London City Lionesses vs Spurs (WSL) | Key Stats | How have we fared against promoted sides?
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Fri 07 November 2025, 16:00| Tottenham Hotspur
This weekend sees us make the trip to face newcomers London City Lionesses for the first time in the Barclays Women’s Super League.
Sunday’s early kick-off (11.55am UK) will be our first competitive meeting between us and the Lionesses since 2023, where we ran out 5-0 winners at home in the fourth round of the Women’s FA Cup.
In fact, we’ve only faced the newly-promoted side just once before that cup clash – a 4-0 win in the Women’s League Cup in 2020 – although we’ve met in a pre-season friendly more recently – a 6-1 victory at Hotspur Way in August, 2024.
We’ve won eight of our last 10 fixtures against promoted sides in the competition since our debut campaign in 2019/20, winning four in a row since a 2-1 away defeat at Liverpool in March, 2023.
Meanwhile, Bethany England, who wrote history in our win over Liverpool by becoming the first player in the WSL to score 50 home goals, boasts an impressive record against promoted sides in the WSL, scoring 20 goals in 21 appearances - more than any other player in the competition.
Last weekend saw us pick up our fifth win of the campaign and take our points tally to 15 from our opening seven league games this term – resulting in our best-ever start at this stage of a campaign in England’s top flight.
Watch | Last time out against our opponents
Record against newly promoted sides in the WSL
Spurs 3-1 Aston Villa – 2020/21
Aston Villa 1-0 Spurs – 2020/21
Leicester City 0-2 Spurs – 2021/22
Spurs 1-0 Leicester City – 2021/22
Spurs 1-0 Liverpool – 2022/23
Liverpool 2-1 Spurs – 2022/23
Spurs 3-1 Bristol City – 2023/24
Bristol City 0-1 Spurs – 2023/24
Spurs 4-0 Crystal Palace – 2024/25
Crystal Palace 2-3 Spurs – 2024/25
Match stats
This will be third meeting with London City Lionesses in all competitions, with the Lionesses losing the previous two by an aggregate score of 0-9, most recently losing 0-5 in the fourth round of the 2022-23 FA Cup.
We've won eight of their last 10 league games against newly promoted opposition (L2), winning four in a row since a 2-1 away defeat at Liverpool in March 2023.
London City Lionesses have won all three of their WSL games against sides that finished in the bottom half of last season’s table (beat Everton, Liverpool and West Ham), losing their other four games all to the sides that occupied last season’s top four. They have averaged 0.3 goals against in those wins, but 3.8 against in the defeats.
We’ve won 15 points from their seven league games this season (W5 D2), our best ever start at this stage of a WSL campaign.
London City Lionesses have won their last two WSL home games 1-0, against Liverpool and then West Ham. Liverpool in 2022-23 were the last newly promoted team to win three in a row on home soil in the top-flight, while Manchester United in 2019-20 and Manchester City in 2014 are the only promoted sides to do so without conceding.
We’ve won two of their three WSL away games under manager Martin Ho (L1), as many victories as across our previous 16 league matches on the road (D8 L6) – only Aston Villa (1) have conceded fewer goals than us (2) away from home this season.
Only Leicester City (15.7) and Liverpool (14.7) have allowed their opposition more passes per defensive action faced in the Women’s Super League this season than London City Lionesses (12.3), while only the Foxes (52) and Tottenham Hotspur (57) have recorded fewer high turnovers than the London outfit (61).
Nikita Parris could become the fifth player to make 200+ appearances in the WSL and the first forward to do so – the Englishwoman scored on her 50th (vs Bristol City) and 100th (vs Yeovil) appearances in the competition but failed to do so on her 150th in October 2023 (vs Aston Villa).