2013–14 UEFA Women's Champions League
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The 2013–14
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 13th edition of the European women's championship for
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clubs. The final was held at
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. German team
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won the title over Swedish club Tyresö FF after turning a 0–2 into a 4–3 win. Wolfsburg became the third side to defend the Champions League title.


Team allocation and distribution

Austria had overtaken Norway for 8th place in the UEFA coefficient ranking and thus assured themselves a second entry. Countries were allocated places according to their UEFA league coefficient for women. Here CH denotes the national champion, RU the national runner-up, Ned 1 and Bel 1 the best placed Belgian and Dutch team in their joint league. 54 teams entered the competition, with KÍ Klaksvík retaining their record being the only team to play all editions of the UEFA Women's Cup and Women's Champions League so far.


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 second-placed teams

To determine the two best second-placed teams from the qualifying round which advanced to the round of 32, only the results of the second-placed teams against the first and third-placed teams in their group are taken into account.


Knockout phase

22 teams enter the competition in the round of 32. They are joined by ten teams from the qualifying round. Teams marked ''(Q)'' advanced from qualifying. Seeded: *
Lyon Lyon (Franco-Provençal: ''Liyon'') is a city in France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, Switzerland, north ...
* Turbine Potsdam *
Arsenal An arsenal is a place where arms and ammunition are made, maintained and repaired, stored, or issued, in any combination, whether privately or publicly owned. Arsenal and armoury (British English) or armory (American English) are mostly ...
* Rossiyanka * Torres *
Wolfsburg Wolfsburg (; Eastphalian language, Eastphalian: ''Wulfsborg'') is the fifth-largest city in the Germany, German state of Lower Saxony, on the river Aller (Germany), Aller east of Hanover and west of Berlin. Wolfsburg is famous as the locat ...
* Brøndby * LdB Malmö * 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 ...
* Paris S-G * Neulengbach * Zorkiy Krasnogorsk * Glasgow City (Q) *
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* Unia Racibórz (Q) Unseeded: * Tyresö *
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(Q) *
Standard Liège Royal Standard de Liège, commonly referred to as Standard Liège ( ; ; ) or simply Standard in Belgium, is a Belgian professional football club based in the city of Liège. They are one of the most successful clubs in Belgium, having won t ...
*
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) * Tavagnacco * CSHVSM Kairat * MTK (Q) *
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* Lillestrøm SK * PK-35 Vantaa (Q) * Thór/KA * Spratzern *
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(Q) * Spartak Subotica (Q) * Pärnu JK (Q) * Konak Belediyesi (Q)


Bracket


Round of 32

The round of 32 and round of 16 was drawn on 5 September 2013. Teams from the same association or qualifying group couldn't be drawn together. Seeded teams played the second leg at home. Teams are awarded 20,000 Euro for both legs. A sum criticized to be too small by team managers, leaving teams like Arsenal who have to fly by plane with financial losses.


Round of 16


Quarter-finals

An open draw for the quarterfinals and the following rounds on was held 21 November 2013. Matches were played on 22/23 and 29/30 March 2014. ;Notes


Semi-finals

Matches were played on 19 and 27 April 2014.


Final


Statistics

The top scorer award includes the qualifying round.
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of Spartak Subotica won that with eleven goals. The following statistics exclude qualifying round.


Top goalscorers


References


External links


Official website
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