2022–23 UEFA Champions League
68th season of the UEFA club football tournament From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The 2022–23 UEFA Champions League was the 68th season of Europe's premier club football tournament organized by UEFA.
Manchester City defeated Inter Milan at the Atatürk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul, Turkey. The stadium was originally appointed to host the 2020 UEFA Champions League Final, but both this, and the 2021 final which had been eventually re-allocated to the Atatürk, were moved due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As winners Manchester City automatically qualified for the 2023–24 UEFA Champions League group stage, and earned the right to play against the winner of the 2022–23 UEFA Europa League, Sevilla, in the 2023 UEFA Super Cup and the 2023 FIFA Club World Cup, winning both.
Real Madrid were the defending champions, but were eliminated by Manchester City in the semifinals.
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Association team allocation
A total of 78 teams from 53 of the 55 UEFA member associations participate in the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League (the exceptions being Russia, who are banned from participating due to 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, and Liechtenstein,Note LIE[›] which does not organise a domestic league). The association ranking based on the UEFA association coefficients is used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:[1]
- Associations 1–4 each have four teams qualify.
- Associations 5–6 each have three teams qualify.
- Associations 7–15 (except Russia)Note RUS[›] each have two teams qualify.
- Associations 16–55 (except Liechtenstein)Note LIE[›] each have one team qualify.
- The winners of the 2021–22 UEFA Champions League and 2021–22 UEFA Europa League are each given an additional entry if they do not qualify for the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League through their domestic league.
Association ranking
For the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League, the associations are allocated places according to their 2021 UEFA association coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 2016–17 to 2020–21.[2]
Apart from the allocation based on the association coefficients, associations may have additional teams participating in the Champions League, as noted below:
- (UEL) – Additional berth for UEFA Europa League title holders
Distribution
The following is the access list for this season.[3]
Due to the suspension of Russia for the 2022–23 European season, and since the Champions League title holders (Real Madrid) have qualified via their domestic league, the following changes to the access list have been made:[4]
- The champions of association 11 (Scotland) and 12 (Ukraine) enter the group stage instead of the play-off round (Champions Path).
- The champions of association 13 (Turkey) and 14 (Denmark) enter the play-off round instead of the third qualifying round (Champions Path).
- The champions of association 15 (Cyprus) and 16 (Serbia) enter the third qualifying round instead of the second qualifying round (Champions Path).
- The champions of associations 18 (Croatia), 19 (Switzerland), 20 (Greece) and 21 (Israel) enter the second qualifying round instead of the first qualifying round (Champions Path).
- The runners-up of associations 10 (Austria) and 11 (Scotland) enter the third qualifying round instead of the second qualifying round (League Path).
Teams
NOTE: The following list of qualified teams is provisional, subject to final confirmation by UEFA in June 2022, as each participating team must obtain a UEFA club licence. All qualified teams are included in this list as long as they have not been banned by UEFA or have not failed their final appeal with their football association on obtaining a licence. |
The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:
- TH: Champions League title holders
- EL: Europa League title holders
- 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc.: League positions of the previous season
- Abd-: League positions of abandoned season as determined by the national association; all teams are subject to approval by UEFA
The second qualifying round, third qualifying round and play-off round are divided into Champions Path (CH) and League Path (LP).
CC: 2022 UEFA club coefficients.[5]
Notes
- ^ Liechtenstein (LIE): The seven teams affiliated with the Liechtenstein Football Association (LFV) all play in the Swiss football league system. The only competition organised by the LFV is the Liechtenstein Football Cup – the winners of which qualify for the UEFA Europa Conference League.
- ^ 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.[6] On 2 May 2022, UEFA confirmed that Russian clubs would be excluded from the 2022–23 UEFA competitions.[4]
- ^ Ukraine (UKR): The 2021–22 Ukrainian Premier League was abandoned due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. The top two teams of the league at the time of the abandonment (Shakhtar Donetsk and Dynamo Kyiv) were selected to play in the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League by the Ukrainian Association of Football.
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Schedule
The schedule of the competition is as follows. All matches are played on Tuesdays and Wednesdays apart from the preliminary round final. Scheduled kick-off times starting from the play-off round are 18:45 and 21:00 CEST/CET.[7]
As the 2022 FIFA World Cup takes place in Qatar between 21 November and 18 December 2022, the group stage will commence in the first week of September 2022 and conclude in the first week of November 2022 to make way for the World Cup.
All draws start at 12:00 CEST/CET and are held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.[8]
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Qualifying rounds
Preliminary round
The preliminary round will consist of two semi-finals on 21 June 2022 and the final on 24 June 2022. The draw for the preliminary round will be held on 7 June 2022. A total of four teams will play in the preliminary round. Seeding of teams will be based on their 2022 UEFA club coefficients,[5] with two seeded teams and two unseeded teams in the semi-finals. The first team drawn in each tie in the semi-finals, and also the final (between the two winners of the semi-finals, whose identity was not known at the time of draw), would be the "home" team for administrative purposes.
First qualifying round
The draw for the first round will be held on 14 June 2022.[7] A total of 30 teams will play in the first qualifying round: 29 teams which enter in this round, and 1 winner of the preliminary round. Seeding of teams will be based on their 2022 UEFA club coefficients.[5] For the winner of the preliminary round, whose identity will not be known at the time of draw, the club coefficient of the highest-ranked remaining team will be used. The first team drawn in each tie will be the home team of the first leg.
- Notes
- † Winner of the preliminary round, whose identity was not known at the time of draw. Teams in italics defeated a team with a higher coefficient, thus effectively taking the coefficient of their opponent in the draw.
Summary
The first legs will be played on 5 and 6 July, and the second legs were played on 12 and 13 July 2022.
The winners of the ties advanced to the Champions Path second qualifying round. The losers will be transferred to the Europa Conference League Champions Path second qualifying round.
Notes
Second qualifying round
The draw for the second qualifying round will be held on 15 June 2022. A total of 24 teams will play in the second qualifying round. They will be divided into two paths:
- Champions Path (20 teams): 5 teams which enter in this round, and 15 winners of the first qualifying round.
- League Path (4 teams): 4 teams which enter in this round.
Seeding of teams will be based on their 2022 UEFA club coefficients.[5] For the winners of the first qualifying round, whose identity will not be known at the time of draw, the club coefficient of the highest-ranked remaining team in each tie will be used. The first team drawn in each tie will be the home team of the first leg.
- Qualified teams
Champions Path Seeded
Unseeded
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League Path Seeded
Unseeded
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Third qualifying round
The draw for the third qualifying round will be held on 18 July 2022. A total of 20 teams will play in the third qualifying round. They will be divided into two paths:
- Champions Path (12 teams): 2 teams which enter in this round, and 10 winners of the second qualifying round (Champions Path).
- League Path (8 teams): 6 teams which enter in this round, and 2 winners of the second qualifying round (League Path).
Seeding of teams will be based on their 2022 UEFA club coefficients.[5] For the winners of the second qualifying round, whose identity will not be known at the time of draw, the club coefficient of the highest-ranked remaining team in each tie will be used. The first team drawn in each tie will be the home team of the first leg.
- Qualified teams
Champions Path Seeded
Seeding to be confirmed
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League Path Seeded
Unseeded
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Play-off round
The draw for the play-off round will be held on 1 August 2022. A total of 12 teams will play in the play-off round. They will be divided into two paths:
- Champions Path (8 teams): 2 teams which enter in this round, and 6 winners of the third qualifying round (Champions Path).
- League Path (4 teams): 4 winners of the third qualifying round (League Path).
Seeding of teams will be based on their 2022 UEFA club coefficients.[5] For the winners of the third qualifying round, whose identity will not be known at the time of draw, the club coefficient of the highest-ranked remaining team in each tie will be used. The first team drawn in each tie will be the home team of the first leg.
- Qualified teams
Champions Path Seeded
Seeding to be confirmed
Unseeded
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League Path Seeded Unseeded
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Group stage


London

Milan

Madrid

London teams
Chelsea
Tottenham Hotspur
Madrid teams
Atlético Madrid
Real Madrid
Milan teams
Inter Milan
Milan


Madrid teams


Milan teams


Location of teams of the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League group stage.
The draw for the group stage will be held on 25 August 2022. The 32 teams will be drawn into eight groups of four. For the draw, the teams are seeded into four pots, each of eight teams, based on the following principles:
- Pot 1 contain the Champions League and Europa League title holders, and the champions of the top six associations based on their 2021 UEFA country coefficients. Since the Champions League titleholders, Real Madrid, are also the champions of Association 2 (Spain), the champions of Association 7 (Netherlands), Ajax, will also be seeded into Pot 1.
- Pots 2, 3 and 4 contain the remaining teams, seeded based on their 2022 UEFA club coefficients.
Teams from the same association could not be drawn into the same group.
Eintracht Frankfurt will make their debut appearance in the group stage after winning Europa League. This season is also the first in which five German clubs will play in the group stage.
Pot 1
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Pot 2
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Pot 3
Pot 3 or 4
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Pot 4
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Group A
Source: UEFA
Notes:
Notes:
Group B
Source: UEFA
Notes:
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Group C
Source: UEFA
Group D
Source: UEFA
Group E
Source: UEFA
Group F
Source: UEFA
Group G
Source: UEFA
Group H
Source: UEFA
Notes:
Notes:
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Final
The final was played on 10 June 2023 at the Atatürk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul. A draw was held on 17 March 2023, after the quarter-final and semi-final draws, to determine the "home" team for administrative purposes.[10]
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