{"id":31637,"date":"2025-06-24T12:33:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T12:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/womens-champions-league-cardiff-draw-athlone-in-first-qualifying-round\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T12:33:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T12:33:49","slug":"womens-champions-league-cardiff-draw-athlone-in-first-qualifying-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/womens-champions-league-cardiff-draw-athlone-in-first-qualifying-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Champions League: Cardiff draw Athlone in first qualifying round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Welsh double winners Cardiff City will take on Athlone Town in the first qualifying round of the Uefa Women&#8217;s Champions League.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Bluebirds will face the Irish side in a Group 5 semi-final on Wednesday, 30 July at a venue to be decided.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The winners will face Croatian champions ZNK Agram in the group final on Saturday, 3 August to decide who progresses to the second round of qualifying.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In March, Cardiff lifted the Adran Premier League title <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cm2xnk7dd76o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">for a third successive season<\/a> with victory against The New Saints. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They then beat Wrexham 3-1 in April to secure <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cgm8pr027r0o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">a fourth successive Bute Energy Welsh Cup<\/a> triumph.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cr4w65ppedyo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welsh double winners Cardiff City will take on Athlone Town in the first qualifying round of the Uefa Women&#8217;s Champions League. The Bluebirds will face the Irish side in a Group 5 semi-final on Wednesday, 30 July at a venue to be decided. The winners will face Croatian champions ZNK Agram in the group final [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[10666,1251,2629,167,206,3002,1705],"class_list":["post-31637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wales","tag-athlone","tag-cardiff","tag-champions","tag-draw","tag-league","tag-qualifying","tag-womens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31639,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31637\/revisions\/31639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}