# 2010–11 Frauen-Bundesliga

The 2010–11 season of the Frauen-Bundesliga was the 21st season of Germany's premier women's football league. The season started on 15 August 2010 and ended early on 13 March 2011, so that the German national team has time to prepare for the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup. At the end of the season Turbine Potsdam won their third consecutive championship. Saarbrücken and Herford were relegated.

## Changes from 2009–10

For this season, the league runner-up gained direct entry to the UEFA Women's Champions League Round of 32. In the preceding year the runner-up had to start in the qualifying round.

## Teams

The teams promoted from last season's 2nd Bundesliga were Bayer 04 Leverkusen as winners of the South division and Herforder SC as winners of the North division.
| Team | Home city | Home ground |
| SC 07 Bad Neuenahr | Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler | Apollinarisstadion |
| FCR 2001 Duisburg | Duisburg | PCC-Stadion |
| SG Essen-Schönebeck | Essen | Sportpark Am Hallo |
| 1. FFC Frankfurt | Frankfurt | Stadion am Brentanobad |
| Hamburger SV | Hamburg | Wolfgang-Meyer-Sportanlage |
| Herforder SC | Herford | Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Stadion |
| FF USV Jena | Jena | Sportzentrum Oberaue |
| Bayer 04 Leverkusen | Leverkusen | Kurt-Rieß-Anlage |
| FC Bayern Munich | Munich | Sportpark Aschheim |
| 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam | Potsdam | Karl-Liebknecht-Stadion |
| 1. FC Saarbrücken | Saarbrücken | Stadion Kieselhumes |
| VfL Wolfsburg | Wolfsburg | VfL-Stadium |

### Managerial changes

| Team | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Replaced by | Date of appointment | Table |
| Essen-Schönebeck | Ralf Agolli | resigned | 11 May 2010 | Markus Högner | 25 May 2010 | pre-season |
| Herford | Tanja Schulte | sacked | 15 October 2010 | Jürgen Prüfer | 16 October 2010 | 12th |
| Jena | Torsten Zaunmüller | sacked | 4 November 2010 | Konrad Weise | 29 December 2010 | 11th |
| Saarbrücken | Stephan Fröhlich | resigned | 4 February 2011 | Tobias Jungfleisch | 5 February 2011 | 10th |
| Duisburg | Martina Voss-Tecklenburg | sacked | 17 February 2011 | Marco Ketelaer | 17 February 2011 | 3rd |

## Standings

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Turbine Potsdam (C) | 22 | 19 | 1 | 2 | 67 | 17 | +50 | 58 | 2011–12 UEFA Champions League Round of 32 |
| 2 | FFC Frankfurt | 22 | 19 | 0 | 3 | 103 | 16 | +87 | 57 | 2011–12 UEFA Champions League Round of 32 |
| 3 | FCR 2001 Duisburg | 22 | 16 | 3 | 3 | 61 | 19 | +42 | 51 | |
| 4 | Hamburg | 22 | 12 | 2 | 8 | 42 | 42 | 0 | 38 | |
| 5 | Bayern Munich | 22 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 43 | 36 | +7 | 35 | |
| 6 | Bad Neuenahr | 22 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 54 | 48 | +6 | 33 | |
| 7 | Wolfsburg | 22 | 10 | 2 | 10 | 52 | 46 | +6 | 32 | |
| 8 | Bayer Leverkusen | 22 | 6 | 3 | 13 | 32 | 67 | −35 | 21 | |
| 9 | Essen-Schönebeck | 22 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 27 | 50 | −23 | 20 | |
| 10 | Jena | 22 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 24 | 57 | −33 | 19 | |
| 11 | Saarbrücken (R) | 22 | 4 | 2 | 16 | 20 | 72 | −52 | 14 | Relegation to 2011–12 2. Bundesliga |
| 12 | Herford (R) | 22 | 1 | 2 | 19 | 25 | 80 | −55 | 5 | Relegation to 2011–12 2. Bundesliga |

## Results

| Home \ Away | POT | FFC | FCR | HSV | MUN | NEU | WOL | LEV | ESS | JEN | SAA | HER |
| 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam | | 1–0 | 3–0 | 4–1 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 4–0 | 6–1 | 3–0 | 5–0 | 7–0 | 1–0 |
| 1. FFC Frankfurt | 4–1 | | 0–1 | 5–1 | 8–2 | 4–1 | 5–1 | 5–1 | 6–0 | 5–0 | 9–0 | 6–0 |
| FCR 2001 Duisburg | 1–1 | 1–2 | | 2–2 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 9–0 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 5–0 | 4–0 |
| Hamburger SV | 0–1 | 0–4 | 1–5 | | 2–1 | 0–3 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 3–1 | 3–0 |
| Bayern Munich | 0–3 | 0–2 | 2–4 | 1–4 | | 1–2 | 2–1 | 4–0 | 1–1 | 5–0 | 4–0 | 3–2 |
| SC 07 Bad Neuenahr | 2–5 | 0–8 | 0–2 | 2–6 | 0–1 | | 1–2 | 5–1 | 4–3 | 2–1 | 6–0 | 5–1 |
| Wolfsburg | 2–1 | 4–3 | 3–2 | 2–3 | 0–0 | 1–4 | | 3–3 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 4–0 | 6–3 |
| Bayer 04 Leverkusen | 1–7 | 0–4 | 2–3 | 4–1 | 1–2 | 1–4 | 3–2 | | 1–1 | 0–4 | 0–1 | 5–1 |
| SG Essen-Schönebeck | 1–4 | 0–8 | 0–2 | 1–3 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 3–2 | 1–1 | | 1–2 | 3–1 | 4–2 |
| FF USV Jena | 2–3 | 0–3 | 2–2 | 0–1 | 0–4 | 0–7 | 1–4 | 0–3 | 0–0 | | 1–3 | 2–1 |
| 1. FC Saarbrücken | 0–2 | 1–4 | 0–3 | 1–3 | 0–5 | 2–3 | 2–3 | 2–0 | 1–3 | 1–1 | | 2–2 |
| Herforder SV | 1–2 | 0–7 | 0–5 | 1–3 | 0–2 | 4–2 | 0–8 | 2–3 | 1–1 | 3–4 | 1–2 | |

## Top scorers

Conny Pohlers scored six goals in the last two games to overtake the opposition and won the individual scorer award a third time after 2002 and 2006.
| Rank | Player | Team | Goals |
| 1 | Conny Pohlers | FFC Frankfurt | 25 |
| 2 | Inka Grings | Duisburg | 23 |
| | Kerstin Garefrekes | FFC Frankfurt | 23 |
| | Birgit Prinz | FFC Frankfurt | 23 |
| 5 | Martina Müller | Wolfsburg | 20 |
| 6 | Célia Okoyino da Mbabi | SC 07 Bad Neuenahr | 17 |
| 7 | Anja Mittag | Turbine Potsdam | 15 |
| 8 | Genoveva Añonma | FF USV Jena | 13 |
| | Fatmire Bajramaj | Turbine Potsdam | 13 |