City's opening day record in the Barclays Women's Super League | OneFootball

City have today discovered our fixtures for the 2025/26 Barclays Women's Super League season.

Andrée Jeglertz’s side have been handed a tantalising opening assignment, travelling to Chelsea on Friday 5 September before we welcome Brighton to the Joie Stadium a week later.

The upcoming term represents our 13th successive season in the WSL, having lifted the title in 2016 and finished as runners-up on eight occasions.

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After losing out on the title in 2023/24 on goal difference alone and narrowly finishing outside the Champions League places last term, we're looking to once again challenge at the top of the table this season.

This is the second time City and Chelsea have played each other in the first match of a WSL season with the sides playing out a goalless draw in 2018/19’s curtain-raiser.

With such a crucial game up first, we take a look at our form on opening day up to this point.

WINS

We've won six of our previous 12 matches on the opening day of a WSL campaign, starting with the 1-0 victory over Notts County in 2016.

A 4-0 defeat of Yeovil followed in 2017/18 before a run of three successive wins in 2019/20, 2020/21 and 2021/22 against Manchester United, Aston Villa and Everton respectively.

And we also opened 2023/24 with a 2-0 success at West Ham United thanks to goals from Lauren Hemp and Jill Roord.

We've had three draws on the first weekend of a season as well, including two with Birmingham City, a goalless stalemate against Chelsea in 2018 and enthralling 2-2 draw with Arsenal at the start of last term.

Our two curtain raising defeats so far have come against Liverpool in 2014 at the start of our first WSL season and in 2022/23, when we were on the wrong side of a 4-3 thriller with Aston Villa.

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GOALS

In our 12 games so far, we've scored 20 times and been shut out just three times.

We've also scored at least once in each of our last six games to start a season.

Defensively, we've only conceded six times and managed eight clean sheets in total. In fact, we've kept a clean sheet in six of our last seven opening day games.

Those 4-0 demolition jobs against Yeovil and Everton in 2017 and 2021 are our biggest wins.

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TOP SCORERS

Georgia Stanway's goal against Yeovil in 2017 and brace in the 2-0 win at Villa in 2020 makes her our leading scorer on opening days.

However, Khadija 'Bunny' Shaw and Laura Coombs are on two goals each.

With Shaw surpassing Stanway's tally of 67 goals and becoming our record goalscorer in 2023/24 and scoring 19 last term, this could be another metric that the Jamaican soon overtakes the England midfielder on.