| Tourney Name: | UEFA Women's Champions League |
| Year: | 2022–23 |
| Dates: | Qualifying rounds: Competition proper: |
| Num Teams: | Competition proper: 16 Total: 71 |
| Associations: | 50 |
| Champion Other: | Barcelona |
| Count: | 2 |
| Second Other: | VfL Wolfsburg |
| Matches: | 61 |
| Goals: | 211 |
| Top Scorer: | Ewa Pajor (VfL Wolfsburg) (9 goals) |
| Player: | Aitana Bonmatí (Barcelona)[1] |
| Young Player: | Lena Oberdorf (VfL Wolfsburg) |
| Prevseason: | 2021–22 |
| Nextseason: | 2023–24 |
The 2022–23 UEFA Women's Champions League was the 22nd edition of the European women's club football championship organised by UEFA, and the 14th edition since being rebranded as the UEFA Women's Champions League. It was the second edition to feature a 16-team group stage.[2]
The final was held at the Philips Stadion in Eindhoven, Netherlands. The winners of the 2022–23 UEFA Women's Champions League automatically qualified for the 2023–24 UEFA Women's Champions League group stage.
Lyon were the defending champions, having won a record-extending eighth title after winning the 2022 final. They were unable to defend their title after being defeated by Chelsea in the quarter-finals.
Barcelona won their second title by defeating VfL Wolfsburg 3–2 in the final.[3]
The association ranking based on the UEFA women's Association coefficients was used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:[4] [5]
An association must have an eleven-a-side women's domestic league to enter a team. As of 2019–20, 52 of the 55 UEFA member associations organize a women's domestic league, with the exceptions being Andorra (1 club in Spain), Liechtenstein (3 clubs in Switzerland) and San Marino (1 club in Italy).
For the 2022–23 UEFA Women's Champions League, the associations were allocated places according to their 2021 UEFA Women's Association coefficients, which took into account their performance in European competitions from 2016–2017 to 2020–2021.[6]
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| Round 1 (Mini-Tournament) | Champions Path (42 Teams) |
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| League Path (16 Teams) |
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| Round 2 | Champions Path (14 Teams) |
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| League Path (10 Teams) |
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| Group Stage (16 Teams) |
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| Knockout Stage (8 Teams) |
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The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:
The two qualifying rounds, round 1 and round 2, were divided into Champions Path (CP) and League Path (LP).
CC: 2022 UEFA women's club coefficients.[7]
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The schedule of the competition was as follows.[2]
| Phase | Round | Draw date | First leg | Second leg |
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| Qualifying | First round | 24 June 2022 | 18 August 2022 (semi-finals) | 21 August 2022 (third-place play-off & final) |
| Second round | 1 September 2022 | 20–21 September 2022 | 28–29 September 2022 | |
| Group stage | Matchday 1 | 3 October 2022 | 19–20 October 2022 | |
| Matchday 2 | 26–27 October 2022 | |||
| Matchday 3 | 23–24 November 2022 | |||
| Matchday 4 | 7–8 December 2022 | |||
| Matchday 5 | 15–16 December 2022 | |||
| Matchday 6 | 21–22 December 2022 | |||
| Knockout phase | Quarter-finals | 10 February 2023[8] | 21–22 March 2023 | 29–30 March 2023 |
| Semi-finals | 22–23 April 2023 | 27 April, 1 May 2023 | ||
| Final | 3 June 2023 at Philips Stadion, Eindhoven | |||
See main article: 2022–23 UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying rounds.
See main article: 2022–23 UEFA Women's Champions League group stage.
The draw was held 3 October 2022 and saw the 16 teams split into four pools of four teams.[9] [10]
See main article: 2022–23 UEFA Women's Champions League knockout phase.
In the knockout phase, teams played against each other over two legs on a home-and-away basis, except for the one-match final. The mechanism of the draws for each round was as follows:
Statistics exclude qualifying rounds.
| Rank | Player | Team | Goals[11] |
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| 1 |  Ewa Pajor | VfL Wolfsburg | 9 |
| 2 |  Cloé Lacasse | Benfica | 5 |
 Sam Kerr | Chelsea | ||
 Stina Blackstenius | Arsenal | ||
 Frida Maanum | Arsenal | ||
 Asisat Oshoala | Barcelona | ||
 Aitana Bonmatí | Barcelona | ||
| 8 | Mariona Caldentey | Barcelona | 4 |
 Kadidiatou Diani | Paris Saint-Germain | ||
| Caitlin Foord | Arsenal | ||
 Geyse | Barcelona | ||
 Valentina Giacinti | Roma | ||
| Cristiana Girelli | Juventus | ||
| Patricia Guijarro | Barcelona | ||
| Melvine Malard | Lyon | ||
| Fridolina Rolfö | Barcelona |
The UEFA technical study group selected the following players as the team of the tournament.[12]
| Player | Team | |
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| Merle Frohms | VfL Wolfsburg | |
| Lucy Bronze | Barcelona | |
| Irene Paredes | Barcelona | |
| Mapi León | Barcelona | |
 Katie McCabe | Arsenal | |
| Aitana Bonmatí | Barcelona | |
| Lena Oberdorf | VfL Wolfsburg | |
| Patricia Guijarro | Barcelona | |
| Caroline Graham Hansen | Barcelona | |
| Alexandra Popp | VfL Wolfsburg | |
| Ewa Pajor | VfL Wolfsburg |