Women’s Champions League Wrap - Caldwell flys the flag for Ireland

With Liam Scales flying the flag for Ireland in the Champions League with Celtic, this week Diane Caldwell was the lone Irish woman lining out in the Champions League.

At the Stadion Letzigrund, Zurich lost 6-0 to Ajax with Caldwell playing the 90 minutes.

The Women’s Champions League second round is a set of knock out two legged matches with the winners earning a place in the group stages which begin next month.

The winners of the knock out ties (seven teams from the Champions path and five from the League path) will join Barcelona, Lyon, Bayern Munich and Chelsea in the 16 team (four group) group stages in November.

Glasgow City defeated Shelbourne in the Champions League first round.

In Wednesday night’s second round first leg tie Aoife Colvill, Emily Whelan and Abbie Larkin (who made her full debut for City at the weekend having recently signed from Shamrock Rovers) were all unused subs as City went down 4-0 at home to Norwegian side Brann in the game played at Petershill Park in Glasgow.

Other Wednesday night first leg results

Real Madrid 2 – 1 Valerenga

Roma 3 - 0 Vorskla

Apollon 0 – 7 Benfica

Spartak Subotica 1 – 2 Rosengard

Slavia Praha 5 – 0 Cluj

Hacken 2 – 2 Twente

Aoife Mannion remains out injured so she wasn’t part of the Manchester United team who drew 1-1 with PSG in the Leigh Sports Village on Tuesday night.

With the heavy defeats for Zurich and Glasgow City, Mannion is likely to be Ireland's only hope of a player in the group stages if her team can progress by PSG.

Other Tuesday night first leg results

Paris FC 3 – 3 Wolfsburg

Eintracht Frankfurt 5 – 0 Sparta Praha

Valur – 0 4 St Polten

All the second leg ties will take place on Wednesday 18^th October.

Collie O’Neill on this weekend’s Hoops and Shels cup clash in Tallaght https://t.co/T8NJVemmQEpic.twitter.com/SYBKA539YZ

— Extratime.com (@ExtratimeNews) October 11, 2023