2017–18 UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying round


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The 2017–18 UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying round was played between 22 and 28 August 2017.[1] A total of 40 teams competed in the qualifying round to decide 11 of the 32 places in the knockout phase of the 2017–18 UEFA Women's Champions League.[2]

2017–18 UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying round
Tournament details
Dates22–28 August 2017
Teams40 (from 40 associations)
Tournament statistics
Matches played60
Goals scored237 (3.95 per match)
Attendance10,612 (177 per match)
Top scorer(s)Kader Hançar (6 goals)

The draw of the qualifying round was held on 23 June 2017, 13:30 CEST, at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.[3][4] The 40 teams were allocated into four seeding positions based on their UEFA club coefficients at the beginning of the season.[5] They were drawn into ten groups of four containing one team from each of the four seeding positions. First, the ten teams which were pre-selected as hosts were drawn from their own designated pot and allocated to their respective group as per their seeding positions. Next, the remaining 30 teams were drawn from their respective pot which were allocated according to their seeding positions.[6]

Based on the decision taken by the UEFA Emergency Panel at its meeting in Paris on 9 June 2016, teams from Serbia or Bosnia and Herzegovina would not be drawn against teams from Kosovo.

Below were the 40 teams which participated in the qualifying round (with their 2017 UEFA club coefficients, which took into account their performance in European competitions from 2012–13 to 2016–17 plus 33% of their association coefficient from the same time span), with the ten teams which were pre-selected as hosts marked by (H).[5][6]

Key to colours
Group winners and best runners-up advance to the round of 32
Seeding position 1
Team Coeff.[5]
  Zürich 43.890
  BIIK Kazygurt 24.930
  Apollon Limassol (H) 23.940
  Spartak Subotica 20.615
  Olimpia Cluj (H) 19.950
  Medyk Konin 19.600
  Standard Liège 17.955
  SFK 2000 (H) 17.290
  Gintra Universitetas 15.960
  Stjarnan 15.610
Seeding position 2
Team Coeff.[5]
  Konak Belediyespor 14.960
  MTK Hungária (H) 14.620
  PK-35 Vantaa 13.630
  Sturm Graz 13.395
  Avaldsnes 12.075
  Hibernian 11.580
  FC Minsk 10.800
  PAOK 10.305
  Osijek (H) 9.975
  Ajax 8.250
Seeding position 3
Team Coeff.[5]
  Pärnu (H) 7.315
  NSA Sofia 6.650
  KÍ Klaksvík 3.990
  Olimpija Ljubljana (H) 3.630
  Sporting CP 3.465
  Zhytlobud-2 Kharkiv 3.135
  Shelbourne 2.805
  Kiryat Gat 2.310
  Vllaznia 1.995
  Partizán Bardejov 1.485
Seeding position 4
Team Coeff.[5]
  Hajvalia 1.330
  Rīgas FS 1.330
  Breznica Pljevlja (H) 0.995
  Linfield (H) 0.990
  Swansea City 0.660
  Istatov 0.330
  Noroc Nimoreni 0.165
  Birkirkara 0.165
  Bettembourg 0.000
  Martve (H) 0.000

In each group, teams played against each other in a round-robin mini-tournament at the pre-selected hosts. The ten group winners and the runners-up with the best record against the teams finishing first and third in their group advanced to the round of 32 to join the 21 teams which received a bye.

Teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 14.01 and 14.02):[2]

  1. Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  2. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  3. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  4. If more than two teams are 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. Penalty shoot-out if only two teams have the same number of points, and they met in the last round of the group and are tied after applying all criteria above (not used if more than two teams have the same number of points, or if their rankings are not relevant for qualification for the next stage);
  8. Disciplinary points (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
  9. UEFA club coefficient.

To determine the best runner-up, the results against the teams in fourth place were discarded. The following criteria were applied (Regulations Article 14.03):[2]

  1. Points;
  2. Goal difference;
  3. Goals scored;
  4. Disciplinary points;
  5. UEFA club coefficient.

The matches were played on 22, 25 and 28 August 2017. In each group, the schedule was as follows (Regulations Article 19.05):

Matchday Date Matches
Matchday 1 22 August 2017 1 v 3, 2 v 4
Matchday 2 25 August 2017 1 v 4, 3 v 2
Matchday 3 28 August 2017 2 v 1, 4 v 3

All times were CEST (UTC+2).

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1   Gintra Universitetas 3 3 0 0 13 1 +12 9 Round of 32
2   Konak Belediyespor 3 2 0 1 11 4 +7 6
3   Partizán Bardejov 3 1 0 2 4 9 −5 3
4   Martve (H) 3 0 0 3 0 14 −14 0

Source: UEFA
(H) Hosts

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1   Olimpia Cluj (H) 3 2 1 0 5 1 +4 7 Round of 32
2   Hibernian 3 1 2 0 7 2 +5 5
3   Zhytlobud-2 Kharkiv 3 1 1 1 10 2 +8 4
4   Swansea City 3 0 0 3 0 17 −17 0

Source: UEFA
(H) Hosts

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1   Ajax 3 3 0 0 11 1 +10 9 Round of 32
2   Standard Liège 3 2 0 1 10 3 +7 6
3   Pärnu (H) 3 1 0 2 3 4 −1 3
4   Rīgas FS 3 0 0 3 0 16 −16 0

Source: UEFA
(H) Hosts

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1   Medyk Konin 3 2 1 0 6 2 +4 7 Round of 32
2   Shelbourne 3 1 2 0 3 1 +2 5
3   PK-35 Vantaa 3 1 1 1 2 2 0 4
4   Linfield (H) 3 0 0 3 2 8 −6 0

Source: UEFA
(H) Hosts

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1   Apollon Limassol (H) 3 3 0 0 14 1 +13 9 Round of 32
2   Sturm Graz 3 2 0 1 8 5 +3 6
3   NSA Sofia 3 1 0 2 2 7 −5 3
4   Noroc Nimoreni 3 0 0 3 0 11 −11 0

Source: UEFA
(H) Hosts

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1   FC Minsk 3 2 1 0 13 0 +13 7 Round of 32
2   Zürich 3 2 1 0 7 1 +6 7
3   Olimpija Ljubljana (H) 3 1 0 2 2 7 −5 3
4   Birkirkara 3 0 0 3 0 14 −14 0

Source: UEFA
(H) Hosts

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1   Stjarnan 3 3 0 0 21 0 +21 9 Round of 32
2   Osijek (H) 3 2 0 1 11 1 +10 6
3   KÍ Klaksvík 3 1 0 2 6 14 −8 3
4   Istatov 3 0 0 3 1 24 −23 0

Source: UEFA
(H) Hosts

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1   BIIK Kazygurt 3 3 0 0 6 1 +5 9 Round of 32
2   Sporting CP 3 2 0 1 7 3 +4 6
3   MTK Hungária (H) 3 1 0 2 2 5 −3 3
4   Hajvalia 3 0 0 3 1 7 −6 0

Source: UEFA
(H) Hosts

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1   Avaldsnes 3 3 0 0 10 3 +7 9 Round of 32
2   Spartak Subotica 3 2 0 1 13 3 +10 6
3   Breznica Pljevlja (H) 3 0 1 2 3 10 −7 1
4   Kiryat Gat 3 0 1 2 5 15 −10 1

Source: UEFA
(H) Hosts

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1   PAOK 3 3 0 0 12 0 +12 9 Round of 32
2   Vllaznia 3 2 0 1 3 1 +2 6
3   SFK 2000 (H) 3 1 0 2 3 4 −1 3
4   Bettembourg 3 0 0 3 0 13 −13 0

Source: UEFA
(H) Hosts

Ranking of second-placed teams

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To determine the best second-placed team from the qualifying round which advanced to the knockout phase, only the results of the second-placed teams against the first and third-placed teams in their group were taken into account, while results against the fourth-placed team were not included. As a result, two matches played by each second-placed team counted for the purposes of determining the ranking.

Pos Grp Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 6   Zürich 2 1 1 0 2 1 +1 4 Round of 32
2 9   Spartak Subotica 2 1 0 1 6 2 +4 3
3 7   Osijek 2 1 0 1 4 1 +3 3
4 1   Konak Belediyespor 2 1 0 1 6 4 +2 3
5 8   Sporting CP 2 1 0 1 3 2 +1 3
6 10   Vllaznia 2 1 0 1 1 1 0 3
7 5   Sturm Graz 2 1 0 1 4 5 −1 3
8 3   Standard Liège 2 1 0 1 2 3 −1 3
9 2   Hibernian 2 0 2 0 2 2 0 2
10 4   Shelbourne 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 2

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) goals scored; 4) disciplinary points; 5) coefficient.

– Match attendances source: Soccerway.[7]

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  2. ^ a b c "Regulations of the UEFA Women's Champions League 2017/18 Season" (PDF). UEFA.com. 4 April 2017.
  3. ^ "Qualifying group stage draw". UEFA.com. Retrieved 23 June 2017.
  4. ^ "Women's Champions League qualifying round draw". UEFA.com. 23 June 2017.
  5. ^ a b c d e f "UEFA WOMEN'S CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2017/18 Club Coefficients" (PDF). UEFA.com.
  6. ^ a b "Women's Champions League entries confirmed". UEFA.com. 14 June 2017.
  7. ^ "2017–18 UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying round matches". Soccerway.com. Retrieved 16 September 2017.