Arsenal have lastly confirmed that their Girls’s Champions League match towards Bayern Munich can be performed at Meadow Park, after a scheduling conflict with the boys’s crew.
After with Arsenal’s League Cup quarter-final tie towards Crystal Palace, the Arsenal Girls have been compelled to relocate their Girls’s Champions League tie towards Bayern Munich from the Emirates Stadium to Meadow Park.
Arsenal’s confirmed the change on Monday, writing that the match will nonetheless be performed on Wednesday, December 18th at 20:00 GMT, however it’ll now happen at Meadow Park in Borehamwood.
The Gunners had already offered hundreds of tickets for the fixture on the Emirates Stadium, and so they’ve confirmed that supporters can be refunded the price of that ticket.
Followers who had bought tickets will then get a 24-hour precedence entry window to purchase a ticket for the brand new Meadow Park recreation. Arsenal are additionally providing both a complimentary ticket to a future WSL recreation or a £20 retail voucher to those that had already purchased tickets.
Understandably, many followers are nonetheless annoyed. This recreation was scheduled in first, and it’s very potential many who had booked to attend on the Emirates now gained’t have the ability to at Meadow Park.
However the logistics of becoming each video games in made it tough to see another.
Palace have a derby recreation towards Brighton the earlier Sunday, a fixture which has been for TV protection.
If the League Cup recreation was scheduled for the Thursday, that will give each golf equipment lower than 48 hours to arrange for his or her Premier League conflict on Saturday.
But when the sport befell on Tuesday, Palace would solely have two days to recuperate from the Brighton recreation.
That additionally wouldn’t have solved the conflict with the ladies’s recreation, as UEFA guidelines require Arsenal to present their opponents the possibility to make use of the stadium the day earlier than the sport. Bayern wouldn’t have the ability to use the stadium if the Arsenal males have been enjoying towards Crystal Palace that day.
The one cheap different answer was that the boys hand over dwelling benefit and stadium income to reverse their League Cup fixture and play at Selhurst Park as an alternative. That seems to have been a bridge too far for the membership.