| Tourney Name: | UEFA Champions League |
| Year: | 2023–24 |
| Size: | 275px |
| Num Teams: | Competition proper: 32 Total: 78 |
| Associations: | 53 |
| Champion Other: | Real Madrid |
| Count: | 15 |
| Second Other: | Borussia Dortmund |
| Matches: | 125 |
| Goals: | 375 |
| Player: | Vinícius Júnior (Real Madrid) |
| Young Player: | Jude Bellingham (Real Madrid) |
| Prevseason: | 2022–23 |
| Nextseason: | 2024–25 |
The 2023–24 UEFA Champions League was the 69th season of Europe's premier club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 32nd season since it was renamed from the European Champion Clubs' Cup to the UEFA Champions League.
Real Madrid defeated Borussia Dortmund 2–0 in the final, which was played at the Wembley Stadium in London, England,[1] for a record-extending 15th European Cup title, and their sixth in eleven years.[2] As winners, Real Madrid earned the right to play against Atalanta, the winners of the 2023–24 UEFA Europa League, in the 2024 UEFA Super Cup. They also qualified for the final of the brand-new 2024 FIFA Intercontinental Cup and the expanded 2025 FIFA Club World Cup in the United States.
This was the final season with the current format of 32 teams participating in the group stage, following UEFA's announcement of a new expanded format to be introduced for the following edition.[3]
Manchester City were the defending champions, but were eliminated by eventual winners Real Madrid in the quarter-finals.
A total of 78 teams from 53 of the 55 UEFA member associations participated in the 2023–24 UEFA Champions League (the exceptions being Liechtenstein, which did not organise a domestic league, and Russia). The association ranking based on the UEFA association coefficients was used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:[4]
For the 2023–24 UEFA Champions League, the associations were allocated places according to their 2022 UEFA association coefficients, which took into account their performance in European competitions from 2017–18 to 2021–22.[5] The team allocation reflected Russia's ongoing suspension from UEFA competitions.
Apart from the allocation based on the association coefficients, associations could have additional teams (a maximum of 5 per association) participating in the Champions League, as noted below:
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The following is the default access list for the 2023–24 season.[6]
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| Preliminary round (4 teams) |
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| First qualifying round (30 teams) |
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| Second qualifying round (24 teams) | Champions Path (20 teams) |
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| League Path (4 teams) |
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| Third qualifying round (20 teams) | Champions Path (12 teams) |
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| League Path (8 teams) |
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| Play-off round (12 teams) | Champions Path (8 teams) |
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| League Path (4 teams) |
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| Group stage (32 teams) |
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| Knockout phase (16 teams) |
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Due to the suspension of Russia for the 2023–24 European season, the following changes to the access list were made:
Since the Champions League title holders (Manchester City) qualified via their domestic league, the following changes to the access list were made:
The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:
The second qualifying round, third qualifying round and play-off round were divided into Champions Path (CH) and League Path (LP).
Notes
The schedule of the competition was as follows.[7] [8] [9] All matches were played on Tuesdays and Wednesdays apart from the preliminary round final and the final.
| Phase | Round | Draw date | First leg | Second leg |
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| Qualifying | Preliminary round | 13 June 2023 | 27 June 2023 (semi-finals) | 30 June 2023 (final) |
| First qualifying round | 20 June 2023 | 11–12 July 2023 | 18–19 July 2023 | |
| Second qualifying round | 21 June 2023 | 25–26 July 2023 | 1–2 August 2023 | |
| Third qualifying round | 24 July 2023 | 8–9 & 15 August 2023 | 15 & 19 August 2023 | |
| Play-offs | Play-off round | 7 August 2023 | 22–23 August 2023 | 29–30 August 2023 |
| Group stage | Matchday 1 | 31 August 2023 | 19–20 September 2023 | |
| Matchday 2 | 3–4 October 2023 | |||
| Matchday 3 | 24–25 October 2023 | |||
| Matchday 4 | 7–8 November 2023 | |||
| Matchday 5 | 28–29 November 2023 | |||
| Matchday 6 | 12–13 December 2023 | |||
| Knockout phase | Round of 16 | 18 December 2023 | 13–14 & 20–21 February 2024 | 5–6 & 12–13 March 2024 |
| Quarter-finals | 15 March 2024 | 9–10 April 2024 | 16–17 April 2024 | |
| Semi-finals | 30 April – 1 May 2024 | 7–8 May 2024 | ||
| Final | 1 June 2024 at Wembley Stadium, London | |||
See main article: 2023–24 UEFA Champions League group stage.
The group stage draw for the 2023–24 UEFA Champions League took place at the Grimaldi Forum, Monaco, on 31 August at . The 32 teams were drawn into eight groups of four. For the draw, the teams were seeded into four pots, each of eight teams, based on the following principles:
Teams from the same association could not be drawn into the same group.
Union Berlin and Antwerp made their debut appearances in the group stage.
A total of 15 national associations were represented in the group stage.
See main article: 2023–24 UEFA 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.
Statistics exclude qualifying rounds and play-off round.
| Rank[11] | Player | Team | Goals | Minutes played |
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| 1 | Harry Kane | Bayern Munich | 8 | 1064 |
 Kylian Mbappé | Paris Saint-Germain | 1080 | ||
| 3 |  Erling Haaland | Manchester City | 6 | 778 |
| Antoine Griezmann | Atlético Madrid | 821 | ||
 Vinícius Júnior | Real Madrid | 901 | ||
| 6 |  Joselu | Real Madrid | 5 | 273 |
 Julián Álvarez | Manchester City | 279 | ||
| Rasmus Højlund | Manchester United | 489 | ||
| Galeno | Porto | 651 | ||
| Álvaro Morata | Atlético Madrid | 667 | ||
| Phil Foden | Manchester City | 684 | ||
| Rodrygo | Real Madrid | 1021 |
The UEFA technical study group selected the following players as the team of the tournament.[12]
