2012–13 UEFA Women's Champions League
| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Dates | 11 August 2012 – 23 May 2013 |
| Teams | 54 |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |
 Wolfsburg (1st title) |
| Runners-up |
 Lyon
|
| Tournament statistics | |
| Top scorer(s) |
 Laura Rus (11 goals) |
The 2012–13 UEFA Women's Champions League was the 12th edition of the European women's championship for football clubs. The final was held at Stamford Bridge, London, England on 23 May 2013.
The national champions and runners-up, where known, in nations that have participated in the past five years are listed as expected to compete. Some of these teams may choose not to participate. Norway has overtaken Iceland in the UEFA coefficients and thus assured themselves a second entry.
Countries are allocated places according to their UEFA league coefficient for women. A first entry list was posted on 14 June 2012 by the Belgian representative. Not returning since last year is the champion of Luxembourg, for the first time Montenegro sends its champion. Here CH denotes the national champion, RU the national runner-up.
UEFA has scheduled the competition as follows.
32 teams enter in the qualifying round, and were divided into eight groups of four teams, with one team from each seeding pot. The group-winners and best two runners-up qualify for the round of 32.
32 teams entered in the qualifying round, and were divided into eight groups of four teams, with one team from each seeding pot:
Pot 1
Pot 2
Pot 3
Pot 4
The eight hosts were confirmed by UEFA before the draw, and two hosts could not be placed in the same group. Each team played the other teams in the group once. The matches were played between 11 and 16 August 2012. The draw was held on 28 June 2012.
As usual in UEFA competitions, three points are awarded for a win, and one point for a draw. If teams are equal on points after all matches have been played, the following criteria applies:
Criteria 1–3 are reapplied until the tie cannot be resolved; only then is criteria 4 used.
Apollon's 21–0 victory over Ada set a new competition record.
The two best runners-up also qualify for the round of 32. The match against the fourth-placed team in the group does not count for the purposes of the runners-up table. The tie-breakers in this ranking are:
The top 16 ranked teams are seeded for the round of 32. Team that qualified through the qualifying round are marked with (Q).
Seeded:
Unseeded:
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