Women's Champions League and Women's EURO and World Cup double winners
Sunday, August 20, 2023
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Twelve players have won UEFA club and Women's EURO doubles in the same year, and now five Spain and Barcelona players have achieved a unique feat in the World Cup.
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The UEFA Women's Cup was first contested in 2001/02 and, nearly a quarter of a century on, only 17 players have won the major club title and either a UEFA Women's EURO or FIFA Women's World Cup in the same year.
The list of players to have achieved the club and EURO double is restricted to German internationals: five in both 2005 and 2009, then two more in 2013. Lyon won the UEFA Women's Champions League in 2017 and 2022, but on neither occasion did anyone who appeared for them in those finals make it to the subsequent Women's EURO decider.
Overall, fewer than 40 players have both winners' medals in their collection, the most recent being Keira Walsh, who helped England triumph at EURO 2022 before claiming her first Champions League success with Barcelona in 2022/23.
Walsh, like Lucy Bronze, fell one short of doing the double in the 2023 World Cup as Barcelona club-mates Irene Paredes, Aitana Bonmatí, Alexia Putellas, Mariona Caldentey and Salma Paralluelo made history. Also in the Spain team that beat England 1-0 in Sydney were Cata Coll and Laia Codina, who were unused substitutes just under three months earlier when Barcelona overcame Wolfsburg 3-2 in Eindhoven.
To qualify as 'double winners', players must take the pitch in both winning finals in the same calendar year.
UEFA Women's Cup/UEFA Women's Champions League-UEFA Women's EURO double winners
2005: Turbine Potsdam & Germany
Britta Carlson
Ariana Hingst
Anja Mittag
Conny Pohlers
Petra Wimbersky
2009: Duisburg & Germany
Fatmire Alushi
Linda Bresonik
Inka Grings
Annike Krahn
Simone Laudehr
2013: Wolfsburg & Germany
Lena Goessling
Nadine Kessler
UEFA Women's Cup/UEFA Women's Champions League-FIFA Women's World Cup double winners
2023: Barcelona & Spain
Aitana Bonmatí
Mariona Caldentey
Salma Paralluelo
Irene Paredes
Alexia Putellas
All players that have played in and won UEFA Women's Cup/UEFA Women's Champions League and UEFA Women's EURO finals
Fatmire Alushi (Duisburg 2009, Turbine Potsdam 2010 & Germany 2009)
Nadine Angerer (Potsdam 2005 & Germany 2009, 2013)
Saskia Bartusiak (Frankfurt 2006, 2008 & Germany 2009, 2013)
Linda Bresonik (Duisburg 2009 & Germany 2009)
Lucy Bronze (Lyon 2018, 2019, 2020, Barcelona 2023 & England 2022)
Britta Carlson (Turbine Potsdam 2005 & Germany 2005)
Kerstin Garefrekes (Frankfurt 2006, 2008, 2015 & Germany 2005, 2009)
Lena Goessling (Wolfsburg 2013, 2014 & Germany 2013)
Inka Grings (Duisburg 2009 & Germany 2005, 2009)
Sarah Günther (Frankfurt 2008 & Germany 2005)
Ariane Hingst (Turbine Potsdam 2005 & Germany 1997, 2001, 2005)
Steffi Jones (Frankfurt 2002, 2006 & Germany 1997, 2001, 2005)
Nadine Kessler (Turbine Potsdam 2010, Wolfsburg 2013, 2014 & Germany 2013)
Annike Krahn (Duisburg 2009 & Germany 2009, 2013)
Simone Laudehr (Duisburg 2009, Frankfurt 2015 & Germany 2009, 2013)
Renate Lingor (Frankfurt 2002, 2006 & Germany 2001, 2005)
Dzsenifer Marozsán (Frankfurt 2015, Lyon 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 & Germany 2013)
Lieke Martens (Barcelona 2021 & Netherlands 2017)
Sandra Minnert (Frankfurt 2002 & Germany 1997, 2005)
Anja Mittag (Turbine Potsdam 2005, 2010 & Germany 2005, 2013)
Jutta Nardenbach (Frankfurt 2002 & (West) Germany 1989, 1991)
Babett Peter (Turbine Potsdam 2010 & Germany 2009)
Conny Pohlers (Turbine Potsdam 2005, Frankfurt 2008, Wolfsburg 2013 & Germany 2005)
Birgit Prinz (Frankfurt 2002, 2006, 2008 & Germany 1995, 1997, 2001, 2005, 2009)
Silke Rottenberg (Frankfurt 2008 & Germany 1997, 2001, 2005)
Célia Šašić (Frankfurt 2015 & Germany 2009, 2013)
Bianca Schmidt (Turbine Potsdam 2010, Frankfurt 2015 & Germany 2013)
Sandra Smisek (Frankfurt 2006, 2008 & Germany 1997, 2001, 2005)
Shanice van de Sanden (Lyon 2018, 2019, 2020 & Netherlands 2017)
Keira Walsh (Barcelona 2023 & England 2022)
Petra Wimbersky (Turbine Potsdam 2005, Frankfurt 2008 & Germany 2005)
Pia Wunderlich (Frankfurt 2002 & Germany 1997, 2001)
Tina Wunderlich (Frankfurt 2002, 2006, 2008 & Germany 1995)
Note: The UEFA Women's Cup became the UEFA Women's Champions League in 2009/10