IFFHS CONTINENTAL STATS - UEFA WOMEN'S CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
Picture : Melchie Dumornay, Haiti’s star, was again the matchwinner for Olympique Lyon. She becomes more and more one of the candidates for the annual IFFHS World Best Player and Ballon d’Or.
UEFA WOMEN’S CHAMPIONS LEAGUE STATS – Semi final (1st leg)
ARSENAL – OLYMPIQUE LYON 1-2
- It was the 8th match between Arsenal and Lyon in the Champions League. 6 wins now and 1 draw for Olympique Lyon , 1 win for Arsenal !
- Arsenal won 1 title (2007) and Lyon 8 titles (2011, 2012, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022) in the Champions League. Lyon was also crowned 7 times as IFFHS Women’s World Best Club !
- Lyon played his 14th semi final in the competition since 2010 !
- Joe Montemurro, the australian coach of Lyon since 2024, was already coach of …Arsenal between 2017 and 2021.
- Renée Seglers, the new Arsenal coach since end of the year, replacing Jonas Eidevall, was very successfull with her team, conceding only one defeat in 20 games.
- The Emirates Stadium in London was filled with more than 40 000 spectators for the first leg !
- Wendie Renard, the Legend captain of Lyon, injured, was replaced by young talent Alice Sombath in London. Renard won all titles of the History of Olympique lyon since the beginning in 2006 ! She has today played 499 official games with Lyon (a record).
- Kadidiatou Diani for Lyon and Mariona Caldentey for Arsenal scored their 6 th goal of the competition, taking the leadership of the ranking 2024/25 joint with Alessia Russo.
- Chilian Goalkeeper Christiane Endler (crowned two times IFFHS World Golakeeper of the year) was the captain of the day for Lyon.
- Melchie Dumornay, Haiti’s star, was again the matchwinner for Olympique Lyon. She becomes more and more one of the candidates for the annual IFFHS World Best Player and Ballon d’Or.
- Second leg : next sonday 27 April in Lyon.