2022–23 UEFA Women's Champions League group stage explained
The 2022–23 UEFA Women's Champions League group stage began on 19 October and ended on 22 December 2022.[1] A total of 16 teams competed in the group stage to decide the eight places in the knockout phase of the 2022–23 UEFA Women's Champions League.[2]
Draw
The draw was held on 3 October and saw the 16 teams split into four pools of four teams.[3] [4]
- Pot 1 contained the four direct entrants, i.e., the Champions League holders and the champions of the top three associations based on their 2021 UEFA women's country coefficients.[5]
- Pot 2, 3 and 4 contained the remaining teams, seeded based on their 2022 UEFA women's club coefficients.
Teams from the same association could not be drawn into the same group. Prior to the draw, UEFA formed one pairing of teams for associations with two or three teams based on television audiences, where one team was drawn into Groups A–B and another team into Groups C–D, so that the two teams played on different days. Clubs from countries with severe winter conditions (Sweden) were assigned a position in their group which allowed them to play away on matchday 6.[6]
Teams
Below are the participating teams (with their 2022 UEFA club coefficients),[7] grouped by their seeding pot. They include:[6]
- 4 teams which entered in this stage
- 12 winners of the Round 2 (7 from Champions Path, 5 from League Path)
| Pot 2!Team!Notes! | | 85.666 | | | 84.133 | | | 47.766 | | | 39.200 | | | Pot 3!Team!Notes! | | 38.833 | | | 30.900 | | | 26.233 | | | 25.700 | | | Pot 4!Team!Notes! | | 22.500 | | | 14.400 | | | 13.600 | | | 5.900 | | | |
Notes
Format
In each group, teams played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The top two teams of each group advanced to the quarter-finals.
Tiebreakers
Teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If two or more teams were tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (see Article 18 Equality of points – group stage, Regulations of the UEFA Women's Champions League):[2]
- Points in head-to-head matches among the tied teams;
- Goal difference in head-to-head matches among the tied teams;
- Goals scored in head-to-head matches among the tied teams;
- If more than two teams were tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams were still tied, all head-to-head criteria above were reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
- Goal difference in all group matches;
- Goals scored in all group matches;
- Away goals scored in all group matches;
- Wins in all group matches;
- Away wins in all group matches;
- Disciplinary points (direct red card = 3 points; double yellow card = 3 points; single yellow card = 1 point);
- UEFA club coefficient.
Groups
Times are CET/CEST, as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).
Group A
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Group B
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Group C
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Group D
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External links
Notes and References
- Web site: 20 June 2022. 2022/23 Women’s Champions League: dates, access list, full guide. 1 July 2021. UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations.
- Web site: Regulations of the UEFA Women's Champions League, 2021/22 Season . UEFA . 2021 . 30 August 2022.
- Web site: Women's Champions League group stage draw. UEFA. 28 September 2022.
- Web site: Women's Champions League group stage draw: Holders Lyon get Arsenal and Juventus, Paris drawn with Real Madrid and Chelsea. UEFA. 3 October 2022.
- Web site: Association coefficients 2020/21 . UEFA.com . Union of European Football Associations . 2020 . 24 August 2020 . 4 December 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191204125228/https://www.uefa.com/memberassociations/uefarankings/country/#/yr/2020 . live .
- Web site: Women's Champions League group stage draw live on Monday: full guide. UEFA.com. 10 September 2021.
- Web site: Club coefficients . UEFA.com . Union of European Football Associations . 31 May 2021 . 9 June 2021.
