Chelsea-Man Utd WSL game postponed at week's notice

Chelsea's Women's Super League crippled astatine location to Manchester United adjacent Sunday has been postponed astatine a week's notice.

It has been called disconnected due to the fact that of a struggle with the Blues' European schedule.

The Women’s Champions League draw was made connected Friday and Chelsea's radical crippled astatine location to Real Madrid has been scheduled for conscionable 2 days aft the United crippled - connected Tuesday, 8 October.

Chelsea said that "numerous discussions" person taken spot to question an "amicable solution to this scheduling conflict" but they proved unsuccessful.

A nine connection added: "It is truthful with sincere regret that we are near with nary different enactment than to corroborate the postponement of adjacent weekend’s WSL fixture.

"We are highly disappointed with the result but privation to reiterate that subordinate payment and the interaction connected our supporters are of the utmost value to us."

A caller day for the WSL game, which was scheduled to beryllium broadcast unrecorded connected Sky Sports, is yet to beryllium confirmed. Ticket refunds volition beryllium disposable up to 48 hours earlier that date.

The Women’s Professional Leagues Limited (WPLL) , which runs the WSL, said: "We apologise for immoderate inconvenience to fans. In this instance, we person to enactment subordinate payment first."

Given Uefa had published its lucifer calendar a twelvemonth ago, the WPLL had been successful regular interaction with Uefa anterior to the gully and had requested that nary English squad beryllium scheduled to play connected 8 October having foreseen the imaginable issue.

Uefa told BBC Sport: "There are 2 well-established gully principles concerning teams from the aforesaid nationalist association."

Among them was an assurance that the apical 2 seeded clubs from a state play connected "different days of each lucifer week".

The contented adds to wider concerns astir scheduling arsenic the women's crippled becomes much congested.

Earlier this month, Arsenal manager Jonas Eidevall said helium was unhappy with scheduling, claiming the WSL and Uefa person "zero concerns" implicit a deficiency of betterment time.