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UEFA Women's Cup
Arsenal awaits the first qualifying round of the UEFA Women's Cup in order to find out who they, and Olympique Lyonnais, will be playing in October.

Women's Cup campaign begins

The 2008/09 UEFA Women's Cup kicks off on Thursday with 36 of the 43 entrants in first qualifying round action.

Galway ladies head to Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina for UEFA Cup Mini-tournament

The UEFA Women’s Cup, 1st round draw will be played in Bosnia-Herzegovina from the 4th – 9th September and Galway manager, Stephen Lally is looking forward to the challenge of European competition.

UEFA Women's European Championships
Euro 2009 will take place in Finland this year (how fun). The official site is here. I'll probably be rooting for England, Denmark and maybe Sweden. Here's the table for England's qualifiers.

Women's race heads for photo finish

Two UEFA WOMEN'S EURO 2009™ qualifying group winners are known but the other four pools are set for final-day deciders and the race the reach the play-offs is equally exciting.

Powell names squad

Hope Powell has named a squad of 20 players for the decisive double-header in Group One, as England head to Prague and Zamora for their final two games in their bid to qualify for Euro 2009.

Misc
Making History: The first Women's Cup

Eight nations and 80 women from Cameroon, Colombia, Ivory Coast, Kyrgzstan, Uganda, Zambia, Liberia and Paraguay will compete to become the first time champions at the event to be held from December 1-7 at Federation Square and Birrarung Marr.

Founder and President of the Homeless World Cup, Mel Young, said: “The Homeless World Cup has demonstrated that sport has tremendous power to change lives, to change the world.

Updates on the Doncaster Belles saga:

Belles look for lifeline

Doncaster Belles, England’s most famous women’s football club, are set to be shut down unless an eleventh-hour cash injection can be found.

After coming to the end of a successful partnership arrangement with their major sponsor of the last four years, the Belles have plunged into a financial crisis that has put them on the brink of bankruptcy.

Chairman Jonathan James revealed last night: “We are absolutely desperate. We will have to shut the club down after Sunday’s match with Arsenal unless we can somehow bring some cash into the club this week. At this point we haven’t even got the money to cover the cost of hiring a coach to get us down to Arsenal.”

Is this Belles' last match?

BELLES boss John Buckley pledged his team would go out in a blaze of glory if Sunday's game at Arsenal proves to be their final match.
Arsenal have succeeded the Doncaster club as the top women's team in the country and seldom lose.

But Buckley said: "This club has a proud tradition and we will go down there and give it all we've got."

I really, really that they sort out the money issues. No team should have to go through this -- and no top men's team would go through this. There's more information on their official site, along with a call for help.