SKN St. Pölten in the Champions League: Big challenge against Manchester City!

SKN St. Pölten in the Champions League: Big challenge against Manchester City!

In the Women’s Champions League, the SKN St. Pölten meets Manchester City tonight, and the starting point could not be clearer. Manchester City runs the group D with impressive twelve points from four games and has already qualified for the knockout phase, such as laola1.at reported. Finally, the English women triumphed 2-1 against Hammarby IF and are in second place behind Chelsea in the home league.

For the women from St. Pölten, it looks dark: after four defeats, they are the bottom of the group without points. Her last game ended in the league with a disappointing 1-1 draw against Sturm Graz, which holds her only two points above the endangered Austria Vienna. The situation is tense, because the SKN has little chance of a turn and did not appear convincingly in the last games.

City Football Group and their expansion

But the importance of Manchester City goes beyond sporting success. The Abu Dhabi United Group, which started buying Manchester City in 2008, founded the City Football Group, the women's football team should also include. Since then, the group has taken over numerous clubs in different countries, including the New York City FC and Italian FC Palermo, which underlines their international ambitions, as wikipedia . This global expansion shows that Manchester City is taking a leadership role in football not only in England, but also worldwide.