It is the return of Chelsea Women to the UEFA Women’s Champions League group stage, with the Blues taking on Austria Wien for the first time in history. Our first outing with their rivals, St. Pölten, went extremely well with the Blues taking them down 6-0 in Austria. Now hosting the fellow Frauen Bundesliga outfit at home, can we expect a similar scoreline?
Chelsea starting lineup (4-2-3-1):
Peng | Carpenter, Buchanan, Buurman, McCabe | Walsh (c), Nüsken | Baltimore, Kaptein, Thompson | Malard
Substitutes
from: Hampton, Rudz, Girma, Björn, Las, Bronze, Dragoni, Hamano, Brown, Potter, Sarwie
Austria Wien starting eleven:
Pal | Wenninger (c), Shiechtl, Kirchberger, Schoffel, Weiss, Potzl, Hanshaw, E. Pfanner, Uka, P. Pfanner
Substitutes from: Gotz, Gartner, Pucci, Schorn, Cordes, Orkic, Pichler, Sisic, Jakobsen
Date / Time: Wednesday, September 23, 2026, 20.00 BST; 3pm EDT
Venue: Plough Lane, Wimbledon, UK
Referee: Miriama Bockova (SVK)
On TV: none (UK); CBS Sports Network (USA); elsewhere
Streaming: Disney+ (UK); ESPN+, fuboTV, Paramount+ (USA)
Let’s do this!
