76 teams from 52 UEFA member associations participated in the 2012–13 UEFA Champions League. The 2012–13 competition was the 10th season with 16 team knockout stage. England, Spain and Germany have 4 teams. Italy, France and Portugal have 3 teams. Nine countries have 2 teams. The remaining 37 countries are only represented by their champions.
Qualifying[]
The 2012-13 competition had 4 qualification rounds to reach the group stage.
1st Qualifying
This round now included 6 lower tier domestic champions playing a home and away knockout round.
2nd Qualifying
The 3 winners from 1st Qualifying join 31 additional domestic champions, playing a home and away knockout round.
3rd Qualifying
The 17 winners from 2nd Qualifying join 11 additional teams, playing a home and away knockout round.
Play-offs
The 14 winners from 3rd Qualifying join the remaining 6 teams, playing a home and away knockout round.
New teams | Teams in Champions League | |
---|---|---|
1st Qualifying | 6 teams >>> | 6 teams |
2nd Qualifying | 31 teams >>> |
3 winners from 1st Qualifying 31 new teams -—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-— 34 teams |
3rd Qualifying | 11 teams >>> |
17 winners from 2nd Qualifying 11 new teams -—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-— 28 teams |
Play-offs | 6 teams >>> |
14 winners from 3rd Qualifying 6 new teams -—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-— 20 teams |
Group Stage | 22 teams >>> |
10 winners from Play-offs 22 new teams -—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-— 32 teams |
Group Stage[]
The 10 winners from the Play-offs joined with the 22 automatic qualifying teams to form 8 groups of 4 teams, playing a home and away series.
Country[1] | 1st Qualifying | 2nd Qualifying | 3rd Qualifying | Play-offs | Group Stage |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Man City Man United 2 Arsenal 3 Chelsea C | ||||
2 | Málaga 4 |
Real Madrid Barcelona 2 Valencia 3 Málaga 4 | |||
3 | Mönchengladbach 4 |
Borussia Dortmund Bayern Munich 2 Schalke 3 | |||
4 | Udinese 3 |
Juventus AC Milan 2 | |||
5 | Lille 3 |
Montpellier PSG 2 Lille 3 | |||
6 | Braga 3 |
Porto Benfica 2 Braga 3 | |||
7 | Spartak Moscow 2 |
Zenit Spartak Moscow 2 | |||
8 | Dynamo Kyiv 2 |
Dynamo Kyiv 2 |
Shakhtar Donetsk Dynamo Kyiv 2 | ||
9 | Feyenoord 2 |
Ajax | |||
10 | Fenerbahçe 2 |
Fenerbahçe 2 |
Galatasaray | ||
11 | Panathinaikos 2 |
Panathinaikos 2 |
Olympiacos | ||
12 | Copenhagen 2 |
Copenhagen 2 |
Nordsjælland | ||
13 | Anderlecht Club Brugge 2 |
Anderlecht | Anderlecht | ||
14 | CFR Cluj Vaslui 2 |
CFR Cluj | CFR Cluj | ||
15 | Celtic Motherwell 2 |
Celtic | Celtic | ||
16 | Basel | Basel | Basel | ||
17 | Hapoel Ironi | Hapoel Ironi | Hapoel Ironi | ||
18 | Slovan Liberec | Slovan Liberec | |||
19 | Salzburg | ||||
20 | AEL Limassol | AEL Limassol | AEL Limassol | ||
21 | Ludogorets | ||||
22 | Dinamo Zagreb | Dinamo Zagreb | Dinamo Zagreb | Dinamo Zagreb | |
23 | BATE Borisov | BATE Borisov | BATE Borisov | BATE Borisov | |
24 | Śląsk Wrocław | Śląsk Wrocław | |||
25 | Žilina | ||||
26 | Molde | Molde | |||
27 | Partizan | Partizan | |||
28 | Helsingborg | Helsingborg | Helsingborg | ||
29 | Željezničar | ||||
30 | HJK Helsinki | HJK Helsinki | |||
31 | Shamrock Rovers | ||||
32 | Debrecen | Debrecen | |||
33 | Sheriff Tiraspol | Sheriff Tiraspol | |||
34 | Ekranas | Ekranas | |||
35 | Ventspils | ||||
36 | Zestafoni | ||||
37 | Neftçi Baku | Neftçi Baku | |||
38 | Maribor | Maribor | Maribor | ||
39 | Vardar | ||||
40 | KR Reykjavík | ||||
41 | Shakhter | ||||
42 | Liechtenstein does not organise a domestic league | ||||
43 | Budućnost | ||||
44 | Skënderbeu | ||||
45 | Flora | ||||
46 | New Saints | ||||
47 | Ulisses | ||||
48 | Valletta | Valletta | |||
49 | Linfield | Linfield | |||
50 | B36 Tórshavn | ||||
51 | Dudelange | Dudelange | Dudelange | ||
52 | Lusitans | ||||
53 | Tre Penne |
- ↑ UEFA country coefficients
Tables[]
The top 2 in each group advanced to the knockout stage.
Knockout Stage[]
Final[]