{"id":8564,"date":"2024-06-21T14:21:57","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T13:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/?p=8564"},"modified":"2024-07-05T12:52:37","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T11:52:37","slug":"cardiff-city-wait-to-discover-uefa-womens-champions-league-opponents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/news\/cardiff-city-wait-to-discover-uefa-womens-champions-league-opponents\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff City wait to discover UEFA Women&#8217;s Champions League opponents"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/dogirq7bi39sv.cloudfront.net\/UEFA-Womens-Champions-League-202324-Round-1-Draw-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dogirq7bi39sv.cloudfront.net\/UEFA-Womens-Champions-League-202324-Round-1-Draw-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dogirq7bi39sv.cloudfront.net\/UEFA-Womens-Champions-League-202324-Round-1-Draw-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dogirq7bi39sv.cloudfront.net\/UEFA-Womens-Champions-League-202324-Round-1-Draw-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dogirq7bi39sv.cloudfront.net\/UEFA-Womens-Champions-League-202324-Round-1-Draw-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/dogirq7bi39sv.cloudfront.net\/UEFA-Womens-Champions-League-202324-Round-1-Draw-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Two weeks today, on Friday 5 July, Cardiff City will find out their opponents for the first qualifying round of the 2024\/25 UEFA Women\u2019s Champions League.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following their Genero Adran Premier title-winning campaign, the Bluebirds will compete in Europe\u2019s most elite club competition for the second consecutive season.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first qualifying round of the UEFA Women\u2019s Champions League follows the format of a mini-tournament where clubs are drawn into groups of three or four based on seeding, which is decided by UEFA club coefficient. Cardiff City will be unseeded.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clubs compete in a semi-final and then either the final or third-place play-off, with only the winner of the final progressing to a two-legged tie in round two. All games are played in the home country of one of the clubs in the group.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last season, in their first appearance in the UEFA Women\u2019s Champions League for a decade, Iain Darbyshire\u2019s side lost to Gintra of Lithuania in the semi-final before defeat to Irish side Shelbourne in the third-place play-off.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year, the semi-finals will be played on Wednesday 4 September, before the finals and third-place play-offs on Saturday 7 September.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re really excited to discover our opponents for the upcoming Women&#8217;s Champions League campaign,&#8221; Darbyshire told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk\/news\/202425-uefa-womens-champions-league-qualifying-draw-information\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">club&#8217;s website<\/a>. &#8220;Last year was a fantastic experience for us that we learned a great deal from, but we&#8217;ll be looking to improve on last year&#8217;s performances.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Watch the 2024\/25 UEFA Women\u2019s Champions League first qualifying round draw at 12pm on Friday 5 July on UEFA.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks today, on Friday 5 July, Cardiff City will find out their opponents for round one of the 2024\/25 UEFA Women\u2019s Champions League.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":8565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"ftr_img_focal":{"x":0.46,"y":0.38},"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"class_list":["post-8564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adran-premier"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8564"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8575,"href":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8564\/revisions\/8575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}