• Eight teams from US and Europe to meet in Portugal
  • Prize money could eclipse that won by WCL finalists

Eight of the world?s leading women?s clubs, including big-name sides from the US and Europe, will compete in a new, lucrative seven-a-side tournament in Portugal during the week leading up to this season?s Women?s Champions League final there, the Guardian can reveal. It will kick off a series of global ?grand slam? events that is expected to run beyond this year.
The independently run competition, funded by private US-based investment, has a prize pot believed to extend to a significant seven-figure sum that may rival the money on offer for the Women?s Champions League finalists.
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