2022–23 UEFA Champions League

The **2022–23 UEFA Champions League** was the 68th season of Europe's premier club football tournament organized by UEFA.

Manchester City defeated Inter Milan at the Atatürk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul, Turkey. The stadium was originally appointed to host the 2020 UEFA Champions League Final, but both this, and the 2021 final which had been eventually re-allocated to the Atatürk, were moved due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As winners Manchester City automatically qualified for the 2023–24 UEFA Champions League group stage, and earned the right to play against the winner of the 2022–23 UEFA Europa League, Sevilla, in the 2023 UEFA Super Cup and the 2023 FIFA Club World Cup, winning both.

Real Madrid were the defending champions, but were eliminated by Manchester City in the semifinals.

## Association team allocation

A total of 78 teams from 53 of the 55 UEFA member associations participate in the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League (the exceptions being Russia, who are banned from participating due to 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, and Liechtenstein, which does not organise a domestic league). The association ranking based on the UEFA association coefficients is used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:
- Associations 1–4 each have four teams qualify.
- Associations 5–6 each have three teams qualify.
- Associations 7–15 (except Russia) each have two teams qualify.
- Associations 16–55 (except Liechtenstein) each have one team qualify.
- The winners of the 2021–22 UEFA Champions League and 2021–22 UEFA Europa League are each given an additional entry if they do not qualify for the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League through their domestic league.

### Association ranking

For the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League, the associations are allocated places according to their 2021 UEFA association coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 2016–17 to 2020–21.

Apart from the allocation based on the association coefficients, associations may have additional teams participating in the Champions League, as noted below:
- – Additional berth for UEFA Europa League title holders

|Rank|Association|Coeff.|Teams|Notes||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|{| class="wikitable"||||||
||align=right|100.569|align=center rowspan=4|4||
||align=right|97.855||||
||align=right|75.438||||
||align=right|73.570||||
||align=right|56.081|align=center rowspan=2|3||
||align=right|48.549||||
||align=right|39.200|align=center|2||
||align=right|38.382|align=center|0||
||align=right|36.500|align=center rowspan=7|2||
||align=right|35.825||||
||align=right|33.375||||
||align=right|33.100||||
||align=right|30.100||||
||align=right|27.875||||
||align=right|27.750||||
||align=right|26.750|align=center rowspan=4|1||
||align=right|26.600||||
||align=right|26.275||||
||align=right|26.225||}|{| class="wikitable"|
||align=right|26.000|align=center rowspan=13|1||
||align=right|24.375||||
||align=right|21.000||||
||align=right|20.500||||
||align=right|20.375||||
||align=right|18.200||||
||align=right|16.875||||
||align=right|15.625||||
||align=right|15.500||||
||align=right|15.250||||
||align=right|15.125||||
||align=right|14.250||||
||align=right|13.625||||
||align=right|9.000|align=center|0||
||align=right|8.750|align=center rowspan=5|1||
||align=right|8.250||||
||align=right|8.000||||
||align=right|7.875||||
||align=right|7.625||}|{| class="wikitable"|
||align=right|7.375|align=center rowspan=17|1||
||align=right|7.375||||
||align=right|7.250||||
||align=right|6.958||||
||align=right|6.875||||
||align=right|6.875||||
||align=right|6.875||||
||align=right|6.375||||
||align=right|6.125||||
||align=right|5.833||||
||align=right|5.666||||
||align=right|5.000||||
||align=right|5.000||||
||align=right|4.875||||
||align=right|4.750||||
||align=right|3.331||||
||align=right|1.166||}||

### Distribution

The following is the access list for this season.

|colspan=2||Teams entering in this round|Teams advancing from previous round|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|*4 champions from associations 52–55||||
|*29 champions from associations 22–51 (except Liechtenstein)|*1 winner from the preliminary round|||
|*5 champions from associations 17–21|*15 winners from the first qualifying round|||
|*4 runners-up from associations 12–15||||
|*2 champions from associations 15–16|*10 winners from the second qualifying round (Champions Path)|||
|*4 runners-up from associations 7–11 (except Russia) *2 third-placed teams from associations 5–6|*2 winners from the second qualifying round (League Path)|||
|*2 champions from associations 13–14|*6 winners from the third qualifying round (Champions Path)|||
||*4 winners from the third qualifying round (League Path)|||
|*Europa League title holders *11 champions from associations 1–12 (except Russia) *6 runners-up from associations 1–6 *4 third-placed teams from associations 1–4 *4 fourth-placed teams from associations 1–4|*4 winners from the play-off round (Champions Path) *2 winners from the play-off round (League Path)|||
||*8 group winners from the group stage *8 group runners-up from the group stage|||

Due to the suspension of Russia for the 2022–23 European season, and since the Champions League title holders (Real Madrid) have qualified via their domestic league, the following changes to the access list have been made:

- The champions of association 11 (Scotland) and 12 (Ukraine) enter the group stage instead of the play-off round (**Champions Path**).
- The champions of association 13 (Turkey) and 14 (Denmark) enter the play-off round instead of the third qualifying round (**Champions Path**).
- The champions of association 15 (Cyprus) and 16 (Serbia) enter the third qualifying round instead of the second qualifying round (**Champions Path**).
- The champions of associations 18 (Croatia), 19 (Switzerland), 20 (Greece) and 21 (Israel) enter the second qualifying round instead of the first qualifying round (**Champions Path**).
- The runners-up of associations 10 (Austria) and 11 (Scotland) enter the third qualifying round instead of the second qualifying round (**League Path**).

### Teams

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:
- TH: Champions League title holders
- EL: Europa League title holders
- 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc.: League positions of the previous season
- Abd-: League positions of abandoned season as determined by the national association; all teams are subject to approval by UEFA

The second qualifying round, third qualifying round and play-off round are divided into Champions Path (**CH**) and League Path (**LP**).

_CC: 2022 UEFA club coefficients._

|colspan=2|Entry round|colspan=4|Teams|||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="min-width:10em"|Real Madrid <sup>TH</sup>|style="min-width:10em"|Eintracht Frankfurt|style="min-width:10em"|Manchester City|style="min-width:10em"|Liverpool|
|Chelsea|Tottenham Hotspur|Barcelona|Atlético Madrid|||||
|Sevilla|Milan|Inter Milan|Napoli|||||
|Juventus|Bayern Munich|Borussia Dortmund|Bayer Leverkusen|||||
|RB Leipzig|Paris Saint-Germain|Marseille|Porto|||||
|Sporting CP|Ajax|Club Brugge|Red Bull Salzburg|||||
|Celtic|Shakhtar Donetsk|colspan=2||||||
|Trabzonspor|Copenhagen|colspan=2||||||
|Apollon Limassol|Red Star Belgrade|colspan=2||||||
|Monaco|Benfica|PSV Eindhoven|Union Saint-Gilloise|||||
|Sturm Graz|Rangers|colspan=2||||||
|Viktoria Plzeň|Dinamo Zagreb|Zürich|Olympiacos|||||
|Maccabi Haifa|colspan=3|||||||
|Dynamo Kyiv|Fenerbahçe|Midtjylland|AEK Larnaca|||||
|Bodø/Glimt|Malmö FF|Ludogorets Razgrad|CFR Cluj|||||
|Qarabağ|Tobol|Ferencváros|Shakhtyor Soligorsk|||||
|Lech Poznań|Maribor|Slovan Bratislava|Žalgiris|||||
|F91 Dudelange|Zrinjski|Shamrock Rovers|Shkupi|||||
|Pyunik|RFS|Tirana|Linfield|||||
|Dinamo Batumi|HJK|Sheriff Tiraspol|Hibernians|||||
|KÍ|Ballkani|Lincoln Red Imps|Sutjeska Nikšić|||||
|The New Saints|colspan=3|||||||
|Víkingur Reykjavík|FCI Levadia|Inter Club d'Escaldes|La Fiorita|||||
**Notes**

## Schedule

The schedule of the competition is as follows. All matches are played on Tuesdays and Wednesdays apart from the preliminary round final. Scheduled kick-off times starting from the play-off round are 18:45 and 21:00 CEST/CET.

As the 2022 FIFA World Cup takes place in Qatar between 21 November and 18 December 2022, the group stage will commence in the first week of September 2022 and conclude in the first week of November 2022 to make way for the World Cup.

All draws start at 12:00 CEST/CET and are held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.

|Phase|Round|Draw date|First leg|Second leg|||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="4"|Qualifying|Preliminary round|7 June 2022|21 June 2022 (semi-finals)|24 June 2022 (final)||
|First qualifying round|14 June 2022|5–6 July 2022|12–13 July 2022||||
|Second qualifying round|15 June 2022|19–20 July 2022|26–27 July 2022||||
|Third qualifying round|18 July 2022|2–3 August 2022|9 August 2022||||
|Play-offs|Play-off round|1 August 2022|16–17 August 2022|23–24 August 2022|||
|rowspan="6"|Group stage|Matchday 1|rowspan="6"|25 August 2022|colspan="2"|6–7 September 2022|
|Matchday 2|colspan="2"|13–14 September 2022|||||
|Matchday 3|colspan="2"|4–5 October 2022|||||
|Matchday 4|colspan="2"|11–12 October 2022|||||
|Matchday 5|colspan="2"|25–26 October 2022|||||
|Matchday 6|colspan="2"|1–2 November 2022|||||
|rowspan="4"|Knockout phase|Round of 16|7 November 2022|14–15 & 21–22 February 2023|7–8 & 14–15 March 2023||
|Quarter-finals|rowspan="3"|17 March 2023|11–12 April 2023|18–19 April 2023|||
|Semi-finals|9–10 May 2023|16–17 May 2023|||||
|Final|colspan="2"|10 June 2023 at Atatürk Olympic Stadium, Istanbul|||||

## Group stage

The draw for the group stage will be held on 25 August 2022. The 32 teams will be drawn into eight groups of four. For the draw, the teams are seeded into four pots, each of eight teams, based on the following principles:

- Pot 1 contain the Champions League and Europa League title holders, and the champions of the top six associations based on their 2021 UEFA country coefficients. Since the Champions League titleholders, Real Madrid, are also the champions of Association 2 (Spain), the champions of Association 7 (Netherlands), Ajax, will also be seeded into Pot 1.

- Pots 2, 3 and 4 contain the remaining teams, seeded based on their 2022 UEFA club coefficients.

Teams from the same association could not be drawn into the same group.

Eintracht Frankfurt will make their debut appearance in the group stage after winning Europa League. This season is also the first in which five German clubs will play in the group stage.

**Pot 1**
- Real Madrid _CC: 124.000_
- Eintracht Frankfurt _CC: 61.000_
- Manchester City _CC: 134.000_
- Milan _CC: 38.000_
- Bayern Munich _CC: 138.000_
- Paris Saint-Germain _CC: 112.000_
- Porto _CC: 80.000_
- Ajax _CC: 82.500_

**Pot 2**
- Liverpool _CC: 134.000_
- Chelsea _CC: 123.000_
- Barcelona _CC: 114.000_
- Juventus _CC: 107.000_
- Atlético Madrid _CC: 105.000_
- Sevilla _CC: 91.000_
- RB Leipzig _CC: 83.000_
- Tottenham Hotspur _CC: 83.000_

**Pot 3**
- Borussia Dortmund _CC: 78.000_
- Red Bull Salzburg _CC: 71.000_
- Shakhtar Donetsk _CC: 71.000_
- Inter Milan _CC: 67.000_
- Napoli _CC: 66.000_
- Sporting CP _CC: 55.500_
- Bayer Leverkusen _CC: 53.000_
**Pot 3 or 4**
- Marseille _CC: 44.000_
- 2 winners from the play-off round (League Path)
- 4 winners from the play-off round (Champions Path)

**Pot 4**
- Club Brugge _CC: 38.500_
- Celtic _CC: 33.000_

## Final

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The final was played on 10 June 2023 at the Atatürk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul. A draw was held on 17 March 2023, after the quarter-final and semi-final draws, to determine the "home" team for administrative purposes.<section end="F" />

## Infobox (international football competition)

- **tourney name**: UEFA Champions League
- **year**: 2022–23
- **image**: Istanbul Atatürk Olympic Stadium 1.jpg
- **size**: 275
- **caption**: The Atatürk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul hosted the final
- **dates**: _Qualifying:_
21 June – 24 August 2022
_Competition proper:_
6 September 2022 – 10 June 2023
- **num teams**: _Competition proper:_ 32
_Total:_ 78
- **associations**: 53
- **champion other**: Manchester City F.C., Manchester City
- **count**: 1
- **second other**: Inter Milan
- **matches**: 125
- **goals**: 372
- **top scorer**:
12 goals
- **prevseason**: 2021–22 UEFA Champions League, 2021–22
- **nextseason**: 2023–24 UEFA Champions League, 2023–24