WSL opening weekend postponed after death of Queen Elizabeth II

The opening weekend of the 2022/23 WSL season has been postponed following the loss of life of Queen Elizabeth II.

Buckingham Palace confirmed on Thursday the long-serving monarch had handed away in Balmoral.

Tottenham and Manchester United had been as a consequence of open the WSL season on Saturday on the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

Chelsea versus West Ham at Stamford Bridge, Everton in opposition to Leicester, Studying versus Liverpool, Brighton in opposition to Aston Villa on the Amex and Manchester Metropolis versus Arsenal had been scheduled to happen on Sunday.

An announcement from the FA reads: “As a mark of respect, following the passing of Her Majesty the Queen, English soccer has united to postpone all soccer fixtures between Sept. 11 September.

“The FA can verify that each one soccer fixtures throughout the Barclays Girls’s Tremendous League, Barclays Girls’s Championship, the Vitality Girls’s FA Cup, and the Isuzu FA Trophy, might be postponed this weekend.

“We are able to additionally verify that each one soccer fixtures throughout the Nationwide League System [NLS], Steps 1-6, together with the Vanarama Nationwide Leagues, the Girls’s Soccer Pyramid [WFP], Tiers 3-7, and matches throughout grassroots soccer in England might be postponed.

“Our ideas stay with our president, HRH The Duke of Cambridge, and the entire of the Royal Household throughout this time.”