives a warm individual ovation before Lucy Bronze and Lauren James – both injured for this evening contest – go out with the trophy in hand!

The former Malmo defender, Andree Jeglertz, replaced Gareth Taylor in the Pirogue of Man City this summer and has a vast CV.

He won the UEFA Women’s Cup – later the Champions League – with the Swedish team Umea in 2004 and led them to successive finals in 2007 and 2008.

After a spell in male football with Djurgardens in 2009, Jeglertz spent six years in charge of women from Finland until 2016 before a brief return to Umea was followed by a two -year stay in charge of linkopings.

He was appointed Denmark head coach after the 2023 World Cup and led them to the euros this summer after finishing second behind the world champions in Spain in qualifying.

The Chelsea striker, Catarina Macario, believes that the new affiliation of Serena Williams with his side perfectly sums up the ascending trajectory of women’s football.

In May, Williams’ husband, the winner of the Grand Chelem, the founder of Reddit, Alexis Ohanian, announced that he had bought an eight to 10%stake, worth around 20 million pounds sterling, in the champions of the reigning female super league.

The couple flew to the FA Cup final four days later at Wembley – where Macario scored in the 3-0 victory against Manchester United – One weekend, Ohanian predicted that his new investment could become a billion dollars operation.

Alcohol will be authorized in the stands of seven female Super League clubs of the 2025-26 season as part of a trial, marking an important departure from the ban on the decades imposed on male matches to slow down hooliganism.

This follows a successful test last year on 19 matches involving four second -level WSL2 clubs and 51,000 supporters.

So, if you go to Stamford Bridge tonight, do not feel the need to get your pints in the hall!

Whatever happens to Stamford Bridge, the story of the day will not imply the title champions of the WSL.

Indeed, the new arrivals of the London City Lionesses League broke the female football transfer record by signing Grace Geyoro, the Paris midfielder Saint-Germain, for 1.4 million sterling books.

The newly promoted team has embarked on a large frenzy of expenses, signing 16 players permanently this summer while they aim to consolidate their place in the elite.