2015–16 UEFA Women's Champions League

Tournament details
Dates	Qualifying round: 11–16 August 2015 Knockout phase: 7 October 2015 – 26 May 2016
Teams	Knockout phase: 32 Total: 56 (from 47 associations)
Final positions
Champions	Lyon (3rd title)
Runners-up	Wolfsburg
Tournament statistics
Matches played	109
Goals scored	421 (3.86 per match)
Attendance	208,892 (1,916 per match)
Top scorer	Ada Hegerberg(13 goals)
←2014–15 2016–17 →

The2015–16 UEFA Women's Champions League was the 15th edition of the European women's clubfootball championship organised byUEFA, and the 7th edition since being rebranded as theUEFA Women's Champions League.

Thefinal was played at theMapei Stadium – Città del Tricolore inReggio Emilia, Italy on 26 May 2016, two days before thefinal of the men's tournament played atSan Siro,Milan.^[1]

Lyon defeatedWolfsburg 4–3 on penalties (1–1 after extra time) to win their third European title.^[2]Frankfurt were the defending champions, but were eliminated by Wolfsburg in the semi-finals.

A total of 56 teams from 47 of the 54UEFA member associations participated in the 2015–16 UEFA Women's Champions League. The ranking based on theUEFA Women's Champions League association coefficient was used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:^[3]

• Associations 1–8 each had two teams qualify.
• All other associations, should they enter, each had one team qualify.
• The winners of the2014–15 UEFA Women's Champions League were given an additional entry if they do not qualify for the 2015–16 UEFA Women's Champions League through their domestic league. BecauseFrankfurt finished outside the top two league places, this additional entry was necessary, meaningGermany had three teams in the competition this season.

For the 2015–16 UEFA Women's Champions League, the associations were allocated places according to their 2014 UEFA Women's Champions League association coefficient, which took into account their performance in European competitions from 2009–10 to 2013–14.^[4]

Spain overtook the Czech Republic in the UEFA coefficient ranking and thus assured themselves a second entry.

Rank Association Coeff. Teams 1 Germany 91.666 2+1(TH) 2 France 78.500 2 3 Sweden 61.500 4 England 58.500 5 Russia 47.000 6 Italy 39.500 7 Spain 35.000 8 Denmark 35.000 9 Czech Republic 34.000 1 10 Austria 31.500 11 Norway 30.000 12 Scotland 22.000 13 Switzerland 20.000 14 Belgium 19.000 15 Kazakhstan 19.000 16 Poland 18.500 17 Netherlands 18.000 18 Iceland 17.000

Rank Association Coeff. Teams 19 Cyprus 16.000 1 20 Serbia 15.000 21 Finland 15.000 22 Hungary 14.500 23 Romania 14.000 24 Belarus 12.500 25 Greece 12.500 26 Ukraine 12.000 27 Turkey 10.000 28 Bosnia and Herzegovina 10.000 29 Portugal 8.500 30 Slovakia 8.000 31 Israel 8.000 32 Republic of Ireland 8.000 33 Slovenia 7.500 34 Bulgaria 7.500 35 Estonia 5.000 36 Croatia 5.000

Rank Association Coeff. Teams 37 Faroe Islands 5.000 1 38 Lithuania 4.000 39 Macedonia 3.000 40 Wales 3.000 41 Northern Ireland 2.000 42 Montenegro 1.000 43 Moldova 0.500 44 Luxembourg 0.000 45 Georgia 0.000 0(DNE) 46 Latvia 0.000 1 47 Malta 0.000 48 Albania 0.000 (NR) Andorra 0.000 0(DNE) Armenia Azerbaijan Gibraltar Liechtenstein San Marino

Notes

• (TH) – Additional berth for title holders
• (DNE) – Did not enter
• (NR) – No rank (association did not enter in the five seasons used for computing coefficients)

Unlike the men'sChampions League, not every association enters a team, and so the exact number of teams in each round can not be determined until the full entry list is known. For this season, the title holders, the champions and runners-up from associations 1–8 and the champions from associations 9–15 entered the round of 32, while the remaining teams entered the qualifying round.^[5]

The following list the teams that qualified and enter this season's competition. Here TH denotes the title holders, CH denotes the national champion, RU the national runner-up, Ned 1 and Bel 1 the best placed Belgian and Dutch team in their joint league.^[6] Gibraltar's champions were still ineligible, as the 2014–15national league season was again played with only nine players per side. After some years of hiatus Georgia played out anational champion in 2014. For the first time in 12 years Neulengbach from Austria missed out on qualification. Luxembourg entered a team for the competition for the first time since the 2011–12 season. Faroese club KÍ had entered every past edition.^[7]

Round of 32
Frankfurt (TH)	Bayern Munich (CH)[8]	Wolfsburg (RU)	Lyon (CH)
Paris Saint-Germain (RU)	Rosengård (CH)[9]	KIF Örebro (RU)	Liverpool (CH)[10]
Chelsea (RU)[10]	Zvezda Perm (CH)[11]	Zorky Krasnogorsk (RU)	AGSM Verona (CH)
Brescia (RU)	Barcelona (CH)	Atlético Madrid (RU)	Brøndby IF (CH)
Fortuna Hjørring (RU)	Slavia Praha (CH)[12]	St. Pölten-Spratzern (CH)[13]	Lillestrøm SK (CH)[14]
Glasgow City (CH)	Zürich (CH)[15]	Standard Liège (Bel 1)	BIIK Kazygurt (CH)[16]
Qualifying round
Medyk Konin (CH)	Twente (Ned 1)	Stjarnan (CH)[17]	Apollon Limassol (CH)[18]
PK-35 Vantaa (CH)[19]	Ferencváros (CH)	Spartak Subotica (CH)	Olimpia Cluj (CH)
FC Minsk (CH)[20]	Zhytlobud-1 Kharkiv (CH)[21]	PAOK (CH)[22]	Konak Belediyespor (CH)[23]
SFK 2000 (CH)	CF Benfica (CH)[24]	Nové Zámky (CH)	ASA Tel Aviv (CH)
Wexford Youths (CH)[25]	Pomurje (CH)[26]	NSA Sofia (CH)[27]	Pärnu JK (CH)[28]
ŽNK Osijek (CH)	KÍ Klaksvík (CH)[29]	Gintra Universitetas (CH)	ŽFK Dragon 2014 (CH)
Cardiff Met. (CH)	Glentoran Belfast United (CH)[30]	Ekonomist (CH)	Noroc Nimoreni (CH)[31]
Hibernians (CH)[32]	Rīgas FS (CH)[33]	Vllaznia (CH)[34]	Jeunesse Junglinster (CH)[35]

The schedule of the competition was as follows (all draws were held at the UEFA headquarters inNyon,Switzerland).^[36] In contrast to previous seasons, the round of 16 draw was held after the round of 32 was completed (separately from the round of 32 draw) and was seeded. Moreover, the quarter-finals were now moved back to be played in midweek, with only the semi-finals played on weekends.

The draw for the qualifying round was held on 25 June 2015.^[37][38] The 32 teams were allocated into four seeding positions based on their 2015UEFA club coefficients, which took into account their performance in European competitions from 2010–11 to 2014–15 plus 33% of their association coefficient from the same time span.^[39] They were drawn into eight groups of four (one from each seeding position), with the restriction that each group had to contain one of the eight teams which were pre-selected as hosts (which were allocated their own designated pot).^[40]

In each group, teams played against each other in a round-robin mini-tournament at the pre-selected hosts. The eight group winners advanced to the round of 32. The matchdays were 11, 13 and 16 August 2015.

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		MIN	SFK	KON	VLL
1	FC Minsk	3	3	0	0	16	1	+15	9	Advanced toknockout phase		—	3–0	—	—
2	SFK 2000(H)	3	2	0	1	8	4	+4	6			—	—	3–1	5–0
3	Konak Belediyespor	3	1	0	2	7	14	−7	3			1–10	—	—	5–1
4	Vllaznia	3	0	0	3	1	13	−12	0			0–3	—	—	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		PAO	SOF	GLE	DRA
1	PAOK	3	3	0	0	18	0	+18	9	Advanced toknockout phase		—	—	4–0	10–0
2	NSA Sofia	3	2	0	1	8	5	+3	6			0–4	—	—	6–0
3	Glentoran Belfast United(H)	3	1	0	2	3	6	−3	3			—	1–2	—	—
4	ŽFK Dragon 2014	3	0	0	3	0	18	−18	0			—	—	0–2	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		STJ	APO	KLA	HIB
1	Stjarnan	3	3	0	0	11	0	+11	9	Advanced toknockout phase		—	2–0	—	5–0
2	Apollon Limassol(H)	3	2	0	1	10	2	+8	6			—	—	2–0	8–0
3	KÍ Klaksvík	3	0	1	2	3	9	−6	1			0–4	—	—	—
4	Hibernians	3	0	1	2	3	16	−13	1			—	—	3–3	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		TWE	FER	TLV	JUN
1	Twente(H)	3	3	0	0	19	0	+19	9	Advanced toknockout phase		—	2–0	—	10–0
2	Ferencváros	3	2	0	1	13	3	+10	6			—	—	2–1	—
3	ASA Tel Aviv	3	1	0	2	6	10	−4	3			0–7	—	—	5–1
4	Jeunesse Junglinster	3	0	0	3	1	26	−25	0			—	0–11	—	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		CLU	POM	PÄR	EKO
1	Olimpia Cluj	3	3	0	0	12	1	+11	9	Advanced toknockout phase		—	—	4–0	6–1
2	Pomurje(H)	3	2	0	1	6	3	+3	6			0–2	—	—	4–0
3	Pärnu JK	3	1	0	2	3	7	−4	3			—	1–2	—	—
4	Ekonomist	3	0	0	3	2	12	−10	0			—	—	1–2	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		SUB	BEN	OSI	NOR
1	Spartak Subotica	3	3	0	0	9	2	+7	9	Advanced toknockout phase		—	2–1	—	4–1
2	CF Benfica	3	2	0	1	7	2	+5	6			—	—	3–0	—
3	ŽNK Osijek(H)	3	1	0	2	4	6	−2	3			0–3	—	—	4–0
4	Noroc Nimoreni	3	0	0	3	1	11	−10	0			—	0–3	—	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		MED	WEX	GIN	CAR
1	Medyk Konin(H)	3	3	0	0	15	0	+15	9	Advanced toknockout phase		—	—	4–0	5–0
2	Wexford Youths	3	2	0	1	6	7	−1	6			0–6	—	—	—
3	Gintra Universitetas	3	1	0	2	5	6	−1	3			—	0–1	—	5–1
4	Cardiff Met.	3	0	0	3	2	15	−13	0			—	1–5	—	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		VAN	KHA	RIG	NZK
1	PK-35 Vantaa(H)	3	3	0	0	20	1	+19	9	Advanced toknockout phase		—	—	9–0	9–0
2	Zhytlobud-1 Kharkiv	3	2	0	1	10	3	+7	6			1–2	—	4–1	—
3	Rīgas FS	3	1	0	2	4	15	−11	3			—	—	—	3–2
4	Nové Zámky	3	0	0	3	2	17	−15	0			—	0–5	—	—

In theknockout phase, teams played against each other overtwo legs on a home-and-away basis, except for the one-match final. The mechanism of the draws for each round was as follows:

• In the draw for the round of 32, the sixteen teams with the highestUEFA coefficients were seeded (with the title holders being the automatic top seed), and the other sixteen teams were unseeded. The seeded teams were drawn against the unseeded teams, with the seeded teams hosting the second leg. Teams from the same association could not be drawn against each other.
• In the draw for the round of 16, the eight teams with the highestUEFA coefficients were seeded (with the title holders being the automatic top seed should they qualify), and the other eight teams were unseeded. The seeded teams were drawn against the unseeded teams, with the seeded teams hosting the second leg. Teams from the same association could not be drawn against each other.
• In the draws for the quarter-finals onwards, there were no seedings, and teams from the same association could be drawn against each other.

	Round of 32						Round of 16						Quarter-finals						Semi-finals						Final
	Chelsea	1	3	4
	Glasgow City	0	0	0
							Chelsea	1	0	1
							Wolfsburg	2	2	4
	Spartak Subotica	0	0	0
	Wolfsburg	0	4	4
													Wolfsburg	3	3	6
													Brescia	0	0	0
	Brescia	1	1	2
	Liverpool	0	0	0
							Brescia	1	1	2
							Fortuna Hjørring	0	1	1
	FC Minsk	0	0	0
	Fortuna Hjørring	2	4	6
																			Wolfsburg	4	0	4
																			Frankfurt	0	1	1
	Lillestrøm SK	1	1	2
	Zürich	0	1	1
							Lillestrøm SK	0	2	2
							Frankfurt (p)	2	0	2
	Standard Liège	0	0	0
	Frankfurt	2	6	8
													Frankfurt (p)	1	0	1
													Rosengård	0	1	1
	AGSM Verona	5	2	7
	St. Pölten-Spratzern	4	2	6
							AGSM Verona	1	1	2
							Rosengård	3	5	8
	PK-35 Vantaa	0	0	0
	Rosengård	2	7	9
																									Wolfsburg			1
																									Lyon (p)			1
	Atlético Madrid	0	3	3
	Zorky Krasnogorsk	2	0	2
							Atlético Madrid	1	0	1
							Lyon	3	6	9
	Medyk Konin	0	0	0
	Lyon	6	3	9
													Lyon	9	0	9
													Slavia Praha	1	0	1
	Slavia Praha	4	0	4
	Brøndby	1	1	2
							Slavia Praha	2	0	2
							Zvezda Perm	1	0	1
	Zvezda Perm	3	3	6
	Stjarnan	1	1	2
																			Lyon	7	1	8
																			Paris Saint-Germain	0	0	0
	Bayern Munich	1	2	3
	Twente (a)	1	2	3
							Twente	0	0	0
							Barcelona	1	1	2
	BIIK Kazygurt	1	1	2
	Barcelona	1	4	5
													Barcelona	0	0	0
													Paris Saint-Germain	0	1	1
	PAOK	0	0	0
	KIF Örebro	3	5	8
							KIF Örebro	1	0	1
							Paris Saint-Germain (a)	1	0	1
	Olimpia Cluj	0	0	0
	Paris Saint-Germain	6	9	15

The draw for the round of 32 was held on 20 August 2015.^[41][42] The first legs were played on 7 and 8 October, and the second legs were played on 14 and 15 October 2015.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
BIIK Kazygurt	2–5	Barcelona	1–1	1–4
Medyk Konin	0–9	Lyon	0–6	0–3
Olimpia Cluj	0–15	Paris Saint-Germain	0–6	0–9
Slavia Praha	4–2	Brøndby	4–1	0–1
Standard Liège	0–8	Frankfurt	0–2	0–6
PAOK	0–8	KIF Örebro	0–3	0–5
Twente	3–3 (a)	Bayern Munich	1–1	2–2
Atlético Madrid	3–2	Zorky Krasnogorsk	0–2	3–0
St. Pölten-Spratzern	6–7	AGSM Verona	4–5	2–2
Stjarnan	2–6	Zvezda Perm	1–3	1–3
Lillestrøm SK	2–1	Zürich	1–0	1–1 (a.e.t.)
Chelsea	4–0	Glasgow City	1–0	3–0
PK-35 Vantaa	0–9	Rosengård	0–2	0–7
FC Minsk	0–6	Fortuna Hjørring	0–2	0–4
Spartak Subotica	0–4	Wolfsburg	0–0	0–4
Brescia	2–0	Liverpool	1–0	1–0

The draw for the round of 16 was held on 19 October 2015.^[43][44] The first legs were played on 11 and 12 November, and the second legs were played on 18 and 19 November 2015.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Twente	0–2	Barcelona	0–1	0–1
Brescia	2–1	Fortuna Hjørring	1–0	1–1
Atlético Madrid	1–9	Lyon	1–3	0–6
Slavia Praha	2–1	Zvezda Perm	2–1	0–0
Chelsea	1–4	Wolfsburg	1–2	0–2
KIF Örebro	1–1 (a)	Paris Saint-Germain	1–1	0–0
AGSM Verona	2–8	Rosengård	1–3	1–5
Lillestrøm SK	2–2(4–5p)	Frankfurt	0–2	2–0 (a.e.t.)

The draws for the quarter-finals and semi-finals were held on 27 November 2015.^[45][46] The first legs were played on 23 March, and the second legs were played on 30 March 2016.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Wolfsburg	6–0	Brescia	3–0	3–0
Rosengård	1–1 (4–5p)	Frankfurt	0–1	1–0 (a.e.t.)
Lyon	9–1	Slavia Praha	9–1	0–0
Barcelona	0–1	Paris Saint-Germain	0–0	0–1

The first legs were played on 24 April, and the second legs were played on 1 and 2 May 2016.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Lyon	8–0	Paris Saint-Germain	7–0	1–0
Wolfsburg	4–1	Frankfurt	4–0	0–1

The final was played on 26 May 2016 at theMapei Stadium – Città del Tricolore inReggio Emilia, Italy.^[47] The "home" team (for administrative purposes) was determined by an additional draw held after the quarter-final and semi-final draws.^[45]

26 May 2016 (2016-05-26)

18:00UTC+2

Wolfsburg	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Lyon
Popp 88'	Report	Hegerberg 12'
Penalties
Popp Kerschowski Peter Fischer Bussaglia	3–4	Hegerberg Schelin Renard Mbock Kumagai

Mapei Stadium – Città del Tricolore,Reggio Emilia

Attendance: 15,117

Referee:Katalin Kulcsár (Hungary)

Statistics include qualifying rounds.

Rank	Player	Team	Goals
			Qual	Tourn	Total
1	Ada Hegerberg	Lyon	—	13	13
2	Ebere Orji	Ferencváros	9	—	9
3	Jill Roord	Twente	7	1	8
4	Uchechi Sunday	FC Minsk	7	0	7
5	Cristiane	Paris Saint-Germain	—	6	6
	Aleksandra Sikora	Medyk Konin	6	0	6
7	Jasna Djoković	SFK 2000	5	—	5
	Eugénie Le Sommer	Lyon	—	5	5
	Marta	Rosengård	—	5	5
	Poliana	Stjarnan	5	0	5
	Sanna Saarinen	PK-35 Vantaa	5	0	5

Source:UEFA^[48][49]

The UEFA technical study group selected the following 18 players as the squad of the tournament:^[50]

Pos.	Player	Team
GK	Sarah Bouhaddi	Lyon
	Sandra Paños	Barcelona
DF	Emma Berglund	Rosengård
	Wendie Renard	Lyon
	Amel Majri	Lyon
	Griedge Mbock Bathy	Lyon
	Nilla Fischer	Wolfsburg
	Pauline Bremer	Lyon
MF	Simone Laudehr	Frankfurt
	Saki Kumagai	Lyon
	Camille Abily	Lyon
	Shirley Cruz	Paris Saint-Germain
	Louisa Nécib	Lyon
	Lena Goeßling	Wolfsburg
FW	Dzsenifer Marozsán	Frankfurt
	Eugénie Le Sommer	Lyon
	Ada Hegerberg	Lyon
	Cristiane	Paris Saint-Germain

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