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A-League Women season 2025-26 thread

HonestSpursFan said:
That being said there has been some shocking calls this season. City’s pen against the Jets, Riley Tanner’s goal for Sydney against Roar being ruled offside, etc.
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Claudia Bunge and Kirsty Fenton both received straight red cards the past two matchdays for denial of obvious goalscoring opportunity against Michelle Heyman, with Bunge let off the hook because Melbourne Victory appealed for obvious error successfully.
 
Sabitra Bhandari aka Samba is undoubtedly the most accomplished footballer of Nepal. From playing across the world, including at the top level in Europe, to becoming the leading goal scorer of not only Nepal, but South Asia overall, Samba has set high standards in Nepali football.

https://kathmandupost.com/football/...-help-with-surgery-after-anfa-aid-falls-short

kathmandupost.com

Samba pleads for financial help with surgery after ANFA aid falls short

Nepal’s all-time leading goal scorer and most-accomplished footballer has sought thousands of dollars in support for her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) surgery.
kathmandupost.com kathmandupost.com
 
Sharkman84 said:
Sabitra Bhandari aka Samba is undoubtedly the most accomplished footballer of Nepal. From playing across the world, including at the top level in Europe, to becoming the leading goal scorer of not only Nepal, but South Asia overall, Samba has set high standards in Nepali football.

https://kathmandupost.com/football/...-help-with-surgery-after-anfa-aid-falls-short

kathmandupost.com

Samba pleads for financial help with surgery after ANFA aid falls short

Nepal’s all-time leading goal scorer and most-accomplished footballer has sought thousands of dollars in support for her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) surgery.
kathmandupost.com kathmandupost.com
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Sabitra Bhandari is undoubtedly the greatest South Asian-born (not descent) footballer of all time.

People will say "oh but Sunil Chhetri": Sunil Chhetri may be the ISL's all-time leading goalscorer and one of the highest-scoring international strikers ever with his 95 goals in 157 caps, but he never played outside India other than three games for Sporting Lisbon's B team (since he never played a game for Kansas City Wizards), and his international goals are against quite low quality national teams. He was a decent player and coulda played overseas (at a low level), but chose to play in the ISL, a league which is quite low quality. Roy Krishna, Fiji's greatest player and himself an Indo-Fijian, has a bigger legacy in my opinion as he played overseas.

Samba meanwhile has played overseas: in Nepal, in India, in Israel, in France and now in New Zealand, all for the first teams. She scored a hat-trick for Guingamp against Saint-Étienne in the Première Ligue last year to become the first South Asian player, male or female, to do so. Given the lack of success South Asia has in football that's an astonishing achievement. She's an absolute queen and Wellington are super lucky to have her. Plus she brings in hundreds of Nepali fans.
 
HonestSpursFan said:
Sabitra Bhandari is undoubtedly the greatest South Asian-born (not descent) footballer of all time.

People will say "oh but Sunil Chhetri": Sunil Chhetri may be the ISL's all-time leading goalscorer and one of the highest-scoring international strikers ever with his 95 goals in 157 caps, but he never played outside India other than three games for Sporting Lisbon's B team (since he never played a game for Kansas City Wizards), and his international goals are against quite low quality national teams. He was a decent player and coulda played overseas (at a low level), but chose to play in the ISL, a league which is quite low quality. Roy Krishna, Fiji's greatest player and himself an Indo-Fijian, has a bigger legacy in my opinion as he played overseas.

Samba meanwhile has played overseas: in Nepal, in India, in Israel, in France and now in New Zealand, all for the first teams. She scored a hat-trick for Guingamp against Saint-Étienne in the Première Ligue last year to become the first South Asian player, male or female, to do so. Given the lack of success South Asia has in football that's an astonishing achievement. She's an absolute queen and Wellington are super lucky to have her. Plus she brings in hundreds of Nepali fans.
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Isn’t she injured?
 
HonestSpursFan said:
Could be their last match ever. Really hope they find that new owner.
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Hopefully there is certainty regarding Canberra United's future heading into Dub season 2026-27 because as it stands Michelle Heyman and the rest of the playing list are going to be left clubless if the club were to fold which unfortunately seems increasingly likely since the APL aren't going to step in and save them any time soon despite the threat of players walking and jumping ship elsewhere.
 
rebelliousfeminist974 said:
Hopefully there is certainty regarding Canberra United's future heading into Dub season 2026-27 because as it stands Michelle Heyman and the rest of the playing list are going to be left clubless if the club were to fold which unfortunately seems increasingly likely since the APL aren't going to step in and save them any time soon despite the threat of players walking and jumping ship elsewhere.
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That's what happened with Western United. All their players became clubless and were officially free agents. That's how Emily Roach got the most random move of all time by going to Stallion Laguna in the Philippines (with them she got to play against Melbourne City in the Champions League, though City hammered them obviously) before going back to South Melbourne. I wonder what Michelle Heyman would do should the club fold. She's a big name so someone overseas might want her (obviously not a WSL club but perhaps a WSL2 or Vrouwen Eredivisie club or something). Mary Stanić-Floody would have links in Serbia having been called up for their national team but I'd say she'd wanna stay in a higher quality league.
 
HonestSpursFan said:
I wonder what Michelle Heyman would do should the club fold.
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Michelle Heyman will probably retire should the club fold because she's in the latter stages of her career and is synonymous with the side as she's been there since the early days so she's essentially Canberra United through and through as one of their mainstays, in addition to the fact that both A-League Women and overseas clubs are increasingly turning towards youth, or she might end up moving interstate to play NPLW in another Member Federation system instead.
 
rebelliousfeminist974 said:
Michelle Heyman will probably retire should the club fold because she's in the latter stages of her career and is synonymous with the side as she's been there since the early days so she's essentially Canberra United through and through as one of their mainstays, in addition to the fact that both A-League Women and overseas clubs are increasingly turning towards youth, or she might end up moving interstate to play NPLW in another Member Federation system instead.
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Hopefully she will join with others in pushing for a better, or even separate, deal than what women’s football is currently getting. Michelle Hayden is not the type to just fade away.
 
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