The 2022–23 UEFA Women's Champions League was the 22nd edition of the European women's club football championship organised by UEFA, and the 14th edition since being rebranded as the UEFA Women's Champions League. It was the second edition to feature a 16-team group stage.[2]
 The Philips Stadion in Eindhoven hosted the final. | |
| Tournament details | |
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| Dates | Qualifying rounds: 18 August – 29 September 2022 Competition proper: 19 October 2022 – 3 June 2023 |
| Teams | Competition proper: 16 Total: 71 (from 50 associations) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  Barcelona (2nd title) |
| Runners-up |  VfL Wolfsburg |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 61 |
| Goals scored | 211 (3.46 per match) |
| Attendance | 681,175 (11,167 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) | Ewa Pajor (VfL Wolfsburg) (9 goals) |
| Best player(s) | Aitana Bonmatí (Barcelona)[1] |
| Best young player | Lena Oberdorf (VfL Wolfsburg) |
← 2021–22 2023–24 → | |
The final was held at the Philips Stadion in Eindhoven, Netherlands. The winners of the 2022–23 UEFA Women's Champions League automatically qualified for the 2023–24 UEFA Women's Champions League group stage.
Lyon were the defending champions, having won a record-extending eighth title after winning the 2022 final. They were unable to defend their title after being defeated by Chelsea in the quarter-finals.
Barcelona won their second title by defeating VfL Wolfsburg 3–2 in the final.[3]
Association team allocation
editThe association ranking based on the UEFA women's Association coefficients was used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:[4][5]
- Associations 1–6 each had three teams qualify.
- Associations 7–16 each had two teams qualify.
- All other associations (except Russia),[Note RUS] if they entered, each have one team qualify.
- The winners of the 2021–22 UEFA Women's Champions League were given an additional entry if they did not qualify for the 2022–23 UEFA Women's Champions League through their domestic league.
An association must have an eleven-a-side women's domestic league to enter a team. As of 2019–20, 52 of the 55 UEFA member associations organize a women's domestic league, with the exceptions being Andorra (1 club in Spain), Liechtenstein (3 clubs in Switzerland) and San Marino (1 club in Italy).
Association ranking
editFor the 2022–23 UEFA Women's Champions League, the associations were allocated places according to their 2021 UEFA Women's Association coefficients, which took into account their performance in European competitions from 2016–2017 to 2020–2021.[6]
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- NR – No rank (association did not enter in any of the seasons used for computing coefficients)
- DNE – Did not enter
- NL – No women's domestic league
Distribution
edit| Path | Teams entering in this round | Teams advancing from previous round | |
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| Round 1 (Mini-Tournament) |
Champions Path (42 Teams) |
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| League Path (16 Teams) |
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| Round 2 | Champions Path (14 Teams) |
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| League Path (10 Teams) |
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| Group Stage (16 Teams) |
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| Knockout Stage (8 Teams) |
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Teams
editThe labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:
- TH: Title holders
- 1st, second, third: League positions of the previous season
- Abd-: League positions of abandoned season as determined by the national association
The two qualifying rounds, round 1 and round 2, were divided into Champions Path (CP) and League Path (LP).
CC: 2022 UEFA women's club coefficients.[7]
Notes
- ^ Russia (RUS): On 28 February 2022, Russian football clubs and national teams were suspended from FIFA and UEFA competitions due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[8] On 2 May 2022, UEFA confirmed that Russian clubs would be excluded from the 2022–23 UEFA competitions.[9]
- ^ Ukraine (UKR): The 2021–22 Ukrainian Women's League was abandoned due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine (24 February 2022).[10] The top team of the league at the time of the abandonment (mid-season), Vorskla Poltava, were selected to play in the 2022–23 UEFA Women's Champions League by the Ukrainian Association of Football, entering round 1.[11]
Schedule
editThe schedule of the competition was as follows.[2]
| Phase | Round | Draw date | First leg | Second leg |
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| Qualifying | First round | 24 June 2022 | 18 August 2022 (semi-finals) | 21 August 2022 (third-place play-off & final) |
| Second round | 1 September 2022 | 20–21 September 2022 | 28–29 September 2022 | |
| Group stage | Matchday 1 | 3 October 2022 | 19–20 October 2022 | |
| Matchday 2 | 26–27 October 2022 | |||
| Matchday 3 | 23–24 November 2022 | |||
| Matchday 4 | 7–8 December 2022 | |||
| Matchday 5 | 15–16 December 2022 | |||
| Matchday 6 | 21–22 December 2022 | |||
| Knockout phase | Quarter-finals | 10 February 2023[12] | 21–22 March 2023 | 29–30 March 2023 |
| Semi-finals | 22–23 April 2023 | 27 April, 1 May 2023 | ||
| Final | 3 June 2023 at Philips Stadion, Eindhoven | |||
Qualifying rounds
editRound 1
editThe draw for Round 1 was held on 24 June 2022.[13] A total of 58 teams played in Round 1.
Champions Path
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Hosted by Pomurje.
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Hosted by PAOK.
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Hosted by Split.
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Hosted by Apollon Limassol.
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Hosted by UKS SMS Łódź.
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Hosted by Juventus.
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Hosted by U Olimpia Cluj.
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Hosted by Twente.
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Hosted by Ljuboten.
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Hosted by Breznica.
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- Tournament 11
Hosted by Spartak Subotica.
| Semi-finals | Final | |||||
| 18 August | ||||||
 Brann | 1 | |||||
| 21 August | ||||||
 ALG Spor | 0 | |||||
| Brann | 3 | |||||
 Spartak Subotica | 1 | |||||
League Path
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Hosted by Glasgow City.
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Hosted by Rosenborg.
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Hosted by Fortuna Hjørring.
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Hosted by Real Madrid.
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Round 2
editThe draw for Round 2 was held on 1 September 2022.[14][15] The first legs were played on 20 and 21 September 2022, and the second legs were played on 28 and 29 September 2022.
The winners of the ties advanced to the group stage.
| Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Vorskla Poltava 
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2–3 |  Vllaznia
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1–1 | 1–2 |
SFK 2000 
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0–10 |  Zürich
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0–7 | 0–3 |
Rangers 
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3–5 |  Benfica
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2–3 | 1–2 (a.e.t.) |
KuPS 
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2–3 |  St. Pölten
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0–1 | 2–2 (a.e.t.) |
Valur 
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0–1 |  Slavia Prague
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0–1 | 0–0 |
| Brann
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2–4 |  Rosengård
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1–1 | 1–3 |
HB Køge 
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1–3 |  Juventus
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1–1 | 0–2 |
| Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Arsenal 
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3–2 |  Ajax
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2–2 | 1–0 |
Paris Saint-Germain 
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4–1 | BK Häcken
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2–1 | 2–0 |
| Real Sociedad
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1–4 | Bayern Munich
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0–1 | 1–3 |
| Rosenborg
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1–5 | Real Madrid
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0–3 | 1–2 |
| Sparta Prague
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2–6 | Roma
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1–2 | 1–4 |
Group stage
editThe draw was held 3 October 2022 and saw the 16 teams split into four pools of four teams.[16][17]
London
Location of teams of the 2022–23 UEFA Women's Champions League group stage.
Brown: Group A; 
Red: Group B; 
Orange: Group C; 
Yellow: Group D.
Brown: Group A; 
Red: Group B; 
Orange: Group C; 
Yellow: Group D.Group A
edit| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | CHE | PAR | MAD | VLL | |
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| 1 | Chelsea
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6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 19 | 1 | +18 | 16 | Advance to Quarter-finals | — | 3–0 | 2–0 | 8–0 | |
| 2 | Paris Saint-Germain
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6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 5 | +6 | 10 | 0–1 | — | 2–1 | 5–0 | ||
| 3 | Real Madrid
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6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 6 | +3 | 8 | 1–1 | 0–0 | — | 5–1 | ||
| 4 | Vllaznia
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6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 28 | −27 | 0 | 0–4 | 0–4 | 0–2 | — |
Group B
edit| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | WOL | ROM | PÖL | PRA | |
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| 1 | VfL Wolfsburg
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6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 19 | 5 | +14 | 14 | Advance to Quarter-finals | — | 4–2 | 4–0 | 0–0 | |
| 2 | Roma
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6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 8 | +8 | 13 | 1–1 | — | 5–0 | 1–0 | ||
| 3 | St. Pölten
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6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 22 | −15 | 4 | 2–8 | 3–4 | — | 1–1 | ||
| 4 | Slavia Prague
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6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 8 | −7 | 2 | 0–2 | 0–3 | 0–1 | — |
Group C
edit| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | ARS | LYO | JUV | ZÜR | |
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| 1 | Arsenal
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6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 5 | +14 | 13 | Advance to Quarter-finals | — | 0–1 | 1–0 | 3–1 | |
| 2 | Lyon
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6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 6 | +4 | 11 | 1–5 | — | 0–0 | 4–0 | ||
| 3 | Juventus
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6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 3 | +6 | 9 | 1–1 | 1–1 | — | 5–0 | ||
| 4 | Zürich
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6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 26 | −24 | 0 | 1–9 | 0–3 | 0–2 | — |
Group D
edit| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | BAR | MUN | BEN | ROS | |
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| 1 | Barcelona
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6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 29 | 6 | +23 | 15[a] | Advance to Quarter-finals | — | 3–0 | 9–0 | 6–0 | |
| 2 | Bayern Munich
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6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 7 | +7 | 15[a] | 3–1 | — | 2–0 | 2–1 | ||
| 3 | Benfica
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6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 21 | −13 | 6 | 2–6 | 2–3 | — | 1–0 | ||
| 4 | Rosengård
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6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 20 | −17 | 0 | 1–4 | 0–4 | 1–3 | — |
Knockout phase
editIn the knockout phase, teams played against each other over two legs on a home-and-away basis, except for the one-match final. The mechanism of the draws for each round was as follows:
- In the draw for the quarter-finals, the four group winners were seeded, and the four group runners-up were unseeded. The seeded teams were drawn against the unseeded teams, and the seeded teams hosted the second leg. Teams from the same group could not be drawn against each other.
- A draw was also held to determine which semi-final winner was designated as the "home" team for the final (for administrative purposes as it was played at a neutral venue).
Bracket
edit| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final (3 June – Eindhoven) | |||||||||||||
| Lyon
| 0 | 2 | 2 (3) | ||||||||||||
| Chelsea (p)
| 1 | 1 | 2 (4) | ||||||||||||
| Chelsea
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| Barcelona
| 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Roma
| 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Barcelona
| 1 | 5 | 6 | ||||||||||||
| Barcelona
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| VfL Wolfsburg
| 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Paris Saint-Germain
| 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| VfL Wolfsburg
| 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||
| VfL Wolfsburg (a.e.t.)
| 2 | 3 | 5 | ||||||||||||
| Arsenal
| 2 | 2 | 4 | ||||||||||||
| Bayern Munich
| 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Arsenal
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Quarter-finals
editThe draw for the quarter-finals was held on 10 February 2023.[18] The first legs were played on 21 and 22 March, and the second legs were played on 29 and 30 March 2023.
| Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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| Bayern Munich
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1–2 | Arsenal
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1–0 | 0–2 |
| Lyon
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2–2 (3–4 p) | Chelsea
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0–1 | 2–1 (a.e.t.) |
| Roma
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1–6 | Barcelona
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0–1 | 1–5 |
| Paris Saint-Germain
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1–2 | VfL Wolfsburg
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0–1 | 1–1 |
Semi-finals
editThe draw for the semi-finals was held on 10 February 2023 (after the quarter-final draw).[18] The first legs were played on 22 and 23 April, and the second legs were played on 27 April and 1 May 2023.
| Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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| VfL Wolfsburg
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5–4 | Arsenal
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2–2 | 3–2 (a.e.t.) |
| Chelsea
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1–2 | Barcelona
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0–1 | 1–1 |
Final
editThe final was played on 3 June 2023 at the Philips Stadion, Eindhoven. A draw was held on 10 February 2023 (after the quarter-final and semi-final draws), to determine which semi-final winner would be designated as the "home" team for administrative purposes.
Statistics
editStatistics exclude qualifying rounds.
Top goalscorers
edit| Rank | Player | Team | Goals[20] |
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| 1 |  Ewa Pajor
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VfL Wolfsburg
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| 2 |  Cloé Lacasse
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Benfica
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5 |
 Sam Kerr
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Chelsea
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| Stina Blackstenius
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Arsenal
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| Frida Maanum
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Arsenal
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 Asisat Oshoala
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Barcelona
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| Aitana Bonmatí
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Barcelona
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| 8 | Mariona Caldentey
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Barcelona
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| Kadidiatou Diani
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Paris Saint-Germain
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| Caitlin Foord
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Arsenal
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 Geyse
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Barcelona
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| Valentina Giacinti
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Roma
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| Cristiana Girelli
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Juventus
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| Patricia Guijarro
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Barcelona
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| Melvine Malard
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Lyon
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| Fridolina Rolfö
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Barcelona
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Team of the season
editThe UEFA technical study group selected the following players as the team of the tournament.[21]
| Pos. | Player | Team |
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| GK | Merle Frohms
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VfL Wolfsburg
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| DF | Lucy Bronze
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Barcelona
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| Irene Paredes
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Barcelona
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| Mapi León
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Barcelona
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 Katie McCabe
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Arsenal
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| MF | Aitana Bonmatí
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Barcelona
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| Lena Oberdorf
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VfL Wolfsburg
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| Patricia Guijarro
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Barcelona
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| FW | Caroline Graham Hansen
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Barcelona
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| Alexandra Popp
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VfL Wolfsburg
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| Ewa Pajor
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VfL Wolfsburg
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Player of the season
editYoung player of the season
editSee also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Aitana Bonmatí named 2022/23 UEFA Women's Champions League Player of the Season". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 5 June 2023. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
- ^ a b "Womens Champions league dates access list full guide". UEFA. 3 May 2022.
- ^ Barton, Aaron (3 June 2023). "Barcelona 3-2 Wolfsburg: Barça win Champions League for second time with stunning fightback from 2-0 down". Eurosport. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
- ^ "2021/22 Women's Champions League: dates, access list, full guide". UEFA. 6 October 2020. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
- ^ "Regulations of the UEFA Women's Champions League, 2022/23 Season". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 1 May 2022. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
- ^ "Women's association club coefficients 2019/20". UEFA. 24 September 2020. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
- ^ "Women's club coefficients 2021/22". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations.
- ^ "Ukraine crisis: Fifa and Uefa suspend all Russian clubs and national teams". bbc.co.uk. British Broadcasting Corporation. 28 February 2022. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
- ^ "Uefa announces further sanctions on Russian clubs and national teams amid Ukraine invasion". British Broadcasting Corporation. 2 May 2022.
- ^ "ОФІЦІЙНО. РІШЕННЯ ВИКОНАВЧОГО КОМІТЕТУ УКРАЇНСЬКОЇ АСОЦІАЦІЇ ФУТБОЛУ ЩОДО ЗМАГАНЬ У СЕЗОНІ-2021/2022". uaf.ua. Ukrainian Association of Football. 8 May 2022. Retrieved 8 June 2022.
- ^ "ОФІЦІЙНО. ЧЕМПІОНАТИ ВИЩОЇ ТА ПЕРШОЇ ЛІГ СЕРЕД ЖІНОЧИХ КЛУБІВ ДОСТРОКОВО ЗАВЕРШЕНІ". womensfootball.com.ua. All-Ukrainian Association of Women Football. 10 May 2022. Retrieved 8 June 2022.
- ^ "Women's Champions League quarter-final and semi-final draw". 10 February 2023.
- ^ "Women's Champions League round 1 draw: See the ties". UEFA. 24 June 2022.
- ^ "Women's Champions League round 2 draw". UEFA. 24 June 2022.
- ^ "Women's Champions League round 2 draw: Arsenal-Ajax, Real Sociedad-Bayern, Rangers-Benfica". UEFA. 1 September 2022.
- ^ "Women's Champions League group stage draw". UEFA. 28 September 2022.
- ^ "Women's Champions League group stage draw: Holders Lyon get Arsenal and Juventus, Paris drawn with Real Madrid and Chelsea". UEFA. 3 October 2022.
- ^ a b "Women's Champions League quarter-final and semi-final draw". Union of European Football Associations. 10 February 2023. Archived from the original on 18 February 2023. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
- ^ "Barcelona 3–2 Wolfsburg: Blaugrana comeback seals second Women's Champions League final win3". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 3 June 2023. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
- ^ "UEFA Women's Champions League – Top Scorers". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
- ^ "2022/23 Women's Champions League Team of the Season". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 5 June 2023. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
- ^ "Lena Oberdorf named 2022/23 UEFA Women's Champions League Young Player of the Season". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 5 June 2023. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
External links
edit- Official website
- Women's Domestic Leagues, UEFA.com