2011–12 Frauen-Bundesliga

Bundesliga (women)

Season	2011–12
Champions	Potsdam
Relegated	Hamburg Leipzig
UEFA Women's Champions League	Potsdam Wolfsburg
Matches played	132
Goals scored	420 (3.18 per match)
Top goalscorer	Genoveva Añonma (22)
Biggest home win	Potsdam 8–0 Leipzig
Biggest away win	Leipzig 2–9 Wolfsburg
Highest scoring	Leipzig 2–9 Wolfsburg
Highest attendance	Wolfsburg – Frankfurt 8,689
Lowest attendance	Hamburg – Jena 165
Average attendance	1,121
← 2010–11 2012–13 →

The 2011–12 season of the Bundesliga (women) 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 Wolfsburg versus 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.

Munich

Frankfurt

Hamburg

Leverkusen

Wolfsburg

Potsdam

Duisburg

Essen

Jena

Bad Neuenahr

Freiburg

Leipzig

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Locations of teams in the 2011–12 Bundesliga

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

Results

Home \ Away1

BAD

LEV

BAY

DUI

ESS

FRA

FRE

HAM

JEN

LEI

POT

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