My fate is my own fault! Wuhan Women s Football Team "turned stones into gold" defeated Melbourne City and won the Women s AFC Champions League!

Fight the hardest battle and take the hardest road! At 20:00 on May 24, the 2025 Women's Football AFC Final was held at the Wuhan Sports Center. Wuhan Chegujiang Women's Football Team and Australia's Melbourne City Women's Football Team held a peak showdown. Since the winner of this final will win the first intercontinental trophy of the Asian Women's Football Club, both teams are all elite! The cheers of 18,715 spectators witnessed the decisive battle between Wuhan Chegujiang Women's Football Team and Melbourne City Women's Football Team! After 90 minutes of fierce battle and ups and downs, the Wuhan Women's Football Team survived, relied on Wang Shuang's penalty kick to achieve a tie, dragging the game into overtime! In the final penalty shootout, he escaped from the situation where his life was hanging on the line, defeated his opponent with a score of 1-1 (5-4 in penalty kicks), and won the first Women's Football AFC trophy as he wished!

Judging from the starting list, Wuhan Chegujiang Women's Football Team basically used the same lineup as in the previous game, but replaced Song Duan for Chen Ying. The top star Wang Shuang partnered with African double evil spirits Traore and Engsha to form the offensive front line, and captain Wu Haiyan led the defense; and the opponent was also the main force, and the substitute in the last game was the hero, and the 17-year-old young player McMahon started. 18,715 fans came to the scene to cheer for the Wuhan Women's Football Team! At the beginning of the game, the Wuhan Women's Football Team was the faster side to enter the game. Two African foreign players performed actively. In the first minute of the game, they intercepted the ball from the frontcourt on the right and cooperated continuously. Engsha shot with a long shot from outside the penalty area. Then Song Fei made a cross from the left, and Engsha's header was shot again. Unfortunately, it was not on the right. In the 9th minute, Wang Shuang received the pass and sent the ball to the middle, trying to find Engsha who was inserted, but Melbourne goalkeeper Mieres took the lead to resolve the ball.

In view of the opponent's characteristics of long-range shooting in the last game, the Wuhan Women's Football Team's tactics were clear in this game. It was pressed forward at the beginning of the game, making it difficult for the opponent to pass the ball through half a few minutes before the game. However, after adapting, the opponent gradually found an opportunity to attack. In the 16th minute, the Melbourne City Women's Football Team sent a free kick to the small penalty area. Ding Xuan confiscated the ball in time. A few minutes later, the opponent once again used a short-distance mistake in Wuhan Women's Football Team to clear the ball. Brillie Henry scored a shot high.

The situation is particularly critical at this time. In the 26th minute, the opponent's midfielder intercepted the ball and passed it directly behind him. McNamara formed a single shot, and Ding Xuan took a timely attack to resolve the danger! Faced with wave after wave of opponents' offensives, Wuhan Women's Football Team made timely offensive and defensive conversions, and defense players such as Wu Haiyan, Jin Huili, and Ma Jun actively monitored people and made up for defense, and tried their best to ensure the city gate!

The Wuhan Women's Football Team, which stabilized their position, re-invested the offense. The opponent was in a long melee in the frontcourt, but the Wuhan Women's Football Team did not find a suitable shooting opportunity. Traore, Wang Shuang and others had the opportunity to face the goalkeeper but did not catch the ball. The opponent could not open the situation and began to try his usual long-range shooting tactics. Ding was keen in front of the goal and repeatedly resolved the offensive. In the first half, the best chance of Wuhan Women's Football Team came from before the end of stoppage time. Wang Shuang suddenly made a cold arrow outside the penalty area. Unfortunately, the opponent's goalkeeper saved the ball from the baseline with one hand, and entered the midfield break 0-0!

The change of sides and the fight again, the Wuhan Women's Football Team made a substitution adjustment. Chen Chen, a hero of the penalty shootout against Urawa Red Diamond Women's Football Team, came on as a substitute and replaced the main goalkeeper Ding Xuan. At the beginning of the second half, the opponent showed a strong offensive, hoping to break the situation while the Wuhan Women's Football Team changed the goalkeeper and did not steadily settle the situation. However, Chen Chen repeatedly decisively attacked and resolved the danger. The Wuhan Women's Football Team did not blindly defend, but made several beautiful counterattacks and caused the opponent's foul to give the opponent a yellow card.

In the 57th minute, Song Duan replaced Chen Ying, the goalkeeper in the field. Except for the goalkeeper, the Wuhan Women's Football Team's lineup came to the same situation as the starting lineup in the previous game. Song Duan created a good opportunity at the beginning of his appearance. In the 60th minute, she cut inside from the left and shot, and the opponent's goalkeeper saved the ball from the side with difficulty! The regular time passed by minute by minute, and the game gradually fell into a cruel strangle battle. The physical strength of the Wuhan women's football team gradually decreased, and the defensive intensity was difficult to maintain.

In the 76th minute, the opponent took advantage of the free kick opportunity and the 17-year-old player McMahon, who scored in the last game, scored a header, and Wuhan Women's Football Team fell behind 0-1! The pressure came to the host's side.

The lagging Wuhan Women's Football Team has no way out. They replaced Deng Mengye and Yao Wei, preparing to take advantage of the last ten minutes to give it a try, but the opponent's formation is stable and he can't find any opportunity for the moment..

In this way, the game came to stoppage time, and the referee's two crucial VAR replays changed the direction of the game! In the second minute of stoppage time, the opponent scored a goal in the counterattack. After VAR replay, the referee determined that the foul was first, and the goal was invalid. The Wuhan Women's Football Team escaped!

will be lucky. In the 8th minute of stoppage time, the opponent fouled in the penalty area. The referee made a VAR replay and awarded a penalty. Wang Shuang achieved it in one go, miraculously playing the draw! Both sides enter a more cruel overtime game! The two-hour decisive battle will be determined by the cruel twelve yards! The first person to play in the Wuhan Women's Football Team was veteran Yao Wei. She was a steadily high and a half-high ball, and started a good start for the penalty shootout. Chen Chen saved the opponent's penalty kick, but the referee decided that the ball crossed the goal line, 1-1! In the second round, Wu Haiyan and the opponent's players made a penalty, 2-2, and were still on the same starting line! In the third round, Wuhan women's football team Deng Mengye scored steadily, while the opponent scored a spoon penalty, 3-3! In the crucial fourth round of penalty kick, Wuhan women's football team Song Duan's penalty kick was saved by the opponent, and the opponent scored another spoon penalty kick, and Wuhan women's football team's life was hanging on the line!

The last penalty kick from Wuhan Women's Football Team was Wang Shuang. She withstood the pressure and made a penalty. Chen Chen became a hero to save the whole team at this moment, and she saved the opponent's penalty kick! In the next round of penalty kicks, the sudden death system was made, and Wuhan Women's Football Guard Zhao Yuxin made a penalty.

, and Chen Chen once again contributed his magic pounce, like a pillar that defeated his opponent, helping Wuhan Women's Football Championship win the first Women's Football AFC Champions League! Wuhan Women's Football Team also qualified to participate in the 2026 Women's Football Club World Cup! And receive a championship bonus of $1.3 million! Congratulations to the Wuhan girl again! You completed a mythical championship story at home!

Wuhan Chegujiang Women's Football Team:

29-Ding Xuan (46’ 22-Chen Chen), 18-Ma Jun, 32-Zhao Yuxin, 5-Wu Haiyan, 90-Jin Huili, 28-Song Fei (82’ 27-Deng Mengye), 7-Wang Shuang, 26-Jiang Chenjing (82’ 10-Yao Wei), 21-Daily Chen Ying (57’ 37-Song Duan), 33-Tresa Engsha (87’ 30-Wang Qianqian), 9-Saratu Traolee