IFFHS CONTINENTAL NEWS - UEFA WOMEN'S CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
UEFA WOMEN’S CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
After the qualification games, the Women’s UEFA Quarter finals are established. What a great schedule !
- Barcelona, winner of 3 Champions Leagues in the last 5 years, will find Real Madrid on his road ! A new Classico ! that means that the two clubs will face 3 times in 10 days end of March, two in the european competition, one time in the league.
- This season, Barcelona has already won 3 games in 3 Classicos , one in the Super Cup, one in the Copa de la Reyna, one in the league.
- Real Madrid has only won one game against barcelona, it was in March 2025.
- The last games in the UEFA Champions League between the two clubs were the quarter finals 2021/22, where Barcelona won the two games, the second in Barcelona before a crowd record of 91 553 spectators !
- Arsenal, the last winner of the competition, will face Chelsea in the quarter final ! It will be the first time in History.
- First winner of the FIFA Women’s Champions Cup last month, Arsenal has also beaten Chelsea in the League game at 24 January. It was the first time that they won in the Chelsea stadium since 2018.
- Alessia Russo, Arsenal’s striker, leads currently the ranking of the Best Goalscorers in the competition.
- OL Lyonnes will face VFL Wolfsburg in the quarter final ! Winner of 8 Champions League titles in 11 finals, the teammates of Wendie Renard, the Legend of Lyon, will play their 17th quarter final in history .
- VFL Wolfsburg, winner of two Champions Leagues, will play their 13th Quarter final in 14 participations. They won two titles and lost 3 finals against …Lyon between 2016 and 2020. They lost also their quarter final against Lyon in 2016/17.
- It is the 11th time that Wolfsburg face Lyon in the Champions League. The last time in autumn, they lost 1-3 in Lyon during the qualification.
- Bayern München vs Manchester United ! It is the first time in history that the two clubs will face in Europe. And also the first time that Manchester United reached the ¼ finals.
- It is the 8th quarter final of Bayern München (2 semi finals, but no final) in the competition.
- Klara Buhl , voted in the IFFHS World’s Top 11 in 2025, is the leader of the team, having assist 7 goals iand scored one n the current competition.
- Lea Schueller, who scored 100 goals in the last 5 seasons for FC Bayern, has joined … Manchester United end January 2026 ! So she will face her old teammates in the quarter finals.