Women’s Champions League: Chelsea beat Paris FC; Barcelona beats Roma

English champion Chelsea defeated Paris FC 4-0 on Wednesday on the second day of the Women’s Champions League.

Sandy Baltimore, from the penalty spot, Johanna Rytting Kaneryd, Alyssa Thompson and Erin Cuthbert were all on target for London.

Two-time Ballon d’Or winner Alexia Putellas struck a penalty in the 71st minute to help Barcelona to a 4-0 win over Roma.

Esmee Brugts opened the scoring in the second minute, with Kika Nazareth extending the lead before Putellas got her name on the scoreboard before Caroline Graham Hansen’s final blow on the whistle.

Record eight-time champion Lyon recorded a 3-0 victory over Austrian St. Polten. Germany’s Jule Brand and Lily Yohannes both scored their first goals for the French team.

Those goals came either side of one from Norway’s Ada Hegerberg, the all-time top scorer in the UEFA club competition, who has now scored 67 goals in 77 appearances and in 12 different seasons in the UEFA Women’s Champions League.

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And two-time championship winners Wolfsburg achieved a 2-1 victory over Norway’s Valerenga.

The Germans took the lead through Lineth Beerensteyn, quickly canceled out by Sara Horte. Janina Minge kept her cool with a penalty in the eighth minute of extra time to seal the victory on the road.

In the final match of the evening, a penalty from Linde Veefkind in the 83rd minute seemed to rescue Belgian team Leuven from a 1-1 draw against Dutch side Twente, for whom Jaimy Ravensbergen scored.

But there was similar late drama when midfielder Sara Pusztai struck six minutes into stoppage time to give Leuven a 2-1 win.

For the first time this season, the Women’s Champions League has 18 participating teams, each playing six matches against different opponents in a competition phase.

Only the top four qualify directly for the quarter-finals, with the teams in fifth to twelfth places involved in a play-off to join the last eight.

Published on October 16, 2025