News'Extra buzz' driving LFC Women for season start and Anfield occasion

It is now just a week until the Reds make their return to the top flight by kicking off the Barclays Women’s Super League campaign with a trip to Reading.

A home meeting with Chelsea follows and then Matt Beard’s squad are set to run out in L4 for a mouth-watering Merseyside derby clash with Everton on September 25.

• Tickets for the women’s Merseyside derby are on sale here and LFC Women match and season tickets can be purchased here

“We start our season at Reading on September 11, which is something we’re all looking forward to,” said Hinds. “But there has been an extra buzz around our first two home games of this season too as they will both be broadcast on Sky Sports and that shows the added exposure we can expect.

“We’re playing the champions, Chelsea, at Prenton Park in our first home game on September 18 so hopefully we can get a really good crowd for that one.

“Then a week later we have the derby against Everton and that game is being played at Anfield. All the girls were so excited when we found out and we’re already looking forward to that.

“Unfortunately for various reasons we didn’t get the chance to play at Anfield last season but this is the perfect game to stage here and hopefully we’ll have a lot of fans watching us that night too.”

A crowd of 23,500 was at Anfield when the women’s derby was last played there in November 2019, a day when wing-back Hinds was part of the opposition squad.

And with no sign of the excitement generated by England’s triumph at Women’s Euro 2022 subsiding, she is hoping for another bumper attendance for this month’s big occasion.

“We won’t talk too much about it but I was in the Everton squad when the last women’s derby was played at Anfield in 2019,” added the No.12.

“It was a great occasion for everyone involved and there were 23,500 fans in the stadium that day. Hopefully we can get even more supporters to come and watch this time around and fill the stadium.

“I think that’s possible now with how the women’s game is growing so we’re all buzzing about that and I’d encourage anyone who hasn’t seen a game before to come and support us.”