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The inaugural Women's Club World Cup could see Arsenal and Chelsea vanish from WSL action for a month next season - and nobody's quite worked out where the spare weekends are hiding.
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Women's football in England is heading for a calendar crunch. The inaugural Women's Club World Cup, pencilled in for January 2028 in the United States, threatens to rip a month-shaped hole in the WSL season - and nobody seems quite sure how to stitch it back together.
FIFA hasn't officially confirmed qualification criteria yet, but Arsenal are widely expected to feature as 2025 Champions League winners. Chelsea will likely join them too, unless Manchester City pull off a Champions League triumph this term. Losing two of the league's biggest clubs for nearly four weeks? That's not a minor inconvenience.
The tournament is proposed to run from 5 January to 30 January, smashing directly into the WSL calendar. Both clubs could miss up to four league match rounds plus the FA Cup fourth round. The WSL's winter break runs from 21 December to 10 January, but stretching it to cover the entire Club World Cup window is considered impractical given an already packed schedule.
UEFA will allocate six spots in the competition - five automatic qualifiers and one play-in entrant. Champions League winners from 2023 to 2027 are among those set to earn their place, as The Guardian reports.
With the Champions League knockout stage kicking off in February, any backlog of postponed fixtures will create a brutal end-of-season squeeze. And lurking further ahead? The 2028 Olympic football tournament in Los Angeles, open to senior internationals, promising yet more headaches for club schedulers.
Women's football is booming. The fixture calendar, unfortunately, hasn't kept up.
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