Women's Champions League: Lyon vs Roma facts

Lyon and Roma renew acquaintances in France with the home side three points clear in UEFA Women's Champions League Group A.

Lyon continued their 100% start to the 2025/25 competition by winning the Matchday 3 in Rome, leaving the Italian side on six points having won their first two games in the group stage.

Previous meetings

In their first-ever meeting on 13 November, Melchie Dumornay struck twice in the first half at the Stadio Tre Fontane – her second goal coming from inside the centre circle – before Vanessa Gilles struck after the break to complete a 3-0 Lyon win.

Form guide

Lyon

Record vs Italian clubs W9 D2 L2 F40 A8
Home record vs Italian clubs W5 D1 L0

Lyon have lost just two of their 13 encounters with Italian teams, although Matchday 3 was only their second win in five (D2 L1).

Before their success at Roma, Lyon's previous six contests with Italian sides were all against Juventus, most recently two draws (1-1 a, 0-0 h) in the 2022/23 group stage.

OL have never lost at home to Italian opponents, winning their first five contests before that 2022 draw with Juventus.

This season, Kadidiatou Diani scored twice either side of a Gilles header in Lyon's 3-0 victory at home to Galatasaray in their Group A opener, while Wendie Renard and Lindsey Horan, a penalty, struck in a 2-0 win at Wolfsburg on 17 October.

The French outfit reached a record 11th final last season, losing 0-2 to Barcelona in Bilbao. Their last success in the competition came when they defeated the same opponents 3-1 in the 2022 final in Turin.

In 2023/24, Lyon drew with Brann and Slavia Praha (both 2-2) but won their other four Group B fixtures to finish first in a section that also contained St. Pölten.

In her first season at the club, Diani topped the scoring charts in the Women's Champions League last season with eight goals – two more than team-mate Hegerberg, the competition's all-time record scorer.

A Lyon side coached by Sonia Bompastor (who was replaced in the summer by Joe Montemurro) won their 17th league title in 2023/24, losing just one game. Those 17 championship successes have come in the past 18 seasons, the exception in 2020/21 when they finished runners-up.

Roma

Record vs French clubs W0 D1 L3 F2 A8
Away record vs French clubs W0 D0 L1

This is the third season in succession that Roma have faced a French team; they have failed to win any of the previous four matches, losing the last three.

They were beaten in both group games against Paris Saint-Germain last season (1-2 a, 1-3 h) and drew 0-0 with Paris FC in the round 1 final the previous season, although they did progress 5-4 on penalties in that contest.

This is only Roma's second game in France, the first that defeat by Paris Saint-Germain last season.

The Matchday 3 defeat by Lyon was the first time Roma had failed to score in a group stage match.

They opened Group A with a 1-0 win against two-time champions Wolfsburg in Rome on 8 October, a 14th-minute Manuela Gugliano penalty separating the sides. Gugliano (45) was also on the scoresheet against Galatasaray and had a further penalty saved, with five other scorers in a 6-1 victory in Istanbul.

This is Roma's third appearance in the Women's Champions League 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 to eventual champions Barcelona 1-6 on aggregate (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 latter.

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

Giugliano and Giacinti scored eight of Roma's ten goals in the 2023/24 group stage.

The Giallorosse claimed their first ever domestic double last season with success in both league and cup.

Key facts

Lyon are unbeaten in their last 14 group games (W10 D4) and are aiming to start a group stage with four successive wins for the first time.

OL have kept ten clean sheets in their last 13 group matches.

Lyon have lost only one of their previous ten home group games (W7 D2).

Roma have won their previous two away Women's Champions League matches this season, 7-2 at Servette and 6-1 at Galatasaray.

The Italian side have lost only four of their previous 12 away Women's Champions League matches (W6 D2).

Roma have scored in their last ten away European fixtures.