Arsenal Girls’s Champions League recreation towards Bayern Munich has been moved to Meadow Park to keep away from an Emirates Stadium scheduling conflict with the lads’s group.
has granted “particular dispensation” for to play the fixture on the 4,500-capacity stadium, residence to sixth-tier Boreham Wooden, because of the “distinctive mixture of things that required a brand new venue”. Meadow Park’s services don’t meet UEFA’s stadium infrastructure rules, which come into power from the group phases of the competitors onwards.
The English Soccer League () introduced the dates for the Carabao Cup quarter finals earlier this month, with Arsenal’s tie towards slated for Wednesday, December 18 — the identical day as the ladies’s match towards Bayern.
Each video games have been attributable to be performed on the Emirates after Arsenal said in Might that they might play eight of their 11 Girls’s Tremendous League (WSL) video games and all three of their Champions League group fixtures on the north London stadium. Tickets for Arsenal’s match towards Bayern had been on sale since September.
Following the EFL’s announcement, Arsenal confirmed that they have been “liaising” with UEFA and additional particulars in regards to the Bayern recreation could be forthcoming.
Now the sport will probably be performed on the identical date however at a unique venue. Supporters who had bought tickets for the Girls’s Champions League fixture on the Emirates will obtain a full refund, and new tickets will probably be out there from Tuesday November 26 on a first-come, first-served foundation.
Arsenal Girls have performed fixtures on the Emirates with rising regularity lately. Earlier than the Emirates was introduced as their major residence forward of the 2024-25 marketing campaign, Meadow Park had been their residence stadium as a part of a floor share with Boreham Wooden.
From a males’s fixture scheduling perspective, are internet hosting within the Carabao Cup on Thursday, December 19. Policing guidelines round crowding dictate that Arsenal and Spurs can’t play at residence on the identical evening, which dominated out pushing the match again a day.
Arsenal have additionally been scheduled to face Palace on Saturday, December 21 within the late afternoon UK broadcast slot, which was introduced on October 15.
Transferring the Carabao Cup recreation ahead a day to Tuesday, December 17 was thought-about, however was unrealistic provided that Palace journey to Brighton & Hove Albion on Sunday, December 15, which might have given them simply someday between matches. Because of this, Wednesday, December 18 emerged as the one day for the lads’s fixture to be performed.
The Champions League recreation can also be Arsenal and Bayern’s closing match earlier than their winter breaks, with the pair not enjoying till mid-January and early February respectively. That, it appears, made it simpler to reschedule their fixture.
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