2022–23 UEFA Women's Champions League group stage

The 2022–23 UEFA Women's Champions League group stage began on 19 October and ended on 22 December 2022.[1] A total of 16 teams competed in the group stage to decide the eight places in the knockout phase of the 2022–23 UEFA Women's Champions League.[2]

Draw

The draw was held on 3 October and saw the 16 teams split into four pools of four teams.[3][4]

Teams from the same association could not be drawn into the same group. Prior to the draw, UEFA formed one pairing of teams for associations with two or three teams based on television audiences, where one team was drawn into Groups A–B and another team into Groups C–D, so that the two teams played on different days. Clubs from countries with severe winter conditions (Sweden) were assigned a position in their group which allowed them to play away on matchday 6.[7]

Teams

Below are the participating teams (with their 2022 UEFA club coefficients),[6] grouped by their seeding pot. They include:[7]

Key to colours
Group winners and runners-up advanced to Quarter-finals
Pot 1 (by association rank)
Assoc. Team Coeff.
TH & 1 France Lyon 128.666
2 Germany VfL Wolfsburg 102.133
3 England Chelsea 78.200
4 Spain Barcelona 112.233
Pot 2
Team Notes Coeff.
France Paris Saint-Germain [LP] 85.666
Germany Bayern Munich [LP] 84.133
Czech Republic Slavia Prague [CP] 47.766
England Arsenal [LP] 39.200
Pot 3
Team Notes Coeff.
Sweden Rosengård [CP] 38.833
Italy Juventus [CP] 30.900
Spain Real Madrid [LP] 26.233
Austria St. Pölten [CP] 25.700
Pot 4
Team Notes Coeff.
Switzerland Zürich [CP] 22.500
Albania Vllaznia [CP] 14.400
Portugal Benfica [CP] 13.600
Italy Roma [LP] 5.900

Notes

  1. TH Champions League title holders, automatically placed into Pot 1 as top seed. Because the title holders were also the champions of the first-ranked association, the champions of the fourth-ranked association also entered the group stage.
  2. CP Winners of round 2 (Champions Path).
  3. LP Winners of round 2 (League Path).

Format

In each group, teams played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The top two teams of each group advanced to the quarter-finals.

Tiebreakers

Teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If two or more teams were tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (see Article 18 Equality of points – group stage, Regulations of the UEFA Women's Champions League):[2]

  1. Points in head-to-head matches among the tied teams;
  2. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among the tied teams;
  3. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among the tied teams;
  4. If more than two teams were tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams were still tied, all head-to-head criteria above were reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
  5. Goal difference in all group matches;
  6. Goals scored in all group matches;
  7. Away goals scored in all group matches;
  8. Wins in all group matches;
  9. Away wins in all group matches;
  10. Disciplinary points (direct red card = 3 points; double yellow card = 3 points; single yellow card = 1 point);
  11. UEFA club coefficient.

Groups

Times are CET/CEST,[note 1] as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Group A

Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification CHE PAR MAD VLL
1 England Chelsea 6 5 1 0 19 1 +18 16 Advance to Quarter-finals — 3–0 2–0 8–0
2 France Paris Saint-Germain 6 3 1 2 11 5 +6 10 0–1 — 2–1 5–0
3 Spain Real Madrid 6 2 2 2 9 6 +3 8 1–1 0–0 — 5–1
4 Albania Vllaznia 6 0 0 6 1 28 −27 0 0–4 0–4 0–2 —
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Vllaznia Albania0–2Spain Real Madrid
Report
Attendance: 5,400[8]
Referee: Catarina Campos (Portugal)
Paris Saint-Germain France0–1England Chelsea
Report
Attendance: 5,222[9]
Referee: Ewa Augustyn (Poland)
Real Madrid Spain0–0France Paris Saint-Germain
Report
Attendance: 1,544[10]
Chelsea England8–0Albania Vllaznia
 Report
Attendance: 3,022[11]
Referee: Sabina Bolic (Croatia)
Paris Saint-Germain France5–0Albania Vllaznia
 Report
Attendance: 1,643[12]
Referee: Maria Marotta (Italy)
Chelsea England2–0Spain Real Madrid
 Report
Attendance: 3,336[13]
Referee: Maria Sole Caputi (Italy)
Vllaznia Albania0–4France Paris Saint-Germain
Report
Attendance: 900[14]
Referee: Frida Nielsen (Denmark)
Real Madrid Spain1–1England Chelsea
 Report
Attendance: 1,883[15]
Vllaznia Albania0–4England Chelsea
Report
Attendance: 220[16]
Referee: Karoline Wacker (Germany)
Paris Saint-Germain France2–1Spain Real Madrid
 Report Zornoza 81'
Attendance: 16,319[17]
Referee: Lina Lehtovaara (Finland)
Real Madrid Spain5–1Albania Vllaznia
 Report
Attendance: 611[18]
Referee: Zuzana Valentová (Slovakia)
Chelsea England3–0France Paris Saint-Germain
 Report
Attendance: 10,129[19]
Referee: Iuliana Demetrescu (Romania)

Group B

Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification WOL ROM PÖL PRA
1 Germany VfL Wolfsburg 6 4 2 0 19 5 +14 14 Advance to Quarter-finals — 4–2 4–0 0–0
2 Italy Roma 6 4 1 1 16 8 +8 13 1–1 — 5–0 1–0
3 Austria St. Pölten 6 1 1 4 7 22 −15 4 2–8 3–4 — 1–1
4 Czech Republic Slavia Prague 6 0 2 4 1 8 −7 2 0–2 0–3 0–1 —
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
VfL Wolfsburg Germany4–0Austria St. Pölten
 Report
Attendance: 1,706[20]
Referee: Abigail Byrne (England)
Roma Italy1–0Czech Republic Slavia Prague
 Report
Attendance: 2,363[21]
Referee: Volha Tsiareshka (Belarus)
St. Pölten Austria3–4Italy Roma
 Report
Attendance: 2,816[22]
Referee: Tess Olofsson (Sweden)
Slavia Prague Czech Republic0–2Germany VfL Wolfsburg
Report
Attendance: 2,312[23]
Referee: Katalin Sipos (Hungary)
Slavia Prague Czech Republic0–1Austria St. Pölten
Report
Attendance: 645[24]
Referee: Tess Olofsson (Sweden)
Roma Italy1–1Germany VfL Wolfsburg
 Report
Attendance: 3,350[25]
Referee: Jelena Ćetković (Serbia)
VfL Wolfsburg Germany4–2Italy Roma
 Report
Attendance: 2,721[26]
St. Pölten Austria1–1Czech Republic Slavia Prague
 Report
Attendance: 1,447[27]
Referee: Shona Shukrula (Netherlands)
Roma Italy5–0Austria St. Pölten
 Report
Attendance: 1,540[29]
Referee: Cheryl Foster (Wales)
VfL Wolfsburg Germany0–0Czech Republic Slavia Prague
Report
Attendance: 2,315[30]
Referee: Henrikke Nervik (Norway)
Slavia Prague Czech Republic0–3Italy Roma
Report
Attendance: 1,064[31]
Referee: Lizzy van der Helm (Netherlands)
St. Pölten Austria2–8Germany VfL Wolfsburg
 Report
Attendance: 1,312[32]
Referee: Eleni Antoniou (Greece)

Group C

Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification ARS LYO JUV ZÜR
1 England Arsenal 6 4 1 1 19 5 +14 13 Advance to Quarter-finals — 0–1 1–0 3–1
2 France Lyon 6 3 2 1 10 6 +4 11 1–5 — 0–0 4–0
3 Italy Juventus 6 2 3 1 9 3 +6 9 1–1 1–1 — 5–0
4 Switzerland Zürich 6 0 0 6 2 26 −24 0 1–9 0–3 0–2 —
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Zürich Switzerland0–2Italy Juventus
Report
Attendance: 1,840[33]
Referee: Ainara Acevedo (Spain)
Lyon France1–5England Arsenal
 Report
Attendance: 8,012[34]
Referee: Ivana Projkovska (North Macedonia)
Juventus Italy1–1France Lyon
Malard 52' (o.g.) Report Horan 23'
Attendance: 7,331[35]
Arsenal England3–1Switzerland Zürich
 Report
Attendance: 5,397[36]
Zürich Switzerland0–3France Lyon
Report
Attendance: 2,073[37]
Referee: Angelika Söder (Germany)
Juventus Italy1–1England Arsenal
Beerensteyn 52' Report Miedema 61'
Attendance: 8,508[38]
Referee: Iuliana Demetrescu (Romania)
Lyon France4–0Switzerland Zürich
 Report
Attendance: 7,106[39]
Arsenal England1–0Italy Juventus
Miedema 17' Report
Attendance: 6,592[40]
Referee: Ivana Martinčić (Croatia)
Juventus Italy5–0Switzerland Zürich
 Report
Attendance: 3,097[42]
Arsenal England0–1France Lyon
Report Maanum 45+2' (o.g.)
Attendance: 7,711[43]
Zürich Switzerland1–9England Arsenal
Humm 64' (pen.) Report
Attendance: 4,264[44]
Referee: Alina Peşu (Romania)
Lyon France0–0Italy Juventus
Report
Attendance: 11,212[45]

Group D

Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification BAR MUN BEN ROS
1 Spain Barcelona 6 5 0 1 29 6 +23 15[a] Advance to Quarter-finals — 3–0 9–0 6–0
2 Germany Bayern Munich 6 5 0 1 14 7 +7 15[a] 3–1 — 2–0 2–1
3 Portugal Benfica 6 2 0 4 8 21 −13 6 2–6 2–3 — 1–0
4 Sweden Rosengård 6 0 0 6 3 20 −17 0 1–4 0–4 1–3 —
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Notes:
  1. ^ a b Tied on head-to-head points. Head-to-head goal difference: Barcelona +1, Bayern Munich −1.
Bayern Munich Germany2–1Sweden Rosengård
 Report
Attendance: 1,284[46]
Referee: Jelena Cvetković (Serbia)
Barcelona Spain9–0Portugal Benfica
 Report
Attendance: 5,004[47]
Referee: Ionela Peșu (Romania)
Rosengård Sweden1–4Spain Barcelona
 Report
Attendance: 4,812[48]
Referee: Lorraine Watson (Scotland)
Benfica Portugal2–3Germany Bayern Munich
 Report
Attendance: 743[49]
Referee: Eleni Antoniou (Greece)
Barcelona Spain3–0Germany Bayern Munich
 Report
Attendance: 46,967[50]
Referee: Cheryl Foster (Wales)
Benfica Portugal1–0Sweden Rosengård
Lacasse 22' Report
Attendance: 409[51]
Referee: Volha Tsiareshka (Belarus)
Rosengård Sweden1–3Portugal Benfica
Schough 30' Report
Attendance: 1,022[52]
Referee: Ivana Projkovska (North Macedonia)
Bayern Munich Germany3–1Spain Barcelona
 Report Geyse 65'
Attendance: 24,000[53]
Rosengård Sweden0–4Germany Bayern Munich
Report
Attendance: 1,653[54]
Referee: Ewa Augustyn (Poland)
Benfica Portugal2–6Spain Barcelona
 Report
Attendance: 850[55]
Referee: Jelena Cvetković (Serbia)
Barcelona Spain6–0Sweden Rosengård
 Report
Attendance: 28,720[56]
Referee: Désirée Grundbacher (Switzerland)
Bayern Munich Germany2–0Portugal Benfica
Bühl 51', 75' Report
Attendance: 1,840[57]

Notes

  1. ^ CEST (UTC+2) for dates up to 29 October 2022 (matchdays 1–2), and CET (UTC+1) for dates thereafter (matchdays 3–6).
  2. ^ The game was stopped in the first half due to heavy rain and resumed at 20:15.[28]
  3. ^ The kickoff, originally scheduled for 18:45, was delayed due to snowy conditions.[41]

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