The 2023–24 UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying rounds began on 6 September and ended on 18 October 2023.
A total of 66 teams competed in the group stage qualifying rounds of the 2023–24 UEFA Women's Champions League, which included two rounds, with 44 teams in the Champions Path and 22 teams in the League Path. The 12 winners in the round 2 (seven from Champions Path, five from League Path) advanced to the group stage, to join the four teams that entered in that round.
Times are CEST (UTC+2), as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).
Teams Champions Path The Champions Path included all league champions which do not qualified directly for the group stage, and consisted of the following rounds: Round 1 (41 teams playing one-legged semi-finals, final and third place match): 41 teams entered in this round. Round 2 (14 teams): three teams entered in this round and eleven winners of the round 1 finals.
Below are the participating teams of the Champions Path (with their 2023 UEFA club coefficients), grouped by the starting rounds.
Key to coloursWinners of round 2 advance to group stage +Round 2Team Slavia Prague39.233 Rosengård33.399 Roma21.000+Round 1Team St. Pölten30.050 Glasgow City29.100 BIIK Shymkent25.700 Benfica22.800 Zürich22.250 Ajax18.400 Vllaznia16.800 Spartak Subotica16.800 Anderlecht14.400 SFK 200013.800 HB Køge12.150 Vorskla Poltava12.000 Apollon Ladies11.800 Gintra11.400 Valur10.200 Ferencváros9.900 U Olimpia Cluj9.600 Mura9.000 Dinamo Minsk7.200 Breznica7.200 Brann7.100 PAOK6.400 Osijek6.100 Flora5.600 Racing Union5.400 KuPS5.200 Birkirkara4.800 Kiryat Gat4.600 SFK Rīga4.200 KÍ3.600 Agarista Anenii Noi3.600 Shelbourne3.500 Spartak Myjava3.300 EP-COM Hajvalia2.900 Lokomotiv Stara Zagora2.800 Samegrelo2.000 Katowice1.900 Ljuboten1.600 Fomget Gençlik1.500 Cardiff City1.100 Cliftonville0.900
League Path The League Path included all league non-champions and consisted of the following rounds: Round 1 (16 teams playing one-legged semi-finals, final and third place match): 16 teams entered in this round. Round 2 (10 teams): six teams entered in this round and four winners of the round 1 finals.
Below are the participating teams of the League Path (with their 2022 UEFA club coefficients), grouped by the starting rounds.
Key to coloursWinners of round 2 advance to group stage +Round 2Team VfL Wolfsburg104.333 Paris Saint-Germain97.166 Real Madrid37.233 Sparta Prague27.233 BK Häcken22.399 Manchester United12.366+Round 1Team Arsenal56.366 Juventus43.000 Brøndby29.650 FC Minsk22.200 Paris FC18.166 Eintracht Frankfurt17.333 Levante17.233 Twente15.400 Linköping13.399 Vålerenga12.100 Slovácko7.233 Sturm Graz6.550 Okzhetpes5.700 Celtic5.100 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih4.000 Stjarnan3.700
Format Round 1 consisted of mini-tournaments with two semi-finals, a final and a third-place play-off hosted by one of the participating teams. If the score was level at the end of normal time, extra time would have been played, and if the same number of goals was scored by both teams during extra time, the tie would have been decided by a penalty shoot-out. Round 2 was played over two legs, with each team playing one leg at home. The team that scored more goals on aggregate over the two legs advance to the next round. If the aggregate score was level at the end of normal time of the second leg, extra time would have been played, and if the same number of goals was scored by both teams at the end of normal time, the tie would have been decided by a penalty shoot-out. An additional 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.
In the draws for each round, teams were seeded based on their UEFA club coefficients at the beginning of the season, with the teams divided into seeded and unseeded pots containing the same number of teams. Prior to the draws, UEFA may form "groups" in accordance with the principles set by the Club Competitions Committee, but they were purely for convenience of the draw and did not resemble any real groupings in the sense of the competition. Teams from associations with political conflicts as decided by UEFA were not drawn into the same tie. After the draws, the order of legs of a tie could have been reversed by UEFA due to scheduling or venue conflicts.
Schedule The schedule of the competition was as follows (all draws were held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland).
+RoundDraw dateFirst legSecond legRound 130 June 20236 September 2023 (semi-finals)9 September 2023 (third-place play-off & final)Round 215 September 202310–11 October 202318–19 October 2023
Round 1 Seeding The draw for Round 1 was held on 30 June 2023.
Seeding of teams for the semi-final round was based on their 2023 UEFA club coefficients, with 22 seeded teams and 19 unseeded teams in the Champions Path, and eight seeded teams and eight unseeded teams in the League Path. Teams were drawn into two semi-finals within each four team group and, for the groups with three teams, the team with the highest coefficient was given a bye to the final. In the semi-finals, seeded teams were considered the "home" team, while in the third-place play-offs and finals, the teams with the highest coefficients were considered the "home" team for administrative purposes. Due to political reasons, teams from the following associations could not be drawn into the same group: Kosovo / Bosnia and Herzegovina; Kosovo / Serbia; Kosovo / Russia; Ukraine / Belarus.
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Champions Path Tournament 1 Bracket
Hosted by U Olimpia Cluj.
Semi-finals
Third-place play-off
Final
Tournament 2 Bracket
Hosted by SFK 2000.
Semi-finals
Third-place play-off
Final
Tournament 3 Bracket
Hosted by Mura.
Semi-finals
Third-place play-off
Final
Tournament 4 Bracket
Hosted by HB Køge.
Semi-finals
Third-place play-off
Final
Tournament 5 Bracket
Hosted by Katowice.
Semi-finals
Third-place play-off
Final
Tournament 6 Bracket
Hosted by Benfica.
Semi-finals
Third-place play-off
Final
Tournament 7 Bracket
Hosted by Vllaznia.
Semi-finals
Third-place play-off
Final
Tournament 8 Bracket
Hosted by Gintra.
Semi-finals
Third-place play-off
Final
Tournament 9 Bracket
Hosted by St. Pölten.
Semi-final
Final
Tournament 10 Bracket
Hosted by Agarista Anenii Noi.
Semi-final
Final
Tournament 11 Bracket
Hosted by Birkirkara.
Semi-finals
Final
League Path Tournament 1 Bracket
Hosted by Twente.
Semi-finals
Third-place play-off
Final
Tournament 2 Bracket
Hosted by Eintracht Frankfurt.
Semi-finals
Third-place play-off
Final
Tournament 3 Bracket
Hosted by Linköping.
Semi-finals
Third-place play-off
Final
Tournament 4 Bracket
Hosted by Vålerenga.
Semi-finals
Third-place play-off
Final
Round 2 Seeding A total of 24 teams played in Round 2. The draw took place on 15 September 2023.
Seeding of teams was based on their 2023 UEFA club coefficients, with seven seeded and unseeded teams in the Champions Path, and five seeded and unseeded teams in the League Path. Teams were drawn into two-legged-ties, where the first drawn team played the first leg at home and teams from the same association could not be drawn against each other.
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Summary
The first legs were played on 10 and 11 October, and the second legs on 18 October 2023.
The winners of the ties advanced to the group stage.
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Champions Path
Benfica won 11–0 on aggregate.
Ajax won 8–0 on aggregate.
Roma won 9–1 on aggregate.
St. Pölten won 4–1 on aggregate.
Slavia Prague won 11–0 on aggregate.
Brann won 6–0 on aggregate.
Rosengård won 7–2 on aggregate.
League Path
BK Häcken won 4–3 on aggregate.
Real Madrid won 5–1 on aggregate.
Eintracht Frankfurt won 8–0 on aggregate.
Paris FC won 5–3 on aggregate.
Paris Saint-Germain won 4–2 on aggregate.
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