1. FFC Frankfurt

Formed: 1998

Best performance: winners 2002, 2006, 2008

Domestic honours
• League title: 7 (1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008)
• German Cup: 8 (1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2011)

Round of 32: Stabæk FK 0-1 (a), 4-1 (h), agg: 4-2
Round of 16: Paris Saint-Germain FC 3-0 (h), 1-2 (a), agg: 4-2
Quarter-finals: FC Malmö 0-1 (a), 3-0 (h), agg: 3-1
Semi-finals: Arsenal LFC 2-1 (a), 2-0 (h), agg: 4-1

History
• The club has its origins in SG Praunheim, founded in 1973 and Frauen Bundesliga founder members in 1990, taking their current form for the 1998/99 season and immediately winning the double.

• They were now dominant in Germany and with the likes of Steffi Jones and Birgit Prinz won the first UEFA Women's Cup in 2002.

• Although 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam and Umeå IK emerged to challenge them in Germany and Europe respectively, Frankfurt continued to win honours, beating those sides respectively in the UEFA Women's Cup finals of 2006 and 2008 (having lost to Umeå in 2004) to become the only three-time champions to date.

• Although Potsdam and FCR 2001 Duisburg then eclipsed Frankfurt, they have continued to invest and a second-place finish in 2010/11 took them back into Europe the following season. In their first entry to the new UEFA Women's Champions League went all the way to the Munich final, equalling Umeå's record of five showpiece appearances, though lost to Olympique Lyonnais.

• The likes of Jones and Prinz may have retired but Frankfurt's ambition is not dimmed. In 2011/12 alone they signed Fatmire Bajramaj, Kim Kulig and Saki Kumagai, all world champions at senior or youth level.

Key players
Germany goalkeeper Nadine Angerer is injured but there is a top-class replacement in Desirée Schumann, a summer signing from Potsdam. A cosmopolitan defence includes American Gina Lewandowski, Japan's Saki Kumagai and New Zealander Ria Percival while midfield talents like Kerstin Garefrekes, Sandra Smisek, Dzenifer Maroszan, Svenja Huth, Melanie Behringer and Kim Kulig are formidable. Up front Jessica Landström and Ana Maria Crnogorčević top off a fine lineup.

Coach: Sven Kahlert

Date of birth: 14 October 1970
Nationality: German
Playing career: SG Dynamo Dresden, FC Erzgebirge Aue, VfL Pirna-Copitz, KSV Eichen, Germania Ortenberg, FC Kaichen
Coaching career: Offenbacher Kickers (youth), 1. FSV Mainz 05 (youth), 1. FFC Frankfurt

Schooled in football in Dresden in the former East Germany, as a sweeper or man-marker Kahlert represented Pirna-Copitz in the GDR league system before moving to Hessen for the rest of his playing career.

Started his coaching qualifications in his 20s and initially specialised as a trophy-winning men's youth trainer at Offenbach and Mainz; attended one course in Cologne alongside Steffi Jones. He joined Frankfurt in summer 2009 as assistant to Günter Wegmann, becoming head coach a few months later. Kahlert ended a barren spell for the club in 2011, winning the German Cup and qualifying for Europe for the first time since 2008/09.