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Larissa Mühlhaus 78th Minute penalty strike earned Werder Bremen a 1-0 win over Hoffenheim to conclude the 16th round of Frauen Bundesliga.
Bayern remain 3pts clear disposing of Köln 3-0 Lara Prašnikar struck the winner for Eintracht in a 2-1 win over Essen. . Wolfsburg dug out a 2-0 win over a battling Leipzig side to remain third
Lilla Turányi header secured the points for Leverkusen at Jena to remain on contention of a top 3 spot.
Manchester City Women have parted ways with Head Coach Gareth Taylor.
In a club statement Managing Director Charlotte O’Neill said: “Manchester City prides itself on competing at the top of the WSL and on its outstanding record of qualifying for European competition.
“Unfortunately, results this season have so far not reached this high standard.
“With six games of the WSL campaign remaining, we believe that a change of management will breathe fresh life into our bid to ensure qualification for the 2025/26 UEFA Women’s Champions League.
Former Manchester City Women coach Nick Cushing will succeed Gareth on an interim basis for the remainder of the 2024/25 season.
Newcomers Liaoning stunned champions Wuhan with a opening round 3-0 victory.
Macleans Chinonyerem opened the scoring in the opening minute racing onto a beautiful through ball and calmly slotting the ball home. Adélle Naomie Kabre doubled the advantage on 41 minutes heading home at the near post.
A sweeping move was superbly executed by Adélle Naomie Kabre on 69 minutes to complete superb team performance.
China Women’s Super League
Results
Shandong 0-2 Jiangsu
Ziqin Shao 12
Jin Kun 75
Shaanxi 1-1 Beijing
Fan Yu og 6 Mengjia Yao 27
Wuhan 0-3 Liaoning
Macleans Chinonyerem 1
Adélle Naomie Kabre 41 69
The basic schedule for the Brasilerão Femenino 2025 has been released by the CBF. Champions Corinthians face a test at São Paulo on opening day. The first phase runs through to June 18 before a break for Copa America.
Full Schedule
Phase 1 23-03 to 18/06
Phase 2
QF
10/08
17/08
SF
24/08
31/08
Final
07/09
14/09
Champions Corinthians schedule
The Brasilerão Femenino scheduled to commence March 23 and will last approximately six months. The final is scheduled for September 14.
“We are preparing to hold the best edition of the Brasileirão Feminino. The CBF has increased its investment in the competition, increasing the quotas, as well as all transportation, logistics and accommodation for the teams. The goal is to make women’s football stronger and stronger each season,” said CBF president Ednaldo Rodrigues
In 2025, the entity expanded the delegations of visiting clubs. From this edition onwards, each club will travel with 30 members, who will have transportation, logistics, food, among other actions, fully funded by the CBF.
Clubs will be able to register a maximum of 50 athletes in the competition, until 08/08/2025 (Friday, the day before the quarter-finals).
The CBF Concussion Protocol will also be adopted in the Brazilian A1. The protocol establishes an extra substitution if a player suffers a concussion due to a blow to the head. If necessary, the team doctor, who is solely responsible for diagnosing the injury, must inform the referee using a red card.
The extra substitution provided for in the protocol can only be used once by each team on the field. The substituted athlete must be away for a minimum period of 5 days from the moment of the head injury.
The CBF will pay for all refereeing and will use VAR in all matches from the quarter-finals of the competition onwards.
The African contingency mounts ahead of the new season in the Chinese Women Super League as Hangzhou welcome Ghana WPL current top scorer the highly talented Mary Amponsah. Mary moves on from Ampem Darkoa where she was the league leading scorer with 14 goals after 13 rounds.
Mary-Ann Ogochukwu Ezenagu (24 years) moves on from the Russian Women’s Super League who featured for Rivers Angels and Bayelsa Queens in the CAF Women’s Champions League. She was also a youth international and a very talented player playing at the 2016 Fifa Women’s Under 17 WWC.
CWSL 2025
Changchun confirmed the signings of African trio Sandrine Niyonkuru, Ochumba Lubandji and Aisha Nantongo
Sandrine Niyonkuru the star of the Egyptian Women’s Premier League in the past two years leading FC Masar to the championship and a third place spot in the 2024 CAF Women’s Champions League is joined by her club team mate Uganda international Aisha Nantongo a strong defender who will strengthen the defense of the vice champions.
Zambia’S Ochumba Lubandji joins the club from Red Arrows who had scored 20 gold in the opening half of the Zambia Women’s Super League season
Changchun Women’s Football Team has introduced four players. Among the four, the most famous one is former national team player Yao Lingwei. Born in 1995, Yao Lingwei played for Jiangsu Women’s Football Team as a defensive midfielder.
In addition, Wang Huimin and Cui Miaomiao, who were born in 2003, and Bai Yifan, who was born in 2000, also
Champions Cup Final 4 will start Jan 28- Feb 1
Round 1
AFC Champion v OFC champion
Round 2
CAF WCL champions v preliminary round winner
Semi Final
Uefa WCL v round 2 winner
Libertadores Feminina champions v Concacaf Women’s Champions Cup champion
FIFA Women’s Champions Cup 2026 qualification timeline: continental club competition finals
AFC Women’s Champions League: 24 May 2025
CAF Women’s Champions League: 23 November 2025
Concacaf W Champions Cup: 24 May 2025
CONMEBOL Libertadores Femenina: 18 October 2025
OFC Women’s Champions League: 17 May 2025
UEFA Women’s Champions League: 24 May 2025
Fifa Women’s Champions Cup Final 4 dates
2026 Jan 28 to Feb 1
2027 Jan 27 to Jan 31
AFC Women’s Champions League
Quarter Final
March 22 Incheon v Bam Khatoon
March 22 Ho Chin Ming City v Abu Dhabi Country Club
March 23 Melbourne City v Blue Whale
March 23 Urawa v Wuhan
Concacaf Women’s Championships Cup
Semi Final
May 21 Tigres v Portland
May 21 America v Gotham
Final May 24
Conmebol Libertadores Feminina
Teams Qualified
Argentina Boca, San Lorenzo
Brasil, Corinthians, São Paulo, Ferroviária
Chile Colo Colo, U de Chile
Colombia 2025 champion and runner up
Ecuador 2025 Champion
Paraguay Libertad, Olimpia
Peru 2025 champion
Uruguay Nacional
Venezuela 2025 champion
OFC Women’s Champions League Tahiti
Tahiti Tupapa Maraerenga
PNG Hekari United
New Zealand Auckland
Fiji Ba
Vanuatu Penama Tigers
Others to be announced
UEFA Women’s Champions League
Quarter Final
First Leg
March 18 Real Madrid v Arsenal
March 18 Bayern v Lyon
March 19 Wolfsburg v Barcelona
March 19 Man City v Chelsea
Second Leg
March 26 Lyon v Bayern
March 26 Arsenal v Real Madrid
March 27 Barcelona v Wolfsburg
March 27 Chelsea v Man City
13 clubs will earn a direct passage while the remaining three will qualify via a one off match play in route.
Direct slots
AFC x2
CAF x2
Concacaf x2
Conmebol x2
UEFA x5
Play in slots
All confederations AFC, CAF, Concacaf, Conmebol, OFC and UEFA obtain one play in position of which three ties will be drawn with the matches played in a single tie, the three winners advancing to the Group stage of the Fifa Women’s World Club Cup
Squads
Uganda v Kenya
Cameroun v Ethiopia
Botswana v Algeria
South Africa v Nigeria
Tanzania v Zambia
Benin v RD Congo
Côte D’ivoire v Burundi
Sierra Leone v Guinea
Conmebol Women’s Under 17 WWC Qualifying tournament calendar has been announced.
The tournament will commence on May 1st as Venezuela will face Chile and host Colombia entertain Argentina.
May 2nd sees Group B action get underway as Bolivia face Uruguay and Brasil play Peru.
Group A
Colombia
Paraguay
Chile
Argentina
Venezuela
Group B
Brasil
Ecuador
Uruguay
Peru
Bolivia
The top three in each group advance to the second phase of which 4 teams will qualify for the FIFA Women’s Under 17 WWC in Morocco.
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