The
2021–22 UEFA Women's Champions League
The 2021–22 UEFA Women's Champions League was 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 was the first edition to fe ...
qualifying rounds began on 17 August and ended on 9 September 2021.
A total of 68 teams competed in the group stage qualifying rounds of the 2021–22 UEFA Women's Champions League, which includes two rounds, with 46 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
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, to join the four teams that entered in that round.
Times are
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), as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).
Teams
Champions Path
The Champions Path included all league champions which did not qualify directly for the group stage, and consisted of the following rounds:
*Round 1 (43 teams playing one-legged semi-finals, final and third place match): 43 teams which entered in this round.
*Round 2 (14 teams): three teams which entered in this round and eleven winners of the round 1 finals.
Below are the participating teams of the Champions Path (with their 2021
UEFA club coefficients),
grouped by their starting rounds.
League Path
The League Path includes all league non-champions and consists of the following rounds:
*Round 1 (16 teams playing one-legged semi-finals, final and 3rd place match): 16 teams which enter in this round.
*Round 2 (10 teams): 6 teams which enter in this round and 4 winners of the round 1 finals.
Below are the participating teams of the League Path (with their 2021
UEFA club coefficients),
grouped by their starting rounds.
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
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was played, and if the same amount of goals were scored by both teams during extra time, the tie was decided by a
penalty shoot-out
The penalty shootout is a method of determining a winner in sports matches that would have otherwise been drawn or tied. The rules for penalty shootouts vary between sports and even different competitions; however, the usual form is similar to pen ...
. 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, the
away goals rule
The away goals rule is a method of tiebreaker, tiebreaking in association football and other sports when teams play each other twice, once at each team's home ground. Under the away goals rule, if the total goals scored by each team are equal, the ...
was no longer applied starting from this season.
To decide the winner of the tie, extra time was played, and if the same amount of goals were scored by both teams at the end of normal time, the tie was 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 hadn't 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 are purely for convenience of the draw and do not resemble any real groupings in the sense of the competition. Teams from associations with political conflicts as decided by UEFA may not be 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 is as follows (all draws are held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland).
Round 1
The draw for Round 1 was held on 2 July 2021, 13:00
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The hosts of each tournament were selected after the draw. The semi-finals were played on 17 and 18 August, and the third-place play-offs and finals on 20 and 21 August 2021. The winners of the finals advanced to round 2.
Seeding
A total of 59 teams played in Round 1. They were divided into two paths:
*Champions Path (43 teams): 43 teams which entered in this round.
*League Path (16 teams): 16 teams which entered in this round.
Seeding of teams for the semi-final round was based on their 2021
UEFA club coefficients,
with 22 seeded teams and 21 unseeded teams in the Champions Path, and 8 seeded teams and 8 unseeded teams in the League Path. Teams were drawn into two semi-finals within each four team group and, for the group with three teams, the team with the highest coefficient was given a
bye to the final. In the semi-finals, seeded teams would be considered the "home" team for administrative purposes, while in the third-place play-offs and finals, the teams with the highest coefficients would be 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 / Russia.
Champions Path
Tournament 1
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Hosted by
Gintra Universitetas
FC Gintra is a Lithuanian women's football club from Šiauliai. It is the team of the local Šiauliai University.
History
The club plays in the highest Lithuanian league, the A Lyga and has won 13 championships so far. The fourth one in 2005 and ...
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Tournament 2
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Hosted by
Glasgow City.
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Tournament 3
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Hosted by
Osijek
Osijek () is the fourth-largest city in Croatia, with a population of 96,848 in 2021. It is the largest city and the economic and cultural centre of the eastern Croatian region of Slavonia, as well as the administrative centre of Osijek-Baranja ...
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Tournament 4
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Hosted by
SFK 2000
SFK 2000 Sarajevo ''(BIH)'' is a women's professional football club from the city of Sarajevo that is situated in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The club competes in the highest level of women's football in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Bosnia and Herzego ...
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Tournament 5
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Hosted by
Åland United
Åland United is a Finnish women's football club based in Lemland, Åland. They compete in the Kansallinen Liiga, the premier women's football league in Finland.
In 2004 Åland's clubs Lemlands IF and IF Finströms Kamraterna decided to stren ...
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Tournament 6
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Hosted by
Apollon Limassol
Apollon Limassol FC ( el, Απόλλων Λεμεσού, ''Apollon Lemesou'') is a Cypriot sports club, based in Limassol. It has football, basketball and volleyball teams. Founded in 1954, Apollon FC currently plays in the Cypriot First Divisi ...
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Tournament 7
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Hosted by
PAOK.
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Tournament 8
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Hosted by
Juventus
Juventus Football Club (from la, iuventūs, 'youth'; ), colloquially known as Juve (), is a professional Association football, football club based in Turin, Piedmont, Italy, that competes in the Serie A, the top tier of the Italian football leagu ...
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Tournament 9
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Hosted by
Twente
Twente ( nl, Twente , Tweants dialect: ''Tweante'') is a region in the eastern Netherlands. It encompasses the most urbanised and easternmost part of the province of Overijssel. Twente is most likely named after the Tuihanti or Tvihanti, a Germ ...
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The third place play-off between Peamount United and Tbilisi Nike was cancelled following a decision taken by the Dutch health authorities to put the whole team of Tbilisi Nike into quarantine after a player had tested positive for
COVID-19
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. The result of the match was awarded by UEFA as a 3–0 win for Peamount United.
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Tournament 10
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Hosted by
Pomurje.
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Tournament 11
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Hosted by
Czarni Sosnowiec
Kolejowy Klub Sportowy Czarni Sosnowiec, commonly referred to as Czarni Sosnowiec, is a football club from Sosnowiec, Poland. The club was founded in 1924, and its home ground is the Jan Ciszewski's Stadium. It has a women's and a men's section.
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League Path
Tournament 1
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Hosted by
Zürich
Zürich () is the list of cities in Switzerland, largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zürich. It is located in north-central Switzerland, at the northwestern tip of Lake Zürich. As of January 2020, the municipality has 43 ...
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Tournament 2
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Hosted by
Kristianstad
Kristianstad (, ; older spelling from Danish language, Danish ''Christianstad'') is a Urban areas in Sweden, city and the seat of Kristianstad Municipality, Scania County, Sweden with 40,145 inhabitants in 2016. During the last 15 years, it has ...
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Tournament 3
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Hosted by
Rosenborg.
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Tournament 4
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Hosted by
Lokomotiv Moscow
FC Lokomotiv Moscow (''FC Lokomotiv Moskva'', russian: link=no, Футбольный клуб "Локомотив" Москва, ) is a Russian professional football club based in Moscow
Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москв ...
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Round 2
The draw for Round 2 was held on 22 August 2021, 13:00
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Seeding
A total of 24 teams play in Round 2. They were divided into two paths:
*Champions Path (14 teams): 3 teams which entered in this round, and 11 winners of Round 1 (Champions Path).
*League Path (10 teams): 6 teams which entered in this round, and 4 winners of Round 1 (League Path).
Seeding of teams was based on their 2021
UEFA club coefficients,
with 7 seeded teams and 7 unseeded teams in the Champions Path, and 5 seeded teams and 5 unseeded teams in the League Path. Teams from the same association in the League Path could not be drawn against each other. The first team drawn in each tie would be the home team of the first leg.
Summary
The first legs were played on 31 August and 1 September, and the second legs on 8 and 9 September 2021.
The winners of the ties will advance to the
group stage
A tournament is a competition involving at least three competitors, all participating in a sport or game. More specifically, the term may be used in either of two overlapping senses:
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, +Champions Path
, +League Path
Champions Path
''Køge won 3–0 on aggregate.''
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''Breiðablik won 4–1 on aggregate.''
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''Juventus won 3–0 on aggregate.''
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''Benfica won 5–1 on aggregate.''
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''Zhytlobud-1 Kharkiv won 5–2 on aggregate.''
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''Servette Chênois won 3–2 on aggregate.''
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''BK Häcken won 6–3 on aggregate.''
League Path
''Lyon won 4–2 on aggregate.''
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''Arsenal won 7–0 on aggregate.''
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''Real Madrid won 2–1 on aggregate.''
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''5–5 on aggregate. VfL Wolfsburg won after
penalties
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''1899 Hoffenheim won 6–3 on aggregate.''
References
External links
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Fixtures and Results, 2021–22 UEFA.com
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August 2021 sports events in Europe
September 2021 sports events in Europe