2011–12 UEFA Champions League

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2011–12 UEFA Champions League
Allianz Arena in Munich hosted the final.
Tournament details
DatesQualifying:
28 June – 24 August 2011
Competition proper:
13 September 2011 – 19 May 2012
TeamsCompetition proper: 32
Total: 76 (from 52 associations)
Final positions
ChampionsEngland Chelsea (1st title)
Runners-upGermany Bayern Munich
Tournament statistics
Matches played125
Goals scored345 (2.76 per match)
Top scorer(s)Lionel Messi (Barcelona)
14 goals

The 2011–12 UEFA Champions League was the 57th season of Europe's premier club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 20th season in its current Champions League format. As part of a trial that started in the 2009–10 UEFA Europa League, two extra officials – one behind each goal – were used in all matches of the competition from the play-off round.[1]

1984. By winning the tournament, Chelsea earned a berth at the 2012 FIFA Club World Cup and 2012 UEFA Super Cup. Barcelona
were the defending champions, but were eliminated by the eventual winners Chelsea in the semi-finals.

Association team allocation

A total of 76 teams participated in the 2011–12 Champions League from 52 UEFA associations (

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)

Association ranking

Rank Association Coeff. Teams
1 England England 81.856 4
2 Spain Spain 79.757
3 Italy Italy 64.338
4 Germany Germany 64.207 3
5 France France 53.740
6 Russia Russia 43.791
7
Ukraine
39.550 2
8 Romania Romania 39.491
9 Portugal Portugal 38.296
10 Netherlands Netherlands 36.546
11 Turkey Turkey 34.450
12 Greece Greece 29.899
13 Switzerland Switzerland 28.375
14 Belgium Belgium 27.900
15 Denmark Denmark 27.350
16 Scotland Scotland 25.791 1
17 Bulgaria Bulgaria 22.000
18
Czech Republic
21.975
Rank Association Coeff. Teams
19 Austria Austria 19.575 1
20 Israel Israel 18.875
21 Cyprus Cyprus 17.999
22
Norway
17.400
23 Slovakia Slovakia 15.832
24 Sweden Sweden 14.191
25 Serbia Serbia 14.000
26 Poland Poland 12.541
27 Croatia Croatia 12.332
28 Belarus Belarus 11.541
29 Republic of Ireland Republic of Ireland 9.541
30 Finland Finland 9.499
31
Bosnia and Herzegovina
8.749
32 Lithuania Lithuania 8.416
33 Latvia Latvia 8.248
34
Moldova
7.290
35 Slovenia Slovenia 6.957
36 Hungary Hungary 6.750
Rank Association Coeff. Teams
37 Georgia (country) Georgia 5.748 1
38 Azerbaijan Azerbaijan 5.498
39 Iceland Iceland 5.415
40 North Macedonia Macedonia 5.332
41 Liechtenstein Liechtenstein 4.500 0
42
Kazakhstan
4.499 1
43 Estonia Estonia 4.374
44 Albania Albania 3.999
45 Armenia Armenia 2.999
46 Wales Wales 2.581
47 Montenegro Montenegro 2.125
48 Faroe Islands Faroe Islands 1.832
49 Northern Ireland Northern Ireland 1.624
50 Luxembourg Luxembourg 1.249
51 Andorra Andorra 1.000
52 Malta Malta 0.916
53 San Marino San Marino 0.750

Distribution

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.
Teams entering in this round Teams advancing from previous round
First qualifying round
(4 teams)
  • 4 champions from associations 50–53
Second qualifying round
(34 teams)
  • 32 champions from associations 17–49 (except Liechtenstein)
  • 2 winners from the first qualifying round
Third qualifying round Champions Route
(20 teams)
  • 3 champions from associations 14–16
  • 17 winners from the second qualifying round
League Route
(10 teams)
  • 9 runners-up from associations 7–15
  • 1 third-placed team from association 6
Play-off round Champions Route
(10 teams)
  • 10 winners from the third qualifying round Champions Route
League Route
(10 teams)
  • 2 third-placed teams from associations 4 and 5
  • 3 fourth-placed teams from associations 1–3
  • 5 winners from the third qualifying round League Route
Group stage
(32 teams)
  • 13 champions from associations 1–13
  • 6 runners-up from associations 1–6
  • 3 third-placed teams from associations 1–3
  • 5 winners from the play-off round Champions Route
  • 5 winners from the play-off round League Route
Knockout phase
(16 teams)
  • 8 group winners from the group stage
  • 8 group runners-up from the group stage

Teams

League positions of the previous season shown in parentheses.[7] [8]

Group stage
Spain BarcelonaTH (1st)
Milan (1st
)
France Marseille (2nd) Portugal Porto (1st)
England Manchester United (1st) Italy Internazionale (2nd) Russia Zenit St. Petersburg (1st) Netherlands Ajax (1st)
England Chelsea (2nd)
Napoli (3rd
)
Russia CSKA Moscow (2nd) Turkey Trabzonspor (2nd)Note TUR
England Manchester City (3rd)
1st
)
Ukraine Shakhtar Donetsk (1st)
1st
)
Real Madrid (2nd
)
2nd
)
Oțelul Galați (1st
)
Switzerland Basel (1st)
Spain Valencia (3rd) France Lille (1st)
Play-off round
Champions Route League Route
England Arsenal (4th) Italy Udinese (4th) France Lyon (3rd)
Spain Villarreal (4th)
3rd
)
Third qualifying round
Champions Route League Route
Belgium Genk (1st) Russia Rubin Kazan (3rd) Netherlands Twente (2nd) Switzerland Zürich (2nd)
Denmark Copenhagen (1st) Ukraine Dynamo Kyiv (2nd) Turkey Trabzonspor (2nd)Note TUR Belgium Standard Liège (2nd)
Scotland Rangers (1st)
Vaslui (3rd)Note ROU
2nd
)
Denmark Odense (2nd)
Portugal Benfica (2nd)
Second qualifying round
1st
)
Serbia Partizan (1st) Latvia Skonto (1st) Kazakhstan Tobol Kostanay (1st)
1st
)
Poland Wisła Kraków (1st)
Dacia Chişinău (1st
)
Flora Tallinn (1st
)
Austria Sturm Graz (1st)
1st
)
Slovenia Maribor (1st)
1st
)
Israel Maccabi Haifa (1st) Belarus BATE Borisov (1st)
Videoton (1st
)
Armenia Pyunik (1st)
APOEL (1st
)
1st
)
Georgia (country) Zestafoni (1st) Wales Bangor City (1st)
1st
)
HJK (1st
)
Neftchi Baku (1st
)
Montenegro Mogren (1st)
Slovakia Slovan Bratislava (1st) Bosnia and Herzegovina Borac Banja Luka (1st)
Breiðablik (1st
)
1st
)
Sweden Malmö FF (1st) Lithuania Ekranas (1st)
1st
)
Northern Ireland Linfield (1st)
First qualifying round
Luxembourg F91 Dudelange (1st)
FC Santa Coloma (1st
)
Malta Valletta (1st)
Tre Fiori (1st
)
Notes
  • th Title Holder
  • Romania (ROU): Because
    Vaslui, the third-placed team of the league, claimed the Champions League spot in the third qualifying round League Route.[9]
  • Turkey (TUR):
    match-fixing.[10][11] UEFA decided to replace them in the group stage with Trabzonspor, the league runners-up, who had lost in the Champions League third qualifying round and were participating in the Europa League play-off round at that time.[12]

Round and draw dates

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

Phase Round Draw date First leg Second leg
Qualifying First qualifying round 20 June 2011 28 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
(Monaco)
13–14 September 2011
Matchday 2 27–28 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 phase Round of 16 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 Allianz Arena, Munich

Qualifying rounds

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.

First qualifying round

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 San Marino
1–5 Malta Valletta 0–3 1–2
FC Santa Coloma Andorra 0–4 Luxembourg F91 Dudelange 0–2 0–2


Second qualifying round

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

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 Israel 7–4 Bosnia and Herzegovina Borac Banja Luka 5–1 2–3
Mogren Montenegro 1–5 Bulgaria Litex Lovech 1–2 0–3
Maribor Slovenia 5–1 Luxembourg F91 Dudelange 2–0 3–1
Skënderbeu Albania 0–6 Cyprus APOEL 0–2 0–4
Slovan Bratislava Slovakia 3–1 Kazakhstan Tobol Kostanay 2–0 1–1
Sturm Graz Austria 4–3 Hungary Videoton 2–0 2–3
Zestafoni Georgia (country) 3–2 Moldova Dacia Chișinău 3–0 0–2
Dinamo Zagreb Croatia 3–0
Neftchi Baku
3–0 0–0
Pyunik Armenia 1–9 Czech Republic Viktoria Plzeň 0–4 1–5
Partizan Serbia 5–0 North Macedonia Shkëndija 4–0 1–0
Valletta Malta 2–4 Lithuania Ekranas 2–3 0–1
Malmö Sweden 3–1 Faroe Islands HB Tórshavn 2–0 1–1
Shamrock Rovers Republic of Ireland 1–0
Flora Tallinn
1–0 0–0
Rosenborg Norway 5–2 Iceland Breiðablik 5–0 0–2
Bangor City Wales 0–13[B]
HJK
0–3 0–10
Skonto Latvia 0–3 Poland Wisła Kraków 0–1 0–2
Linfield Northern Ireland 1–3 Belarus BATE Borisov 1–1 0–2
Notes
  1. ^
    Order of legs reversed after original draw.


Third qualifying round

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 Bulgaria 2–5 Poland Wisła Kraków 1–2 1–3
Maccabi Haifa Israel 3–2 Slovenia Maribor 2–1 1–1
HJK Finland
1–3 Croatia Dinamo Zagreb 1–2 0–1
APOEL Cyprus 2–0 Slovakia Slovan Bratislava 0–0 2–0
Copenhagen Denmark 3–0 Republic of Ireland Shamrock Rovers 1–0 2–0
Genk Belgium 3–2 Serbia Partizan 2–1 1–1
Rosenborg Norway 2–4 Czech Republic Viktoria Plzeň 0–1 2–3
Zestafoni Georgia (country) 1–2 Austria Sturm Graz 1–1 0–1
Ekranas Lithuania 1–3 Belarus BATE Borisov 0–0 1–3
Rangers Scotland 1–2 Sweden Malmö 0–1 1–1
Team 1
Agg.
Tooltip Aggregate score
Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
League Route
Standard Liège Belgium 1–2 Switzerland Zürich 1–1 0–1
Twente Netherlands 2–0 Romania Vaslui 2–0 0–0
Benfica Portugal 3–1 Turkey Trabzonspor 2–0 1–1
Dynamo Kyiv Ukraine 1–4 Russia Rubin Kazan 0–2 1–2
Odense Denmark 5–4 Greece Panathinaikos 1–1 4–3


Play-off round

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 Poland 2–3 Cyprus APOEL 1–0 1–3
Maccabi Haifa Israel 3–3 (1–4 p) Belgium Genk 2–1
a.e.t.
)
Dinamo Zagreb Croatia 4–3 Sweden Malmö 4–1 0–2
Copenhagen Denmark 2–5 Czech Republic Viktoria Plzeň 1–3 1–2
BATE Borisov Belarus 3–1 Austria Sturm Graz 1–1 2–0
Team 1
Agg.
Tooltip Aggregate score
Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
League Route
Odense Denmark 1–3 Spain Villarreal 1–0 0–3
Twente Netherlands 3–5 Portugal Benfica 2–2 1–3
Arsenal England 3–1 Italy Udinese 1–0 2–1
Bayern Munich Germany 3–0 Switzerland Zürich 2–0 1–0
Lyon France 4–2 Russia Rubin Kazan 3–1 1–1


Group stage

Milan
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.