PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Ladies’s Worldwide Champions Cup can be held at Portland’s Windfall Park in August, an individual with data of the occasion informed The Related Press on Thursday.
The Portland Thorns of the Nationwide Ladies’s Soccer League will host the four-team match, which can even embrace the Houston Sprint, in addition to European membership groups Barcelona and Olympique Lyonnais.
The individual spoke on the situation of anonymity as a result of the occasion has not but been introduced.
Lyon, the 2020 UEFA Champions League winner, is the defending champion from the 2019 WICC. The Thorns certified for the match as winners of the NWSL’s fall collection, whereas the Sprint received final summer time’s Problem Cup in Utah. Barcelona was the 2020 Primera Division leaders.
The match, to be held Aug. 18-21, would be the third WICC. Final 12 months’s occasion was canceled due to the coronavirus outbreak.
New York-based Relevent Sports activities Group, which places on the Worldwide Champions Cup for males’s membership groups every summer time, added the ladies’s competitors in 2018. The primary two editions had been held in Cary, North Carolina, and hosted by the North Carolina Braveness.
Relevent plans to add two further groups to the ladies’s match subsequent 12 months and eight golf equipment in 2023.
The WICC’s transfer in 2021 was first reported by the Washington Publish.
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