Manchester United will compete in the inaugural edition of a lucrative, new women’s seven-a-side series from 21-23 May, alongside Bayern Munich, Ajax and Benfica, with the remaining four of the eight competing teams still to be confirmed.
The new competition, named World Sevens Football, which has a $5m (£3.75m) prize pool per event, with half understood to be set to go to the winners, is being staged in Estoril, Portugal in the run-up to this season’s Women’s Champions League final, and will be followed by another eight-team event – featuring a different set of clubs from around the world – in North America later this year.
