2017–18 UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying round

The 2017–18 UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying round was played between 22 and 28 August 2017.^[1] A total of 40 teams competed in the qualifying round to decide 11 of the 32 places in the knockout phase of the 2017–18 UEFA Women's Champions League.^[2]

2017–18 UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying round
Tournament details
Dates	22–28 August 2017
Teams	40 (from 40 associations)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	60
Goals scored	237 (3.95 per match)
Attendance	10,612 (177 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Kader Hançar (6 goals)

Draw edit

The draw of the qualifying round was held on 23 June 2017, 13:30 CEST, at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.^[3]^[4] The 40 teams were allocated into four seeding positions based on their UEFA club coefficients at the beginning of the season.^[5] They were drawn into ten groups of four containing one team from each of the four seeding positions. First, the ten teams which were pre-selected as hosts were drawn from their own designated pot and allocated to their respective group as per their seeding positions. Next, the remaining 30 teams were drawn from their respective pot which were allocated according to their seeding positions.^[6]

Based on the decision taken by the UEFA Emergency Panel at its meeting in Paris on 9 June 2016, teams from Serbia or Bosnia and Herzegovina would not be drawn against teams from Kosovo.

Below were the 40 teams which participated in the qualifying round (with their 2017 UEFA club coefficients, which took into account their performance in European competitions from 2012–13 to 2016–17 plus 33% of their association coefficient from the same time span), with the ten teams which were pre-selected as hosts marked by (H).^[5]^[6]

Key to colours
Group winners and best runners-up advance to the round of 32

Seeding position 1
Team	Coeff.^[5]
Zürich	43.890
BIIK Kazygurt	24.930
Apollon Limassol (H)	23.940
Spartak Subotica	20.615
Olimpia Cluj (H)	19.950
Medyk Konin	19.600
Standard Liège	17.955
SFK 2000 (H)	17.290
Gintra Universitetas	15.960
Stjarnan	15.610

Seeding position 2
Team	Coeff.^[5]
Konak Belediyespor	14.960
MTK Hungária (H)	14.620
PK-35 Vantaa	13.630
Sturm Graz	13.395
Avaldsnes	12.075
Hibernian	11.580
FC Minsk	10.800
PAOK	10.305
Osijek (H)	9.975
Ajax	8.250

Seeding position 3
Team	Coeff.^[5]
Pärnu (H)	7.315
NSA Sofia	6.650
KÍ Klaksvík	3.990
Olimpija Ljubljana (H)	3.630
Sporting CP	3.465
Zhytlobud-2 Kharkiv	3.135
Shelbourne	2.805
Kiryat Gat	2.310
Vllaznia	1.995
Partizán Bardejov	1.485

Seeding position 4
Team	Coeff.^[5]
Hajvalia	1.330
Rīgas FS	1.330
Breznica Pljevlja (H)	0.995
Linfield (H)	0.990
Swansea City	0.660
Istatov	0.330
Noroc Nimoreni	0.165
Birkirkara	0.165
Bettembourg	0.000
Martve (H)	0.000

Format edit

In each group, teams played against each other in a round-robin mini-tournament at the pre-selected hosts. The ten group winners and the runners-up with the best record against the teams finishing first and third in their group advanced to the round of 32 to join the 21 teams which received a bye.

Tiebreakers edit

Teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 14.01 and 14.02):^[2]

Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
Goal difference in all group matches;
Goals scored in all group matches;
Penalty shoot-out if only two teams have the same number of points, and they met in the last round of the group and are tied after applying all criteria above (not used if more than two teams have the same number of points, or if their rankings are not relevant for qualification for the next stage);
Disciplinary points (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
UEFA club coefficient.

To determine the best runner-up, the results against the teams in fourth place were discarded. The following criteria were applied (Regulations Article 14.03):^[2]

Points;
Goal difference;
Goals scored;
Disciplinary points;
UEFA club coefficient.

Groups edit

The matches were played on 22, 25 and 28 August 2017. In each group, the schedule was as follows (Regulations Article 19.05):

Matchday	Date	Matches
Matchday 1	22 August 2017	1 v 3, 2 v 4
Matchday 2	25 August 2017	1 v 4, 3 v 2
Matchday 3	28 August 2017	2 v 1, 4 v 3

All times were CEST (UTC+2).

Group 1 edit

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Gintra Universitetas	3	3	0	13	1	+12	9	Round of 32
2	Konak Belediyespor	3	2	1	11	4	+7	6
3	Partizán Bardejov	3	1	2	4	9	−5	3
4	Martve (H)	3	0	3	0	14	−14	0

Source: UEFA
(H) Hosts

22 August 2017