{"id":178384,"date":"2025-10-04T03:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T03:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/178384\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T03:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T03:51:09","slug":"womens-champions-cup-london-to-host-inaugural-inter-continental-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/178384\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Champions Cup: London to host inaugural inter-continental championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">London will host the final matches in the new Women&#8217;s Champions Cup early next year, Fifa has announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The competition will bring together the champions of the different continental competitions, similar to the old format of the men&#8217;s Club World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The four matches in the final phase &#8211; two semi-finals, a third-place match and the final &#8211; will be played in London between 28 January and 1 February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The venue in London is yet to be confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Arsenal will be Europe&#8217;s representatives in the tournament <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/live\/cy750rjxyy2t\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">after they won the Women&#8217;s Champions League<\/a> last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In their semi-final they will face whichever team emerges from the play-off matches featuring the champions of Asia, Africa and Oceania.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"London will host the final matches in the new Women&#8217;s Champions Cup early next year, Fifa has announced.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-178384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}