Chelsea's Naomi Girma has become the first $1m transfer in women's football, so here is the evolution of the transfer record from the past few decades.

Arsenal held out for 84 minutes but unbeaten Chelsea made it 11 wins from 12 games to take a nine-point lead in the WSL. Oh, and they just signed the world's best defender.

TNT Sports expert Karen Carney has hailed Chelsea’s new world-record signing Naomi Girma as "an outstanding talent" and "the best defender in the world".

Now, one of the best defenders in the world has found a unique way to make her case, with Naomi Girma set to make the first million-dollar transfer in women’s soccer history. On Tuesday, the San Diego Wave and England’s Chelsea agreed to terms for the $1.

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The deal gives Chelsea two of the very best center backs on the planet with Girma and Millie Bright, sending the USWNT defender to the former home of her national team coach Emma Hayes.

And no one is at all surprised that Naomi Girma ... clubs because they’re content at Barcelona. Still, centre-backs feel unusually prominent. Even before Girma’s move, 10 of the 50 most ...

United States defender Naomi Girma has become women’s soccer’s first million-dollar player. The 24-year-old Girma completed her move from San Diego Wave to Chelsea for a reported 900,000 pounds ($1.1 million) on Sunday. Here’s a look at how the record transfer fee (in USD) in the women’s game has increased over the course of the century:

The deal gives Chelsea two of the very best center backs on the planet with Girma and Millie Bright, sending the USWNT defender to the former home of her national team coach Emma Hayes.