{"id":242150,"date":"2026-05-07T01:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T01:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/fowlers-man-city-crowned-champions-while-watching-tv-as-six-year-reign-finally-over\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T01:02:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T01:02:00","slug":"fowlers-man-city-crowned-champions-while-watching-tv-as-six-year-reign-finally-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/fowlers-man-city-crowned-champions-while-watching-tv-as-six-year-reign-finally-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Fowler\u2019s Man City crowned champions while watching TV as six-year reign finally over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Manchester City were crowned Women\u2019s Super League champions for the first time in 10 years without playing after Arsenal were held to a 1-1 draw at Brighton on Thursday morning AEST.<\/p>\n<p>Third-placed Arsenal were eager to bounce back from Saturday\u2019s Champions League exit to Lyon and keep the title race alive in the first of three matches in hand on City.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal boss Renee Slegers knew only victory at Brighton would be enough, but the visitors were unable to find a winner after Frida Maanum\u2019s 62nd-minute strike cancelled out Fuka Tsunoda\u2019s first-half opener.<\/p>\n<div class=\"e5mrwj-0 jpgUYc\"><amp-iframe width=\"16\" height=\"9\" title=\"Minutely\" layout=\"responsive\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-top-navigation\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" referrerpolicy=\"unsafe-url\" src=\"https:\/\/snippet.tldw.me\/amp\/amp-launcher.html?publisher=204500&amp;placement=4280\" class=\"i-amphtml-layout-responsive i-amphtml-layout-size-defined\" i-amphtml-layout=\"responsive\" id=\"i-amp-0\"><i-amphtml-sizer style=\"display:block;padding-top:56.25%\"\/><amp-img layout=\"fill\" src=\"https:\/\/content.foxsports.com.au\/fs\/electrode\/poster-fallback.png\" placeholder=\"true\" i-amphtml-ssr=\"\" data-hero=\"\" class=\"i-amphtml-layout-fill i-amphtml-layout-size-defined\" i-amphtml-layout=\"fill\"><\/amp-img><\/amp-iframe><\/div>\n<p><b><i>Get all the latest football news, highlights and analysis delivered straight to your inbox with Fox Sports Sportmail. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/newsletter-sign-up?utm_source=FootballArticle&amp;utm_medium=TextLink&amp;utm_campaign=signup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sign up now &gt;<\/a><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Gunners were 11 points behind the competition leaders with three games in hand, with the 1-1 draw signalling an end to their title challenge. Elsewhere, Chelsea\u2019s run of six consecutive league championships is finally over.<\/p>\n<p>City, currently in their first season under boss Andree Jeglertz, have not won a WSL title since 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Manchester City later shared footage to social media of the players and staff watching the drawn contest together on television.<\/p>\n<p>Among them was Australian midfielder Mary Fowler, who returned to action in February after being sidelined for a nine months with an ACL injury. The 23-year-old has been at City for four years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHelping guide this team to the WSL title is something I will never forget,\u201d said Jeglertz.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe girls have met every challenge in front of them head on and have been an absolute joy to coach this season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the good moments and the bad, they\u2019ve always stuck together and found a way to win \u2014 something that all great champions do.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/football\/fowlers-man-city-crowned-champions-while-watching-tv-as-sixyear-reign-finally-over\/news-story\/79c5800d3b4fb9ddbdd011c2282ca635\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City were crowned Women\u2019s Super League champions for the first time in 10 years without playing after Arsenal were held to a 1-1 draw at Brighton on Thursday morning AEST. Third-placed Arsenal were eager to bounce back from Saturday\u2019s Champions League exit to Lyon and keep the title race alive in the first of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":242151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6807],"tags":[156],"class_list":{"0":"post-242150","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leagues-cups","8":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}