{"id":655037,"date":"2026-05-07T07:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T07:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/655037\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T07:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T07:33:09","slug":"manchester-city-crowned-champions-arsenal-draw-vs-brighton-mary-fowler-video-highlights-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/655037\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester City crowned champions, Arsenal draw vs Brighton, Mary Fowler, video, highlights, news"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manchester City were crowned Women\u2019s Super League champions for the first time in 10 years without playing after Arsenal were held to a 1-1 draw at Brighton on Thursday morning AEST.<\/p>\n

Third-placed Arsenal were eager to bounce back from Saturday\u2019s Champions League exit to Lyon and keep the title race alive in the first of three matches in hand on City.<\/p>\n

Arsenal boss Renee Slegers knew only victory at Brighton would be enough, but the visitors were unable to find a winner after Frida Maanum\u2019s 62nd-minute strike cancelled out Fuka Tsunoda\u2019s first-half opener.<\/p>\n

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The Gunners were 11 points behind the competition leaders with three games in hand, with the 1-1 draw signalling an end to their title challenge. Elsewhere, Chelsea\u2019s run of six consecutive league championships is finally over.<\/p>\n

City, currently in their first season under boss Andree Jeglertz, have not won a WSL title since 2016.<\/p>\n

Manchester City later shared footage to social media of the players and staff watching the drawn contest together on television.<\/p>\n

Among them was Australian midfielder Mary Fowler, who returned to action in February after being sidelined for a nine months with an ACL injury. The 23-year-old has been at City for four years.<\/p>\n

\u201cHelping guide this team to the WSL title is something I will never forget,\u201d said Jeglertz.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe girls have met every challenge in front of them head on and have been an absolute joy to coach this season.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the good moments and the bad, they\u2019ve always stuck together and found a way to win \u2014 something that all great champions do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester City were crowned Women\u2019s Super League champions for the first time in 10 years without playing after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-655037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}