VfL Wolfsburg (women)

VfL Wolfsburg

Full name	Verein für Leibesübungen Wolfsburg e. V. (Sports club) Verein für Leibesübungen Wolfsburg Fußball GmbH (Professional football club)
Nickname(s)	Die Wölfinnen (The She-wolves)
Founded	2003; 21 years ago (2003)
Ground	AOK Stadion, Wolfsburg
Capacity	5,200
Chairman	Hans-Dieter Pötsch
Sporting director	Ralf Kellermann
Head coach	Tommy Stroot
League	Frauen-Bundesliga
2022–23	2nd of 12
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours
Current season

Verein für Leibesübungen Wolfsburg e. V., commonly known as VfL Wolfsburg, is a German professional women's football club based in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony. The club is currently playing in the top division of Germany the Bundesliga. The club won the UEFA Women's Champions League in 2013 and 2014.

History[edit]

VfR Eintracht Wolfsburg was founded in 1973. The team was a founding member of the Bundesliga. In 2003 the team joined VfL Wolfsburg.

The first season under the new name was in 2003–04, which ended with an eighth place, the next season the team was relegated to the 2nd Bundesliga in 12th place but gained direct promotion in the following 2005–06 season. After a fifth place in 2009–10, Wolfsburg grew up one year later, contending for the title and managed to be runner-up in 2011–12.

In the 2012–13 season Wolfsburg won the UEFA Women's Champions League.^[1] Two weeks prior the team achieved its first Bundesliga title.^[2] They were the second team, after 1. FFC Frankfurt to complete the treble, by also winning the domestic cup competition.^[3] This was the first time that the same year both in men's and women's football, clubs from the same nation, complete the treble, with the men's club being Bayern Munich. They were also the first German football team to successfully defend their Champions League title.

Players[edit]

Current squad[edit]

As of 6 August 2023^[4]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  GER Merle Frohms 2 DF  NED Lynn Wilms 3 DF  SVN Sara Agrež 4 DF  GER Kathrin Hendrich 5 MF  GER Lena Oberdorf 6 DF  NED Dominique Janssen 7 MF  GER Chantal Hagel 8 MF  GER Lena Lattwein 9 FW  POL Ewa Pajor 10 MF  GER Svenja Huth 11 FW  GER Alexandra Popp (c) 14 DF  ESP Nuria Rábano 16 DF  GER Camilla Küver

No. Pos. Nation Player 17 MF  GER Kristin Demann 19 FW  NED Fenna Kalma 21 FW  SWE Rebecka Blomqvist 22 GK  GER Lisa Schmitz 23 MF  ISL Sveindís Jane Jónsdóttir 24 DF  GER Joelle Wedemeyer 25 FW  GER Vivien Endemann 27 MF  SUI Riola Xhemaili 28 FW  GER Tabea Sellner 29 MF  GER Jule Brand 30 GK  GER Anneke Borbe 31 DF  GER Marina Hegering 32 GK  GER Kiara Beck

Former players[edit]

Personnel[edit]

Current technical staff[edit]

As of 4 July 2021

Position	Staff
Head coach	Tommy Stroot
Assistant coach	Sabrina Eckhoff
Goalkeeping coach	Eike Herding Alisa Vetterlein
Analyzer	Donna Newberry
Physiotherapists	Omar Rüppel Ewa Gehring-Sturm Fee-Maresa Müller
Club Doctors	Dirk Ziller Agnes Schneider
Team manager	Jörg Schmidt

^[5]

Management[edit]

Board of directors[edit]

Office	Name
Managing Director	Michael Meeske
	Jörg Schmadtke
	Tim Schumacher
Sporting director	Ralf Kellermann

Honours[edit]

Official[edit]

• UEFA Women's Champions League:
  • Winners (2): 2012–13, 2013–14
  • Runners-up: 2015–16, 2017–18, 2019–20, 2022–23
• Frauen-Bundesliga:
  • Winners (7): 2012–13, 2013–14, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2021–22
• DFB Pokal:
  • Winners (10): 2012–13, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2020–21, 2021–22, 2022–23 (Record)

Invitational[edit]

• Ladies First Cup:
  • Winners: 2013

Individual Club Awards[edit]

• IFFHS World's Best Woman Club:
  • Winners: 2013, 2014^[6]

Record in UEFA Women's Champions League[edit]

All results (away, home and aggregate) list Wolfsburg's goal tally first.

Season	Round	Opponents	Away	Home	Aggregate
2012–13	Round of 32	Unia Racibórz	5–1 f	6–1	11–2
	Round of 16	Røa Oslo	1–1	4–1 f	5–2
	Quarter-final	Rossiyanka Khimki	2–0	2–1 f	4–1
	Semi-final	Arsenal	2–1 f	2–0	4–1
	Final	Lyon	1–0 ( London)
2013–14	Round of 32	Pärnu	14–0 f	13–0	27–0
	Round of 16	Rosengård Malmö	2–1 f	3–1	5–2
	Quarter-final	Barcelona	2–0	3–0 f	5–0
	Semi-final	Turbine Potsdam	0–0	4–2 f	4–2
	Final	Tyresö	4–3 ( Lisbon)
2014–15	Round of 32	Stabæk Bærum	1–0 f	2–1	3–1
	Round of 16	Neulengbach	4–0 f	7–0	11–0
	Quarter-final	Rosengård Malmö	3–3	1–1 f	4–4 (agr)
	Semi-final	Paris Saint-Germain	2–1	0–2 f	2–3
2015–16	Round of 32	Spartak Subotica	0–0 f	4–0	4–0
	Round of 16	Chelsea	2–1 f	2–0	4–1
	Quarter-final	Brescia	3–0	3–0 f	6–0
	Semi-final	Frankfurt	0–1	4–0 f	4–1
	Final	Lyon	1–1 (a.e.t.) (3–4 p) ( Reggio Emilia)
2016–17	Round of 32	Chelsea	3–0 f	1–1	4–1
	Round of 16	Eskilstuna United	5–1 f	3–0	8–1
	Quarter-final	Lyon	1–0	0–2 f	1–2
2017–18	Round of 32	Atlético Madrid	3–0 f	12–2	15–2
	Round of 16	Fiorentina	4–0 f	3–3	7–3
	Quarter-final	Slavia Prague	1–1	5–0 f	6–1
	Semi-final	Chelsea	3–1 f	2–0	5–1
	Final	Lyon	1–4 (a.e.t.) ( Kyiv)
2018–19	Round of 32	Þór/KA Akureyri	1–0 f	2–0	3–0
	Round of 16	Atlético Madrid	6–0	4–0 f	10–0
	Quarter-final	Lyon	1–2 f	2–4	3–6
2019–20	Round of 32	Mitrovica	10–0 f	5–0	15–0
	Round of 16	Twente	1–0	6–0 f	7–0
	Quarter-final	Glasgow City	9–1[7] ( San Sebastián)
	Semi-final	Barcelona	1–0 ( San Sebastián)
	Final	Lyon	1–3 ( San Sebastián)
2020–21	Round of 32	Spartak Subotica	5–0 f	2–0	7–0
	Round of 16	LSK Kvinner	2–0	2–0 f	4–0
	Quarter-final	Chelsea	1–2 f	0–3	1–5
2021–22	Round 2	Bordeaux	2–3 (a.e.t.)	3–2 f	5–5 (3–0 p)
	Group A	Servette	3–0	5–0	1st
		Chelsea	3–3	4–0
		Juventus	2–2	0–2
	Quarter-final	Arsenal	1–1 f	2–0	3–1
	Semi-final	Barcelona	1–5 f	2–0	3–5
2022–23	Group B	Slavia Prague	2–0	0–0	1st
		St. Pölten	8–2	4–0
		Roma	1–1	4–2
	Quarter-final	Paris Saint-Germain	1–0 f	1–1	2–1
	Semi-final	Arsenal	3–2 (a.e.t.)	2–2	5–4
	Final	Barcelona	2–3 ( Eindhoven)
2023–24	Qualifying round 2	Paris FC	3–3 f	0–2	3–5

^f First leg.

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