2023–24 UEFA Women's Champions League group stage

The 2023–24 UEFA Women's Champions League group stage began on 14 November 2023 and ended on 31 January 2024.[1] A total of 16 teams were competing in the group stage to decide the eight places in the knockout phase of the 2023–24 UEFA Women's Champions League.[2]

Draw

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The draw was held on 20 October 2023, and saw the 16 teams split into four pools of four teams.[3]

  • Pot 1 contained the four direct entrants, i.e., the Champions League holders and the champions of the top three associations based on their 2023 UEFA women's country coefficients.[4]
  • Pot 2, 3 and 4 contained the remaining teams, seeded based on their 2023 UEFA women's club coefficients.[5]

Teams from the same association can not be drawn into the same group. Prior to the draw, UEFA formed one pairing of teams for associations with two or three teams based on television audiences, where one team was drawn into Groups A–B and another team into Groups C–D, so that the two teams play on different days. Clubs from countries with severe winter conditions (Sweden) were assigned a position in their group which allowed them to play away on matchday 6.[6]

Teams

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Below are the participating teams (with their 2023 UEFA club coefficients),[5] grouped by their seeding pot.[6]

Key to colours
Group winners and runners-up advance to quarter-finals
Pot 1 (by association rank)
Assoc. Team Coeff.
TH & 1   Barcelona 126.233
2   Lyon 118.166
3   Bayern Munich 96.333
4   Chelsea 81.366
Pot 2
Team Notes Coeff.
  Paris Saint-Germain [LP] 97.166
  Slavia Prague [CP] 39.233
  Real Madrid [LP] 37.233
  Rosengård [CP] 33.399
Pot 3
Team Notes Coeff.
  St. Pölten [CP] 30.050
  Benfica [CP] 22.800
  BK Häcken [LP] 22.399
  Roma [CP] 21.000
Pot 4
Team Notes Coeff.
  Ajax [CP] 18.400
  Paris FC [LP] 18.166
  Eintracht Frankfurt [LP] 17.333
  Brann [CP] 7.100

Notes

  1. TH Champions League title holders, automatically placed into Pot 1 as top seed. Because the title holders were also the champions of the third-ranked association, the champions of the fourth-ranked association also entered the group stage.
  2. CP Winners of round 2 (Champions Path).
  3. LP Winners of round 2 (League Path).

Format

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In each group, teams played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The top two teams of each group advanced to the quarter-finals.

Tiebreakers

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Teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If two or more teams are tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (see Article 18 Equality of points – group stage, Regulations of the UEFA Women's Champions League):[2]

  1. Points in head-to-head matches among the tied teams;
  2. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among the tied teams;
  3. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among the tied teams;
  4. If more than two teams were tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
  5. Goal difference in all group matches;
  6. Goals scored in all group matches;
  7. Away goals scored in all group matches;
  8. Wins in all group matches;
  9. Away wins in all group matches;
  10. Disciplinary points (direct red card = 3 points; double yellow card = 3 points; single yellow card = 1 point);
  11. UEFA club coefficient.

Groups

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Times are CET, as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Group A

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification BAR BEN FRA ROS
1   Barcelona 6 5 1 0 27 5 +22 16 Advance to quarter-finals 5–0 2–0 7–0
2   Benfica 6 2 3 1 9 12 −3 9 4–4 1–0 1–0
3   Eintracht Frankfurt 6 2 1 3 9 8 +1 7 1–3 1–1 5–0
4   Rosengård 6 0 1 5 3 23 −20 1 0–6 2–2 1–2
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Rosengård  1–2  Eintracht Frankfurt
  • Schough   90+4'
Report
Barcelona  5–0  Benfica
Report

Benfica  1–0  Rosengård
Report
Attendance: 777[9]
Referee: Cheryl Foster (Wales)
Eintracht Frankfurt  1–3  Barcelona
Report

Rosengård  0–6  Barcelona
Report
Attendance: 4,122[11]
Benfica  1–0  Eintracht Frankfurt
Report
Attendance: 10,785[12]

Eintracht Frankfurt  1–1  Benfica
Report
Attendance: 10,200[13]
Referee: Frida Klarlund (Denmark)
Barcelona  7–0  Rosengård
Report
Attendance: 5,072[14]
Referee: Eleni Antoniou (Greece)

Rosengård  2–2  Benfica
Report
Attendance: 789[15]
Referee: Ivana Martinčić (Croatia)
Barcelona  2–0  Eintracht Frankfurt
Report
Attendance: 4,842[16]
Referee: Deborah Anex (Switzerland)

Benfica  4–4  Barcelona
Report
Attendance: 2,307[17]
Referee: Emanuela Rusta (Albania)
Eintracht Frankfurt  5–0  Rosengård
Report

Group B

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification LYO BRA PRA PÖL
1   Lyon 6 4 2 0 25 5 +20 14 Advance to quarter-finals 3–1 2–2 2–0
2   Brann 6 4 1 1 9 7 +2 13 2–2 1–0 2–1
3   Slavia Prague 6 1 2 3 3 13 −10 5 0–9 0–1 1–0
4   St. Pölten 6 0 1 5 2 14 −12 1 0–7 1–2 0–0
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
St. Pölten  1–2  Brann
Report
Attendance: 1,034[19]
Slavia Prague  0–9  Lyon
Report
Attendance: 2,728[20]
Referee: Eleni Antoniou (Greece)

Lyon  2–0  St. Pölten
Report
Attendance: 6,076[21]
Referee: Sandra Bastos (Portugal)
Brann  1–0  Slavia Prague
Report
Attendance: 8,589[22]
Referee: Alina Peşu (Romania)

St. Pölten  0–0  Slavia Prague
Report
Attendance: 762[23]
Referee: Catarina Campos (Portugal)
Lyon  3–1  Brann
Report

Brann  2–2  Lyon
Report
Attendance: 3,700[25]
Referee: Volha Blotskaya (Belarus)

Slavia Prague  1–0  St. Pölten
Khýrová   56' Report
Attendance: 204[28]
Referee: Ivana Projkovska (North Macedonia)

Slavia Prague  0–1  Brann
Report Lukášová   65' (o.g.)
St. Pölten  0–7  Lyon
Report
Attendance: 1,098[30]
Referee: Silvia Gasperotti (Italy)

Lyon  2–2  Slavia Prague
Report
Brann  2–1  St. Pölten
Report
Attendance: 2,738[32]

Group C

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification PSG AJA BAY ROM
1   Paris Saint-Germain 6 3 1 2 10 8 +2 10 Advance to quarter-finals 3–1 0–1 2–1
2   Ajax 6 3 1 2 7 8 −1 10 2–0 1–0 2–1
3   Bayern Munich 6 1 4 1 8 8 0 7 2–2 1–1 2–2
4   Roma 6 1 2 3 10 11 −1 5 1–3 3–0 2–2
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Bayern Munich  2–2  Roma
Report
Attendance: 2,500[33]
Ajax  2–0  Paris Saint-Germain
Report

Paris Saint-Germain  0–1  Bayern Munich
Report
Roma  3–0  Ajax
Report
Attendance: 2,583[36]
Referee: Ewa Augustyn (Poland)

Bayern Munich  1–1  Ajax
Report
Paris Saint-Germain  2–1  Roma
Report
Attendance: 4,072
Referee: Iuliana Demetrescu (Romania)

Roma  1–3  Paris Saint-Germain
Report
Attendance: 2,626[38]
Referee: Ivana Martinčić (Croatia)
Ajax  1–0  Bayern Munich
Report

Roma  2–2  Bayern Munich
Report
Attendance: 2,193[40]
Referee: Frida Klarlund (Denmark)
Paris Saint-Germain  3–1  Ajax
Report
Attendance: 6,888[41]

Bayern Munich  2–2  Paris Saint-Germain
Report
Attendance: 4,000[42]
Referee: Ewa Augustyn (Poland)
Ajax  2–1  Roma
Report

Group D

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification CHE HAC PFC RMA
1   Chelsea 6 4 2 0 15 5 +10 14 Advance to quarter-finals 0–0 4–1 2–1
2   BK Häcken 6 3 2 1 6 5 +1 11 1–3 0–0 2–1
3   Paris FC 6 2 1 3 5 11 −6 7 0–4 1–2 2–1
4   Real Madrid 6 0 1 5 5 10 −5 1 2–2 0–1 0–1
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Paris FC  1–2  BK Häcken
Report
Attendance: 1,746[44]
Referee: Catarina Campos (Portugal)
Real Madrid  2–2  Chelsea
Report
Attendance: 2,913[45]
Referee: Frida Klarlund (Denmark)

BK Häcken  2–1  Real Madrid
Report
Attendance: 4,897[46]
Referee: Ivana Projkovska (North Macedonia)
Chelsea  4–1  Paris FC
Report
Attendance: 3,450[47]
Referee: Ivana Martinčić (Croatia)

Paris FC  2–1  Real Madrid
Report
Chelsea  0–0  BK Häcken
Report

Real Madrid  0–1  Paris FC
Report
Attendance: 1,596[50]
Referee: Alina Peşu (Romania)
BK Häcken  1–3  Chelsea
Report
Attendance: 5,566[51]
Referee: Ewa Augustyn (Poland)

BK Häcken  0–0  Paris FC
Report
Attendance: 3,064[52]
Referee: Iuliana Demetrescu (Romania)
Chelsea  2–1  Real Madrid
Report
Attendance: 11,262[53]
Referee: Catarina Campos (Portugal)

Real Madrid  0–1  BK Häcken
Report
Paris FC  0–4  Chelsea
Report
Attendance: 13,274[55]
Referee: Ivana Projkovska (North Macedonia)

Notes

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  1. ^ The match, originally scheduled for 21 December 2023, was postponed due to the 2023 Prague shooting.[26]
  2. ^ a b Slavia played their two last home matches at Městský stadion in Mladá Boleslav, instead of their regular stadium, Fortuna Arena, in Prague, due to a new turf being laid.[27]

References

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