Rosengård vs Bayern match facts

Without a point in UEFA Women's Champions League Group D, Rosengård can no longer reach the quarter-finals, but Bayern München are firmly in the hunt and come to Sweden boosted by an outstanding victory on Matchday 4.

Rosengård took the lead at home to Benfica last time out, through a deflected Olivia Scough strike, before eventually succumbing to a 3-1 defeat that eliminated them. Bayern, however, won by the same scoreline on Matchday 4 at home to Barcelona, goals from Klara Bühl, Lina Magull and Lea Schüller entrancing a 24,000-strong crowd in Munich and enabling the German side to join the Spanish champions on nine points at the top of the table.

They will go through if they beat Rosengård and Benfica do not win against Barcelona, or if Bayern draw and Benfica lose.

Rosengård also took a surprise Matchday 1 lead against Bayern in Munich thanks to Loreta Kullashi's 25th-minute header, but goals either side of half-time from Carolin Simon and Linda Dallmann turned the match in the two-time semi-finalists' favour as they opened their Group D campaign with a 2-1 victory.

Bayern also defeated Rosengård in the 2020/21 quarter-finals, winning 4-0 on aggregate. Dallmann, Bühl and Lineth Beerensteyn powered the German side into a three-goal first-leg advantage in Germany, with Schüller on target in the return fixture.

Rosengård are competing in the group stage for the first time. They had to come from behind to draw 1-1 in the first leg of their round 2 qualifier against Norwegian side Brann before a 3-1 home victory took them through. The Damallsvenskan champions of the last two years have been unable to make headway in Group D, however, that defeat in Munich followed by a 4-1 reverse at home to Barcelona and back-to-back losses against Benfica, the first of them 1-0 in Lisbon.

Bayern, who finished four points behind Wolfsburg in second place in the 2021/22 Frauen-Bundesliga, were runners-up behind Lyon in Group D last term before being eliminated after extra time in the quarter-finals by Paris Saint-Germain (1-2 h, 2-2 a).

Alexander Straus, who took over as Bayern head coach in June, guided his new club into this season's group stage thanks to a 4-1 aggregate success against Real Sociedad in round 2 (1-0 a, 3-1 h). They opened Group D with that 2-1 comeback victory against Rosengård, then overturned a two-goal deficit against Benfica, prevailing 3-2 in Lisbon with the winner coming deep into added time, before losing their away fixture against Barcelona 3-0.

Rosengård's record against German clubs in the UEFA Women's Champions League is W2 D3 L8, while Bayern's against Swedish sides is W6 L1 with victories in all of the last five encounters.

Players to watch

Loreta Kullashi

Born in Helsinki, Kullashi has played all of her football in Sweden, where she was raised, and represents the Swedish national team.

The 23-year-old striker joined Rosengård in the summer of 2021 after four years with Eskilstuna United.

She won the Damallsvenskan at the end of her first half-season in 2021 and helped the Malmö-based club retain the title this year, playing in all 26 matches and scoring nine goals.

Kullashi had never experienced European football before joining Rosengård but has now made seven appearances, scoring two goals, the second on her group stage debut in the 2-1 defeat away to Bayern.

A Swedish youth international at Under-17 and U19 level, she scored twice on her senior debut in a January 2018 friendly against South Africa.

Lina Magull

The 28-year-old striker scored Bayern's second goal in their 3-1 win against Barcelona on Matchday 4 and also provided the assist for the third.

This is the German international's 50th game in the UEFA Women's Champions League. She has scored 12 times in the previous 49, six of them for former club Wolfsburg.

Magull won the UEFA Women's Champions League twice with Wolfsburg at the start of her career, in 2012/13 and 2013/14.

She also won the Frauen-Bundesliga in the same two seasons before leaving for Freiburg in 2015. She joined Bayern three years later and won the German title again with the Munich club in 2020/21, scoring five goals in 20 appearances.

She has scored 22 goals in 68 internationals for Germany, including two at the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup and three at UEFA Women's EURO 2022, the last of them an equaliser against England in the Wembley final, which Germany went on to lose 2-1 after extra time.

Key facts

Rosengård have won only one of their last ten UEFA Women's Champions League matches (D2 L7).

Bayern have won six of their last seven European group stage games.

The Matchday 3 defeat in Barcelona was one of only two of Bayern's last 25 UEFA Women's Champions League matches in which they have failed to score.

Bayern have lost just four of their last 22 European games (W16 D2).