2020 UEFA Women's Champions League final

2020 UEFA Women's Champions League Final
Match programme cover
Event2019–20 UEFA Women's Champions League
VfL Wolfsburg Lyon
Germany France
1 3
Date30 August 2020 (2020-08-30)
VenueAnoeta, San Sebastián
Player of the MatchDelphine Cascarino (Lyon)[1]
RefereeEsther Staubli (Switzerland)[2]
Attendance0[note 1]
WeatherPartly cloudy
19 °C (66 °F)
69% humidity[3][4]
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The 2020 UEFA Women's Champions League Final was the final match of the 2019–20 UEFA Women's Champions League, the 19th season of Europe's premier women's club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 11th season since it was renamed from the UEFA Women's Cup to the UEFA Women's Champions League. It was played on 30 August 2020 at the Anoeta Stadium in San Sebastián, Spain, between German club VfL Wolfsburg and French club Lyon.

The match was originally scheduled to be played at the Generali Arena in Vienna, Austria, on 24 May 2020.[5][6] On 23 March 2020, UEFA announced that the final was postponed indefinitely due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe.[7] On 17 June 2020, UEFA announced the match would take place in San Sebastián behind closed doors, as part of a "final-eight tournament" consisting of single-match knockout ties played in two stadiums across the Basque Country.[8]

Lyon won the final 3–1 for their fifth consecutive and seventh overall UEFA Women's Champions League title.[9] As Lyon also won the Division 1 Féminine and the Coupe de France féminine, they completed the treble, the club's second consecutive and fifth overall.

Teams

In the following table, finals until 2009 were in the UEFA Women's Cup era, since 2010 were in the UEFA Women's Champions League era.

Team Previous finals appearances (bold indicates winners)
Germany VfL Wolfsburg 4 (2013, 2014, 2016, 2018)
France Lyon 8 (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019)

Venue

The Anoeta Stadium in San Sebastián hosted the final.

The final took place at the Anoeta Stadium in San Sebastián, Gipuzkoa, Basque Country.[8] The stadium, city, and province hosted their first ever UEFA club competition final. The greater Basque Country however had seen the San Mamés Stadium in Bilbao hosting the second leg of the 1977 UEFA Cup Final.

Original host selection

Generali Arena, the venue originally chosen to host the final match.

An open bidding process was launched on 22 September 2017 by UEFA to select the venues of the finals of the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, and UEFA Women's Champions League in 2020. Associations had until 31 October 2017 to express interest, and bid dossiers must be submitted by 1 March 2018.

UEFA announced on 3 November 2017 that three associations had expressed interest in hosting the 2020 UEFA Women's Champions League final.[10]

Bidding associations for 2020 UEFA Women's Champions League Final
Country Stadium City Capacity
 Austria Generali Arena Vienna 17,500
 Belgium Stade Maurice Dufrasne Liège 30,023
 Russia VTB Arena Moscow 27,000

The Generali Arena was selected by the UEFA Executive Committee during their meeting in Kyiv on 24 May 2018.[11][5] This would have been the first UEFA club competition final hosted at the Generali Arena, and the first to be hosted by the city of Vienna and Austria since the 1995 UEFA Champions League Final at the Ernst-Happel-Stadion.[12] It is the home ground of Austrian club Austria Wien. Due to UEFA regulations regarding naming rights of non-tournament sponsors, the stadium was referred to as the "Viola Park" in UEFA materials.

Relocation to San Sebastián

The 2019–20 UEFA Women's Champions League was postponed indefinitely on 17 March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe.[13] The final was officially postponed on 23 March 2020.[7] A working group was set up by UEFA to decide the calendar of the remainder of the season,[14] with the final decision made at the UEFA Executive Committee meeting on 17 June 2020.[15][16] It was decided that the remaining matches, including the quarter-finals, semi-finals and final, would be played between 21 and 30 August at San Mamés, Bilbao and Anoeta Stadium, San Sebastián in Basque Country, Spain, as an eight-team single-match knockout tournament, with San Sebastián hosting the final.[8]

Unlike the UEFA Champions League and Europa League, where the host venues of future finals already awarded since 2020 were all pushed back a year, the host venues of future Women's Champions League finals already awarded remained the same. The Austrian Football Association said over 12,000 tickets had already been sold for the final and they would all be refunded.[17]

Route to the final

Further information: 2019–20 UEFA Women's Champions League

Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away; N: neutral).

Germany VfL Wolfsburg Round France Lyon
Opponent Agg. 1st leg 2nd leg Knockout phase Opponent Agg. 1st leg 2nd leg
Kosovo Mitrovica 15–0 10–0 (A) 5–0 (H) Round of 32 Russia Ryazan-VDV 16–0 9–0 (A) 7–0 (H)
Netherlands Twente 7–0 6–0 (H) 1–0 (A) Round of 16 Denmark Fortuna Hjørring 11–0 4–0 (A) 7–0 (H)
Scotland Glasgow City 9–1 (N) Quarter-finals Germany Bayern Munich 2–1 (N)
Spain Barcelona 1–0 (N) Semi-finals France Paris Saint-Germain 1–0 (N)

Pre-match

Ambassador

Austrian footballer Nina Burger was the original ambassador for the Vienna final.[18]

Officials

On 28 August 2020, UEFA named Swiss official Esther Staubli as the referee for the final. Staubli had been a FIFA referee since 2006, and was previously the referee for the 2015 UEFA Women's Champions League Final. She also was a lead referee at the UEFA Women's Championship in 2013 and 2017, including the final of the latter, as well as FIFA Women's World Cup in 2015 and 2019. She was joined by assistant referees Sanja Rođak-Karšić of Croatia and Oleksandra Ardasheva of Ukraine, with the latter's compatriot Maryna Striletska serving as the reserve assistant referee. Jana Adámková of the Czech Republic was the fourth official. Spaniard José María Sánchez Martínez worked as the video assistant referee in the debut of the system in a Women's Champions League final, and was joined by his compatriot Ricardo de Burgos Bengoetxea as the assistant VAR official.[2]

Match

Details

The "home" team (for administrative purposes) was determined by an additional draw held on 8 November 2019, 13:30 CET (after the quarter-final and semi-final draws), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.[19]

VfL Wolfsburg Germany1–3France Lyon
  • Popp 58'
 Report
Attendance: 0[note 1]
VfL Wolfsburg[21]
Lyon[21]
GK 27 Germany Friederike Abt
RB 9 Germany Anna Blässe downward-facing red arrow 78'
CB 28 Germany Lena Goeßling
CB 23 Germany Iran Sara Doorsoun[22] downward-facing red arrow 39'
LB 6 Netherlands Dominique Janssen
RM 10 Germany Svenja Huth Yellow card 14' downward-facing red arrow 61'
CM 15 Norway Ingrid Syrstad Engen
CM 11 Germany Alexandra Popp
LM 14 Sweden Fridolina Rolfö
CF 22 Denmark Pernille Harder (c)
CF 17 Poland Ewa Pajor downward-facing red arrow 61'
Substitutes:
GK 12 Germany Julia Kassen
GK 77 Poland Katarzyna Kiedrzynek
DF 4 Germany Kathrin Hendrich upward-facing green arrow 39'
DF 5 Germany Lena Oberdorf upward-facing green arrow 61'
DF 13 Germany Felicitas Rauch
DF 24 Germany Joelle Wedemeyer
MF 3 Hungary Zsanett Jakabfi
MF 20 Germany Pia-Sophie Wolter upward-facing green arrow 61'
MF 21 Switzerland Lara Dickenmann
MF 30 Germany Lisanne Gräwe
FW 7 Germany Pauline Bremer upward-facing green arrow 78'
Manager:
Germany Stephan Lerch
GK 16 France Sarah Bouhaddi
RB 2 England Lucy Bronze
CB 21 Canada Kadeisha Buchanan
CB 3 France Wendie Renard (c)
LB 26 France Sakina Karchaoui
CM 8 Iceland Sara Björk Gunnarsdóttir
CM 5 Japan Saki Kumagai
RW 20 France Delphine Cascarino downward-facing red arrow 87'
AM 10 Germany Dzsenifer Marozsán Yellow card 40' downward-facing red arrow 87'
LW 7 France Amel Majri downward-facing red arrow 90+4'
CF 9 France Eugénie Le Sommer downward-facing red arrow 90+4'
Substitutes:
GK 1 Spain Lola Gallardo
GK 40 Finland Katriina Talaslahti
DF 4 France Selma Bacha
DF 12 Australia Ellie Carpenter
DF 15 England Alex Greenwood upward-facing green arrow 90+4'
DF 23 Belgium Janice Cayman
MF 6 France Amandine Henry
FW 11 Netherlands Shanice van de Sanden upward-facing green arrow 87'
FW 24 England Jodie Taylor upward-facing green arrow 87'
FW 28 France Melvine Malard upward-facing green arrow 90+4'
Manager:
France Jean-Luc Vasseur

Player of the Match:
Delphine Cascarino (Lyon)[1]

Assistant referees:[2]
Sanja Rođak-Karšić (Croatia)
Oleksandra Ardasheva (Ukraine)
Fourth official:[2]
Jana Adámková (Czech Republic)
Reserve assistant referee:[2]
Maryna Striletska (Ukraine)
Video assistant referee:[2]
José María Sánchez Martínez (Spain)
Assistant video assistant referee:[2]
Ricardo de Burgos Bengoetxea (Spain)

Match rules[23]

  • 90 minutes.
  • 30 minutes of extra time if necessary.
  • Penalty shoot-out if scores still level.
  • Twelve named substitutes.
  • Maximum of five substitutions, with a sixth allowed in extra time.[note 2]

Statistics

Statistic[24] VfL Wolfsburg Lyon
Goals scored 1 3
Total shots 10 13
Shots on target 1 7
Saves 4 0
Ball possession 48% 52%
Corner kicks 4 6
Fouls committed 11 8
Offsides 1 1
Yellow cards 1 1
Red cards 0 0

See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b The remainder of the competition, held in August 2020, was played behind closed doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe.[20]
  2. ^ Each team was only given three opportunities to make substitutions, with a fourth opportunity in extra time, excluding substitutions made at half-time, before the start of extra time and at half-time in extra time.

References

  1. ^ a b "Women's Champions League final Player of the Match: Delphine Cascarino". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 30 August 2020. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g "Referee team appointed for UEFA Women's Champions League final in San Sebastián". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 28 August 2020. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
  3. ^ "Wolfsburg v Lyon: Match info". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 30 August 2020. Archived from the original on 30 August 2020. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
  4. ^ "San Sebastián, Spain Weather Conditions". Weather Underground. 30 August 2020. Archived from the original on 30 August 2020. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
  5. ^ a b "Istanbul to host 2020 UEFA Champions League Final". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 24 May 2018. Retrieved 24 May 2018.
  6. ^ "Road to Vienna: 2019/20 #UWCL dates, access list". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 18 May 2019.
  7. ^ a b "UEFA Club Finals postponed". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 23 March 2020. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
  8. ^ a b c "Women's Champions League finals to be played in August". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 17 June 2020.
  9. ^ "Wolfsburg 1–3 Lyon: Women's Champions League final report". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 30 August 2020. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
  10. ^ "Six associations interested in hosting 2020 club finals". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 3 November 2017.
  11. ^ "UEFA Executive Committee agenda for Kyiv meeting". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 8 May 2018.
  12. ^ "Vienna to host 2020 Women's Champions League final". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 24 May 2018.
  13. ^ "UEFA postpones EURO 2020 by 12 months". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 17 March 2020. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
  14. ^ "Resolution of the European football family on a coordinated response to the impact of the COVID-19 on competitions". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 17 March 2020. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
  15. ^ "UEFA Executive Committee agenda for June meeting". UEFA.com. 11 June 2020.
  16. ^ "UEFA competitions to resume in August". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 17 June 2020. Retrieved 17 June 2020.
  17. ^ Burhan, Asif (17 June 2020). "UEFA Women's Champions League Final To Be Played In San Sebastian". Forbes.
  18. ^ "2020 Women's Champions League final: Vienna". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 1 November 2019.
  19. ^ "Women's Champions League quarter-final and semi-final draw". UEFA.com.
  20. ^ "Venues for Round of 16 matches confirmed". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 9 July 2020. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
  21. ^ a b "Wolfsburg v Lyon: Overview". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 30 August 2020. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
  22. ^ "Sara Doorsoun - Player Profile - Football". Eurosport. Retrieved 23 November 2022.
  23. ^ "Regulations of the UEFA Women's Champions League: 2019/20" (PDF). UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 2020. Archived from the original on 25 August 2020. Retrieved 25 August 2020.
  24. ^ "Wolfsburg v Lyon: Statistics". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 30 August 2020. Retrieved 30 August 2020.

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