2011–12 Bundesliga (women)

Bundesliga (women)
Season 2011–12
Champions Potsdam
Relegated Hamburg
Leipzig
UEFA Women's Champions League Potsdam
Wolfsburg
Matches played 132
Goals scored 420 (3.18 per match)
Top goalscorer Genoveva Añonma (22)
Biggest home win Potsdam 8–0 Leipzig[1]
Biggest away win Leipzig 2–9 Wolfsburg[2]
Highest scoring Leipzig 2–9 Wolfsburg[2]
Highest attendance Wolfsburg – Frankfurt 8,689[3]
Lowest attendance Hamburg – Jena 165[4]
Average attendance 1,121[5]

The 2011–12 season of the Bundesliga (women) 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]

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 Wolfsburg versus Frankfurt.[3]

Teams

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 Kurt-Rieß-Anlage
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

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

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 1
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 games played on 28 May 2012.
Source: soccerway.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
1: Hamburg decided to withdraw their team from the first two Bundesligas for monetary reasons.[17]
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Results

Home \ Away1 BAD LEV BAY DUI ESS FRA FRE HAM JEN LEI POT WOL
Bad Neuenahr 02 01 20 23 13 22 10 01 50 02 13
Bayer Leverkusen 03 13 01 02 05 15 22 32 23 03 12
Bayern Munich 03 30 20 10 12 30 41 11 12 04 03
MSV Duisburg 20 41 31 40 11 22 31 30 21 02 30
Essen-Schönebeck 02 40 10 11 03 02 11 10 40 10 11
FFC Frankfurt 20 41 71 53 30 70 01 30 40 02 01
Freiburg 00 01 31 06 03 10 23 00 30 02 03
Hamburg 04 02 11 02 11 02 11 11 20 11 13
Jena 10 21 13 03 21 02 30 01 01 07 03
Lok Leipzig 02 14 22 16 04 04 01 03 21 07 29
Turbine Potsdam 10 11 30 23 32 31 20 40 31 80 10
Wolfsburg 11 51 30 21 20 10 30 52 70 51 02

Updated to games played on 28 May 2012.
Source: kicker.de
1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

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

  1. "Match report". kicker.de. 28 May 2012. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
  2. 1 2 "Match report" (in German). kicker.de. 15 April 2012. Retrieved 26 April 2012.
  3. 1 2 "New attendance record" (in German). vfl-wolfsburg.de. 20 May 2012. Retrieved 20 May 2012.
  4. "Attendances Day 9" (in German). kicker.de. 13 November 2011. Retrieved 13 November 2011.
  5. "Attendance stats" (in German). framba.de. 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. 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" (in German). kicker.de. 4 October 2011. Retrieved 4 October 2011.
  15. "Bauße resigns in Leipzig" (in German). kicker.de. 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" (in German). kicker.de. 21 May 2012. Retrieved 22 May 2012.
  18. "Topscorers". soccerway.com. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
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