
BBC Women's Football Weekly
Jill Scott’s Coffee Club
The Football Interview with Leah Williamson
1 March 2026
14 minutes
Available for over a year
In this week’s edition of the Football Interview, first broadcast on the Football Daily, Kelly Somers speaks to England captain Leah Williamson.
They discuss her early memories of getting into football, the impact her family have had on her, and how she nearly dropped out of the Arsenal academy at the age of 15.
She relives captaining England to back-to-back European titles and reveals to Kelly the one thing that's missing that would complete her career.
TIMECODES:
0’40 - First memories of football and not being very good.
2’20 - How she nearly dropped out of the academy at Arsenal at 15.
3’50 - Has there been a turning point?
4’55 - What match from her career would she relive?
6’00 - Did she realise what she’d done [winning Euro 2022]?
7’42 - How has it changed her life?
8’09 - The fuel to do win it again in 2025.
8’40 - What was she like growing up and her family dynamic.
10’26 - How she escapes from football and love of fashion.
12’53 - What else does she want to achieve?
