{"id":27679,"date":"2025-09-17T20:44:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T20:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/27679\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T20:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T20:44:09","slug":"athlone-towns-europa-cup-run-ends-with-defeat-to-glasgow-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/27679\/","title":{"rendered":"Athlone Town\u2019s Europa Cup run ends with defeat to Glasgow City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Athlone Town 0 Glasgow City 3 (Glasgow win 6-0 in aggregate)\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Glasgow City players celebrate their side's first goal, scored by Ireland international Emily Whelan, during the Uefa Women's Europa Cup first qualifying round second leg match at Athlone Town Stadium, Westmeath. Photo: Piaras \u00d3 M\u00eddheach\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Sports3240369.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Glasgow City players celebrate their side&#8217;s first goal, scored by Ireland international Emily Whelan, during the Uefa Women&#8217;s Europa Cup first qualifying round second leg match at Athlone Town Stadium, Westmeath. Photo: Piaras \u00d3 M\u00eddheach\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Athlone Town\u2019s European run has come to an end after defeat to Glasgow City in Lissywoolen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Trailing 3-0 from last week\u2019s Europa Cup first qualifying round first leg, a 3-0 home defeat \u2013 the opener scored by Ireland international Emily Whelan \u2013 spelled the end of a swashbuckling run in Europe for the Westmeath club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Whelan scored her first goal of the season to put the tie out of Athlone\u2019s reach on 33 minutes with a close-range header.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A second-half double from Nicole Kozlova made it a tough night for the midlanders, who will now turn their attentions to the domestic League and Cup double.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Town are currently top of the Women\u2019s League of Ireland Premier Division and booked their place in the FAI Cup final after beating Shamrock Rovers last weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Athlone Town 0 Glasgow City 3 (Glasgow win 6-0 in aggregate) Glasgow City players celebrate their side&#8217;s first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-27679","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-latest-news-ticker","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}