> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.arsenalwomentrailblazers.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # What Arsenal’s 2026/27 WSL Fixtures Tell Us About The Title Race - URL: https://www.arsenalwomentrailblazers.com/what-arsenals-2026-27-wsl-fixtures-tell-us-about-the-title-race/ - Published: 2026-08-01T12:00:19.000Z - Updated: 2026-08-01T12:00:19.000Z - Author: Roberto Revilla - Tags: Features, Arsenal Women News The Women’s Super League fixture list is finally here and, I don’t know about you, but the first thing I always do isn’t necessarily to look at every individual game and start trying to work out whether it should be three points, one point or a potential disaster. I tend to look for patterns across the season instead, the different blocks of fixtures, the difficult runs, the periods where we should be able to build some momentum and, perhaps most importantly, the places where the title race could begin to take shape long before any of us are ready to admit that it has. The first thing I’d say is that there really isn’t such a thing as an easy fixture list in the WSL anymore. With the league expanding to fourteen teams, there are more matches, but there are also more opportunities to drop points if we’re not at our best, and I always think it’s dangerous to get too carried away on fixture release day by saying, “We’ll definitely win that one,” or, “That’s a guaranteed three points.” Football has a wonderful way of making all of us look silly, and Arsenal gave us a few reminders of that last season. We probably would have looked at Manchester United at home and expected a win, but it ended in a draw. Brighton away looked like a good opportunity for three points and that didn’t happen either, while Tottenham away is one of those fixtures Arsenal supporters have become used to approaching with a fair amount of confidence, and again we were made to look a bit foolish. That’s why I think it’s much more useful to look at the shape of the season rather than trying to predict every result before a ball has even been kicked. We begin in September with Brighton away, followed by our first home game against Crystal Palace, then Manchester United at home before finishing the month away to Chelsea, and I think it’s that Chelsea fixture which has caught most people’s attention. I understand why, because nobody really wants to see Chelsea away sitting there at the end of the first month of the season, but I actually quite like the opening block. I’ve got a lot of confidence that Arsenal will click together quickly, and although we’ve had a lot of incomings and there may still be another one or two to come, the new arrivals already seem to be settling in well with the rest of the group. We obviously only see a fraction of what’s happening through the training videos and the photographs the club releases, but there’s a togetherness there that gives me confidence Arsenal could find their rhythm quicker than some of the other heavily rebuilt sides in the league. That’s why September doesn’t raise any major red flags for me, not even Chelsea away. We beat them twice last season, so come on Gooners, have a little faith. Brighton away could be awkward, Crystal Palace at home is a nice first game at the Emirates, Manchester United should be a match where Arsenal expect to impose themselves and then Chelsea gives us a really useful early test of how far this team has come. It’s a demanding month, but not a frightening one, and there’s a difference between those two things. October becomes slightly more interesting because we have Manchester City away, Birmingham City at home and Tottenham away. The City and Tottenham games are the ones that immediately stand out because those are both fixtures where we’ll be looking for clear improvement on last season. We lost to Manchester City and drew away to Tottenham, so if Arsenal are serious about winning the title this time around, those are exactly the sort of matches where we need to be better, more controlled and more ruthless when the opportunities arrive. Birmingham at home sits between them and should offer an opportunity to reset, but this is also the kind of month where squad depth becomes important because you’re moving between very different types of games and very different tactical challenges in a short space of time. November, on the other hand, looks like a month where Arsenal should be putting down some serious foundations. We start with Aston Villa at home, then Liverpool away, London City Lionesses at home and West Ham United at home. You look at that block and, on paper at least, you can see the possibility of twelve points from twelve, although I’m fully aware I’ve just spent the opening of this article warning against declaring anything a guaranteed win. Still, if Arsenal are going to become the team we all believe they can be this season, November feels like one of those months where momentum should be built rather than merely maintained. December only brings two WSL matches, Everton and Charlton Athletic away, with European football and international commitments likely to be shaping the calendar around them, and when you combine that with the November run, there is a really strong opportunity for Arsenal to put down the train tracks, build speed and go into January in a position of real strength. That middle section of the season could be crucial because it’s where title-winning teams often separate themselves from the teams who are simply hanging around the conversation. It isn’t always the glamorous fixtures that decide a title race. Sometimes it’s the quieter blocks where you keep winning while everyone else drops something unexpected. January begins with Brighton at home, followed by Liverpool at home, London City Lionesses away and Manchester City at home. My slight hesitation when I look at those last two probably tells you something, but overall I still think January should be a strong month for us. More importantly, the Manchester City game falls on my birthday weekend and Arsenal do not lose on my birthday weekend, so that’s three points already. The weekend before is technically my pre-birthday weekend because it’s when I should have been born, although my poor mum was in labour with me for a week and I didn’t actually arrive until the 30th, so by that logic we should probably beat London City Lionesses as well. February is comparatively light with Birmingham City away and Crystal Palace away, and again I’d expect Arsenal to be targeting maximum points from those. Then March brings Tottenham at home, Aston Villa away and Chelsea at home, which feels like one of the more significant months of the season because by that stage we’ll have a much clearer idea of who the serious contenders are and where the pressure is beginning to build. April gives us just one WSL fixture at home to Everton before the final block in May, when we travel to West Ham United and Manchester United before finishing the season at home to Charlton Athletic. That run-in looks manageable, but I don’t think manageable should ever be confused with easy. The league has strengthened, teams are recruiting well and there will be sides who are far more competitive than they were last season. Manchester City and Chelsea will obviously be part of the conversation, but the team that intrigues me most is London City Lionesses because if they gel quickly, they could cause a lot of problems for a lot of teams. Alexia Putellas remains one of the best players in the world, Mapi León is one of the outstanding central defenders in the game and there is serious quality throughout that squad. The question is how quickly they can make all of those pieces work together. For all of my flippancy about birthday weekends and guaranteed wins, this is not going to be an easy title race. It really isn’t. Arsenal have some very good tests ahead of them and there will be points dropped along the way because that’s what happens in a competitive league. What gives me confidence is the shape of the fixture list, the quality and versatility added to the squad, and the feeling that this team should be able to build momentum across the season rather than constantly having to recover it. So yes, I’m going to say it. I think Arsenal are going to win the WSL. Not because the fixture list is kind to us, and not because Chelsea or Manchester City or London City Lionesses have suddenly disappeared, but because when I look at the different blocks of the season, I can see enough opportunities for Arsenal to build, enough tests to sharpen them and enough depth in the squad to manage the difficult periods without losing their identity. There are going to be awkward afternoons, frustrating draws and probably one or two results that make all of us wonder why we ever make predictions in the first place, but that’s part of the fun of fixture release day. We don’t actually know what’s going to happen. We can finally start imagining it.