{"id":304880,"date":"2025-11-21T09:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T09:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/304880\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T09:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T09:21:07","slug":"womens-champions-league-what-do-english-sides-need-to-progress-to-knockouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/304880\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Champions League: What do English sides need to progress to knockouts?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Four games down, two to go.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Women&#8217;s Champions League&#8217;s inaugural league phase is set for a thrilling finale as teams battle to qualify for the knockout stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last year&#8217;s beaten finalists Barcelona are the frontrunners, with record eight-time winners Lyon in close pursuit at the top, while main draw debutants Manchester United lead the way for the trio of Women&#8217;s Super League&#8217;s teams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Teams finishing first to fourth will automatically qualify for the quarter-finals, with the next eight teams &#8211; from fifth to 12th &#8211; facing off in two-legged play-offs to determine who will join them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Man Utd are among five teams who have already confirmed at least a place in the play-offs, along with Barcelona, Lyon, Wolfsburg and Bayern Munich.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BBC Sport takes a look at how the three English clubs have fared so far on the continental stage &#8211; and what is still to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four games down, two to go. The Women&#8217;s Champions League&#8217;s inaugural league phase is set for a thrilling&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-304880","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}