{"id":784578,"date":"2026-07-25T23:58:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T23:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/784578\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T23:58:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T23:58:14","slug":"wrexham-women-bow-out-of-champions-league-qualifying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/784578\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrexham Women bow out of Champions League qualifying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wrexham&#8217;s debut European campaign came to an end after a 4-1 defeat against Latvian side Riga FC in the Women&#8217;s Champions League qualifying second round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Adran Premier champions had led 1-0 until the 50th minute after Lili Jones scored her second European goal to give them an early lead at the Racecourse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Latvian title holders Riga turned the first qualifying round final in their favour with quickfire goals from Minami Oi and Kumba Brima after the restart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Laura Kallase and Shiori Kato added further goals as the dominant Latvian champions ensured progression to the second round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was Wrexham, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/articles\/c5yveexxz5do\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">beat Armenian champions FC Pyunik<\/a> 4-2 in their Champions League debut on Wednesday, that started brightest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jones, scorer of Wrexham&#8217;s second in the semi-final, reacted quickest to Riga&#8217;s half-clearance and volleyed the hosts ahead in the ninth minute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wrexham&#8217;s debut European campaign came to an end after a 4-1 defeat against Latvian side Riga FC in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":784579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-784578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784578","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=784578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}