2011–12 Uefa Champions League

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2011–12 UEFA Champions League

Allianz Arena in Munich hosted the final.
Tournament details
Dates	Qualifying: 28 June – 24 August 2011 Competition proper: 13 September 2011 – 19 May 2012
Teams	Competition proper: 32 Total: 76 (from 52 associations)
Final positions
Champions	Chelsea (1st title)
Runners-up	Bayern Munich
Tournament statistics
Matches played	125
Goals scored	345 (2.76 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Lionel Messi (Barcelona) 14 goals
← 2010–11 2012–13 →

The final was held at the Allianz Arena in Munich, Germany. Chelsea's caretaker manager Roberto Di Matteo led the club to win their first Champions League title after beating Bayern Munich 4–3 on penalties in the final. As tenants of the Allianz Arena (known as Fußball Arena München for the final), this meant that Bayern were the first finalists to have home advantage since 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.

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.

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 (excluding Liechtenstein)

Association ranking

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

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:

• 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

League positions of the previous season shown in parentheses.

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 (2nd)	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 (1st)
Maccabi Haifa (1st)	BATE Borisov (1st)	Videoton (1st)	Pyunik (1st)
APOEL (1st)	Shamrock Rovers (1st)	Zestafoni (1st)	Bangor City (1st)
Rosenborg (1st)	HJK (1st)	Neftchi Baku (1st)	Mogren (1st)
Slovan Bratislava (1st)	Borac Banja Luka (1st)	Breiðablik (1st)	HB Tórshavn (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)

Notes

• th Title Holder
• Romania (ROU): Because Politehnica Timișoara, the 2010–11 Liga I runners-up, were denied a domestic licence for the 2011–12 season, Vaslui, the third-placed team of the league, claimed the Champions League spot in the third qualifying round League Route.
• Turkey (TUR): Fenerbahçe, the 2010–11 Süper Lig champions, was banned by the Turkish Football Federation on 24 August 2011 from participating in the 2011–12 UEFA Champions League due to the ongoing investigation into match-fixing. 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.

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

In the qualifying rounds and the play-off round, teams were divided into seeded and unseeded teams based on their 2011 UEFA club coefficients, 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. 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

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.

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 Kostanay	2–0	1–1
Sturm Graz	4–3	Videoton	2–0	2–3
Zestafoni	3–2	Dacia Chișinău	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	Shkëndija	4–0	1–0
Valletta	2–4	Ekranas	2–3	0–1
Malmö	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	0–13[B]	HJK	0–3	0–10
Skonto	0–3	Wisła Kraków	0–1	0–2
Linfield	1–3	BATE Borisov	1–1	0–2

Notes

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.

Champions Route

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
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	0–1	1–1

League Route

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
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. 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.

Champions Route

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
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	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

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
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), 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 comprise 11 former winners of the European Cup/Champions League (40 titles combined), and five teams (Manchester City, Napoli, Trabzonspor, Viktoria Plzeň and Oțelul Galați) making their debut 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.

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		BAY	NAP	MC	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	—

Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		INT	CSK	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	—

Group C

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		BEN	BAS	MU	OG
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	—

Group D

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		RM	OL	AJA	DZ
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			0–2	—	0–0	2–0
3	Ajax	6	2	2	2	6	6	0	8	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	—

Group E

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	—

Group F

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		ARS	OM	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	—

Group G

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		APO	ZEN	POR	SHA
1	APOEL	6	2	3	1	6	6	0	9	Advance to knockout phase		—	2–1	2–1	0–2
2	Zenit Saint Petersburg	6	2	3	1	7	5	+2	9			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	—

Group H

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		BAR	MIL	PLZ	BAT
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. The draw for the round of 16 was held on 16 December 2011. The draws for the quarter-finals, semi-finals and final (to determine the "home" team) were held on 16 March 2012. Both draws were assisted by German footballer Paul Breitner, the ambassador for the 2012 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.

Bracket

	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
	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

Round of 16

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

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.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

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.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

Final

The final was played on 19 May 2012 at the Allianz Arena in Munich, Germany.

19 May 2012

20:45
(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

Referee: Pedro Proença (Portugal)

Statistics exclude qualifying rounds and play-off round.

Top goalscorers

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:

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