Barcelona completed the domestic treble Sunday by capturing its third consecutive Copa de la Reina title, which joins the club’s La Liga and the Spanish Super Cup trophies from this season.

Six different Barcelona players scored in the club’s 6-1 win over Sporting Huelva to secure the club’s ninth Copa de la Reina championship.

Barcelona posted an impressive 30-0 perfect Primera Division record in La Liga and finished its campaign with wins in all 36 domestic matchups,

The club’s latest trophy comes after a heartbreaking loss to Lyon in the Champions League final, in which Barcelona fell to the French side 3-1.

Lyon did what seemingly no team could this season, dominating Barcelona 3-1 to clinch the Champions League trophy Saturday.

The French side put Barcelona under pressure early, as Amandine Henry put Lyon up 1-0 in the game’s sixth minute. The French national team midfielder launched a stunning curler from far outside the box.

Lyon doubled its lead in the 23rd minute as Ada Hegerberg headed a lofted cross past the Barcelona keeper, deflating the Spanish side.

The situation went from bad to worse for Barcelona in the 33rd minute when Catarina Macario finished off a Lyon effort spurred by sloppy defending from Barcelona. The finish from the USWNT star put her team up 3-0.

Barcelona showed a glimmer of hope for a comeback late in the first half, when Alexia Putellas knocked in a cross to keep her side in the game.

But the 3-1 scoreline held through the second half despite Barcelona’s best efforts, and Lyon celebrated as the final whistle blew.

“This is what I’ve dreamed of ever since I was a little girl,” an emotional Lindsey Horan said after the match.

Saturday’s win marks Lyon’s record eighth Champions League title.

Barcelona’s Irene Paredes has enjoyed getting to see the success of the club since its professionalization in 2015.

That success includes winning the Primera Division and the Spanish cup multiple times. The club also claimed its first-ever UEFA Women’s Champions League trophy last year to complete the treble for the first time in its history.

Barcelona has had a record-breaking run in the lead up to this year’s WCL final, selling out games at Camp Nou and setting the world record for women’s soccer attendance not once but twice.

The club also completed a perfect 30-win season in the Primera Division.

“It’s been a really fast development,” said Paredes, referencing the fact that the club was only professionalized seven years ago. “But it’s just the consequence of a lot of work, a lot of people with a lot of enthusiasm and ideas working together. They really wanted a female football club doing great things.”

As for selling out Camp Nou, the defender said she and her teammates were in awe over the turnout.

“It was amazing, we couldn’t understand and believe it,” she said. “When they put the tickets on sale, we didn’t expect to have all of those sales in two days. We were wondering if all of the people would come, and of course they did and they’ve been screaming and helping us to win the game against Real Madrid.

“The second time against Wolfsburg, it was also a surprise because it was another new record. People could say that it’s lucky, that they gave a lot of tickets [away], but no, most of the people paid for tickets. They came to cheer us on and that’s because they want to support us.

“I hope the rest of the world is looking to us to try to do the same.”

This season marks the second time in Paredes’ career that she’s made a Champions League final. She played for Paris Saint-Germain when that club finished as runner-up in 2017.

She knows how difficult it is to make it to this point, and to play against a club like Olympique Lyonnais, which has won seven WCL titles – including a record-breaking run of five from 2016-2020.

“If we win that final, knowing the importance that Lyon has in Europe and the world, of course it would be amazing,” she said. “But it’s not about winning [against] Lyon, it’s just about winning the second time in a row.

“This last year has been a lot of work, a lot of good results. Of course we want to win and it would add strength to keep fighting to become the best team in the world. If not, our season has been amazing and the club wants more and we are working for that.

“We don’t want to be the new Lyon. We just want to be the new champions.”

The Champions League final will kick off at 1 p.m. ET Saturday on DAZN’s YouTube channel.

The UEFA Champions League final is set, with Barcelona taking on Lyon in Saturday’s championship match.

How to Watch:

1 p.m. ET Saturday, May 21, on DAZN’s Women’s Champions League YouTube channel.

Where:

Allianz Stadium, located in Turin, Italy, will host the affair. The venue holds a capacity of 41,507 and could sell out for the Champions League fixture.

What’s at stake for Barcelona:

The Spanish side will look to defend their 2021 Champions League trophy. The club thrashed Chelsea 4-0 last year to claim its first-ever title.

What’s at stake for Lyon:

The French club will be competing in their record 10th Champions League final and will be on the hunt for a historic eighth title. Lyon already holds the most titles all time with seven; the next closest team is Eintracht Frankfurt with four.

Who to watch:

USWNT star Catarina Macario has been on fire for Lyon, notching seven goals and two assists through 10 Champions League matches played. If Lyon wants to take down giant Barcelona, Macario and the rest of Lyon’s attack will have to be firing on all cylinders.

Barcelona has an arsenal of goal scorers up top. Alexia Putellas leads the charge with 10 goals and two assists, while Jennifer Hermoso has contributed five goals and one assist.

Wolfsburg snapped Barcelona’s 45-game winning streak, downing the Spanish club 2-0 in the second leg of the Women’s Champions League semifinal Saturday.

Barcelona will advance to the Champions League final despite the loss, defeating Wolfsburg 5-3 on aggregate after a dominant 5-1 first-leg victory.

Barcelona was held scoreless in the opening 45 minutes, with the club struggling to execute in the final third. Wolfsburg capitalized on the slow start, coming out after the break, poised to take control of the match.

Tabea Waßmuth broke the deadlock in the 47th minute, slotting home a low shot from the top of the box after confusion on a Wolfsburg set piece.

Jill Roord doubled Wolfsburg’s lead in the 59th minute, firing a long-range shot past the Barcelona keeper to put her side up 2-0.

Wolfsburg continued to push to make up their deficit on aggregate, but the 2-0 scoreline held until the final whistle.

The loss was bittersweet for Barcelona, as the match marks the first time the club has conceded more than one goal this season and the first time the team has failed to score since January 2020.

Barcelona’s win on aggregate advances the club to the Champions League final on May 21, where they will look to defend their 2021 European title.

The UEFA Women’s Champions League continues Saturday, with the final to be decided following Leg 2 of the two semifinals.

Barcelona vs. Wolfsburg

Saturday at noon ET on DAZN YouTube

Barcelona enters the second leg of the Champions League semifinal with a 5-1 lead on aggregate over Wolfsburg. That is an overwhelming advantage for any team, but especially for a club as dominant as Barcelona.

The Spanish side is likely to lock up their trip to the final with Saturday’s matchup, with Barcelona looking to defend their 2021 title.

Paris Saint-Germain vs. Olympique Lyonnais

Saturday at 3 pm ET on DAZN YouTube

A brace from USWNT star Catarina Macario lifted Lyon to a 3-2 lead over PSG in the clubs’ first-leg faceoff. PSG looked disorganized on the pitch, with the team punished for a series of defensive breakdowns.

The Paris side enters Saturday’s Leg 2 game looking to regroup following a tough semifinal opener and some publicized locker-room commotion.

Fans showed up and showed out for Barcelona, filling Camp Nou for the club’s 5-1 win against Wolfsburg in the UEFA Champions League semifinals.

Friday’s match drew a historic crowd of 91,648, breaking the world record for the most-attended women’s soccer match ever — which the team had set in its March quarterfinal against Real Madrid.

The first-leg semifinal contest against the German team sold out in just 24 hours, according to the club.

Manchester City star Lucy Bronze addressed Barcelona’s sold-out crowds in an op-ed for GiveMeSport Women, saying the Camp Nou matches “showed that women’s football is evolving.”

“There is a fan base,” she wrote. “And if things are done in the right places at the right time, these are the kinds of things that can come from it – selling out Nou Camp in the Champions League, back to back.”

The same atmosphere that led Barcelona to an emphatic and euphoric win against Real Madrid in the quarterfinal was on full display again Friday, with fans welcoming the team in droves as they entered the Camp Nou campus.

Camp Nou’s palpable support for Barcelona lifted the team to an early, commanding lead over Wolfsburg, with Aitana Bonmatí opening up scoring in the game’s third minute.

A trio of goals from Caroline Graham Hansen, Jennifer Hermoso and Alexia Putella followed to expand Barcelona’s first-half lead, electrifying the Camp Nou crowd.

Barcelona’s unrelenting pressure silenced Wolfsburg and sent the home team into halftime with a 4-0 lead. The German side needed to regroup at the break for any chance at redemption.

Wolfsburg, while slightly more organized in the second half, still appeared stunned following the opening 45-minute thrashing.

Denying Barcelona the shutout, Jill Roord put the visitors on the board in the 70th minute after a long VAR review.

Not to be outdone, Barcelona added to its four-goal tally, with Putellas slotting in a PK from the spot in the 80th minute for her second goal of the match.

Barcelona’s back-to-back record-breaking crowds at Camp Nou show March’s El Clásico was not a fluke but rather a sign of what’s to come.

Next Up: Wolfsburg and Barcelona will face off in the second leg of the Champions League semifinals on Saturday, April 30, at Volkswagen Arena in Germany.

After selling out the Champions League quarterfinal, Barcelona has once again sold out Camp Nou, this time for the Champions League semifinal.

The quarterfinal match broke the world record for the most-attended women’s soccer match ever.

Tickets for the first leg of the semifinal round, which will be played against Wolfsburg on April 22, sold out in just over 24 hours. Members were able to access up to 50,000 free tickets on Monday, which sold out quickly. Tuesday’s sale to the general public sold out in the afternoon.

According to the club, there are still tickets available that “UEFA must reserve for various groups” that could become available to the public in the days before the match.

Prior to the quarterfinal match, Barcelona’s Alexia Putellas was confident that the event could change the face of the game forever.

“I believe that tomorrow can be the start of a new era, because at the end of the day, tomorrow’s match is going to be inspiring for so many girls, I am guessing, that will be coming tomorrow to Camp Nou or who will be seeing us from TV,” Putellas said at the time. “They will be seeing women playing in Camp Nou, and I am sure in the future, in the mid or long run, we will be collecting the fruits of tomorrow’s match.”

Camp Nou’s capacity is 99,354, making it the largest stadium in Europe.

FC Barcelona promised a spectacle for its record-breaking Champions League fixture at Camp Nou, and that’s exactly what fans got.

In front of a historic crowd of 91,533 supporters, Barcelona defeated Real Madrid 5-2, advancing to the UEFA Women’s Champions League semifinals with an aggregate score of 8-3.

Wednesday’s stand was the first time the Barcelona women’s team played at the cavernous Camp Nou stadium in front of spectators, marking a significant turning point for the women’s game.

“Our responsibility is to make sure we do all our best to write this new page in the club’s history, the team’s history,” Barcelona captain Alexia Putellas told reporters Tuesday ahead of El Clásico. “I believe it will be a turning point for women’s football in Barcelona, in Catalonia, in Spain and, hopefully, all around the world.”

The match surpassed the 1999 FIFA Women’s World Cup final attendance record, which saw 90,185 fans fill the Rose Bowl to watch the U.S. Women’s National Team win. The new women’s soccer attendance record of 91,533 at Camp Nou ushers in a new era for the sport.

The quality on the pitch exceeded the anticipation leading up to the fixture, with Madrid and Barcelona executing top-quality finishes.

María Pilar León kicked off the scoring in the 8th minute, striking an in-swinging ball over Madrid’s keeper to put Barcelona up 1-0.

Less than 10 minutes later, a handball in the box awarded Madrid a penalty, which Olga Carmona calmly converted to level the score.

The visitors took the lead to start the second half as Claudia Zoronza struck the goal of the night, chipping Barcelona’s keeper in the 48th minute.

However, the advantage quickly evaporated. Aitana Bonmati slotted home a cheeky goal and Claudia Pina curled in a banger for Barcelona in quick succession to put the home team back on top.

Putellas also got in on the scoring in the 62nd minute, much to Camp Nou’s delight. The captain snuck a sputtering shot over the goal line, and then the reigning Ballon d’Or winner took a bow and blew a kiss to the adoring Barcelona fans.

Caroline Graham Hansen finished off the offensive masterclass from Barcelona, tapping in a deflected cross to put the game at 5-2.

In true Barcelona fashion, the club finished the match with 66 percent of the possession while outshooting Madrid 6-2.

“At the end of the match, I had to hold my tears back,” Graham Hansen told DAZN’s Serma Hunter after the game. “I didn’t imagine anything like it, and it’s just goosebumps all over the place.”

Barcelona is a certified powerhouse, with three-consecutive league titles, a Champions League trophy, a Ballon d’Or recipient in Putellas and a winning streak of 41 games. But though Barcelona seems undeniable, the Camp Nou event was anything but inevitable.

Marta Torrejón, a defender who joined Barcelona in 2013, has watched the club evolve at warp speed. She told The New York Times in 2021 that she remembers training sessions taking place in the evening to accommodate players who worked or went to school during the day.

The team of 2013 is a far cry from the club that dominated Chelsea 4-0 to claim its first Champions League trophy in 2021.

After the club fully professionalized in 2015, investments poured in, which brought in some big names like Lieke Martens, who signed with Barcelona in 2017.

For the most part, however, Barcelona has cultivated its core. Putellas, who joined Barcelona in 2012, serves as a shining example of the club’s ability to develop key players. A decade after her start, Putellas is an undeniable star and has scored seven goals in six Champions League matches so far this season.

The club’s success has rubbed off on Spain’s national team. In 2019, the Spanish women gave the USWNT a run for their money in the World Cup quarterfinal, nearly upsetting the eventual winners. Spain is currently ranked seventh in the world according to FIFA, jumping six places from its No. 13 ranking entering the 2019 World Cup.

Barcelona has steadily risen the ranks since its professionalization in 2015, making a Champions League semifinal appearance in 2018-2019 and a final appearance in 2019-2020 before raising the trophy in 2020-2021.

“In Barcelona, it’s not enough to win, it’s about how you play, and I think that’s in the roots of this team,” Barcelona midfielder Ingrid Syrstad Engen said.

That perfectionist ethos has elevated not just Barcelona but the international women’s game overall as the club sets a new standard for investment and performance.

“I believe that tomorrow can be the start of a new era because at the end of the day tomorrow’s match is going to be inspiring for so many girls, I am guessing, that will be coming tomorrow to Camp Nou or who will be seeing us from TV, and they will be seeing women playing in Camp Nou,” Putellas told media ahead of Wednesday’s win. “And I am sure in the future, in the mid or long run, we will be collecting the fruits of tomorrow’s match.”

Women’s soccer will undoubtedly collect the fruits of Barcelona’s Camp Nou triumph. And the marquee match may have also cemented Barcelona as the new epicenter of women’s soccer, a distinction that has been years in the making.

A total of 91,553 fans attended Wednesday’s quarterfinal match between Barcelona and Real Madrid at Camp Nou, breaking the world record for attendance at a women’s soccer match.

Fans in attendance got a treat as five different Barcelona players found the back of the next in the 5-2 win. As a result, Barcelona advances to the Women’s Champions League semifinals after winning both quarterfinal matches and the aggregate 8-3.

The club will face either Arsenal or Wolfsburg in the next round.

María Pilar León got things started in the eighth minute before Madrid’s Olga Carmona responded in the 16th minute. Claudia Zornoza helped Madrid take a 2-1 lead before the floodgates opened for Barcelona.

Aitana Bonmati, Clàudia Pina, Alexia Putellas and Caroline Graham Hansen all found the back of the net as Barcelona rattled off four unanswered goals.

After the game, the stadium chanted in song to celebrate the win.

Tickets sold out two months in advance of the match. Putellas called it a turning point for the women’s game.

“I believe that tomorrow can be the start of a new era, because at the end of the day, tomorrow’s match is going to be inspiring for so many girls, I am guessing, that will be coming tomorrow to Camp Nou or who will be seeing us from TV,” Putellas said. “They will be seeing women playing in Camp Nou, and I am sure in the future, in the mid or long run, we will be collecting the fruits of tomorrow’s match.”