#120 Everything you need to know about the Women's Champions League
Soccer 101
TSS
4.9 • 853 Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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The 2022-23 Women's Champions League season is underway, so Ryan, Graham and Taylor are here to explain the history of the competition, its dominant teams and players, and its outlook for the future!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Soccer 101, the podcast where we scratched the soccer itches you never knew you had. |
| 0:20.6 | This week, as we record, the 22nd edition of the UEFA Women's Champions League has kicked off. |
| 0:26.9 | Leon are the defending champions after humbling Barcelona in the final last season. |
| 0:31.9 | Today we're digging into the biggest domestic contest in women's soccer. |
| 0:36.1 | We're looking at the format, the major players, |
| 0:38.4 | the history of the competition and the reasons you should be tuning in this season. My name's |
| 0:44.4 | Ryan Bailey, joining me at two fellows with the WCL Skinny, Taylor Rockwell, hello. Hello. |
| 0:50.4 | Graham Ruthven, hi. Hi, Ryan Bailey. Hi, Graham, ifutherland. Graham, if you will, a little introduction to the Champions League, |
| 0:58.1 | the Women's Champions League, I should say. What is it? |
| 1:01.7 | So this one is fairly self-explanatory because most, if not all listeners, will know what the men's |
| 1:07.7 | Champions League is and be familiar with that competition. And as the name suggests, |
| 1:12.6 | the women's Champions League is the women's soccer equivalent. So for anyone who doesn't know |
| 1:18.1 | what the Champions League concept is, it's a pan-European competition that pits the biggest and |
| 1:24.0 | best clubs from across the continent against each other. |
| 1:32.3 | There are 16 teams involved in the group stages of this season's Women's Champions League, four groups of four. From there you have the quarterfinals involving eight teams |
| 1:36.9 | as it's customary and then you have, sorry, the quarterfinals is made up of the top two |
| 1:41.3 | teams from each group and then you have semifinals and then a single-legged final to crown a champion. |
| 1:47.3 | Marvelous stuff, Graham. And the competition proper has just kicked off this week. |
| 1:52.6 | But there's a qualification process too, right? |
| 1:55.2 | Yeah. That's right. So as things stand and the format of the women's champions |
| 1:59.3 | league has changed quite a bit over the years as the women's game has grown in Europe. |
| 2:03.7 | And the most recent change happened for the start of last season. |
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