Many moments of Manchester City’s illustrious season, their best in a decade, stand out. Big goals, important results and colossal performances. But that is not enough to win a Women’s Super League as competitive as this one. Not in 2025/26 anyway.Man City’s start to this campaign, a 2-1 loss at Chelsea, tells you how far they have had to climb under Andree Jeglertz. The Swede had never coached in the WSL before. He had never managed a club outside of his native Sweden, in fact.
His appointment in the summer of 2025 therefore came with calculated risk. Jeglertz was known to be a serial winner in his homeland, notably with Umea IK, but how that translated in the WSL was a complete mystery. As it happens, his methodology has transferred tremendously well – but it didn’t start that way.
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Manchester City are WSL champions for the second time in their history
Back in early September every observer, including this one, wrote about Chelsea’s perfect lift-off to their title defence. Man City barely got an inch of column space because Chelsea tormented them. A baptism of fire for Jeglertz, as new-era City bore many of the stale hallmarks of the previous regime: performance over end result.Perhaps that loss was a necessary evil. A blessing in disguise. Jeglertz’s reading of the situation carried less conviction at the time but rings true now: “We are challenging Chelsea during the whole game and we will definitely do that throughout this season.”
The return leg was won emphatically 5-1 by City in February.
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Man City’s 2025/26 season in numbers
And if you would be kind enough to indulge this writer’s early-season assertion – “Man City might not have liked the outcome, but they will be dangerous this season and hold definite title promise” – then really there should be little surprise at all in their triumph as champions. How they got here, though, should be considered less regular.
To be so dominant in such a fierce era takes extraordinary strength. It analyses every detail down to a fine art and still pores over how to be better. It takes every mistake or misplaced pass personally. And it demands a great coach with a sound strategy to knit it all together.Manchester City have won 17 of their 20 WSL games since defeat at Chelsea, operating with an efficiency that last year’s…
2026-05-06 22:00:00
