With London City Lionesses visiting Emirates Stadium this weekend for the WSL kick-off, we’ve got the opportunity to maintain an 11-year unbeaten run against newly-promoted sides.
In that time we've played 27 matches against new teams in the division, and we've ended up with three points in 24 of those encounters, including each of the last eight:
Our unbeaten run against promoted teams
Date
Opponent
Venue
Result
24/08/2014
Man City
A
W 4-0
26/04/2015
Sunderland
H
W 4-1
26/09/2015
Sunderland
A
W 3-1
23/03/2016
Reading
H
W 3-1
27/04/2016
Reading
A
W 2-1
06/10/2016
Doncaster
A
W 5-0
30/10/2016
Doncaster
H
W 2-0
08/10/2017
Bristol City
H
D 1-1
11/02/2018
Yeovil Town
H
W 4-0
21/04/2018
Yeovil Town
A
D 0-0
20/05/2018
Bristol City
A
W 6-1
23/09/2018
West Ham
H
W 4-3
25/11/2018
Brighton
H
W 4-1
06/01/2019
West Ham
A
W 4-2
28/04/2019
Brighton
A
W 4-0
16/09/2019
Man Utd
A
W 1-0
17/11/2019
Tottenham
A
W 2-0
28/02/2021
Aston Villa
A
W 4-0
09/05/2021
Aston Villa
H
D 0-0
12/12/2021
Leicester
H
W 4-0
03/04/2022
Leicester
A
W 5-0
23/10/2022
Liverpool
A
W 2-0
08/03/2023
Liverpool
H
W 2-0
22/10/2023
Bristol City
A
W 2-1
14/04/2024
Bristol City
H
W 5-0
19/01/2025
Crystal Palace
H
W 5-0
30/03/2025
Crystal Palace
A
W 4-0
It’s the best ever run unbeaten against promoted clubs in WSL history. The second longest is Manchester City, who strung together 21 wins in a row between 2015 and 2021, and actually inflicted our only loss against a promoted club back in May 2014.
Across our current 27-match run, no-one has featured in more games than Leah Williamson, with four current Gunners inside our top five. One of those is Beth Mead who leads the way alongside Danielle van de Donk for most goals netted in this run, with 11 apiece:
Most appearances in 27-game run
Player
**Games**
Leah Williamson
24
Katie McCabe
21
Beth Mead
19
Jordan Nobbs
18
Kim Little
16
Most goals in 27-game run
**Player**
**Goals**
Danielle van de Donk
11
Beth Mead
11
Vivianne Miedema
7
Danielle Carter
7
Katie McCabe
5
Natalia Pablos
5
A fresh face in the WSL this term, London City won the Women’s Championship last term with 43 points from 20 games, with Isobel Goodwin finishing as their top scorer with 16 goals in the second tier.
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