The kickers from Arsenal, Wolfsburg, Juventus Turin and Manchester United will have to watch when the group phase of the Women’s Champions League kicks off on Tuesday. St. Pölten is there and will welcome Brann Bergen at the start (6.45 p.m.), the opponent who will probably lead the way to the big goal: a place in the quarter-finals. “It’s a decisive game right away,” said coach Liese Brancao.
After the draw, she had already set her sights on second place behind the favorites from Lyon. This would bring us into the knockout rounds. Brancao: “It’s a group in which you can come second or fourth. But we have to dream big if we want to achieve something.” As in the previous year, your team fought its way through the qualification, Slavia Prague were already group opponents. The games ended 1-0 and 1-1. Things will also get serious for Barbara Dunst, Verena Hanshaw and Virginia Kirchberger today with Frankfurt in Malmö against Rosengard. Tomorrow there will be an ÖFB duel: Laura Feiersinger will be a guest with AS Roma at Bayern Munich with Sarah Zadrazil and Katharina Naschenweng.
The sporting challenge is great, but the financial aspect is not nearly as important as for the men: each participant in the group phase receives 400,000 euros. For comparison: Salzburg received more than 15 million euros as a starting bonus for men this year.
