2012–13 UEFA Women's Champions League

2012–13 UEFA Women's Champions League
The 2012–13 UEFA Women's Champions League was the 12th edition of the European women's championship for football clubs. The final was held at Stamford Bridge, London, England on 23 May 2013.
Team allocation and distribution
The national champions and runners-up, where known, in nations that have participated in the past five years are listed as expected to compete. Some of these teams may choose not to participate. Norway has overtaken Iceland in the UEFA coefficients and thus assured themselves a second entry.
Countries are allocated places according to their UEFA league coefficient for women. A first entry list was posted on 14 June 2012 by the Belgian representative. Not returning since last year is the champion of Luxembourg, for the first time Montenegro sends its champion. Here CH denotes the national champion, RU the national runner-up.
1. On 6 December 2011 it was announced that the 2011 FA WSL Runners-up were given the spot, and not as initially planned the 2011–12 FA Women's Cup winner.
Round and draw dates
UEFA has scheduled the competition as follows.
Qualifying round
32 teams enter in the qualifying round, and were divided into eight groups of four teams, with one team from each seeding pot. The group-winners and best two runners-up qualify for the round of 32.
Seeding and draw
32 teams entered in the qualifying round, and were divided into eight groups of four teams, with one team from each seeding pot:
Pot 1
Glasgow City
Unia Racibórz
PAOK
Zürich
Apollon Limassol (host)
1° Dezembro
SFK 2000 (host)
NSA Sofia
Pot 2
MTK
Zhytlobud-1 Kharkiv
Bobruichanka
Gintra Universitetas
PK-35 Vantaa (host)
ASA Tel Aviv University
Olimpia Cluj
BIIK Kazygurt
Pot 3
Osijek
KÍ Klaksvík
Spartak Subotica (host)
Peamount United
Slovan Bratislava (host)
Naše Taksi (host)
Glentoran Belfast United
Pomurje (host)
Pot 4
Pärnu JK
Ataşehir Belediyesi
Cardiff Met. Ladies
FC Noroc
Ada
Birkirkara (host)
Skonto/Ceriba
Ekonomist
The eight hosts were confirmed by UEFA before the draw, and two hosts could not be placed in the same group. Each team played the other teams in the group once. The matches were played between 11 and 16 August 2012. The draw was held on 28 June 2012.
Tie-breaker criteria
As usual in UEFA competitions, three points are awarded for a win, and one point for a draw. If teams are equal on points after all matches have been played, the following criteria applies:
Higher number of points obtained in the matches among the teams in question.
Superior goal difference resulting from the matches among the teams in question.
Higher number of goals scored in the matches among the teams in question.
Superior goal difference in all group matches
Higher number of goals scored in all group matches
Higher number of club coefficient points
Drawing of lots
Criteria 1–3 are reapplied until the tie cannot be resolved; only then is criteria 4 used.
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Group 4
Group 5
Group 6
Apollon's 21–0 victory over Ada set a new competition record.
Group 7
Group 8
Ranking of group runners-up
The two best runners-up also qualify for the round of 32. The match against the fourth-placed team in the group does not count for the purposes of the runners-up table. The tie-breakers in this ranking are:
Higher number of points obtained
Superior goal difference
Higher number of goals scored
Higher number of club coefficient points
Fair play conduct in all group matches
Knockout stage
The top 16 ranked teams are seeded for the round of 32. Team that qualified through the qualifying round are marked with (Q).
Seeded:
Lyon
Turbine Potsdam
Arsenal
Rossiyanka
Brøndby
Torres
Juvisy
Bardolino Verona
Neulengbach
Göteborg
Sparta Praha
Fortuna Hjørring
LdB Malmö
Røa
Wolfsburg
Zorky Krasnogorsk
Unseeded:
Glasgow City (Q)
Unia Racibórz (Q)
Standard Liège
Birmingham City
Stabæk
Zürich (Q)
Apollon Limassol (Q)
SFK 2000 (Q)
MTK (Q)
Barcelona
PK-35 Vantaa (Q)
Stjarnan
Olimpia Cluj (Q)
BIIK Kazygurt (Q)
Spartak Subotica (Q)
ADO Den Haag
Bracket
Round of 32
First leg
Second leg
Turbine Potsdam won 8–1 on aggregate.
Stabæk won 5–3 on aggregate.
Lyon won 12–0 on aggregate.
LdB Malmö won 10–1 on aggregate.
Göteborg won 4–0 on aggregate.
3–3 on aggregate. Olimpia Cluj won on away goals.
Torres won 6–3 on aggregate.
Fortuna Hjørring won 2–1 on aggregate.
Bardolino Verona won 3–2 on aggregate.
Zorky Krasnogorsk won 3–1 on aggregate.
Rossiyanka won 5–3 on aggregate.
Arsenal won 7–0 on aggregate.
Røa won 8–0 on aggregate.
Wolfsburg won 11–2 on aggregate.
Juvisy won 2–1 on aggregate.
Sparta Praha won 6–0 on aggregate.
Round of 16
First leg
Second leg
Wolfsburg won 5–2 on aggregate.
Lyon won 11–0 on aggregate.
Arsenal won 6–4 on aggregate.
Göteborg won 4–3 on aggregate.
LdB Malmö won 3–0 on aggregate.
Rossiyanka won 3–2 on aggregate.
Torres won 7–1 on aggregate.
Juvisy won 2–1 on aggregate.
Quarter-finals
There was an open draw held for the quarterfinals and the following rounds on 27 November 2012.
First leg
Second leg
Arsenal won 4–1 on aggregate.
Juvisy won 4–1 on aggregate.
Wolfsburg won 4–1 on aggregate.
Lyon won 8–0 on aggregate.
Semi-finals
First leg
Second leg
Wolfsburg won 4–1 on aggregate.
Lyon won 9–1 on aggregate.
Final
Statistics
Top scorers and assists (excluding qualifying rounds and play-off round):
Top goalscorers
The top-scorer award is given to the player scoring the most goals including the qualifying rounds, thus Romanian player Laura Rus from Apollon Limassol won the award by scoring 11 goals up to the round of 32. Conny Pohlers scored her 42nd goal in the competition history, to become the sole all-time topscorer.
The following are the top scorers excluding the qualifying round.
Source:
Top assists
Source:
References
External links
Official website
European league standings
Women's
UEFA Women's Champions League seasons
UEFA
UEFA