The 2011–12 season of the Frauen-Bundesliga is the 22nd season of Germany's premier women's football league. The season commenced on 21 August 2011 and will conclude on 28 May 2012. Turbine Potsdam were the defending champions and successfully defended their title on the last matchday. Potsdam became the first team to win Bundesliga title a fourth year in a row.
The start of the season saw Germany's record capped player Birgit Prinz ending her career and all-time Bundesliga topscorer Inka Grings leaving Duisburg after 16 years for Swiss side Zürich. A new all-time Bundesliga record was set on 20 May 2012 when 8,689 spectators saw the match VfL Wolfsburg versus 1. FFC Frankfurt.
Teams The teams promoted from the previous season's 2nd Bundesliga were Freiburg as winners of the Southern division and Lokomotive Leipzig as runners-up of the Northern division; Northern division champions Hamburger SV II as a reserve side were ineligible for promotion.
Team Home city Home ground Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler Apollinarisstadion Bayer 04 Leverkusen Leverkusen Ulrich-Haberland-Stadion (Amateur) Munich Sportpark Aschheim Duisburg PCC-Stadion Essen Sportpark Am Hallo Frankfurt Stadion am Brentanobad Freiburg Möslestadion Hamburger SV Hamburg Wolfgang-Meyer-Sportanlage Jena Sportzentrum Oberaue Leipzig Bruno-Plache-Stadion Potsdam Karl-Liebknecht-Stadion Wolfsburg VfL-Stadium
Managerial changes Team Outgoing manager Manner of departure Date of vacancy Replaced by Date of appointment Position Bad Neuenahr Thomas Obliers mutual consent Colin Bell pre-season Lokomotive Leipzig Jürgen Brauße mutual consent Claudia von Lanken pre-season Jena Konrad Weise end of contract Martina Voss-Tecklenburg pre-season Lokomotive Leipzig Claudia von Lanken sacked Jürgen Brauße 11th Lokomotive Leipzig Jürgen Brauße resigned Christof Reimann 11th
League table
Results
Top scorers Genoveva Añonma won the topscorer award with 22 goals and became the first non-German player to win the award in Bundesliga history.
PlayerClubGoalsGenoveva Añonma Turbine Potsdam 22 Conny Pohlers Wolfsburg 19Yuki Nagasato Turbine Potsdam 12 Kerstin Garefrekes FFC Frankfurt 11 Nadine Keßler Wolfsburg 11 Celia Okoyino da Mbabi Bad Neuenahr 11 Mandy Islacker FCR Duisburg 10
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