2018–19 UEFA Women's Champions League

A maximum of 68 teams from 55 UEFA member associations were eligible to participate in the 2018–19 UEFA Women's Champions League. The association ranking based on the UEFA league coefficient for women was used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:^[4]

• Associations 1–12 each had two teams qualify.
• All other associations, should they enter, each had one team qualify.
• The winners of the 2017–18 UEFA Women's Champions League were given an additional entry if they did not qualify for the 2018–19 UEFA Women's Champions League through their domestic league.

For the 2018–19 UEFA Women's Champions League, the associations were allocated places according to their 2017 UEFA league coefficients for women, which took into account their performance in European competitions from 2012–13 to 2016–17.^[5]

For the first time Switzerland had two entries, replacing Scotland in the top 12 associations.^[6]

Association ranking for 2018–19 UEFA Women's Champions League

Rank Association Coeff. Teams 1  Germany 86.000 2 2  France 80.000 3  Sweden 61.500 4  England 53.000 5  Spain 44.000 6  Denmark 38.500 7  Italy 37.000 8  Russia 35.500 9  Switzerland 33.000 10  Czech Republic 33.000 11  Austria 28.000 12  Norway 27.500 13  Scotland 26.000 1 14  Netherlands 25.000 15  Kazakhstan 21.000 16  Poland 20.000 17  Cyprus 18.000 18  Iceland 17.000 19  Serbia 15.500

Rank Association Coeff. Teams 20  Romania 15.000 1 21  Hungary 14.000 22  Belgium 13.500 23  Bosnia and Herzegovina 13.000 24  Lithuania 12.000 25  Turkey 12.000 26  Slovenia 11.000 27  Finland 11.000 28  Portugal 10.500 29  Belarus 10.000 30  Ukraine 9.500 31  Greece 8.500 32  Republic of Ireland 8.500 33  Croatia 7.500 34  Israel 7.000 35  Estonia 5.500 36  Bulgaria 5.000 37  Slovakia 4.500

Rank Association Coeff. Teams 38  Faroe Islands 3.000 1 39  Northern Ireland 3.000 40  Wales 2.000 41  Montenegro 1.500 42  Albania 1.500 43  Kosovo 1.000 44  Latvia 1.000 45  Macedonia 1.000 46  Moldova 0.500 47  Malta 0.500 48  Luxembourg 0.000 DNE NR  Andorra —  Armenia —  Azerbaijan —  Georgia — 1  Gibraltar — DNE  Liechtenstein —  San Marino —

Notes

• TH – Additional berth for title holders
• NR – No rank (association did not enter in any of the seasons used for computing coefficients)
• DNE – Did not enter

The format of the competition remained unchanged from previous years, starting from the qualifying round (played as mini-tournaments with four teams in each group), followed by the knockout phase starting from the round of 32 (played as home-and-away two-legged ties except for the one-match final).

Unlike the men's Champions League, not every association entered a team, and so the exact number of teams entering in each round (qualifying round and round of 32) could not be determined until the full entry list was known. In general, the title holders, the champions of the top 12 associations, and the runners-up of highest-ranked associations (exact number depending on the number of entries) received a bye to the round of 32. All other teams (runners-up of lowest-ranked associations and champions of associations starting from 13th) entered the qualifying round, with the group winners and a maximum of two best runners-up advancing to the round of 32.^[7]

A total of 60 teams from 48 associations entered the competition, with the entries confirmed by UEFA on 8 June 2018.^[8] An association must have an eleven-a-side women's domestic league (or in special circumstances, a women's domestic cup) to enter a team. Among the entrants:^[9]

• 20 teams entered the round of 32: the champions and runners-up from associations 1–8 (including title holders Lyon) and the champions from associations 9–12.
• 40 teams entered the qualifying round: the runners-up from associations 9–12 and the champions from the 36 associations ranked 13 or lower.

As KÍ Klaksvík failed to win the Faroe Islands league, their streak of having participated in every edition of the UEFA Women's Cup/Champions League have ended after 17 seasons.

Legend

• TH: Women's Champions League title holders
• CH: Domestic league champions
• RU: Domestic league runners-up

Qualified teams for 2018–19 UEFA Women's Champions League

Entry round	Teams
Round of 32	VfL Wolfsburg (CH)[10]	Bayern Munich (RU)[11]	LyonTH (CH)[12]	Paris Saint-Germain (RU)[13]
	Linköping (CH)[14]	Rosengård (RU)[15]	Chelsea (CH)[16]	Manchester City (RU)[17]
	Atlético Madrid (CH)[18]	Barcelona (RU)[18]	Fortuna Hjørring (CH)[19]	Brøndby (RU)[19]
	Juventus (CH)[20]	Fiorentina (3rd)[Note ITA]	Zvezda-2005 Perm (CH)[21]	Ryazan-VDV (RU)[22]
	Spartak Subotica (CH)[23]	Sparta Praha (CH)[24]	St. Pölten (CH)[25]	LSK Kvinner (CH)[26]
Qualifying round	Basel (RU)[27]	Slavia Praha (RU)[24]	Landhaus Wien (RU)[28]	Avaldsnes (RU)[29]
	Glasgow City (CH)[30]	Ajax (CH)[31]	BIIK Kazygurt (CH)[32]	Górnik Łęczna (CH)[33]
	Barcelona FA (CH)[34]	Þór/KA (CH)[35]	Spartak Subotica (CH)[36]	Olimpia Cluj (CH)[37]
	MTK Hungária (CH)[38]	Anderlecht (CH)[39]	SFK 2000 (CH)[40]	Gintra Universitetas (CH)[41]
	Ataşehir Belediyespor (CH)[42]	Olimpija Ljubljana (CH)[43]	Honka (CH)[44]	Sporting CP (CH)[45]
	FC Minsk (CH)[46]	Zhytlobud-1 Kharkiv (CH)[47]	Elpides Karditsas (RU)[Note GRE]	Wexford Youths (CH)[48]
	Osijek (CH)[49]	Kiryat Gat (CH)[50]	Pärnu (CH)[51]	NSA Sofia (CH)[52]
	Slovan Bratislava (CH)[53]	EB/Streymur/Skála (CH)[54]	Linfield (CH)[55]	Cardiff Met. (CH)[56]
	Breznica Pljevlja (CH)[57]	Vllaznia (CH)[58]	Mitrovica (CH)[59]	Rīgas FS (CH)[60]
	Dragon 2014 (CH)[61]	Agarista-ȘS Anenii Noi (CH)[Note MDA]	Birkirkara (CH)[62]	Martve (CH)[63]

Notes

UEFA has scheduled the competition as follows (all draws were held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland).^[69]

The draw of the qualifying round was held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland on 22 June 2018, 13:30 CEST.^[71][72] The teams were allocated into four seeding positions based on their UEFA club coefficients at the beginning of the season.^[73] They were drawn into groups of four containing one team from each of the four seeding positions. First, the teams which were pre-selected as hosts were drawn from their own designated pot and allocated to their respective group as per their seeding positions. Next, the remaining teams were drawn from their respective pot which were allocated according to their seeding positions.^[8]

In each group, teams played against each other in a round-robin mini-tournament at the pre-selected hosts. The group winners and the two runners-up with the best record against the teams finishing first and third in their group advanced to the round of 32 to join the 20 teams which received a bye.

The matches were played on 7, 10 and 13 August 2018.

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		AJA	ÞKA	WEX	LIN
1	Ajax	3	2	1	0	6	1	+5	7	Round of 32		—	—	4–1	2–0
2	Þór/KA	3	2	1	0	5	0	+5	7			0–0	—	—	2–0
3	Wexford Youths	3	1	0	2	4	9	−5	3			—	0–3	—	—
4	Linfield (H)	3	0	0	3	2	7	−5	0			—	—	2–3	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		BAR	MIN	SLO	LJU
1	Barcelona FA	3	3	0	0	10	0	+10	9	Round of 32		—	2–0	2–0	—
2	FC Minsk	3	2	0	1	7	2	+5	6			—	—	1–0	6–0
3	Slovan Bratislava	3	1	0	2	1	3	−2	3			—	—	—	1–0
4	Olimpija Ljubljana (H)	3	0	0	3	0	13	−13	0			0–6	—	—	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		GLA	AND	GÓR	MAR
1	Glasgow City (H)	3	2	0	1	10	2	+8	6[a]	Round of 32		—	1–2	—	7–0
2	Anderlecht	3	2	0	1	12	2	+10	6[a]			—	—	0–1	—
3	Górnik Łęczna	3	2	0	1	13	2	+11	6[a]			0–2	—	—	12–0
4	Martve	3	0	0	3	0	29	−29	0			—	0–10	—	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		SLA	MTK	ATA	MIT
1	Slavia Praha	3	3	0	0	15	3	+12	9	Round of 32		—	—	7–2	4–0
2	MTK Hungária (H)	3	1	1	1	9	7	+2	4			1–4	—	—	6–1
3	Ataşehir Belediyespor	3	1	1	1	10	10	0	4			—	2–2	—	—
4	Mitrovica	3	0	0	3	2	16	−14	0			—	—	1–6	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		SUB	BAS	KIR	BRE
1	Spartak Subotica	3	3	0	0	10	0	+10	9	Round of 32		—	—	1–0	4–0
2	Basel	3	2	0	1	7	5	+2	6			0–5	—	—	4–0
3	Kiryat Gat	3	0	1	2	4	8	−4	1			—	0–3	—	—
4	Breznica Pljevlja (H)	3	0	1	2	4	12	−8	1			—	—	4–4	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		KHA	CLU	CAR	BIR
1	Zhytlobud-1 Kharkiv (H)	3	3	0	0	16	3	+13	9	Round of 32		—	3–1	—	8–0
2	Olimpia Cluj	3	2	0	1	10	6	+4	6			—	—	3–2	6–1
3	Cardiff Met.	3	0	1	2	6	10	−4	1			2–5	—	—	—
4	Birkirkara	3	0	1	2	3	16	−13	1			—	—	2–2	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		BII	KAR	WIE	RIG
1	BIIK Kazygurt	3	3	0	0	9	1	+8	9	Round of 32		—	2–1	—	5–0
2	Elpides Karditsas	3	2	0	1	6	4	+2	6			—	—	3–1	—
3	Landhaus Wien	3	1	0	2	3	6	−3	3			0–2	—	—	2–1
4	Rīgas FS (H)	3	0	0	3	2	9	−7	0			—	1–2	—	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		SFK	VLL	PÄR	ANE
1	SFK 2000 (H)	3	3	0	0	12	1	+11	9	Round of 32		—	5–0	—	5–0
2	Vllaznia	3	2	0	1	7	7	0	6			—	—	3–1	—
3	Pärnu	3	1	0	2	4	5	−1	3			1–2	—	—	2–0
4	Agarista-ȘS Anenii Noi	3	0	0	3	1	11	−10	0			—	1–4	—	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		GIN	HON	SOF	EBS
1	Gintra Universitetas (H)	3	2	1	0	17	1	+16	7	Round of 32		—	1–1	—	7–0
2	Honka	3	2	1	0	13	1	+12	7			—	—	5–0	—
3	NSA Sofia	3	1	0	2	3	14	−11	3			0–9	—	—	3–0
4	EB/Streymur/Skála	3	0	0	3	0	17	−17	0			—	0–7	—	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		AVA	SPO	OSI	DRA
1	Avaldsnes	3	2	1	0	8	4	+4	7	Round of 32		—	3–2	—	3–0
2	Sporting CP	3	2	0	1	9	3	+6	6			—	—	3–0	—
3	Osijek (H)	3	1	1	1	15	5	+10	4			2–2	—	—	13–0
4	Dragon 2014	3	0	0	3	0	20	−20	0			—	0–4	—	—

To determine the best two second-placed teams from the qualifying round which advanced to the knockout phase, only the results of the second-placed teams against the first and third-placed teams in their group were taken into account, while results against the fourth-placed team not included. As a result, two matches played by each second-placed team counts for the purposes of determining the ranking.

Pos	Grp	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	9	Honka	2	1	1	0	6	1	+5	4	Round of 32
2	1	Þór/KA	2	1	1	0	3	0	+3	4
3	10	Sporting CP	2	1	0	1	5	3	+2	3
4	7	Elpides Karditsas	2	1	0	1	4	3	+1	3
5	3	Anderlecht	2	1	0	1	2	2	0	3
6	6	Olimpia Cluj	2	1	0	1	4	5	−1	3
7	2	FC Minsk	2	1	0	1	1	2	−1	3
8	5	Basel	2	1	0	1	3	5	−2	3
9	8	Vllaznia Shkodër	2	1	0	1	3	6	−3	3
10	4	MTK Hungária	2	0	1	1	3	6	−3	1

Each tie in the knockout phase, apart from the final, was played over two legs, with each team playing one leg at home. The team that scores more goals on aggregate over the two legs advanced to the next round. If the aggregate score was level, the away goals rule was applied, i.e. the team that scored more goals away from home over the two legs advanced. If away goals were also equal, then extra time was played. The away goals rule was again applied after extra time, i.e. if there were goals scored during extra time and the aggregate score was still level, the visiting team advanced by virtue of more away goals scored. If no goals were scored during extra time, the tie was decided by penalty shoot-out. In the final, which was played as a single match, if the score was level at the end of normal time, extra time was played, followed by penalty shoot-out if the score remained tied.^[4]

The mechanism of the draws for each round is as follows:

• In the draw for the round of 32, the sixteen teams with the highest UEFA club coefficients were seeded (with the title holders being the automatic top seed), and the other sixteen teams were unseeded. The seeded teams were drawn against the unseeded teams, with the seeded teams hosting the second leg. Teams from the same association or the same qualifying round group could not be drawn against each other.
• In the draw for the round of 16, the eight teams with the highest UEFA club coefficients were seeded (with the title holders being the automatic top seed should they qualify), and the other eight teams were unseeded. The seeded teams were drawn against the unseeded teams, with the order of legs decided by draw. Teams from the same association could not be drawn against each other.
• In the draws for the quarter-finals and semi-finals, there was no seeding, and teams from the same association could be drawn against each other. As the draws for the quarter-finals and semi-finals were held together before the quarter-finals were played, the identity of the quarter-final winners was not known at the time of the semi-final draw. 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 is played at a neutral venue).

	Round of 32						Round of 16						Quarter-finals						Semi-finals						Final (18 May – Budapest)
	Ajax	2	2	4
	Sparta Praha	0	1	1
							Ajax	0	0	0
							Lyon	4	9	13
	Avaldsnes	0	0	0
	Lyon	2	5	7
													Lyon	2	4	6
													VfL Wolfsburg	1	2	3
	Þór/KA	0	0	0
	VfL Wolfsburg	1	2	3
							VfL Wolfsburg	4	6	10
							Atlético Madrid	0	0	0
	Atlético Madrid	1	2	3
	Manchester City	1	0	1
																			Lyon	2	1	3
																			Chelsea	1	1	2
	SFK 2000	0	0	0
	Chelsea	5	6	11
							Chelsea	1	6	7
							Fiorentina	0	0	0
	Fiorentina	2	2	4
	Fortuna Hjørring	0	0	0
													Chelsea	2	1	3
													Paris Saint-Germain	0	2	2
	Zhytlobud-1 Kharkiv	1	0	1
	Linköping	6	4	10
							Linköping	0	2	2
							Paris Saint-Germain	2	3	5
	St. Pölten	1	0	1
	Paris Saint-Germain	4	2	6
																									Lyon	4
																									Barcelona	1
	Ryazan-VDV	0	0	0
	Rosengård	1	2	3
							Rosengård	2	0	2
							Slavia Praha	3	0	3
	Gintra Universitetas	0	0	0
	Slavia Praha	3	4	7
													Slavia Praha	1	1	2
													Bayern Munich	1	5	6
	Honka	0	1	1
	Zürich	1	5	6
							Zürich	0	0	0
							Bayern Munich	2	3	5
	Spartak Subotica	0	0	0
	Bayern Munich	7	4	11
																			Bayern Munich	0	0	0
																			Barcelona	1	1	2
	BIIK Kazygurt	3	0	3
	Barcelona	1	3	4
							Barcelona	5	3	8
							Glasgow City	0	0	0
	Barcelona FA	0	1	1
	Glasgow City	2	0	2
													Barcelona	3	1	4
													LSK Kvinner	0	0	0
	LSK Kvinner	3	1	4
	Zvezda-2005 Perm	0	0	0
							LSK Kvinner	1	2	3
							Brøndby	1	0	1
	Juventus	2	0	2
	Brøndby	2	1	3

The draw for the round of 32 was held on 17 August 2018, 14:00 CEST, at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.^[74]The first legs were played on 12 and 13 September, and the second legs on 26 and 27 September 2018.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Honka	1–6	Zürich	0–1	1–5
Fiorentina	4–0	Fortuna Hjørring	2–0	2–0
Ajax	4–1	Sparta Praha	2–0	2–1
Avaldsnes	0–7	Lyon	0–2	0–5
Ryazan-VDV	0–3	Rosengård	0–1	0–2
Juventus	2–3	Brøndby	2–2	0–1
SFK 2000	0–11	Chelsea	0–5	0–6
Atlético Madrid	3–1	Manchester City	1–1	2–0
Þór/KA	0–3	VfL Wolfsburg	0–1	0–2
Gintra Universitetas	0–7	Slavia Praha	0–3	0–4
BIIK Kazygurt	3–4	Barcelona	3–1	0–3
Barcelona FA	1–2	Glasgow City	0–2	1–0
Spartak Subotica	0–11	Bayern Munich	0–7	0–4
St. Pölten	1–6	Paris Saint-Germain	1–4	0–2
Zhytlobud-1 Kharkiv	1–10	Linköping	1–6	0–4
LSK Kvinner	4–0	Zvezda-2005 Perm	3–0	1–0

The draw for the round of 16 was held on 1 October 2018, 13:00 CEST, at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.^[75]The first legs were played on 17 and 18 October, and the second legs on 31 October and 1 November 2018.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Zürich	0–5	Bayern Munich	0–2	0–3
VfL Wolfsburg	10–0	Atlético Madrid	4–0	6–0
Ajax	0–13	Lyon	0–4	0–9
Barcelona	8–0	Glasgow City	5–0	3–0
Linköping	2–5	Paris Saint-Germain	0–2	2–3
Chelsea	7–0	Fiorentina	1–0	6–0
Rosengård	2–3	Slavia Praha	2–3	0–0
LSK Kvinner	3–1	Brøndby	1–1	2–0

The draw for the quarter-finals was held on 9 November 2018, 13:00 CET, at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.^[76][77]The first legs were played on 20 and 21 March, and the second legs on 27 March 2019.

During the Chelsea - PSG tie a number of arrests were made by the Metropolitan Police of travelling supporters of PSG who were arrested for possession of illegal drugs, weapons and vandalism. This was after disorder was reported at Waterloo and Wimbledon Train stations and a bus carrying PSG supporters being searched and barred entry to Kingsmeadow Stadium.^[78][79]

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Slavia Praha	2–6	Bayern Munich	1–1	1–5
Barcelona	4–0	LSK Kvinner	3–0	1–0
Lyon	6–3	VfL Wolfsburg	2–1	4–2
Chelsea	3–2	Paris Saint-Germain	2–0	1–2

The draw for the semi-finals was held on 9 November 2018, 13:00 CET (after the quarter-final draw), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.^[76]The first legs were played on 21 April, and the second legs on 28 April 2019.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Lyon	3–2	Chelsea	2–1	1–1
Bayern Munich	0–2	Barcelona	0–1	0–1

The final was played on 18 May 2019 at the Groupama Arena in Budapest. The "home" team for the final (for administrative purposes) was determined by an additional draw held after the quarter-final and semi-final draws.^[76]

18 May 2019 (2019-05-18)

18:00 CEST

Lyon	4–1	Barcelona
Marozsán 5' Hegerberg 14', 19', 30'	Report	Oshoala 89'

Groupama Arena, Budapest

Attendance: 19,487^[80]

Referee: Anastasia Pustovoitova (Russia)

Notes

• — denotes the team did not participate in this stage.

Qualifying goals count towards the topscorer award.

Rank	Player	Team	Goals
			Qual	Tourn	Total
1	Pernille Harder	VfL Wolfsburg	—	8	8
2	Krystyna Freda	Barcelona FA	6	1	7
	Ada Hegerberg	Lyon	—	7
4	Petra Divišová	Slavia Praha	5	1	6
	Tereza Kožárová	Slavia Praha	2	4
	Eugénie Le Sommer	Lyon	—	6
7	Tine De Caigny	Anderlecht	5	—	5
	Toni Duggan	Barcelona	—	5
	Isadora Freitas	Gintra Universitetas	5	0
	Marie-Antoinette Katoto	Paris Saint-Germain	—	5
	Fran Kirby	Chelsea	—	5

Source: UEFA^[81][82]

The following players were named in the squad of the season:^[83]

Goalkeepers

• Sandra Paños (Barcelona)
• Sarah Bouhaddi (Lyon)

Defenders

• Millie Bright (Chelsea)
• Amel Majri (Lyon)
• Wendie Renard (Lyon)
• Irene Paredes (Paris Saint-Germain)
• Lucy Bronze (Lyon)
• Griedge M'Bock Bathy (Lyon)

Midfielders

• Vicky Losada (Barcelona)
• Melanie Leupolz (Bayern München)
• Amandine Henry (Lyon)
• Dzsenifer Marozsán (Lyon)
• Alexia Putellas (Barcelona)

Forwards

• Erin Cuthbert (Chelsea)
• Ada Hegerberg (Lyon)
• Eugénie Le Sommer (Lyon)
• Pernille Harder (Wolfsburg)
• Karen Carney (Chelsea)

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