Spurs vs Arsenal (WSL) | Key stats | Home fortunes and plenty of goals…
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Fri 14 November 2025, 15:45| Tottenham Hotspur
It’s nearly upon us. The first north London derby of the season in the Barclays Women’s Super League at Brisbane Road on Sunday.
With the main event set to get underway at 2.30pm (UK), it’s set to be one of the most exciting north London derbies in recent history as we head into this weekend’s encounter level on points (15) with Arsenal – separated by just goal difference.
And we’ve enjoyed being at home so far this term. Having won our last three games at Brisbane Road in all competitions, two in the WSL, we’ll be looking to win three consecutive league games on home turf for the first time ever in the division – previously beating Liverpool and Brighton & Hove Albion in our last two outings in the WSL.
However, Martin Ho will be looking to bounce back against the Gunners after suffering defeat away at London City Lionesses last weekend – just our third defeat of the campaign, which has seen plenty of promise so far in his maiden spell in the WSL.
Arsenal grabbed a late equaliser to hold league leaders Chelsea to a 1-1 draw at Emirates Stadium last time out. In fact, we’ll need to be at our very best defensively to keep out a strong attacking threat from Renee Slegers’ side, who have scored at least 12 more goals than any other WSL side in the 2025 calendar year (60 goals in 20 games).
Summer arrival Cathinka Tandberg has embedded herself right at home in England, scoring four WSL goals in eight games and she could become the first non-British player since Nicole Rosler in 2013 to score five goals in the competition in fewer than 10 outings.
The ever-impressive Bethany England is also another player to keep an eye on this weekend, with our captain netting 18 goals across all London derbies – more than any other player in the WSL.
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Here are some other headline pre-match facts, courtesy of Opta, ahead of the north London derby:
Arsenal won both of their first two away games against us in the WSL in 2019/20 (2-0) and 2020/21 (3-0) but haven’t won two in a row at Spurs since.
The North London derby is the most played derby fixture in WSL history that has never seen a red card brandished for either side (11 meetings). However, with 41 cautions shown, this is the fixture that averages more yellow cards per game than any other to have been played at least twice overall (3.7).
Arsenal sit fourth in the WSL this season, above us only on goal difference, with us (5) actually winning more games than our north London rivals (4) – the Gunners haven’t won fewer than five of their opening nine games of a top-flight campaign since 2014 (3).
Arsenal have recorded the most build up attacks in the WSL this season (28), while only Leicester City (1) have recorded fewer than us (2). The Gunners have had the most touches in the opposition box this season (319) and only Manchester City (113) have had more shots from inside the box (106).
Only Vivianne Miedema (8) has scored more goals in WSL North London derbies than Arsenal’s Caitlin Foord (7), with Spurs the only opponent the Aussie has scored more than five times against in the English top-flight.