IFFHS CONTINENTAL STATS - UEFA WOMEN'S CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
Picture : Claudia Pina is now the best Goalscorer of the Champions League with 9 goals !
UEFA WOMEN’S CHAMPIONS LEAGUE – Semi Final (first leg)
BARCELONA – CHELSEA 4-1
- Barcelona won deserved the first leg with 4 goals, dominating Chelsea in the game with Alexia Putellas and Aitana Bonmati, the two 4-times IFFHS Awards winners, gaving the tempo .
- In the Stadium Johann Cruyff in Barcelona, Yamine Lamal and Gavi were present to see the great performance of the woman team.
- Claudia Pina came in the game for the last 20 minutes and scored twice, being now the leader of the Goalscorers ranking 2024/25 of the UEFA Champions League with 9 goals.
- For the third time in history, Barcelona and Chelsea meet in the semi finals. Only Lyon and Paris SG (4 times) met more. In the last two years, Barcelona won two times also at Stamford Bridge.
- In 2021, Barcelona won the final with a large 4-0 against Chelsea, becoming the first club in History to win both men’s and women’s UEFA Champions League titles !
- FC Barcelona won now their 18 last games in the Champions League final round, Père Romeu is now the 4th coach to continue this Serie since the win in Lyon in 2018 !
- Chelsea write history this season. With Sonia Bompastor at their head, the team dominates the Women’s Super League, won the Women’s League Cup and will play the Women’s FA Cup. Chelsea can write definitively history with 4 titles !
- Mayra Ramirez is the first Colombian female player to play a Champions League semi final.
- Lucy Bronze and Keira Walsh won last year the Champions League with Barcelona, now they play in Chelsea …against Barcelona !
- Only one coach has beaten Barcelona in the last years : it was Sonia Bompastor with Olympique Lyon in the final 2022 in Turin (Italy) ! Sonia is now the Chelsea coach with the objective to qualify for the final …against Barcelona.
- FC Barcelona reached now the semi finals of the Champions League for the 7th consecutive time ! The Record in Europe, surpassing the 6th times of Lyon.
- FC Barcelona can now reach the Final for the 5th consecutive year !
- Aitana Bonmati, IFFHS World Player 2023 and 2024, became the first femalke footballer to have a plane bearing her name : Aitana Bonmati Conca Vueling !
- England made history in quarter finals with 3 clubs qualified. Now they have with Arsenal and Chelsea the possibility to join France (Lyon and Paris SG in final) for the record in final.
- The second leg will be held in London at Stamford Bridge next Sunday.