{"id":8581,"date":"2024-07-05T12:43:19","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T11:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/?p=8581"},"modified":"2025-06-24T11:45:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T10:45:57","slug":"cardiff-city-to-meet-fc-twente-in-uefa-womens-champions-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/news\/cardiff-city-to-meet-fc-twente-in-uefa-womens-champions-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff City to meet FC Twente in UEFA Women&#8217;s Champions League"},"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-202425-Round-1-Draw-4-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8583\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dogirq7bi39sv.cloudfront.net\/UEFA-Womens-Champions-League-202425-Round-1-Draw-4-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dogirq7bi39sv.cloudfront.net\/UEFA-Womens-Champions-League-202425-Round-1-Draw-4-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dogirq7bi39sv.cloudfront.net\/UEFA-Womens-Champions-League-202425-Round-1-Draw-4-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dogirq7bi39sv.cloudfront.net\/UEFA-Womens-Champions-League-202425-Round-1-Draw-4-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/dogirq7bi39sv.cloudfront.net\/UEFA-Womens-Champions-League-202425-Round-1-Draw-4-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Cardiff City have been drawn to play Dutch side FC Twente in the semi-final stage of the 2024\/25 UEFA Women\u2019s Champions League first qualifying round.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other semi-final in the Bluebirds\u2019 qualifying group sees Iceland\u2019s Valur face ZFK Ljuboten of North Macedonia.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two semi-final winners will meet in the final for a place in the second qualifying round, while the two losers will meet in the third-place play-off.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The semi-finals will be played on Wednesday 4 September, before the final and third-place play-off on Saturday 7 September. All matches in the group will be hosted by one of the clubs (to be determined).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FC Twente have won the Eredivisie Vrouwen title in three of the last four seasons and six times in total. They have reached the round of 16 of the UEFA Women\u2019s Champions League on three previous occasions, most recently in 2020.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Group 5\u2019s other semi-final, Valur are 14-time champions of the Icelandic squad and their squad contains multiple Iceland internationals, while ZFK Ljuboten have won the title in North Macedonia in each of the last three seasons.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\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-202425-Round-1-Draw-2-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dogirq7bi39sv.cloudfront.net\/UEFA-Womens-Champions-League-202425-Round-1-Draw-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dogirq7bi39sv.cloudfront.net\/UEFA-Womens-Champions-League-202425-Round-1-Draw-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dogirq7bi39sv.cloudfront.net\/UEFA-Womens-Champions-League-202425-Round-1-Draw-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dogirq7bi39sv.cloudfront.net\/UEFA-Womens-Champions-League-202425-Round-1-Draw-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/dogirq7bi39sv.cloudfront.net\/UEFA-Womens-Champions-League-202425-Round-1-Draw-2-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardiff City have been drawn to play Dutch side FC Twente in the 2024\/25 UEFA Women\u2019s Champions League first qualifying round.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":8585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"ftr_img_focal":{"x":0.58,"y":0.3},"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"class_list":["post-8581","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\/8581","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=8581"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11004,"href":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8581\/revisions\/11004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}