The UEFA Women's Champions League 2009–10 was the first edition of the newly branded tournament, and the ninth edition of a

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tournament for women's champion

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clubs. For the first time the top 8 leagues of the UEFA were awarded two entry places in this year's season. Germany even got 3 entries, as

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finished outside the top 2 in Germany's league but gained entry as the title holder.

Teams

Qualifying round

The draw was made on 24 June 2009. Teams marked (H) hosted a mini-league. The winners of each group qualified for the next round.

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Group E

Group F

Group G

Knockout phase

Bracket

Round of 32

The 16 seeded teams were drawn one opponent each from the pool of 16 unseeded teams. Teams from the same association could not be drawn against each other. The seeded team played the second leg at home. Matches were played on 30 September and 7 October.

Round of 16

From this round onwards, there was no seeding, and clubs from the same association could be drawn against each other. The drawing for this round was held immediately after the drawing for the round of 32. Therefore, instead of drawing specific teams matches were drawn with the winners playing each other in this round. Matches were played on 4–5 November and 11–12 November. * ¹ Lyon originally won their match 5–0, but the UEFA Appeals Body awarded them a 0–3 defeat as they found Lyon guilty of fielding two ineligible players. Five weeks later, the Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld Lyon's appeal and reinstated the original result.Lyon restored to Women's Champions League
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Quarter-finals

Matches were played on 10 March and 14–17 March.

Semi-finals

Matches were played on 10–11 April and 17–18 April 2010.

Final

Top goalscorers

The top goal scorers including qualifying rounds were:

Round dates

References

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