2019 UEFA Women's Champions League Final


The 2019 UEFA Women's Champions League Final was the final match of the 2018–19 UEFA Women's Champions League, the 18th season of Europe's premier women's club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 10th season since it was renamed from the UEFA Women's Cup to the UEFA Women's Champions League. This was the first time since the final is played as a single match that a host city for the Women's Champions League final was not automatically assigned by which city won the bid to host the men's Champions League final, although the same association is still allowed to host both finals by the UEFA bid regulations. It was played at the Groupama Arena in Budapest, Hungary on 18 May 2019, between French side Lyon and Spanish side Barcelona.
Lyon won the final 4–1 for their fourth consecutive and sixth overall UEFA Women's Champions League title.

Teams

In the following table, finals until 2009 were in the UEFA Women's Cup era, since 2010 were in the UEFA Women's Champions League era.
TeamPrevious finals appearances
Lyon7
Barcelona-

Lyon, which hold the record for most titles and most consecutive titles, are the first team to reach eight finals and four consecutive finals. Barcelona were the first Spanish team to reach the final, and had the chance to be the first club to have both their men's and women's teams to have won the Champions League.

Venue

This is the first time a major international women's final is held in Hungary.
The stadium is the home ground of Hungarian club Ferencváros. Due to UEFA regulations regarding naming rights of non-tournament sponsors, the stadium was referred to as the "Ferencváros Stadium" in all UEFA materials.

Host selection

For the first time ever, an open bidding process was launched on 9 December 2016 by UEFA to select the venues of the club competition finals. Associations had until 27 January 2017 to express interest, and bid dossiers must be submitted by 6 June 2017.
UEFA announced on 3 February 2017 that six associations expressed interest in hosting, and confirmed on 7 June 2017 that two associations submitted bids for the 2019 UEFA Women's Champions League Final:
CountryStadiumCityCapacityNotes
Groupama ArenaBudapest23,689
Astana ArenaAstana30,244Also bid for 2019 UEFA Super Cup

The following associations expressed interest in hosting but eventually did not submit bids:
The bid evaluation report was published by UEFA on 14 September 2017. The Groupama Arena was selected as the venue by the UEFA Executive Committee on 20 September 2017.

Road to the final

Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first.

Pre-match

Ticketing

Tickets were available for sale for 1,000 HUF, 700 HUF, and 500 HUF.

Match

Officials

On 1 May 2019, UEFA announced that Anastasia Pustovoitova of Russian would officiate the final. She was joined by Russian compatriot Ekaterina Kurochkina and Petruţa Iugulescu of Romania as assistant referees. The fourth official for the final was Hungarian Katalin Kulcsár, joined by fellow countrywoman Katalin Török as reserve official.

Details

The "home" team was determined by an additional draw held after the quarter-final and semi-final draws, which was held on 9 November 2018, 13:00 CET, at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.

Statistics