Following our victories over Rangers, Rosenborg and Hacken, our Gunners are officially back in the UEFA Women’s Champions League.
We'll soon discover which teams we'll face in the group stage, when the draw takes place at 12pm (UK) on September 27 at UEFA's headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. It will be streamed live on UEFA.com.
Here is everything you need to know about this year’s competition, and who we could face over the next few months.
How does the tournament work?
Following two rounds of qualifying via either the league or champions path, twelve sides will now join Lyon, Chelsea, Bayern Munich and reigning champions Barcelona in the competition's group stage. These teams are divided into four groups.
Each team plays the other sides in its group twice - home and away - for a total of six group fixtures.
The top two from each group then progress to the quarter-finals in March 2025. All knockout fixtures are played over two legs until the final in Lisbon (May 2025).
We remain the only English side to have ever won the competition - back in 2008 when it was still known as the UEFA Women's Cup. We were agonisingly close to reaching the final again back in 2022/23, only to suffer an extra-time loss to Wolfsburg at Emirates Stadium.
Who might we face?
The 16 teams are divided evenly into four pots, based on their UEFA coefficient. Groups comprise of four teams, one from each of the following pots:
Pot 1: Barcelona (Spain), Bayern Munich (Germany), Chelsea (England), Lyon (France)
Pot 2: Arsenal (England), Manchester City (England), Real Madrid (Spain), Wolfsburg (Germany)
Pot 3: FC Twente (Netherlands), Juventus (Italy), Roma (Italy), St Polten (Austria)
Pot 4: Celtic (Scotland), Galatasaray (Turkey), Hammarby (Sweden), Valerenga (Norway)
Teams from the same country cannot be drawn into the same group, meaning that we will not face either Manchester City or Chelsea at this stage. Bayern Munich and Wolfsburg, Barcelona and Real Madrid, and Juventus and Roma cannot meet until the quarter-finals.
TICKET INFORMATION
Tickets for all three of our home UWCL group stage games will go on sale from 10am on Saturday 28th September. Full ticketing windows are below:
- Priority Window for Season Ticket Holders, Home Advantage Pack + and Home Advantage Pack Holders: Saturday 28th September at 10am - Monday 30th September at 2pm
- General Sale: Monday 30th September at 2pm
- Hospitality Packages: Saturday 28th September at 10 am
Early bird tickets will be available for each game. Once the date and time of the fixtures have been released, we will be able to confirm when the early bird windows will run for each game.
Key dates
Fixture dates and locations will be confirmed in due course.
Matchday 1: October 8/9
Matchday 2: October 16/17
Matchday 3: November 12/13
Matchday 4: November 20/21
Matchday 5: December 11/12
Matchday 6: December 17/18
After the group stages conclude on December 17/18, a draw for the quarter and semi-finals will take place on February 7.
Quarter-finals
First leg: March 18/19
Second leg: March 26/27
Semi-finals
First leg: April 19/20
Second leg: April 26/27
Final (Estadio Jose Alvalade, Lisbon)
May 23/24/25 TBC
The winners of the 2024/25 UEFA Women's Champions League will automatically qualify for the 2025/26 UEFA Women's Champions League group stage.
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