• Chigwell Construction Stadium
• Wednesday 12th November 2025

Another League Cup game in the odd little leagues they start the competition with. Saints headed to the rainy home of Dagenham & Redbridge to face a team that hadn’t started their league season very well (currently bottom of the WSL), but are top of the League Cup Group C standings with two wins from two matches, after beating Charlton 5-1 and Brighton 2-1. Saints sit third in the Group C table as the highest-ranked WSL2 team after beating Portsmouth 1-0. But after losing to Brighton, Saints needed a win to have any chance of progressing to the quarter-final stage.

• The Valley
• Sunday 9th November 2025

Charlton have had a good start to the season, and sit top of the table, winning 6 of their 8 games, losing none, but it was Saints who had the better of a lot of the first half, with Megan Collett having the first real shot of the game, a long-range strike that dipped just behind the crossbar. Chloe Peplow also tried a long-range shot, which missed the target. Then, ten minutes before half-time, against the run of play, Charlton scored with a lofted attempt from long range, seeing Saints go into the break 1-0 down.

• St Mary’s Stadium
• Sunday 2nd November 2025
• Attendance: 2,293

Scorers:

Southampton 2

• Bashford (45+1)
• Simpson (71))

Nottingham Forest 3

• Nahikari García (41)
• Wellings (84, 86)

Third-placed Saints (not often you can write that) welcomed Nottingham Forest to Saint Mary’s for a WSL2 match. Former Saints midfielder Rachel Rowe was on the bench for Forest, as was last season’s loan player Vivianne Lia. As this was the Remembrance match for the women, we had the Last Post and a minute’s silence before the match. The silence was almost impeccably observed, just a couple of seats banged and one small kid crying and wailing, “I want to leave, I want to leave…”. I’m not sure if the kid thought that this was another outing for the men’s team, or if it was an omen for the match ahead, possibly driven by an in-depth knowledge of Nottingham Forest’s tactical approach.

• Broadfield Stadium
• 19/10/2025
• Attendance: 908

Saints put in a good performance against WSL side Brighton in the League Cup. Brighton fielded not only ex-Lioness Fran Kirby, but the Summer’s European Championship player of the tournament, Michelle Agyemang, while Saints made changes and fielded some of their young players.