African women’s club football is well and alive in the semi-finals of the new FIFA Women’s Champions Cup.
This comes after Moroccan giants AS FAR came from behind to defeat Wuhan Chegu Jiangda Women’s Football Club at Stade Municipal de Berrechid on Sunday (14 December 2025).
The 2025 CAF Women’s Champion’s League winners will now face off with English side Arsenal in the last four of FIFA’s inaugural women’s club competition.
The Chinese outfit took the lead through Wang (29’) in the first half before Hajar Said (89’) found the equaliser in the last minute and Sanaa Mssoudy (104) wrapped it up in extra time to set up a date with the European Champions.
The semi-finals will be held in London next month with the winner facing either Gotham FC from the USA or Brazilian outfit Corinthians in the final.
This will be the first time the FIFA Women’s Champions Cup will be staged after the world football governing body approved the competition earlier this year in March.
The tournament pits the best women’s clubs from all six confederations – CAF (Africa), AFC (Asia), UEFA (Europe), CONCACAF (North & Central America and the Caribbean), OFC (Oceania), and CONMEBOL (South America).
It will be held every non-FIFA Women’s Club World Cup year, which will start in 2028.
Here are the six teams that qualified for the inaugural tournament:
- AS FAR
- (CAF Women’s Champions League 2025 winners)
- Arsenal
- (UEFA Women’s Champions League 2024/25 winners)
- Auckland United FC
- (OFC Women’s Champions League 2025 winners)
- Gotham FC
- (Concacaf W Champions Cup 2024/25 winners)
- Wuhan Chegu Jiangda WFC
- (AFC Women’s Champions League 2024/25 winners)
- Corinthians
- (CONMEBOL Libertadores Femenina 2025 winners)
The North Africans qualified for this prestigious tournament after defeating debutants Ivory Coast’s ASEC Mimosas 2-1 in the final of the CAF Women’s Champions League 2025 at the Suez Canal Stadium in Ismaila, Egypt last month (21 November). They dethroned TP Mazembe to claim their second trophy since 2022.
Timeline of the FIFA Women’s Champions Cup:
Round 1:
8 October 2025
- Wuhan Chegu Jiangda WFC 1 – 0 Auckland United FC
Wuhan Sports Centre Stadium (China)
Round 2:
14 December 2025
- ASFAR 2 – 1 (AET) Wuhan Chegu Jiangda WFC
Stade Municipal de Berrechid (Morocco)
Final phase:
28 January to 1 February 2026
- Semi-final 1
ASFAR v Arsenal
- Semi-final 2
Gotham FC v Corinthians
- Third-place Play-off
Runner-up of Semi-final 1 v Runner-up of Semi-final 2
- Final:
Winner of Semi-final 1 v Winner of Semi-final 2
By Matlhomola Morake (additional info by FIFA.com)
