2021–22 UEFA Women's Champions League

The 2021–22 UEFA Women's Champions League will be the 21st edition of the European women's club football championship organised by UEFA, and the 13th edition since being rebranded as the UEFA Women's Champions League. It will be the first edition to feature a 16-team group stage.[1]

2021–22 UEFA Women's Champions League
The Juventus Stadium in Turin will host the final
Tournament details
DatesQualifying rounds:
18 August – 9 September 2021
Competition proper:
5 October 2021 – 22 May 2022
TeamsCompetition proper: 16
Total: maximum 78 (from maximum 55 associations)

The final will be held at the Juventus Stadium in Turin, Italy.[2] The winners of the 2021–22 UEFA Women's Champions League will automatically qualify for the 2022–23 UEFA Women's Champions League group stage.

Association team allocation

The association ranking based on the UEFA women's country coefficients is used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:[3]

  • Associations 1–6 each have three teams qualify.
  • Associations 7–16 each have two teams qualify.
  • All other associations, should they enter, 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.

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.

Association ranking

For the 2021–22 UEFA Women's Champions League, the associations are allocated places according to their 2020 UEFA women's country coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 2015–16 to 2019–20.[4]

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 —
 Gibraltar —
 Andorra — NL
 Liechtenstein —
 San Marino —
Notes
  • NR – No rank (association did not enter in any of the seasons used for computing coefficients)
  • NL – No women's domestic league

Distribution

The following access list is provisional and based on 50 associations entering (same number as 2020–21 UEFA Women's Champions League),[5] and the champions of the 2020–21 UEFA Women's Champions League do not qualify through domestic performance.

Access list for 2021–22 UEFA Women's Champions League
Path Teams entering in this round Teams advancing from previous round
Round 1
(Mini-tournament)		 Champions Path
(44 teams)
  • 44 champions from associations 7–50
League Path
(16 teams)
  • 6 third-placed teams from associations 1–6
  • 10 runners-up from associations 7–16
Round 2 Champions Path
(14 teams)
  • 3 champions from associations 4–6
  • 11 winners of first qualifying round (Champions Path)
League Path
(10 teams)
  • 6 runners-up from associations 1–6
  • 4 winners of first qualifying round (League Path)
Group stage
(16 teams)
  • Title holders
  • 3 champions from associations 1–3
  • 7 winners of second qualifying round (Champions Path)
  • 5 winners of second qualifying round (League Path)
Knockout phase
(8 teams)
  • 4 group winners of group stage
  • 4 group runners-up of group stage

Teams

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[6]

The qualifying rounds are divided into Champions Path (CH) and League Path (LP).

Qualified teams for 2021–22 UEFA Women's Champions League
Entry round Teams
Group stage (TH) (1st) (1st) (1st)
Round 2 CH (1st) Kopparbergs/Göteborg (1st)[7] (1st)
LP (2nd) (2nd) (2nd) (2nd)
Rosengård[Note SWE] (2nd)[8] (2nd)
Round 1 CH (1st) (1st) (1st) BIIK Kazygurt[Note KAZ] (1st)[9]
Vålerenga[Note NOR] (1st)[10] Breiðablik (Abd-1st)[Note ISL] (1st) (1st)
CSKA Moscow (1st)[11] Dinamo-BGU Minsk (1st)[12] (1st) (1st)
(1st) Gintra Universitetas (1st)[13] (1st) (1st)
(1st) (1st) (1st) Åland United (1st)[14]
(1st) (1st) (1st) (1st)
Peamount United (1st)[15] (1st) (1st) (1st)
(1st) Flora (1st)[16] (1st) (1st)
(1st) (1st) (1st) KÍ (1st)[17]
Glentoran (1st)[18] (1st) Rīgas FS (1st)[19] (1st)
(1st) Tbilisi Nike (1st)[20] (1st) (1st)
LP (3rd) (3rd) (3rd) (3rd)
Kristianstad (3rd)[8] (3rd) (2nd) (2nd)
(2nd) Okzhetpes (2nd)[9] Rosenborg (2nd)[10] Valur (Abd-2nd)[Note ISL]
(2nd) (2nd) Lokomotiv Moscow (2nd)[11] FC Minsk (2nd)[21]

Notes

  1. ^
    Iceland (ISL): The 2020 Úrvalsdeild kvenna was abandoned due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Iceland. The top two teams of the league at the time of the abandonment based on the average number of points per matches played for each team, Breiðablik (who were declared champions) and Valur, were selected to play in the 2021–22 UEFA UEFA Women's Champions League by the Football Association of Iceland, entering the first qualifying round.[22]
  2. ^
    Kazakhstan (KAZ): BIIK Kazygurt will qualify for the group stage if they win the 2020–21 UEFA Women's Champions League.
  3. ^
    Norway (NOR): Vålerenga will qualify for the group stage if they win the 2020–21 UEFA Women's Champions League.
  4. ^
    Sweden (SWE): Rosengård will qualify for the group stage if they win the 2020–21 UEFA Women's Champions League.

Schedule

The schedule of the competition is as follows.[3]

Schedule for 2021–22 UEFA Women's Champions League[23]
Phase Round Draw date First leg Second leg
Qualifying First qualifying round TBC 18 August 2021 (semi-final round) 21 August 2021 (final round & third place match)
Second qualifying round TBC 31 August – 1 September 2021 8–9 September 2021
Group stage Matchday 1 TBC 5–6 October 2021
Matchday 2 13–14 October 2021
Matchday 3 9–10 November 2021
Matchday 4 17–18 November 2021
Matchday 5 8–9 December 2021
Matchday 6 15–16 December 2021
Knockout phase Quarter-finals TBC 22–23 March 2022 30–31 March 2021
Semi-finals 23–24 April 2022 30 April – 1 May 2022
Final 22 May 2022 at Juventus Stadium, Turin

See also

References
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