2012 UEFA Women's Champions League final explained

2012 UEFA Women's Champions League final
Event:2011–12 UEFA Women's Champions League
Team1:Lyon
Team1association:
Team1score:2
Team2:Frankfurt
Team2score:0
Date:17 May 2012
Stadium:Olympiastadion
City:Munich
Referee:Jenny Palmqvist (Sweden)
Attendance:50,212
Weather:Sunny, 10°C
Previous:2011
Next:2013

The 2012 UEFA Women's Champions League final was the final match of the 2011–12 UEFA Women's Champions League, the 11th season of the UEFA Women's Champions League football tournament and the third since it was renamed from the UEFA Women's Cup. The match was held in the Olympiastadion in Munich, Germany on 17 May 2012.[1] Lyon won the tournament, beating Frankfurt 2–0 to retain the trophy.

Lyon played the final for the third consecutive time.[2] It also marked the third time in a row that a French and a German club met in the final.[3]

The attendance of 50,212 was claimed by UEFA as a European record for women's club football,[4] ignoring the existence of earlier reported women's club match attendances of 53,000.[5] Both figures were later surpassed by a 2019 match in Spain.[6]

Route to the final

LyonRoundFrankfurt
OpponentResult2011–12 UEFA Women's Champions LeagueOpponentResult
Olimpia Cluj9–0, 3–0Round of 32 Stabæk0–1, 4–2
Sparta Praha6–0, 6–0Round of 16 Paris Saint-Germain3–0, 1–2
Brøndby4–0, 4–0Quarter-finals LdB FC Malmö0–1, 3–0
Turbine Potsdam5–1, 0–0Semi-finals Arsenal2–1, 2–0

Match

Details

GK 26 Sarah Bouhaddi
DF 3 Wendie Renard
DF 17 Corine Franco
DF 18 Sonia Bompastor (c)
DF 20 Sabrina Viguier
MF 6
MF 9
MF 10
MF 11 Shirley Cruz Traña
MF 23 Camille Abily
FW 8
Substitutions:
GK 1 Céline Deville
DF 5 Laura Georges
MF 14
MF 15 Aurélie Kaci
MF 21
MF 22
FW 4 Makan Traoré
Manager:
Patrice Lair
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GK 26 Desirée Schumann
DF 2 Gina Lewandowski
DF 4 Saki Kumagai
DF 5 Sara Thunebro
DF 12
DF 25 Saskia Bartusiak
MF 7 Melanie Behringer
MF 10 Dzsenifer Marozsán
MF 18 Kerstin Garefrekes
FW 15
FW 28 Sandra Smisek (c)
Substitutions:
GK 30 Anne-Kathrine Kremer
MF 20 Jasmin Herbert
MF 23
FW 6 Silvana Chojnowski
FW 11
FW 21
Manager:
Sven Kahlert
Assistant referees


Helen Karo (Sweden)
Anna Nyström (Sweden)
Fourth official


Sara Persson (Sweden)

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Munich's Olympiastadion to stage final. UEFA. 30 January 2012. 30 January 2012.
  2. Web site: Lyon relishing final against Frankfurt. 2012-04-22. uefa.com.
  3. Web site: Deserving Frankfurt delighted to reach 'home final'. 2012-04-21. uefa.com.
  4. Web site: Champions league final breaks attendance record. womensoccer.de. 15 May 2012. German. 15 May 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20160410162050/http://www.womensoccer.de/2012/05/15/champions-league-finale-bricht-zuschauerrekord/. 10 April 2016. dead.
  5. News: Rowbottom . Mike . When Ladies of Preston ruled the world . 29 September 2020 . The Independent . 27 February 1997 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131216185827/https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/when-ladies-of-preston-ruled-the-world-1280916.html . 16 December 2013 . Web Archive.
  6. News: Atletico v Barcelona breaks women's attendance record . SBS The World Game . Omnisport . 18 March 2019.