2022–23 UEFA Champions League

2022–23 UEFA Champions League
	The Atatürk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul hosted the final
Tournament details
Dates	Qualifying:; 21 June – 24 August 2022; Competition proper:; 6 September 2022 – 10 June 2023
Teams	Competition proper: 32; Total: 78
Final positions
Champions	Manchester City (1st title)
Runner-up	Inter Milan
Tournament statistics
Matches played	125
Goals scored	372 (2.98 per match)
Attendance	6,194,200 (49,554 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Erling Haaland (Manchester City); 12 goals
Best player	Rodri (Manchester City)
	← 2021–22 2023–24 →

The 2022–23 UEFA Champions League will be the 68th season of Europe's premier club football tournament organised by UEFA.

The final will be played at the Atatürk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul, Turkey. The stadium was originally appointed to host the 2020 UEFA Champions League Final, but both this, and the 2021 final which had been eventually re-allocated to the Atatürk, were moved due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The winner of the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League will automatically qualify for the 2023–24 UEFA Champions League group stage, and also earn the right to play against the winner of the 2022–23 UEFA Europa League in the 2023 UEFA Super Cup.

Real Madrid are the defending champions, having won a record fourteenth title in the previous edition.

Association team allocation

A total of 78 teams from 53 of the 55 UEFA member associations participate in the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League (the exceptions being Russia, who are banned from participating due to 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, and Liechtenstein,^{Note LIE[›]} which does not organise a domestic league). The association ranking based on the UEFA association coefficients is used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:^[1]

Associations 1–4 each have four teams qualify.
Associations 5–6 each have three teams qualify.
Associations 7–15 (except Russia)^{Note RUS[›]} each have two teams qualify.
Associations 16–55 (except Liechtenstein)^{Note LIE[›]} each have one team qualify.
The winners of the 2021–22 UEFA Champions League and 2021–22 UEFA Europa League are each given an additional entry if they do not qualify for the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League through their domestic league.

Association ranking

For the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League, the associations are allocated places according to their 2021 UEFA association coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 2016–17 to 2020–21.^[2]

Apart from the allocation based on the association coefficients, associations may have additional teams participating in the Champions League, as noted below:

(UEL) – Additional berth for UEFA Europa League title holders

Association ranking for 2022–23 UEFA Champions League

Rank	Association	Coeff.	Teams	Notes
1	England	100.569	4
2	Spain	97.855
3	Italy	75.438
4	Germany	73.570		+1 (UEL)
5	France	56.081	3
6	Portugal	48.549	3
7	Netherlands	39.200	2
8	Russia	38.382	0	^{Note RUS[›]}
9	Belgium	36.500	2
10	Austria	35.825
11	Scotland	33.375
12	Ukraine	33.100
13	Turkey	30.100
14	Denmark	27.875
15	Cyprus	27.750
16	Serbia	26.750	1
17	Czech Republic	26.600
18	Croatia	26.275
19	Switzerland	26.225

Rank	Association	Coeff.	Teams	Notes
20	Greece	26.000	1
21	Israel	24.375
22	Norway	21.000
23	Sweden	20.500
24	Bulgaria	20.375
25	Romania	18.200
26	Azerbaijan	16.875
27	Kazakhstan	15.625
28	Hungary	15.500
29	Belarus	15.250
30	Poland	15.125
31	Slovenia	14.250
32	Slovakia	13.625
33	Liechtenstein	9.000	0	^{Note LIE[›]}
34	Lithuania	8.750	1
35	Luxembourg	8.250
36	Bosnia and Herzegovina	8.000
37	Ireland	7.875
38	FYR Macedonia	7.625

Rank	Association	Coeff.	Teams
39	Armenia	7.375	1
40	Latvia	7.375
41	Albania	7.250
42	Northern Ireland	6.958
43	Georgia	6.875
44	Finland	6.875
45	Moldova	6.875
46	Malta	6.375
47	Faroe Islands	6.125
48	Kosovo	5.833
49	Gibraltar	5.666
50	Montenegro	5.000
51	Wales	5.000
52	Iceland	4.875
53	Estonia	4.750
54	Andorra	3.331
55	San Marino	1.166

Distribution

The following is the access list for this season.^[3]

Access list for 2022–23 UEFA Champions League
		Teams entering in this round	Teams advancing from previous round
Preliminary round (4 teams)		4 champions from associations 52–55
First qualifying round (30 teams)		29 champions from associations 22–51 (except Liechtenstein)^{Note LIE[›]}	1 winner from the preliminary round
Second qualifying round (24 teams)	Champions Path (20 teams)	5 champions from associations 17–21	15 winners from the first qualifying round
Second qualifying round (24 teams)	League Path (4 teams)	4 runners-up from associations 12–15
Third qualifying round (20 teams)	Champions Path (12 teams)	2 champions from associations 15–16	10 winners from the second qualifying round (Champions Path)
Third qualifying round (20 teams)	League Path (8 teams)	4 runners-up from associations 7–11 (except Russia)^{Note RUS[›]} 2 third-placed teams from associations 5–6	2 winners from the second qualifying round (League Path)
Play-off round (12 teams)	Champions Path (8 teams)	2 champions from associations 13–14	6 winners from the third qualifying round (Champions Path)
Play-off round (12 teams)	League Path (4 teams)		4 winners from the third qualifying round (League Path)
Group stage (32 teams)		Europa League title holders 11 champions from associations 1–12 (except Russia)^{Note RUS[›]} 6 runners-up from associations 1–6 4 third-placed teams from associations 1–4 4 fourth-placed teams from associations 1–4	4 winners from the play-off round (Champions Path) 2 winners from the play-off round (League Path)
Knockout phase (16 teams)			8 group winners from the group stage 8 group runners-up from the group stage

Due to the suspension of Russia for the 2022–23 European season, and since the Champions League title holders (Real Madrid) have qualified via their domestic league, the following changes to the access list have been made:^[4]

The champions of association 11 (Scotland) and 12 (Ukraine) enter the group stage instead of the play-off round (Champions Path).
The champions of association 13 (Turkey) and 14 (Denmark) enter the play-off round instead of the third qualifying round (Champions Path).
The champions of association 15 (Cyprus) and 16 (Serbia) enter the third qualifying round instead of the second qualifying round (Champions Path).
The champions of associations 18 (Croatia), 19 (Switzerland), 20 (Greece) and 21 (Israel) 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).

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 are subject to approval by UEFA

The second qualifying round, third qualifying round and play-off round are divided into Champions Path (CH) and League Path (LP).

CC: 2022 UEFA club coefficients.^[5]

Qualified teams for 2022–23 UEFA Champions League
Entry round		Teams
Group stage		Real Madrid (1st)^TH	Eintracht Frankfurt (EL)	Manchester City (1st)	Liverpool (2nd)
		Chelsea (3rd)	Tottenham Hotspur (4th)	Barcelona (2nd)	Atlético Madrid (3rd)
		Sevilla (4th)	Milan (1st)	Inter Milan (2nd)	Napoli (3rd)
		Juventus (4th)	Bayern Munich (1st)	Borussia Dortmund (2nd)	Bayer Leverkusen (3rd)
		RB Leipzig (4th)	Paris Saint-Germain (1st)	Marseille (2nd)	Porto (1st)
		Sporting CP (2nd)	Ajax (1st)	Club Brugge (1st)	Red Bull Salzburg (1st)
		Celtic (1st)	Shakhtar Donetsk (Abd-1st)^{[Note UKR]}

Play-off round	CH	Trabzonspor (1st)	Copenhagen (1st)

Third qualifying round	CH	Apollon Limassol (1st)	Red Star Belgrade (1st)
	LP	Monaco (3rd)	Benfica (3rd)	PSV Eindhoven (2nd)	Union Saint-Gilloise (2nd)
	LP	Sturm Graz (2nd)	Rangers (2nd)

Second qualifying round	CH	Viktoria Plzeň (1st)	Dinamo Zagreb (1st)	Zürich (1st)	Olympiacos (1st)
	CH	Maccabi Haifa (1st)
	LP	Dynamo Kyiv (Abd-2nd)^{[Note UKR]}	Fenerbahçe (2nd)	Midtjylland (2nd)	AEK Larnaca (2nd)

First qualifying round		Bodø/Glimt (1st)	Malmö FF (1st)	Ludogorets Razgrad (1st)	CFR Cluj (1st)
		Qarabağ (1st)	Tobol (1st)	Ferencváros (1st)	Shakhtyor Soligorsk (1st)
		Lech Poznań (1st)	Maribor (1st)	Slovan Bratislava (1st)	Žalgiris (1st)
		F91 Dudelange (1st)	Zrinjski (1st)	Shamrock Rovers (1st)	Shkupi (1st)
		Pyunik (1st)	RFS (1st)	Tirana (1st)	Linfield (1st)
		Dinamo Batumi (1st)	HJK (1st)	Sheriff Tiraspol (1st)	Hibernians (1st)
		KÍ (1st)	Ballkani (1st)	Lincoln Red Imps (1st)	Sutjeska Nikšić (1st)
		The New Saints (1st)

Preliminary round		Víkingur Reykjavík (1st)	FCI Levadia (1st)	Inter Club d'Escaldes (1st)	La Fiorita (1st)

Notes

^ Liechtenstein (LIE): The seven teams affiliated with the Liechtenstein Football Association (LFV) all play in the Swiss football league system. The only competition organised by the LFV is the Liechtenstein Football Cup – the winners of which qualify for the UEFA Europa Conference League.
^ Russia (RUS): On 28 February 2022, Russian football clubs and national teams were suspended from FIFA and UEFA competitions due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.^[6] On 2 May 2022, UEFA confirmed that Russian clubs would be excluded from the 2022–23 UEFA competitions.^[4]
^ Ukraine (UKR): The 2021–22 Ukrainian Premier League was abandoned due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. The top two teams of the league at the time of the abandonment (Shakhtar Donetsk and Dynamo Kyiv) were selected to play in the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League by the Ukrainian Association of Football.

Schedule

The schedule of the competition is as follows. All matches are played on Tuesdays and Wednesdays apart from the preliminary round final. Scheduled kick-off times starting from the play-off round are 18:45 and 21:00 CEST/CET.^[7]

As the 2022 FIFA World Cup takes place in Qatar between 21 November and 18 December 2022, the group stage will commence in the first week of September 2022 and conclude in the first week of November 2022 to make way for the World Cup.

All draws start at 12:00 CEST/CET and are held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.^[8]

Schedule for 2022–23 UEFA Champions League^[9]
Phase	Round	Draw date	First leg	Second leg
Qualifying	Preliminary round	7 June 2022	21 June 2022 (semi-finals)	24 June 2022 (final)
	First qualifying round	14 June 2022	5–6 July 2022	12–13 July 2022
	Second qualifying round	15 June 2022	19–20 July 2022	26–27 July 2022
	Third qualifying round	18 July 2022	2–3 August 2022	9 August 2022
Play-offs	Play-off round	1 August 2022	16–17 August 2022	23–24 August 2022
Group stage	Matchday 1	25 August 2022	6–7 September 2022
	Matchday 2		13–14 September 2022
	Matchday 3		4–5 October 2022
	Matchday 4		11–12 October 2022
	Matchday 5		25–26 October 2022
	Matchday 6		1–2 November 2022
Knockout phase	Round of 16	7 November 2022	14–15 & 21–22 February 2023	7–8 & 14–15 March 2023
	Quarter-finals	17 March 2023	11–12 April 2023	18–19 April 2023
	Semi-finals		9–10 May 2023	16–17 May 2023
	Final		10 June 2023 at Atatürk Olympic Stadium, Istanbul

Qualifying rounds

Main page: 2022–23 UEFA Champions League qualifying rounds

Preliminary round

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First qualifying round

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Second qualifying round

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Third qualifying round

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Play-off round

Main page: 2022–23 UEFA Champions League play-off round

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Group stage

Main page: 2022–23 UEFA Champions League group stage

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Tottenham Hotspur

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Atlético Madrid
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Inter Milan

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Location of teams of the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League group stage.

The draw for the group stage will be held on 25 August 2022. The 32 teams will be drawn into eight groups of four. For the draw, the teams are seeded into four pots, each of eight teams, based on the following principles:

Pot 1 contain 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 titleholders, Real Madrid, are also the champions of Association 2 (Spain), the champions of Association 7 (Netherlands), Ajax, will also be seeded into Pot 1.

Pots 2, 3 and 4 contain the remaining teams, seeded based on their 2022 UEFA club coefficients.

Teams from the same association could not be drawn into the same group.

Eintracht Frankfurt will make their debut appearance in the group stage after winning Europa League. This season is also the first in which five German clubs will play in the group stage.

Pot 1

Real Madrid CC: 124.000
Eintracht Frankfurt CC: 61.000
Manchester City CC: 134.000
Milan CC: 38.000
Bayern Munich CC: 138.000
Paris Saint-Germain CC: 112.000
Porto CC: 80.000
Ajax CC: 82.500

Pot 2

Liverpool CC: 134.000
Chelsea CC: 123.000
Barcelona CC: 114.000
Juventus CC: 107.000
Atlético Madrid CC: 105.000
Sevilla CC: 91.000
RB Leipzig CC: 83.000
Tottenham Hotspur CC: 83.000

Pot 3

Borussia Dortmund CC: 78.000
Red Bull Salzburg CC: 71.000
Shakhtar Donetsk CC: 71.000
Inter Milan CC: 67.000
Napoli CC: 66.000
Sporting CP CC: 55.500
Bayer Leverkusen CC: 53.000

Pot 3 or 4

Marseille CC: 44.000
2 winners from the play-off round (League Path)
4 winners from the play-off round (Champions Path)

Pot 4

Club Brugge CC: 38.500
Celtic CC: 33.000