The UEFA Champions League final is set, with Barcelona taking on Lyon in Saturday’s championship match.

How to Watch:

1 p.m. ET Saturday, May 21, on DAZN’s Women’s Champions League YouTube channel.

Where:

Allianz Stadium, located in Turin, Italy, will host the affair. The venue holds a capacity of 41,507 and could sell out for the Champions League fixture.

What’s at stake for Barcelona:

The Spanish side will look to defend their 2021 Champions League trophy. The club thrashed Chelsea 4-0 last year to claim its first-ever title.

What’s at stake for Lyon:

The French club will be competing in their record 10th Champions League final and will be on the hunt for a historic eighth title. Lyon already holds the most titles all time with seven; the next closest team is Eintracht Frankfurt with four.

Who to watch:

USWNT star Catarina Macario has been on fire for Lyon, notching seven goals and two assists through 10 Champions League matches played. If Lyon wants to take down giant Barcelona, Macario and the rest of Lyon’s attack will have to be firing on all cylinders.

Barcelona has an arsenal of goal scorers up top. Alexia Putellas leads the charge with 10 goals and two assists, while Jennifer Hermoso has contributed five goals and one assist.

Lyon is heading to the Champions League final after defeating Paris Saint-Germain 2-1 in the second leg of the semifinal matchup and completing a 5-3 win on aggregate.

Lyon was in control of the game from the opening whistle, taking the lead on Ada Hegerberg’s header in the 14th minute. It was the Norwegian star’s fifth goal in five UWCL games.

PSG equalized in the 62nd minute, with Marie-Antoinette Katoto slotting in a deflected shot, and appeared on the verge of mounting a comeback.

A late goal from Lyon captain Wendie Renard put the contest out of reach for PSG. Renard rose high in the box and nodded in a free kick to restore Lyon’s lead in the 83rd minute.

The 2-1 scoreline held until the final whistle, securing Lyon a spot in the Champions League final.

Lyon will meet Barcelona in the championship game, a rematch of the 2019 final, which Lyon won 4-1. The game is set for May 21 at 1 p.m. ET at Juventus Stadium.

The UEFA Women’s Champions League continues Saturday, with the final to be decided following Leg 2 of the two semifinals.

Barcelona vs. Wolfsburg

Saturday at noon ET on DAZN YouTube

Barcelona enters the second leg of the Champions League semifinal with a 5-1 lead on aggregate over Wolfsburg. That is an overwhelming advantage for any team, but especially for a club as dominant as Barcelona.

The Spanish side is likely to lock up their trip to the final with Saturday’s matchup, with Barcelona looking to defend their 2021 title.

Paris Saint-Germain vs. Olympique Lyonnais

Saturday at 3 pm ET on DAZN YouTube

A brace from USWNT star Catarina Macario lifted Lyon to a 3-2 lead over PSG in the clubs’ first-leg faceoff. PSG looked disorganized on the pitch, with the team punished for a series of defensive breakdowns.

The Paris side enters Saturday’s Leg 2 game looking to regroup following a tough semifinal opener and some publicized locker-room commotion.

The all-French classic between Lyon and Paris Saint-Germain lived up to the hype during a thrilling first leg of the UEFA Women’s Champions League semifinals on Sunday.

Lyon came out on top, defeating PSG 3-2 in a rollercoaster game that featured penalties and defensive breakdowns.

PSG took the lead in the sixth minute when Marie-Antoinette Katoto beat the Lyon goalkeeper near post to put her side up 1-0.

Lyon defender Wendie Renard, after getting beaten by Katoto on the opening goal, slotted in a penalty kick for the equalizer in the 23rd minute.

Ten minutes later, Catarina Macario gave Lyon the lead. Ada Hegerberg picked off a weak goal kick from the PSG keeper and played it into the American forward, who finished from close range.

Macario added to her tally after the break, pouncing on a PSG defensive error and putting Lyon up 3-1 with a goal in the 50th minute.

Eight minutes later, PSG defender Paulina Dudek converted a penalty kick to cut Lyon’s lead to one.

Lyon held off PSG’s late push to take the first leg by one goal. The teams meet again on Saturday in the second leg of the Champions League semifinals.

Catarina Macario showed why she is considered one of the craftiest attacking players in the game right now, scoring a beauty of a goal to help Lyon clinch a UEFA Women’s Champions League semifinal berth.

The USWNT star received a cross in the center of the Juventus box before expertly turning on her defender, unleashing a clinical finish to put her side up 3-0 in the 73rd minute.

Fighting until the end, Juventus cut into Lyon’s lead in the 84th minute with a goal from Andrea Staskova. The late-game push, however, wasn’t enough to overcome Lyon, who defeated the Italian club 3-1 on the day and 4-3 on aggregate.

Lyon will face off against league rivals PSG in the Champions League semifinals.

In the other quarterfinal matchup of the day, Arsenal’s Champions League run was halted by a determined Wolfsburg side. The German club downed the Gunners 2-0 on the day and 3-1 on aggregate.

Jill Roord scored the opener nine minutes into the matchup, tapping in a Wolfsburg corner to go up 1-0 against her old team.

An own goal from Arsenal in the second half sealed the victory for Wolfsburg, who will face Barcelona in the Champions League semifinals.

Both semifinal matches are set to take place on April 23.

 

The first leg of the Women’s Champion League quarterfinals is complete. The eight remaining teams now are setting their sights on the second leg, which kicks off next week.

In Wednesday’s early match, Juventus rallied to beat Olympique Lyonnais 2-1 after Lyon’s Ellie Carpenter was issued a red card in the 62nd minute.

Lyon went up 1-0 off a Catarina Macario strike in the eighth minute, but Cristiana Girelli notched the equalizer in the 71st minute for Juventus. Agnese Bonfantini broke the tie in the 83rd minute.

“Lyon are the best team in the world, both individually and collectively,” said Juventus coach Joe Montemurro. “The sending off gave us an advantage but I saw signs before that we were starting to exploit the space better.”

In the late match, Arsenal and Wolfsburg finished in a 1-1 draw. Tabea Wassmuth put one on the board for Wolfsburg in the 19th minute before a late equalizer from Lotte Wubben-Moy in the 89th minute led to the draw.

“It was a very good finish, a very special moment for [Wubben-Moy] to come to this stadium and score a very important goal like this,” said Arsenal manager Jonas Eidvall. “You work with a player every day and she gets to live a moment like this – it’s a special moment. In football, sometimes there are bad times, and sometimes there are good times like that.”

On Twitter, Wubben-Moy called it a “dream.”

Tuesday’s game between Barcelona and Real Madrid resulted in a 3-1 win for Barcelona. Alexia Putellas scored twice to help lift the defending champions over Madrid.

The second leg of the quarterfinals will kick off next Wednesday, starting with Barcelona and Real Madrid. Paris Saint-Germain and Bayern Munich will finish off the day before the final two matches of the quarterfinals are played on Thursday.

Catarina Macario was a difference maker during Wednesday night’s SheBelieves Cup game between the USWNT and Iceland, scoring two goals and an assist to earn tournament MVP.

Macario said after that she has “been practicing that for awhile” in regards to her first goal, which came from the corner of the box and pulled the USWNT ahead 1-0.

Her performance earned high praises from some of the USWNT’s best, including Mia Hamm, who told Macario to “take a bow!”

Megan Rapinoe also shouted her out, calling her “CLASSSSSSSSSS.”

USWNT head coach Vlatko Andonovski called her two goals scored “some world-class goals.”

“They should be on highlight reels around the world,” he added, stating that she’s becoming a bit of a superstar on the USWNT.

In part due to Macario’s performance, the USWNT blanked Iceland 5-0 en route to their third-straight SheBelieves Cup title.

The Women’s International Champions Cup got off to an exhilarating start in a matchup between Lyon and Barcelona on Wednesday in Portland.

Back-and-forth play left the score tied 2-2 late into the game. Melvine Malard’s goal in the 85th minute put Lyon ahead 3-2 and helped the French side advance to the final of the exhibition tournament.

 

Mariona Caldentey scored both of Barcelona’s goals, while Amel Majri and Amadine Henry added one each for Lyon.

Malard earned Player of the Match honors for her late heroics in Lyon’s win.

Lyon will play the Portland Thorns in the WICC final on Saturday night. Barcelona will face the Houston Dash, who lost to the Thorns on penalty kicks Wednesday, in the third-place game.

France’s Division 1 Féminine has a new champion.

Paris Saint-Germain took home the league’s trophy Friday, squashing Lyon’s 14-year stint at the top of the table. PSG secured the division title with a 3-0 win over Dijon, a fitting end to a historic season.

The two teams have a storied past, with PSG finishing second to Lyon in the Division 1 Féminine title race eight times. Back in April, PSG ended another of Lyon’s winning streaks, beating the club in the Women’s Champions League quarterfinal. PSG’s stunning upset denied Lyon its sixth consecutive Champion’s League trophy.

PSG’s 2020-2021 championship is the first-ever Division 1 Féminine title for the club.

International soccer is coming back to the United States.

The Women’s International Champions Cup announced on Tuesday that the 2021 tournament will be held at Providence Park in Portland this August.

The competition will include the Portland Thorns, the Houston Dash, Olympique Lyonnais and FC Barcelona.

The four participating teams qualified for the tournament based on 2020 title wins — Portland won the NWSL’s Fall Series, Houston won the Challenge Cup, Lyon won the Champions League, and Barcelona won the Primera División.

Despite the squads being chosen based on last year’s results, all four have had spectacular 2021 records as well, with the Thorns winning the NWSL Challenge Cup and Barcelona capturing the Champions League title.

The powerhouse clubs will meet in Portland this summer on August 18 and 21, just after the Olympic break. For those watching from home, ESPN has signed on as the official broadcaster.

The tournament will be one to watch as Lyon seeks to defend their 2019 International Champions Cup title, while Barcelona pursues a fitting end to a perfect season, and the NWSL squads strive to prove themselves against international competition.