The 2012–13 UEFA Women's Champions League was the 12th edition of the European women's championship for football clubs. The final was held at Stamford Bridge, London, England on 23 May 2013.
Team allocation and distribution The national champions and runners-up, where known, in nations that have participated in the past five years are listed as expected to compete. Some of these teams may choose not to participate. Norway has overtaken Iceland in the UEFA coefficients and thus assured themselves a second entry.
Countries are allocated places according to their UEFA league coefficient for women. A first entry list was posted on 14 June 2012 by the Belgian representative. Not returning since last year is the champion of Luxembourg, for the first time Montenegro sends its champion. Here CH denotes the national champion, RU the national runner-up.
Round of 32 Turbine Potsdam (CH) Wolfsburg (RU) Lyon (CH) Juvisy (RU) Malmö (CH) Göteborg (RU) Rossiyanka (CH) Zorky Krasnogorsk (RU) Arsenal (CH) Birmingham City (RU) Brøndby (CH) Fortuna Hjørring (RU) Torres (CH) Bardolino Verona (RU) Røa (CH) Stabæk (RU) Stjarnan (CH) Neulengbach (CH) Barcelona (CH) Standard Liège (CH) Sparta Prague (CH) ADO Den Haag (CH) Qualifying round Bobruichanka (CH) BIIK Kazygurt (CH) Unia Racibórz (CH) Zhytlobud-1 Kharkiv (CH) MTK Hungária (CH) PK-35 Vantaa (CH) PAOK (CH) Zürich (CH) Spartak Subotica (CH) Glasgow City (CH) NSA Sofia (CH) Olimpia Cluj (CH) 1º de Dezembro (CH) Pomurje (CH) SFK 2000 (CH) ASA Tel Aviv University (CH) Gintra Universitetas (CH) Apollon Limassol (CH) Slovan Bratislava (CH) Cardiff Met. (CH) Peamount United (CH) KÍ Klaksvík (CH) FC Noroc (CH) Osijek (CH) Ataşehir Belediyesi (CH) Glentoran Belfast United (CH) Pärnu JK (CH) Naše Taksi (CH) Birkirkara (CH) Skonto/Ceriba (CH) Ada (CH) Ekonomist (CH)
1. On 6 December 2011 it was announced that the 2011 FA WSL Runners-up were given the spot, and not as initially planned the 2011–12 FA Women's Cup winner.
Round and draw dates UEFA has scheduled the competition as follows. Round Draw First leg Second leg Qualifying round 28 June 2012 11–16 August 2012 Round of 32 23 August 2012 26–27 September 2012 3–4 October 2012 Round of 16 31 October–1 November 2012 7–8 November 2012 Quarterfinals 27 November 2012 20–21 March 2013 27–28 March 2013 Semifinals 13–14 April 2013 20–21 April 2013 Final 23 May 2013
Qualifying round
32 teams entered in the qualifying round, and were divided into eight groups of four teams, with one team from each seeding pot. Host countries won't be drawn together.
Groups were played as mini tournaments over a span of six days.
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Group 4
Group 5
Group 6
Group 7
Group 8
Ranking of group runners-up The two best runners-up also qualify for the round of 32. The match against the fourth-placed team in the group does not count for the purposes of the runners-up table. The tie-breakers in this ranking are:
Higher number of points obtained Superior goal difference Higher number of goals scored Higher number of club coefficient points Fair play conduct in all group matches
Knockout phase
The top 16 ranked teams are seeded for the round of 32. Team that qualified through the qualifying round are marked with (Q).
Seeded: Lyon Turbine Potsdam Arsenal Rossiyanka Brøndby Torres Juvisy Bardolino Verona Neulengbach Göteborg Sparta Praha Fortuna Hjørring LdB Malmö Røa Wolfsburg Zorky Krasnogorsk
Unseeded: Glasgow City (Q) Unia Racibórz (Q) Standard Liège Birmingham City Stabæk Zürich (Q) Apollon Limassol (Q) SFK 2000 (Q) MTK (Q) Barcelona PK-35 Vantaa (Q) Stjarnan Olimpia Cluj (Q) BIIK Kazygurt (Q) Spartak Subotica (Q) ADO Den Haag
Bracket
Round of 32
Round of 16
Quarter-finals There was an open draw held for the quarterfinals and the following rounds on 27 November 2012.
Semi-finals
Final
Statistics Top scorers (excluding qualifying rounds and play-off round):
Top goalscorers The top-scorer award is given to the player scoring the most goals including the qualifying rounds, thus Romanian player Laura Rus from Apollon Limassol won the award by scoring 11 goals up to the round of 32. Conny Pohlers scored her 42nd goal in the competition history, to become the sole all-time topscorer.
The following are the top scorers excluding the qualifying round. RankNameTeamGoalsMinutes played1 Conny Pohlers Wolfsburg8514' Patrizia Panico Torres8540'3 Lotta Schelin Lyon7365'4 Laëtitia Tonazzi Lyon6338'5 Nataša Andonova Turbine Potsdam5190' Camille Abily Lyon5627' Louisa Nécib Lyon5630' Martina Müller Wolfsburg5737'9 Kelly Smith Arsenal4238' Jen Beattie Arsenal4243' Source:
References
External links Official website European league standings