2011–12 Frauen-Bundesliga

The 2011–12 season of the Frauen-Bundesliga is the 22nd season of Germany's premier women's football league. The season commenced on 21 August 2011 and will conclude on 28 May 2012.[6] Turbine Potsdam were the defending champions and successfully defended their title on the last matchday. Potsdam became the first team to win Bundesliga title a fourth year in a row.[7]

Frauen-Bundesliga
Season2011–12
Champions1. FFC Turbine Potsdam
RelegatedHamburger SV
1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig
UEFA Women's Champions League1. FFC Turbine Potsdam
VfL Wolfsburg
Matches played132
Goals scored420 (3.18 per match)
Top goalscorerGenoveva Añonma (22)
Biggest home win1. FFC Turbine Potsdam 8–0 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig[1]
Biggest away win1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig 2–9 VfL Wolfsburg[2]
Highest scoring1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig 2–9 VfL Wolfsburg[2]
Highest attendanceVfL Wolfsburg1. FFC Frankfurt 8,689[3]
Lowest attendanceHamburgJena 165[4]
Average attendance1,121[5]

The start of the season saw Germany's record capped player Birgit Prinz ending her career and all-time Bundesliga topscorer Inka Grings leaving Duisburg after 16 years for Swiss side Zürich.[8][9] A new all-time Bundesliga record was set on 20 May 2012 when 8,689 spectators saw the match VfL Wolfsburg versus 1. FFC Frankfurt.[3]

Teams

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The teams promoted from the previous season's 2nd Bundesliga were Freiburg as winners of the Southern division and Lokomotive Leipzig as runners-up of the Northern division; Northern division champions Hamburger SV II as a reserve side were ineligible for promotion.

Team Home city Home ground
SC 07 Bad Neuenahr Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler Apollinarisstadion
Bayer 04 Leverkusen Leverkusen Ulrich-Haberland-Stadion (Amateur)
FC Bayern Munich Munich Sportpark Aschheim
FCR 2001 Duisburg Duisburg PCC-Stadion
SG Essen-Schönebeck Essen Sportpark Am Hallo
1. FFC Frankfurt Frankfurt Stadion am Brentanobad
SC Freiburg Freiburg Möslestadion
Hamburger SV Hamburg Wolfgang-Meyer-Sportanlage
FF USV Jena Jena Sportzentrum Oberaue
1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig Leipzig Bruno-Plache-Stadion
1. FFC Turbine Potsdam Potsdam Karl-Liebknecht-Stadion
VfL Wolfsburg Wolfsburg VfL-Stadium

Managerial changes

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Team Outgoing manager Manner of departure Date of vacancy Replaced by Date of appointment Position
Bad Neuenahr Thomas Obliers mutual consent 22 March 2011[10] Colin Bell 6 April 2010[11] pre-season
Lokomotive Leipzig Jürgen Brauße mutual consent 14 April 2011 Claudia von Lanken 15 April 2011[12] pre-season
Jena Konrad Weise end of contract 30 June 2011 Martina Voss-Tecklenburg 1 July 2011[13] pre-season
Lokomotive Leipzig Claudia von Lanken sacked 4 October 2011[14] Jürgen Brauße 4 October 2011 11th
Lokomotive Leipzig Jürgen Brauße resigned 18 April 2012[15] Christof Reimann 25 May 2012[16] 11th

League table

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam (C) 22 18 2 2 63 10 +53 56 2012–13 UEFA Champions League round of 32
2 VfL Wolfsburg (P) 22 17 2 3 62 18 +44 53
3 1. FFC Frankfurt 22 15 1 6 58 17 +41 46
4 FCR 2001 Duisburg 22 14 3 5 53 24 +29 45
5 SG Essen-Schönebeck 22 9 4 9 30 28 +2 31
6 FC Bayern Munich 22 8 4 10 29 38 −9 28
7 SC 07 Bad Neuenahr 22 7 5 10 26 22 +4 26
8 SC Freiburg 22 6 5 11 22 43 −21 23
9 Hamburger SV (R) 22 5 7 10 23 40 −17 22 Relegation to 2012–13 Regionalliga[a]
10 FF USV Jena 22 5 3 14 16 46 −30 18
11 Bayer 04 Leverkusen 22 4 3 15 22 55 −33 15
12 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig (R) 22 4 1 17 16 79 −63 13 Relegation to 2012–13 2. Bundesliga
Updated to match(es) played on 28 May 2012. Source: soccerway.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. ^ Hamburg decided to withdraw their team from the first two Bundesligas for monetary reasons.[17]

Results

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Home \ Away BAD LEV BAY DUI ESS FRA FRE HAM JEN LEI POT WOL
Bad Neuenahr 0–2 0–1 2–0 2–3 1–3 2–2 1–0 0–1 5–0 0–2 1–3
Bayer Leverkusen 0–3 1–3 0–1 0–2 0–5 1–5 2–2 3–2 2–3 0–3 1–2
Bayern Munich 0–3 3–0 2–0 1–0 1–2 3–0 4–1 1–1 1–2 0–4 0–3
FCR 2001 Duisburg 2–0 4–1 3–1 4–0 1–1 2–2 3–1 3–0 2–1 0–2 3–0
Essen-Schönebeck 0–2 4–0 1–0 1–1 0–3 0–2 1–1 1–0 4–0 1–0 1–1
FFC Frankfurt 2–0 4–1 7–1 5–3 3–0 7–0 0–1 3–0 4–0 0–2 0–1
Freiburg 0–0 0–1 3–1 0–6 0–3 1–0 2–3 0–0 3–0 0–2 0–3
Hamburg 0–4 0–2 1–1 0–2 1–1 0–2 1–1 1–1 2–0 1–1 1–3
Jena 1–0 2–1 1–3 0–3 2–1 0–2 3–0 0–1 0–1 0–7 0–3
Lok Leipzig 0–2 1–4 2–2 1–6 0–4 0–4 0–1 0–3 2–1 0–7 2–9
Turbine Potsdam 1–0 1–1 3–0 2–3 3–2 3–1 2–0 4–0 3–1 8–0 1–0
Wolfsburg 1–1 5–1 3–0 2–1 2–0 1–0 3–0 5–2 7–0 5–1 0–2
Updated to match(es) played on 28 May 2012. Source: kicker.de
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

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Genoveva Añonma won the topscorer award with 22 goals and became the first non-German player to win the award in Bundesliga history.[18]

Player Club Goals
Genoveva Añonma Turbine Potsdam 22
Conny Pohlers Wolfsburg 19
Yuki Nagasato Turbine Potsdam 12
Kerstin Garefrekes FFC Frankfurt 11
Nadine Keßler Wolfsburg 11
Celia Okoyino da Mbabi Bad Neuenahr 11
Mandy Islacker FCR Duisburg 10

References

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  1. ^ "Match report". Kicker. 28 May 2012. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
  2. ^ a b "Match report". Kicker (in German). 15 April 2012. Retrieved 26 April 2012.
  3. ^ a b "New attendance record" (in German). vfl-wolfsburg.de. 20 May 2012. Retrieved 20 May 2012.
  4. ^ "Attendances Day 9". Kicker (in German). 13 November 2011. Retrieved 13 November 2011.
  5. ^ "Attendance stats" (in German). framba.de. Archived from the original on 2 June 2012. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
  6. ^ dfb.de. "Schedule". Retrieved 23 March 2011.
  7. ^ "Women's football: Potsdam wins 4th in a row" (in German). welt.de. 28 May 2012. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
  8. ^ "Frankfurt and Germany's Prinz retires". UEFA. 12 August 2011. Retrieved 5 September 2011.
  9. ^ "Grings and Fuss join Zürich from Duisburg" (30 August 2011). UEFA. Retrieved 5 September 2011.
  10. ^ "Bad Neuenahr löst Vertrag mit Trainer Obliers auf" (in German). womensoccer.de. 22 March 2011. Retrieved 6 April 2011.
  11. ^ "Colin Bell neuer Trainer beim SC 07 Bad Neuenahr" (in German). womensoccer.de. 6 April 2011. Archived from the original on 1 July 2017. Retrieved 6 April 2011.
  12. ^ "Leipzig holt Claudia von Lanken" (in German). womensoccer.de. 15 April 2011. Retrieved 15 April 2011.
  13. ^ "Voss-Tecklenburg unterschreibt in Jena für ein Jahr" (in German). Ostthüringer Zeitung. 11 June 2011. Retrieved 11 June 2011.
  14. ^ "van Lanken sits without job". Kicker (in German). 4 October 2011. Retrieved 4 October 2011.
  15. ^ "Bauße resigns in Leipzig". Kicker (in German). 18 April 2012. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
  16. ^ "Reimann new Leipzig Coach" (in German). womensoccer.de. 25 May 2012. Retrieved 25 May 2012.
  17. ^ "HSV withdraws women's team". Kicker (in German). 21 May 2012. Retrieved 22 May 2012.
  18. ^ "Topscorers". soccerway.com. Retrieved 29 May 2012.