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Previewing the 2026/2027 Barclays Women’s Super League season

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The new WSL season has arrived, and we’re back to look ahead to the 2026/2027 campaign in the Barclays Women’s Super League and discuss what we think of all fourteen clubs heading into it, talking about the potential title favourites, which teams we can see being contenders for ‘best of the rest’, plus the expected relegation contenders as well.


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