England star, who was crowned The Sunday Times Young Sportswoman of the Year a day after a turning 20, reflects on her breakout 12 months with the Lionesses

With hopes of seventh straight Women’s Super League crown in tatters, Chelsea Women — and their frustrated manager Sonia Bompastor — face an uncertain future

Chelsea 0 Arsenal 2: Renée Slegers’ side win at Stamford Bridge for first time with fluid performance, denting champions’ hopes of seventh straight WSL crown

Defender is one of the few England internationals playing club football overseas after leaving WSL champions, where she feared becoming just another number

Hannah Hampton, who had three eye surgeries before age of three and came through at Villarreal, on text she sent Mary Earps and ‘whirlwind’ season with Chelsea

From attracting female-specific sponsors to finding outside investment, Kit Shepard looks at options clubs have to take control of their economic fate and avoid reliance on men’s teams

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Lauren James, Lotte Wubben-Moy and teenager Michelle Agyemang among 23 players who will lead defending champions’ title defence in Switzerland

The 6-0 win against Portugal was reminder of where England’s strengths lie after drama of Mary Earps’s retirement and recent defensive issues

With Mary Earps retired, Millie Bright exhausted and fitness concerns over star players, England’s preparation for Euro 2025 is looking shaky

Arsenal 1 Barcelona 0: Stina Blackstenius combines with Beth Mead to score winning goal and secure first Women’s Champions League title in 18 years in Lisbon

Spaniard on swapping Catalonia for north London, facing her former club in the Champions League final and why her brother must switch allegiance for one night

Arsenal icon juggled job as kitman for men’s team with managing the women’s side to Champions League glory and watching rom-coms with Dennis Bergkamp

Head coach left puzzled by latest Wembley no-show, which fuels accusations that the Manchester United co-owner is neglecting women’s side

Chelsea 3 Man United 0: A Sandy Baltimore double and goal from Catarina Macario in front of tennis great Serena Williams rounds off perfect season at home for Sonia Bompastor’s team

Sonia Bompastor’s side can complete a domestic treble in the FA Cup final on Sunday but must make adjustments to challenge for elusive Champions League title

Women’s FA Cup final win over Chelsea would cap promising campaign for likeable team, but coming weeks in boardroom will determine whether season is launchpad or false dawn

Bayern Munich star’s inclusion gives Sarina Wiegman huge boost with Euro 2025 on the horizon while Lauren Hemp and Alex Greenwood are also back in the squad

Chelsea may have run away with league title again but there was much more to season than great play and superb matches. In fact, some of our ‘winners’ probably won’t want their gongs…

Women’s Super League attendances are down and the England team’s galvanising power is waning. But look below the surface and the situation is more complicated

Fan fury forces a U-turn on plans to axe relegation — and a potential league expansion — from Women’s Super League from 2026 but matter could later be revisited

Birmingham City 2 London City Lionesses 2: Draw enough to secure promotion to Women’s Super League for capital side before owner Michele Kang takes centre stage

Birmingham City and London City Lionesses both have ambitious American owners but contrast in their outlook as they go head to head for promotion to the WSL on Sunday

Women’s team ‘absolutely devastated’ that club did not submit application to go into second tier, with squad finding out only after final day of the season

Lyon 1 Arsenal 4 (Arsenal win 5-3 on aggregate): Renée Slegers’s side overturn first-leg deficit against eight-time champions — but Chelsea humiliated by Barcelona in other semi-final

Kayleigh McDonald, formerly of Stoke City, says ‘Uncle Ian’ is fully committed to women’s game having secretly stepped in to fund her rehab after major injury

Sonia Bompastor’s side suffer collapse at the Johan Cruyff Stadium leaving a mammoth task at Stamford Bridge if they are to break Barcelona Champions League hoodoo

French side seize initiative in first leg of Champions League semi-final as hosts spurn number of chances at Emirates Stadium

Success for Arsenal and Chelsea against Lyon and Barcelona could make this the Women’s Super League’s coming-of-age season in Europe

Dutchman Arjan Veurink will become Netherlands head coach after Euro 2025 having spent eight years working with Sarina Wiegman as England women assistant coach

Man City 0 Man Utd 2: Internal inquiry set for blue half of Manchester with ten first-choice players ruled out of FA Cup semi-final and not enough to fill subs’ bench

Chelsea 2 Liverpool 1: Aggie Beever-Jones scores stoppage time winner to secure place in Wembley final just after Liverpool hit crossbar in tense semi-final finish

Belgium 3 England 2: Sarina Wiegman’s side miss key players and pay heavy price for awful start against team they defeated 5-0 last week

England 5 Belgium 0: Lucy Bronze, Millie Bright, Aggie Beever-Jones, Jess Park and Keira Walsh all score as Sarina Wiegman’s side dominate at Ashton Gate

Men’s team’s recent success has come at a cost, and club are in danger of breaking Premier League financial rules by making losses of more than £105million over three seasons

The sale of Chelsea Women to the club’s parent company helped them to avoid a breach of Premier League financial rules — but the team’s valuation has surprised those in the know

Arrival of 5ft 1in Mana Iwabuchi in 2020 showed that quick-footed and technically savvy players from Japan could cope with league’s brawn. Now English clubs are clamouring for their services

Team who began campaign with a bump are now three matches from Champions League glory. So how has head coach overseen such a dramatic turnaround since mid-October?

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Arsenal 3 Real Madrid 0 (Arsenal win 3-2 on aggregate): Mariona Caldentey also on scoresheet as three second-half goals secure place in Champions League semi-finals

Erin Cuthbert seals Chelsea’s WSL win over Manchester City as Caroline Weir stars for Real Madrid in El Clasico and Newcastle set a crowd record at St James’ Park

The 61-year-old is free of the BBC show that ‘fried my brain’ and is now giving back to his boyhood club, Ten Em Bee, by helping girls get into the sport