Thank you for joining us this evening for an exciting and decisive evening of Women's Super League action.

You can read Emma Sanders' report from Leigh Sports Village on Chelsea securing the title, right here.

And if you missed it, earlier Aston Villa put five past stunned Champions League finallists Arsenal. Our report on that game is here.

We'll be back at the weekend for the penultimate week of action in the WSL season - hope to see you then.

Chelsea

Chelsea boss Sonia Bompastor speaking to BBC: "I feel great. For my first season it feels amazing. I want to thank my players, I want to thank the club to have me on board. For us to achieve that with two games left is a great achievement."

On if her debut was what she expected: "I was expecting the challenge to be really hard, it has been really hard. I was not expecting us to achieve that with two games left. This league is really competitive. It's a big achievement for the club, a big achievement for myself."

On the pressure replacing Emma Hayes: "I love to have the pressure. It makes me a better manager because I really have to focus. I have to thank my staff because I am not the only one. I feel home, it's so nice to be part of Chelsea."

On an emotional week: "It hurt a little bit to just lost these two games against Barcelona. To be able to bounce back was not easy. We had the character in the team to face that challenge and win tonight and get the title."

As well as their sixth WSL title in a row, this is Chelsea's ninth in total.

The next most successful side of the WSL era, Arsenal, are on three crowns.

Chelsea

Chelsea keeper Hannah Hampton speaking to the BBC: "I'm really happy. The smile on my face says it all. I don't think that I have the right words to use at the minute to put it all into perspective, what we've just achieved. I'm over the moon.

"Coming to this club I always wanted to achieve trophies. The fact that I can say that in the two seasons I have been here we have won the title both times it is surreal. It never gets old. As many times as we win it, it'll never get old.

"It is a feeling that makes all the hard work and the effort across the whole season worth it. But that's not the end for us. We want to stay the season unbeaten. We want to go and hopefully get the Treble against United.

On winning the title under Bompastor v under Hayes: "I don't know really. I just go day by day. As soon as Emma left everyone was questioning what direction the club was going in. For us to bring in a manager as high calibre as Sonia, she had an unbelievable playing career and coaching career and has brought that here this season. Came to the WSL and has gone and won it. Not a bad stat for her."

On bouncing back from Champions League defeat: "The tie was not the face of Chelsea that we want to show everyone. You could see that we weren't ourselves and we did not play as a team. We didn't get through to the final. That is an aim of ours next season, let's be honest we want to beat Barca. To come here today and win the WSL with two games to spare shows the character and resilience of this team."

Chelsea's final two league games of the season are away to Spurs this Sunday, then at home to Liverpool on Saturday 10 May, the final day of the WSL campaign.

Win both of those, and Chelsea will become the first side to record 60 points in a WSL season.

The Blues hold the current WSL points record - 58, in 2022-23.

Natasha Dowie
Former England striker on BBC Radio 5 Live

If Chelsea aren't winning, they're not having fun and they're not happy and they want perfection. They're near perfection this year. That unbeaten run is magnificent.

When you talk about what's next for them, it's going to get harder and harder because when you're setting these goals, you're trying to compete against yourselves, but a lot will be about this Champions League. Did they want it too much this year? Did they put too much pressure on themselves? Do they have a mental block against Barcelona?

That will be a challenge that Sonia Bompastor will be excited about. She already said she knows what it takes to do it, so bring on next season.

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Chelsea's Sonia Bompastor is the first manager to lead her side to the WSL trophy in her maiden campaign since Laura Harvey took Arsenal to the inaugural title in 2011.

Chelsea

Chelsea boss Sonia Bompastor speaking to Sky Sports: "It's a great achievement. It feels a bit unreal. We were not expecting Arsenal to drop points tonight. Being able to bounce back from Sunday and win against a big team in Manchester United feels amazing.

"I told my team it is a big opportunity tonight to make a step closer to the title. I'm so proud of my players, all the staff, all the team, all the club. To be able to achieve that with two games left is a big achievement."

On Hannah Hampton: "Hannah is a great goalkeeper but she is a great character. The game tonight helped the team keep a clean sheet. Tonight its a team performance and we stayed all together. We bounced back which showed the great character this team has."

On winning with two games to spare: "I was not expecting us to be in that position to achieve that with two games left. I knew we had to fight until the end. For us to still be unbeaten and achieve what we just achieved is really good. Not easy to come as a new manager to a new country to adjust to a new league. I learned a lot but I have a great bunch of players and great staff.

"This league is really competitive. For some people they just think being Chelsea it is really easy to achieve that. It's not. We work really hard. We had the right mindset from the beginning of the season until now. I'm really happy for that, really pleased for that."

On Lucy Bronze scoring: "She is one of the leaders in this team, she fights so hard, she leads by example so its really nice to have this player. She was one of the first players I could recruit. She was the first one I had on my phone."

Natasha Dowie
Former England striker on BBC Radio 5 Live

Chelsea have strengthened 100%, bringing in the likes of Keira Walsh, Naomi Girma, Lucy Bronze - Sonia Bompastor herself is probably one of the best signings they've made - and they're going to strengthen again.

To challenge them, other teams have to up their game because Chelsea will strengthen again and you can't allow that to keep getting better and better.

Chelsea

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Chelsea keeper and Player of the Match Hannah Hampton speaking to Sky Sports: "It feels unbelievable! I can't quite put it into words to say. I've just got to say thanks to Villa for helping us earlier in the day.

"I am happy and excited to be in this team. We have achieved everything we wanted to. Maybe not in the Champions League but we fight until the end in the league and have won it with two games to go. We will not let up, we want to go unbeaten for the whole season."

On reacting to the Barcelona defeat: "We knew that we had to respond in a good way. It is not the way we wanted to go out of the Champions League. We could have put up more of a fight. There is time to go again for that next season. We are not going to let that affect us. Right now we are going to enjoy this championship win."

Is the Treble on? "We have them [Manchester United] again in a few weeks time. It is going to be tough but we are going to give it our all."

On her Player of the Match award: "This is my first one of these so it's nice. We defended as a whole unit tonight. This is for everyone."

Natasha Dowie
Former England striker on BBC Radio 5 Live

Performance-wise, Chelsea will have to be a lot better against Man Utd in the FA Cup final if they want to win the treble, but at the moment, they're on track.

A reminder that these sides will meet again in 18 days' time for the Women's FA Cup final.

Hopefully it will be a similarly entertaining game, although United are probably sick of the sight of Chelsea by this point.

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Chelsea

More from Chelsea defender Lucy Bronze speaking to Sky Sports...

Is the Treble on? "Yes, definitely. The exciting thing is that it [the FA Cup final] is against United as well. They are a tough team, they fought hard tonight and are still fighting for things in the league as well. We face them in two weeks time at Wembley, should be an exciting game. We are looking forward to it."

On manager Sonia Bompastor: "We have had an up and down season, although the results probably don't show that. It is difficult to come in and build something while not trying to take away from the legacy that Chelsea has always had. We have had new signings come in too. Next season we can push on and improve a lot more.

"The second half of the season we have not been at our best. Sonia has done well so far but she wants a lot more from us. And I think we can give it her."

Natasha Dowie
Former England striker on BBC Radio 5 Live

Winning back-to-back is absolutely phenomenal, so enjoy it.

It's been a tough couple of weeks to get knocked out of the Champions League, the one they wanted more than anything. That's tough, but that's the rollercoaster of being a professional athlete.

One minute you're at your lowest but now they're celebrating winning the title, so enjoy these moments.

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Chelsea

Chelsea defender Lucy Bronze speaking to Sky Sports: "We knew that a draw was good enough as well. We wanted to be unbeaten. Before the game we also wanted to keep a clean sheet. It is nice to have got the goal and the win as well. It makes it feel a lot better to celebrate being champions when you win a game.

"The fortunate thing for us this season is that we have stayed unbeaten so we knew there were still two things to play for. We knew before the game Arsenal had got beat and we knew what we needed, but we wanted to win, we wanted to be unbeaten all season. Although we have won the league tonight we have two games left and we want to win those too. We want to be unbeaten for the whole season.

"It has been amazing to see all the fans up here tonight. We are at Tottenham at the weekend and then it's great that we finish at Stamford Bridge. They can all come down and celebrate winning the trophy."

Is winning the title the perfect pick me up after Champions League? "It's hard to focus on so many competitions. We have always said that. We have done fantastically well to keep ourselves in all of them close to the end. It was nice to come here to celebrate a win, celebrate the league title and move forward and past the disappointment of the weekend."

So Chelsea are league champions yet again - but can they go unbeaten this time?

The only title they have won without defeat in this six-season streak was the 2019-20 season, which was curtailed early amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Three sides have previously won the WSL title with unbeaten seasons - Arsenal in 2012, Man City in 2016 and Chelsea in 2018.

But none of those were across 22 game seasons. Should Chelsea avoid defeat in their final two matches, that would be impressive new ground broken by Sonia Bompastor in her first campaign.

Izzy Christiansen
Former England midfielder on Sky Sports

It’s what dreams are made of for Sonia Bompastor, her staff, the new players and the existing players that have done this before. They know what it feels like. They don’t care where they do it or how they do it as long as they do it.

Manchester United were the better team this evening, but that goal from Lucy Bronze and the team getting over the line is credit to the foundations this team has built.

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Natasha Dowie
Former England striker on BBC Radio 5 Live

Congratulations to Chelsea. Doing what they're doing right now in the WSL and the women's game is spectacular.

For me right now, someone has to challenge them because when I'm seeing these players celebrating, it's like it's the norm, like it's another year.

I'm sure they're happy but there has to be challengers now because six years in a row, congratulations to Chelsea.

They've been far the best team in the league but who is going to start challenging them?

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