TIRANA, Aug 8ؔhe road to the UEFA Women’s Champions League final in Munich on 17 May 2011 kicks off on Thursday with 32 teams in action across eight qualifying round groups.Matches will take place in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Portugal, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Finland, Cyprus and Croatia on Thursday, Saturday and next Tuesday.
It all kicks off in Sarajevo at 11.00CET on Thursday when Gintra Universitetas of Lithuania meet Turkish champions Ataşehir Belediyespor in Group 4. Later that day other fixtures to note include debut matches for representatives from Latvia and Albania. Latvia’s SK Liepājas Metalurgs meet MTK Hung⳩a FC in Group 2 while KS Ada take on Finnish Group 6 hosts PK-35 Vantaa.
KS Ada won the Albanian Women’s Cup and the Albanian women’s football championship, a competition only 2 years old.
All eight group winners plus the two best runners-up will proceed to the draw for the rounds of 32 and 16 on 23 August, with the two-legged knockout phase beginning the following month. Holders Olympique Lyonnais are among 22 sides
