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UEFA WOMEN'S CHAMPIONS LEAGUE - 2013/14 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Do Restelo - Lisbon Thursday 22 May 2014 20.30CET (19.30 local time) Tyresö FF Matchday 16 - Final VfL Wolfsburg Last updated 09/05/2014 18:04CET UEFA WOMEN'S CHAMPIONS LEAGUE OFFICIAL SPONSORS Team profile 2 Legend 4 1 Tyresö FF - VfL Wolfsburg Thursday 22 May 2014 - 20.30CET (19.30 local time) Match press kit 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 2 Tyresö FF - VfL Wolfsburg Thursday 22 May 2014 - 20.30CET (19.30 local time) Match press kit Do Restelo, Lisbon • League title: 1 (2013) • 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. FFC Turbine Potsdam 0-0 (a), 4-2 (h), agg: 4-2 History • VfL Wolfsburg set up a women's section in 2003 and within a decade the club were European finalists. • There had been women's football in the city from 1973 in the shape of VfR Wolfsburg Eintracht, who reached the 1984 German Cup final and were founder members of the then regionally-split Frauen Bundesliga six years later with Doris Fitschen in their squad. • After missing out on the new national division in 1997 the team faced bankruptcy and reformed as WSV Wolfsburg, who got to the top flight before closing in 2003 as VfL set up their side. • The new club were relegated from the premier division in 2004/05 but were immediately promoted back thanks to 36 goals from Martina Müller, who has remained a stalwart in attack and midfield. • Wolfsburg gradually improved before, in 2011/12, recruiting several top-class players and finishing second to earn a European debut. They stormed through to the UEFA Women's Champions League final at the first time of asking in 2012/13, winning their maiden maiden league title and German Cup before beating Olympique Lyonnais 1-0 at Stamford Bridge. • In their second European season they sailed through again, setting a UEFA aggregate record in the round of 32 and seeing off German rivals Potsdam in the last four. Key players Last season striker Conny Pohlers became the first team to have won the continental title with three different clubs having previously succeeded with 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam and 1. FFC Frankfurt. Pohlers, who will retire this summer, is the competition's all-time top scorer on 48 goals including a record eight in finals. Pohlers may not start with options up front including Alexandra Popp and club stalwart Martina Müller, who scored the winning penalty against Lyon as well as eight goals this season in Europe. Captain Nadine Kessler and Lena Goessling run the midfield for club and European champion country, while Verena Faisst (who missed the 2013 final through illness). Josephine Henning and Luisa Wensing are German international defenders alongside Sweden's Nilla Fischer, a summer signings as was Nadine Angerer's international understudy, Almuth Schult. Coach: Ralf Kellermann Date of birth: 24 September 1968 Nationality: German Playing career: MSV Duisburg, FSV Frankfurt, SC Verl, Sportfreunde Siegen, SC Paderborn 07, SV Lippstadt 08 Coaching career: SV Brunsrode/Flechtorf, VfL Wolfsburg (women) Duisburg-born Kellermann joined local big club MSV and was an understudy most of the time there, making his 2. Bundesliga debut in 1990. He moved to FSV Frankfurt then where he won promotion into the 2. Bundesliga in 1994 but once more was the understudy. He then went back to his native state of Nordrhein-Westfalen, where he played for several third-tier sides before ending his active career in 2004. He started coaching at Brunsrode/Flechtorf, a non-league club, before joining Wolfsburg, where he headed the scouting department. He succeeded Bernd Huneke as head coach of the women's team in the summer of 2008. During his time there, the team have become one of Germany's top sides and swept the board last season. 3 Tyresö FF - VfL Wolfsburg Thursday 22 May 2014 - 20.30CET (19.30 local time) Match press kit Do Restelo, Lisbon Legend :: Squad list No: number DoB: date of birth Qual: qualifying FT: final tournament Pld: played Gls: goals UWCLQ: UEFA Women's Champions League qualifiers UWCL: UEFA Women's Champions League All-time UEFA: All games played in the UEFA Women's Champions League plus the qualifiers :: Match officials UEFA: Total matches officiated in all UEFA competitions including all qualifying round matches. Matches where the official has acted as the fourth official are not included in these statistics. These are the official statistics considered valid for communicating official records in the competition. :: Group statistics/Tournament schedule Pos: position Pld: played W: won D: drawn L: lost GF: goals for GA: goals against Pts: points :: NOTE: All-time statistics Goals totals include the outcome of disciplinary decisions (eg. match forfeits when a 3-0 result is determined). Goals totals do not include goals scored from the penalty mark during a penalty shoot-out. Competitions Disclaimer: Although UEFA has taken all reasonable care that the information contained within this document is accurate at the time of publication, no representation or guarantee (including liability towards third parties), expressed or implied, is made as to its accuracy, reliability or completeness. Therefore, UEFA assumes no liability for the use or interpretation of information contained herein. More information can be found in the competition regulations available on UEFA.com. 4.