2012 UEFA Women's Champions League final

2012 UEFA Women's Champions League final

Event	2011–12 UEFA Women's Champions League
Lyon Frankfurt 2 0
Date	17 May 2012
Venue	Olympiastadion, Munich
Referee	Jenny Palmqvist (Sweden)
Attendance	50,212
Weather	Sunny, 10°C
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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

Lyon		Round	Frankfurt
Opponent	Result	2011–12 UEFA Women's Champions League	Opponent	Result
Olimpia Cluj	9–0, 3–0	Round of 32	Stabæk	0–1, 4–1
Sparta Praha	6–0, 6–0	Round of 16	Paris Saint-Germain	3–0, 1–2
Brøndby	4–0, 4–0	Quarter-finals	LdB FC Malmö	0–1, 3–0
Turbine Potsdam	5–1, 0–0	Semi-finals	Arsenal	2–1, 2–0

Match

Details

17 May 2012 (2012-05-17)

18:00 CEST

Lyon	2–0	Frankfurt
Le Sommer 15' (pen.) Abily 28'	Report

Olympiastadion, Munich

Attendance: 50,212

Referee: Jenny Palmqvist (Sweden)

Lyon

Frankfurt

GK 26 Sarah Bouhaddi DF 3 Wendie Renard DF 17 Corine Franco DF 18 Sonia Bompastor (c) DF 20 Sabrina Viguier MF 6 Amandine Henry  90+1' MF 9 Eugénie Le Sommer  65' MF 10 Louisa Necib  49' MF 11 Shirley Cruz Traña MF 23 Camille Abily FW 8 Lotta Schelin  88' Substitutions: GK 1 Céline Deville DF 5 Laura Georges MF 14 Rosana  65' MF 15 Aurélie Kaci MF 21 Lara Dickenmann  49' MF 22 Ami Otaki  88' FW 4 Makan Traoré Manager: Patrice Lair

GK 26 Desirée Schumann DF 2 Gina Lewandowski DF 4 Saki Kumagai DF 5 Sara Thunebro DF 12 Meike Weber  61' DF 25 Saskia Bartusiak MF 7 Melanie Behringer MF 10 Dzsenifer Marozsán MF 18 Kerstin Garefrekes FW 15 Svenja Huth  64' FW 28 Sandra Smisek (c)  83' Substitutions: GK 30 Anne-Kathrine Kremer MF 20 Jasmin Herbert MF 23 Ria Percival  61' FW 6 Silvana Chojnowski FW 11 Jessica Landström  83' FW 21 Ana-Maria Crnogorčević  64' Manager: Sven Kahlert

Assistant referees: Helen Karo (Sweden) Anna Nyström (Sweden) Fourth official: Sara Persson (Sweden)

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  Opening ceremony
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  Match scene
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  Lyon celebrates

See also

• 2011–12 UEFA Women's Champions League

References

1. "Munich's Olympiastadion to stage final". UEFA. 30 January 2012. Retrieved 30 January 2012.
2. "Lyon relishing final against Frankfurt". UEFA. 2012-04-22.
3. "Deserving Frankfurt delighted to reach 'home final'". UEFA. 2012-04-21.
4. "Champions league final breaks attendance record" (in German). womensoccer.de. 15 May 2012. Archived from the original on 10 April 2016. Retrieved 15 May 2012.
5. Rowbottom, Mike (27 February 1997). "When Ladies of Preston ruled the world". The Independent. Web Archive. Archived from the original on 16 December 2013. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
6. "Atletico v Barcelona breaks women's attendance record". SBS The World Game. Omnisport. 18 March 2019.