Ladies’s Tremendous League groups Chelsea, Manchester Metropolis and Arsenal have discovered their UEFA Ladies’s Champions League quarter-final opponents after the draw was made in Nyon, Switzerland.
The ties will see WSL champions Chelsea tackle Manchester Metropolis, whereas Arsenal will play Actual Madrid.
The winner of Arsenal’s match will tackle Bayern Munich or Lyon, whereas the winner of v will face Wolfsburg or Barcelona within the semis, leaving open the potential of a historic all-English remaining.
With three English groups within the quarter-finals, this marks the primary time within the competitors’s historical past {that a} single affiliation has three groups on this stage.
The quarter-final ties will happen on 18/19 March for the primary legs, with the return fixtures on 26/27 March.
The total draw is as follows:
Actual Madrid vs. Arsenal
Manchester Metropolis vs. Chelsea
Wolfsburg vs. Barcelona
Bayern Munich vs. Lyon
The group runners-up, listed first within the ties above, will play the primary leg at residence.
Arsenal stay the one English membership to have lifted the trophy, successful in 2007 when it was then often called the UEFA Ladies’s Cup.
Chelsea got here shut in 2021 as runners-up and narrowly missed final 12 months’s remaining, falling to Barcelona within the semis after a 2-0 defeat at Stamford Bridge, regardless of a 1-0 first-leg victory in Spain.
For Manchester Metropolis, this marks a return to the knockout levels for the primary time since 2021 and the two-time semi-finalists shall be want to beat Chelsea, who’re unbeaten all season, within the subsequent spherical.
The semi-final draw has additionally been confirmed, with the winner of Wolfsburg vs. Barcelona going through the victor of Manchester Metropolis vs. Chelsea, whereas Actual Madrid or Arsenal will go up in opposition to Bayern Munich or Lyon.
The 2 legs of the semi-finals will happen on 19/20 and 26/27 April, whereas the ultimate shall be on 24 Might on the Estádio José Alvalade in Lisbon.
