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The 2022–23 UEFA Champions League was the 68th season of Europe's premier club
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tournament organised by
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, and the 31st season since it was renamed from the
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. The 2023 final was contested by English club
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and Italian club
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, with the former winning 1–0 via a second-half goal by Rodri, who was named
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by UEFA. For Manchester City, this was their first-ever European Cup, and first European trophy since
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, in the
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were the defending champions, having won a record-extending fourteenth European Cup title in the previous edition, but they were eliminated by eventual champions Manchester City in the
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Association team allocation

A total of 78 teams from 53 of the 55
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member associations participated in the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League (the exceptions being Russia, who were banned from participating due to the
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, which did not organise a domestic league). The association ranking based on the UEFA association coefficients was used to determine the number of participating teams for each association: *Associations 1–4 each had four teams qualify. *Associations 5–6 each had three teams qualify. *Associations 7–15 (except
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) each had two teams qualify. *Associations 16–55 (except
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) each had one team qualify. *The winners of the
2021–22 UEFA Champions League The 2021–22 UEFA Champions League was the 67th season of Europe's premier club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 30th season since it was renamed from the European Champion Clubs' Cup to the UEFA Champions League. Real Madrid de ...
and
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were each given an additional entry if they did not qualify for the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League through their domestic league.


Association ranking

For the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League, the associations were allocated places according to their 2021 UEFA association coefficients, which took into account their performance in European competitions from 2016–17 to 2020–21. Apart from the allocation based on the association coefficients, associations could have additional teams participating in the Champions League, as noted below: * – Additional berth for UEFA Europa League title holders


Distribution

The following is the access list for this season. Due to the suspension of Russia for the 2022–23 European season, the following changes to the access list were made: *The champions of association 11 (Scotland) enter the group stage instead of the play-off round (Champions Path). *The champions of association 13 (Turkey) enter the play-off round instead of the third qualifying round (Champions Path). *The champions of association 15 (Cyprus) enter the third qualifying round instead of the second qualifying round (Champions Path). *The champions of associations 18 (Croatia) and 19 (Switzerland) enter the second qualifying round instead of the first qualifying round (Champions Path). *The runners-up of associations 10 (Austria) and 11 (Scotland) enter the third qualifying round instead of the second qualifying round (League Path). Since the Champions League title holders (
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) qualified via their domestic league, the following changes to the access list were made: *The champions of association 12 (Ukraine) enter the group stage instead of the play-off round (Champions Path). *The champions of association 14 (Denmark) enter the play-off round instead of the third qualifying round (Champions Path). *The champions of association 16 (Serbia) enter the third qualifying round instead of the second qualifying round (Champions Path). *The champions of associations 20 (Greece) and 21 (Israel) enter the second qualifying round instead of the first qualifying round (Champions Path).


Teams

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round: *TH: Champions League title holders *EL: Europa League title holders *1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc.: League positions of the previous season *Abd-: League positions of abandoned season as determined by the national association; all teams were subject to approval by UEFA The second qualifying round, third qualifying round and play-off round were divided into Champions Path (CH) and League Path (LP). Notes


Round and draw dates

The schedule of the competition was as follows. All matches were played on Tuesdays and Wednesdays apart from the preliminary round final and the final. Scheduled kick-off times starting from the play-off round were 18:45 and 21:00 CEST/CET. As the
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, Switzerland. The group stage draw took place in
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, Turkey.


Qualifying rounds


Preliminary round


First qualifying round


Second qualifying round


Third qualifying round


Play-off round


Group stage

The draw for the group stage was held on 25 August 2022. The 32 teams were drawn into eight groups of four. For the draw, the teams were seeded into four pots, each of eight teams, based on the following principles: *Pot 1 contained the Champions League and Europa League title holders, and the champions of the top six associations based on their 2021 UEFA country coefficients. Since the Champions League title holders,
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, were also the champions of Association 2 (Spain), the champions of Association 7 (Netherlands),
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, were seeded into Pot 1. *Pots 2, 3 and 4 contained the remaining teams, seeded based on their 2022 UEFA club coefficients. Teams from the same association could not be drawn into the same group.
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made their debut appearance in the group stage (and first appearance in the European Cup since their loss in the 1960 final) after winning the
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and, as a result, this was the first time that five German clubs played in the group stage. A total of 15 national associations were represented in the group stage. This season was the first since the 1995–96 edition in which a Turkish side failed to qualify for the group stage. It was also the first time since the 2007–08 season that two Scottish sides qualified for the group stage.


Group A


Group B


Group C


Group D


Group E


Group F


Group G


Group H


Knockout phase

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, teams played against each other over two legs on a home-and-away basis, except for the one-match final.


Bracket


Round of 16


Quarter-finals


Semi-finals


Final


Statistics

Statistics exclude qualifying rounds and play-off round.


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

* Rodri (
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)


Young Player of the Season

*
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See also

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2022–23 UEFA Europa League The 2022–23 UEFA Europa League was the 52nd season of Europe's secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 14th season since it was renamed from the UEFA Cup to the UEFA Europa League. Sevilla defeated Roma in the final pl ...
*
2022–23 UEFA Europa Conference League The 2022–23 UEFA Europa Conference League was the second season of the UEFA Europa Conference League, Europe's tertiary club football tournament organised by UEFA. The final was played at Fortuna Arena in Prague, Czech Republic. It was won ...
*
2023 UEFA Super Cup The 2023 UEFA Super Cup was the 48th edition of the UEFA Super Cup, an annual football match organised by UEFA and contested by the reigning champions of the top two European club competitions, the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Europa League. ...
*
2022–23 UEFA Women's Champions League The 2022–23 UEFA Women's Champions League was the 22nd edition of the European women's club football championship organised by UEFA, and the 14th edition since being rebranded as the UEFA Women's Champions League. It was the second edition to f ...
* 2022–23 UEFA Youth League


References


External links

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