2012–13 UEFA Women's Champions League
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UEFA Women's Champions League The UEFA Women's Champions League, previously called the UEFA Women's Cup (2001–2009), is a European women's association football competition. It involves the top club teams from countries affiliated with the European governing body UEFA. ...
was the 12th edition of the European women's championship for
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clubs. The final was held at Stamford Bridge,
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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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Turbine Potsdam 1. Frauenfußballclub Turbine Potsdam 71 e. V., commonly known as 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam (or Turbine Potsdam outside of Germany), is a German women's football club located in Potsdam, Brandenburg. They are one of the most successful women's footb ...
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* Rossiyanka * Brøndby * Torres *
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* Bardolino Verona * Neulengbach * Göteborg * Sparta Praha *
Fortuna Hjørring Fortuna Hjørring is a women's association football team from Hjørring, Denmark. The club was formed in 1966 and play in green and white. Their biggest achievement in European football was reaching the 2002–03 UEFA Women's Cup final where the ...
* LdB Malmö * Røa *
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* Zorky Krasnogorsk Unseeded: * Glasgow City (Q) * Unia Racibórz (Q) *
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*
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* Stabæk *
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(Q) *
Apollon Limassol Apollon Limassol FC (, ''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 Division and has won the championship tit ...
(Q) *
SFK 2000 SFK 2000 Sarajevo ( Bosnian: ŽFK 2000 Sarajevo) 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, th ...
(Q) * MTK (Q) *
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* PK-35 Vantaa (Q) *
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* Olimpia Cluj (Q) * BIIK Kazygurt (Q) * Spartak Subotica (Q) *
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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
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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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