The match was held in the Olympiastadion in Munich, Germany on 17 May 2012.

[1] Lyon won the tournament, beating Frankfurt 2–0 to retain the trophy.

Lyon played the final for the third consecutive time.

[2] It also marked the third time in a row that a French and a German club met in the final.

[3] The attendance of 50,212 was claimed by UEFA as a European record for women's club football,[4] ignoring the existence of earlier reported women's club match attendances of 53,000.