Best women’s stats and facts from 2025/26 | Statistics | News

After wrapping up the 2025/26 season, we’ve rounded up some of the best stats from the campaign with the help of our friends at Opta.

We suffered just one league defeat in 2025/26, our fewest since the 2021/22 campaign (also 1); however, we drew six games, our most ever stalemates in a WSL season.

We became the first team to win the FIFA Women’s Champions Cup in 2025/26.

Stina Blackstenius became only the second player in WSL history to score six goals in a season as a substitute and the first since Lucía García netted six sub goals for Manchester United in 2022/23.

In our final six away league games of the season, Alessia Russo became the first Arsenal player ever to score or assist in six consecutive away appearances in the WSL (5 goals, 4 assists).

Our 7-0 win against Leicester City at the end of April was our joint-third biggest victory in the WSL, and biggest margin of victory since May 2022 when we beat Aston Villa by the same scoreline.

In our final day victory vs Liverpool, we had 9+ shots on target in the first half of a WSL away game for the third time, also doing so in September 2020 vs West Ham (10) and May 2018 vs Bristol City (10).

We scored the most goals following a high turnover in the 2025/26 WSL (9).

We kept the most clean sheets in the 2025/26 WSL, doing so in exactly half of our 22 games (11).

Following our 5-0 win over West Ham United in March, Renée Slegers became the first manager in WSL history to stay unbeaten in each of their first 16 home matches (now 19).

We ended the season unbeaten in 17 (W13 D4), just two games short of our all-time longest run without defeat in the competition set between August 2011 and October 2012 (P19 W14 D5).

We won the most away points in the WSL last season (24) and were one of two teams to go unbeaten at home (W8 D3) along with champions Man City (W11).

Mariona Caldentey made 1025 passes in the opposition half in the WSL this season, 335 more than any other player. The Spaniard was also involved in the most open play sequences ending in a shot (145) and carried the ball further than any other midfielder (3915m).

Alessia Russo enjoyed her best goalscoring season in the WSL with 13bettering her 12 from both 2024/25 and 2023/24 – she scored the most away goals in the division (8) and recorded the second most away assists (5).

Steph Catley recorded the most clearances (49) and the third most passes (999) of any Arsenal player in the 2025/26 WSL, as well as boasting the fifth best passing accuracy of any defender to attempt 500+ passes (90.7%).

The average age of our starting lineups in the 2025/26 WSL season were older than any other sides (28 years, 11 days).

We lost the fewest games (1) in the 2025/26 WSL season.

We also conceded the fewest goals (14) in the 2025/26 WSL season.

We spent just 8.0% of our total match time trailing the WSL in 2025/26, a lower proportion than any other side.

We played the joint-most games in all competitions among WSL teams last season (41) and won the most games (28).