Australians figuring within the UEFA Girls’s Champions League have been handed powerful attracts within the competitors’s group levels, together with dealing with one another.
Key factors:
- Steph Catley and Caitin Foord’s Arsenal staff will meet former supervisor and fellow Aussie Joe Montemurro, who leads Juventus
- They’re additionally drawn towards reigning champions Lyon in group C
- Sam Kerr’s Chelsea staff will face a Paris-Saint Germain squad that features Australian goalkeeper Mackenzie Arnold
Arsenal, with Caitlin Foord and Steph Catley, meet Italian champions Juventus, managed by fellow Aussie Joe Montemurro, who introduced Foord and Catley to London when in cost on the Gunners.
Reigning champions Lyon, for whom Ellie Carpenter is recovering from a severe knee damage suffered within the last in Might, are additionally within the group from which solely two groups progress. Making up the quartet is Swiss membership Zurich.
Sam Kerr’s Chelsea was paired with final 12 months’s semi-finalists Paris Saint-Germain, who’ve Australian goalkeeper Mackenzie Arnold of their squad, and Actual Madrid, who knocked out the Manchester Metropolis staff of Hayley Raso, Alanna Kennedy and Mary Fowler within the qualifying spherical.
The possible makeweights within the part are Vllaznia, the primary Albanian males’s or girls’s membership to succeed in the final 16 in any European competitors for greater than 30 years.
Matildas goalkeeper Teagan Micah’s Rosengard face 2021 champions and runners-up final season Barcelona, in addition to German giants Bayern Munich and Portuguese membership Benfica.
Within the remaining group, common finalists Wolfsburg have been drawn with Roma, Slavia Prague and St Polten.
The group stage will run from October 19 to December 22, with the knockout rounds within the northern hemisphere’s spring and the ultimate on June 3 or 4 in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
AAP
