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Tottenham Hotspur and AC Milan will join has Racing Louisville, OL Reign, Liga MX Femenil side Club América and WE League's Nippon TV Tokyo Verdy Beleza for seven absolute games from August 14 to 20 at Lynn Family Stadium in Louisville, Kentucky.
"The Women's Cup has in no time turned into the superior expert ladies' club soccer competition on the planet," said J.P. Reynal, The Women's Cup's leader and CEO.
"With the expansion of these two celebrated European forces to be reckoned with, we've cemented a worldwide field like none recently collected. We hope to keep developing the competition in years to come."
Spikes are coming into the competition straight from its best-ever FA Women's Super League wrap up during the 2021-2022 mission, with a 9W-8L-5D record drove by director Rehanne Skinner. Given the accomplishment, Skinner was selected as FA Women's Super League Manager of the Season. Protector Ashleigh Neville, who scored a game-dominating objective versus Leicester City on the season's last day to get Spurs' completion, was likewise shortlisted for Player of the Season.
"Rehanne and the group are falling off the rear of their best WSL mission to date and are hoping to expand on this going into next season," said Fabio Paratici, Tottenham Hotspur's overseeing head of football.
"The Women's Cup will see us tried against top resistance from around the world, giving us ideal preseason planning while at the same time empowering our energetic fans in the United States to see our ladies' most memorable group in real life interestingly."
AC Milan enters the opposition in the wake of going 14W-4L-4D during the 2021-2022 season and wrapping the year as sprinter up in Italy.
"Being essential for this significant global occasion shows exactly how much ladies' football has filled in Italy, both according to a donning perspective and with regards to perceivability and information past public lines," said Elisabet Spina, AC Milan's ladies' group activity chief.
"Addressing Italy and Europe close by Tottenham is a wellspring of pride for us.
"The Women's Cup addresses an exceptional snapshot of experience and conflict for clubs from various mainlands — an essential occasion that permits us to proceed with our improvement collectively here and there the pitch. We have one objective: the worldwide development of ladies' football."
The Women's Cup will be arranged beyond the ordinary season NWSL plan, while the meeting European clubs show up in the last phases of their preseasons.
The worldwide clubs open The Women's Cup with quarterfinals on Sunday, August 14 preceding the victors meet Racing and OL Reign in the elimination rounds. The two losing groups from Sunday will play against one another for fifth spot. The last and third-place matches are set for Saturday, August 20.
Game times are to be reported.
"It is a gigantic distinction to have AC Milan and Tottenham Hotspur addressing Europe in the 2022 version of The Women's Cup," said Jaime Phillips, the competition's prime supporter and chief. "These are lofty soccer clubs around the world, and we are eager to make them seek a title this late spring in Louisville."
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