Ewa Pajor of FC Barcelona celebrates a goal during the match corresponding to week 26 of the Liga F at the Johan Cruyff Stadium in Barcelona, Spain, on April 16, 2025. (Photo by Ruben De La Rosa/NurPhoto) (Photo by Ruben De La Rosa / NurPhoto / NurPhoto via AFP)
This saturday’s big UWCL final against Arsenal will be Barcelona Femení’s sixth appearance in the final of the UEFA Women’s Champions League and fifth in a row, with only Lyon (11) appearing in more; Barca beat Wolfsburg and Lyon in 2023 and 2024 respectively, and could become the second team to win the competition in three seasons in a row, after Lyon, who won it in five straight between 2016 and 2020.
Barcelona has won each of their last nine UEFA Women’s Champions League games and could become the first team ever to win 10 matches in a row in the competition within the same campaign. Also, since being eliminated by Bristol City in the 2014-15 round of 16, Barça Femení has progressed through five straight UEFA Women’s Champions League knockout ties against English opposition, including winning the 2021 final vs Chelsea. Only Lyon has put together a longer such streak against teams from a single nation in the competition (7 vs German clubs).
The final will be the fifth meeting between Arsenal and Barcelona in the UEFA Women’s Champions League, with the Gunners winning both legs of a round of 32 tie in 2012-13 (3-0 away, 4-0 home), before Barça won both group stage matches in the 2021-22 campaign (4-1 home, 4-0 away).
Barcelona has scored 44 goals in the UEFA Women’s Champions League so far this season with only Wolfsburg in 2013-14 ever netting more in a single campaign (45), and could become the first team ever to score 4+ goals in each game of a campaign from the quarter-finals to the final.
Pere Romeu could become the 11th manager to win the UEFA Women’s Champions League in their debut campaign and first since Sonia Bompastor with Lyon in 2021-22. Three of the last four winning managers have been Spaniards, doing so with Barcelona: Lluís Cortés in 2021 and Jonatan Giráldez in 2023 and 2024.
Alexia Putellas has scored in three of her five final appearances in the UEFA Women’s Champions League (2021, 2022 and 2024), with only Ada Hegerberg (2016, 2018, 2019, 2022) and Alexandra Popp (2014, 2016, 2020, 2013) ever scoring a final goal in four different editions of the competition.
Clàudia Pina is the only player to reach double figures for goals so far in the 2024-25 UEFA Women’s Champions League; the most recent players to net more than 10 goals in a campaign are Alexia Putellas in 2021-22 (11) and Ada Hegerberg in 2017-18 (15).
This clash will be Arsenal’s second appearance in a UEFA Women’s Champions League final, after 2007, when
they beat Umeå IK 1-0 on aggregate over two legs. 18 years is comfortably the biggest gap between two
appearances in the final of the competition by any team (Turbine Potsdam and Eintracht Frankfurt are second with a four-year wait each). Wolfsburg, meanwhile, are the only previous team to win both of their first two UEFA
Women’s Champions League finals (2013 and 2014).
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