Manchester City Lost A Battle But Is Winning The War For English Women’s Soccer Supremacy

Have you heard the old wives’ tale that if two football teams face each other in four consecutive matches, their fates swap the next season, Freaky Friday style?

That seems to be what has happened to Manchester City and Chelsea, whose domestic seasons a year ago were defined by a four-game series in March of 2025. Chelsea may have won three of those matches, but it’s City who is now looking like the stronger side a year later. Indeed, the teams are trending in opposite directions entirely. 

City is finally finding the success that the individual talent on its roster has long suggested it could. Manager Andrée Jeglertz arrived in the summer and has figured out how to make a cohesive group out of the team’s array of super talents, which includes the likes of Bunny Shaw, Vivianne Miedema, Yui Hasegawa, Kerstin Casparij, and Kerolin. City sits atop the WSL table a little over halfway through the season, six points ahead of second-place Chelsea and 10 points clear of third-place Arsenal with 10 games left to go.