2011–12 UEFA Champions League

A total of 76 teams participated in the 2011–12 Champions League from 52 UEFA associations (Liechtenstein organises no domestic league competition). Associations are allocated places according to their 2010 UEFA country coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 2005–06 to 2009–10.^[4]

Below is the qualification scheme for the 2011–12 UEFA Champions League:^[5]

• Associations 1–3 each have four teams qualify
• Associations 4–6 each have three teams qualify
• Associations 7–15 each have two teams qualify
• Associations 16–53 each have one team qualify (excluding Liechtenstein)

Rank Association Coeff. Teams 1  England 81.856 4 2  Spain 79.757 3  Italy 64.338 4  Germany 64.207 3 5  France 53.740 6  Russia 43.791 7  Ukraine 39.550 2 8  Romania 39.491 9  Portugal 38.296 10  Netherlands 36.546 11  Turkey 34.450 12  Greece 29.899 13  Switzerland 28.375 14  Belgium 27.900 15  Denmark 27.350 16  Scotland 25.791 1 17  Bulgaria 22.000 18  Czech Republic 21.975

Rank Association Coeff. Teams 19  Austria 19.575 1 20  Israel 18.875 21  Cyprus 17.999 22  Norway 17.400 23  Slovakia 15.832 24  Sweden 14.191 25  Serbia 14.000 26  Poland 12.541 27  Croatia 12.332 28  Belarus 11.541 29  Republic of Ireland 9.541 30  Finland 9.499 31  Bosnia and Herzegovina 8.749 32  Lithuania 8.416 33  Latvia 8.248 34  Moldova 7.290 35  Slovenia 6.957 36  Hungary 6.750

Rank Association Coeff. Teams 37  Georgia 5.748 1 38  Azerbaijan 5.498 39  Iceland 5.415 40  Macedonia 5.332 41  Liechtenstein 4.500 0 42  Kazakhstan 4.499 1 43  Estonia 4.374 44  Albania 3.999 45  Armenia 2.999 46  Wales 2.581 47  Montenegro 2.125 48  Faroe Islands 1.832 49  Northern Ireland 1.624 50  Luxembourg 1.249 51  Andorra 1.000 52  Malta 0.916 53  San Marino 0.750

Since the winners of the 2010–11 UEFA Champions League, Barcelona, obtained a place in the group stage through their domestic league placing, the reserved title holder spot in the group stage was effectively vacated. To compensate:^[6]

• The champions of association 13 (Switzerland) were promoted from the third qualifying round to the group stage.
• The champions of association 16 (Scotland) were promoted from the second qualifying round to the third qualifying round.
• The champions of associations 48 and 49 (Faroe Islands and Northern Ireland) were promoted from the first qualifying round to the second qualifying round.

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:^[7][8]

• TH: Champions League title holders
• 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th: League positions of the previous season

Group stage
BarcelonaTH (1st)	Milan (1st)	Marseille (2nd)	Porto (1st)
Manchester United (1st)	Internazionale (2nd)	Zenit Saint Petersburg (1st)	Ajax (1st)
Chelsea (2nd)	Napoli (3rd)	CSKA Moscow (2nd)	Trabzonspor (2nd)[Note TUR]
Manchester City (3rd)	Borussia Dortmund (1st)	Shakhtar Donetsk (1st)	Olympiacos (1st)
Real Madrid (2nd)	Bayer Leverkusen (2nd)	Oțelul Galați (1st)	Basel (1st)
Valencia (3rd)	Lille (1st)
Play-off round
Champions Route	League Route
	Arsenal (4th)	Udinese (4th)	Lyon (3rd)
	Villarreal (4th)	Bayern Munich (3rd)
Third qualifying round
Champions Route	League Route
Genk (1st)	Rubin Kazan (3rd)	Twente (2nd)	Zürich (2nd)
Copenhagen (1st)	Dynamo Kyiv (2nd)	Trabzonspor (2nd)[Note TUR]	Standard Liège (2nd)
Rangers (1st)	Vaslui (3rd)[Note ROU]	Panathinaikos (2nd)	Odense (2nd)
	Benfica (2nd)
Second qualifying round
Litex Lovech (1st)	Partizan (1st)	Skonto (1st)	Tobol (1st)
Viktoria Plzeň (1st)	Wisła Kraków (1st)	Dacia Chișinău (1st)	Flora (1st)
Sturm Graz (1st)	Dinamo Zagreb (1st)	Maribor (1st)	Skënderbeu (1st)
Maccabi Haifa (1st)	BATE Borisov (1st)	Videoton (1st)	Pyunik (1st)
APOEL (1st)	Shamrock Rovers (1st)	Zestaponi (1st)	Bangor City (1st)
Rosenborg (1st)	HJK (1st)	Neftçi (1st)	Mogren (1st)
Slovan Bratislava (1st)	Borac Banja Luka (1st)	Breiðablik (1st)	HB (1st)
Malmö FF (1st)	Ekranas (1st)	Shkëndija (1st)	Linfield (1st)
First qualifying round
F91 Dudelange (1st)	FC Santa Coloma (1st)	Valletta (1st)	Tre Fiori (1st)

All draws held at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland unless stated otherwise.^[6]

In the qualifying rounds and the play-off round, teams were divided into seeded and unseeded teams based on their 2011 UEFA club coefficients,^[13][14] and then drawn into two-legged home-and-away ties. Teams from the same association cannot be drawn against each other.

The draw for the first and second qualifying rounds was held on 20 June 2011.^[15] The first legs were played on 28 June, and the second legs were played on 5 and 6 July 2011.

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Tre Fiori	1–5	Valletta	0–3	1–2
FC Santa Coloma	0–4	F91 Dudelange	0–2	0–2

The first legs were played on 12 and 13 July, and the second legs were played on 19 and 20 July 2011.

HJK's 10–0 win over Bangor City in the second leg broke the record for the largest margin of victory in the current Champions League format.

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Maccabi Haifa	7–4	Borac Banja Luka	5–1	2–3
Mogren	1–5	Litex Lovech	1–2	0–3
Maribor	5–1	F91 Dudelange	2–0	3–1
Skënderbeu	0–6	APOEL	0–2	0–4
Slovan Bratislava	3–1	Tobol	2–0	1–1
Sturm Graz	4–3	Videoton	2–0	2–3
Zestaponi	3–2	Dacia Chișinău	3–0	0–2
Dinamo Zagreb	3–0	Neftçi	3–0	0–0
Pyunik	1–9	Viktoria Plzeň	0–4	1–5
Partizan	5–0	Shkëndija	4–0	1–0
Valletta	2–4	Ekranas	2–3	0–1
Malmö FF	3–1	HB	2–0	1–1
Shamrock Rovers	1–0	Flora	1–0	0–0
Rosenborg	5–2	Breiðablik	5–0	0–2
Bangor City	0–13[a]	HJK	0–3	0–10
Skonto	0–3	Wisła Kraków	0–1	0–2
Linfield	1–3	BATE Borisov	1–1	0–2

The draw for the third qualifying round was held on 15 July 2011.^[16] The first legs were played on 26 and 27 July, and the second legs were played on 2 and 3 August 2011.

The third qualifying round was split into two separate sections: one for champions (called the Champions Route) and one for non-champions (called the League Route). The losing teams in both sections entered the play-off round of the 2011–12 UEFA Europa League.

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Champions Route
Litex Lovech	2–5	Wisła Kraków	1–2	1–3
Maccabi Haifa	3–2	Maribor	2–1	1–1
HJK	1–3	Dinamo Zagreb	1–2	0–1
APOEL	2–0	Slovan Bratislava	0–0	2–0
Copenhagen	3–0	Shamrock Rovers	1–0	2–0
Genk	3–2	Partizan	2–1	1–1
Rosenborg	2–4	Viktoria Plzeň	0–1	2–3
Zestaponi	1–2	Sturm Graz	1–1	0–1
Ekranas	1–3	BATE Borisov	0–0	1–3
Rangers	1–2	Malmö FF	0–1	1–1
League Route
Standard Liège	1–2	Zürich	1–1	0–1
Twente	2–0	Vaslui	2–0	0–0
Benfica	3–1	Trabzonspor	2–0	1–1
Dynamo Kyiv	1–4	Rubin Kazan	0–2	1–2
Odense	5–4	Panathinaikos	1–1	4–3

The draw for the play-off round was held on 5 August 2011.^[17] The first legs were played on 16 and 17 August, and the second legs were played on 23 and 24 August 2011.

The play-off round was split into two separate sections: one for champions (called the Champions Route) and one for non-champions (called the League Route). The losing teams in both sections entered the group stage of the 2011–12 UEFA Europa League.

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Champions Route
Wisła Kraków	2–3	APOEL	1–0	1–3
Maccabi Haifa	3–3 (1–4 p)	Genk	2–1	1–2 (a.e.t.)
Dinamo Zagreb	4–3	Malmö FF	4–1	0–2
Copenhagen	2–5	Viktoria Plzeň	1–3	1–2
BATE Borisov	3–1	Sturm Graz	1–1	2–0
League Route
Odense	1–3	Villarreal	1–0	0–3
Twente	3–5	Benfica	2–2	1–3
Arsenal	3–1	Udinese	1–0	2–1
Bayern Munich	3–0	Zürich	2–0	1–0
Lyon	4–2	Rubin Kazan	3–1	1–1

Genk

BATE

Din. Zagreb

APOEL

Plzeň

London

Manchester

Valencia

Villarreal

Real Madrid

Barcelona

Marseille

Lyon

Lille

Bayern

Leverkusen

Dortmund

Olympiacos

Napoli

Milan

Ajax

Benfica

Porto

Oțelul

CSKA

Zenit

Basel

Trabzonspor

Shakhtar

London teams
Arsenal
Chelsea

Manchester teams
Manchester City
Manchester United

Milan teams
Internazionale
Milan

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Location of teams of the 2011–12 UEFA Champions League group stage.
Brown: Group A; Red: Group B; Orange: Group C; Yellow: Group D;
Green: Group E; Blue: Group F; Purple: Group G; Pink: Group H.

The group stage features 32 teams, which were allocated into pots based on their 2011 UEFA club coefficients (except the title holders, Barcelona, who were placed in Pot 1 automatically),^[13][14] and then drawn into eight groups of four. Teams from the same association cannot be drawn against each other. The draw was held on 25 August 2011 in Monaco.^[18]

In each group, teams play against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The matchdays are 13–14 September, 27–28 September, 18–19 October, 1–2 November, 22–23 November, and 6–7 December 2011. The group winners and runners-up advanced to the round of 16, while the third-placed teams entered the round of 32 of the 2011–12 UEFA Europa League.

If two or more teams are equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria are applied to determine the rankings (in descending order):^[5]

1. higher number of points obtained in the group matches played among the teams in question;
2. superior goal difference from the group matches played among the teams in question;
3. higher number of goals scored in the group matches played among the teams in question;
4. higher number of goals scored away from home in the group matches played among the teams in question;
5. If, after applying criteria 1) to 4) to several teams, two teams still have an equal ranking, the criteria 1) to 4) will be reapplied to determine the ranking of these teams;
6. superior goal difference from all group matches played;
7. higher number of goals scored from all group matches played;
8. higher number of coefficient points accumulated by the club in question, as well as its association, over the previous five seasons.

Manchester City, Napoli, Oțelul Galați, Trabzonspor and Viktoria Plzeň made their debut appearances in the group stage.^[19]

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		BAY	NAP	MCI	VIL
1	Bayern Munich	6	4	1	1	11	6	+5	13	Advance to knockout phase		—	3–2	2–0	3–1
2	Napoli	6	3	2	1	10	6	+4	11			1–1	—	2–1	2–0
3	Manchester City	6	3	1	2	9	6	+3	10	Transfer to Europa League		2–0	1–1	—	2–1
4	Villarreal	6	0	0	6	2	14	−12	0			0–2	0–2	0–3	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		INT	CSKA	TRA	LIL
1	Internazionale	6	3	1	2	8	7	+1	10	Advance to knockout phase		—	1–2	0–1	2–1
2	CSKA Moscow	6	2	2	2	9	8	+1	8			2–3	—	3–0	0–2
3	Trabzonspor	6	1	4	1	3	5	−2	7	Transfer to Europa League		1–1	0–0	—	1–1
4	Lille	6	1	3	2	6	6	0	6			0–1	2–2	0–0	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		BEN	BSL	MUN	OTE
1	Benfica	6	3	3	0	8	4	+4	12	Advance to knockout phase		—	1–1	1–1	1–0
2	Basel	6	3	2	1	11	10	+1	11			0–2	—	2–1	2–1
3	Manchester United	6	2	3	1	11	8	+3	9	Transfer to Europa League		2–2	3–3	—	2–0
4	Oțelul Galați	6	0	0	6	3	11	−8	0			0–1	2–3	0–2	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		RMA	LYO	AJX	DZG
1	Real Madrid	6	6	0	0	19	2	+17	18	Advance to knockout phase		—	4–0	3–0	6–2
2	Lyon	6	2	2	2	9	7	+2	8[a]			0–2	—	0–0	2–0
3	Ajax	6	2	2	2	6	6	0	8[a]	Transfer to Europa League		0–3	0–0	—	4–0
4	Dinamo Zagreb	6	0	0	6	3	22	−19	0			0–1	1–7	0–2	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		CHE	LEV	VAL	GNK
1	Chelsea	6	3	2	1	13	4	+9	11	Advance to knockout phase		—	2–0	3–0	5–0
2	Bayer Leverkusen	6	3	1	2	8	8	0	10			2–1	—	2–1	2–0
3	Valencia	6	2	2	2	12	7	+5	8	Transfer to Europa League		1–1	3–1	—	7–0
4	Genk	6	0	3	3	2	16	−14	3			1–1	1–1	0–0	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		ARS	MAR	OLY	DOR
1	Arsenal	6	3	2	1	7	6	+1	11	Advance to knockout phase		—	0–0	2–1	2–1
2	Marseille	6	3	1	2	7	4	+3	10			0–1	—	0–1	3–0
3	Olympiacos	6	3	0	3	8	6	+2	9	Transfer to Europa League		3–1	0–1	—	3–1
4	Borussia Dortmund	6	1	1	4	6	12	−6	4			1–1	2–3	1–0	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		APO	ZEN	POR	SHK
1	APOEL	6	2	3	1	6	6	0	9[a]	Advance to knockout phase		—	2–1	2–1	0–2
2	Zenit Saint Petersburg	6	2	3	1	7	5	+2	9[a]			0–0	—	3–1	1–0
3	Porto	6	2	2	2	7	7	0	8	Transfer to Europa League		1–1	0–0	—	2–1
4	Shakhtar Donetsk	6	1	2	3	6	8	−2	5			1–1	2–2	0–2	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		BAR	MIL	PLZ	BATE
1	Barcelona	6	5	1	0	20	4	+16	16	Advance to knockout phase		—	2–2	2–0	4–0
2	Milan	6	2	3	1	11	8	+3	9			2–3	—	2–0	2–0
3	Viktoria Plzeň	6	1	2	3	4	11	−7	5	Transfer to Europa League		0–4	2–2	—	1–1
4	BATE Borisov	6	0	2	4	2	14	−12	2			0–5	1–1	0–1	—

In the knockout phase, teams play against each other over two legs on a home-and-away basis, except for the one-match final.

In the draw for the round of 16, the eight group winners were seeded, and the eight group runners-up were unseeded. The seeded teams were drawn against the unseeded teams, with the seeded team hosting the second leg. Teams from the same group or the same association could not be drawn against each other. In the draws for the quarter-finals onwards, there are no seedings, and teams from the same group or the same association may be drawn with each other.

	Round of 16							Quarter-finals							Semi-finals							Final
	Marseille (a)		1	1	2
	Internazionale		0	2	2
								Marseille		0	0	0
								Bayern Munich		2	2	4
	Basel		1	0	1
	Bayern Munich		0	7	7
															Bayern Munich (p)		2	1	3 (3)
															Real Madrid		1	2	3 (1)
	Lyon		1	0	1 (3)
	APOEL (p)		0	1	1 (4)
								APOEL		0	2	2
								Real Madrid		3	5	8
	CSKA Moscow		1	1	2
																						19 May – Munich
	Real Madrid		1	4	5
																						Bayern Munich		1 (3)
																						Chelsea (p)		1 (4)
	Zenit Saint Petersburg		3	0	3
	Benfica		2	2	4
								Benfica		0	1	1
								Chelsea		1	2	3
	Napoli		3	1	4
	Chelsea (a.e.t.)		1	4	5
															Chelsea		1	2	3
															Barcelona		0	2	2
	Milan		4	0	4
	Arsenal		0	3	3
								Milan		0	1	1
								Barcelona		0	3	3
	Bayer Leverkusen		1	1	2
	Barcelona		3	7	10

The draw for the round of 16 was held on 16 December 2011.^[20] The first legs were played on 14, 15, 21 and 22 February, and the second legs were played on 6, 7, 13 and 14 March 2012.

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Lyon	1–1 (3–4 p)	APOEL	1–0	0–1 (a.e.t.)
Napoli	4–5	Chelsea	3–1	1–4 (a.e.t.)
Milan	4–3	Arsenal	4–0	0–3
Basel	1–7	Bayern Munich	1–0	0–7
Bayer Leverkusen	2–10	Barcelona	1–3	1–7
CSKA Moscow	2–5	Real Madrid	1–1	1–4
Zenit Saint Petersburg	3–4	Benfica	3–2	0–2
Marseille	2–2 (a)	Internazionale	1–0	1–2

The draw for the quarter-finals was held on 16 March 2012.^[21] The first legs were played on 27 and 28 March, and the second legs were played on 3 and 4 April 2012.

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
APOEL	2–8	Real Madrid	0–3	2–5
Marseille	0–4	Bayern Munich	0–2	0–2
Benfica	1–3	Chelsea	0–1	1–2
Milan	1–3	Barcelona	0–0	1–3

The draw for the semi-finals was held on 16 March 2012, after the quarter-final draw.^[21] The first legs were played on 17 and 18 April, and the second legs were played on 24 and 25 April 2012.

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Bayern Munich	3–3 (3–1 p)	Real Madrid	2–1	1–2 (a.e.t.)
Chelsea	3–2	Barcelona	1–0	2–2

The final was played on 19 May 2012 at the Allianz Arena in Munich, Germany. A draw was held on 16 March 2012, after the quarter-final and semi-final draws, to determine the "home" team for administrative purposes.^[21]

19 May 2012 (2012-05-19)

20:45 UTC+2

Bayern Munich	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Chelsea
Müller 83'	Report	Drogba 88'
Penalties
Lahm Gómez Neuer Olić Schweinsteiger	3–4	Mata David Luiz Lampard Cole Drogba

Allianz Arena, Munich

Attendance: 62,500^[22]

Referee: Pedro Proença (Portugal)

Statistics exclude qualifying rounds and play-off round.

Rank	Player	Team	Goals	Minutes played
1	Lionel Messi	Barcelona	14	990
2	Mario Gómez	Bayern Munich	12	1,003
3	Cristiano Ronaldo	Real Madrid	10	930
4	Karim Benzema	Real Madrid	7	760
5	Didier Drogba	Chelsea	6	670
6	José Callejón	Real Madrid	5	307
	Roberto Soldado	Valencia		515
	Bafétimbi Gomis	Lyon		530
	Alexander Frei	Basel		611
	Seydou Doumbia	CSKA Moscow		611
	Roman Shirokov	Zenit Saint Petersburg		658
	Edinson Cavani	Napoli		701
	Zlatan Ibrahimović	Milan		720

Source:^[23]

• 2011–12 UEFA Europa League
• 2012 FIFA Club World Cup
• 2012 UEFA Super Cup
• 2011–12 UEFA Women's Champions League