Meet a UEFA Women’s Champions League final eight

The contenders

Barcelona, Chelsea, Linköping, Lyon (holders), Manchester City, Montpellier, Slavia Praha, Wolfsburg

The dates

Quarter-final semi-final draw: 13:30CET, 24 Nov (streamed live)
Quarter-finals: 21/22 28/29 March
Semi-finals: 21/22 28/29 April
Final: 24 May – Valeriy Lobanovskiy Dynamo Stadium, Kyiv

Meet a teams

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Barcelona (ESP)

Best performance: semi-finals 2017
Quarter-final record: W1 L2
Top scorers: Mariona Caldentey, Toni Duggan 3

• Barcelona are in a quarter-finals for a fourth time in 5 years.

• Last deteriorate they kick Rosengård to make a semi-finals for a initial time, going out to Paris Saint-Germain.

• They strengthened in a summer with a series of signings including Lieke Martens, who went on to win UEFA Women’s EURO 2017 with a Netherlands and be named UEFA and FIFA’s actor of a year.

Chelsea (ENG)

Best performance: initial quarter-final
Top scorer: Fran Kirby 2

• Chelsea are a usually quarter-finalists in this turn for a initial time.

• After losing to Wolfsburg in a turn of 16 in 2015/16 and in a final 32 final term, Chelsea have knocked out Bayern München and Rosengård in their third campaign.

• Among their patrol are Karen Carney, Katie Chapman, Gemma Davison and Gilly Flaherty, all partial of a usually prior English organisation to win this competition, Arsenal in 2006/07; Chelsea trainer Emma Hayes was also partial of a Gunners coaching staff then.

Linköping (SWE)

Best performance: quarter-finals 2011, 2015, 2017
Quarter-final record: W0 L2
Top scorer: Lina Hurtig 4

• Linköping fell in their prior quarter-finals to Arsenal (2011) and Brøndby (2015).

• Whatever happens, Linköping will be behind in this foe subsequent deteriorate after maintaining a Swedish title; they are a solitary remaining contender from a summer league.

• Their joining championship win came notwithstanding a close-season departures of Pernille Harder to Wolfsburg and Stina Blackstenius to Montpellier.

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Lyon (FRA, holders)

Best performance: winners 2011, 2012, 2016, 2017
Quarter-final record: W8 L0
Top scorer: Ada Hegerberg 13

• Lyon, for whom Hegerberg is one off a deteriorate record for goals in this competition, aim to turn a initial five-time winners and a usually side to lift a prize 3 years in a row.

• In a final 16, Camille Abily equalled Emma Byrne’s record of 77 appearances in this foe and her hat-trick took her to 42 European goals for OL, a many anyone has for a singular club. Earlier this autumn Lyon became a initial organisation to play 80 UEFA women’s bar games.

• OL mislaid home second legs to Wolfsburg and Manchester City in a entertain and semi-finals respectively final deteriorate though still won through. Their final rejecting was in a 2014/15 turn of 16 to Paris Saint-Germain.

Manchester City (ENG)

Best performance: semi-finals 2017
Quarter-final record: W1 L0
Top scorers: Nikita Parris 3

• City reached a semi-finals on their entrance final season, descending to Lyon.

• The bar won a final ‘summer’ English joining pretension in 2016 and sojourn a champions; a FA Women’s Super League now has an autumn-to-spring season.

• Denmark’s Nadia Nadim will join before a quarter-finals from Portland Thorns; in her 4 prior campaigns with Fortuna Hjørring she mislaid any time in a turn of 16.

Montpellier (FRA)

Best performance: semi-finals 2006
Quarter-final record: W1 L0
Top scorer: Sofia Jakobsson 3

• Montpellier finished above 2017 UEFA Women’s Champions League runners-up Paris to explain France’s second berth in this season’s competition.

• In a turn of 32 they mislaid 1-0 during home to former finalists Zvezda-2005 before winning 2-0 in Russia, while in a final 16 they twice trailed before a 3-2 first-leg feat during Brescia.

• En track to a 2006 semis, they drew a organisation diversion with Turbine Potsdam and knocked out Brøndby before succumbing on divided goals to FFC Frankfurt.

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Slavia Praha (CZE)

Best performance: quarter-finals 2016
Quarter-final record: W0 L1
Top scorer: Kateřina Svitková 5

• Slavia fell to Lyon in their usually prior quarter-final, a second time in their 4 past campaigns they have left out to a contingent winners after Umeå in 2004.

• The usually other sides to hit them out of Europe are Barcelona and Rosengård.

• With Sparta also removing past a final 32, Prague was a initial city ever to have dual teams in a turn of 16.

Wolfsburg (GER)

Best performance: winners 2013, 2014
Quarter-final record: W4 L1
Top scorers: Sara Bjork Gunnarsdóttir, Pernille Harder, Alex Popp, Tessa Wullaert 4

• The Wolves suffered a initial quarter-final better in 2016/17 to Lyon, whom they had beaten for their initial pretension in a 2013 final though mislaid to in a 2016 decider.

• Ralf Kellermann, who led Wolfsburg in all their prior European campaigns, stepped behind from coaching final summer to concentration on his sporting executive role, transposed by Stephan Lerch

• Wolfsburg have constructed convincing wins so distant opposite Spanish champions Atlético Madrid and Serie A pretension holders Fiorentina.