Arsenal WFC

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Arsenal WFC is an English football club founded in 1987 playing in the Women's Super League. It is the only English women's club to win the Champions League.

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What makes Arsenal WFC what it is.

Williamson is the first England women’s football player to be honoured with a CBE title while still actively playing.

She scored the decisive penalty that made the Lionesses European champions for the second time.

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Quirky facts from the Arsenal WFC squad.

Her father is a lifelong Spurs supporter. But when Leah won the Champions League final with Arsenal, he surprised her by wearing her jersey.

In the 2025 UWCL final, she scored the only goal of the match, helping Arsenal win the European championship for the first time in 18 years.

In 2006, it was chosen as the mascot for the Arsenal men's team in a League Cup match at the Hawthorns Stadium against West Bromwich Albion. Although she was on holiday, her mother drove her the 690km round trip to ensure her dream came true. Her reward was a photograph with Theo Walcott.

She featured on the cover of the Australian version of Fifa 16, making her the first woman ever to appear on the cover of an EA game.

After the final whistle in the Euro final, when Leah as captain led the Lionesses to victory, her grandma just put her head on her mum’s shoulder and went, "She did it

She grew up a fan of Arsenal, with her aunt singing Gunners chants to her as lullabies.

During a penalty shoot-out in the Euro 2025 quarterfinal vs England, she missed her penalty. She was visibly upset. Later she received widespread support, including from Zlatan Ibrahimović (club co-owner and Smilla's childhood hero) who sent her a message encouraging her not to be defined by that mistake.

Smith’s first game for the senior national team was against Brazil and her idol Marta, who she had met as an 11 year-old in Montreal at the 2015 World Cup.

At the age of ten, she was the mascot at the UWCL final, which Arsenal won. Arsenal's next victory in the UWCL final came 18 years later, when she was named player of the match.

She made her debut for The Lionesses senior team on 8th April 2025 and it took her only 41 seconds when she scored her first goal.

Her celebration of the Lionesses' winning goal, when she took off her jersey after scoring the decisive goal in the Euro 2022 final, has become an icon and symbol of the tournament.