Women’s Champions League draw LIVE: Chelsea, Arsenal and Man City discover group opponents in Nyon
Follow all the live build up and action from the Women’s Champions League draw in Nyon
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Your support makes all the difference.The Women’s Champions League draw for the group stages of the 2024-25 edition of the tournament has been held with Arsenal, Chelsea and Man City learning their opponents.
Unlike the men’s edition of the tournament which has changed this season to a league-based format, the women’s while smaller is still split into the more traditional groups of four, although changes are due to come in for the 2025-26 season.
The Women’s Champions League has been held every year since 2009-10 when it was renamed from the Uefa Women’s Cup, and Lyon are the most successful side with eight titles, although Barcelona, who have won the tournament three times, are the defending champions. There are only 16 teams in total in the group stages, split into four groups of four. Only four teams including the defending champions qualified automatically, with the other 12 places determined by rounds of qualification - which Women’s Super League sides Arsenal and Manchester City both came through successfully.
Follow all the live reaction from the draw in Nyon in the blog below:
Uefa Women’s Champions League draw - LIVE
Full draw:
Group A - Lyon, Wolfsburg, Roma, Galatasaray
Group B - Chelsea, Real Madrid, Twente, Celtic
Group C - Bayern Munich, Arsenal, Juventus, Valerenga
Group D - Barcelona, Manchester City, St. Polten, Hammarby
The fixtures order and dates will be confirmed tomorrow morning!
Uefa Women’s Champions League draw - LIVE
That’s it for today’s draw; the start of the journey on the road to Lisbon is now set and the three WSL teams involved will feel they stand a good chance of reaching the knockouts at least, with perhaps Arsenal facing the toughest set of fixtures initially.
Thanks as always for joining us and make sure to come back for our live coverage of the Women’s Champions League this season, along with every single WSL game for 2024/25!
See you next time!
Uefa Women’s Champions League draw - LIVE
Hammarby are out next and they go into Group D, which leaves the last team out as Valerenga who go into Group C.
Uefa Women’s Champions League draw - LIVE
Pot four now, the final quartet - which includes Scottish side Celtic.
Out first is Galatasaray, who are drawn into Group A.
Next is Celtic, big moment for them...and it’s Group B. What a big task!
Uefa Women’s Champions League draw - LIVE
Two more teams, one each will face a WSL side.
Juventus are out first and they’ll go into... Group C, so along with Arsenal.
That leaves St. Polten, who will face City in Group D.
Uefa Women’s Champions League draw - LIVE
Onto pot three swiftly.
Roma are out first and they go into Group A, which looks strong so far indeed.
FC Twente are debutants and they are drawn into Group B along with Chelsea.
Uefa Women’s Champions League draw - LIVE
Real Madrid come out and go into Group B - so they’ll be facing Chelsea again!
Final ball out must be Wolfsburg, which means they’ll go into Group A with Lyon.
Uefa Women’s Champions League draw - LIVE
Pot two now:
Arsenal are drawn into Group C - they’ll face Bayern Munich.
Manchester City are out next and they go into Group D, so they are with Barcelona.
Uefa Women’s Champions League draw - LIVE
Here we go, Pot 1 teams and their groups first of all:
Lyon are out first and they go into Group A.
Chelsea go into Group B.
Bayern Munich into C, that leaves Barcelona in D.
Uefa Women’s Champions League draw - LIVE
Right: four pots, four teams in each. One from each pot will be drawn into each group, so four groups of four in total.
No clubs from the same country together; Groups A and B will play the same matchnight, C and D together on the other.
Teams are paired so Barcelona and Real Madrid for example will play on different days.
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