The DFB-Pokal Frauen is the main national women's football cup competition in Germany, held annually by the German Football Association in knockout format. It was created in 1980, and since 1991 includes Eastern teams as well. The most recent champions are VfL Wolfsburg (ten consecutive titles), they also won the most titles with eleven. Since 1985 the final has thus been held in Berlin . Only in 1983, it was held in the city of Frankfurt. This routine changed in 2010 when the finale was the DFB gave the final to the city of Cologne . It ever stayed in the city and was held at the RheinEnergieStadion . The final usually takes place on a weekend or holiday in early May.
34-541: All clubs from the Bundesliga and the 2. Bundesliga are allowed to compete in the cup as are the clubs which gained promotion to the second Bundesliga. Also the winners of the regional cup competitions compete in the cup. As an exception to these rules, clubs' second teams are not allowed to participate in the DFB-Pokal. When a second team wins its regional cup, that team's regional association may send another team to
68-436: A 16-team group stage to the competition, and with it a vastly expanded prize pool of €24M total. Of that pool, €5.6M (23%) would be used for solidarity payments to non-participating clubs of participating countries, to provide funding for development. €7M (29%) would be reserved for the qualifying rounds (some of which is travel subsidies for clubs traveling long distances), and the €11.5 remainder (48%) would be for clubs reaching
102-483: A few club sponsors, alongside the ones who are official. As of 2024, official sponsors are: During the first Champions League era with no group stage (2009–2021), no team from a nation outside the top two of France and Germany won the title, except for Barcelona in 2021. The only teams from nations outside the top two nations to have finished runner-up in that time were Tyresö in 2014, Barcelona in 2019 and Chelsea in 2021. Also during that era, only two teams from
136-484: A nation outside the top four (then France, Germany, Sweden, and England) ever made the semi-finals: Brøndby in 2015 and Barcelona in four of the last five years under that format. The top-scorer award is given to the player who scores the most goals in the competition. Up until the introduction of the Champions League Group Stage it included the qualifying rounds. Since 2021–22 only goals from
170-436: A new format was announced starting with the 2021–22 season. The top six associations entered three teams, associations ranked 7–16 entered two, and the remaining associations entered one. The competition is restructured to appear more similar to the men's CL format, with a double-round-robin group stage, and two paths through the qualifiers (a champions path and a non-champions path) for teams that do not automatically qualify for
204-417: A non-champions path) for teams that do not automatically qualify for the league stage. Prize-money was awarded for a first time in 2010, when both finalists received money. In 2011 the payments were extended to losing semi- and quarter-finalists. In these earlier years, teams sometimes complained about the sum, which did not cover costs for some longer trips. The 2021–22 Women's Champions League introduced
238-658: A round every club plays against each other, having a home game against a specific club in one round and an away game in the other. The seasons typically start in August or September, with the first round finishing in December. The second round typically starts in February and ends in May or June, though sometimes the first games of the second round are held in December. In World Cup years, the league might alter its schedule to accommodate
272-804: The Google Pixel Frauen-Bundesliga for sponsorship reasons, is the top level of league competition for women's association football in Germany. In the UEFA Women's Champions League , the Frauen-Bundesliga is the most successful league with a total of nine titles from four clubs. In 1990 the German Football Association (DFB) created the German Women's Bundesliga, based on the model of
306-684: The European Sports Media (ESM) group. In the same season, UEFA also introduced the UEFA Women's Champions League Young Player of the Season award. DAZN have the global (exc. MENA) rights of the competition from 2021–22 until 2024–25, 61 matches in both 2021–22 and 2022–23 seasons were live streamed for free on the DAZN UEFA Women's Champions League YouTube channel. Warner Bros Discovery's channel TNT Sports also cover
340-528: The UEFA Women's Cup (2001–2009), is a European women's association football competition. It involves the top club teams from countries affiliated with the European governing body UEFA . The competition was first played in 2001–02 under the name UEFA Women's Cup , and renamed the Champions League for the 2009–10 edition. The most significant changes in 2009 were the inclusion of runners-up from
374-419: The DFB-Pokal only if the cup winning second team has not also achieved promotion to the 2. Bundesliga. Of the qualified teams, not all have to compete in the first round. Exactly 32 teams have to compete in the second round of the tournament, so in the first round the number of matches is determined by the number of excess teams. The teams that do not have to compete in the first round are the best finishers from
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#1732800851113408-521: The Regionalliga and six teams from the 2. Bundesliga), to determine the 16 teams in the first round. There, the Bundesliga and the four best-placed teams from the 2. Bundesliga will join. All games are held over two 45-minute halves with the winner advancing to the next round. In case of a draw, the game gets an extended by two 15-minute halves. If the score is still level after 120 minutes
442-474: The clubs are again separated, this time depending on the league they play in. For the draw, clubs from the Bundesligas are put in one pot and the rest in a second pot. Non-Bundesliga clubs automatically have home advantage against clubs from the Bundesligas. From 2025–26 on, 32 teams will compete in a play-off round, while there is no regional split-up (21 winners of the regional cups, five promoted teams from
476-453: The competition proper is as follows: This is in addition to any money teams may receive for participating in the qualifying rounds, and each stage's prize is cumulative. These amounts remain the same as those for the 2021–22 and 2022–23 competitions. After the conclusion of the group stage, some additional amounts held in reserve may be distributed depending on the competition's financial performance, and how many drawn matches there were in
510-473: The competition would be reformatted and renamed to the UEFA Women's Champions League beginning with the 2009-10 competition . As in the men's game, the new tournament aimed to include runners-up of the top women's football leagues in Europe. The competition was opened to the champions of all 55 UEFA associations that had a qualifying women's league. Due to the varying participation, the number of teams playing
544-410: The group stage and later. For the main portion of the competition, UEFA announced that each group-stage participant would receive a minimum of €400,000 (about five times as much as Round of 16 participants received in previous editions). The winner of the tournament could earn up to €1.4 million (depending on its results in the group stage). As of the 2023–24 competition, the prize-money structure for
578-434: The group stage onwards count towards the award. Iceland's Margrét Lára Vidarsdóttir has won the award three times. Ada Hegerberg holds the record for most goals in a season. Starting from the 2021–22 edition, UEFA introduced the UEFA Women's Champions League Player of the Season award. The jury is composed of the coaches of the clubs that participated in the group stage of the competition, as well as journalists selected by
612-473: The group stage. Until the 2015–18 cycle, UEFA Women's Champions League used to have the same sponsors as the UEFA Champions League . Since 2018, women's football competitions such as the Champions League have separate sponsors. The tournament has centralised rights: in the group stage, only some assets and the official ball are centralised, while in knock-out rounds, UEFA started allowing only
646-518: The group stage. UEFA also centralized the media rights from the group stage onward. On 4 December 2023, a new format was announced starting with the 2025–26 season. The top seven associations enter three teams, associations ranked 8–17 enter two, and the remaining associations enter one. The competition is restructured to appear more similar to the men's CL format, with a Swiss-system 'league phase' consisting of 6 games against 6 different opponents (3 home and 3 away), and two paths (a champions path and
680-500: The league has become more professional, women's-only teams have found it difficult to support themselves without corporate financial backing. The Bundesliga consists of twelve teams. At the end of a season, the club in the top spot is the champion, gaining the title of Deutscher Meister , and the clubs finishing 11th and 12th are replaced with the respective top-placed teams of the two 2. Frauen-Bundesliga divisions. A Bundesliga season consists of two rounds, with 22 games combined. In
714-409: The men's Bundesliga . It was first played with north and south divisions, but in 1997 the groups were merged to form a uniform league. The league currently consists of twelve teams and the seasons usually last from late summer to the end of spring with a break in the winter. Despite the league's competitiveness, it has been semi-professional. VfL Wolfsburg has won the most championships. Although
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#1732800851113748-437: The previous Bundesliga season, the number again determined by the number of entrants to the tournament. The pairings for round one, two, and three are not entirely random as there is a commission allocating the clubs to two or four groups as they see fit. These groups correspond with the regional provenance of the clubs. In the third round the commission can decide not to allocate the contestants to any groups. Within those groups
782-530: The qualifying round changed from year to year. Numbers were based on three principles: Competition from the Round of 32 onwards would be in the form of home-and-home pairings using the away goals rule, except for the single-legged final. When the new format was initially announced, the eight top countries according to the UEFA league coefficient were awarded two places in the league, with runners-up participating in
816-511: The qualifying rounds. For the 2011–12 tournament, the runners-up from the top eight nations instead qualified directly to the R32. For the five years under this format, seven nations remained in the top eight: Germany , Sweden , England , France , Denmark , Russia , and Italy . A different nation provided the eighth runner-up in each of the five years: Iceland , Norway , Austria , Czech Republic , and Spain in that order. The tournament
850-402: The second qualifying round, sometimes called the group stage. The group stage was eight groups of four, each group held as a round-robin in a single country, whose winners advanced to the quarter-finals. From the 2004–05 season , the first qualifying stage was expanded to 9 groups of 4, again playing a round-robin in a single location. Seven teams got a bye to the group stage. (in 2007–08 , it
884-629: The second-place finisher qualifies for the next season's UEFA Women's Champions League . Starting with the 2021–22 edition, as determined by the UEFA women's coefficient , the top three teams will qualify for the UEFA Women's Champions League . EUR - Frauen-Bundesliga on DAZN coverage is not available in Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland,Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, and Sweden UEFA Women%27s Champions League The UEFA Women's Champions League , previously called
918-505: The start of the pandemic the Round of 16 had been completed; the quarterfinals and on were delayed and eventually played as single-legged matches in the summer of 2020. The qualifying rounds of the 2020-21 competition switched to single-legged matches, with 20 pairings of teams in the first round and 10 pairings in the second round, the winners joining 22 top teams in the Round of 32, which was normal from that point on aside from most matches being played behind closed doors. On 4 December 2019,
952-471: The title eight times, including five consecutive titles from 2016 to 2020. Barcelona are the current champions, having beaten Lyon in the 2024 final . The idea of creating two new women's European Cups is regularly raised to offer more matches. For the tournament's first 3 editions, a preliminary round was first played to reduce teams to 32. Starting in the second season, this stage grouped teams into mini-tournaments of four teams, whose winners advanced to
986-436: The top 12. In all 11 editions of the competition under this general format, qualifying rounds consisted of between 7 and 10 groups-of-4, advancing qualifying-group winners plus 0-2 top-ranked runners-up, varying year to year based on team counts. The number of teams entering at the Round of 32 also varied slightly, between 20-25. The COVID-19 pandemic forced a slight restructuring of the 2019-20 and 2020-21 competitions. At
1020-452: The top eight ranked nations, a one-off final as opposed to the two-legged finals in previous years, and – until 2018 – playing the final in the same city as the men's UEFA Champions League final. In the 2021–22 season, the competition proper included a group stage for the first time in the Women's Champions League era. Lyon is the most successful club in the competition's history, winning
1054-506: The tournament. The Bundesliga ranking is determined by points a club has gained during a season. A win is worth 3 points, a draw 1, and a loss 0. The tiebreakers are in descending order goal difference, goals for, and head-to-head results. If the tie in the league table cannot be broken, a tie-breaking game is held. In June 2024, the DFB announced that from the 2025–26 season on, it will be played with 14 teams. Each season's champion as well as
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1088-457: The winner is decided by penalty shootout . In the final no extra time is added in case of a draw after 90 minutes, instead the penalty shootout follows immediately. Before the reunification of Germany the cup competition included teams from West Germany only. (*) Note: Runner-up of VfL Wolfsburg as VfR Eintracht Wolfsburg Frauen-Bundesliga The Frauen-Bundesliga ( German for Women's Federal League ), currently known as
1122-434: Was 10 groups of 4, advancing winners plus one runner-up, with 5 teams getting a bye). The group stage was then played among only 16 teams in four groups of four, each group in a single host country, with the top two teams in each group advancing to the quarter-finals. The knock-out rounds were played as two-legged home-and-home matches, including the final (except for the first final). On 11 December 2008, UEFA announced that
1156-491: Was expanded for the 2016–17 season, with the runners-up from nations 9–12 in UEFA league coefficient also qualifying. For the first three years under this format, the four nations in these slots were Czech Republic, Austria, Scotland , and Norway. For the 2019–20 season, Switzerland replaced Norway, and for the final season under this format, Norway, Kazakhstan , and The Netherlands replaced Russia, Scotland, and Austria in
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