2011–12 UEFA Women's Champions League

2011–12 UEFA Women's Champions League
The Olympiastadion in Munich hosted the final.
Tournament details
Dates11 August 2011 to 17 May 2012[1]
Teams54
Final positions
Champions Lyon (2nd title)
Runners-up Frankfurt
Tournament statistics
Top scorer(s) Eugénie Le Sommer
Camille Abily
(9 goals)

The 2011–12 UEFA Women's Champions League was the eleventh edition of the European women's championship for football clubs. The final was held in the Olympiastadion in Munich, Germany on 17 May 2012.[2]

As in the past two Champions League seasons, the eight highest ranked nations got two entries to the tournament. The point of entry was changed this season however. In the previous years the national runners-up had to enter the qualification round. With those teams always easing through their groups, with the exception of Umeå in 2010–11, UEFA decided to give those a direct entry to the round of 32. As a result, eight nations which under previous rules would have had direct entry to that round now had to go through the qualifying stage.

Team allocation and distribution

A total of 54 teams from 46 UEFA associations were confirmed to be entering this year's competition by UEFA on 15 June 2011.[3] This is a new record for the Women's Champions league, as Albania and Latvia are represented for the first time, and the winners of the Luxembourg league entered for the first time since 2001–02. In total 11 teams got their European debut.[4] Countries are allocated places according to their 2010 UEFA league coefficient for women,[5][6] taking into account performances in women's club competitions between 2005–06 and 2009–10.

Associations ranked 1–8 entered two clubs, the remaining associations entered one team. Unlike the men's Champions League, not every association have entered teams in the past, so the exact number of clubs in each round was only known shortly before the draw.

Teams entering in this round Teams advancing from previous round Competition format
Qualifying round
(32 teams)
  • 32 domestic league winners from associations ranked 15–53

8 groups of 4 clubs, hosted by one club, seeded into four pots by UEFA club coefficient

Round of 32
(32 teams)
  • 14 domestic league winners from associations 1–14
  • 8 domestic league runners-up from associations 1–8
  • 8 group winners from qualifying round
  • 2 best group runners-up from qualifying round

Two-legged knockout, seeded by UEFA club coefficient

Round and draw dates

UEFA has scheduled the competition as follows.[7]

Round Draw First leg Second leg
Qualifying round 23 June 2011 11–16 August 2011
Round of 32 23 August 2011 28–29 September 2011 5–6 October 2011
Round of 16 2–3 November 2011 9–10 November 2011
Quarterfinal 17 November 2011 14–15 March 2012 21–22 March 2012
Semifinal 14–15 April 2012 21–22 April 2012
Final 17 May 2012

Teams

Round of 32
Turbine Potsdam (CH) Frankfurt (RU) Malmö (CH) Göteborg (RU)
Lyon (CH) Paris Saint-Germain (RU) Rossiyanka (CH) Energy Voronezh (RU)
Arsenal (CW)1 Bristol Academy (CR) Brøndby (CH) Fortuna Hjørring (RU)
Torres (CH) Tavagnacco (RU) Valur (CH) Þór/KA (RU)
Stabæk (CH) Neulengbach (CH) Sparta Prague (CH) Twente (CH)
Standard Liège (CH) CSHVSM (CH)
Qualifying round
Rayo Vallecano (CH) YB Frauen (CH) Bobruichanka (CH) Unia Racibórz (CH)
Lehenda-ShVSM (CH) PK-35 Vantaa (CH) MTK (CH) SFK 2000 (CH)
PAOK (CH) 1° Dezembro (CH) Olimpia Cluj (CH) Glasgow City (CH)
Spartak Subotica(CH) NSA Sofia (CH) ASA Tel Aviv University (CH) Slovan Bratislava (CH)
Gintra Universitetas (CH) Swansea City (CH) Krka (CH) Goliador Chişinău (CH)
KÍ Klaksvík (CH) Peamount United (CW) Osijek (CH) Apollon Limassol (CH)
Newtownabbey Strikers (CH) ZFK Nashe Taksi (CH) Pärnu JK (CH) Ataşehir Belediyesi (CH)
Mosta (CH) Ada (CH) Liepājas Metalurgs (CH) Progrès Niedercorn (CH)
  • 1 As the new English Super League did not start until May 2011, the FA decided to give their spots to the two finalists of the 2010–11 FA Women's Cup.[8]
  • CH denotes the national champion, RU the national runner-up, CW the cup-winner, CR losing cup finalist.

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

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification YBF NTA PAOK GOL
1 YB Frauen 3 2 1 0 11 2 +9 7 Advance to main round 3–1 1–1
2 ZFK Naše Taksi (H) 3 2 0 1 8 3 +5 6 6–0
3 PAOK 3 1 1 1 4 2 +2 4 0–1 3–0
4 Goliador Chişinău 3 0 0 3 0 16 −16 0 0–7
Source:
(H) Hosts

Group 2

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification ASA DEZ MTK LIE
1 ASA Tel Aviv University 3 2 1 0 6 2 +4 7 Advance to main round 1–0
2 1° Dezembro (H) 3 1 2 0 5 1 +4 5 1–1 4–0
3 MTK 3 1 1 1 12 1 +11 4 0–0 12–0
4 Liepājas Metalurgs 3 0 0 3 1 20 −19 0 1–4
Source:
(H) Hosts

Group 3

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification RVA PEA PAR KRK
1 Rayo Vallecano 3 3 0 0 9 1 +8 9 Advance to main round 1–0 4–1
2 Peamount United 3 2 0 1 12 2 +10 6 7–0
3 Pärnu JK 3 1 0 2 4 10 −6 3 1–5
4 Krka (H) 3 0 0 3 1 13 −12 0 0–4 1–2
Source:
(H) Hosts

Group 4

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification CLU 2KS ABE GIN
1 Olimpia Cluj 3 3 0 0 12 2 +10 9 Advance to main round 5–0
2 SFK 2000 (H) 3 2 0 1 7 5 +2 6 1–3 4–1
3 Ataşehir Belediyesi 3 0 1 2 3 9 −6 1 1–4
4 Gintra Universitetas 3 0 1 2 2 8 −6 1 1–2 1–1
Source:
(H) Hosts

Group 5

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification GLA SUB KIK MOS
1 Glasgow City 3 3 0 0 17 0 +17 9 Advance to main round 4–0 8–0
2 Spartak Subotica (H) 3 2 0 1 15 6 +9 6 4–2
3 KÍ Klaksvík 3 1 0 2 3 9 −6 3 0–5 1–0
4 Mosta 3 0 0 3 0 20 −20 0 0–11
Source:
(H) Hosts

Group 6

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification P35 SBR UNR ADA
1 PK-35 Vantaa (H) 3 2 1 0 12 1 +11 7 Advance to main round 1–1 10–0
2 Slovan Bratislava 3 2 0 1 17 1 +16 6 0–1
3 Unia Racibórz 3 1 1 1 9 2 +7 4 0–1 8–0
4 Ada 3 0 0 3 0 34 −34 0 0–16
Source:
(H) Hosts

Group 7

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification APL LSH SWA PNI
1 Apollon Limassol (H) 3 3 0 0 24 1 +23 9 Advance to main round 2–1 14–0
2 Lehenda-ShVSM 3 2 0 1 11 2 +9 6 2–0 8–0
3 Swansea City 3 1 0 2 4 10 −6 3 0–8
4 Progrès Niedercorn 3 0 0 3 0 26 −26 0 0–4
Source:
(H) Hosts

Group 8

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification OSI BOB NSA CNS
1 Osijek (H) 3 2 1 0 7 2 +5 7 Advance to main round 1–0
2 Bobruichanka 3 2 0 1 10 1 +9 6 3–0 7–0
3 NSA Sofia 3 1 1 1 2 4 −2 4 1–1 1–0
4 Newtownabbey Strikers 3 0 0 3 1 13 −12 0 1–5
Source:
(H) Hosts

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:

  1. Higher number of points obtained
  2. Superior goal difference
  3. Higher number of goals scored
  4. Higher number of club coefficient points
  5. Fair play conduct in all group matches
Grp Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
3 Peamount United 2 1 0 1 5 2 +3 3
8 Bobruichanka 2 1 0 1 3 1 +2 3
4 SFK 2000 Sarajevo 2 1 0 1 5 4 +1 3
7 Lehenda-ShVSM 2 1 0 1 3 2 +1 3
6 Slovan Bratislava 2 1 0 1 1 1 0 3
1 ZFK Naše Taksi 2 1 0 1 2 3 −1 3
5 Spartak Subotica 2 1 0 1 4 6 −2 3
2 1° Dezembro 2 0 2 0 1 1 0 2
Source:

Debutants Peamount and 2004–05 quarter-finalists Bobruichanka qualified for the round of 32 as best runners-up.[9]

Knockout phase

Bracket

As there were two draws, one for Round of 32 and 16 and another draw for the Quarter-finals to the final, the bracket has been created in retrospect.

Round of 32 Round of 16 Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final
                  
Apollon 2 1 3
Sparta Prague 2 2 4
Sparta Prague 0 0 0
Lyon 6 6 12
Olimpia Cluj 0 0 0
Lyon 9 3 12
Lyon 4 4 8
Brøndby IF 0 0 0
Standard Liège 0 4 4
Brøndby IF 2 3 5
Brøndby IF 2 3 5
Torres 1 1 2
ASA Tel Aviv 0 2 2
Torres 2 3 5
Lyon 5 0 5
Turbine Potsdam 1 0 1
Þór/KA 0 2 2
Turbine Potsdam 6 8 14
Turbine Potsdam 10 7 17
Glasgow City 0 0 0
Glasgow City 1 3 4
Valur 1 0 1
Turbine Potsdam 2 3 5
Rossiyanka 0 0 0
Bristol Academy 1 2 3
Energiya Voronezh 1 4 5
Energiya Voronezh 0 3 3
Rossiyanka 4 3 7
Twente 0 0 0
Rossiyanka 2 1 3
Lyon 2
Frankfurt 0
PK-35 Vantaa 1 0 1
Rayo Vallecano 4 3 7
Rayo Vallecano 1 1 2
Arsenal 1 5 6
Bobruichanka 0 0 0
Arsenal 4 6 10
Arsenal 3 0 3
Göteborg 1 1 2
YB Frauen 0 1 1
Fortuna Hjørring 3 2 5
Fortuna Hjørring 0 2 2
Göteborg 1 3 4
Osijek 0 0 0
Göteborg 4 7 11
Arsenal 1 0 1
Frankfurt 2 2 4
CSHVSM 2 0 2
Neulengbach 1 5 6
Neulengbach 1 0 1
Malmö 3 1 4
Tavagnacco 2 0 2
Malmö 1 5 6
Malmö 1 0 1
Frankfurt 0 3 3
Stabæk 1 1 2
Frankfurt 0 4 4
Frankfurt 3 1 4
PSG 0 2 2
Peamount 0 0 0
PSG 2 3 5

Round of 32

Of the 32 teams that will participate in this round, 22 are directly qualified, and the last 10 qualify from the qualification groups above. Eight as group winners, and two as the best runners-up. When determining the best runners-up, matches against the fourth placed team in the group is not taken into account.[10] 16 seeded teams will be drawn against 16 unseeded teams. The title holder is the number 1 seed all other are seeded by their UEFA coefficient.[11] The following teams are qualified for the round of 32.

The round of 32 and round of 16 were drawn on 23 August 2011 at UEFA headquarters. In the round of 32 no teams from the same country could be drawn against each other, same with teams from the same qualifying group. A change made to last year, when Breiðablik UBK and FCF Juvisy met in qualifying and the round of 32. There are no restrictions to the round of 16.[12] Seeded teams play their second leg at home.

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Apollon Limassol 3–4 Sparta Prague 2–2 1–2
Olimpia Cluj 0–12 Lyon 0–9 0–3
Standard Liège 4–5 Brøndby 0–2 4–3
ASA Tel Aviv University 2–5 Torres 0–2 2–3
Þór/KA 2–14 Turbine Potsdam 0–6 2–8
Glasgow City 4–1 Valur 1–1 3–0
Bristol Academy 3–5 Energiya Voronezh 1–1 2–4
Twente 0–3 Rossiyanka 0–2 0–1
PK-35 Vantaa 1–7 Rayo Vallecano 1–4 0–3
Bobruichanka 0–10 Arsenal 0–4 0–6
YB Frauen 1–5 Fortuna Hjørring 0–3 1–2
Osijek 0–11 Göteborg 0–4 0–7
CSHVSM 2–6 Neulengbach 2–1 0–5
Tavagnacco 2–6 Malmö 2–1 0–5
Stabæk 2–4 Frankfurt 1–0 1–4
Peamount United 0–5 Paris Saint-Germain 0–2 0–3

Round of 16

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Sparta Prague 0–121 Lyon 0–6 0–6
Brøndby 5–2 Torres 2–1 3–1
Turbine Potsdam 17–0 Glasgow City 10–0 7–0
Energy Voronezh 3–7 Rossiyanka 0–4 3–3
Rayo Vallecano 2–6 Arsenal 1–1 1–5
Fortuna Hjørring 2–4 Göteborg 0–1 2–3
Neulengbach 1–4 Malmö 1–3 0–1
Frankfurt 4–2 Paris Saint-Germain 3–0 1–2

Note 1: Order of legs reversed after original draw.

Quarter-finals

The draw for the quarterfinals was held on 17 November 2011.[13] Matches were played on 14–15 March 2012 and 21–22 March 2012.

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Lyon 8–0 Brøndby 4–0 4–0
Turbine Potsdam 5–0 Rossiyanka 2–0 3–0
Arsenal 3–2 Göteborg 3–1 0–1
Malmö 1–3 Frankfurt 1–0 0–3

Semi-finals

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Lyon 5–1 Turbine Potsdam 5–1 0–0
Arsenal 1–4 Frankfurt 1–2 0–2

Final

Lyon 2–0 Frankfurt
  • Le Sommer 15' (pen.)
  • Abily 28'
Report
Attendance: 50,212[14]

Top goalscorers

Rank Name Team Goals Minutes played
1 Eugénie Le Sommer Lyon 9 609'
Camille Abily Lyon 9 659'
3 Anja Mittag Turbine Potsdam 7 360'
Yuki Nagasato Turbine Potsdam 7 532'
5 Lise Munk Brøndby 6 448'
6 Sara Björk Gunnarsdóttir LdB Malmö 5 532'
Lotta Schelin Lyon 5 587'
8 Natalia Rayo Vallecano 4 313'
Manon Melis LdB Malmö 4 328'
Jordan Nobbs Arsenal 4 377'
Sofia Jakobsson Rossiyanka 4 444'
Cristiane Rossiyanka 4 519'
Jane Törnqvist Göteborg 4 540'
Kerstin Garefrekes Frankfurt 4 810'

Source:[15]

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