UEFA Champions League 1

The UEFA Champions League 1 Final will be played at the Wembley Stadium in London.

The winners of the UEFA Champions League 1 will qualify as the UEFA representative at the FIFA Club World Cup 1.

## Association team allocation

A total of 79 teams from 54 of the 55 UEFA member associations participate in the first UEFA Champions League (the exception being Liechtenstein, which does not organise a domestic league), The association ranking based on the UEFA country coefficients is used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:

* Associations 1–3 each have four teams qualify.
* Associations 4–6 each have three teams qualify.
* Associations 7–15 each have two teams qualify.
* Associations 16–55 (except Liechtenstein) each have one team qualify.

### Association ranking

For the UEFA Champions League 1, the associations are allocated places according to their UEFA country coefficients.

Apart from the allocation based on the country coefficients, associations may have additional teams participating in the Champions League, as noted below:

### Distribution

 Third qualifying round
 League Route(10 teams)
* 1 third-placed team from association 6
 League Route(10 teams)
* 3 fourth-placed teams from associations 1–3
 Group stage(32 teams)
* 6 runners-up from associations 1–6
* 3 third-placed teams from associations 1–3
* Europa League title holders
 Knockout phase(16 teams)
* 8 group runners-up from the group stage

### Teams

League positions of the previous season shown in parentheses (TH: Champions League title holders; EL: Europa League title holders).

## Group stage

*Main article: UEFA Champions League 1 Group stage*

The 32 qualified teams were drawn into eight groups of four, with the restriction that teams from the same association could not be drawn against each other. For the draw, the teams were seeded into four pots based on the following principles (introduced starting season 1/2):

* Pot 1 contained the champions of the top eight associations based on their UEFA country coefficients.
* Pot 2, 3 and 4 contained the remaining teams, seeded based on their UEFA club coefficients.

In each group, teams play against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The group winners and runners-up advance to the round of 16, while the third-placed teams enter the UEFA Europa League round of 32.

1. higher number of points obtained in the group matches played among the teams in question;
2. superior goal difference from the group matches played among the teams in question;
3. higher number of goals scored in the group matches played among the teams in question;
4. higher number of goals scored away from home in the group matches played among the teams in question;
5. if, after having applied criteria 1 to 4, teams still have an equal ranking, criteria 1 to 4 are reapplied exclusively to the matches between the teams in question to determine their final rankings. If this procedure does not lead to a decision, criteria 6 to 12 apply;
6. superior goal difference in all group matches;
7. higher number of goals scored in all group matches;
8. higher number of away goals scored in all group matches;
9. higher number of wins in all group matches;
10. higher number of away wins in all group matches;
11. lower disciplinary points total based only on yellow and red cards received in all group matches (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
12. higher club coefficient.

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