#uefa-womens-champions-league

#uefa-womens-champions-league

The UEFA Women's Champions League is back! With a new 18-team format, single group-stage table and tons of the world's best female players on show, this season will be bigger than ever. And you can catch every game live on Disney+ across Europe. Holders Arsenal face eight-time winners OL Lyonnes in the first round of fixtures, while the second of last year's semifinals, Chelsea vs. Barcelona, is also on the cards for later in the competition.

Each team will meet two random teams from each pot in a league system, rather than be separated into groups. The eighteen participanst will play six games each, with the top four advancing to the knockout stage, and the next eight to the knockout playoffs, where the four winners will follow the top four to the quarterfinals. From then, the tournament follows its usual two-legged knockout format, culminating in a one-off final, which will be held in Oslo.

In previous years, the draw placed teams into groups. But this year, it will create fixtures. The 18 teams placed in three pots based on their UEFA coefficient, will each play six games. They will draw two opponents from each of the three pots. In line with what has been happening across the world, the human touch has been forgone for supercomputers. A team will be drawn on stage (starting with Pot 1 and ending with Pot 3) following which a computer will select the club's six opponents and corresponding fixtures.

Disney+ has announced an observational documentary series titled 'The Rooneys,' featuring Wayne Rooney and his wife Coleen, capturing their life behind the scenes.

For the first time in 18 years, the Gunners have reached a continental final. Their commanding 4-1 victory turned a deficit into a triumphant ticket to Lisbon.

Lyon's high tempo and skilled attack proved too much for Arsenal, who couldn't convert their possession into goals, ultimately losing 2-1 in the semifinal's first leg.