2021–22 UEFA Women's Champions League

The association ranking based on the UEFA women's country coefficients is used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:^[7][8]

• Associations 1–6 each have three teams qualify.
• Associations 7–16 each have two teams qualify.
• All other associations, if they entered, each have one team qualify.
• The winners of the 2020–21 UEFA Women's Champions League are given an additional entry if they do not qualify for the 2021–22 UEFA Women's Champions League through their domestic league. However, the title holders have qualified through their domestic league, meaning the additional entry is not necessary for this season.

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, Liechtenstein and San Marino.

For the 2021–22 UEFA Women's Champions League, the associations are allocated places according to their 2020 UEFA women's Association coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 2015–16 to 2019–20.^[9]

Association ranking for 2021–22 UEFA Women's Champions League

Rank Association Coeff. Teams 1  France 96.000 3 2  Germany 73.000 3  Spain 58.000 4  England 56.500 5  Sweden 45.500 6  Czech Republic 40.500 7  Denmark 34.500 2 8  Netherlands 33.000 9  Italy 30.500 10  Kazakhstan 29.000 11  Norway 27.500 12  Iceland 26.000 13  Switzerland 24.000 14  Scotland 23.000 15  Russia 22.500 16  Belarus 19.000 17  Cyprus 16.000 1 18  Serbia 15.500 19  Austria 15.000

Rank Association Coeff. Teams 20  Lithuania 14.500 1 21  Poland 14.500 22  Belgium 12.500 23  Portugal 12.000 24  Bosnia and Herzegovina 12.000 25  Romania 11.000 26  Finland 10.500 27  Ukraine 10.000 28  Greece 9.500 29  Hungary 9.000 30  Turkey 7.500 31  Republic of Ireland 7.500 32  Albania 7.000 33  Croatia 7.000 34  Slovenia 6.000 35  Israel 5.000 36  Estonia 4.500 37  Bulgaria 4.500

Rank Association Coeff. Teams 38  Kosovo 4.000 1 39  Slovakia 4.000 40  Wales 3.500 41  Montenegro 3.000 42  Faroe Islands 2.500 43  Northern Ireland 2.000 44  Malta 1.000 45  Latvia 1.000 46  Moldova 0.500 47  North Macedonia 0.000 48  Georgia 0.000 49  Luxembourg 0.000 50  Armenia 0.000 NR  Azerbaijan — DNE  Gibraltar —  Andorra — NL  Liechtenstein —  San Marino —

Notes

• 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

Unlike the men's Champions League, not every association entered a team, and so the exact number of teams entering in each round could not be determined until the full entry list was known. If there were more than 47 teams in the Champions Path qualifying, a preliminary round of two-legged home-and-away matches would have been played by the champions from the lowest-ranked associations. For example, if the title holders had not qualified for the group stage through league position and all 52 associations with a women's domestic league entered, the champions from associations 49–52 would enter the preliminary round.^[10] However, only 50 associations entered and this round was skipped.

The following is the access list for this season.^[11] As the Champions League title holders, Barcelona, which were guaranteed a berth in the Champions League group stage, already qualified via their domestic league, the following changes to the access list were made:

• The champions of association 4 (England) entered the group stage instead of round 2.
• The champions of association 7 (Denmark) entered round 2 instead of round 1.
• The champions of association 49 (Luxembourg) and 50 (Armenia) entered round 1 instead of the preliminary round, which was skipped.

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:

• TH: Title holders
• 1st, 2nd, 3rd: League positions of the previous season
• Abd-: League positions of abandoned season due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe as determined by the national association; all teams are subject to approval by UEFA as per the guidelines for entry to European competitions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic^[12]

The two qualifying rounds, round 1 and round 2, are divided into Champions Path (CP) and League Path (LP).

CC: 2021 UEFA women's club coefficients.^[13]

Qualified teams for 2021–22 UEFA Women's Champions League

Entry round		Teams
Group stage		BarcelonaTH (1st)[14]	Paris Saint-Germain (1st)[15]	Bayern Munich (1st)[16]	Chelsea (1st)[17]
Round 2	CP	BK Häcken (1st)[18]	Sparta Prague (1st)[19]	Køge (1st)[20]
	LP	Lyon (2nd)[15]	VfL Wolfsburg (2nd)[16]	Real Madrid (2nd)[21]	Manchester City (2nd)[17]
		Rosengård (2nd)[22]	Slavia Prague (2nd)[19]
Round 1	CP	Twente (1st)[23]	Juventus (1st)[24]	BIIK Kazygurt (1st)[25]	Vålerenga (1st)[26]
		Breiðablik (Abd-1st)[Note ISL]	Servette Chênois (1st)[27]	Glasgow City (1st)[28]	CSKA Moscow (1st)[29]
		Dinamo-BGU Minsk (1st)[30]	Apollon Limassol (1st)[31]	Spartak Subotica (1st)[32]	St. Pölten (1st)[33]
		Gintra Universitetas (1st)[34]	Czarni Sosnowiec (1st)[35]	Anderlecht (1st)[36]	Benfica (1st)[37]
		SFK 2000 (1st)[38]	Olimpia Cluj (1st)[39]	Åland United (1st)[40]	Zhytlobud-1 Kharkiv (1st)[41]
		PAOK (1st)[42]	Ferencváros (1st)[43]	Beşiktaş (1st)[44]	Peamount United (1st)[45]
		Vllaznia (1st)[46]	Osijek (1st)[47]	Pomurje (1st)[48]	Kiryat Gat (1st)[49]
		Flora (1st)[50]	NSA Sofia (1st)[51]	Mitrovica (1st)[52]	Slovan Bratislava (Abd-1st)[Note SVK]
		Swansea City (1st)[53]	Breznica Pljevlja (1st)[54]	KÍ (1st)[55]	Glentoran (1st)[56]
		Birkirkara (Abd-1st)[Note MLT]	Rīgas FS (1st)[57]	Agarista Anenii Noi (1st)[58]	Kamenica Sasa (1st)[59]
		Tbilisi Nike (1st)[60]	Racing FC (1st)[61]	Hayasa (1st)[62]
	LP	Bordeaux (3rd)[63]	1899 Hoffenheim (3rd)[16]	Levante (3rd)[21]	Arsenal (3rd)[17]
		Kristianstad (3rd)[22]	Slovácko (3rd)[64]	Brøndby IF (2nd)[20]	PSV (2nd)[65]
		Milan (2nd)[66]	Okzhetpes (2nd)[25]	Rosenborg (2nd)[26]	Valur (Abd-2nd)[Note ISL]
		Zürich (2nd)[27]	Celtic (2nd)[28]	Lokomotiv Moscow (2nd)[29]	FC Minsk (2nd)[67]

Notes

The schedule of the competition was as follows.^[7]

A preliminary round consisting of two-legged home-and-away matches would have been played by the champions from the lowest-ranked associations if more than 50 associations had entered the tournament and the title holders had not qualified through league position. Since only 50 associations entered, this round was skipped.^[7]

The draw for Round 1 was held on 2 July 2021, 13:00 CEST.^[73] The hosts of each tournament were selected after the draw. The semi-finals were played on 17 and 18 August, and the third-place play-offs and finals on 20 and 21 August 2021. The winners of the finals advanced to round 2.

Tournament 1

Hosted by Gintra Universitetas.

	Semi-finals				Final
	18 August
	Gintra Universitetas	2
					21 August
	Flora	0
					Gintra Universitetas	1
	18 August
					Breiðablik	8
	Breiðablik	7
	KÍ	0
					Third place
					21 August
					KÍ	0
					Flora	1

Tournament 2

Hosted by Glasgow City.

	Semi-finals				Final
	18 August
	BIIK Kazygurt	4
					21 August
	Slovan Bratislava	0
					BIIK Kazygurt	0
	18 August
					Glasgow City	1
	Glasgow City	3
	Birkirkara	0
					Third place
					21 August
					Slovan Bratislava (a.e.t.)	1
					Birkirkara	0

Tournament 3

Hosted by Osijek.

	Semi-finals				Final
	18 August
	Anderlecht	3
					21 August
	Hayasa	0
					Anderlecht	0
	18 August
					Osijek	1
	Osijek	5
	Breznica Pljevlja	0
					Third place
					21 August
					Breznica Pljevlja	3
					Hayasa	2

Tournament 4

Hosted by SFK 2000.

	Semi-finals				Final
	18 August
	Benfica	4
					21 August
	Kiryat Gat	0
					Benfica	7
	18 August
					Racing FC	0
	SFK 2000	0
	Racing FC	1
					Third place
					21 August
					SFK 2000 (a.e.t.) (p)	1 (4)
					Kiryat Gat	1 (2)

Tournament 5

Hosted by Åland United.

	Semi-finals				Final
	18 August
	Servette Chênois	1
					21 August
	Glentoran	0
					Servette Chênois	1
	18 August
					Åland United	0
	Olimpia Cluj	0
	Åland United	4
					Third place
					21 August
					Olimpia Cluj	0
					Glentoran	2

Tournament 6

Hosted by Apollon Limassol.

	Semi-finals				Final
	18 August
	Apollon Limassol (a.e.t.)	2
					21 August
	Dinamo-BGU Minsk	0
					Apollon Limassol	2
	18 August
					CSKA Moscow	1
	CSKA Moscow (a.e.t.)	4
	Swansea City	1
					Third place
					21 August
					Dinamo-BGU Minsk	2
					Swansea City	0

Tournament 7

Hosted by PAOK.

	Semi-finals				Final
	18 August
	Vålerenga	5
					21 August
	Mitrovica	0
					Vålerenga	2
	18 August
					PAOK	0
	PAOK	6
	Agarista Anenii Noi	0
					Third place
					21 August
					Mitrovica	3
					Agarista Anenii Noi	0

Tournament 8

Hosted by Juventus.

	Semi-finals				Final
	18 August
	St. Pölten	7
					21 August
	Beşiktaş	0
					St. Pölten	1
	18 August
					Juventus	4
	Juventus	12
	Kamenica Sasa	0
					Third place
					21 August
					Beşiktaş	4
					Kamenica Sasa	0

Tournament 9

Hosted by Twente.

	Semi-finals				Final
	18 August
	Twente	9
					21 August
	Tbilisi Nike	0
					Twente (a.e.t.)	5
	18 August
					Spartak Subotica	3
	Spartak Subotica	5
	Peamount United	2
					Third place
					21 August
					Peamount United (awd.)	3
					Tbilisi Nike	0

The third place play-off between Peamount United and Tbilisi Nike was cancelled following a decision taken by the Dutch health authorities to put the whole team of Tbilisi Nike into quarantine after a player had tested positive for COVID-19. The result of the match was awarded by UEFA as a 3–0 win for Peamount United.

Tournament 10

Hosted by Pomurje.

	Semi-finals				Final
	18 August
	Zhytlobud-1 Kharkiv	5
					21 August
	NSA Sofia	1
					Zhytlobud-1 Kharkiv	4
	18 August
					Pomurje	1
	Pomurje	6
	Rīgas FS	1
					Third place
					21 August
					NSA Sofia	2
					Rīgas FS	1

Tournament 11

Hosted by Czarni Sosnowiec.

	Semi-finals				Final
					20 August
					Vllaznia (a.e.t.) (p)	0 (3)
	17 August
					Ferencváros	0 (1)
	Ferencváros	2
	Czarni Sosnowiec	1

Tournament 1

Hosted by Zürich.

	Semi-finals				Final
	17 August
	1899 Hoffenheim	1
					20 August
	Valur	0
					1899 Hoffenheim	2
	17 August
					Milan	0
	Zürich	1
	Milan	2
					Third place
					20 August
					Zürich	1
					Valur	3

Tournament 2

Hosted by Kristianstad.

	Semi-finals				Final
	18 August
	Bordeaux	2
					21 August
	Slovácko	1
					Bordeaux	3
	18 August
					Kristianstad	1
	Brøndby IF	0
	Kristianstad	1
					Third place
					21 August
					Brøndby IF	2
					Slovácko	1

Tournament 3

Hosted by Rosenborg.

	Semi-finals				Final
	18 August
	Levante	2
					21 August
	Celtic	1
					Levante (a.e.t.)	4
	18 August
					Rosenborg	3
	FC Minsk	1
	Rosenborg	2
					Third place
					21 August
					FC Minsk (a.e.t.)	3
					Celtic	2

Tournament 4

Hosted by Lokomotiv Moscow.

	Semi-finals				Final
	18 August
	Arsenal	4
					21 August
	Okzhetpes	0
					Arsenal	3
	18 August
					PSV	1
	PSV	3
	Lokomotiv Moscow	1
					Third place
					21 August
					Okzhetpes	0
					Lokomotiv Moscow	4

The draw for Round 2 was held on 22 August 2021, 13:00 CEST.^[74]The first legs were played on 31 August and 1 September, and the second legs on 8 and 9 September 2021.

The winners of the ties will advance to the group stage.

Champions Path

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Sparta Prague	0–3	Køge	0–1	0–2
Osijek	1–4	Breiðablik	1–1	0–3
Vllaznia	0–3	Juventus	0–2	0–1
Twente	1–5	Benfica	1–1	0–4
Apollon Limassol	2–5	Zhytlobud-1 Kharkiv	1–2	1–3
Servette Chênois	3–2	Glasgow City	1–1	2–1
Vålerenga	3–6	BK Häcken	1–3	2–3

League Path

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Levante	2–4	Lyon	1–2	1–2
Arsenal	7–0	Slavia Prague	3–0	4–0
Real Madrid	2–1	Manchester City	1–1	1–0
VfL Wolfsburg	5–5 (3–0 p)	Bordeaux	3–2	2–3 (a.e.t.)
Rosengård	3–6	1899 Hoffenheim	0–3	3–3

Køge

London

PSG

Lyon

Bayern

Hoffenheim

Wolfsburg

Breiðablik

Juventus

Benfica

Barcelona

Real Madrid

Servette

Häcken

Kharkiv

London teams
Arsenal
Chelsea

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Location of teams of the 2021–22 UEFA Women's Champions League group stage.
Brown: Group A; Red: Group B; Orange: Group C; Yellow: Group D.

The draw for the group stage was held on 13 September 2021, 13:00 CEST, in Nyon.^[75][76] The 16 teams were drawn into four groups of four. For the draw, the teams were seeded into four pots, each of four teams, based on the following principles:

• Pot 1 contained the four direct entrants, i.e., the Champions League holders and the champions of the top three associations based on their 2020 UEFA women's country coefficients.^[9]
• Pot 2, 3 and 4 contained the remaining teams, seeded based on their 2021 UEFA women's club coefficients.^[13]

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, Iceland) were assigned a position in their group which allowed them to play away on matchday 6.^[77]

The matches were played on 5–6 October, 13–14 October, 9–10 November, 17–18 November, 8–9 December, and 15–16 December 2021. The top two teams of each group advanced to the quarter-finals.

Køge, 1899 Hoffenheim and Real Madrid played in a European competition for the first time this season.

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		WOL	JUV	CHE	SER
1	VfL Wolfsburg	6	3	2	1	17	7	+10	11[a]	Advance to Quarter-finals		—	0–2	4–0	5–0
2	Juventus	6	3	2	1	12	4	+8	11[a]			2–2	—	1–2	4–0
3	Chelsea	6	3	2	1	13	8	+5	11[a]			3–3	0–0	—	1–0
4	Servette Chênois	6	0	0	6	0	23	−23	0			0–3	0–3	0–7	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		PSG	RMA	KHA	BRE
1	Paris Saint-Germain	6	6	0	0	25	0	+25	18	Advance to Quarter-finals		—	4–0	5–0	6–0
2	Real Madrid	6	4	0	2	12	6	+6	12			0–2	—	3–0	5–0
3	Zhytlobud-1 Kharkiv	6	1	1	4	2	15	−13	4			0–6	0–1	—	0–0
4	Breiðablik	6	0	1	5	0	18	−18	1			0–2	0–3	0–2	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		BAR	ARS	HOF	KOG
1	Barcelona	6	6	0	0	24	1	+23	18	Advance to Quarter-finals		—	4–1	4–0	5–0
2	Arsenal	6	3	0	3	14	13	+1	9[a]			0–4	—	4–0	3–0
3	1899 Hoffenheim	6	3	0	3	11	15	−4	9[a]			0–5	4–1	—	5–0
4	Køge	6	0	0	6	2	22	−20	0			0–2	1–5	1–2	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		LYO	BAY	BEN	HAK
1	Lyon	6	5	0	1	19	2	+17	15	Advance to Quarter-finals		—	2–1	5–0	4–0
2	Bayern Munich	6	4	1	1	15	3	+12	13			1–0	—	4–0	4–0
3	Benfica	6	1	1	4	2	16	−14	4			0–5	0–0	—	0–1
4	BK Häcken	6	1	0	5	3	18	−15	3			0–3	1–5	1–2	—

In 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, with the seeded teams hosting 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).

	Quarter-finals						Semi-finals						Final
	Real Madrid	1	2	3
	Barcelona	3	5	8
							Barcelona	5	0	5
							VfL Wolfsburg	1	2	3
	Arsenal	1	0	1
													21 May – Turin
	VfL Wolfsburg	1	2	3
													Barcelona			1
													Lyon			3
	Juventus	2	1	3
	Lyon	1	3	4
							Lyon	3	2	5
							Paris Saint-Germain	2	1	3
	Bayern Munich	1	2	3
	Paris Saint-Germain	2	2	4

The draw for the quarter-finals was held on 20 December 2021.^[78][79]The first legs were played on 22 and 23 March, and the second legs on 30 and 31 March 2022.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Bayern Munich	3–4	Paris Saint-Germain	1–2	2–2 (a.e.t.)
Juventus	3–4	Lyon	2–1	1–3
Arsenal	1–3	VfL Wolfsburg	1–1	0–2
Real Madrid	3–8	Barcelona	1–3	2–5

The draw for the semi-finals was held on 20 December 2021 (after the quarter-final draw).^[78]The first legs were played from 22 and 24 April and the second legs on 30 April 2022. Barcelona's home quarter- and semi-finals (91,553 and 91,648) were the largest known attendances for official women's football since the 1971 Women's World Cup (non-official),^[80][81] where Mexico–Denmark drew 110,000 spectators at the Estadio Azteca in Mexico.^[82][83]

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Barcelona	5–3	VfL Wolfsburg	5–1	0–2
Lyon	5–3	Paris Saint-Germain	3–2	2–1

The final was played on 21 May 2022 at Juventus Stadium, Turin.^[84] A draw was held on 20 December 2021, (after the quarter-final and semi-final draws), to determine which semi-final winner would be designated as the "home" team for administrative purposes.

21 May 2022 (2022-05-21)

19:00 CEST

Barcelona	1–3	Lyon
Putellas 41'	Report	Henry 6' Hegerberg 23' Macario 33'

Juventus Stadium, Turin

Attendance: 32,257^[85]

Referee: Lina Lehtovaara (Finland)

Statistics exclude qualifying rounds and play-off round.

Rank	Player	Team	Goals[86]
1	Alexia Putellas	Barcelona	11
2	Tabea Waßmuth	VfL Wolfsburg	10
3	Catarina Macario	Lyon	8
4	Marie-Antoinette Katoto	Paris Saint-Germain	7
5	Ada Hegerberg	Lyon	6
	Jordyn Huitema	Paris Saint-Germain
7	Cristiana Girelli	Juventus	5
	Jennifer Hermoso	Barcelona
	Jill Roord	VfL Wolfsburg
10	Ramona Bachmann	Paris Saint-Germain	4
	Aitana Bonmatí	Barcelona
	Sam Kerr	Chelsea
	Lea Schüller	Bayern Munich

The UEFA technical study group selected the following players as the team of the tournament.^[87]

Pos.	Player	Team
GK	Christiane Endler	Lyon
DF	Griedge Mbock Bathy	Lyon
	Wendie Renard	Lyon
	Mapi León	Barcelona
	Selma Bacha	Lyon
MF	Aitana Bonmatí	Barcelona
	Patricia Guijarro	Barcelona
	Amandine Henry	Lyon
	Alexia Putellas	Barcelona
FW	Ada Hegerberg	Lyon
	Marie-Antoinette Katoto	Paris Saint-Germain

• Alexia Putellas ( Barcelona)^[1]

• Selma Bacha ( Lyon)^[88]

• 2021–22 UEFA Champions League

• Official website
• Women's Domestic Leagues, UEFA.com