Updates from the 12.30pm BST kick-off at Stamford BridgeArsenal’s Daniëlle van de Donk on the new seasonWSL: where to watch all the gamesEmail Gregg here and tweet at @GreggBakowski 12.19pm BST
Here’s Spurs head coach Karen Hills on today’s match, her side’s first in the WSL:
It’s going to be a really proud moment for both myself and [fellow head coach] Juan [Amoros] – and obviously for the club and the players. It’s an absolutely amazing stage – to go into the WSL and play at Stamford Bridge in front of what will probably be a record crowd, I’m extremely proud. We’ve got a fantastic squad that we’ve built with new additions over the last 12 weeks. Every single one of the players is ready and excited to go out there, to perform and to play the best they possibly can. 12.12pm BST
Karen Carney’s retirement has led to Sweden’s Magda Eriksson being handed the
Chelsea armband. She’s a brilliant player and person. In case you missed it, here’s Nick Ames’s summer interview with Eriksson and Denmark’s Pernille Harder, in which they talk about their kiss in
Paris that went viral, what it was like coming out and joining Common Goal.
Related: Harder and Eriksson: ‘After the photo people wrote and said how much we’d helped’