2009–10 UEFA Women's Champions League

2009–10 UEFA Women's Champions League

The Coliseum Alfonso Pérez in Getafe hosted the final.
Tournament details
Dates	30 July 2009 – 20 May 2010[1]
Teams	53 (from 44 confederations)
Final positions
Champions	Turbine Potsdam (2nd title)
Runners-up	Lyon
Tournament statistics
Matches played	103
Goals scored	428 (4.16 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Vanessa Bürki (11)[2]
← 2008–09 2010–11 → All statistics correct as of 17 March 2010.

The UEFA Women's Champions League 2009–10 was the first edition of the newly branded tournament, and the ninth edition of a UEFA tournament for women's champion football clubs.

For the first time the top 8 leagues of the UEFA were awarded two entry places in this year's season. Germany even got 3 entries, as FCR 2001 Duisburg finished outside the top 2 in Germany's league but gained entry as the title holder.

Teams[]

Round of 32
Duisburg	Turbine Potsdam[3]	Umeå[4]	Arsenal[5]
Lyon[6]	Fortuna Hjørring[7]	Zvezda 2005 Perm[8]	Røa[9]
Bardolino[10]	Valur[11]	Universitet Vitebsk[12]	AZ[13]
Rayo Vallecano[14]	Sparta Praha[15]	Neulengbach[16]	Standard Liège[17]
Alma[18]	Unia Racibórz[19]	Zhytlobud-1 Kharkiv[20]	Zürich[21]
Mašinac Niš	PAOK	Viktória[22]	Honka
ZNK-SFK 2000
Qualifying round
Bayern Munich	Linköping	Everton	Montpellier[23]
Brøndby[7]	Rossiyanka	Team Strømmen	Torres
	Maccabi Holon	CFF Clujana[24]	Glasgow City
1° Dezembro	NSA Sofia	ŽNK Krka	Slovan Duslo Sala
Cardiff City	Osijek	Gintra Universitetas
KÍ Klaksvík	St Francis	Glentoran	Apollon Limassol
Levadia Tallinn	Norchi Dinamoeli	Birkirkara	Trabzonspor

Qualifying round[]

The draw was made on 24 June 2009.^[25] Teams in bold hosted a mini-league. The winners of each group qualified for the next round.

Main round[]

Bracket[]

	Round of 32						Round of 16						Quarter-finals						Semi-finals						Final
	Fortuna Hjørring	4	1	5
	Bardolino	0	2	2			Fortuna Hjørring	0	0	0
	Mašinac Niš	0	0	0			Lyon	1	5	6
	Lyon	1	5	6									Lyon	3	0	3
	Unia Racibórz	1	1	2									Torres	0	1	1
	Neulengbach	3	0	3			Neulengbach	1	1	2
	Torres	4	2	6			Torres	4	4	8
	Valur	1	1	2															Lyon	3	0	3
	Rayo Vallecano	1	1	2															Umeå	2	0	2
	Rossiyanka	3	2	5			Rossiyanka	0	1	1
	Zhytlobud-1	0	0	0			Umeå	1	1	2
	Umeå	5	6	11									Umeå (a)	0	2	2
	Standard Liège	0	1	1									Montpellier	0	2	2
	Montpellier	0	3	3			Montpellier (a.e.t.)	0	1	1
	Viktória	0	2	2			Bayern Munich	0	0	0
	Bayern Munich	5	4	9																					Lyon	0(6)
	Universitet Vitebsk	1	3	4																					Turbine Potsdam (p)	0(7)
	Duisburg	5	6	11			Duisburg	1	2	3
	Zürich	0	0	0			Linköping	1	0	1
	Linköping	2	3	5									Duisburg	2	2	4
	Alma	1	0	1									Arsenal	1	0	1
	Sparta Praha	0	2	2			Sparta Praha	0	0	0
	PAOK	0	0	0			Arsenal	3	2	5
	Arsenal	9	9	18															Duisburg	1	0	1(1)
	Honka	1	0	1															Turbine Potsdam (p)	0	1	1(3)
	Turbine Potsdam	8	8	16			Turbine Potsdam	1	4	5
	AZ	1	1	2			Brøndby	0	0	0
	Brøndby	2	1	3									Turbine Potsdam	5	5	10
	Røa	3	0	3									Røa	0	0	0
	Everton	0	2	2			Røa (a)	0	1	1
	ZNK-SFK 2000	0	0	0			Zvezda 2005 Perm	0	1	1
	Zvezda 2005 Perm	3	5	8

Round of 32[]

The 16 seeded teams were drawn one opponent each from the pool of 16 unseeded teams. Teams from the same association could not be drawn against each other. The seeded team played the second leg at home.^[26] Matches were played on 30 September and 7 October.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Standard Liège	1–3	Montpellier	0–0	1–3
Unia Racibórz	2–3	Neulengbach	1–3	1–0
Torres	6–2	Valur	4–1	2–1
Zhytlobud-1 Kharkiv	0–11	Umeå	0–5	0–6
AZ	2–3	Brøndby	1–2	1–1
Alma	1–2	Sparta Praha	1–0	0–2
Mašinac Niš	0–6	Lyon	0–1	0–5
Universitet Vitebsk	4–11	Duisburg	1–5	3–6
Rayo Vallecano	2–5	Rossiyanka	1–3	1–2
Viktória	2–9	Bayern Munich	0–5	2–4
ZNK-SFK 2000	0–8	Zvezda 2005 Perm	0–3	0–5
Honka	1–16	Turbine Potsdam	1–8	0–8
PAOK	0–18	Arsenal	0–9	0–9
Røa	3–2	Everton	3–0	0–2
Zürich	0–5	Linköping	0–2	0–3
Fortuna Hjørring	5–2	Bardolino	4–0	1–2

Round of 16[]

From this round onwards, there was no seeding, and clubs from the same association could be drawn against each other. The drawing for this round was held immediately after the drawing for the round of 32. Therefore, instead of drawing specific teams matches were drawn with the winners playing each other in this round.^[26] Matches were played on 4–5 November and 11–12 November.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Duisburg	3–1	Linköping	1–1	2–0
Rossiyanka	1–2	Umeå	0–1	1–1
Montpellier	1–0	Bayern Munich	0–0	1–0 (a.e.t.)
Turbine Potsdam	5–0	Brøndby	1–0	4–0
Neulengbach	2–8	Torres	1–4	1–4
Sparta Praha	0–5	Arsenal	0–3	0–2
Røa	1–1 (a)	Zvezda 2005 Perm	0–0	1–1
Fortuna Hjørring	0–6	Lyon	0–1	0–51

• ¹ Lyon originally won their match 5–0, but the UEFA Appeals Body awarded them a 0–3 defeat as they found Lyon guilty of fielding two ineligible appeals. Five weeks later, the Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld Lyon's appeal and reinstated the original result.^[27]

Quarter-finals[]

Matches were played on 10 March and 14–17 March.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Duisburg	4–1	Arsenal	2–1	2–0
Umeå	2–2 (a)	Montpellier	0–0	2–2
Lyon	3–1	Torres	3–0	0–1
Turbine Potsdam	10–0	Røa	5–0	5–0

First Leg[]

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Second Leg[]

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Semi-finals[]

Matches were played on 10–11 April and 17–18 April 2010.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Lyon	3–2	Umeå	3–2	0–0
Duisburg	1–1 (1-3p)	Turbine Potsdam	1–0	0–1 (aet)

First Leg[]

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Second Leg[]

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Final[]

UEFA Women's Champions League 2009–10 Winners
Turbine Potsdam Second title

Top goalscorers[]

The top goal scorers including qualifying rounds were:

Rank	Player	Team	Goals
1	Vanessa Bürki	Bayern Munich	11
2		Linköping	10
3	Inka Grings	Duisburg	9
	Kim Little	Arsenal
	Anja Mittag	Turbine Potsdam

Round dates[]

Phase	Round	First leg	Second leg
Qualifying round	Group stage	30 July 2009 – 4 August 2009
Knockout stage	Round of 32	30 September 2009	7 October 2009
	Round of 16	4 November 2009	11 November 2009
	Quarter-final	10 March 2010	17 March 2010
	Semi-final	10 April or 11 April 2010	17 April or 18 April 2010
	Final	20 May 2010

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