The reigning Super League champions host the 2015 winners on Sunday 23 April*, in the one-off competition which will run between April and June.
To bridge the gap between the 2016 season and new winter format, the Spring Series has been introduced to provide playing time for the country’s international players ahead of this summer’s Euros in Holland.
Each team will play each other once as they compete for their division’s trophy.
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City’s second game will see Nick Cushing’s side travel to newly-promoted Bristol City Women (Saturday 28 April), before hosting fellow 2016 Continental Tyres Cup finalists Birmingham on Wednesday 3 May).
Trips to Reading (Sunday 7 May) and Notts County (Thursday 18 May) follow before FA WSL 2 champions Yeovil visit the Academy Stadium on Sunday 21 May.
The Blues then host Arsenal on Sunday 28 May and finish the campaign with away trips to Sunderland (Wednesday 31 May) and Liverpool (Saturday 3 June).
View all the FA WSL Spring Series fixtures
* Should City progress to the semi-finals of the Champions League, their first two fixtures of the Spring Series season will be rearranged.
Ticket information will be released in due course…
