Arsenal Women's Digital Gooner Fanzine: Update

Hello, and welcome to the Arsenal Women's Digital Gooner Fanzine update.

Firstly, a massive thank you to everyone who read our first free digital issue - at the last count we had more than 150,000 readers - which was just incredible.

Such large numbers also underline the fact that there is a huge demand for outstanding independent writing on the Arsenal's Women's football team - which we, here at the Gooner, believe we can provide.  

So, after the heartening success of our pilot digital issue, it is with great delight we can announce that we will be running four Arsenal Women's Digital Gooner Fanzine's across the 2024-25 WSL season - starting with the much-anticipated opener against Manchester City on September 22.

Advertise with us

If you're an Arsenal fan that runs a business please talk to us about what we can offer and how we can work together.

If you are interested in attaching your name to our digital publication please email [email protected]

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Freddie Cardy 

I am also pleased to announce that the utterly brilliant Freddie Cardy will be editor of the Arsenal Women's Digital Gooner Fanzine. Freddie is an absolutely outstanding candidate who is fast making a huge impression in journalism and broadcasting who will be in day to day charge of our digital issue, with myself overseeing publication as editor-in-chief.

For submissions and general editorial queries you can contact Freddie at [email protected]

For advertising please email [email protected]

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Freddie Cardy writes

The pilot issue of the Gooner Fanzine: Arsenal Women edition remains one of my proudest achievements as part of the Gooner team, and that’s thanks to the hard work of everyone involved.

I can still remember beaming on the bus home when Layth sent me the first drafts!

I was so proud that such a variety of contributors wrote so passionately for our first AWFC fanzine, and it was really enjoyable to assemble a talented team of writers.

With more than 150,000 of you enjoying what we put together, let’s do it all again!

Freddie

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Arsenal Women's Podcast

In other news, you may be aware that the Arsenal Women's Digital Gooner Fanzine has now launched a dedicated podcast to Arsenal Women.

We're proud that all episodes of  Arsenal Women's Gooner Fanzine Podcast are out now -  featuring the brilliant Freddie and Daisy Goodhand as well as the equally brilliant Claudia Loy.

All episodes of our Arsenal Women Gooner Fanzine Podcast are out now. You can listen @Spotify and @ApplePodcasts or watch @YouTube

The perfect pod for every passionate Arsenal Women's supporter out there.

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Getcha Limited Edition Gooner Women's collectible card

For those of you who love tangible collectibles we have produced an exclusive limited edition Arsenal Women's Digital Gooner Fanzine collectible card - free with every issue of the print version of the Gooner Fanzine purchased.

As well as an iconic print (which is also available to buy as a t-shirt, see below) it contains a QR that you can scan that will take you through to issue one - and all future issues. It also has space for an autograph from your favourite player. What's not to like. We plan to issue a limited number to accompany every new digital issue.

For further information please email [email protected]

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PS:

It's early days of course, and we will be crunching the numbers and analysing the response to our efforts across the season, but if all goes well, and the demand matches our projections we may well be looking to publish a printed effort this time next year - but we'd need concrete support first.  More on this later in the year - but for now let's simply ensure our Arsenal Women's Digital Gooner Fanzine continues to be read in such numbers. 

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We are incredibly excited to launch the first online fanzine dedicated to Arsenal Women! ???Issue 1 of the Gooner Fanzine: Arsenal Women Edition is out on Friday morning, with 50 pages of content from a number of contributors! ??Sign up to our newsletter for first access ? pic.twitter.com/3v3k9dnGc8

— The Gooner (@GoonerFanzine) April 18, 2024