A-League Women: Season 2025-26 preview

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The A-League Women are backmost successful enactment this week, kicking disconnected connected Friday when Western Sydney Wanderers big Perth Glory.

Western Sydney were past season’s wooden spooners, and will beryllium a team successful a rebuild signifier headed by manager Geoff Abrahams.

Abrahams is besides astatine the helm of the girls academy so you’d expect him to want to signifier a transportation betwixt the elder team and the academy.

Expect a fig of youngsters to get a look astatine top level shot this season.

Perth were besides a bottommost dweller past season, finishing 10th with 22 points Almost each (19) were collected astatine home, the different three successful draws distant arsenic the team did not win an distant crippled past season.

The team should spot an improvement, having recruited some experienced players successful the off-season.

On Saturday, Sydney will big Melbourne City while Melbourne Victory to travel up to the sunshine state to take connected Brisbane Roar.

Sydney will want to permission play 2024-25 successful the rear-view reflector aft missing retired connected finals for the archetypal clip ever.

The Sky Blues want to retrieve quickly, evident by their engaged transfer window, bringing successful Bianca Galic and a big of internationals.

Last year’s premiers Melbourne City were each so adjacent to completing a treble, but conscionable took location the 1 trophy (ALW premiership).

City were unbeaten some the regular play and the AFC Women’s Champions League, but were bundled retired successful a semi-final upset to eventual champions Central Coast and mislaid astatine the last hurdle successful the Champions League.

If this lone lit a occurrence under them, look out.

Brisbane look to marque different tally astatine finals but will want to debar what happened past season.

The Roar got disconnected to a roaring start to the play (pun-intended), earning top spot aft 7 wins successful their archetypal 10 games including two beltings of 6-1 and 8-2, but it each fell isolated successful the backmost fractional of the play when they lone managed 1 win from 13 games, falling retired of the top six.

Their hostile this week, Victory, person bolstered a squad that finished runners up past play – hoping to hide the demons of the expansive last loss.

While they did suffer three Matildas successful Emily Gielnik, Alex Chidiac and Alana Murphy, they did enlistee a fig of stars successful Taylor Ray, Sienna Saveska, Chelsea Blissett, Rhianna Pollicina and Grace Maher, to perchance instrumentality stronger.

Sunday will spot reigning champs Central Coast big Adelaide United and Canberra United welcome Newcastle Jets.

Mariners are defending their crown, but with a caller manager and a nonaccomplishment of respective cardinal players.

Title winning caput manager Emily Husband near to articulation the Matildas arsenic an assistant, and the nine appointed Kory Babington.

And while some cardinal players person left, some different stars person remained.

Adelaide are coming disconnected their champion play successful ALW history, rising to third from a wooden spoon the play prior.

The Reds had a club-best points haul of 45, helped by a mid-season unbeaten tally of 11 games– the longest successful nine past – to decorativeness wrong the top four.

From there they won their archetypal finals crippled ever, defeating Western United earlier losing to Victory successful the semi-finals.

New manager Theo Tsiounis arsenic travel successful strong, recruiting the likes of Holly Murray, Lara Gooch, twin sisters Adriana and Melissa Taranto, Emilia Makris and Paige Zois, arsenic helium looks to amended connected past season’s history-making team.

After finishing 5th past season, Canberra will look to instrumentality to finals again, led by skipper and all-time top scorer Michelle Heyman.

With a big of signings to bolster the squad, United anticipation to amended to top 4 to debar americium distant elimination last and spell deeper successful finals.

Newcastle connected the different manus finished 2nd last, and with caller manager astatine the helm, anticipation to emergence up the ladder.

The squad is looking much Kiwi too, with Stephen Hoyle recruiting New Zealanders Anna Leat, Kelli Brown, Olivia Page and Charlotte Lancaster.

Englishman Hoyle antecedently worked for New Zealand National League clubs Napier City and Eastern Suburbs AFC and arsenic an adjunct with the NZ Under-17 women’s planetary team.

But adjacent with the caller names, the halfway from past play person remained.

Wellington Phoenix person the bye successful the opening round, but will beryllium 1 to watch when they get their play started adjacent week.

They person gone each retired successful retaining cardinal players, signing planetary stars and hiring the best-credentialed manager successful the league successful Bev Priestman.

Priestman has coached astatine 4 FIFA Women’s World Cups, three Olympic games and three FIFA Youth World Cups.

She has besides won an Olympic golden medal, twice been shortlisted for the Best FIFA women’s manager grant and holds a UEFA pro licence.

On insubstantial this squad looks similar 1 of the contenders.

Matchday 1 Schedule AEDT

Wellington Phoenix person the bye

Friday 31/10

Western Sydney v Perth Glory 7pm

Saturday 1/11

Sydney v Melbourne City 2.15pm

Brisbane Roar v Melbourne Victory 5pm

Sunday 2/11

Central Coast v Adelaide United 2.15pm