2012–13 UEFA Women's Champions League

2012–13 UEFA Women's Champions League
	Stamford Bridge in London hosted the final.
Tournament details
Dates	11 August 2012 – 23 May 2013
Teams	54
Final positions
Champions	Wolfsburg (1st title)
Runners-up	Lyon
Tournament statistics
Top scorer(s)	Laura Rus (11 goals)
	← 2011–12 2013–14 →

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.^[2] A first entry list was posted on 14 June 2012 by the Belgian representative.^[3] 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)
LdB Malmö (CH)	Göteborg (RU)	Rossiyanka (CH)	Zorky Krasnogorsk (RU)
Arsenal (CH)	Birmingham City (RU)^{Note 1}	Brøndby (CH)	Fortuna Hjørring (RU)
Torres (CH)	Bardolino Verona (RU)	Røa (CH)	Stabæk (RU)
Stjarnan (CH)	Neulengbach (CH)	Barcelona (CH)	Standard Liège (CH)
Sparta Praha (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. Ladies (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,^[4] and not as initially planned the 2011–12 FA Women's Cup winner.^[5]

Round and draw dates

UEFA has scheduled the competition as follows.^[6]

Round	Draw	First leg	Second leg
Qualifying round	28 June 2012^[7]	11–16 August 2012
Round of 32	23 August 2012	26–27 September 2012	3–4 October 2012
Round of 16	23 August 2012	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 enter in the qualifying round, and were divided into eight groups of four teams, with one team from each seeding pot. The group-winners and best two runners-up qualify for the round of 32.

Seeding and draw

32 teams entered in the qualifying round, and were divided into eight groups of four teams, with one team from each seeding pot:^[8]

Pot 1

Pot 2

Pot 3

Pot 4

The eight hosts were confirmed by UEFA before the draw, and two hosts could not be placed in the same group. Each team played the other teams in the group once. The matches were played between 11 and 16 August 2012. The draw was held on 28 June 2012.^[9]

Tie-breaker criteria

As usual in UEFA competitions, three points are awarded for a win, and one point for a draw. If teams are equal on points after all matches have been played, the following criteria applies:

Higher number of points obtained in the matches among the teams in question.
Superior goal difference resulting from the matches among the teams in question.
Higher number of goals scored in the matches among the teams in question.
Superior goal difference in all group matches
Higher number of goals scored in all group matches
Higher number of club coefficient points
Drawing of lots

Criteria 1–3 are reapplied until the tie cannot be resolved; only then is criteria 4 used.

Group 1

Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Zürich	3	3	0	14	0	+14	9
Pomurje (H)	3	2	1	13	5	+8	6
Ataşehir Belediyesi	3	1	2	5	10	−5	3
Gintra Universitetas	3	0	3	3	20	−17	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
(H) Hosts

11 August 2012