The biggest game in the history of Barcelona’s women’s team takes place this Saturday at the iconic San Mamés as Barça Femení take on Lyon in the 2024 Women’s Champions League Final, with kickoff set for 6pm CET (Barcelona), 5pm BST/WAT (UK & Nigeria), Noon ET, 9am PT (USA), 9.30pm IST (india). This has already been a fantastic season for Barça’s all-conquering women’s side, who have won the domestic Treble and only need to avoid defeat in their final two Liga F games in order to claim the Spanish triple crown of League, Cup and Super Cup as Invincibles.
But the real history is at stake this weekend as the Catalans chase their first-ever quadruple by adding the European Cup to the trio of domestic trophies already won this season. But in order to achieve that remarkable piece of women’s football history, Barça must overcome the only team they haven’t beat yet, their true European Kryptonite: Olympique Lyonnais Féminin . Before Barça Femení became the dominant force in the sport over the last half-decade, reaching five of the last six European finals, winning two UWCL titles and doing so with the most beautiful, free-flowing style of football we’ve ever seen in the women’s game, Lyon were the undisputed queens of the sport, winning 14 consecutive French league titles and five Champions Leagues in a row.
Barça and Lyon have met four times in the Champions League, twice in the final, and most recently in the 2022 title match in Turin when Lyon.
