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championship organised by

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, and the 15th edition since being rebranded as the

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

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was held at San Mamés Stadium in

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were the defending champions and defended their title with a 2–0 win over

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in home-country venues.

Association team allocation

The association ranking based on the UEFA women's country 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, if they entered, each had one team qualify. *The winners of the

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were given an additional entry if they did not qualify for the 2023–24 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 2022–23, 52 of the 55 UEFA member associations organized 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 2023–24 UEFA Women's Champions League, the associations were allocated places according to their 2022 UEFA women's Association coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 2017–18 to 2021–22.

Distribution

Since the Champions League title holders

have qualified via their domestic leagues, the following changes to the access list have been made: *The champions of association 4 (England) enter the group stage instead of Round 2 (Champions Path). *The champions of association 7 (Italy) enter Round 2 instead of Round 1 (Champions Path).

Teams

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round: *TH: Title holders *1st, 2nd, 3rd: League positions of the previous season The two qualifying rounds, round 1 and round 2, were divided into Champions Path (CP) and League Path (LP). '' UEFA women's club coefficients.'' Notes

Schedule

The schedule of the competition was as follows.

Qualifying rounds

Round 1

A total of 57 teams played in 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

Seeding

A total of 24 teams played in Round 2. The draw took place on 15 September 2023.

Group stage

The draw was held 20 October 2023 and saw the 16 teams split into four pools of four teams.

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Knockout phase

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

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References

External links

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