London City Lionesses were a second-tier, semi-professional club two years ago. Now they have signed a two-time Ballon d’Or winner.
Alexia Putellas has left Barcelona after 14 years and will be a Women’s Super League player from September.
She is leaving Catalonia for England as the face of the most dominant team in women’s football, having won 10 league ****** les, four Champions League crowns and a World Cup with Spain. Putellas scored 233 goals in 513 appearances for Barca and has won a record 147 caps for Spain.
At 32, she remains among the best midfielders in the game and showed exactly why with two goals in Spain’s 4-0 World Cup qualifying victory over England in Mallorca in June, a result that helped Spain secure automatic qualification for the 2027 Women’s World Cup in Brazil.
For the WSL, it is a landmark moment. England are top of UEFA’s ****** ociation coefficient rankings ahead of Spain, Germany and France, but the league has spent years trying to prove it can consistently attract the biggest names in world football while they are still operating at the highest level. Putellas choosing London City is the strongest evidence yet that it can.