The international break has emptied the Premier League this weekend, but the Women’s Super League carries on with a top-of-the-table meeting. Chelsea Women host leaders Manchester City Women at Stamford Bridge on Saturday 14 November, kick-off 1.30pm UK time, which is 9.30pm in Singapore, and neither side has lost a WSL game this season.
City sit top on 25 points from nine games, two clear of Chelsea on 23. The arithmetic is simple. A Chelsea win puts them back in first place, a draw keeps City two points ahead, and a City win would open a five-point gap between the top two before November is out.
How the lead changed hands
Chelsea went into last weekend top on goal difference, and that is still the column they own: 28 scored and only five conceded in nine games, the best attack and the meanest defence in the league. What cost them first place was a home draw with Everton on Saturday 7 November. Baltimore put Chelsea ahead in the 28th minute and an own goal levelled it five minutes later, and that was how it finished.
City took full advantage the same afternoon, beating West Ham 5-0. Bunny Shaw scored a hat-trick and Aoba Fujino and Iman Beney added the others.
Shaw’s run
Shaw has now scored in each of City’s last five WSL games, eight goals in all, starting with the 4-2 win over Arsenal on 4 October and ending with that West Ham hat-trick. City point out that she finished third at the 2026 Ballon d’Or and has just been shortlisted for BBC Women’s Footballer of the Year, after a 2025/26 season in which she won the WSL golden boot for a third time as City took the league and FA Cup double.
Chelsea’s answer has come from all over the pitch, but Malard is the name to watch. She has five league goals since the start of October, including a double in the 3-1 win at Crystal Palace and two more in the 6-0 rout of Charlton on 1 November.
A midweek in Europe for both
Both sides played in the Women’s Champions League on Tuesday. City came from a goal down to win 4-1 at Inter in Monza, Fujino scoring twice before Kerstin Casparij and Grace Clinton finished it off. “How we are creating and scoring chances, and how we are playing football, you can see in the players that they are enjoying playing the games,” head coach Andrée Jeglertz told the club’s website afterwards.
Chelsea drew 0-0 away to BK Häcken, so they arrive on the back of two straight draws.
The last time the two met, at the Etihad Stadium in February, City won 5-1, with Kerolin scoring a hat-trick and Shaw and Vivianne Miedema adding the others. Alyssa Thompson scored for Chelsea.
Both clubs are straight back in Europe on Wednesday 18 November, with City away to Häcken at 1.45am on Thursday 19 November Singapore time and Chelsea at home to Paris Saint-Germain at 4am.
The rest of the WSL weekend, Singapore time
Saturday 14 November: Manchester United Women v Crystal Palace Women, 8.45pm; Chelsea Women v Manchester City Women, 9.30pm; Tottenham Hotspur Women v Everton Women, 11pm.
Sunday 15 November: Brighton Women v Liverpool Women, 1.15am; Aston Villa Women v Birmingham City Women and West Ham Women v Charlton Athletic Women, both 10pm.
Monday 16 November: Arsenal Women v London City Lionesses, 12.30am. London City are third on 19 points and Arsenal sixth on 13, so a win for the visitors would take them to 22 points.
