UEFA Champions League
2024/25
My bad TV history qualifies me to discuss Disney’s women’s football coverage | Max Rushden
<p>A golden retriever and a game of guess the pasta were unusual to see in a Women’s Champions League show – but I understand how they arrived there</p><p>Disclaimer: I have made a lot of bad TV programmes. I have done quite a few below-average radio shows. Podcasts, there are millions of them – some might say too many – and I’ve done my fair share that won’t go down in history. In between those, I’ve hopefully done some pretty good ones – it’s not for me to say.</p><p>I have had good ideas and the odd great one that didn’t make it to air (attention the full-size unreferenced post-Keys and Gray elephant in the Soccer AM studio). I’ve had more awful ones. I’ve hosted shows where I’ve had almost complete editorial control, and ones where I could have been replaced by a performing monkey.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/sep/24/disney-womens-champions-league-coverage">Continue reading...</a>
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The best Women's Champions League goals from week one
Watch the best goals from the league stage of the women's Champion's League, including a stunner from Chelsea's Wieke Kaptein.
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Unanswered questions for English teams as Women's Champions League returns
Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester City start bids for European glory in unconvincing fashion.
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UWCL talking points: Why can't Arsenal score more goals? Why so many competitive games?
The UEFA Women's Champions League is back! Here are some of our burning questions after the first round of league phase matches.
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UWCL talking points: Why can't Arsenal score goals? Have Lyonnes found the formula?
The UEFA Women's Champions League is back! Here are some of our burning questions after the first round of league phase matches.
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UWCL talking points: Why can't Arsenal score goals? Have Lyonnes found the formula?
The UEFA Women's Champions League is back! Here are some of our burning questions after the first round of league phase matches.
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Kaptein scores stunning long-range goal in Chelsea win
Chelsea's Wieke Kaptein scores a "glorious" long-range goal in their 1-0 win against Austria Vienna in the Women's Champions League.
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Kaptein scores winner as Chelsea earn narrow victory over Austria Wien
Wieke Kaptein scored a stunning goal but Chelsea were given a stern test by Austria Wien as they began their Women's Champions League campaign with a hard-fought 1-0 win at Plough Lane.
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Kaptein fantastic strikes early to give Chelsea WCL win against Austria Vienna
<p>Wieke Kaptein’s early goal gave Chelsea a winning start to their Champions League campaign against Austria Vienna but it was a far from comfortable evening for the Blues.</p><p>A David v Goliath scale endeavour welcomed the visiting team at the Cherry Red Records stadium. The mammoth financial gulf between the two teams was excellently highlighted by the Austrian broadcaster ORF in the buildup, which reported that “Chelsea Women’s personnel costs alone for the 2024/25 season, at a cool €17m, were higher than those of the entire Austria club (€14.9m) – including the men’s department, by far the largest item.” Meanwhile, Uefa noted that the manager Stefan Kenesei has a full-time job in state pensions insurance.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/sep/23/chelsea-austria-vienna-womens-champions-league-match-report">Continue reading...</a>
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Katoto hat trick leads Lyonnes in 8-goal Champions League rout
Record eight-time winner OL Lyonnes won 8-0 at overmatched Servette in the Women's Champions League early kickoffs on Wednesday.
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Chelsea v Austria Vienna: Women’s Champions League – live
<ul><li><p>Champions League updates from the 8pm BST kick-off</p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/live">Live scoreboard</a> | <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/sep/23/disney-advert-break-womens-champions-league-arsenal">Disney+ criticised</a> | And <a href="mailto:daniel.harris@theguardian.com">Email Daniel</a></p></li></ul><p>No English club has won more WSL titles than Chelsea’s eight; of those eight, four were doubles and three were trebles; only Chelsea have been champions three times in a row, never mind the streak of six they managed between 2019-20 and 2024-25; and yet.</p><p>And yet never have Chelsea been champions of Europe; incredibly, they’ve reached only one final, a wound deepened and doused in salted TCP by Arsenal achieving the feat twice.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/live/2026/sep/23/chelsea-v-austria-vienna-womens-champions-league-live-score-updates">Continue reading...</a>
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Ad break during game was unscheduled, says Disney+
Coverage of Arsenal's Women's Champions League opener also featured a dog on set, a vegetable platter and a rotating floor.
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Disney+ criticised for advert break during Women’s Champions League game
<ul><li><p>Arsenal match was interrupted during the second half</p></li><li><p>Break understood to be have been unintended</p></li></ul><p>Disney+ has been criticised by viewers after an advert break interrupted the second half of Tuesday’s live television coverage of Arsenal’s opening Women’s Champions League fixture.</p><p>Fans were unable to see the action for about three minutes, with about 15 minutes remaining, during <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/sep/22/arsenal-hb-koge-womens-champions-league-match-report">Arsenal’s 1-0 victory</a> over the Danish side HB Køge.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/sep/23/disney-advert-break-womens-champions-league-arsenal">Continue reading...</a>
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The Italian Job gets a sequel! Can Mancini inspire a new generation?
This year, Italian football fell to its lowest ebb. In Europe, no Italian club made it past the quarter-finals - while Atalanta were the only Serie A side to reach the Champions League last 16. But that was nothing compared to the national team.
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Arsenal wins late, Man City draws at Bayern as UWCL returns
Manchester City rallied from two goals down to draw 2-2 at Bayern Munich in its return to the Women's Champions League at the start of the league phase on Tuesday.
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Man City's return to Europe has proven that it will not be an easy campaign
Despite a point away to Bayern Munich in the Champions League, Manchester City will feel as if their European campaign will fully test their limits.
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Mariona Caldentey penalty provides late WCL relief for Arsenal against Køge
<p>Mariona Caldentey’s 93rd-minute penalty delivered a win and a hefty dose of relief to fans bouncing behind the goal in the North Bank after the ball hit the back of the net, but Arsenal’s narrow defeat of HB Køge in their Champions League opener left more questions unanswered than answered for the struggling Gunners.</p><p>Manager Renée Slegers’ puffed cheeks said it all when the full-time whistle went. If it had been revealed on the final whistle that a forcefield surrounded the opposition goal at Meadow Park, many would have believed it, such was the extent of Arsenal’s ridiculous profligacy in front of goal in their League Phase opener.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/sep/22/arsenal-hb-koge-womens-champions-league-match-report">Continue reading...</a>
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Man City fight back from two down to draw at Bayern in WCL
Manchester City’s eventful return to the Women’s Champions League saw them come from 2-0 down to draw 2-2 away to Bayern Munich and become the first English side to avoid defeat to the Germans in Europe.
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Arsenal penalty clinches late win in WCL; Man City rescue draw at Bayern
Mariona Caldentey's second-half stoppage-time penalty secured Arsenal a dramatic 1-0 win over Danish side HB Koge to open their Champions League campaign at Meadow Park.
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Women's Champions League: Bayern Munich vs Man City team news LIVE!
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