Arsenal face fixture clash for Palace cup tie

Arsenal have a potential fixture clash involving their men's Carabao Cup quarter-final with Crystal Palace and the women's Champions League game with Bayern Munich.

The women's team are scheduled to play Bayern at home on Wednesday, 18 December.

Mikel Arteta's side have been drawn at home against Crystal Palace in the quarter-final of the Carabao Cup and the match is due to take place that same midweek.

Crystal Palace play Brighton on Sunday, 15 December - a match that had been scheduled to be broadcast on television. That presents a problem as if the cup match was moved to Tuesday, it would only give Palace 48 hours of recovery.

The cup fixture is also unable to be moved to the Thursday as Palace and Arsenal are scheduled to play each other on Saturday, 21 December in the Premier League at Selhurst Park.

Arsenal's neighbours Tottenham have also been drawn at home in the quarter-finals of the Carabao Cup, which presents another problem for schedulers.

Spurs and Arsenal do not play home matches at the same time, with agreements needing to be made on who gets the pick when situations like this arise in cup competitions.

Arsenal announced in the summer that the women's team would play three Champions League matches at Emirates Stadium if the team qualified for the group stage and games in the knockout stage would take place there too if the team progressed in the competition.

The BBC has contacted the English Football League, Arsenal and Crystal Palace and the schedule clash is being discussed.