IFFHS CONTINENTAL STATS - UEFA WOMEN'S CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
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IFFHS WOMEN’S UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE – Semi Finals second leg
- FC Barcelona will face Arsenal in the UEFA Women’s Champions League final 2024/25 in Lisbon on May 24.
- After 2023 and 2024, FC Barcelona overcame again Chelsea in semi final to progress to the Champions League final with two victories (4-1 both) in the two games.
- With two goals and an assist from the bench in the first leg and one goal in the second leg, Clàudia Pina has beaten a record in this season’s Women’s Champions League. The Spaniard became the first Barcelona player to score 10+ goals in a campaign since Alexia Putellas in 2021-22.
- Barcelona, meanwhile, have won their 3 away games against Chelsea in the Women’s Champions League , winning 1-0 in 2022-23 and 2-0 in 2023-24 and now 4-1 in 2024/25.
- Before Chelsea, 152 teams have lost the first leg of a UEFA Women’s Champions League knockout stage tie by 3+ goals, with 100% of them going on to exit the competition in the second leg .
- FC Barcelona have won 9 consecutive matches by an aggregate score of 44-5, becoming the first team in UWCL history to score 3+ goals in 9 consecutive matches.
- The American international Catarina Macario scored in Lyon’s 2022 UEFA Women’s Champions League final success against Barcelona, but had no chance with Chelsea.
- Chelsea manager Sonia Bompastor has previous with Barcelona, beating them 3-1 in the 2022 final with Lyon in Turin, but she could do nothing to change Chelsea’s head-to-head record with them.
- The Blues have won just one of their 7 Women’s Champions League meetings with Barcelona , only losing more times in the competition to Wolfsburg (6) than the Spanish side (5).
- The Gunners of Arsenal go into history on their side, reaching their second Women’s Champions League final, after 2006-07 when they became, and remain, the only English side to win the competition.
- Arsenal have been eliminated from each of their four semi-final ties since then, however, and from six of seven ties overall (2002-03, 2004-05, 2010-11, 2011-12, 2012-13, 2022-23). Before today !
- Alessia Russo and Mariona Caldentey (both 7), Arsenal have two of the Champions League’s leading scorers this season. Both Russo and Caldentey, who starred in the Gunners’ win over Real Madrid in the last 16, made their mark on this match, allowing Arsenal to turn this tie in their favour 4-1 in Lyon.
- A former Champions League winner with Barcelona, Mariona Caldentey was victorious against Lyon just last season to win the trophy. And today with Arsenal in Lyon ! She will face her last year teammates of Barcelona in the final !
- Arsenal broke a long-held Lyon record in this match; they will became the first team in the tournament’s history to play 14 matches in a single campaign.
- Lyon have progressed from each of their last 11 semi-final ties, while Arsenal have been eliminated from each of their last four. Today , it was the first time for all to change this !
- It was the 500th game for Wendie Renard with Olympique Lyon and her 125th Champions League game today !