The national champions and runners-up, where known, in nations that have participated in the past five years are listed as expected to compete. Some of these teams may choose not to participate. Norway has overtaken Iceland in the UEFA coefficients and thus assured themselves a second entry. Countries are allocated places according to their UEFA league coefficient for women. A first entry list was posted on 14 June 2012 by the Belgian representative. Not returning since last year is the champion of Luxembourg, for the first time Montenegro sends its champion. Here CH denotes the national champion, RU the national runner-up.
Round and draw dates
UEFA has scheduled the competition as follows.
Qualifying round
32 teams enter in the qualifying round, and were divided into eight groups of four teams, with one team from each seeding pot. The group-winners and best two runners-up qualify for the round of 32.
Seeding and draw
32 teams entered in the qualifying round, and were divided into eight groups of four teams, with one team from each seeding pot: Pot 1
The eight hosts were confirmed by UEFA before the draw, and two hosts could not be placed in the same group. Each team played the other teams in the group once. The matches were played between 11 and 16 August 2012. The draw was held on 28 June 2012.
Criteria 1–3 are reapplied until the tie cannot be resolved; only then is criteria 4 used.
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Group 4
Group 5
Group 6
Apollon's 21–0 victory over Ada set a new competition record.
Group 7
Group 8
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:
Higher number of points obtained
Superior goal difference
Higher number of goals scored
Higher number of club coefficient points
Fair play conduct in all group matches
Knockout stage
The top 16 ranked teams are seeded for the round of 32. Team that qualified through the qualifying round are marked with. Seeded:
Turbine Potsdam won 8–1 on aggregate. ---- Stabæk won 5–3 on aggregate. ---- Lyon won 12–0 on aggregate. ---- LdB Malmö won 10–1 on aggregate. ---- Göteborg won 4–0 on aggregate. ---- 3–3 on aggregate. Olimpia Cluj won on away goals. ---- Torres won 6–3 on aggregate. ---- Fortuna Hjørring won 2–1 on aggregate. ---- Bardolino Verona won 3–2 on aggregate. ---- Zorky Krasnogorsk won 3–1 on aggregate. ---- Rossiyanka won 5–3 on aggregate. ---- Arsenal won 7–0 on aggregate. ---- Røa won 8–0 on aggregate. ---- Wolfsburg won 11–2 on aggregate. ---- Juvisy won 2–1 on aggregate. ---- Sparta Praha won 6–0 on aggregate.
Round of 16
First leg
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Second leg
Wolfsburg won 5–2 on aggregate. ---- Lyon won 11–0 on aggregate. ---- Arsenal won 6–4 on aggregate. ---- Göteborg won 4–3 on aggregate. ---- LdB Malmö won 3–0 on aggregate. ---- Rossiyanka won 3–2 on aggregate. ---- Torres won 7–1 on aggregate. ---- Juvisy won 2–1 on aggregate.
Quarter-finals
There was an open draw held for the quarterfinals and the following rounds on 27 November 2012.
First leg
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Second leg
Arsenal won 4–1 on aggregate. ---- Juvisy won 4–1 on aggregate. ---- Wolfsburg won 4–1 on aggregate. ---- Lyon won 8–0 on aggregate.
Semi-finals
First leg
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Second leg
Wolfsburg won 4–1 on aggregate. ---- Lyon won 9–1 on aggregate.
Final
Statistics
Top scorers and assists :
Top goalscorers
The top-scorer award is given to the player scoring the most goals including the qualifying rounds, thus Romanian player Laura Rus from Apollon Limassol won the award by scoring 11 goals up to the round of 32. Conny Pohlers scored her 42nd goal in the competition history, to become the sole all-time topscorer. The following are the top scorers excluding the qualifying round.
Conny Pohlers
Patrizia Panico
Lotta Schelin
Lyon
Nataša Andonova
Kelly Smith
Jennifer Beattie