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Monday 06 October 2025 12:50
Manchester United Women host Norwegian side Valerenga on Wednesday, in the first of six league-phase games in this season’s UEFA Champions League.
The Reds have happy associations with Scandinavia already this season, beating PSV Eindhoven and Hammarby in Sweden and eliminating Brann 3-1 on aggregate to qualify to this stage, for the first time ever.
Marc Skinner’s side are preparing to make history and you can be there to watch them do it, as tickets are still available for the 20:00 BST kick-off at the Progress with Unity Stadium.
Scroll further down to learn more about the game…
HOW TO WATCH IT LIVE
United have played in front of some bumper crowds already this term, and the Reds would appreciate your support on Wednesday.
Tickets can be purchased from here and they are priced at £6 for children and pensioners, and £12 for over-16s.
If you can’t make it to Leigh, the game is being broadcast live on Disney+ in the UK.
Over on our YouTube channel, we’ll be streaming a live watchalong, with Liam Bradford, ex-Red Aoife Mannion and former England defender Lindsay Johnson.
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TEAM NEWS
Fourteen Reds featured in Friday night’s meeting with Chelsea, as we ended the Blues’ 100 per cent start to the WSL season.
Anna Sandberg made a goalscoring return to the line-up, following illness, while Simi Awujo and Hannah Blundell were included on the bench for the first time in 2025/26.
Leah Galton has been taking part in training as she builds towards a comeback from injury, but Millie Turner is out until Christmas, meaning she will miss our six scheduled European games.
GET TO KNOW VALERENGA
The Oslo-based outfit have lifted the Toppserien title in each of the last two seasons and are currently engaged in a titanic tussle with Brann, as they seek to clinch a third success in a row.
Four points separate the sides and, with five games to play, second-placed Valerenga will have one eye on Sunday’s top-of-the-table fixture. The capital club will, no doubt, fancy their chances of closing the gap too, after they ended Brann’s long unbeaten domestic run in September’s Norwegian Cup semi-finals.
Valerenga overcame HJK Helsinki, Slavia Prague and Ferencvaros to reach this stage, scoring 10 goals and conceding just one.
Their key player Olaug Tvedten has 27 goal involvements in the Toppserien, although she is yet to score in the Champions League, while 37-year-old Elise Thorsnes arrives in Leigh with a spring in her step, having scored a hat-trick in Friday’s 4-1 victory over Bodo/Glimt.
Valerenga played Arsenal, Bayern Munich and Juventus in last season’s competition.
HOW THE COMPETITION WORKS
The format of the Women’s Champions League has been changed this term, to more closely mirror the men’s tournament.
For September’s draw, the 18 competing teams were divided into three pots of six, based on coefficients. Each club has six fixtures – three home, three away – against two clubs from each pot, but there are no groups – like the men’s Champions League, the results are now displayed in one giant table.
At the end of the league phase, in December, the teams ranked from first to fourth will qualify for the tournament’s quarter finals, while those fifth to 12th will face off in two-legged play-offs to determine who will join them.
Those in the bottom six will be eliminated from European competition for this season.
90 in 20: United v Brann Video
90 in 20: United v Brann
90 IN 20 | Extended highlights from a huge night of Champions League action for United Women and Elisabeth Terland…
THIS WEEK’S FIXTURES
TUESDAY 7 OCTOBER
Juventus v Benfica (17:45 BST)
Arsenal v OL Lyonnes
Barcelona v Bayern Munich
Paris FC v OH Leuven
WEDNESDAY 8 OCTOBER
Real Madrid v Roma (17:45 BST)
Twente v Chelsea (17:45 BST)
Manchester United vs Valerenga
St. Polten v Atletico Madrid
Wolfsburg v PSG
All kick-off times 20:00 BST unless stated.
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