2015–16 UEFA Women's Champions League|
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| Tournament details |
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| Dates |
11–16 August 2015 (qualifying)
7 October 2015 – 26 May 2016 (knockout phase) |
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| Teams |
32 (knockout phase)
56 (total) (from 47 associations) |
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| Tournament statistics |
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| Matches played |
48 |
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| Goals scored |
152 (3.17 per match) |
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| Attendance |
107,092 (2,231 per match) |
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| Top scorer(s) |
 Ebere Orji (9 goals) |
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The 2015–16 UEFA Women's Champions League is the 15th edition of the European women's club football championship organized by UEFA, and the 7th edition since being rebranded as the UEFA Women's Champions League. The final will be played at the Mapei Stadium – Città del Tricolore in Reggio Emilia, Italy on 26 May 2016, two days before the final of the men's tournament played at San Siro, Milan.[1]
Frankfurt are the defending champions.
Association team allocation
A total of 56 teams from 47 UEFA member associations participate in the 2015–16 UEFA Women's Champions League. The ranking based on the UEFA Women's Champions League association coefficient is used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:[2]
- Associations 1–8 each have two teams qualify.
- All other associations, should they enter, each have one team qualify.
- The winners of the 2014–15 UEFA Women's Champions League are given an additional entry if they do not qualify for the 2015–16 UEFA Women's Champions League through their domestic league. Because Frankfurt finished outside the top two league places, this additional entry was necessary, meaning Germany has three teams in the competition this season.
Association ranking
For the 2015–16 UEFA Women's Champions League, the associations are allocated places according to their 2014 UEFA Women's Champions League association coefficient, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 2009–10 to 2013–14.[3]
Spain overtook the Czech Republic in the UEFA coefficient ranking and thus assured themselves a second entry.
- Notes
- (TH) – Additional berth for title holders
- (DNE) – Did not enter
- (NR) – No rank (association did not enter in the five seasons used for computing coefficients)
Teams
Unlike the men's Champions League, not every association enters a team, and so the exact number of teams in each round can not be determined until the full entry list is known. For this season, the title holders, the champions and runners-up from associations 1–8 and the champions from associations 9–15 enter the round of 32, while the remaining teams enter the qualifying round.[4]
The following list the teams that qualified and might enter this season's competition. Here TH denotes the title holders, CH denotes the national champion, RU the national runner-up, Ned 1 and Bel 1 the best placed Belgian and Dutch team in their joint league.[5] Gibraltar's champions is still ineligible, as the 2014–15 national league season is again played with only nine players per side. After some years of hiatus Georgia played out a national champion in 2014. For the first time in 12 years Neulengbach from Austria missed out on qualification. Luxembourg has entered a team for the competition for the first time since the 2011–12 season. Faroese club KÍ has entered every past edition.[6]
Round and draw dates
UEFA has scheduled the competition as follows (all draws are held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland).[35] In contrast to previous seasons, the round of 16 draw is held after the round of 32 is completed (separately from the round of 32 draw) and is seeded.
| Round |
Draw |
First leg |
Second leg |
| Qualifying round | 25 June 2015 | 11–16 August 2015 |
| Round of 32 | 20 August 2015 | 7–8 October 2015 | 14–15 October 2015 |
| Round of 16 | 19 October 2015 | 11–12 November 2015 | 18–19 November 2015 |
| Quarter-finals | 27 November 2015 | 23–24 March 2016 | 30–31 March 2016 |
| Semi-finals | 23–24 April 2016 | 30 April–1 May 2016 |
| Final | 26 May 2016 at Mapei Stadium – Città del Tricolore, Reggio Emilia |
Qualifying round
The draw for the qualifying round was held on 25 June 2015.[36][37] The 32 teams were allocated into four seeding positions based on their 2015 UEFA club coefficients, which took into account their performance in European competitions from 2010–11 to 2014–15 plus 33% of their association coefficient from the same time span.[38] They were drawn into eight groups of four (one from each seeding position), with the restriction that each group had to contain one of the eight teams which were pre-selected as hosts (which were allocated their own designated pot).[39]
In each group, teams played against each other in a round-robin mini-tournament at the pre-selected hosts. The eight group winners advanced to the round of 32.
| Tiebreakers |
The 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 equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria are applied in the order given to determine the rankings (regulations Article 14.01):[2]
- higher number of points obtained in the group matches played among the teams in question;
- superior goal difference from the group matches played among the teams in question;
- higher number of goals scored in the group matches played among the teams in question;
- if, after having applied criteria 1 to 3, teams still have an equal ranking, criteria 1 to 3 are reapplied exclusively to the matches between the teams in question to determine their final rankings. If this procedure does not lead to a decision, criteria 5 to 9 apply;
- superior goal difference in all group matches;
- higher number of goals scored in all group matches;
- if only two teams have the same number of points, and they are tied according to criteria 1 to 6 after having met in the last round of the group, their ranking is determined by a penalty shoot-out (this criteria is not used if more than two teams have the same number of points, or if the rankings of the two teams are not relevant for which team qualifies for the next stage).
- lower disciplinary points total based only on yellow and red cards received in all group matches (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
- higher club coefficient.
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The matchdays were 11, 13 and 16 August 2015.
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Group 4
Group 5
Group 6
Group 7
Group 8
Knockout phase
In the knockout phase, teams play against each other over two legs on a home-and-away basis, except for the one-match final. The mechanism of the draws for each round is as follows:
- In the draw for the round of 32, the sixteen teams with the highest UEFA coefficients are seeded (with the title holders being the automatic top seed), and the other sixteen teams are unseeded. The seeded teams are drawn against the unseeded teams, with the seeded teams hosting the second leg. Teams from the same association cannot be drawn against each other.
- In the draw for the round of 16, the eight teams with the highest UEFA coefficients are seeded (with the title holders being the automatic top seed should they qualify), and the other eight teams are unseeded. The seeded teams are drawn against the unseeded teams, with the seeded teams hosting the second leg. Teams from the same association cannot be drawn against each other.
- In the draws for the quarter-finals onwards, there are no seedings, and teams from the same association can be drawn against each other.
Round of 32
The draw for the round of 32 was held on 20 August 2015.[40][41] The first legs were played on 7 and 8 October, and the second legs were played on 14 and 15 October 2015.
Round of 16
The draw for the round of 16 was held on 19 October 2015.[42][43] The first legs were played on 11 and 12 November, and the second legs were played on 18 and 19 November 2015.
Quarter-finals
The draw for the quarter-finals and semi-finals was held on 27 November 2015.[44][45] The first legs will be played on 23 and 24 March, and the second legs will be played on 30 and 31 March 2016.
Semi-finals
The first legs will be played on 23 and 24 April, and the second legs will be played on 30 April and 1 May 2016.
Final
The final will be played on 26 May 2016 at the Mapei Stadium – Città del Tricolore in Reggio Emilia, Italy.[46] The "home" team (for administrative purposes) was determined by an additional draw held after the semi-final draw.[44]
Statistics
Top goalscorers
- As of 19 November 2015
Qualifying goals count towards the topscorer award. Bolded players are still in the competition.
Source: UEFA[47][48]
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Top assists
- As of 19 November 2015
Bolded players are still in the competition.
Source: UEFA[49]
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See also
References
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