stephaniepixie 🏳️🌈<p>This is pretty big news in women’s sports on a few levels:</p><p>“London City Lionesses have won promotion to the Women’s Super League (WSL) for the first time.<br>London City, owned by Washington Spirit and Lyon Feminin owner Michele Kang, will be the only fully independent club in the 2025-26 WSL, with all 12 teams in this season’s top flight attached to a Premier League club.”</p><p>Goes to show what investment in women’s sports clubs can do. Unprecedented success thanks to a woman who knows what she’s doing. She puts more effort into quality than many rich mens’ sports clubs do for their women’s side.</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6301639/2025/05/04/london-city-lionesses-promotion-wsl/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/athletic/6301639/2</span><span class="invisible">025/05/04/london-city-lionesses-promotion-wsl/</span></a></p><p>(Archived/not paywalled: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6301639/2025/05/04/london-city-lionesses-promotion-wsl/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/athletic/6301639/2</span><span class="invisible">025/05/04/london-city-lionesses-promotion-wsl/</span></a>)</p><p><a href="https://fandom.garden/tags/FAWSL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FAWSL</span></a> <a href="https://fandom.garden/tags/Sports" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sports</span></a> <a href="https://fandom.garden/tags/Football" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Football</span></a> <a href="https://fandom.garden/tags/FediFC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FediFC</span></a></p>