Hannah Cain scored twice as Leicester finished a difficult Women's Super League season with an entertaining victory over West Ham at King Power Stadium.

Midfielder Janice Cayman smashed the ball into the top corner from the edge of the box to put the Foxes ahead after nine minutes.

Cain doubled their lead 10 minutes before half-time - the Welsh forward initially dallied after being played through on goal and saw her shot saved before confidently tucking away the rebound.

An already lively match went up another couple of notches after the break with four goals in 12 minutes.

West Ham pulled one back on 57 minutes when Viviane Asseyi reacted smartly to head home at the far post.

But Leicester restored their two-goal cushion two minutes later as Cain raced onto Asmita Ale's through-ball and calmly lifted a finish past the onrushing Kinga Szemik in the visitors' goal.

Four minutes later, Asseyi whipped a brilliant free-kick from the left into the top corner at the near post, with Leicester keeper Janina Leitzig perhaps expecting a cross.

Leicester's Sam Tierney concluded the goal glut in some style, running on to Nicole Momiki's ball over the top, spotting Szemik off her line and chipping the keeper from 30 yards out.

West Ham pushed forward, but were unable to create any real chances of note and Leicester saw out the game relatively comfortably.

Just a fifth league win of the season - all at home - saw Amandine Miquel's Foxes jump above Tottenham to end the campaign in 10th.

West Ham had hopes of matching their highest WSL finish of sixth prior to the match, but with little to separate the sides in lower mid-table, defeat dropped them to ninth.

It also extended the Hammers' unwanted record of never having won a WSL game on the last day of the season.

After a season in which Leicester have found goals so hard to come by, scoring four to round off the season was a surprising treat for the Foxes faithful.

The home side were the WSL's lowest scorers coming into the final round of fixtures but their finishing was such that you wouldn't have known it.

Having been pegged back in the opening exchanges, Leicester's first attack brought a goal as Cayman laced the ball high into the net when the ball fell kindly for her after Cain's shot was blocked.

They were nearly two up when West Ham's Eva Nystrom gave the ball away on the edge of her own box but Momiki's shot came back off the post.

Given the number of times Leicester managed to get in behind the visitors, this did not look like a side that had been so blunt in attack all season.

Cain showed brilliant composure for her second and Tierney exhibited superb vision and technique to seal the success.

Before the match, Miquel spoke of a fresh start next season, but if there is only one thing they take with them into 2025-26, she will hope it's the attacking verve and finishing prowess they showed against the Hammers.

For West Ham, it was another disappointing away day.

Rehanne Skinner's side end the campaign having won just one of their 11 away league games.

It might have been different had they turned their early pressure into a goal or even if Asseyi's mis-hit cross at 1-0 had gone in off the crossbar rather than bounce out.

However, unlike like Leicester, goalscoring has not been an issue for them.

It's at the other end where they have been found wanting and so it proved again with the hosts able to cut through them far too easily on the counter-attack time and again.

An upturn in form this year ensured relegation was never too serious an issue but the Hammers will know improvements need to be made before next season.