Arsenal vs AS FAR Preview & Prediction | 2026 FIFA Women’s Champions Cup | Semi-Final
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The champions of Europe face the champions of Africa for a place in the inaugural FIFA Women’s Champions Cup final as Arsenal meet Moroccan juggernauts AS FAR.
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- Arsenal enter the FIFA Women’s Champions Cup as hosts and as reigning 2024/25 UEFA Women’s Champions League winners, having stunned defending champions Barcelona in the final. Stina Blackstenius came off the bench to score the decisive 74th‑minute goal at the Estadio Jose Alvalade in Lisbon.
- The triumph marked Arsenal’s second European crown, adding to their 2007 UEFA Women’s Cup title. They remain the only English club to have lifted Europe’s premier women’s club trophy.
- Their path to the 2024/25 title was anything but straightforward. After navigating two qualifying rounds just to reach the group stage, Arsenal overturned a 2–0 first‑leg deficit against Wolfsburg in the quarter‑finals, winning 3–0 on aggregate. In the semi‑finals, they recovered from a 2–1 home defeat to overpower eight‑time champions OL Lyonnes 4–1 in France.
- Five Arsenal players earned places in the official UEFA Women’s Champions League Team of the Season: goalkeeper Daphne van Domselaar, defenders Leah Williamson and Emily Fox, midfielder Mariona Caldentey, and forward Alessia Russo.
- Arsenal remain in contention to defend their European title. After finishing fifth in the league phase, they will meet Belgian side OH Leuven in the knockout play‑off round in February 2026.
- Arsenal have lost just one of their last 11 matches in all competitions (W8 D2).
- AS FAR arrive as Africa’s representatives after securing their second CAF Women’s Champions League title in four years on 21 November 2025, defeating ASEC Mimosas 2–1 in the final. They topped Group A without conceding, edged TP Mazembe on penalties in the semi‑finals, and sealed the title through goals from Hanane Ait El Haj and Zineb Redouani.
- Dominant in Moroccan football, AS FAR have won 12 of the last 13 league titles and are targeting an 11th consecutive championship this season.
Arsenal vs AS FAR prediction
After winning the UEFA Women’s Champions League last season and becoming European champions for the second time in their history, Renee Slegers’ Arsenal are now aiming to become world champions by winning the first edition of the FIFA Women’s Champions Cup. Whilst they were underdogs against Barcelona in the final, the Gunners will enter this particular contest as clear favourites against AS FAR, when taking into account the plethora of international stars at their disposal. Whether it be Alessia Russo, Mariona Caldentey or Emily Fox, they boast world class talent all over the pitch.
For many years now, AS FAR have been the best team in Morocco and have recently turned that dominance into success when it comes to the CAF Women’s Champions League, which they won for the second time last year, beating ASEC Mimosas in the final. The Soldiers were the only club of the four FIFA Women’s Champions Cup semi-finalists forced to compete in the quarter-finals last month, where they overcame Chinese side Wuhan Jiangda by two goals to one after extra time.
Whilst AS FAR are a good team with plenty of Moroccan internationals and won’t be easy to break down initially, it’s hard to see them being able to contain this Arsenal team for very long, particularly when considering the strength-in-depth that Slegers has at her disposal the longer this match goes on. In what is the first competitive fixture between a European and African club, expect Arsenal to come out on top fairly comfortably.
Arsenal vs AS FAR tip: Arsenal to win with -3 handicap
