{"id":3163,"date":"2026-09-04T11:06:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T11:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/footballars.xyz\/?p=3163"},"modified":"2026-09-04T11:06:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T11:06:47","slug":"womens-champions-league-2026-27-draw-arsenal-to-face-reigning-champions-barcelona-chelsea-and-man-city-to-play-psg-football-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/?p=3163","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Champions League 2026\/27 draw: Arsenal to face reigning champions Barcelona, Chelsea and Man City to play PSG | Football News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component-name=\"ui-article-body\" data-testid=\"article-body\" data-highlight-intro=\"true\">\n<p>Arsenal will face reigning champions Barcelona in the league phase of the 2026\/27 Women&#8217;s Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>The Gunners &#8211; semi-finalists last season &#8211; will also face OL Lyonnes, Benfica, Paris FC, HB Koge and Inter Milan across six matchdays between September 22 and December 16.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea have been drawn against Paris Saint-Germain, OL Lyonnes, Roma, BK Hacken, Austria Wien and OH Leuven.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, WSL champions Man City &#8211; taking part in the competition for the first time since 2024\/25 &#8211; will also play Paris Saint-Germain, Inter Milan, BK Hacken and Austria Wien, as well as Bayern Munich and Real Madrid.<\/p>\n<h3>What are the Champions League key dates?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>League phase<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Matchday 1: September 22-23<\/li>\n<li>Matchday 2: September 30-October 1<\/li>\n<li>Matchday 3: October 28-29<\/li>\n<li>Matchday 4: November 10-11<\/li>\n<li>Matchday 5: November 18-19<\/li>\n<li>Matchday 6: December 16<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Knockout phase play-offs<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First legs: February 3-4 2027<\/li>\n<li>Second legs: February 10-11 2027<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Quarter-finals<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First legs: March 23-24 2027<\/li>\n<li>Second legs: March 31-April 1 2027<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Semi-finals<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First legs: May 1-2 2027<\/li>\n<li>Second legs: May 8-9 2027<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Final<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>May 28\/29 or 30 &#8211; Stadion Narodowy, Warsaw<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/11095\/13581187\/womens-champions-league-2026-27-draw-x\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal will face reigning champions Barcelona in the league phase of the 2026\/27 Women&#8217;s Champions&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}