Chelsea stormed to a fifth straight Barclays Women’s Super League title with a big win at Manchester United, leaving Manchester City runners-up.
Final day results:
Arsenal 5-0 Brighton & Hove Albion
Aston Villa 1-2 Manchester City
Bristol City 0-4 Everton
Leicester City 0-4 Liverpool
Manchester United 0-6 Chelsea
Tottenham Hotspur 3-1 West Ham United
Chelsea made a flying start to add to their goal-difference advantage of two over Manchester City, Mayra Ramirez heading home a Guro Reiten cross before playing in Johanna Rytting Kaneryd to give them a 2-0 lead over Manchester United by the eight minute.
Mary Fowler opened the scoring for Manchester City at Aston Villa and Maya le Tissier headed against the bar for Manchester United, only for Ramirez to put it on a plate for Sjoeke Nusken and then fire home her second for a 4-0 interval lead.
As in the first half at Old Trafford, Reiten set up a goal in the opening 90 seconds with Melanie Leupolz sweeping her cut-back home.
The goal chase was over for Manchester City when Rachel Daly was put through to finish for Villa past Khiara Keating, although they did restore the lead with a Lauren Hemp close-range finish.
Fran Kirby added a late sixth in her final game for Chelsea, slipped in by Sophie Ingle to shoot past Mary Earps.
Liverpool finished fourth, ahead of Manchester United, Sophie Roman Haug scored just seven minutes in at Leicester City, Leanne Kiernan claiming a second-half hat-trick.
Arsenal’s Alessio Russo bagged a seven-minute brace against Brighton, the departing Vivianne Miedema added a third after the hour mark, Albion’s Jorelyn Carabali then conceding an own-goal and Frida Maanum netted a late fifth.
Beth England gave Tottenham Hotspur a fourth-minute lead over West Ham, who levelled five minutes after the break through Riko Ueki. But with four minutes of the ninety left Jess Naz knocked in a second for Spurs, Drew Spence still finding time for their third.
Everton won at relegated Bristol City to take eighth place. Katja Snoeijs and Sara Holmgaard got first-half goals. Emma Bissell made it 3-0 three minutes after the restart and Martina Piemonte made it 4-0 in added time.
