Champions Chelsea will face Arsenal within the FA Ladies’s Cup semi-final in a repeat of the 2023 last.
Again in December, Fran Kirby and Sam Kerr starred as Chelsea accomplished a late home hat-trick with a 3-0 win over Arsenal within the FA Cup Closing at Wembley. Held in entrance of greater than 40,000 followers – a century after the FA banned ladies from enjoying soccer – Chelsea scored their first FA Cup success since 2018.
Arsenal, presently on the high of the Ladies’s Premier League desk, will probably be on the lookout for revenge within the FA Cup when Chelsea journey to Meadow Park, the place the 2 groups renew the rivalry that sees them additionally vie for the WSL title.
Arsenal lead Chelsea by two factors however the Blues have an opportunity to rise to the highest of the desk after they play their postponed match in opposition to Tottenham on Wednesday, Stay on Sky Sports activities.
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Within the different semi-final match, Manchester Face a visit to Chigwell Development Stadium West Ham.
The draw is a repeat of the 2019 last when objectives from Keira Walsh, Georgia Stanway and Lauren Hemp Metropolis, who reached the semi-finals of the competitors for the eighth consecutive season, helped them win 3-0.
The semi-final matches are scheduled for Sunday 17 April, whereas the ultimate will probably be performed at Wembley Stadium on Sunday 15 Could.
How Chelsea, Man Metropolis, West Ham and Arsenal reached the semi-finals…
Chelsea Ladies’s and Manchester Metropolis Ladies’s certified for the FA Cup semi-finals with comfy victories over Birmingham Ladies’s and Everton Ladies’s respectively on Sunday.
West Ham Ladies’s Division III additionally received the Ipswich Women Division because the squad for the final 4 matches was accomplished.
The three sides joined the ladies’s membership Arsenal, who beat Coventry United Women on Friday.
FA Ladies’s Cup – key dates…
semi last: Sunday 17 April
final: Sunday 15 Could at Wembley Stadium
Elevated FA Ladies’s Cup prize fund by £3m from subsequent season
The Soccer Affiliation has introduced that the FA Ladies’s Cup prize fund will enhance to £3m a yr from subsequent season.
The determine has risen from round £400,000, with particulars of how will probably be allotted throughout the competitors to be confirmed. The Soccer Affiliation mentioned that “a disproportionate quantity of this new fund will probably be invested within the first rounds of the competitors.”
It was introduced in January that it had agreed to a “vital” enhance in prize cash for the subsequent season, amid criticism of the disparity between the present figures and people of the boys’s competitors.
In a press release, the FA’s director of ladies’s soccer, Baroness Sue Campbell, mentioned: “I’m delighted to have the ability to make this announcement of elevated funding for the FA Ladies’s Vitality Cup as it would profit many golf equipment all through the ladies’s soccer pyramid.
“The FA Cup, each males’s and girls’s, is the largest and greatest home event on the earth and this elevated funding from the FA highlights that we wish the golf equipment competing in it to be rewarded, whereas additionally underlining our ongoing dedication to the ladies’s sport.
“Ladies’s soccer continues to be in its development part and we’re at all times seeking to make enhancements and investments to push it ahead and break new frontiers. That is positively some of the satisfying issues throughout my time with the organisation, as a result of I do know it means loads to so many.”
