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It’s the first north London derby of the campaign on Sunday as we take on Arsenal in the Barclays Women’s Super League at Brisbane Road.

We’re level on points with the Gunners heading into the weekend – separated by goal difference.

Here’s everything you need to know ahead of the game…

What time does the match start?

We get underway at Brisbane Road at 2.30pm UK time.

How can I watch the game?

Please note, tickets will not be available to buy on the day at Brisbane Road's Ticket Office. We strongly advise supporters to not travel to the game without a ticket in advance.

Sunday’s match will be televised live in the UK on Sky Sports, with coverage set to begin at 2.15pm.

If you’re following us from overseas, check here to see if the game is live in your area.

Our Match Centre on tottenhamhotspur.com and the Spurs Official app will bring you full live text and audio commentary throughout the match.

Video highlights will be available on club channels from four hours after the full-time whistle.

What is the team news?

Martin Ho has said there are no fresh injury concerns heading into Sunday’s north London derby against Arsenal.

There was a slight doubt over Lize Kop from last weekend’s defeat to London City Lionesses, but our Head Coach reported a clean bill of health from those available for selection.

Meanwhile, Ella Morris, Luana Buhler and Maite Oroz are long-term absentees and remain sidelined for the clash.

Kim Little, Leah Williamson, Katie Reid and Manuela Zinsberger will miss the trip to Brisbane Road for the visitors.

Who is the referee?

Emily Heaslip will referee Sunday’s match, assisted by David Middleton and Phoebe Horner.

The fourth official will be Kirsty Dowle.

What kit colours will the teams be wearing?

We’ll be in our usual Lilywhite shirts, navy blue shorts and white socks for the game.

Arsenal will be in red shirts with white sleeves, white shorts and red socks.

Our goalkeeper will be in blue, with the visitors’ stopper in yellow.

How can I get the matchday programme?

The latest issue of our new-look official matchday programme will be on sale at the game, priced at the usual £3.50. Copies can also be ordered online here for delivery direct to your door.

Inside this weekend’s edition, captain Bethany England speaks in our main feature interview, Jess Naz completes the ‘Player Mashup’ feature and we catch up with former player Maya Vio in our ‘Once A Spur’ piece.

What will the weather be like?

It’ll be cloudy with a gentle breeze and a chance of light rain in Leyton on Sunday.

Our Under-18s will face Burnley in a competitive fixture for the first time when we travel to take on the Clarets in the Under-18 Premier League Cup on Saturday morning (11am UK).

Having never before met the Lancashire outfit at Under-18 level, we go to their Barnfield Training Centre knowing that victory is vital if we’re to progress to the knockout stages of the competition.

A last-gasp Elijah Upson equaliser at home to Reading on matchday one back in August put an important first point on the board in Group H.

But with only the top team from each group advancing to the next round this season, we’ll need to be at our best as we bid to see off a side that’s currently bottom of the Under-18 Premier League’s northern division in a match postponed from the start of last month.

We’re without a host of players through injury and international duty, but Interim Under-18s Coach Joe Staunton still has plenty of talent at his disposal.

We’ll keep supporters updated during the game via our official Academy social media platforms, with a full post-match report set to be available as usual here on tottenhamhotspur.com and the Spurs Official app after full-time.

Highlights | Under-18s defeat Ipswich Town last Saturday

Micky van de Ven’s Netherlands have all-but qualified for next summer’s World Cup after picking up a valuable point in a 1-1 draw with Poland in Warsaw on Friday evening.

Our in-form defender started at left-back in the Group G clash and played the full match, while Xavi Simons remained an unused substitute in a game in which the Dutch battled back to draw thanks to Memphis Depay’s 47th-minute equaliser after Jakub Kaminski had put Poland ahead just before half-time.

It was Micky’s 17th cap for his country.

The point means the Netherlands will book their World Cup spot if they draw at home to Lithuania on Monday. Should they lose and Poland beat Malta, it would still need a 13-goal swing to deny the Dutch their place!

Elsewhere on Friday, Micky’s Spurs centre-back partner Cristian Romero was part of Argentina’s historic friendly against Angola, which ended 2-0 to Lionel Scaloni’s side.

The game, staged in Luanda, was played to celebrate the African nation’s 50th anniversary of its independence from Portugal and a goal in each half from Lautaro Martinez and Lionel Messi gave Argentina victory, with our club captain ‘Cuti’ playing the whole match.

Meanwhile, Mathys Tel and Wilson Odobert both featured for the full 90 minutes as France Under-21s drew 1-1 with Switzerland in a European Under-21 Championship qualifier. Mathys skippered the side in Lausanne but saw his team fall behind to an Alessandro Vogt goal in the 38th minute before Bournemouth forward Eli Junior Kroupi levelled it up after 66 minutes. Wilson struck the woodwork just two minutes later but it ended all square.

Ashley Phillips and Aaron Maguire both remained on the bench for England and the Republic of Ireland respectively, as their Under-21 sides faced off in Euro Under-21 qualifying. England won the game at St Andrew’s 2-0 thanks to second-half goals from Divin Mubama and Tyrique George.

Luka Vuskovic made his first-ever start for Croatia on Friday evening and helped his nation qualify for the 2026 World Cup.

The 18-year-old defender, currently on loan at Bundesliga side Hamburg, featured for the full 90 minutes on what was only his second cap, as his side defeated the Faroe Islands 3-1 to punch their ticket for next summer’s finals.

Needing just a draw to qualify for the tournament, Croatia – with former Spurs Luka Modric and Ivan Perisic starting alongside Vuskovic – suffered a setback in Rijeka when Geza David Turi opened the scoring for the Faroe Islands before levelling through Manchester City’s Jokso Gvardiol.

Second-half strikes from Petar Musa and Nikola Vlasic turned the game in Croatia’s favour as they opened up an unassailable six-point lead on the Czech Republic at the top of Group L to reach their fourth successive World Cup finals.

Meanwhile, Jamie Donley stepped off the bench for the closing stages of Northern Ireland’s 1-0 defeat to Slovakia.

The Group A clash in Kosice was goalless when Jamie – on loan at Stoke City – won his fifth cap when he came on for Jamie Reid with 12 minutes remaining. But they were dealt a blow in stoppage time when Tomas Bobček broke the deadlock, while Sunderland’s Dan Ballard was sent off shortly after.

However, there was some good news for Northern Ireland as they secured a World Cup play-off place by winning their Nations League group after Croatia’s triumph over Faroe Islands.

Jhanaie Pierre will spend the remainder of the 2025/26 campaign on a dual registration with Watford in the FA Women’s National League Southern Premier Division.

The young forward, who featured in a Barclays Women’s Super League matchday squad last term at Chelsea, has joined the Hornets in what will be ​her first exposure of senior football in a highly competitive league.

She has made eight appearances for Under-19s this term, scoring once and registering two assists.

Jhanaie could be involved in Watford’s clash against Gwalia United on Sunday with Renee Hector’s side looking to maintain their unbeaten start to the campaign, currently sitting second in the table with 23 points from nine games.

Under the terms of the dual registration, she will continue to train with us on certain days of the week alongside her training and matchday commitments with Watford.

Martin on his first north London derby…

“It's a new experience for me. Not a new experience for most of the players, but maybe for a few of them. We’re really excited, and the players are ready to respond in the right way after a disappointing game last weekend. We're in a good place and the players have trained extremely well. The energy's good, so yeah, I'm excited.”

Martin on our history against Arsenal in the WSL…

“Well, you can't control what's in the past. We have to control what we can and that's in front of us, that's our performance going into the weekend and our mentality going into that game. We have to play the game and not the occasion. I know that's obviously a big thing for the supporters and we'll make sure we put in a good performance for them. But we have to take away the emotion from the game and focus on what we can control.”

Martin on challenging towards the top of the table in the WSL…

“I haven’t come here just to take part. I want to make sure I can progress this team and help us achieve our ambitions. We know it’s obviously a big ask to go into that top three, it is a small group that go into the Champions League, but I believe if we get things right, we can. But, over the course of the season, you need a really consistent level - individually and collectively - to be able to get into that. We’ve to make sure we show that more now, but we want to keep ourselves in around that top three and that’s the most important part now until we get to the Christmas break.”

Martin on the pressure of the north London derby…

“I just take every game as it comes. There’s a lot for the fans to look at, those big games, they enjoy them like this one on the weekend. The players maybe have certain ones they look to, but I just look at the fixtures as they come. Every game I know in this league is competitive, it's tough, and the league now is at a totally different level to where it was before. This fixture is obviously new to me - it's a new experience. I’ve got a good feeling for that now because you see how many tickets we've sold for the game, so the fans are coming out, which you respect, and we thank a lot for them coming in their numbers. But I don't look up to any fixture, I just take everyone as it comes.”

On whether Arsenal feel vulnerable at the minute following Wednesday’s defeat to Bayern Munich…

“With a team like that, they've got wonderful players. Renee’s a wonderful manager. They’re the champions of Europe. They were in a good position in the Champions League the other day and one defeat doesn’t make you a bad team. Are they vulnerable? No. I wouldn't say they're vulnerable because they probably want to respond. Like I said with us from the game on the weekend (against London City Lionesses), we’ve had a disappointing performance, and you want to respond. So, hopefully, it's fire against fire - which makes for a good game.”

Martin on whether he has been briefed about the importance of the north London derby…

“No, I know how important is. You get a feel for that when you're just external, when you're watching this type of game, you know how competitive it is and how much it means to supporters. I know what it means from a Men's side, from a rivalry, so I'm very well aware that it's an important game. It was the same in pre-season, I made the players aware that it was an important game too because no matter if it's a friendly or not, you want to make sure you show your best. I know we're in for a good game on the weekend and we need to make sure that we perform.”

Martin on whether Brisbane Road could be used an advantage this weekend…

“I think we could. In our own surroundings, it can have a big positive effect. We know exactly what the feel is at Brisbane Road. We’ve had a really good start to the season at Brisbane Road, up to now, and we have to make sure we continue that. We have to make that place a fortress for people to come to and we have to make it difficult for people when they come there. We've done that so far this season, we've had a good record there and we've performed well - and I want to make sure we continue that on the weekend.”

On the competition between Bethany England and Cathinka Tandberg…

“Both of them are competing with each one other well. We need to understand that there's two really solid profiles there that actually add a lot of value to this team. Whatever games suit them, and whatever kind of game plan we go with, I make sure I put the best players out for that fixture. Now there’s more competition in the squad, it's starting to get more competitive. So whatever the game presents for us on the weekend and what we feel we need to go with, we'll make that decision, come tomorrow.”

Watch | Martin Ho speaks to the media ahead of Sunday's clash with Arsenal

Goalkeepers of all ages from across the club came together recently for a special evening with Brandon Austin.

The 26-year-old stopper, famously a product of our Academy system, spoke at length about the ups and downs he’s experienced on his journey to becoming a Premier League footballer and Europa League winner with us.

Budding young keepers from every age group in the Academy – Under-21s down to Under-8s, and even some of our pre-Academy goalkeepers as young as six – were captivated by Brandon’s stories and enjoyed a golden opportunity to pick his brains in a Q&A before heading outside for a specially-arranged training session overseen by the homegrown star along with our Head of Goalkeeping Fabian Otte and First Team Assistant and Transition Goalkeeping Coach Dean Brill.

As part of the evening, Brandon’s mum, Lisa, also spoke brilliantly to the parents and guardians of our current crop of young goalkeepers – who were also invited to attend the event – about her experiences of supporting her son on his journey to the top.

With so many aspiring stoppers listening in, it was fitting that Brandon spoke about the advice he would give to his younger self when reflecting on his career so far.

“Being older and wiser now, I would tell myself that I didn’t need to put as much pressure on myself about certain things,” he said. “I let things get to me a lot when I was younger – I can remember when I first transitioned to 11v11 football, any goals that went in, I’d think it was my fault, it was a catastrophe, a disaster that I’d conceded a goal, but there were 10 other people in front of me who could have done something to help prevent it, so that comes with being older and wiser.”

Fabian, who joined the club over the summer after serving as part of Premier League title-winning Liverpool’s backroom staff last season, arranged the event along with Dean and underlined how important it was for our young keepers to feel like they can relate to Brandon as they bid to follow in his footsteps.

“This event comes from something we started looking at during the summer, where we in the club, the Academy and the goalkeeping department – with our Head of Academy Goalkeeping Sam Donkin – all work very closely together every day,” he said.

“This was just one event that we wanted to start with because Brandon, with his pathway, is the perfect example of how a good department can work and how young goalkeepers can make it all the way through to the first team. That was the idea, to take Brandon as the best case example of what good work looks like, give all the young goalkeepers a chance to see this journey up close and to ask questions about it.

“The whole evening went very well, Brandon was very happy and excited about it, his mother was really happy to be there and Brandon was happy that she was there as well, because his parents played a big, big role in his development. The combination of Brandon being present and getting the credit he deserves, the goalkeepers getting good insight, his mum being there and also the parents attending and seeing a parent who has been through this entire journey meant it was a really good, holistic package for everyone.”

The evening came off the back of a similar session led by Guglielmo Vicario last season, with further events planned with our senior goalkeepers in the coming months.

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.

Watch | Martha Thomas' historic goal against Arsenal

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.

Martin Ho has said there are no fresh injury concerns heading into Sunday’s north London derby against Arsenal at Brisbane Road (2.30pm UK).

There was a slight doubt over Lize Kop from last weekend’s defeat to London City Lionesses after our number one took a blow to the nose in a collision with Nikita Parris during their second goal early in the second half and a lengthy stoppage of play followed as our goalkeeper received treatment.

However, when our Head Coach was asked for an injury update in his pre-match press conference on Friday afternoon ahead of the Gunners, he reported a clean bill of health from those available for selection.

"No, everyone has trained today," said Martin."Just the long-term absentees still. Everyone trained fully today and I'll just wait for an assessment from the medical staff [post-training] and we can look forward to tomorrow.

When asked on Lize’s condition, he added: "She is fine. She has been well looked after by the Club and so on. She's been in this week and she's available for selection."

Meanwhile, Ella Morris, Luana Buhler and Maite Oroz are long-term absentees and will be unavailable for selection this Sunday.

We have been drawn at home to Brighton & Hove Albion in the third round of this season’s FA Youth Cup.

We, along with Under-18 Premier League rivals the Seagulls and all clubs from the Premier League and EFL Championship, join the competition at this stage.

Details on the date and kick-off time for our match will be confirmed in due course.

Third round ties are scheduled to take place by the weekend of 13 December.

Should ties be level after 90 minutes, extra time and penalties will be played to determine who advances to round four.