Arsenal Ladies to play all WSL video games at Emirates Stadium from subsequent season | Soccer Information
Arsenal have confirmed their ladies’s staff will play all 11 of their Ladies’s Tremendous League house matches at Emirates Stadium subsequent season.
The newly topped European champions hosted 9 league matches on the Emirates throughout 2024/25, with a median attendance of 34,000 – and a excessive of 56,748 in February’s 5-0 win over Tottenham.
Subsequent season’s UWCL League Section matches will proceed to be performed at Meadow Park in Borehamwood, with the later knockout rounds held on the membership’s fundamental stadia.
Different home video games, together with all cup competitions, can even be staged at Borehamwood.
The Gunners generated a median attendance of 34,000 at Emirates final season
Match-going crowds have continued to rise at Arsenal in latest campaigns, with greater than 415,000 tickets offered throughout 2024/25, up 20 per cent on the earlier season. The Emirates capability is simply over 60,000.
Head coach Renee Slegers mentioned: “I am so pleased with the journey we have been on with our supporters this season. From Borehamwood to the Emirates, on the highway to each WSL and European vacation spot we visited, and naturally all the way in which to Lisbon, they’ve proven up and we have fuelled one another to a historic season for our membership.
“For us, that is only the start, and bringing each WSL match to the Emirates is one other step for extra supporters to be a part of this particular journey. We’ll come again subsequent season, with hearth in our hearts, extra decided, extra formidable, and extra collectively than ever.”
Fellow WSL sides Aston Villa and Leicester hosted all their house league video games at their fundamental membership grounds final season, whereas it was lately introduced Goodison Park will grow to be the house of Everton Ladies forward of the boys’s facet shifting to Bramley-Moore Dock.
‘Arsenal proceed to be gold commonplace’
Arsenal have lengthy provided best-in-class fan expertise on matchdays
Evaluation by Sky Sports activities’ Laura Hunter:
Arsenal have lengthy been the gold-standard instance of the WSL’s rising business worth. Traditionally, they’re this nation’s most profitable membership regardless of Chelsea dominating domestically for the previous 5 – 6 years. However final season they got here to the fore as soon as once more, exhibiting precisely why they entice such massive crowds on a constant foundation by trumping Barcelona to be topped European champions for the second time.
No different ladies’s staff has managed to domesticate such a loyal fanbase. Chelsea, with all their quite a few titles and trophies, can’t appear to match Arsenal’s pull, staging seven WSL video games at Stamford Bridge final season however averaging far smaller attendances.
And also you would possibly say, ‘who cares so long as you are profitable’. However Arsenal’s dedication to producing a greater matchday expertise than rivals has grow to be the envy of the league. The Emirates is all the time a vibe, and that transmits on the pitch. That is the way forward for ladies’s soccer and the Gunners proceed to paved the way with a best-in-class technique that places followers on the coronary heart of the membership’s development.