2013–14 UEFA Women's Champions League

The 2013–14 UEFA Women's Champions League was the 13th edition of the European women's championship for football clubs. The final was held at Estádio do Restelo, Lisbon, Portugal.

German team VfL Wolfsburg won the title over Swedish club Tyresö FF after turning a 0–2 into a 4–3 win. Wolfsburg became the third side to defend the Champions League title.

Team allocation and distribution
Austria had overtaken Norway for 8th place in the UEFA coefficient ranking and thus assured themselves a second entry.

Countries were allocated places according to their UEFA league coefficient for women. Here 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.

54 teams entered the competition, with KÍ Klaksvík retaining their record being the only team to play all editions of the UEFA Women's Cup and Women's Champions League so far.

Round and draw dates
UEFA has scheduled the competition as follows.

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. Host countries won't be drawn together.

Pot 1
 * Glasgow City
 * 🇵🇱 Unia Racibórz
 * Zürich
 * PAOK
 * 🇨🇾 Apollon Limassol (host)
 * 🇷🇴 Olimpia Cluj (host)
 * 🇭🇺 MTK
 * 🇧🇦 SFK 2000 (host)

Pot 2
 * 🇫🇮 PK-35 Vantaa (host)
 * 🇺🇦 Zhytlobud-1 Kharkiv
 * 🇷🇸 Spartak Subotica
 * Twente (host)
 * 🇧🇬 NSA Sofia
 * 🇮🇱 ASA Tel Aviv University
 * 🇧🇾 Babruichanka Babruisk
 * 🇫🇴 KÍ Klaksvík

Pot 3
 * Osijek
 * 🇱🇹 Gintra Universitetas
 * 🇸🇮 Pomurje (host)
 * 🇮🇪 Raheny United
 * Atlético Ouriense (host)
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Cardiff City
 * 🇸🇰 Nové Zámky
 * 🇪🇪 Pärnu JK

Pot 4
 * 🇲🇰 Biljanini Izvori
 * 🇹🇷 Konak Belediyesi
 * Crusaders Strikers (host)
 * 🇲🇩 Goliador Chişinău
 * 🇦🇱 Ada
 * 🇲🇹 Birkirkara
 * 🇲🇪 Ekonomist
 * Liepājas Metalurgs

Groups were played as mini tournaments over a span of six days.

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

Knockout phase
22 teams enter the competition in the round of 32. They are joined by ten teams from the qualifying round. Teams marked (Q) advanced from qualifying.

Seeded:
 * 🇫🇷 Lyon
 * 🇩🇪 Turbine Potsdam
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Arsenal
 * 🇷🇺 Rossiyanka
 * 🇮🇹 Torres
 * 🇩🇪 Wolfsburg
 * Brøndby
 * 🇸🇪 LdB Malmö
 * 🇨🇿 Sparta Praha
 * Fortuna Hjørring
 * 🇫🇷 Paris S-G
 * 🇦🇹 Neulengbach
 * 🇷🇺 Zorkiy Krasnogorsk
 * Glasgow City (Q)
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Birmingham City
 * 🇵🇱 Unia Racibórz (Q)

Unseeded:
 * 🇸🇪 Tyresö
 * Zürich (Q)
 * 🇧🇪 Standard Liège
 * 🇨🇾 Apollon Limassol (Q)
 * 🇮🇹 Tavagnacco
 * 🇰🇿 CSHVSM Kairat
 * 🇭🇺 MTK (Q)
 * 🇪🇸 Barcelona
 * 🇳🇴 Lillestrøm SK
 * 🇫🇮 PK-35 Vantaa (Q)
 * 🇮🇸 Thór/KA
 * 🇦🇹 Spratzern
 * Twente (Q)
 * 🇷🇸 Spartak Subotica (Q)
 * 🇪🇪 Pärnu JK (Q)
 * 🇹🇷 Konak Belediyesi (Q)

Round of 32
The round of 32 and round of 16 was drawn on 5 September 2013. Teams from the same association or qualifying group couldn't be drawn together. Seeded teams played the second leg at home. Teams are awarded 20,000 Euro for both legs. A sum criticized to be too small by team managers, leaving teams like Arsenal who have to fly by plane with financial losses.

Second leg
Torres won 5–3 on aggregate.

Birmingham City won 4–0 on aggregate.

Zorkiy Krasnogorsk won 6–2 on aggregate.

Wolfsburg won 27–0 on aggregate.

Fortuna Hjørring won 4–3 on aggregate.

''2–2 on aggregate. Barcelona won on away goals.''

LdB Malmö won 8–1 on aggregate.

Lyon won 10–0 on aggregate.

Neulengbach won 3–2 on aggregate.

Turbine Potsdam won 11–0 on aggregate.

Zürich won 3–2 on aggregate.

Tyresö won 2–1 on aggregate.

Rossiyanka won 5–3 on aggregate.

Konak Belediyesi won 2–1 on aggregate.

Arsenal won 18–2 on aggregate.

Glasgow City won 5–3 on aggregate.

Second leg
Wolfsburg won 5–2 on aggregate.

Barcelona won 6–1 on aggregate.

Arsenal won 6–2 on aggregate.

Birmingham City won 7–2 on aggregate.

Torres won 2–1 on aggregate.

Neulengbach won 6–0 on aggregate.

Tyresö won 6–1 on aggregate.

''2–2 on aggregate. Turbine Potsdam won on away goals.''

Quarter-finals
An open draw for the quarterfinals and the following rounds on was held 21 November 2013. Matches were played on 22/23 and 29/30 March 2014.


 * Notes

Second leg
Tyresö won 8–1 on aggregate.

Wolfsburg won 5–0 on aggregate.

Potsdam won 12–1 on aggregate.

Birmingham won 3–0 on aggregate.

Semi-finals
Matches were played on 19 and 27 April 2014.

Second leg
Tyresö won 3–0 on aggregate.

Wolfsburg won 4–2 on aggregate.

Statistics
The top scorer award includes the qualifying round. Milena Nikolić of Spartak Subotica won that with eleven goals.

The following statistics exclude qualifying round.

Top goalscorers
Source: