2011–12 Fußball-Bundesliga (women)

The 2011–12 season of the Fußball-Bundesliga (women)
Fußball-Bundesliga (women)
The Women's Football Bundesliga is the main league competition for women's football in Germany. In 1990 the German Football Association created the German Women's Bundesliga, based on the model of the men's Bundesliga. It was first played with north and south divisions, but in 1997 the groups...

is the 22nd season of Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

's premier women's football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

league. The season commenced on 21 August 2011 and will conclude on 28 May 2012. Turbine Potsdam

1. FFC Turbine Potsdam

1. FFC Turbine Potsdam is a women's football club team in Potsdam, Germany. The full name is 1. Frauen-Fußball-Club Turbine Potsdam 71 e. V. . They are one of the most successful teams in Germany...

are the defending champions.

The start of the season saw Germany's record capped player Birgit Prinz

Birgit Prinz

Birgit Prinz is a former German female professional association football player. She last played for 1. FFC Frankfurt and the German national team. Prinz is one of the game's most prolific strikers and the FIFA Women's World Cup all-time leading scorer with 14 goals . She has been named FIFA...

ending her career and all-time Bundesliga topscorer Inka Grings

Inka Grings

Inka Grings is a German footballer. She played sixteen years as a striker for FCR 2001 Duisburg, today she plays for FC Zürich Frauen. She also plays for the German national team. Grings is the all-time leading goalscorer in Germany's top division, the Bundesliga, having claimed the league's...

leaving Duisburg after 16 years for Swiss side Zürich.

Teams

The teams promoted from the previous season's 2nd Bundesliga were Freiburg

SC Freiburg (women)

SC Freiburg is the women's association football team of SC Freiburg. The team played several seasons in Germany's top level league. In 2009-10 they were relegated from the Bundesliga to the 2. Bundesliga...

as winners of the Southern division and Lokomotive Leipzig as runners-up of the Northern division; Northern division champions Hamburger SV II

Hamburger SV (women)

The women's section of Hamburger SV was created in 1970. The team plays in the Bundesliga continuously since the 2003-04 season. The best result was a 4th place in 2010–11.The team reached the final of the German Cup 2002 but lost 5-0 to 1. FFC Frankfurt....

as a reserve side were ineligible for promotion.

Team	Home city	Home ground
	Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler is a town in the German Bundesland of Rhineland-Palatinate. It is the capital of the Ahrweiler district. It is a renowned spa and it has a casino. The A61 motorway connects the town with cities like Cologne and Mainz. The city consists of two parts, Bad Neuenahr in the east...	Apollinarisstadion
Bayer 04 Leverkusen Bayer 04 Leverkusen (women) The origin of Bayer Leverkusen women's football section lies at the SSG 09 Bergisch Gladbach, which in the 1970s and 1980s was the dominating club in German women's football. In that period Bergisch Gladbach won the national women's football championship nine times which today is still the record....	Leverkusen Leverkusen Leverkusen is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany on the eastern bank of the Rhine. To the South, Leverkusen borders the city of Cologne and to the North is the state capital Düsseldorf....	Kurt-Rieß-Anlage
	Munich Munich Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...	Sportpark Aschheim Sportpark Aschheim Sportpark Aschheim is a football stadium near Munich, Germany. It is the home stadium of FC Bayern Munich and FC Aschheim 1956. The stadium has a capacity of 3,000 seats. It was also an official training ground during the 2006 world cup, which was hosted by Germany....
	Duisburg Duisburg - History :A legend recorded by Johannes Aventinus holds that Duisburg, was built by the eponymous Tuisto, mythical progenitor of Germans, ca. 2395 BC...	PCC-Stadion PCC-Stadion The PCC-Stadion is a football stadium in Duisburg-Homberg. It is the home ground of the women's Bundesliga side FCR 2001 Duisburg and men's fourth division side VfB Homberg. The stadium has a capacity of 3,000. The main stand has 800 covered seats....
	Essen Essen - Origin of the name :In German-speaking countries, the name of the city Essen often causes confusion as to its origins, because it is commonly known as the German infinitive of the verb for the act of eating, and/or the German noun for food. Although scholars still dispute the interpretation of...	Sportpark Am Hallo Sportpark am Hallo Sportpark am Hallo is a facility consisting of an indoor sporting arena and an outdoor stadium located in Essen, Germany. The capacity of the arena is 2,500 people, while the stadium can accommodate 3,800 spectators. It is currently home to the TUSEM Essen team handball team and the Assindia...
	Frankfurt Frankfurt Frankfurt am Main , commonly known simply as Frankfurt, is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany, with a 2010 population of 688,249. The urban area had an estimated population of 2,300,000 in 2010...	Stadion am Brentanobad Stadion am Brentanobad Stadion am Brentanobad is a multi-use stadium in Frankfurt, Germany. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of 1. FFC Frankfurt and Rot-Weiß Frankfurt. The stadium has a capacity of 5,500 places....
	Freiburg Freiburg Freiburg im Breisgau is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. In the extreme south-west of the country, it straddles the Dreisam river, at the foot of the Schlossberg. Historically, the city has acted as the hub of the Breisgau region on the western edge of the Black Forest in the Upper Rhine Plain...	Möslestadion
Hamburger SV Hamburger SV (women) The women's section of Hamburger SV was created in 1970. The team plays in the Bundesliga continuously since the 2003-04 season. The best result was a 4th place in 2010–11.The team reached the final of the German Cup 2002 but lost 5-0 to 1. FFC Frankfurt....	Hamburg Hamburg -History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...	Wolfgang-Meyer-Sportanlage
	Jena Jena Jena is a university city in central Germany on the river Saale. It has a population of approx. 103,000 and is the second largest city in the federal state of Thuringia, after Erfurt.-History:Jena was first mentioned in an 1182 document...	Sportzentrum Oberaue
	Leipzig Leipzig Leipzig Leipzig has always been a trade city, situated during the time of the Holy Roman Empire at the intersection of the Via Regia and Via Imperii, two important trade routes. At one time, Leipzig was one of the major European centres of learning and culture in fields such as music and publishing...	Bruno-Plache-Stadion Bruno-Plache-Stadion Bruno-Plache-Stadion is a multi-use stadium in Leipzig, Germany. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Lokomotive Leipzig. The stadium has a capacity of 15,600 people, but it is only accredited for 7,000 people at the moment.It was built in 1922...
	Potsdam Potsdam Potsdam is the capital city of the German federal state of Brandenburg and part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. It is situated on the River Havel, southwest of Berlin city centre....	Karl-Liebknecht-Stadion
	Wolfsburg Wolfsburg Wolfsburg is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is located on the River Aller northeast of Braunschweig , and is mainly notable as the headquarters of Volkswagen AG...	VfL-Stadium

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Replaced by	Position
Bad Neuenahr	Thomas Obliers	mutual consent	Colin Bell Colin Bell (footballer born 1961) Colin Bell is an English former footballer, now a coach based in Germany. Bell began his career at Leicester City, but did not break into the first team, and left for Germany aged 20.- Career :...	pre-season
Lokomotive Leipzig	Jürgen Brauße	mutual consent	Claudia von Lanken Claudia von Lanken Claudia von Lanken is a German former football goalkeeper and current manager. Throughout her career she played for FFC Heike Rheine and Hamburger SV in Germany's Bundesliga. She played three matches for the German national team and was a reserve goalkeeper in the 1997 European Championship.After...	pre-season
Jena	Konrad Weise Konrad Weise Konrad Weise is a former German football player.Weise played almost whole his career for FC Carl Zeiss Jena ....	end of contract	Martina Voss-Tecklenburg	pre-season
Lokomotive Leipzig	Claudia von Lanken Claudia von Lanken Claudia von Lanken is a German former football goalkeeper and current manager. Throughout her career she played for FFC Heike Rheine and Hamburger SV in Germany's Bundesliga. She played three matches for the German national team and was a reserve goalkeeper in the 1997 European Championship.After...	sacked	Jürgen Brauße	11th

Teams

Managerial changes

League table

Results

See also