Man United Women Secure First Champions League Main Draw Appearance with Win Over Brann – United Beyond Manchester

Whereas Manchester United’s males’s group is making historical past for the unsuitable causes, the ladies’s group is doing the other. After a 3-0 second-leg win over Brann, the MU Ladies are in the primary draw of the Champions League for the primary time in membership historical past.

Two first-half targets within the first 13 minutes by Elisabeth Terland erased a one-goal deficit and put Marc Skinner’s facet within the driver’s seat. Terland, a Norwegian worldwide, accomplished her hat-trick within the 62nd minute, giving United a 3-1 combination lead and placing the tie out of attain for the guests.

Wins over PSV, Hammarby, and at last Brann despatched United into the draw for the league part of the competitors. Elisabeth Terland scored seven of the eight targets for the Reds within the three qualifying rounds, with two hat tips.

Eighteen European sides are within the league part of the UEFA Ladies’s Champions League, together with fellow English groups Chelsea and Arsenal. Every membership will play six matches, three at dwelling and three away, to find out who advances to the following spherical. That is the primary yr that the Ladies’s Champions League will embody the league part quite than a bunch stage.

Manchester United will discover out their six opponents on Friday, September nineteenth.