FC Barcelona and Olympique Lyon meet for the trophy in the Liga De Campeones Femenina De La Uefa final at Ullevaal Stadion in Oslo, Norway, closing out the 2025/26 season. It is a matchup that carries the weight of recent history as well as the kind of record book only this competition can produce.
Barcelona has played in every final from the 2020/21 season to the present, a run that has made it one of the leading teams of the current era. Lyon arrives as the most successful club in the competition’s history with eight titles, and it last lifted the trophy in the 2021/22 season.
The French side’s track record in the tournament is built on finals that often turned on the smallest margins. Lyon beat Wolfsburgo 4-3 on penalties in the 2015/16 final at the MAPEI Stadium, then edged PSG 7-6 on penalties in 2016/17 after 120 minutes finished 0-0 at Cardiff City Stadium. The next year, Lyon needed extra time to beat Wolfsburgo 4-1 at the Lobanovsky Dynamo stadium in Kiev, Ukraine.
That run also includes one of Barcelona’s hardest nights. Lyon beat Barcelona 4-1 in the 2018/19 final at Groupama Arena in Budapest, with Ada Hegerberg scoring a hat trick. The following season, Lyon defeated Wolfsburgo 3-1 to add another title before ending its latest championship drought in 2021/22.
The final gives Barcelona a chance to confront the one club that has shaped so much of the tournament’s modern standard. Lyon’s five consecutive titles from 2015/16 through 2019/20 remain a striking measure of its dominance, but Barcelona’s presence in every final since 2020/21 shows how quickly the balance at the top has tightened.
For Lyon, this is a chance to extend a legacy that already defines the competition. For Barcelona, it is another chance to turn consistency into silverware on the sport’s biggest European stage for clubs. The outcome in Oslo will add a fresh line to a rivalry that has already produced penalties, extra time and a final that ended with a hat trick.
