Football Season Guide

London City Lionesses become the first-ever women-only team, not a branch of a men team, to play in the top flight last season. In their debut campaign offered mixed form. Dominated the lesser teams and hardly troubled the Big 4. In the end the 8 wins and 11 defeats enough to give them the decent sixth place. Issues at both ends of the pitch. No player scored more than 5 league goals. Only 3 clean sheets kept all season. Spaniard Eder Maestre took charge during the winter break. By that point the Lionesses were already stuck in mid-table so he rotated heavily all spring and used 26 players. In his first proper summer in charge Maestre received a massive transfer budget, the biggest in the WSL. He already spent big on multiple star players. Legendary England goalie Erps returns to the competition after a stint in Paris. Leon and Putellas arrived from the best team in the world Barcelona and are bound to be key players. Proven goal machine Diani joins from Lyon. Wingers Kafaji and Anyomi, as well as exciting young American full-back Thomsen, add depth and speed. London City have the largest squad in the league and they can definitely handle deep runs in cup competitions on top of their league duties. The addition of so much new talent on top of the many quality players already in the squad makes the Lionesses a dark horse in the race for the medals. They will certainly want to make history and noise this season. Winning either cup competition is probably their best chance to become the first women-only club to lift a major trophy.