# 2011–12 Frauen-Bundesliga

The 2011–12 season of the Frauen-Bundesliga is the 22nd season of Germany's premier women's football league. The season commenced on 21 August 2011 and will conclude on 28 May 2012. Turbine Potsdam were the defending champions and successfully defended their title on the last matchday. Potsdam became the first team to win Bundesliga title a fourth year in a row.
The start of the season saw Germany's record capped player Birgit Prinz ending her career and all-time Bundesliga topscorer Inka Grings leaving Duisburg after 16 years for Swiss side Zürich. A new all-time Bundesliga record was set on 20 May 2012 when 8,689 spectators saw the match VfL Wolfsburg versus 1. FFC Frankfurt.

## Teams

The teams promoted from the previous season's 2nd Bundesliga were Freiburg as winners of the Southern division and Lokomotive Leipzig as runners-up of the Northern division; Northern division champions Hamburger SV II as a reserve side were ineligible for promotion.
| Team | Home city | Home ground |
| SC 07 Bad Neuenahr | Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler | Apollinarisstadion |
| Bayer 04 Leverkusen | Leverkusen | Ulrich-Haberland-Stadion (Amateur) |
| FC Bayern Munich | Munich | Sportpark Aschheim |
| FCR 2001 Duisburg | Duisburg | PCC-Stadion |
| SG Essen-Schönebeck | Essen | Sportpark Am Hallo |
| 1. FFC Frankfurt | Frankfurt | Stadion am Brentanobad |
| SC Freiburg | Freiburg | Möslestadion |
| Hamburger SV | Hamburg | Wolfgang-Meyer-Sportanlage |
| FF USV Jena | Jena | Sportzentrum Oberaue |
| 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig | Leipzig | Bruno-Plache-Stadion |
| 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam | Potsdam | Karl-Liebknecht-Stadion |
| VfL Wolfsburg | Wolfsburg | VfL-Stadium |

### Managerial changes

| Team | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Replaced by | Date of appointment | Position |
| Bad Neuenahr | Thomas Obliers | mutual consent | 22 March 2011 | Colin Bell | 6 April 2010 | pre-season |
| Lokomotive Leipzig | Jürgen Brauße | mutual consent | 14 April 2011 | Claudia von Lanken | 15 April 2011 | pre-season |
| Jena | Konrad Weise | end of contract | 30 June 2011 | Martina Voss-Tecklenburg | 1 July 2011 | pre-season |
| Lokomotive Leipzig | Claudia von Lanken | sacked | 4 October 2011 | Jürgen Brauße | 4 October 2011 | 11th |
| Lokomotive Leipzig | Jürgen Brauße | resigned | 18 April 2012 | Christof Reimann | 25 May 2012 | 11th |

## League table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam (C) | 22 | 18 | 2 | 2 | 63 | 10 | +53 | 56 | 2012–13 UEFA Champions League round of 32 |
| 2 | VfL Wolfsburg (P) | 22 | 17 | 2 | 3 | 62 | 18 | +44 | 53 | 2012–13 UEFA Champions League round of 32 |
| 3 | 1. FFC Frankfurt | 22 | 15 | 1 | 6 | 58 | 17 | +41 | 46 | |
| 4 | FCR 2001 Duisburg | 22 | 14 | 3 | 5 | 53 | 24 | +29 | 45 | |
| 5 | SG Essen-Schönebeck | 22 | 9 | 4 | 9 | 30 | 28 | +2 | 31 | |
| 6 | FC Bayern Munich | 22 | 8 | 4 | 10 | 29 | 38 | −9 | 28 | |
| 7 | SC 07 Bad Neuenahr | 22 | 7 | 5 | 10 | 26 | 22 | +4 | 26 | |
| 8 | SC Freiburg | 22 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 22 | 43 | −21 | 23 | |
| 9 | Hamburger SV (R) | 22 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 23 | 40 | −17 | 22 | Relegation to 2012–13 Regionalliga |
| 10 | FF USV Jena | 22 | 5 | 3 | 14 | 16 | 46 | −30 | 18 | |
| 11 | Bayer 04 Leverkusen | 22 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 22 | 55 | −33 | 15 | |
| 12 | 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig (R) | 22 | 4 | 1 | 17 | 16 | 79 | −63 | 13 | Relegation to 2012–13 2. Bundesliga |
* ↑ Hamburg decided to withdraw their team from the first two Bundesligas for monetary reasons.

## Results

| Home \ Away | BAD | LEV | BAY | DUI | ESS | FRA | FRE | HAM | JEN | LEI | POT | WOL |
| Bad Neuenahr | | 0–2 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 2–3 | 1–3 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 5–0 | 0–2 | 1–3 |
| Bayer Leverkusen | 0–3 | | 1–3 | 0–1 | 0–2 | 0–5 | 1–5 | 2–2 | 3–2 | 2–3 | 0–3 | 1–2 |
| Bayern Munich | 0–3 | 3–0 | | 2–0 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 3–0 | 4–1 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 0–4 | 0–3 |
| FCR 2001 Duisburg | 2–0 | 4–1 | 3–1 | | 4–0 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 3–1 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 0–2 | 3–0 |
| Essen-Schönebeck | 0–2 | 4–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | | 0–3 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 4–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 |
| FFC Frankfurt | 2–0 | 4–1 | 7–1 | 5–3 | 3–0 | | 7–0 | 0–1 | 3–0 | 4–0 | 0–2 | 0–1 |
| Freiburg | 0–0 | 0–1 | 3–1 | 0–6 | 0–3 | 1–0 | | 2–3 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 0–2 | 0–3 |
| Hamburg | 0–4 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 1–1 | | 1–1 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 1–3 |
| Jena | 1–0 | 2–1 | 1–3 | 0–3 | 2–1 | 0–2 | 3–0 | 0–1 | | 0–1 | 0–7 | 0–3 |
| Lok Leipzig | 0–2 | 1–4 | 2–2 | 1–6 | 0–4 | 0–4 | 0–1 | 0–3 | 2–1 | | 0–7 | 2–9 |
| Turbine Potsdam | 1–0 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 2–3 | 3–2 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 4–0 | 3–1 | 8–0 | | 1–0 |
| Wolfsburg | 1–1 | 5–1 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 5–2 | 7–0 | 5–1 | 0–2 | |

## Top scorers

Genoveva Añonma won the topscorer award with 22 goals and became the first non-German player to win the award in Bundesliga history.
| Player | Club | Goals |
| Genoveva Añonma | Turbine Potsdam | 22 |
| Conny Pohlers | Wolfsburg | 19 |
| Yuki Nagasato | Turbine Potsdam | 12 |
| Kerstin Garefrekes | FFC Frankfurt | 11 |
| Nadine Keßler | Wolfsburg | 11 |
| Celia Okoyino da Mbabi | Bad Neuenahr | 11 |
| Mandy Islacker | FCR Duisburg | 10 |