HOW DOES THE FORMAT WORK?
United Girls progressed to the ‘Group 1’ closing following our semi-final win over PSV, with Hammarby having performed the identical after their aforementioned success over Metalist Kharkiv.
The second-round qualifying stage has been cut up into mini teams, with United now only one win away from a spot within the third spherical qualifying stage, which is slated as a two-legged affair for a spot within the UEFA Girls’s Champions League group levels.
The third qualifying spherical entails 9 two-legged ties, cut up between the champions path (4 ties) and the league path (5 ties). The winners of every of these video games will then enter the league section, with the defeated sides coming into the Europa Cup on the second qualifying spherical stage.
Meaning even when United lose on Saturday, we might nonetheless guarantee European soccer this time period by advantage of the Europa Cup, which is debuting this season, though extra qualifiers shall be wanted to make sure a spot in that competitors’s personal group levels.
