The 2017–18 UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying round will be played between 22 and 28 August 2017.[1] A total of 40 teams compete 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]
Draw
The draw of the qualifying round will be held on 23 June 2017, 13:30 CEST, at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. The 40 teams will be allocated into four seeding positions based on their UEFA club coefficients at the beginning of the season.[3] They will be 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 will be drawn from their own designated pot and allocated to their respective group as per their seeding positions. Next, the remaining 30 teams will be drawn from their respective pot which were allocated according to their seeding positions.[4]
Below are the 40 teams which participate 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).[3][4]
Key to colours
Group winners and best runners-up advance to the round of 32
In each group, teams play 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 advance to the round of 32 to join the 21 teams which received a bye.
Tiebreakers
Teams are 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 are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 14.01 and 14.02):[2]
Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
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;
Goal difference in all group matches;
Goals scored in all group matches;
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);
Disciplinary points (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
To determine the best runner-up, the results against the teams in fourth place are discarded. The following criteria are applied (Regulations Article 14.03):[2]
To determine the best second-placed team from the qualifying round which advance to the knockout phase, only the results of the second-placed teams against the first and third-placed teams in their group are taken into account, while results against the fourth-placed team are not included. As a result, two matches played by each second-placed team will count for the purposes of determining the ranking.
Gintra Universitetas
Konak Belediyespor
Partizán Bardejov
Martve (H)
Olimpia Cluj (H)
Hibernian
Zhytlobud-2 Kharkiv
Swansea City
Ajax
Standard Liège
Pärnu (H)
Rīgas FS
Medyk Konin
Shelbourne
PK-35 Vantaa
Linfield (H)
Apollon Limassol (H)
Sturm Graz
NSA Sofia
Noroc Nimoreni
FC Minsk
Zürich
Olimpija Ljubljana (H)
Birkirkara
Stjarnan
Osijek (H)
KÍ Klaksvík
Istatov
BIIK Kazygurt
Sporting CP
MTK Hungária (H)
Hajvalia
Avaldsnes
Spartak Subotica
Breznica Pljevlja (H)
Kiryat Gat
PAOK
Vllaznia
SFK 2000 (H)
Bettembourg