Chelsea will face Real Madrid in the Women’s Champions League opener. The match will be played on November 15. Chelsea will also face Paris FC and BK Hacken in Group A. Real Madrid will host Chelsea in the opening round of the Champions League. On November 15, the Women’s Super League champions will visit the … Read more
UEFA’s head of women’s football Nadine Kessler defends venue choices for Euro 2022. Stadium capacity will increase from 430,000 to 720,000 for the event in England. The tournament had been due to take place in 2021, but was delayed due to Covid-19. UEFA’s head of women’s football Nadine Kessler has dismissed claims European football’s governing … Read more
If the 2021/22 Barcelona Femeni team can maintain their Champions League title against Lyon on Saturday, they will cement their place as one of the greatest teams in women’s football history. The Spanish team, led by Jonatan Giraldez, enters the match against the French league leaders having completed a perfect league season, winning all 30 … Read more
PARIS: Holders Barcelona will face rivals Real Madrid in the quarter-finals of this season’s Women’s Champions League after the sides were paired together in Monday’s draw for the knockout phase. Barcelona, with new Women’s Ballon d’Or winner Alexia Putellas, hammered Chelsea 4-0 in last season’s final and also won a domestic league and cup double. … Read more
PARIS: Last season’s beaten finalists Chelsea were sent packing from the Women’s Champions League on Thursday after a 4-0 defeat away to Wolfsburg in Germany in a dramatic final round of group games. Captain Svenja Huth and Tabea Wassmuth, the competition’s leading scorer, both scored twice as the Germans claimed the comprehensive win they needed … Read more
Europe’s most successful women’s soccer team has hired a woman as its coach for the first time in history with Lyon’s appointment of Sonia Bompastor to replace Jean-Luc Vasseur. The seven-time European champion parted ways with Vasseur after the team recently was knocked out of the Women’s Champions League at the quarter-final stage. Lyon had … Read more
