New queens of Europe
A new era in women’s club football was launched when Barcelona obliterated Chelsea to become the first Spanish side to win the Women’s Champions League and the first club to win the competition in both genders. The Catalan giants scored three times in the opening 20 minutes of the Gothenburg final before settling for a 4-0 triumph that reverberated around the sport.
With both Lyon – champions for the previous five years – and their perennial rivals Wolfsburg knocked out in the quarter-finals, a new name was certain to be inscribed
