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City's Women Lose Out To Chelsea

On our final home fixture of the 25/26 Barclays Women's Super League season, Chelsea came out on top, beating LCFC Women 3-1 on Sunday afternoon.

2026-05-03T16:30+01:00

by Matthew Temple

Published

03 May, 2026

from King Power Stadium

City's Women Lose Out To Chelsea

On our final home fixture of the 25/26 Barclays Women's Super League season, Chelsea came out on top, beating LCFC Women 3-1 on Sunday afternoon.

Matthew Temple

2026-05-03T16:30+01:00

City's Women Lose Out To Chelsea

On our final home fixture of the 25/26 Barclays Women's Super League season, Chelsea came out on top, beating LCFC Women 3-1 on Sunday afternoon.

Matthew Temple

2026-05-03T16:30+01:00

City's Women Lose Out To Chelsea

On our final home fixture of the 25/26 Barclays Women's Super League season, Chelsea came out on top, beating LCFC Women 3-1 on Sunday afternoon.

Matthew Temple

2026-05-03T16:30+01:00

City's Women Lose Out To Chelsea

On our final home fixture of the 25/26 Barclays Women's Super League season, Chelsea came out on top, beating LCFC Women 3-1 on Sunday afternoon.

Matthew Temple

2026-05-03T16:30+01:00

Sam Kerr opened the scoring, and Lauren James then scored a brace, before Shannon O'Brien pulled one back before half-time to settle the scoreline, in our final bout on Filbert Way.

Manager Rick Passmoor made three changes from a midweek defeat to Arsenal at Emirates Stadium, with Chantelle Swaby, Emma Jansson and Katie Keane coming into the XI; the Irish 'keeper making her full debut.

Chelsea take the lead

We lost out to Chelsea on Sunday afternoon in the WSL.

Kerr netted the first goal on Sunday afternoon, jumping highest to get on the end of a cross after 13 minutes to put the Blues in front.

The champions' advantage increased in the space of five minutes, through a James double. Curling an effort into the top right-hand corner from outside the box, she then got a second moments later from a free-kick.

After the linesman had raised his flag for Kerr in an offside position, the referee brought the play back for a free-kick, which James took and scored from; the ball clipping the underside of the bar on it's way through.

O'Brien gets on the scoresheet

A sixth goal of the season for Shannon O'Brien.

Up until this point, we had very few opportunities inside the Chelsea half to talk about, however we were given a golden opportunity when a loose pass between the defence was intercepted by O'Brien.

Driving forward into a one-vs-one situation, she shot early, sending a low effort past Livia Peng to ensure we found the net on our last home game of the season.

Her sixth goal of the season, in all competitions, Passmoor will be hoping she keeps up her good form heading into the play-off game against Charlton Athletic in a few weeks' time.

Everton and then the play-off

That concludes our home campaign for the 25/26 season.

Signing off at home with a defeat to the current WSL holders, two games remain for us this season, starting with an away trip to face Everton to round up the regular campaign.

With our fate sealed at the bottom of the table, matchday 22 comes from Merseyside, when we face the Toffees in our first-ever women's game at Goodison Park, on Saturday 16 May.

Following that, we will face Charlton at the Valley, on Saturday 23 May, in a winner-takes-all match to determine who will be joining promoted Birmingham City and Crystal Palace, plus the current top 11 teams, in next year's reshaped WSL.

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