2011–12 UEFA Champions League

2011-12 UEFA Champions League

Tournament details
Dates	28 June 2011 - 19 May 2012
Teams	32 (group stage) 76 (qualifying)
Final positions
Champions	Chelsea F.C. (1st title)
Runner-up	Bayern Munich
Tournament statistics
Matches played	125
Goals scored	345 (2.76 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Lionel Messi (14)
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The 2011-12 UEFA Champions League is the 57th edition of Europe's premier club football tournament and the twentieth edition under the current UEFA Champions League format. Barcelona are the defending champions. The final will be played on 19 May 2012, at the AlLianz, home ground of Bayern Munich, in Munich, Germany. This year's final will be the third to be played on a Saturday night. The winner of the tournament qualifies to play in the 2012 FIFA Club World Cup as well as the 2012 UEFA Super Cup.

Qualifying Rules

Below is the qualification scheme for the 2011-12 UEFA Champions League:

• 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 (except Liechtenstein)

Distribution

First qualifying round (4 teams)

• 4 champions from associations 50-53

Second qualifying round (34 teams)

• 2 winners from the first qualifying round
• 32 champions from associations 17-49 (except Liechtenstein)

Third qualifying round for champions (20 teams)

• 17 winners from the second qualifying round
• 3 champions from associations 14-16

Third qualifying round for non-champions (10 teams)

• 9 runners-up from associations 7-15
• 1 third-placed team from association 6

Play-off round for champions (10 teams)

• 10 winners from the third qualifying round for champions

Play-off round for non-champions (10 teams)

• 5 winners from the third qualifying round for non-champions
• 2 third-placed teams from associations 4 and 5
• 3 fourth-placed teams from associations 1-3

Group stage (32 teams)

• 5 winners from the play-off round for champions
• 5 winners from the play-off round for non-champions
• 13 champions from associations 1-13
• 6 runners-up from associations 1-6
• 3 third-placed teams from associations 1-3

Teams

League positions of the previous season shown in parentheses.(Trabzonspor replaced Fenerbahçe due to match fixing allegations.)

Group stage
BarcelonaTH (1st)	Milan (1st)	Marseille (2nd)	Porto (1st)
Manchester United (1st)	Internazionale (2nd)	Zenit St. 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 (P-1st)	Odense (2nd)
	Benfica (2nd)
Second qualifying round
Litex Lovech (1st)	Partizan (1st)	Skonto (1st)	Tobol Kostanay (1st)
Viktoria Plzeň (1st)	Wisła Kraków (1st)	Dacia Chişinău (1st)	Flora Tallinn (1st)
Sturm Graz (1st)	Dinamo Zagreb (1st)	Maribor (1st)	Skënderbeu Korçë (1st)
Maccabi Haifa (1st)	BATE Borisov (1st)	Videoton (1st)	Pyunik (1st)
APOEL (1st)	Shamrock Rovers (1st)	Zestafoni (1st)	Bangor City (1st)
Rosenborg (1st)	HJK Helsinki (1st)	Neftchi Baku (1st)	Mogren (1st)
Slovan Bratislava (1st)	Borac Banja Luka (1st)	Breiðablik (1st)	HB Tórshavn (1st)
Malmö FF (1st)	Ekranas (1st)	Škendija (1st)	Linfield (1st)
First qualifying round
F91 Dudelange (1st)	FC Santa Coloma (1st)	Valletta (1st)	Tre Fiori (1st)

Round and draw dates

Phase	Round	Draw date	First leg	Second leg
Qualifying	First qualifying round	20 June 2011	28–29 June 2011	5–6 July 2011
	Second qualifying round		12–13 July 2011	19–20 July 2011
	Third qualifying round	15 July 2011	26–27 July 2011	2–3 August 2011
Play-off	Play-off round	5 August 2011	16–17 August 2011	23–24 August 2011
Group stage	Matchday 1	25 August 2011	13–14 September 2011
	Matchday 2		27–38 September 2011
	Matchday 3		18–19 October 2011
	Matchday 4		1–2 November 2011
	Matchday 5		22–23 November 2011
	Matchday 6		6–7 December 2011
Knockout stage	First knockout round	16 December 2011	14-15 & 21–22 February 2012	6-7 & 13–14 March 2012
	Quarter-finals	16 March 2012	27–28 March 2012	3–4 April 2012
	Semi-finals		17–18 April 2012	24–25 April 2012
	Final		19 May 2012 at Fußball Arena München, Munich

Qualifying phase

Main article: 2011-12 UEFA Champions League qualifying phase and play-off round

First qualifying round

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Tre Fiori	1-5	Valetta	0-3	1-2
Santa Coloma	0-4	F91 Dudelange	0-2	0-2

Second qualifying round

Team #1	Agg.	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 Korçë	0–6	APOEL	0–2	0–4
Slovan Bratislava	3–1	Tobol Kostanay	2–0	1–1
Sturm Graz	4–3	Videoton	2–0	2–3
Zestafoni	3–2	Dacia Chişinău	3–0	0–2
Dinamo Zagreb	3–0	Neftchi Baku	3–0	0–0
Pyunik	1–9	Viktoria Plzeň	0–4	1–5
Partizan	5–0	Škendija	4–0	1–0
Valletta	2–4	Ekranas	2–3	0–1
Malmö FF	3–1	HB Tórshavn	2–0	1–1
Shamrock Rovers	1–0	Flora Tallinn	1–0	0–0
Rosenborg	5–2	Breiðablik	5–0	0–2
Bangor City	0–131	HJK	0–3	0–10
Skonto	0–3	Wisła Kraków	0–1	0–2
Linfield	1–3	BATE Borisov	1–1	0–2

Third qualifying round

The draw for the third qualifying round was held on 15 July 2011. 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.	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
Zestafoni	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

Play-off round

Main article: 2010-11 UEFA Champions League qualifying phase and play-off round#Play-off round

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Champions Path
Wisła Kraków	2–3	APOEL	1–0	1–3
Maccabi Haifa	3–3 (1–4 p)	Genk	2–1	1–2 aet
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
Non-Champions Path
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

Group stage

Main article: 2011–12 UEFA Champions League group stage

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), 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.

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):

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.

The 32 teams contain eleven former winners of the European Cup/Champions League (40 titles combined), and five teams (Manchester City, Napoli, Trabzonspor, Viktoria Plzeň and Oțelul Galați) which made their début appearance in the group stage. Eighteen UEFA member associations are represented in this group stage: England and Spain by four clubs, Italy, Germany and France by three, Russia and Portugal by two, while eleven associations are represented by one club, which are all domestic champions except Trabzonspor, which replaced Fenerbahçe due to match-fixing allegations.

Key to colours in group tables
Group winners and runners-up advance to the round of 16
Third-placed teams enter the UEFA Europa League at the round of 32

Group A

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Bayern Munich 6 4 1 1 11 6 +5 13 Napoli 6 3 2 1 10 6 +4 11 Manchester City 6 3 1 2 9 6 +3 10 Villarreal 6 0 0 6 2 14 −12 0

BM MC NAP VIL Bayern Munich – 2–0 3–2 3–1 Manchester City 2–0 – 1–1 2–1 Napoli 1–1 2–1 – 2–0 Villarreal 0–2 0–3 0–2 –

Group B

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Internazionale 6 3 1 2 8 7 +1 10 CSKA Moscow 6 2 2 2 9 8 +1 8 Trabzonspor 6 1 4 1 3 5 −2 7 Lille 6 1 3 2 6 6 0 6

CM INT LIL TRA CSKA Moscow – 2–3 0–2 3–0 Internazionale 1–2 – 2–1 0–1 Lille 2–2 0–1 – 0–0 Trabzonspor 0–0 1–1 1–1 –

Group C

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Benfica 6 3 3 0 8 4 +4 12 Basel 6 3 2 1 11 10 +1 11 Manchester United 6 2 3 1 11 8 +3 9 Oțelul Galați 6 0 0 6 3 11 −8 0

BAS SLB MU OG Basel – 0–2 2–1 2–1 Benfica 1–1 – 1–1 1–0 Manchester United 3–3 2–2 – 2–0 Oțelul Galați 2–3 0–1 0–2 –

Group D

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Real Madrid 6 6 0 0 19 2 +17 18 Lyon 6 2 2 2 9 7 +2 8 Ajax 6 2 2 2 6 6 0 8 Dinamo Zagreb 6 0 0 6 3 22 −19 0

AJA DZ OL RM Ajax – 4–0 0–0 0–3 Dinamo Zagreb 0–2 – 1–7 0–1 Lyon 0–0 2–0 – 0–2 Real Madrid 3–0 6–2 4–0 –

Group E

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Chelsea 6 3 2 1 13 4 +9 11 Bayer Leverkusen 6 3 1 2 8 8 0 10 Valencia 6 2 2 2 12 7 +5 8 Genk 6 0 3 3 2 16 −14 3

BL CHL GNK VAL Bayer Leverkusen – 2–1 2–0 2–1 Chelsea 2–0 – 5–0 3–0 Genk 1–1 1–1 – 0–0 Valencia 3–1 1–1 7–0 –

Group F

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Arsenal 6 3 2 1 7 6 +1 11 Marseille 6 3 1 2 7 4 +3 10 Olympiacos 6 3 0 3 8 6 +2 9 Borussia Dortmund 6 1 1 4 6 12 −6 4

ARS BD OM OLY Arsenal – 2–1 0–0 2–1 Borussia Dortmund 1–1 – 2–3 1–0 Marseille 0–1 3–0 – 0–1 Olympiacos 3–1 3–1 0–1 –

Group G

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts APOEL 6 2 3 1 6 6 0 9 Zenit St. Petersburg 6 2 3 1 7 5 +2 9 Porto 6 2 2 2 7 7 0 8 Shakhtar Donetsk 6 1 2 3 6 8 −2 5

APO POR SD ZSP APOEL – 2–1 0–2 2–1 Porto 1–1 – 2–1 0–0 Shakhtar Donetsk 1–1 0–2 – 2–2 Zenit St. Petersburg 0–0 3–1 1–0 –

Group H

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Barcelona 6 5 1 0 20 4 +16 16 Milan 6 2 3 1 11 8 +3 9 Viktoria Plzeň 6 1 2 3 4 11 −7 5 BATE Borisov 6 0 2 4 2 14 −12 2

BAR BAT MIL VP Barcelona – 4–0 2–2 2–0 BATE Borisov 0–5 – 1–1 0–1 Milan 2–3 2–0 – 2–0 Viktoria Plzeň 0–4 1–1 2–2 –

Knockout stage

Main article: 2011-12 UEFA Champions League knockout stage

Round of 16

The draw for the first knockout round was held on 16 December 2012 at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland by UEFA General Secretary Gianni Infantino and UEFA Director of Competitions Giorgio Marchetti. The eight group winners, which play the second leg at home, were drawn against the eight group runners-up, with the restriction that teams from the same group or the same association cannot be drawn with each other. Starting with this season, the first knockout round matches will be held over four weeks, instead of the previous two weeks. The first legs will be played on 14, 15, 21 and 22 February, while the second legs will be played on 6, 7, 13 and 14 March 2012.

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Lyon	1-1 (3-4 p)	APOEL	1-0	0-1 (aet)
Napoli	4-5	Chelsea	3-1	1-4 (aet)
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

Quarter-finals

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.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
APOEL	2-8	Real Madrid	0-3	5-2
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

Semi-finals

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.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Bayern Munich	3-3 (3-1 p)	Real Madrid	2-1	1-2 (aet)
Internazionale	3-2	Barcelona	3-1	0-1

Final

19 May 2012 20:45 CEST	Bayern Munich	1 – 1 (a.e.t.)	Chelsea	Allianz Arena, Munich Attendance: 62,500 Referee: Pedro Proença (Portugal)
	Müller  83'	Report	Drogba  88'
		Penalties
	Lahm Gómez Neuer Olić Schweinsteiger	3 – 4	Mata Luiz Lampard Cole Drogba

Statistics

Top goalscorers

The top scorers from the 2011–12 UEFA Champions League (excluding qualifying rounds and play-off round) are as follows:

Rank	Name	Team	Goals	Minutes played
1	Lionel Messi	Barcelona	14	990'
2	Mario Gomez	Bayern Munich	12	1003'
3	Cristiano Ronaldo	Real Madrid	10	930'
4	Karim Benzema	Real Madrid	7	760'
5	Didier Drogba	Chelsea F.C.	6	670'
6	Jose Maria Callejon	Real Madrid	5	307'
	Roberto Soldado	Valencia CF	5	515'
	Zlatan Ibrahimović	Barcelona	5	720'

• Source: Top Scorers - Quarter-Final 2nd leg - Wednesday 7 April 2010 (after matches) (accessed 7 April 2010)

See also

• 2011-12 UEFA Europa League
• UEFA Champions League

UEFA Champions League 2011-12
Champions
Runners-up
Knockout Stage
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