Arsenal secured automatic Champions League qualification ahead of Chelsea with a 3-1 win at Liverpool on the final day of the Women's Super League season.
Alessia Russo bagged a first-half brace either side of Mariona Caldentey’s 32nd-minute strike as the Gunners all but ended the Blues’ hopes of finishing second by the half-time whistle.
Zara Shaw pulled one back for the hosts at Anfield but it was too little, too late as the Reds - for whom Denise O'Sullivan played the full game - ended the campaign second bottom.
Ireland skipper Katie McCabe made her final appearance for the Gunners.
Forever a Gunner.
— Arsenal Women (@ArsenalWFC) May 16, 2026
Thank you, Katie ❤️ pic.twitter.com/YlXhYgtuZW
The Dubliner made over 300 appearances since joining the north London giants from Shelbourne in 2015, winning the Women's Champions League last year and the Women's Super League in 2019.
McCabe has been linked with a move to Arsenal's domestic rivals, including newly crowned WSL champions Manchester City.
Chelsea, who needed Arsenal to lose to have any hopes of a top-two finish, will enter the Champions League qualifiers after they ended their campaign with a 1-0 win over fourth-placed Manchester United at Stamford Bridge.
The departing Sam Kerr scored the only goal in the 34th minute, equalling Fran Kirby’s all-time record of 116 goals for the club.
Khadija Shaw scored twice in what could be her final WSL appearance for Manchester City as the champions celebrated their title success with a 4-1 hammering of West Ham.
Shaw, who is out of contract this summer, took her league goal tally for the campaign to 21 with City’s second and third goals in London.
Jade Rose put City ahead and Laura Coombs was also on target in her final game before retirement.
Toko Koga scored a stoppage-time winner as fifth-placed Tottenham beat FA Cup finalists Brighton 2-1.
Ireland defender Caitlin Hayes played the full game for the south coast club.
Freya Godfrey struck deep into added time for the London City Lionesses as they also came from behind to beat an Aston Villa side including Anna Patten 2-1 and finish above Albion in sixth place.
Ireland keeper Courtney Brosnan kept a clean sheet as Everton ended the season with a 1-0 win over bottom club Leicester, who head into a relegation play-off on the back of 11 straight defeats.
Mayumi Pacheco pounced in the sixth minute of stoppage time, beating another Ireland stopper Katie Keane, for the only goal of the game.
