2023–24 UEFA Women's Champions League group stage

The 2023–24 UEFA Women's Champions League group stage began on 14 November 2023 and ended on 31 January 2024.[1] A total of 16 teams were competing in the group stage to decide the eight places in the knockout phase of the 2023–24 UEFA Women's Champions League.[2]

Draw

The draw was held on 20 October 2023, and saw the 16 teams split into four pools of four teams.[3]

  • Pot 1 contained the four direct entrants, i.e., the Champions League holders and the champions of the top three associations based on their 2023 UEFA women's country coefficients.[4]
  • Pot 2, 3 and 4 contained the remaining teams, seeded based on their 2023 UEFA women's club coefficients.[5]

Teams from the same association can 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 play 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.[6]

Teams

Below are the participating teams (with their 2023 UEFA club coefficients),[5] grouped by their seeding pot.[6]

Key to colours
Group winners and runners-up advance to quarter-finals
Pot 1 (by association rank)
Assoc. Team Coeff.
TH & 1 Spain Barcelona 126.233
2 France Lyon 118.166
3 Germany Bayern Munich 96.333
4 England Chelsea 81.366
Pot 2
Team Notes Coeff.
France Paris Saint-Germain [LP] 97.166
Czech Republic Slavia Prague [CP] 39.233
Spain Real Madrid [LP] 37.233
Sweden Rosengård [CP] 33.399
Pot 3
Team Notes Coeff.
Austria St. Pölten [CP] 30.050
Portugal Benfica [CP] 22.800
Sweden BK Häcken [LP] 22.399
Italy Roma [CP] 21.000
Pot 4
Team Notes Coeff.
Netherlands Ajax [CP] 18.400
France Paris FC [LP] 18.166
Germany Eintracht Frankfurt [LP] 17.333
Norway Brann [CP] 7.100

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 third-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 are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If two or more teams are tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are 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 are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are 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, as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Group A

Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification BAR BEN FRA ROS
1 Spain Barcelona 6 5 1 0 27 5 +22 16 Advance to quarter-finals — 5–0 2–0 7–0
2 Portugal Benfica 6 2 3 1 9 12 −3 9 4–4 — 1–0 1–0
3 Germany Eintracht Frankfurt 6 2 1 3 9 8 +1 7 1–3 1–1 — 5–0
4 Sweden Rosengård 6 0 1 5 3 23 −20 1 0–6 2–2 1–2 —
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Rosengård Sweden1–2Germany Eintracht Frankfurt
  • Schough 90+4'
 Report
Attendance: 1,014[7]
Barcelona Spain5–0Portugal Benfica
 Report
Attendance: 4,536[8]
Benfica Portugal1–0Sweden Rosengård
 Report
Attendance: 777[9]
Referee: Cheryl Foster (Wales)
Eintracht Frankfurt Germany1–3Spain Barcelona
 Report
Attendance: 16,100[10]
Rosengård Sweden0–6Spain Barcelona
Report
Attendance: 4,122[11]
Benfica Portugal1–0Germany Eintracht Frankfurt
 Report
Attendance: 10,785[12]
Eintracht Frankfurt Germany1–1Portugal Benfica
 Report
Attendance: 10,200[13]
Referee: Frida Klarlund (Denmark)
Barcelona Spain7–0Sweden Rosengård
 Report
Attendance: 5,072[14]
Referee: Eleni Antoniou (Greece)
Rosengård Sweden2–2Portugal Benfica
 Report
Attendance: 789[15]
Referee: Ivana Martinčić (Croatia)
Barcelona Spain2–0Germany Eintracht Frankfurt
 Report
Attendance: 4,842[16]
Referee: Deborah Anex (Switzerland)
Benfica Portugal4–4Spain Barcelona
 Report
Attendance: 2,307[17]
Referee: Emanuela Rusta (Albania)
Eintracht Frankfurt Germany5–0Sweden Rosengård
 Report
Attendance: 5,100[18]

Group B

Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification LYO BRA PRA PÖL
1 France Lyon 6 4 2 0 25 5 +20 14 Advance to quarter-finals — 3–1 2–2 2–0
2 Norway Brann 6 4 1 1 9 7 +2 13 2–2 — 1–0 2–1
3 Czech Republic Slavia Prague 6 1 2 3 3 13 −10 5 0–9 0–1 — 1–0
4 Austria St. Pölten 6 0 1 5 2 14 −12 1 0–7 1–2 0–0 —
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
St. Pölten Austria1–2Norway Brann
 Report
Attendance: 1,034[19]
Slavia Prague Czech Republic0–9France Lyon
Report
Attendance: 2,728[20]
Referee: Eleni Antoniou (Greece)
Lyon France2–0Austria St. Pölten
 Report
Attendance: 6,076[21]
Referee: Sandra Bastos (Portugal)
Brann Norway1–0Czech Republic Slavia Prague
 Report
Attendance: 8,589[22]
Referee: Alina Peşu (Romania)
St. Pölten Austria0–0Czech Republic Slavia Prague
Report
Attendance: 762[23]
Referee: Catarina Campos (Portugal)
Lyon France3–1Norway Brann
 Report
Attendance: 6,581[24]
Brann Norway2–2France Lyon
 Report
Attendance: 3,700[25]
Referee: Volha Blotskaya (Belarus)
Slavia Prague Czech Republic1–0Austria St. Pölten
Khýrová 56' Report
Attendance: 204[28]
Referee: Ivana Projkovska (North Macedonia)
Slavia Prague Czech Republic0–1Norway Brann
Report Lukášová 65' (o.g.)
Attendance: 464[29]
St. Pölten Austria0–7France Lyon
Report
Attendance: 1,098[30]
Referee: Silvia Gasperotti (Italy)
Lyon France2–2Czech Republic Slavia Prague
 Report
Attendance: 10,734[31]
Brann Norway2–1Austria St. Pölten
 Report
Attendance: 2,738[32]

Group C

Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification PSG AJA BAY ROM
1 France Paris Saint-Germain 6 3 1 2 10 8 +2 10 Advance to quarter-finals — 3–1 0–1 2–1
2 Netherlands Ajax 6 3 1 2 7 8 −1 10 2–0 — 1–0 2–1
3 Germany Bayern Munich 6 1 4 1 8 8 0 7 2–2 1–1 — 2–2
4 Italy Roma 6 1 2 3 10 11 −1 5 1–3 3–0 2–2 —
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Bayern Munich Germany2–2Italy Roma
 Report
Attendance: 2,500[33]
Ajax Netherlands2–0France Paris Saint-Germain
 Report
Attendance: 13,106[34]
Paris Saint-Germain France0–1Germany Bayern Munich
Report
Attendance: 3,669[35]
Roma Italy3–0Netherlands Ajax
 Report
Attendance: 2,583[36]
Referee: Ewa Augustyn (Poland)
Bayern Munich Germany1–1Netherlands Ajax
 Report
Attendance: 2,500[37]
Paris Saint-Germain France2–1Italy Roma
 Report
Attendance: 4,072
Referee: Iuliana Demetrescu (Romania)
Roma Italy1–3France Paris Saint-Germain
 Report
Attendance: 2,626[38]
Referee: Ivana Martinčić (Croatia)
Ajax Netherlands1–0Germany Bayern Munich
 Report
Attendance: 20,413[39]
Referee: Cheryl Foster (Wales)
Roma Italy2–2Germany Bayern Munich
 Report
Attendance: 2,193[40]
Referee: Frida Klarlund (Denmark)
Paris Saint-Germain France3–1Netherlands Ajax
 Report
Attendance: 6,888[41]
Bayern Munich Germany2–2France Paris Saint-Germain
 Report
Attendance: 4,000[42]
Referee: Ewa Augustyn (Poland)
Ajax Netherlands2–1Italy Roma
 Report
Attendance: 15,500[43]

Group D

Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification CHE HAC PFC RMA
1 England Chelsea 6 4 2 0 15 5 +10 14 Advance to quarter-finals — 0–0 4–1 2–1
2 Sweden BK Häcken 6 3 2 1 6 5 +1 11 1–3 — 0–0 2–1
3 France Paris FC 6 2 1 3 5 11 −6 7 0–4 1–2 — 2–1
4 Spain Real Madrid 6 0 1 5 5 10 −5 1 2–2 0–1 0–1 —
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Paris FC France1–2Sweden BK Häcken
 Report
Attendance: 1,746[44]
Referee: Catarina Campos (Portugal)
Real Madrid Spain2–2England Chelsea
 Report
Attendance: 2,913[45]
Referee: Frida Klarlund (Denmark)
BK Häcken Sweden2–1Spain Real Madrid
 Report
Attendance: 4,897[46]
Referee: Ivana Projkovska (North Macedonia)
Chelsea England4–1France Paris FC
 Report
Attendance: 3,450[47]
Referee: Ivana Martinčić (Croatia)
Paris FC France2–1Spain Real Madrid
 Report
Attendance: 10,693[48]
Chelsea England0–0Sweden BK Häcken
Report
Attendance: 3,300[49]
Real Madrid Spain0–1France Paris FC
Report
Attendance: 1,596[50]
Referee: Alina Peşu (Romania)
BK Häcken Sweden1–3England Chelsea
 Report
Attendance: 5,566[51]
Referee: Ewa Augustyn (Poland)
BK Häcken Sweden0–0France Paris FC
Report
Attendance: 3,064[52]
Referee: Iuliana Demetrescu (Romania)
Chelsea England2–1Spain Real Madrid
 Report
Attendance: 11,262[53]
Referee: Catarina Campos (Portugal)
Real Madrid Spain0–1Sweden BK Häcken
Report
Attendance: 862[54]
Paris FC France0–4England Chelsea
Report
Attendance: 13,274[55]
Referee: Ivana Projkovska (North Macedonia)

Notes

  1. ^ The match, originally scheduled for 21 December 2023, was postponed due to the 2023 Prague shooting.[26]
  2. ^ a b Slavia played their two last home matches at Městský stadion in Mladá Boleslav, instead of their regular stadium, Fortuna Arena, in Prague, due to a new turf being laid.[27]

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