Despite a loss to Hibernian on the final day of the season, results elsewhere (Rangers losing to Glasgow City) meant Hearts claimed the SWPL title for the first time in their history.

Hibs took the lead through Eilidh Adams’ well-taken penalty before an unfortunate own goal, as Bowie’s cross took a deflection off Hearts’ Girasoli, made it 2-0.
Hearts fought hard to get onto the scoresheet in the second half with Carly Johns coming the closest, however, Hibs’ goalkeeper, Schumacher, was able to successfully keep out the visiting attack.

It will be a bittersweet ending to the season, however, as amongst the celebrations various goodbyes will also be exchanged, notably to Eva Olid who will be departing the club after 5 years in charge.
The Spanish manager who has been said to “revolutionise” the club since her appointment, is leaving on mutual terms so it will be very interesting to watch who the club choose to follow in her historic shoes.

Both Hearts and runners-up Rangers have both qualified for European football next season and will start in the Champions League Second Qualifying Round.

A week after the domestic league finished in Italy, Roma and current cup holders, Juventus, faced each other once again for one final piece of silverware this season.

Juventus started strong with their best opportunity coming through Eva Schatzer who tested Roma’s keeper, Rachele Baldi, in the opening 15 minutes.
As the game progressed, the deadlock remained as efforts from Juventus’ Lenzini and Roma’s Csiki both missed the target.
The Juventus press continued and Baldi had to be alert once again as her brilliant save to deny Carbonell from the edge of the area was enough to keep the scoreline 0-0 at half-time.

After the restart, the Giallorosse steadily applied more pressure on the Juventus goal and finally got what they were searching for in the final ten minutes of the game.
A single goal was all it took to win the cup, as Evelyne Viens flicked on a well-delivered cross to the feet of Manuela Giugliano. The midfielder then found the back of the net at close range for the winner.
Although Juventus had the clearer chances overall during the game, Roma made sure to make their only shot on target count.

As Roma achieved the double this season, they’ve now won both opportunities for silverware three times and they directly qualify for the Women’s Champions League – League Phase next season.
As Juventus finished third, they also qualify for Europe but will begin in the second qualifying round.

Charlton’s return to the WSL after nearly 20 years will certainly go down in the history books, in particular because of the actions of goalkeeper Sophie Whitehouse.

The biggest crowd for nearly 20 years witnessed a whole range of emotions at The Valley as Charlton beat Leicester City 2-1 on penalties after an unbelievable goalless 120 minutes of football.

The home side, after not playing competitively since the WSL2 finished nearly three weeks ago, started the game hungry and looking for an early goal to settle into the game. However, Leicester had anticipated this and set up incredibly defensively to dealt quite easily with Charlton’s efforts: the Addicks only registering one shot on target in the whole match.
As the half wore on, the Foxes started to gain momentum and almost took the lead through Shannon O’ Brien in first-half stoppage time. Goalkeeper Sophie Whitehouse, however, was able to react instinctively and completely changed direction to block the shot just in time.

In the second half, caution started to creep into the play as it became clear a single goal would be the difference between promotion and relegation, with neither team looking confident in front of goal.
Only a handful of half-chances, peppered the game with the next clear-cut chance only coming once again in stoppage time for Leicester. Whitehouse again stepped up to the plate, making a vital save to deny Ash Neville nodding down McLoughlin’s pinpoint cross.

Into extra-time and each team had one last roll of the dice. Charlton’s Lucia Lobato thought she had won the game in the 96th minute when she headed the rebound of Katie Lockwood’s initial shot into the open net. However, heartache for the home fans as she was adjudged to be marginally offside.
Interestingly for Leicester City, their second highest goal-scorer this season, Noémie Mouchon, was only substituted on in the 111th minute and begs the question could she have made more of an impact if she was on the pitch sooner?
The decider then came in the final 15 minutes of play as Heather Payne’s looped lob from the edge of the area forced Whitehouse into yet another save, taking the game to penalties.

A goalless first-half, a VAR overruling and two braces later, Barcelona claimed a comfortable victory to make it a silverware clean sweep this season.

After some hard-fought results throughout the qualifying campaign, it was clear this victory wasn’t going to be a walk in the park for either squad and a tight first-half proved it to be the case.

An early warning sign from the Spanish champions as Alexia Putellas had the first real chance to break the deadlock around the 10 minute mark. The midfielder ran onto Graham Hansen’s cross and forced OL Lyonnes keeper Endler, to the ground to knock the ball out of play.
Moments later, Heaps thought she had found a weak spot in the Barça back-line as she put away the rebounded strike that had initially come in from Renard.
Unfortunately, VAR intervened and ruled the goal out for Heaps being offside in the build-up.
In this first-half, it’s also worth noting how well Brand and Dumornay worked together to press the Barcelona defence and were unlucky not to score from what they created.

Soon after, Pajor saw an opportunity on goal as she got the better of Renard on the break. The French captain didn’t see the Poland international on her shoulder and was indicating for Endler to come out to deal with what she thought was a miscued long ball. Luckily for Lyonnes, Pajor’s looping ball hit the side netting instead.

Excitingly, the game continued end-to-end for the rest of the first half with Pajor, Hegerberg and Bacha coming the closest to getting their names on the scoresheet.
Not long after the restart, Hegerberg found herself through on goal but was denied not only by Cata Coll but the offside flag as well.