It was part of the 2019–20 Football Association Women's Super League (FA WSL) and finished in an 11–1 victory for the home team.

With her goal tally, she surpassed South Korean Ji So-yun to become the highest-scoring non-British player in FA WSL history.

BBC Sport called the match an "amazing 11–1 thrashing",[1] while Suzanne Wrack of The Guardian praised Miedema's performance as "one of the great individual displays of any era".

The result put Arsenal top of the league and left Bristol City in eleventh place out of twelve clubs.

[9] In the 2018–19 season they lost the away fixture 4–0, allowing Arsenal's Dutch international striker Vivianne Miedema to score three goals for a hat-trick.

Arsenal were tied with Manchester City with the second-most points, but were in third position in the table by virtue of having a worse goal difference.

[C][16] Bristol City signed five new players for the 2019–20 season: Jasmine Matthews, Yana Daniëls, Charlie Wellings, Meaghan Sargeant, and Ebony Salmon.

[21] By the end of November, Bristol City were still winless but managed to gain points from three draws, including one with bottom-placed Liverpool.

[1] The match started at 12:30 pm at Meadow Park on 1 December 2019 in front of a crowd of 1,513 spectators with Helen Conley from Durham as the referee.

[1] In the second minute, Arsenal's Beth Mead had the first chance to score but her attempt was saved by Bristol City goalkeeper Sophie Baggaley.

[1] In the seventh minute, Miedema sprinted past a Bristol City defender and put the ball in front of goal from the left edge of the penalty area.

[1][27] Three minutes later Miedema received the ball in the far right-hand corner of the pitch and crossed it to defender Leah Williamson, who scored with a header, doubling Arsenal's lead.

[1][28] In the fifteenth minute Miedema scored with a right-footed shot from the centre of the penalty area after a pass from Lia Wälti.

[1] Her third goal came in the thirty-sixth minute, when the Bristol City defence did not deal well with a ball from Evans, allowing Miedema to score again.

[1] Six minutes into the second half Daniëlle van de Donk passed the ball to Miedema, who took a shot with her right foot from the centre of the penalty area that landed just inside the goal.

[1][31] Nobbs became the fourth goalscorer of the game three minutes later when she sprinted into the penalty area to shoot from a long pass from Miedema, making the score 7–0.

[1] First, Evans assisted Miedema with a pass from the edge of the penalty area, who, after a short run, scored Arsenal's eighth.

ESPN labelled Miedema's performance as a "stunning solo display of attacking football" and Belgian newspaper Het Nieuwsblad called it "an exceptional achievement".

[1][54] Her double hat-trick brought her season goal total across all competitions, club and Dutch national team, to twenty-eight from sixteen games.

[34] In the following weeks, Arsenal kept their top league position with wins over Reading, Everton, Birmingham City, and Brighton.

[14][59] On 5 June, the FA declared Chelsea champions, based on them having 2.60 points per game, ahead of Manchester City's 2.50 and Arsenal's 2.40.

[63] After their record-breaking defeat against Arsenal, Bristol City's winless streak continued until 5 January 2020, when they beat Manchester United.