Arsenal have confirmed their girls’s staff will play all 11 of their Girls’s Tremendous League dwelling matches at Emirates Stadium subsequent season.
The newly topped European champions hosted 9 league matches on the Emirates throughout 2024/25, with a mean attendance of 34,000 – and a excessive of 56,748 in February’s 5-0 win over Tottenham.
Subsequent season’s UWCL League Section matches will proceed to be performed at Meadow Park in Borehamwood, with the later knockout rounds held on the membership’s most important stadia.
Different home video games, together with all cup competitions, may also be staged at Borehamwood.
Match-going crowds have continued to rise at Arsenal in current campaigns, with greater than 415,000 tickets offered throughout 2024/25, up 20 per cent on the earlier season. The Emirates capability is simply over 60,000.
Head coach Renee Slegers mentioned: “I am so pleased with the journey we have been on with our supporters this season. From Borehamwood to the Emirates, on the street to each WSL and European vacation spot we visited, and naturally all the way in which to Lisbon, they’ve proven up and we have fuelled one another to a historic 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 sides Aston Villa and Leicester hosted all their dwelling league video games at their most important membership grounds final season, whereas it was not too long ago introduced Goodison Park will grow to be the house of Everton Girls forward of the boys’s facet shifting to Bramley-Moore Dock.
‘Arsenal proceed to be gold normal’
Arsenal have lengthy provided best-in-class fan expertise on matchdays
Evaluation by Sky Sports activities’ Laura Hunter:
Arsenal have lengthy been the gold-standard instance of the WSL’s rising industrial worth. Traditionally, they’re this nation’s most profitable membership regardless of Chelsea dominating domestically for the previous 5 – 6 years. However final season they got here to the fore as soon as once more, displaying precisely why they appeal to such large crowds on a constant foundation by trumping Barcelona to be topped European champions for the second time.
No different girls’s staff has managed to domesticate such a loyal fanbase. Chelsea, with all their quite a few titles and trophies, can not appear to match Arsenal’s pull, staging seven WSL video games at Stamford Bridge final season however averaging far smaller attendances.
And also you would possibly say, ‘who cares so long as you are profitable’. However Arsenal’s dedication to producing a greater matchday expertise than rivals has grow to be the envy of the league. The Emirates is all the time a vibe, and that transmits on the pitch. That is the way forward for girls’s soccer and the Gunners proceed to cleared the path with a best-in-class technique that places followers on the coronary heart of the membership’s progress.
