The 2012–13
UEFA Women's Champions League
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was the 12th edition of the European women's championship for
football
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clubs. The final was held at
Stamford Bridge,
London
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,
England
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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. A first entry list was posted on 14 June 2012 by the Belgian representative. 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.
:1. On 6 December 2011 it was announced that the
2011 FA WSL Runners-up were given the spot, and not as initially planned the
2011–12 FA Women's Cup winner.
Round and draw dates
UEFA has scheduled the competition as follows.
Qualifying round
32 teams entered in the qualifying round, and were divided into eight groups of four teams, with one team from each seeding pot. Host countries won't be drawn together.
Groups were played as mini tournaments over a span of six days.
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Group 4
Group 5
Group 6
Group 7
Group 8
Ranking of group runners-up
The two best runners-up also qualify for the round of 32. The match against the fourth-placed team in the group does not count for the purposes of the runners-up table. The tie-breakers in this ranking are:
# Higher number of points obtained
# Superior goal difference
# Higher number of goals scored
# Higher number of club coefficient points
# Fair play conduct in all group matches
Knockout stage
The top 16 ranked teams are seeded for the round of 32. Team that qualified through the qualifying round are marked with (Q).
Seeded:
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Lyon
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Turbine Potsdam
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Arsenal
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Rossiyanka
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Brøndby
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Torres
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Juvisy
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The city is known for Gare de Juvisy, ...
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Bardolino Verona
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Neulengbach
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Göteborg
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Sparta Praha
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Fortuna Hjørring
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LdB Malmö
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Røa
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Wolfsburg
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Zorky Krasnogorsk
Unseeded:
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Glasgow City (Q)
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Unia Racibórz (Q)
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Standard Liège
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They are one of the most successful clubs in Belgium, having won t ...
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Birmingham City
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Stabæk
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Zürich
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(Q)
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Apollon Limassol
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(Q)
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SFK 2000
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(Q)
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MTK (Q)
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Barcelona
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PK-35 Vantaa (Q)
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Stjarnan
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Basketball Men's basketball
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Olimpia Cluj (Q)
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BIIK Kazygurt (Q)
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Spartak Subotica (Q)
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ADO Den Haag
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Bracket
Round of 32
Round of 16
Quarter-finals
There was an open draw held for the quarterfinals and the following rounds on 27 November 2012.
Semi-finals
Final
Statistics
Top scorers (excluding qualifying rounds and play-off round):
Top goalscorers
The top-scorer award is given to the player scoring the most goals including the qualifying rounds, thus
Romania
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n player
Laura Rus from Apollon Limassol won the award by scoring 11 goals up to the round of 32. Conny Pohlers scored her 42nd goal in the competition history, to become the sole all-time topscorer.
The following are the top scorers excluding the qualifying round.
Source:
References
External links
Official website
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Champions League
UEFA Women's Champions League seasons