After more than one month of break, Serie A Femminile resumes. The first league-match of 2026 was a quite sad 0-0 between Parma and Milan , where the home team was quite clearly the most dangerous one but actually neither team gave the impression that they were really going to score. Maybe the only notable thing is that it looks like it was Laura Giuliani's 100th match with Milan AC. Another newly promoted teams managed to salvage one point today, but it was at least a draw with goals: Fiorentina converted a PK in the additional minute of the 1st Half with Emma Severini, but in the 2nd Half one of the brand new signings of the league wanted to deny me: I had written that I wasn't sure about the actual relevance of these new arrivals, but Birta Georgsdóttir scored a nice and important goal at her first game with Genoa. It's a shame that, since some years, we don't have anyone covering Icelandic women's league here on BigSoccer, because it's difficult to asses young or otherwise not well-known players from that country (Birta Georgsdóttir is 23) before seeing them in action; there's anyway no doubt that this one introduced herself quite brilliantly! Finally, in the evening match, we had a third draw and a second 0-0 of the day, this one maybe with a little more chances than Parma and Milan had in the afternoon, but both (Italian) Goalkepeers, Beatrice Beretta for Napoli and Astrid Gilardi for Como were quite good (maybe the latter could even be deemed as excellent). So each team today won one point. Just two goals scored in three matches. Not the most exciting restart of the league, was it? Recap of toay's scores: Parma 0-0 Milan Fiorentina 1-1 Genoa Napoli 0-0 Como Today's highlights:
The first game of today, was finally a "non-draw", but it wasn't as easy for Roma as it could have seemed on paper. They had scored early with captain Manuela Giugliano, but then the game seemed to somehow slip from ther hands until Lana Clelland's equalizer and beyond. Sassuolo, under the new coach Salvatore Colantuono, former Parma's coach last season (so no clash for Roma with their former coach Alessandro Spugna, who, as I had written here, had been sacked during last week), fought valiantly, but in the end it was the host team who scored a second goal with more and more mature and relevant Alice Corelli. This way Roma secured the winter-champion position (the virtual title at the end of the first round of the league) with one match to go. Ternana-Lazio could have seemed destined to be another 0-0 draw. but anything happened between 90' and the 14th minute of additional time (out of the 8' that had been originally given). Ternana scored at 90' with their young talent Giada Pellegrino Cimò, an actual one-player-army for her team. Then the game became nervous (actually more nervous than it already was) and Lazio's players, in an attempt to equalize, collected 2 Yellow-Cards and one direct Red-Card (to Nikola Karczewska, for a reaction foul). Ternana resisted and managed to catch-up with Genoa in the rankings, where the two teams are now sharing the last place (athough Genoa have actually won the direct clash). It's interesting to note that good old Katja Schroffenegger (will turn 35 next April) is now defending Ternana's goal: of course, despite Katia Ghioc's and Gloria Ciccioli's efforts, this looked like a weak position to the new coach Mauro Ardizzone, so last week, with a move that flied under the radar of my usual sources , the expert veteran GK was signed from Como (where she didn't have many chances to play anymore, with Astrid Gilardi's good form). Finally, the top match of this match-day saw Inter change the course of their season and come back in contention for the top-spots (maybe even for the title?) since they beat Juventus thus passing them and Fiorentina (because of goal difference) and conquering the second place, although at a whopping 7 points behind Roma. Juventus had scored within the 4th minute, with an header from CK action by Cecilia Salvai, but it didn't take much for Inter to equalize with Karólína Lea Vilhjálmsdóttir; then, before HT, they went ahead with a powerful header by Marija Milinković (with her 180 cm she's a veritable tower in these situations ) and they didn't give up any other goal, also because of Cecilía Rán Rúnarsdóttir's good performance (check up how she saved Cristiana Girelli's header in the 1st Half ) and because of Fern Katie Bowen blocking a pair shots (including one by Amalie Vangsgaard, who could have decidingly done better, on an open net). Would Pauline Payraud-Magnin have saved the winer goal that Daniëlle de Jong wasn't even close to saving? Who knows? Now Juventus have to take care: they keep being in the Women's Champions' League 2025-2026, but they'll have to fight to be there in the next season. Today's matches: Roma 2-1 Sassuolo Ternana 1-0 Lazio Inter 2-1 Juventus Today's highlights: The new rankings: 1.Roma 25 21-9 2.Inter 18 23-10 3.Fiorentina 18 18-12 4.Juventus 17 11-8 5.Como 16 11-10 6.Lazio 15 10-12 7.Milan 14 17-18 8.Napoli 14 12-13 9.Sassuolo 9 9-12 10.Parma 8 4-10 11.Genoa 7 9-19 12.Ternana 7 9-21 The direct clash between Inter and Fiorentina was a 2-2 draw on the 2nd match-day, so Inter are ahead just because of their goal-difference. Genoa, instead, had won by 3-1 the direct clash vs Ternana on the 3rd match-day.
Probably not, I don't recall PPM doing that many monster saves, but I may have bad memory. In my eyes the best keeper of the league, is clearly someone in one of the two Milan teams. Juve's lack of threat up front is clearly biting them in their ass this season. If they don't fix their attacking problems, I see them lose more points, and that to teams like Lazio and Parma and so on.. Btw have their been any rumours of them getting any prolific attacker? They clearly needs it. Instead their scraping the college market in USA again.. Ok, it has worked before, with Echegini, but she was kind of a known entity.
Yes, in fact I forgot to mention that they signed Allison Perry, but, apart from the fact that her profile on Juventus' website suggests that she's more of a MF than a FW, she doesn't appear yet in their official roster and anyway she wasn't brought (not even on the bench) in Milan for the match vs Inter, a sign that she's probably seen as a promising youngster, but not ready yet for the top-team. As you point out, a Jennifer Echegini is not found everyday (and when you have the luck to do, you should try your best to retain the player ). On paper, the big offensive signing for this season should have been Michela Cambiaghi, but, although she scored some key-goals, she didn't was the reliable striker they hoped she was going to be, at least so far. Ginevra Moretti, back from loan to Napoli, has not reached the requested level; Chiara Beccari has been good so far, but more in an assisting role than in a scoring one; Amalie Vangsgaard mostly makes you groan in disbelief everytime she shots; this basically leaves Juve depending on Cristiana Girelli, but, as brilliant as she remains at her age, she can't save the day everytime.
Yea, good analysis of Juve's attack. I think Juve should've known better than rely on Beccari and Cambiaghi for their attack, Cambiaghi has never been a massive producer in attack and Beccari i still just promising. Hehe, and you sum up Vangsgaard well, what a dissapointment! Even more frustrating when you feel she got the talent, she's had enough time to prove it though. Maybe they hoped that Cambiaghi and Beccari would service Girelli for another monster season, but that hasn't worked. They also kinda lack the attack in the midfield that Caruso provided and I feel they don't have a crosser as good as Boattin. On the other hand Juve is better athleticaly equipped for Europe now, but creativity has been stripped. On the positive though, the stats suggest that Perry might be a Caruso-kinda player, let's see. Btw I felt the only one with spark in the last game was Bonansea. Everytime she had the ball it felt something was gonna happen. Can't understand she didn't get more balls. If I was the trainer of Juve, I would do everything to put her in play, like put her in the middle or somehting. Funnily for , a couple of seasons , I thought Bonansea was useless, but know I think she's one of the few who can do things at will. Guess the line between Genius and fool is slim, at least in Bonansea's case . Anyway, enough of analysing Juve, but I can't get over how they sold their 2nd gen legends so quickly. Caruso, Cantore and Boattin were supposed to take over the torch after Bonansea, Girelli etc. I guess Juve could do little about it though, when the big clubs knock on the door.
The first match of the quarter-finals of Coppa Italia (home and away clashes between this week and the next) was played yesterday in the evening and it was a 1-1 tie between Milan and Fiorentina, with one goal per half, early in the 1st Half by Norwegian Emilie Marie Aanes Woldvik for Fiorentina and later in the 2nd Half by Giorgia Arrigoni for the home team. I didn't find proper highlights, just this video showing the goals.
Here, on Serie A women's yt page : Milan-Fiorentina 1-1 | Pari all'andata: Arrigoni risponde a Woldvik | Ottavi #CoppaItaliaWomen Btw nice seeing Arrigoni scoring bangers again, been a while. Bakker's has turned her into some kind of cleaning lady this season so far, hope she can be a bit more attacking going foward
Two other Coppa Italia's matches yesterday night. In the first one, Inter gets an away win vs Ternana with one goal per half, the first by Marie Detruyer, the second by Benedetta Glionna. They could have scored more and, despite the quite low score. the final result was seldom in doubt. Later, the derby between Lazio and Roma ended up in a 0-0 draw, that anyway saw a quite good number of chances for both teams: Roma had the most part of them and should have actually scored (but there was a mix of mistakes and of good saves by Francesca Durante); Lazio was mostly dangerous because of some shaky moments from Roma's defense (in particular with Shukurat Oladipo), but they couldn't actually exploit those moments. The first leg of the quarter-finals will be completed by Napoli-Juventus, later tonight. Yesterday's matches: Ternana 0-2 Inter Lazio 0-0 Roma Yesterday's highlghts:
This time Amalie Vangsgaard, despite an awkward first control, had managed to score a good goal by exploting a bad defensive spell by Napoli, but later in the 2nd Half the host team had managed to equalize with always impressive and powerful Cecilie Fløe (for sure their key-player in this season so far). In the end, though, the match was decided by a PK that was given to Juventus for an hand-ball in the last minutes of the game and that was converted by late-sub Cristiana Girelli. It will sure be hard for Napoli to reverse the score at Juventus' home next week. Today's match: Napoli 1-2 Juventus Today's highlights:
Alisha Lehmann to Leicester City Our first Swiss international 🇨🇭 pic.twitter.com/bsWiuuCTkK— LCFC Women (@LCFC_Women) January 22, 2026
It was coming. Best wishes to her, Como wasn't the right place. (By the way, why her foot looks so odd in this pic? )
Mmmm... Almost! I had written about this odd situation on this thread some weeks ago but of course it remains a trap (and it could be an even more dangerous one next season). Valentina Giacinti, after her short stint in Turkey at Galatasaray (just an half-season, although she anyway scored 14 goals), has just been signed (big news of today) by Como 1907. This is the team (affiliated with Serie A men's club) that's currently leading Serie B Femminile (so they have a quite high chance of being promoted at the end of this season, a chance that gets even higher now that they have signed such an high-level striker). Alisha Lehmann, instead, has just left FC Como Women (formerly known as Como 2000), a women's only team that's currently 5th-placed in Serie A Femminile. Yes, next year there could be a Como's derby in Serie A Femminile (that could add to Milan's and Roma's derbies). So Alisha Lehmann's trasfer in England and Valentina Giacinti's signing have probably no relation (unless someone at Como 1907 wanted to brag that they now have in their roster a more popular international striker than the rivals ).
Just one Serie A Femminile's match today (this match-day will unusually extend to Monday). Lazio needed a win to catch up with Fiorentina at 18 points, and a win they got. Actually, the visitor team could have gone ahead early at 7' with a PK, but Francesca Durante saved (twice!) Emma Severini's quite weak shot and the subsequent tap-in from the rebound . From then on, it was almost only Lazio: Eleonora Goldoni was the key-player in the 1st Half, since she scored the first goal with an header and then assisted Martina Piemonte for the 2-0. Later in the 2nd Half, the hosts also scored a third, by forcing an own-goal from experienced Swedish DF Filippa Curmark. So, the fight for the top-positions looks really exciting this year, with multiple teams looking like they could be able to make the top three. The score: Lazio 3-0 Fiorentina The highlights:
4 matches today (the last one, as I had mentioned above, will be played tomorrow). In the first one of them Roma won again, although by the minimal margin: a middle-range shot by captain Manuela Giugliano, that needed a little deflection to beat the otherwise very good Camilla Forcinella, was enough to secure three points. Colombian striker Elexa Bahr was quite unlucky today: she had a goal disallowed in the 1st Half (the referee judged that GK Rachele Baldi had already stopped the ball) and then she hit the post on an open net in the 2nd Half. Bottom line: closer game than it could have looked on paper, but Roma anyway keep sailing towards the title. Milan, at home, won quite smoothly vs last-placed Ternana, with a brace by Kayleigh van Dooren and a late goal by Thea Kyvåg (who had uselessly tried for all of the game and was finally rewarded). Problem for Milan is that most of the teams ahead of them have also won in this match-day (ok, Fiorentina and Como have lost, but they were playing other top teams: Milan need to win the direct clashes to climb up the rankings). Como-Inter has been an exciting game: the hosts went ahead twice with a wonderful brace by Zara Kramžar (the second goal was a spectacular lob from the midfield circle: it was a sudden counterattack and Cecilía Rúnarsdóttir was caught in no man's land ), but Inter equalized both times, with Tessa Wullaert first and then with Haley Bugeja. In the end it was Elisa Polli who decided the game with a fine half-bycicle volley at 90'+4': what a thrill! Finally, Napoli have beaten Sassuolo by 2-0, with a goal in the additional time of the 1st Half by one of the new signings from the winter-market, tall Danish-Bosnian DF Emma Veletanlic (she's 183 cm); in the 2nd half, Marija Banusic set the final score by converting a PK. Cecilie Fløe anyway remains the linchpin of Napoli's whole team: she slung the shot leading to the first goal from the rebound of her shot and she conquered the PK of the second goal: in general, with her physical and technical game, she defended, retrieved and turned into dangeous chances countless balls in Napoli's offensive third. I'd say half of the credit for Napoli's brilliant season goes to her. Recap: Genoa 0-1 Roma Milan 1-0 Ternana Como 2-3 Inter Sassuolo 0-2 Napoli Highlights:
Oh, yes, I should stop bothering for a recap, if, apparently, I am not even able to read my own reports.
She claims it was not her choice to leave Milan mid-season. However things actually went, this piece of news seems to certify two things: 1) Italian league is still seen as a feeder league to other more important women's league in the world: as soon as a player raises up a level in her international status, she leaves for good (see other cases in past seasons as Tabitha Chawinga or Jennifer Echegini); 2) Milan probably have to wave their remaining international hopes goodbye, since Evelyn Ijeh was the heart and soul of the team: I can't see them reching the top without her (it was hard already, now it looks nigh impossible). On the other hand, brilliant coup for the Courage: I can see the Swedish striker being successful in NWSL also.
@dravde was wondering who was going to score for Juventus and was answering to himself that Barbara Bonansea was a good bet: indeed she opened the score early tonight, making the game smoother for her team, that anyway had some of their usual offensive problems, but, with the cushion of the 1-0 score, they could wait for the second goal without freaking out. I don't want to bash on Amelie Vangsgaard, but even when she scores, as she finally did at 77' (from a Parma's defensive blunder), you have the impression that she was closer to miss than to score (she hit the GK on an open net and it wasn't like her shot looked so powerful anyway ). A few minutes later, a FK by Emma Stølen Godø closed the game. So, no-one of the teams who are fighting to escape the relegation made any points on this match-day. Meanwhile Juventus remain behind Inter, but pass Fiorentina at the 3rd place. Today's match: Juventus 3-0 Parma And highlights: Updated rankings: 1.Roma 28 22-9 2.Inter 21 26-12 3.Juventus 20 14-8 4.Lazio 18 13-12 5.Fiorentina 18 18-15 6.Milan 17 20-18 7.Napoli 17 14-13 8.Como 16 13-13 9.Sassuolo 9 9-14 10.Parma 8 4-13 11.Genoa 7 9-20 12.Ternana 7 9-24 Of course, Lazio are ahead of Fiorentina, since they won the direct clash on this very match-day. The tie-breakers for Milan and Napoli and for Genoa and Ternana are the same as last week.
2nd leg of Coppa Italia's quarter-finals. In the 1st leg, Ternana had managed to keep it respectable by losing at home to Inter by "just" 0-2. Tonight in Milan, though, it only took one minute for Inter to score another and in the end they posted a 4-0 score, with a brace by Haley Bugeja in the 1st Half and goals by Henrietta Csiszár and Lina Magull (backheel shot) in the 2nd Half. So Inter have smoothly reached the semifinals. The previous derby between Roma and Lazio had been a 0-0 draw, but tonight Roma closed the game in the 1st half already, with an header by Alice Corelli from CK's action and with a brace that Evelyne Viens scored in less than a minute. It's good for Roma that they finally have the Canadian striker back at her top form in this part of the season, because on the other hand they have lost Emilie Haavi since the end of November, when she had a surgery for having torn her meniscus in the WCL's game vs Vålerenga: she will be out for months. Today's results: Inter 4-0 (6-0 aggr.) Ternana Roma 3-0 (3-0 aggr.) Lazio Highlights: So, one of the two semifinals is set up already: it will be Roma-Inter and it will be played in March, although the exact dates have not been finalized yet (9th, 10th or 11th for the first leg, 28th or 29th for the second leg).
The second of Coppa Italia's matches that were played yesterday ended quite late in the evening and its highlights were uploaded even later, so I update the thread with both matches just today. Milan have arguably been more dangerous along the 90' minutes, but in the end it's Fiorentina who scored at 90'+1' with Sofie Bredgaard, who was basically left alone, since there only was Chanté Dompig (yes, it was her despite the new hairstyle ) next to her, in some quite unusual defensive duties. Would have Milan managed to convert some of their chances if there had been recently transferred Evelyn Ijeh on the pitch instead of Thea Kyvåg or Kayleigh van Dooren? We could only decide that with 100% hindsight, but it's a fact that Milan have lost one of their key-players. A special prize to whoever manages to see anything through the foggy highlights of Juventus-Napoli: the comment says that Chiara Beccari had two assists and that the goal were scored by Cristiana Girelli and Lindsay Thomas. The final Napoli's goal that set the score on a 2-1 final result should have been scored by Kinga Kozak, but here not even the comment-guy is able to help . Anyway, Juventus were already ahead from the 1st leg and their advancement to the semifinals was never really in doubt. Yesterday's matches: Fiorentina 1-0 (2-1 aggr.) Milan Juventus 2-1 (4-2 aggr.) Napoli Yesterday's highlghts: Thus the second of March's semifinals will be Fiorentina-Juventus