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championship organised by

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, and the 14th edition since being rebranded as the

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. It was the second edition to feature a 16-team group stage. The

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was held at the

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, Netherlands. The winners of the 2022–23 UEFA Women's Champions League automatically qualified for the 2023–24 UEFA Women's Champions League group stage.

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were the defending champions, having won a record-extending eighth title after winning the 2022 final. They were unable to defend their title after being defeated by Chelsea in the quarter-finals.

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won their second title by defeating

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3–2 in the

Association team allocation

The association ranking based on the UEFA women's Association coefficients was used to determine the number of participating teams for each association: *Associations 1–6 each had three teams qualify. *Associations 7–16 each had two teams qualify. *All other associations (except Russia), if they entered, each have one team qualify. *The winners of the

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were given an additional entry if they did not qualify for the 2022–23 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 (1 club in Spain), Liechtenstein (3 clubs in Switzerland) and San Marino (1 club in Italy).

Association ranking

For the 2022–23 UEFA Women's Champions League, the associations were allocated places according to their 2021 UEFA Women's Association coefficients, which took into account their performance in European competitions from 2016–2017 to 2020–2021. ;Notes *NR – No rank (association did not enter in any of the seasons used for computing coefficients) *DNE – Did not enter *NL – No women's domestic league

Distribution

Teams

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round: *TH: Title holders *1st, second, third: League positions of the previous season *Abd-: League positions of abandoned season as determined by the national association The two qualifying rounds, round 1 and round 2, were divided into Champions Path (CP) and League Path (LP). ''CC: 2022 UEFA women's club coefficients.'' Notes

Schedule

The schedule of the competition was as follows.

Qualifying rounds

Round 1

Champions Path

;Tournament 1 ;Tournament 2 ;Tournament 3 ;Tournament 4 ;Tournament 5 ;Tournament 6 ;Tournament 7 ;Tournament 8 ;Tournament 9 ;Tournament 10 ;Tournament 11

League Path

;Tournament 1 ;Tournament 2 ;Tournament 3 ;Tournament 4

Round 2

Group stage

The draw was held 3 October 2022 and saw the 16 teams split into four pools of four teams.

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Knockout phase

In the

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, teams played against each other over two legs on a home-and-away basis, except for the one-match final. The mechanism of the draws for each round was as follows: * In the draw for the quarter-finals, the four group winners were seeded, and the four group runners-up were unseeded. The seeded teams were drawn against the unseeded teams, and the seeded teams hosted the second leg. Teams from the same group could not be drawn against each other. * A draw was also held to determine which semi-final winner was designated as the "home" team for the final (for administrative purposes as it was played at a neutral venue).

Bracket

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

Statistics

Statistics exclude qualifying rounds.

Top goalscorers

Team of the season

The UEFA technical study group selected the following players as the team of the tournament.

Player of the season

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Young player of the season

* Lena Oberdorf (

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References

External links

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