Women's Champions League quarter-finals full guide: Man United-Bayern, Real Madrid-Barcelona, Arsenal-Chelsea, Wolfsburg-OL Lyonnes

The Uefa Women's Champions League advances to the quarter-finals this week, as Wolfsburg resume their rivalry with OL Lyonnes, Manchester United face Bayern in their debut quarter-final and all-Spanish and all-English ties pit domestic competitors against each other with the first legs on Tuesday and Wednesday, while the second legs take place the following week to decide the competition's last four.

The top four teams in the new league phase – Barcelona, OL Lyonnes, Chelsea and Bayern – earned direct entry to the quarter-finals. They have now been joined by the four knockout phase play-off winners, who came through ties involving the clubs that ended fifth to 12th in the table.

Tuesday (all times CET)

Wolfsburg v OL Lyonnes (6.45pm)

• OL beat Wolfsburg 3-1 on Matchday 3 when the pair met for an 11th time in the competition. The second leg of their upcoming quarter-final will set a new record of 13 meetings between two clubs in the Women's Champions League, overtaking the current record of 12 matches contested by OL and Paris Saint-Germain to become the competition's most-played fixture.

• Among those games, Wolfsburg beat OL in the 2013 final but the tables were turned in the deciders of 2016 (on penalties), 2018 (after extra time) and 2020. In the 2016/17 quarter-finals, OL went through after winning 2-0 away and losing 1-0 at home and two years later in the last eight the French side prevailed 2-1 at home and 4-2 away, and also beat Wolfsburg twice in last season's group stage.

• Wolfsburg have now reached 13 quarter-finals in 14 seasons and have made the last eight on every occasion they have competed in the competition proper, missing out only in 2023/24 qualifying.

• Renamed from Olympique Lyonnais this season, they have reached an unmatched 11 finals in winning their record eight titles and are now into a joint-record 17th quarter-final (level with Arsenal).

Arsenal v Chelsea (9pm)

• This is the first tie between two teams from the same city in Uefa women's club competition history. The Blues defeated another English club in the 2024/25 quarter-finals, Manchester City, while Arsenal lost to Birmingham City at this stage in 2013/14.

• In their two Women's Super League meetings this season, Arsenal drew 1-1 at home to Chelsea on 8 November and then won 2-0 away on 24 January. That was Arsenal's first defeat of Chelsea since December 2023 and their first away win against the Blues since 2018.

• Arsenal are through to a joint-record 17th quarter-final (equaling OL Lyonnes), having last season overturned a two-goal first-leg deficit at this stage for the second time after 2004/05.

• Chelsea finished level with Barcelona as joint-top scorers (20) and with thee joint-fewest goals conceded (3) in the league phase.

Wednesday

Real Madrid v Barcelona (6.45pm)

• These teams met in the 2021/22 quarter-finals, Barcelona beating debutants Madrid 3-1 away and 5-2 at home in front of a then world-record crowd of 91 553 at Camp Nou (the second leg of this season's quarter-final will be the first women's game at the stadium since its revamp).

• Madrid beat Barcelona for the first time in March 2025, but this season the Blaugrana have won 4-0 at home in the league on 15 November, 2-0 in the Supercopa final in Castellón on 24 January and 4-0 away in the Copa de la Reina last eight on 5 February. They are scheduled to meet again in the league in Madrid on the weekend between the two legs of this quarter-final.

• Madrid are contesting their fifth European campaign, having got through qualifying each time.

• Last season, Barça equalled OL's record of reaching five straight finals (the decider was their 100th European game) and set a new mark by making the semis for the seventh year in a row. They have been finalists six times in the last seven seasons, losing in 2019, 2022 and 2025.

Manchester United v Bayern München (9pm)

• These clubs are meeting for the first time in Uefa women's club competition.

• Lea Schüller joined Man Utd in January after scoring more than 100 goals in five and a half years with Bayern. United's Julia Zigiotti Olme and Fridolina Rolfö are also former Bayern players.

• Elisabeth Terland hit hat-tricks against PSV and her former club Brann to finish as qualifying top scorer on seven goals and take United into the league phase/group stage for the first time; her eight in total for the season as a whole is the highest in the competition. United have now kept eight clean sheets from 12 games in their campaign and are the eighth different club from England to reach the quarter-finals, two more than any other nation.

• Klara Bühl weighed in with a league phase/group stage-record eight assists.