2026/27 Women's Super League Season Calendar

The 2025/26 season is in the books. The medals are handed out, the boots are briefly hung up, and the recovery sessions have begun. Now the clock starts ticking toward 2026/27 – and the calendar is already packed.

This is how the next campaign will be built, date by date.

Pre-season: Opponents to be confirmed, questions already forming

For now, pre-season sits in the “to be confirmed” column. No venues, no kick-off times, no opposition. Just a blank stretch of summer where fitness will be rebuilt and new ideas tested behind the scenes.

Friendly fixtures and ticket details are still to come, with confirmation set to land via the club’s X, Instagram and Facebook channels. The who, where and when are missing for now, but those games will shape the squad’s sharpness long before a competitive ball is kicked.

Transfer window: Deals from mid-June to early September

The first hard line on the calendar arrives with the summer transfer window.

Business officially opens on Thursday, June 18. From that day, the club can buy and sell players, reshaping the squad for the battles ahead. The window runs right through the summer before slamming shut on Deadline Day, Thursday, September 3.

Every signing, every departure, every late fax and frantic medical will have to fit between those two dates.

WSL 2026/27: Season framed from September to May

The Women’s Super League schedule will drop in the week commencing Monday, July 27. That’s when the full roadmap appears: away days, home runs, derbies, and potential title deciders.

What is already clear is the framework. The new league campaign will kick off over the weekend of Friday, September 4 to Sunday, September 6. From there, it’s a long march through autumn, winter and spring, with the final round of league fixtures pencilled in for Saturday, May 22.

Nine months to define a season. One last Saturday in May to settle everything.

Champions League: Straight into the league phase, Warsaw on the horizon

Last season’s second-place finish in the WSL carries weight. It sends the club straight into the league phase of the Champions League, no qualifiers, no play-off jeopardy.

The draw for that league phase takes place on Friday, September 4. Six opponents will come out of the pots, six different tests across Europe.

The dates are already locked:

• League phase kick-off: Tuesday, September 22
• Further league phase matchdays:
• • September 30–October 1
  • October 28–29
  • November 10–11
  • November 18–19
• Final league phase game: Wednesday, December 16

Once that first stage is done, attention turns to the knockouts. The draw for the play-offs and quarter-finals is scheduled for Friday, December 18.

If involved, the club’s knockout play-off ties will be played on:

• First leg: Wednesday, February 3 or Thursday, February 4
• Second leg: Wednesday, February 10 or Thursday, February 11

Survive that, and the quarter-finals follow:

• First leg: Tuesday, March 23 or Wednesday, March 24
• Second leg: Wednesday, March 31 or Thursday, April 1

The semi-finals are set for two Saturdays:

• First leg: Saturday, May 1
• Second leg: Saturday, May 8

And then, the destination everyone in Europe will be chasing: the Champions League final on Saturday, May 29, at Stadion Narodowy in Warsaw. Every date before that is a step on the road to Poland.

Adobe Women’s FA Cup: Wembley as the prize

The domestic cup journey begins in the round of 32.

The club enters the Adobe Women’s FA Cup on the weekend of Saturday, January 16. From there, it’s a straight knockout path:

• Round of 16: weekend of Saturday, February 20 and Sunday, February 21
• Quarter-finals: Saturday, March 20 or Sunday, March 21
• Semi-finals: Saturday, April 10 or Sunday, April 11

Those who navigate that run earn a place under the arch. The final at Wembley Stadium is set for Saturday, May 15 or Sunday, May 16, a showpiece that sits right in the heart of the season’s run-in.

International and winter breaks: Breathers in a relentless year

The calendar isn’t just about club colours. International duty carves out its own blocks of time, and there’s a mid-season pause to reset.

The first international break arrives from Monday, October 5 to Tuesday, October 13. The second follows from Tuesday, December 1 to Saturday, December 5.

Then comes a true pause: a winter break from Monday, December 21 through to Sunday, January 3. Two weeks to rest, recover, and recharge before the push into the new year.

In 2027, the international schedule ramps up again:

• Third international break: Wednesday, February 24 to Saturday, March 6
• Fourth break: Tuesday, April 13 to Saturday, April 24

Once the domestic season wraps, there is one more interruption – and it’s a major one. The fifth and final international break begins on Monday, June 7, 2027, as players turn their focus to the FIFA Women’s World Cup, which runs from Thursday, June 24 to Sunday, July 25.

The dates are fixed. The opponents, the storylines, the drama are still to come. How will this carefully plotted calendar look once the results start filling it in?