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]
Season | 2011–12 |
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Champions | 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam |
Relegated | Hamburger SV 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig |
UEFA Women's Champions League | 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam VfL Wolfsburg |
Matches played | 132 |
Goals scored | 420 (3.18 per match) |
Top goalscorer | Genoveva Añonma (22) |
Biggest home win | 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam 8–0 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig[1] |
Biggest away win | 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig 2–9 VfL Wolfsburg[2] |
Highest scoring | 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig 2–9 VfL Wolfsburg[2] |
Highest attendance | VfL Wolfsburg – 1. FFC Frankfurt 8,689[3] |
Lowest attendance | Hamburg – Jena 165[4] |
Average attendance | 1,121[5] |
← 2010–11 2012–13 → |
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
editThe 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.
Managerial changes
editTeam | 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
editPos | 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 |
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:
Results
editTop scorers
editGenoveva 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 |
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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
edit- ^ "Match report". Kicker. 28 May 2012. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
- ^ a b "Match report". Kicker (in German). 15 April 2012. Retrieved 26 April 2012.
- ^ a b "New attendance record" (in German). vfl-wolfsburg.de. 20 May 2012. Retrieved 20 May 2012.
- ^ "Attendances Day 9". Kicker (in German). 13 November 2011. Retrieved 13 November 2011.
- ^ "Attendance stats" (in German). framba.de. Archived from the original on 2 June 2012. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
- ^ dfb.de. "Schedule". Retrieved 23 March 2011.
- ^ "Women's football: Potsdam wins 4th in a row" (in German). welt.de. 28 May 2012. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
- ^ "Frankfurt and Germany's Prinz retires". UEFA. 12 August 2011. Retrieved 5 September 2011.
- ^ "Grings and Fuss join Zürich from Duisburg" (30 August 2011). UEFA. Retrieved 5 September 2011.
- ^ "Bad Neuenahr löst Vertrag mit Trainer Obliers auf" (in German). womensoccer.de. 22 March 2011. Retrieved 6 April 2011.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Leipzig holt Claudia von Lanken" (in German). womensoccer.de. 15 April 2011. Retrieved 15 April 2011.
- ^ "Voss-Tecklenburg unterschreibt in Jena für ein Jahr" (in German). Ostthüringer Zeitung. 11 June 2011. Retrieved 11 June 2011.
- ^ "van Lanken sits without job". Kicker (in German). 4 October 2011. Retrieved 4 October 2011.
- ^ "Bauße resigns in Leipzig". Kicker (in German). 18 April 2012. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
- ^ "Reimann new Leipzig Coach" (in German). womensoccer.de. 25 May 2012. Retrieved 25 May 2012.
- ^ "HSV withdraws women's team". Kicker (in German). 21 May 2012. Retrieved 22 May 2012.
- ^ "Topscorers". soccerway.com. Retrieved 29 May 2012.