The 2013âÂÂ14 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 0âÂÂ2 into a 4âÂÂ3 win. Wolfsburg became the third side to defend the Champions League title.
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 KÃÂ KlaksvÃÂk retaining their record being the only team to play all editions of the UEFA Women's Cup and Women's Champions League so far.
UEFA has scheduled the competition as follows.
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.
Groups were played as mini tournaments over a span of six days.
To determine the two best second-placed teams from the qualifying round which advanced to the round of 32, only the results of the second-placed teams against the first and third-placed teams in their group are taken into account.
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:
Unseeded:
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.
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.
Matches were played on 19 and 27 April 2014.
The top scorer award includes the qualifying round. Milena NikoliÃÂ of Spartak Subotica won that with eleven goals.
The following statistics exclude qualifying round.