2022–23 UEFA Champions League qualifying phase and play-off round

The 2022–23 UEFA Champions League qualifying phase and play-off round is scheduled to take place between on 21 June and ended on 24 August 2022.^[1]

A total of 53, 54 or 55 teams are expected to compete in the qualifying system of the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League, which includes the qualifying phase and the play-off round, with 42 or 43 teams in Champions Path and 10 or 11 teams in League Path. The six winners in the play-off round (four from Champions Path, two from League Path) advanced to the group stage, to join the 26 teams that enter in the group stage.^[2]

Times are CEST (UTC+2), as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

The Champions Path includes all league champions which do not qualify directly for the group stage, and consists of the following rounds:

• Preliminary round (4 teams playing one-legged semi-finals and final): 4 teams which enter in this round.
• First qualifying round (30 teams): 29 teams which enter in this round, and 1 winner of the preliminary round.
• Second qualifying round (20 teams): 5 teams which enter in this round, and 15 winners of the first qualifying round.
• Third qualifying round (12 teams): 2 teams which enter in this round, and 10 winners of the second qualifying round.
• Play-off round (8 teams): 2 teams which enter in this round, and 6 winners of the third qualifying round.

All teams eliminated from the Champions Path enter either the Europa League or the Europa Conference League:

• The 3 losers of the preliminary round and 13 losers of the first qualifying round enter the Europa Conference League Champions Path second qualifying round.
• The 2 drawn losers of the first qualifying round enter the Europa Conference League Champions Path third qualifying round.
• The 10 losers of the second qualifying round enter the Europa League Champions Path qualifying round
• The 6 losers of the third qualifying round enter the Europa League play-off round.
• The 4 losers of the play-off round enter the Europa League group stage.

Below are the participating teams of the Champions Path (with their 2022 UEFA club coefficients),^[3] grouped by their starting rounds.

Key to colours
Winners of play-off round advance to group stage
Losers of play-off round enter Europa League group stage
Losers of third qualifying round enter Europa League play-off round
Losers of second qualifying round enter Europa League qualifying round
Drawn losers of the first qualifying round enter Europa Conference League third qualifying round
Losers of the preliminary round and first qualifying round enter Europa Conference League second qualifying round

Play-off round Team Coeff.[3] Copenhagen 40.500 Trabzonspor 5.500 Third qualifying round Team Coeff.[3] Red Star Belgrade 46.000 Apollon Limassol 14.000 Second qualifying round Team Coeff.[3] Dinamo Zagreb 49.500 Olympiacos 41.000 Viktoria Plzeň 31.000 Maccabi Haifa 7.000 Zürich 7.000

First qualifying round Team Coeff.[3] Qarabağ 25.000 Malmö FF 23.500 Ludogorets Razgrad 23.000 Sheriff Tiraspol 22.500 CFR Cluj 19.500 Bodø/Glimt 17.000 Ferencváros 15.500 Maribor 14.000 Slovan Bratislava 13.000 HJK 8.500 The New Saints 8.500 F91 Dudelange 8.500 Žalgiris 8.000 Lincoln Red Imps 7.250 Shamrock Rovers 7.000 Linfield 7.000 Zrinjski 7.000 Shakhtyor Soligorsk 6.250 Sutjeska Nikšić 6.250 KÍ Klaksvík 6.250 Lech Poznań 6.000 Hibernians 5.500 Tobol 4.500 Shkupi 4.500 Pyunik 4.250 RFS 4.000 Dinamo Batumi 3.250 Tirana 2.750 Ballkani 1.633

Preliminary round Team Coeff.[3] FCI Levadia 4.750 La Fiorita 4.000 Inter Club d'Escaldes 3.000 Víkingur Reykjavík 1.075

The League Path includes all league non-champions which do not qualify directly for the group stage, and consists of the following rounds:^[Note]

• Second qualifying round (4 teams): 4 teams which enter in this round.
• Third qualifying round (8 teams): 6 teams which enter in this round, and 2 winners of the second qualifying round.
• Play-off round (4 teams): 4 winners of the third qualifying round.

All teams eliminated from the League Path enter the Europa League:

• The 2 losers of the second qualifying round enter the Main Path qualifying round.
• The 4 losers of the third qualifying round and the 2 losers of the play-off round enter the group stage.

Below are the participating teams of the League Path (with their 2022 UEFA club coefficients),^[3] grouped by their starting rounds.

Key to colours
Winners of play-off round advance to group stage
Losers of play-off round and third qualifying round enter Europa League group stage
Losers of second qualifying round enter Europa League qualifying round

Third qualifying round Team Coeff.[3] Benfica 61.000 Rangers 50.250 PSV Eindhoven 33.000 Monaco 26.000 Sturm Graz 7.770 Union Saint-Gilloise 6.120

Second qualifying round Team Coeff.[3] Dynamo Kyiv 44.000 Midtjylland 19.000 Fenerbahçe 14.500 AEK Larnaca 7.500

Notes

Each tie, apart from the preliminary round, is played over two legs, with each team playing one leg at home. The team that scores more goals on aggregate over the two legs advance to the next round. If the aggregate score is level at the end of normal time of the second leg, extra time is played, and if the same amount of goals are scored by both teams during extra time, the tie is decided by a penalty shoot-out.^[4]

In the preliminary round, the semi-finals and final are played as a single match hosted by one of the participating teams. If the score is level at the end of normal time, extra time is played, and if the same amount of goals are scored by both teams during extra time, the tie is decided by a penalty shoot-out.

In the draws for each round, teams are seeded based on their UEFA club coefficients at the beginning of the season, with the teams divided into seeded and unseeded pots containing the same number of teams. A seeded team is drawn against an unseeded team, with the order of legs (or the administrative "home" team in the preliminary round matches) in each tie decided by draw. As the identity of the winners of the previous round is not known at the time of the draws, the seeding is carried out under the assumption that the team with the higher coefficient of an undecided tie advances to this round, which means if the team with the lower coefficient is to advance, it simply takes the seeding of its opponent. Prior to the draws, UEFA may form "groups" in accordance with the principles set by the Club Competitions Committee, but they are purely for convenience of the draw and do not resemble any real groupings in the sense of the competition. Teams from associations with political conflicts as decided by UEFA may not be drawn into the same tie. After the draws, the order of legs of a tie may be reversed by UEFA due to scheduling or venue conflicts.

The schedule of the competition is as follows (all draws are held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland).^[1]

Schedule for the qualifying phase of the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League

Round	Draw date	First leg	Second leg
Preliminary round	7 June 2022	21 June 2022 (semi-finals)	24 June 2022 (final)
First qualifying round	14 June 2022	5–6 July 2022	12–13 July 2022
Second qualifying round	15 June 2022	19–20 July 2022	26–27 July 2022
Third qualifying round	18 July 2022	2–3 August 2022	9 August 2022
Play-offs	1 August 2022	16–17 August 2022	23–24 August 2022

The preliminary round will consist of two semi-finals on 21 June 2022 and the final on 24 June 2022. The draw for the preliminary round will be held on 7 June 2022.

A total of four teams will play in the preliminary round. Seeding of teams will be based on their 2022 UEFA club coefficients,^[3] with two seeded teams and two unseeded teams in the semi-finals. The first team drawn in each tie in the semi-finals, and also the final (between the two winners of the semi-finals, whose identity was not known at the time of draw), would be the "home" team for administrative purposes.

Seeded	Unseeded
FCI Levadia La Fiorita	Inter Club d'Escaldes Víkingur Reykjavík

	Semi-finals				Final
	21 June – Reykjavík
	La Fiorita	1
					24 June – Reykjavík
	Inter Club d'Escaldes	2
					Inter Club d'Escaldes	0
	21 June – Reykjavík
					Víkingur Reykjavík	1
	FCI Levadia	1
	Víkingur Reykjavík	6

The preliminary round matches will consist of two semi-finals on 21 June 2022 and the final on 24 June 2022.

The winner of the preliminary round final will advance to the first qualifying round. The losers of the semi-finals and final will be transferred to the Europa Conference League Champions Path second qualifying round.

Semi-finals

Team 1	Score	Team 2
FCI Levadia	1–6	Víkingur Reykjavík
La Fiorita	1–2	Inter Club d'Escaldes

Final

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Inter Club d'Escaldes	0–1	Víkingur Reykjavík

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The draw for the first round will be held on 14 June 2022.^[1]

A total of 30 teams will play in the first qualifying round: 29 teams which enter in this round, and 1 winner of the preliminary round. Seeding of teams will be based on their 2022 UEFA club coefficients.^[3] For the winner of the preliminary round, whose identity will not be known at the time of draw, the club coefficient of the highest-ranked remaining team will be used. The first team drawn in each tie will be the home team of the first leg.

Group 1		Group 2		Group 3
Seeded	Unseeded	Seeded	Unseeded	Seeded	Unseeded
Ludogorets Razgrad CFR Cluj Ferencváros Maribor F91 Dudelange	Sutjeska Nikšić Shakhtyor Soligorsk Tobol Pyunik Tirana	Malmö FF Bodø/Glimt HJK The New Saints Žalgiris	Linfield KÍ Klaksvík Víkingur Reykjavík[†] Ballkani RFS	Qarabağ Sheriff Tiraspol Slovan Bratislava Lincoln Red Imps Shamrock Rovers	Zrinjski Lech Poznań Hibernians Shkupi Dinamo Batumi

Notes

The first legs will be played on 5 and 6 July, and the second legs were played on 12 and 13 July 2022.

The winners of the ties advanced to the Champions Path second qualifying round. The losers will be transferred to the Europa Conference League Champions Path second qualifying round.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	Pyunik	Match 1	CFR Cluj	0–0	13 Jul
Maribor	Match 2[A]	Shakhtyor Soligorsk	6 Jul	13 Jul
Ludogorets Razgrad	Match 3	Sutjeska Nikšić	5 Jul	12 Jul
F91 Dudelange	Match 4	Tirana	6 Jul	12 Jul
Tobol	Match 5	Ferencváros	6 Jul	13 Jul
Malmö FF	Match 6	Víkingur Reykjavík	5 Jul	12 Jul
Ballkani	Match 7	Žalgiris	5 Jul	12 Jul
HJK	Match 8[A]	RFS	6 Jul	12 Jul
Bodø/Glimt	Match 9	KÍ Klaksvík	6 Jul	12 Jul
The New Saints	Match 10	Linfield	5 Jul	13 Jul
Shamrock Rovers	Match 11	Hibernians	5 Jul	12 Jul
Lech Poznań	Match 12	Qarabağ	5 Jul	12 Jul
Shkupi	Match 13	Lincoln Red Imps	5 Jul	12 Jul
Zrinjski	Match 14	Sheriff Tiraspol	6 Jul	12 Jul
Slovan Bratislava	Match 15	Dinamo Batumi	6 Jul	13 Jul

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The draw for the second qualifying round will be held on 15 June 2022.

A total of 24 teams will play in the second qualifying round. They will be divided into two paths:

• Champions Path (20 teams): 5 teams which enter in this round, and 15 winners of the first qualifying round.
• League Path (4 teams): 4 teams which enter in this round.

Seeding of teams will be based on their 2022 UEFA club coefficients.^[3] For the winners of the first qualifying round, whose identity will not be known at the time of draw, the club coefficient of the highest-ranked remaining team in each tie will be used. The first team drawn in each tie will be the home team of the first leg.

Qualified teams

The winners of the ties will advance to the third qualifying round of their respective path. The Champions Path losers will be transferred to the Europa League Champions Path qualifying round, while the League Path losers will be transferred to the Europa League Main Path qualifying round.

The draw for the third qualifying round will be held on 18 July 2022.

A total of 20 teams will play in the third qualifying round. They will be divided into two paths:

• Champions Path (12 teams): 2 teams which enter in this round, and 10 winners of the second qualifying round (Champions Path).
• League Path (8 teams): 6 teams which enter in this round, and 2 winners of the second qualifying round (League Path).

Seeding of teams will be based on their 2022 UEFA club coefficients.^[3] For the winners of the second qualifying round, whose identity will not be known at the time of draw, the club coefficient of the highest-ranked remaining team in each tie will be used. The first team drawn in each tie will be the home team of the first leg.

Qualified teams

The winners of the ties will advance to the play-off round of their respective path. The Champions Path losers will be transferred to the Europa League play-off round, while the League Path losers will be transferred to the Europa League group stage.

The draw for the play-off round will be held on 1 August 2022.

A total of 12 teams will play in the play-off round. They will be divided into two paths:

• Champions Path (8 teams): 2 teams which enter in this round, and 6 winners of the third qualifying round (Champions Path).
• League Path (4 teams): 4 winners of the third qualifying round (League Path).

Seeding of teams will be based on their 2022 UEFA club coefficients.^[3] For the winners of the third qualifying round, whose identity will not be known at the time of draw, the club coefficient of the highest-ranked remaining team in each tie will be used. The first team drawn in each tie will be the home team of the first leg.

Qualified teams

The winners of the ties will advance to the group stage. The losers will be transferred to the Europa League group stage.