Ten young WSL and Championship stars to look out for in 2025
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We select 10 young players who have the capacity to make their mainstream breakthrough in the next calendar year. The highly regarded forward made history when she made her debut for the West Ham senior side in May 2023, becoming the first player who had come through the club foundation’s Player Pathway to do so. The 18-year-old is now on loan at Charlton, where she has one start and nine substitute appearances in the Championship. She signed her first professional contract in July 2024 and received her first England call up to the Under-19s in October.
![[Suzanne Wrack]](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/uploads/2022/07/13/Suzanne_Wrack_2.png?width=75&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none)
Agyemang made her senior debut for Arsenal at just 16 years old, in the 2022-23 season, before joining Watford for a season-long loan. The centre-forward performed well with the Hornets, despite being embroiled in a relegation battle they would lose, with five goals in 10 games in all competitions. She shone at the Under-17 European Championship in 2023, scoring four times in the group stage as England navigated their way to the semi-final stage before receiving her first call-up to the England Under-23s in October. This season, she is on loan at Brighton, competing with a star-studded group of attacking players for minutes in the WSL, regularly used as a substitute by the manager, Dario Vidosic, and playing on the left of a front three.
![[Michelle Agyemang watched by Grace Clinton of Manchester United in October]](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/a530668c5f021fcba401a14c348d1ceafecd7909/166_0_5815_3489/master/5815.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none)
Brown has only played 31 minutes for Chelsea after signing a three-year professional contract in November, but there is a real buzz around the 17-year-old midfielder. Despite her age and Chelsea’s stacked squad of international talent, she made her debut for the club at Stamford Bridge against Celtic in the Champions League two days after signing her first pro deal. Brown, who was born in Malta but moved to England as a child, impressed at the Under-17 World Cup in the Dominican Republic and coolly dispatched the penalty to kick off England’s tournament and run to the semi-final.
![[Nelly Las of Leicester City during a League Cup tie against Birmingham in December]](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/09791f962f441fd02a77d2667d115dad017a07fc/0_61_5720_3752/master/5720.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none)
