LONDON — Chelsea retained the Women's Super League
title and became the all-time record champion in the
English game by beating Manchester City to first place
on Sunday.
Chelsea was a 5-0 winner at home to Reading and
finished two points ahead of City, which won its final
game — 1-0 at West Ham — but also needed Chelsea to
lose to stand a chance of jumping into first.
It is a fourth league title for Chelsea, which now has
one more than Arsenal since the first WSL season in
2011.
Chelsea is chasing a quadruple this season, having
previously won the League Cup. The team plays
Barcelona in the Women's Champions League final on
May 16 and is into the last 16 of the Women's FA Cup.
Australia striker Sam Kerr scored one of Chelsea's
goals and became just the second player to pass 20
goals in a WSL season, after Arsenal's Vivianne
Miedema in the 2018-19 campaign.
Kerr's 21 goals saw her finish as the top scorer in the
league.
"This probably means the most to me out of all my
golden boots,'' she said. "I feel like a lot of people
said I had to come to Europe to prove myself and here
it is.''