The UEFA Women’s Champions League 1st Round draw sees Arsenal face Kazakh opponents in the August group semi-finals.
Glasgow City face Birkirkara of Malta, Celtic first UWCL opponents are Spain’s Levante, Swansea City will face CSKA, Glentoran meet Switzerland’s FC Servette and Peamount United play Spartak Subotica from Serbia.
Hosts for the group mini-tournaments are to be confirmed shortly.
Round 1 is one of two rounds before the new 16-team group stage, which begins in October. It will be split into two paths: the champions path and the league path. In both paths, round 1 will consist of two stages, each of one-off matches: semi-finals (18 August) and finals/third-place play-offs (21 August). The winners of each final (11 in champions path, four in league path) will progress to round 2.
Champions Path
Group 1: Breidablik v KI Klaksvik, Gintra v Flora Tallinn
Group 2: Glasgow City v Birkirkara, BIIK Shymkent v SK Slovan Bratislava
Group 3: Anderlecht v FC Hayasa, SMK Osijek v Breznica
Group 4: SFK 2000 Sarajevo v Racing FC Union, Benfica v Kiryat Gat
Group 5: Olimpia Cluj v Aland United, Servette v Glentoran
Group 6: CSKA v Swansea City, Apollon v FC Dinamo
Group 7: PAOK v Agarista Anneni Noi, Valerenga v Mitrovca
Group 8: Juventus v Kamenica Sasa, St Polten v Besiktas
Group 9: FC Twente v WFC Nike, Spartak Subotica v Peamount United
Group 10: Kharkiv v NSC Sofia, Pomurje Beltinci v Rigas FS
Group 11: Vllaznia (bye), Ferencvaros v Czami Sosnowiec
League Path
Group 1: TSG Hoffenheim v Valur, FC Zurich v AC Milan
Group 2: Brondby v Kristianstads, Bordeaux v Slovacko
Group 3: Levante UD v Celtic, Minsk v Rosenborg
Group 4: Arsenal v Okzhetpes, PSV Eindhoven v Lokomotiv Moscow
The Round 2 draw will be made on 22 August.
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