Arsenal Women Archives: 06/2016

Following another 0-0 against Birmingham City Ladies, Arsenal Ladies are very likely to miss out on Champions League football for the fourth season in a row.

Mo Marley has called up 20 players for the double-header to be played on the 12th and 14th of July at St George’s Park.

Arsenal ladies drew 0-0 with Birmingham on Wednesday night leaving them in fourth place, one point behind the Blues and nine off top spot (although with a game in hand).

The club has signed Charlotte Devlin, one of the youngsters that came through the age group and will hopefully get chances with the first team this season and the next one.

The Ladies registered a very professional victory over a poor Sunderland side by five goals to one; the Black Cats looked like the ghost of the side that was challenging for a Champions League place for most of last season.

Arsenal ladies got back to league action with a 5-1 win over Sunderland on Saturday.

Jody Taylor is ready to leave Arsenal and England to head to the States as the 30-year-old forward revealed on Twitter.

The FA WSL is back and the main target is obviously to qualify for the UEFA Women’s Champions League 2017/18 edition. Is it a realistic target?

Something quite unusual happened in the FA WSL with two players buying out their contract to leave their club.

BT Sport have chosen their next batch of games to be shown live and as usual have chosen to broadcast many Arsenal Ladies games.

The FA WSL transfer window is open from 3rd to 30th of June for contracted players.

The Development team that will play in the 2016/17 FA WSL Development League will be travelling to France at the end of the month.

In our second exclusive interview with one of the Arsenal Ladies big talents from the youth set-up, this time we speak with the u17 captain, Laura Hooper.

Carrying on our series of interviews with the Arsenal Ladies’ youngsters, we spoke to Georgia Allen who is going to study at East Tennessee State University, following in the footsteps of former Arsenal reserves players like Alexis Passingham or Hannah Short.

The 2015/16 tournament has just finished with Lyon beating Wolfsburg on penalties and the new season will start soon with the draw for the qualifying round on the 24th of June.

With another batch of games played on Monday and Tuesday, the situation has become clearer and a couple of teams, including England, have made it through to the finals.

The date and place for the Arsenal Ladies’ FA WSL Continental Cup first round game, away to Reading, have been disclosed and it is a quite surprising one.

We are in the FA WSL mid-season summer break and this is the time for the Euro 2017 qualification games. Here is the current situation group-by-group.

It seems as though the Arsenal injury curse has now hit the Ladies’ team after being a constant thorn in Arsene Wenger’s side for years and years.

Republic of Ireland goalkeeper and winger Emma Byrne and Katie McCabe are eliminated from the 2017 Euro.