UEFA Women’s Champions League Matchday 1 storylines, schedule: How to watch UWCL on Paramount+
A season full of first begins in the UEFA women’s Champions League this week as a new format, a first reigning champion and a share of new notable faces set the foundations for an exciting campaign to come.
As the male competition did a year ago, the UWCL will adopt the Swiss system from this season, the land going from 16 teams to 18 for the first edition of the league phase. Six championship phase games are planned for each team until mid-December, several high-level games in store, while the best teams in Europe compete for the first four places which automatically send them to the quarter-finals and will bring them a large jump from the final of May 24 at the Ullevaal Stadion of Oslo.
Match 1 will be titled by the Arsenal match against Ol Lyonnes, a match between the new European champions and the most successful team of the competition while each team seeks to demonstrate their references as a candidate for the title to start the new season. Barcelona, who won three of the last five titles in the Champions League, is also back on Tuesday against Bayern Munich, while Chelsea begins his quest to win the UWCL for the first time in Twente on Wednesday.
For the first time, CBS Sports will be the UWCL’s exclusive American house, with every minute of the action available on different platforms. This includes full coverage for match 1, with the calendar divided between Paramount +, CBS Sports Network and CBS Sports Golazo Network.
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How to look
Paramount + will be a one -stop shop for everything related to the Champions League, while CBS Sports Network and CBS Sports Golazo Network will have certain matches and additional coverage. The broadcast of each day begins with the UEFA female Champions League today on the paramount + and CBS Golazo Sports network before the start of the start, while Paramount + and CBS Sports Network will have an hour before the one -hour match to show Before subsequent matches. The post-match coverage will be broadcast on Paramount + and CBS Sports Network, while CBS Sports Golazo Network will have a new edition of Scoreline to close the action of the day.
The new studio show in the UEFA Champions League from CBS Sports will be anchored by Hannah Cash, while Jen BeattieJanelly Farias, Darian Jenkins,, Kelley O’Haraand Ali Riley will serve as analysts. Chris Wittyngham will take care of the Play-By-Play tasks and will be twinned with Beattie and Jenkins, while Anita Jones will bring back the flank of Pitch and Christina Unkel will be the rules of the rules.
The league phase arrives at the UWCL
The league phase will go to the female Champions League this season, the competition has gone from teams from 16 to 18 years for the new format. Each team will play six games during the league phase, the best four teams directly reserving their tickets for the quarter -finals. Eight other teams will qualify for the eliminations of the KO phase, with teams classified fifth to eighth to face these classifieds from ninth to 12th for a place in the quarterfinals. From there, the competition takes up a familiar KO format with all the eyes on the final of May 24 at Ullevaal Stadion in Oslo, Norway.
TV schedule for day 1
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Storylines for day 1
Arsenal, Lyon compete: This UWCL season does not waste time providing high caliber matches, serving a meeting between the Champions Régnant Arsenal and the eight Records Ol Lyonnes winners. It may be that it is at the start of the season, but this match arrives at a fascinating moment for the two teams – Lyon left perfect in the championship game under the new manager Jonatan Giraldez and after a busy summer, acquired Lily Yohannes, Marie -Antoinette Katoto and Jule Brand in the hope of winning their first title in Lyon since 2022. European, so Tuesday’s match offers Giralde a first chance to discover what its best starting program looks like.
As for Arsenal, the brilliance of his very first victory in the Champions League did not disappear – they completed this triumph with the prices of the female year’s club during the Ballon d’Or ceremony only two weeks ago – but this season was not a breeze. They only have two out of five victories to start the female season of the Super League and are without victory in their last three, disturbing, before a leading confrontation in Europe. The Gunners have the ability to keep competitive things on Tuesday, with a team with consecutive European champions Alessia Russo and Chloe Kelly and the Golden Ball finalist, Mariona Caldentey. That they put all the pieces in time for their first match of the Champions League, however, is a huge question.
USWNT Players in the UWCL: A handful of players from the American national women’s team will participate in the Champions League this season, many of them in teams with views of the ultimate price. Tuesday’s mark between Arsenal and Lyon will just present this while the Gunners, Emily Fox will face Lindsey Heaps from Lyon and Lily Yohannes, the latter could make his UWCL debut for his new club after a handful of representatives in Ajax.
Alyssa Thompson, on the other hand, could make her competition in competition when Chelsea goes to Twente, while the USWNT teammates Naomi Girma And Catarina Macario could also appear. Goalkeeper Phallon Tullis-Joyce will probably start for Manchester United while they welcome Valarenga on Wednesday, while Crystal Dunn Could appear for Paris Saint-Germain in Wolfsburg on the same day.
