Women's Champions League: Roma vs Wolfsburg facts

Two-time winners Wolfsburg begin their 2024/25 UEFA Women's Champions League campaign in Group A against Roma.

Lyon and Galatasaray are the other two teams in Group A.

Previous meetings

2022/23 Women's Champions League group stage
Roma 1-1 Wolfsburg
Wolfsburg 4-2 Roma
Valentina Giacinti opened the scoring in the third minute for Roma in their Matchday 3 fixture in Italy on 23 November 2022, Player of the Match winner Ewa Pajor equalising half an hour later for the visitors.

Pajor was also on target twice in the return fixture in Germany two weeks later, Wolfsburg winning 4-2. Both sides qualified from Group B, unbeaten Wolfsburg finishing a point above Roma.

Form guide

Roma

Record vs German clubs W0 D3 L1 F7 A9
Home record vs German clubs W0 D2 L0

This is Roma's third appearance in the group stage after also featuring in both 2022/23 and 2023/24.

Alessandro Spugna's side reached the quarter-finals on their competition debut in 2022/23, losing 1-6 on aggregate to eventual champions Barcelona (0-1 h, 1-5 a).

Roma finished fourth in Group C last season in a section that included Paris Saint-Germain, Bayern München and Ajax, their only victory coming against the Dutch side.

In qualifying for this season's group stage, Roma overcame Swiss opponents Servette FCCF in round 2. Evelyne Viens scored twice in a 3-1 first-leg victory in Rome on 18 September, while Giulia Dragoni and Valentina Giacinti both hit doubles in a 7-2 win in Geneva eight days later.

Roma's two fixtures against Bayern in the 2023/24 group stage are their only other games against German opposition. Spugna's side drew 2-2 in Munich on Matchday 1 before a repeat scoreline in Rome on Matchday 5 with Manuela Giugliano scoring late on for Roma in both games.

Giugliano and Giacinti scored eight of Roma's ten goals in last season's group stage.

Roma claimed their first ever domestic double last season.

Wolfsburg

Record vs Italian clubs W6 D3 L1 F32 A10
Away record vs Italian clubs W3 D2 L0

Champions in 2012/13 and 2013/14, Wolfsburg return to the group stage after they lost 2-5 on aggregate to Paris FC in round 2 (3-3 a, 0-2 h) last season.

Prior to that defeat, Wolfsburg had reached at least the quarter-final stage in 11 consecutive seasons.

Their back-to-back European titles came courtesy of final victories over Lyon in 2013 (1-0) and Tyresö in 2014 (4-3) with Martina Müller scoring in both matches.

Wolfsburg have reached the final on four further occasions, most recently in 2023 when they lost to Barcelona 2-3 in Eindhoven having led 2-0 at half-time. The other three final losses were against Lyon.

This will be Wolfsburg's third Women's Champions League match in a row against Italian opponents. They progressed to the group stage with a 12-0 aggregate victory over Fiorentina in round 2 (7-0 a, 5-0 h), Alex Popp scoring a hat-trick in the first leg in Italy on 18 September.

Wolfsburg have only suffered one defeat in their ten meetings with Italian opposition (W6 D3), a 0-2 reverse against Juventus in the 2021/22 group stage.

The German side are unbeaten in five away meetings against Italian sides (W3 D2).

Popp has scored in four Women's Champions League finals – a record she shares with Ada Hegerberg.

Wolfsburg claimed a record-extending 11th DFB-Pokal Frauen title last season, beating Bayern 2-0 in the final on 9 May, and finished second in the Women's Bundesliga.

Key facts

Roma have lost only two of their previous 11 Women's Champions League home matches (W7 D2).

The Italians have only failed to score in two of their previous 22 European games.

Roma are unbeaten in 14 home matches in all competitions (W12 D2).

Wolfsburg are unbeaten in their previous six away matches in the Women's Champions League group stage (W3 D3).

Home and away, the German side are unbeaten in eight group games (W6 D2).