Women's Champions League Matchday 3: St. Pölten vs Chelsea facts
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
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St. Pölten welcome unbeaten Chelsea to Austria on Matchday 3 as they seek their first league phase points in the 2025/26 UEFA Women's Champions League.
Last match
This is the clubs' first meeting and Chelsea's first game against an Austrian team.
St. Pölten have lost all four of their previous matches against English opposition; they were defeated twice by Manchester City in last season's group stage (2-3 h, 0-2 a), having lost to the same opponents in the 2017/18 round of 32 (0-3 h, 0-3 a).
This is the fourth successive season in which St. Pölten have come through qualifying to reach the group stage/league phase, although they first featured in the Women's Champions League in 2013/14. They lost all six Group D games last season as they finished behind Barcelona (0-7 a, 1-4 h), Manchester City and Hammarby (0-2 a, 1-2 h).
A 5-2 aggregate defeat of Danish side Fortuna (3-1 h, 2-1 a) in this season's third qualifying round sealed St. Pölten's league phase berth, Carina Brunold scoring twice in the home first leg.
Chelsea were Women's Champions League runners-up in 2021, losing 0-4 to Barcelona in the Gothenburg final.
The Blues have reached the last four or better in four of the previous five seasons, and in six of their last seven participations. In 2024/25 they finished Group B with a 100% record after wins over Real Madrid (3-2 h, 2-1 a), Twente (3-1 a, 6-1 h) and Celtic (2-1 a, 3-0 h) before a comeback victory in an all-English quarter-final against Manchester City (0-2 a, 3-0 h) only to come up short against Barcelona (1-4 a, 1-4 h) in the last four.
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St. Pölten, whose league phase campaign began with defeats by Atlético de Madrid (0-6 h) and OL Lyonnes (0-3 a), have won only one of their previous 20 group stage/league phase matches (D2 L17) – a 1-0 victory at Slavia Praha in November 2022.
Jennifer Klein could become the second player to make 40 European appearances for St. Pölten after Mateja Zver (42).
Chelsea have lost only one of their previous 26 group stage/league phase matches (W19 D6) and are unbeaten in 20 (W16 D4).
The London club have scored in 23 of their previous 26 group stage/league phase matches.
Chelsea have scored 146 European goals; the only English team to have reached 150 are Arsenal (345).
Sandy Baltimore has scored four goals in her last five Women's Champions League appearances and found the net in a 1-1 draw at Twente on Matchday 1 and the 4-0 Matchday 2 victory at home to Paris FC.