It was a season of near-misses and new beginnings for the Women’s team.
On the pitch, the side finished fourth in the Barclays Women’s Super League (WSL), narrowly lost in the final of the Subway Women’s League Cup, reached the semi-finals of the Adobe Women’s FA Cup and were knocked out in the last eight of the UEFA Women’s Champions League (UWCL).
Manchester City reached the final of the Subway Women’s League Cup and the semi-finals of the Adobe Women’s FA Cup
Fourth Place
Barclays WSL
Finalists
Subway Women’s League Cup
Semi-finalists
Adobe Women’s FA Cup
Quarter-finalists
UEFA Women’s Champions League
Off the pitch changes were made with Head Coach Gareth Taylor departing and former Denmark national team boss Andrée Jeglertz appointed to take the reins.
He will be working alongside other new faces in former Swedish international Therese Sjögran, who was appointed as Director of Football, and Hannah Dingley, the new Head of Girls’ Academy.
Work commenced on the £10 million centre at the City Football Academy which will become the new home for the Women’s first team.
The 17,000 square-foot building – designed to expand as the team continues to grow – will include a hydrotherapy area, a high-performance gym, analytics space and a circular dressing room mirroring that in the men’s building.
City’s continued commitment to developing young players saw them field the youngest side (on average) in the WSL and led to significant breakthroughs for Academy graduates.
Lily Murphy signed her first professional contract in December 2024, having made her senior competitive debut in a UWCL qualifying match against Paris FC.
Murphy scored her first goal for City in a 2-0 Champions League win against St. Pölten at the Joie Stadium on her first senior start for the club. She later scored the winning goal in a League Cup quarter-final match against Manchester United.
Fellow graduate Codie Thomas signed her first professional contract at the same time as Murphy and made her senior competitive debut in the away leg of the UWCL group stage win against St. Pölten.
Another youngster to post a senior debut was Gracie Prior, who made her first WSL start in a 3-0 win against Crystal Palace in November 2024 and scored her first goal in a 4-0 win against Liverpool in February 2025.
No fewer than nine City stars lit up the UEFA Women’s EURO 2025 in Switzerland.
Club Captain Alex Greenwood, Lauren Hemp, Khiara Keating and Jess Park were in the England squad that returned triumphant, as the Lionesses became back-to-back European Champions.
Kerstin Casparij, Vivianne Miedema, Leila Ouahabi, Rebecca Knaak and Iman Beney also had strong tournaments, whilst Germany’s Sydney Lohmann became a City player during the tournament.
Kerolin also returned to Manchester a champion after winning the CONMEBOL Copa América Femenina with Brazil, defeating Colombia on penalties in the final.
Kerolin joined City in January 2025, strengthening a squad that already boasted the WSL’s all-time leading goalscorer Vivianne Miedema, signed from Arsenal in July 2024, and Khadija ‘Bunny’ Shaw, who was one of two players awarded the 2024-25 WSL Golden Boot – with Shaw winning for the second consecutive season.
For good measure, Miedema’s strike against Aston Villa was voted WSL Goal of the Season.
The season saw City complete 11,731 passes – the most ever by a side in a single campaign – and also rank first for possession (65.4%), open play sequences of 10+ passes (354) and pass accuracy (87.5%).
