Leicester City v West Ham United women's team
Barclays Women's Super League, King Power Stadium, Saturday 10 May 2025, 12.30pm BST
The final game of the 2024/25 season is here - a trip to Leicester City for West Ham United women’s team.
Rehanne Skinner’s side will be striving to go out on a high when they visit King Power Stadium on Saturday, looking to end the campaign with three points and potentially achieve the joint-highest Barclays Women's Super League finish in the Club’s history (sixth), should results also go their way at the weekend.
This season has brought many happy memories for the women’s team, who are the highest scorers outside the top-four sides in England's top flight, as they have set new Club records, including their biggest-ever WSL victory, most goals scored in a WSL season, and most points and most wins at home in a single WSL term in the side’s seven-year history in the competition.
While they have enjoyed success at Chigwell Construction Stadium, picking up victories away from home is something Skinner wants her side to get into the habit of. And after their 7-1 drubbing of bottom-of-the-table Crystal Palace last time away from Dagenham, a trip to the Foxes certainly provides the Hammers with an opportunity to add another positive result to their away record this term.
Eleventh-place Leicester will also be looking to pick up a victory in front of their own fans on the final day of the campaign, hoping to bring an end to their four-game winless run.
Here’s everything you need to know about our final game of the season!
Tickets...
You can still get your tickets for the final game of the season by clicking HERE, or by calling the Ticket Office on 0333 030 1966! Tickets can be purchased from £4 for U18s and £10 for Adults.
Moreover, we have teamed up with Trainline to support ‘I came by train’, offering 20 per cent off train travel for the game against Leicester City. A 20 per cent discount on train travel is available for all ticket holders for the WSL fixture at Leicester for use in the Trainline app.
Ticket holders will be asked to support the ‘I came by train’ campaign by completing a short survey about how they travel to follow the Hammers away. In return, they will receive an exclusive discount code to use on their journey to Leicester. Fans will be able to claim the 20 per cent discount in addition to any railcard discount.
If you are a ticket holder and would like more information about how to claim your code, just get in touch at [email protected].
How To Follow…
The WSL continues to be more accessible to supporters from across the globe than ever before during 2024/25, with coverage of the league moving from The FA Player to YouTube!
Matches not picked for broadcast will be shown live on the online video sharing platform, which can be viewed worldwide, excluding Canada, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Australia, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama.
Tune in from 12.25pm to watch all of the action from King Power Stadium!
Alternatively, you can keep up-to-date across our live blog on whufc.com and on the official Club app, and on our social media channels, while highlights and exclusive reaction will follow after the final whistle on whufc.com.
Travel…
Leicester Train Station is roughly 1.2 miles from King Power Stadium, approximately a five-minute car journey or up to a 45-minute walk.
To walk from Leicester Train Station, exit the station, cross London Road at the traffic lights, turn left and follow the road to King Power Stadium around to the right. Keep the Central Ring Road (Waterloo Way) on your left as the path separates from the road, staying on this path as it crosses New Walk. The path then re-joins the pavement, at which point Nelson Mandela Park will be in view. Turn right onto Lancaster Road and walk through the park, heading for the crossings by the public toilets. Cross Welford Road and turn left, following the road around – passing Morrisons supermarket – to King Power Stadium.
If you are attending by car, the M1 and M69 motorways interchange at Junction 21 (M1), where you should exit and follow the signs for the City Centre via the A5460. After three miles, turn right onto Upperton Road, follow the road down until you get to the Liberty Statue Island and take the fifth exit down Western Boulevard. You will then see King Power Stadium on your right-hand side.
There are three Park and Ride sites in Leicester, operating from 7am until 7pm, Monday to Saturday. Users of the Park and Ride services can park for free at the sites. For full details, including prices of Park and Ride services in Leicester, click HERE.
There are also several independent car parks in the area surrounding King Power Stadium. These facilities generally cost £4/£5 per car.
Opposition…
2024/25 has been a mixed bag as far as Leicester City are concerned. Their campaign started with one win from their first eleven WSL matches, finally getting their second league victory of the season at home to Liverpool on Sunday 26 January.
Reds striker Olivia Smith broke the deadlock after just three minutes at King Power Stadium, but the Foxes turned the contest around by half-time through strikes from Janice Cayman and Missy Goodwin.
That gave Amandine Miquel’s side confidence, as they then chalked up two more victories from their following five matches, picking up wins against Aston Villa and Brighton & Hove Albion and scoring six goals in those two successes.
However, more recently, Leicester have not won in four matches, with draws against Tottenham Hotspur and Crystal Palace bookending losses against Arsenal and Manchester City.
Their 2-2 draw at already-relegated Palace last time out was certainly one for the neutral, as Shannon O’Brien, putting the Foxes 2-1 ahead, looked to have stolen the points in the 94th minute, but the hosts conjured up an equaliser in the eighth minute of stoppage time.
Leicester chalked up four victories last campaign, as they finished tenth in the standings, and will be able to beat that tally with a win on Saturday, bringing an end to Miquel’s first season at the helm.
The 41-year-old spent seven years in charge of French Première Ligue side Reims - where she ended a 30-year wait for top-flight football at the club, winning promotion in 2019.
Having started her managerial career at Bergerac Périgord and then Chamois Niortais, the former Chelsea youth player also took Reims to three Coupe de France quarter-finals in the space of five seasons.
Previous Meetings…
In the reverse fixture between the two teams in November, the Hammers secured a 1-0 success at Chigwell Construction Stadium, their first league win of the season, courtesy of Viviane Asseyi's goal deep into first-half stoppage time.
After a dazzling solo run from Manuela Paví, the Colombia international set Asseyi free in the box, who expertly rounded the Leicester goalkeeper before finishing into an empty net.
In fact, the women's team are on a five-match unbeaten run against the Foxes, having last tasted defeat in a competitive fixture in February 2022.
However, Leicester were victors when the two teams met in pre-season, securing a 5-2 victory in the Perth International Football Cup third-place play-off, in Western Australia.
