Chelsea vs Manchester City facts

Chelsea welcome Manchester City to London hoping to overcome a two-goal deficit in their all-English UEFA Women's Champions League quarter-final tie.

In what was only the second meeting between English sides in the history of the competition, Vivianne Miedema broke the deadlock on the hour for the hosts at the Manchester City Academy Stadium on 19 March, and the Dutch international added an 89th-minute second to complete a 2-0 victory for Nick Cushing's side, ending Chelsea's 31-match unbeaten run in all competitions.

This is the last fixture in a sequence of four successive meetings in all competitions between the two clubs. Mayra Ramírez and, after Aoba Fujino had levelled for City, a late Yui Hasegawa own goal gave Chelsea a 2-1 win in the Women's League Cup final on 15 March.

On 23 March, an added-time Erin Cuthbert header gave Chelsea a 2-1 Women's Super League win in Manchester, Kerolin's 32nd-minute solo strike for City cancelled out by Agnes Beever-Jones four minutes into the second period.

Their first meeting this season was a 2-0 league win for Chelsea in November, with Ramírez and Guro Reiten on the scoresheet in London.

Form guide

Chelsea

Record vs English clubs W0 D0 L1 F0 A2

The first leg was Chelsea's first European contest against English opposition.

The Blues scored 19 goals in their six Group B wins this season, beating Real Madrid (3-2 h, 2-1 a), Twente (3-1 a, 6-1 h) and Celtic (2-1 a, 3-0 h). They had 12 different scorers.

Catarina Macario struck three times during the group stage, while five other players – Reiten, Ramírez, Sjoeke Nüsken, Maika Hamano and Eve Perisset – were on target twice.

Chelsea were Women's Champions League runners-up in 2021, losing 4-0 to Barcelona in the Gothenburg final.

The same opponents eliminated Chelsea at the semi-final stage in the last two editions of the Women's Champions League, 1-2 the aggregate score on both occasions.

Chelsea have reached the last four or better in five of the previous seven seasons.

They have never lost at the quarter-final stage; this is their sixth appearance in the last eight. They defeated Montpellier in 2017/18 (2-0 a, 3-1 h), Paris Saint-Germain in 2018/19 (2-0 h, 1-2 a), Wolfsburg in 2020/21 (2-1 h, 3-0 a), Lyon in 2022/23 and Ajax in 2023/24 (3-0 a, 1-1 h).

Sonia Bompastor's side have won all 16 home games in all competitions this season, and scored 12 goals in their three group stage wins in London.

The first leg was Bompastor's first defeat as Chelsea manager in her 29th match.

Last season the Blues claimed the Women's Super League title for the fifth season in succession and seventh overall. They won the title on goal difference after finishing level on points with City.

Manchester City

Record vs English clubs W1 D0 L0 F2 A0

Like Chelsea, City had never played an English club in Europe before the first leg.

A team managed by Gareth Taylor won home and away against both St. Pölten (3-2 a, 2-0 h) and Hammarby (2-0 h, 2-1 a) in the group stage and also beat Barcelona 2-0 in Manchester, losing 0-3 away.

Khadija Shaw is City's top scorer in this season's competition with three goals.

Having lost in the early rounds in 2021/22 and 2022/23, and not featured at all in 2023/24, City participated in the group stage for the first time this season.

The English club reached the Champions League semi-finals on their first two entries, losing to eventual champions Lyon on both occasions – 2-3 in 2016/17 (1-3 h, 1-0 a) and 0-1 in 2017/18 (0-0 h, 0-1 a).

This will be their fourth quarter-final in the competition, having defeated Fortuna in 2016/17 (1-0 a, 1-0 h) and Linköping in 2017/18 (2-0 h, 5-3 a) before defeat against champions Barcelona in 2020/21 (0-3 a, 2-1 h).

They began this season's European campaign with an 8-0 aggregate defeat of Paris FC in round 2. Taylor's team were 5-0 first-leg victors in Paris on 18 September, Jess Park (38, 58) scoring twice alongside goals from Miedema (36), Mary Fowler (49) and Chloe Kelly (79). Kelly (2) opened the scoring in the second leg in Manchester, before a Shaw double (31, 65pen) sealed a 3-0 win.

City have lost three of their 14 away games in all competitions this season (W9 D2), including that reverse at Chelsea in November.

City missed out on the Women's Super League title on goal difference to Chelsea last season despite winning 18 of their 22 league games (D1 L3).

The Manchester club parted company with coach Taylor on 10 March, Cushing – who was in charge between 2013 and 2020 – returning on an interim basis until the end of the season.

Key facts

• Prior to this tie, the only previous Women's Champions League matches between English teams were in the 2013/14 quarter-finals when Birmingham City defeated Arsenal 3-0 on aggregate.

• Chelsea have won five of their last six home matches against City.

• The Blues have lost both legs of a Women's Champions League two-legged tie only twice; against Wolfsburg in both the 2017/18 semi-finals (1-3 h, 0-2 a) and the 2015/16 round of 16 (1-2 h, 0-2 a).

• Chelsea have never won a Women's Champions League tie after losing by a margin of more than one goal in the first leg.

• City have won eight of their nine Women's Champions League matches this season, the exception a 3-0 defeat at Barcelona on Matchday 6.

• The Manchester club have kept six clean sheets in their nine European games this season.

• City have never lost a two-legged Women's Champions League tie after winning the first leg.

• Miedema has scored 31 goals in 35 Women's Champions League appearances. She is the top scorer from Netherlands in the competition, ahead of Jill Roord (27 goals in 59 appearances).