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UEFA WOMEN'S CHAMPIONS LEAGUE - 2013/14 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Estádio do Restelo - Lisbon Thursday 22 May 2014 20.30CET (19.30 local time) Tyresö FF Matchday 16 - Final VfL Wolfsburg Last updated 09/06/2017 15:46CET UEFA WOMEN'S CHAMPIONS LEAGUE OFFICIAL SPONSORS Previous meetings 2 Match background 3 Team profile 5 Squad list 7 Match officials 9 Fixtures and results 11 Match-by-match lineups 14 Venue guide 16 Competition facts 17 Legend 18 1 Tyresö FF - VfL Wolfsburg Thursday 22 May 2014 - 20.30CET (19.30 local time) Match press kit Estádio do Restelo, Lisbon Previous meetings Head to Head No UEFA competition matches have been played between these two teams Tyresö FF - Record versus clubs from opponents' country Tyresö FF have not played against a club from their opponents' country VfL Wolfsburg - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Women's Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Goessling 16, 3-1 13/11/2013 R16 VfL Wolfsburg - FC Malmö Wolfsburg Wensing 27, Müller agg: 5-2 89; Gunnarsdóttir 71 Bachmann 64; Popp 09/11/2013 R16 FC Malmö - VfL Wolfsburg 1-2 Malmo 34, Müller 85 (P) Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Tyresö FF 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 VfL Wolfsburg 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 5 2 2 Tyresö FF - VfL Wolfsburg Thursday 22 May 2014 - 20.30CET (19.30 local time) Match press kit Estádio do Restelo, Lisbon Match background Last season VfL Wolfsburg, on debut, beat holders Olympique Lyonnais in the UEFA Women's Champions League final. On 22 May in Lisbon, newcomers Tyresö FF of Sweden hope to do the same to Wolfsburg. Previous meetings • This is the clubs' first competitive fixture and they have never met a side from their opponents' nation in Europe before. Match background • Tyresö hope to emulate Wolfsburg, who last season became the fourth team to win the trophy on their debut campaign. All are German: 1. FFC Frankfurt (2002, the inaugural season), 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam (2005) and FCR 2001 Duisburg (2009) were the previous three. • Four different German sides – Frankfurt (2002, 2006, 2008), Potsdam (2005, 2010), Duisburg (2009) and Wolfsburg (2013) – have taken the title, with just one victorious club each for the other successful nations: Sweden's Umeå IK (2003, 2004), France's Olympique Lyonnais (2011, 2012) and England's Arsenal LFC (2007). • Wolfsburg hope to become the third team to successfully defend the trophy after Umeå and Lyon. • This is the seventh final in a row (and 11th overall) with German representatives – they won the first three of those before two losses to Lyon, who were then beaten by Wolfsburg 1-0 at Stamford Bridge last season. • This is the seventh final with Swedish representatives, Umeå winning in 2003 and 2004 but losing in 2002, 2007 and 2008, as did Djurgårdens IF DFF in 2005. All 13 finals have involved a team from either (or both) Germany and Sweden. • This is the fifth final between German and Swedish sides in 13 seasons. Frankfurt beat Umeå in 2002 and 2008 but lost to them in 2004. Potsdam overcame Djurgården in 2005. Team facts • Several Tyresö players are set to leave in the summer: Meghan Kingenberg, Whitney Engen, Christen Press, Marta, Caroline Seger and Verónica Boquete. • Madelaine Edlund returned to the squad from maternity leave in the winter, when Tinja-Riikka Korpela, Fabiana, Rilany, Mayara and Thaisa were all signed. • Tyresö forward Marta is hoping for her second winners' medal ten years after her first, when she inspired Umeå's 8-0 aggregate defeat of Frankfurt. She scored two in the 3-0 first-leg home win and another as Umeå prevailed 5-0 in Germany. • Marta also featured in Umeå's 2007 and 2008 final defeats. Edlund, Lisa Dahlkvist and Carola Söberg also were in their team in 2007 and 2008, though Söberg was only on the bench in 2008. • In the 2008 final Marta opened the scoring early in the home first leg for Umeå before Conny Pohlers equalised for Frankfurt. Pohlers also scored twice in the 3-2 return in Frankfurt, when Dahlqvist was on target at the other end. • Wolfsburg's Pohlers, who will be playing her last European game before retiring in the summer, is the only player to win the competition with three clubs: Potsdam (2005), Frankfurt (2008) and Wolfsburg (2013). • Pohlers and Viola Odebrecht could become the tournament's first four-time winners. • Pohlers is the all-time leading competition scorer on 48 goals. • Pohlers is the all-time leading scorer in finals on eight goals, four more than Marta in joint second. If Pohlers plays she will equal Anna Paulson's record of eight appearances in final games (including both legs of pre-2009/10 finals). • Other multiple competition winners in the Wolfsburg squad are Josephine Henning (Potsdam 2010, Wolfsburg 2013), Odebrecht (Potsdam 2005 and 2010, Wolfsburg 2013), Nadine Kessler (Potsdam 2010, Wolfsburg 2013) and Alexandra Popp (Duisburg 2009, Wolfsburg 2013). • Of Wolfsburg's other final winners from last season, Luisa Wensing, Lena Goessling, Zsanett Jakabfi, Anna Blässe, Ivonne Hertmann, Martina Müller, substitute Lina Magull and unused substitute Stephanie Bunte plus coach Ralf Kellermann also remain. Müller scored a 73rd-minute penalty to beat Lyon 1-0 at Stamford Bridge, London. • Kellermann could emulate Bernd Schröder (Potsdam, 2005 & 2010), Hans-Jürgen Tritschoks (Frankfurt 2006 & 2008) and Patrice Lair (Lyon, 2011 & 2012) in twice winning as coach. • Wolfsburg's Nilla Fischer is a Sweden squad-mate of Söberg, Seger, Edlund, Dahlqvist, Antonia Göransson and Malin Diaz. Lisbon precedent 3 Tyresö FF - VfL Wolfsburg Thursday 22 May 2014 - 20.30CET (19.30 local time) Match press kit Estádio do Restelo, Lisbon • Wolfsburg will hope to become the second German team to lift a UEFA trophy in Lisbon: SV Werder Bremen beat AS Monaco FC 2-0 to win the 1992 European Cup Winners' Cup, the only continental final at the old Estádio da Luz. 4 Tyresö FF - VfL Wolfsburg Thursday 22 May 2014 - 20.30CET (19.30 local time) Match press kit Estádio do Restelo, Lisbon Team profile Tyresö FF Formed: 1971 Best performance: first entry Domestic honours • League title: 1 (2012) Round of 32: Paris Saint-Germain 2-1 (h), 0-0 (a), agg: 2-1 Round of 16: Fortuna Hjørring 2-1 (a), 4-0 (h), agg: 6-1 Quarter-finals: SV Neulengbach 8-1 (h), 0-0 (a), agg: 8-1 Semi-finals: Birmingham City LFC 0-0 (a), 3-0 (h), agg: 3-0 History • Tyresö, the women's section of a fifth-tier men's club in the suburbs of Stockholm, have only come to prominence in recent years after a sustained period of investment. • A Damallsvenskan side between 1993 and 1996, a decade later Tyresö had dropped to the fourth tier before three promotions in four seasons took them back to the top flight for 2010. • Immediately a force to be reckoned with, they reached the Swedish Cup final in 2011 and again in 2012, when they beat FC Malmö in a dramatic decider to win the league championship for the first time. • Losing their title the next year when finishing second, they impressed on their UEFA Women's Champions League debut, knocking out ambitious Paris, 2003 runners-up Fortuna, Neulengbach and Birmingham to reach the final. • Having previously fielded high-profile Americans Julie Foudy, Michelle Akers and Kristine Lilly in the 1990s, Tyresö have again build a team of contemporary women's football stars, though many will leave in the summer after financial problems over the winter. Key players Tyresö's highest-profile stars are up front where Marta, a 2004 winner with Umeå IK and five-time FIFA Women's World Player of the Year, starts alongside Spain's Verónica Boquete and United States striker Christen Press, their European top scorer this season on nine goals. In midfield, Swedish trio Caroline Seger, Lisa Dalhqvist and Malin Diaz are the usual choice. At the back two more Americans, Whitney Engen and Meghan Klingenberg, join Linda Sembrandt and Denmark's Line Røddik, while there is a choice in goal between another former finalist with Umeå, Carola Söberg, and winter signing Tinja-Riikka Korpela of Finland. Coach: Tony Gustavsson Date of birth: 14 August 1973 Nationality: Swedish Playing career: IFK Sundsvall, Orlando Lions, Stockviks FF, FC Café Opera, Ytterhogdals IK, IK Brage, Degerfors IF Coaching career: Ytterhogdals IK, Degerfors IF, Hammarby IF, Kongsvinger IL, United States women (assistant), Tyresö FF women Gustavsson's playing career was spent largely in Sweden's lower divisions, with a short spell in the United States. His first management role was as Ytterhogdal player-coach between 2000 and 2003 and, after ending his on-pitch career at Degerfor, he became assistant there and later took charge. Taking over Hammarby in 2006, he left with their 2009 relegation and suffered a similar fate a year later with Kongsvinger in Norway. In April 2012, Gustavsson became assistant to compatriot Pia Sundhage with the US and helped them to Olympic gold before being appointed by Tyresö and leading them to that year's league title, their first, and then – in their European debut – to the 2013/14 UEFA Women's Champions League final. VfL Wolfsburg Formed: 2003 Nickname: Die Wölfinnen (The She-Wolves) Best performance: winners (2013) Domestic honours • League title: 1 (2013) 5 Tyresö FF - VfL Wolfsburg Thursday 22 May 2014 - 20.30CET (19.30 local time) Match press kit Estádio do Restelo, Lisbon • German Cup: 1 (2013) Round of 32: Pärnu JK 14-0 (a), 13-0 (h), agg: 27-0 Round of 16: FCR Malmö 2-1 (a), 3-1 (h), agg: 5-2 Quarter-finals: FC Barcelona 3-0 (h), 2-0 (a), agg: 5-0 Semi-finals: 1.