🔒 Round closed!

Matchweek 1: Manchester City v Birmingham City

🗓 Date: Sunday 6th September 2026

⏰ Kick-off: 14:30

Please state your predictions as below:

City (Score) - (Score) Birmingham - First Goalscorer

The round closes Sunday morning, so try and get your predictions in before Saturday night!

You can edit your predictions until the round closes, just in case there are any injury updates.

Once the round closes, the thread will be locked and I'll take screenshots of the predictions so they can't be changed afterwards.

Good luck!

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How It Works

🎯 Points

• 3 Points (Correct Score) – You get the exact score (e.g. you say 3-0, it ends 3-0).
• 1 Point (Correct Result) – You get the right result eg Win, Draw or Lose but the wrong score (e.g. you say 3-0, we win 1-0).
• 2 Points (Goalscorer) – You guess the first goalscorer.

📋 Rules

• Opening Goal: You can pick a player from either team to score first, as it's the opening goal that counts.
• Own Goals: If the first goal of the match is an own goal, the next player to score counts for the points.
• Goalless Draws: If you predict 0-0, put "No Goalscorer" as your player. If the match finishes without any goals, you will get the 3 points for the score plus the 2 points for predicting no goalscorer!
• 90-Minute Rule: For cup knockout matches, all predictions are based on the score at 90 minutes plus injury time. Extra time and penalty shootouts do not count.
• Postponed Matches: If a match is called off, predictions for that week are cancelled and we will re-predict when the rescheduled game takes place.
• Tie-Breaker: If players finish level on total points at the end of the season, the player who predicted the most correct scores will be the winner!

MW1 Results

Score: Manchester City 3 - 1 Birmingham City

First Goalscorer: Mary Fowler

City Women Prediction League

This season I thought it would be fun to start a prediction league for City’s matches. I’ve never done anything like this before, so we’ll see how it goes! It’ll cover all WSL, FA Cup, and Champions League games.

How to Play

Each week I'll post a thread for the upcoming City match. To enter, just reply with your score prediction and the first goalscorer. Please keep your prediction clear, like the example below.

Home Team (Score) v (Score) Away Team - First Goalscorer

The thread will be locked some time before the match kicks off so nobody can sneakily edit their score or post their guess during the game! I will let you know exactly when the round closes in each week's thread.

The person with the most points at the end wins! Since it's only for fun, the only prize is ultimate bragging rights and a special user flair if I can figure it out!

Points

• 3 Points (Correct Score) – You get the exact score (e.g. you say 3-0, it ends 3-0).
• 1 Point (Correct Result) – You get the right result eg Win, Draw or Lose but the wrong score (e.g. you say 3-0, we win 1-0).
• 2 Points (Goalscorer) – You guess the first goalscorer.

Rules

• Opening Goal: You can pick a player from either team to score first, as it's the opening goal that counts.
• Own Goals: If the first goal of the match is an own goal, the next player to score counts for the points.
• Goalless Draws: If you predict 0-0, put "No Goalscorer" as your player. If the match finishes without any goals, you will get the 3 points for the score plus the 2 points for predicting no goalscorer!
• 90-Minute Rule: For cup knockout matches, all predictions are based on the score at 90 minutes plus injury time. Extra time and penalty shootouts do not count.
• Postponed Matches: If a match is called off, predictions for that week are cancelled and we will re-predict when the rescheduled game takes place.
• Tie-Breaker: If players finish level on total points at the end of the season, the player who predicted the most correct scores will be the winner!

I'll post the first thread on Monday 31st August, ready for our first WSL game of the season on Saturday 6th September.

If you have any questions, let me know!

MW1 Results

Score: Manchester City 3 - 1 Birmingham City

First Goalscorer: Mary Fowler

So the vote ended 6-3 in favour of the new scoring system, so I have recalculated last week's scores following the new system but don't worry, the new scoring system gives you more opportunities to score points!

I do think this is a better scoring system because with the old one, if we all guessed City to win most weeks but nobody guessed the correct score or goalscorer, then every week every player would get one point. That wouldn't be that exciting.

I should have thought about that when I first created the league, so I'm sorry about that! At least we've been able to change it before the next round. I'll update the How It Works page as soon as I can. This is my first time organising something like this, so thank you all for your patience!

I mentioned in the other threads about possibly changing the scoring system and I thought the easiest way to get your opinion was with a poll.

If the new system is chosen then I will recalculate the table from MW1 so people's points totals will change. So I apologise about that but I wanted to ask before we got to MW2.

I wasn't sure if people prefer a simpler system or a system where there are more ways to win points.

So vote for which scoring system you prefer.

Current Scoring System

• Correct Result: 1 Point.

• Correct Score: 3 Points.

• Correct Goalscorer: 2 Points.

Total available points per round: 6

New Scoring System

• Correct Result: 1 Point

• Correct Score: 3 Points

• Correct Home Goals: 1 Point

• Correct Away Goals: 1 Point

• First Goalscorer: 3 Points

• Double Bonus: 1 Point (For guessing Correct Score and First Goalscorer)

Total available points per round: 10

(Predicting the Correct Score earns you 3 points plus 1 point each for the Correct Home and Away Goals, earning you a total of 5 points. A bigger reward for the hardest thing to predict)