2011–12 UEFA Champions League

2011–12 UEFA Champions League

The 2011–12 UEFA Champions League was the 57th season of Europe's premier club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 20th season in its current Champions League format. As part of a trial that started in the 2009–10 UEFA Europa League, two extra officials – one behind each goal – were used in all matches of the competition from the play-off round.

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), Bayern were the first finalists to have home advantage since (/wiki/1984EuropeanCupFinal). 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.

Association team allocation

2011–12 UEFA Champions League

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 entering in this round	Teams advancing from previous round
First qualifying round (4 teams)
Second qualifying round (34 teams)
Third qualifying round	Champions Route (20 teams)
League Route (10 teams)
Play-off round	Champions Route (10 teams)
League Route (10 teams)
Group stage (32 teams)
Knockout phase (16 teams)

Teams

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:

• TH: Champions League title holders • 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th: League positions of the previous season

Group stage
Barcelona (1st)TH	Milan (1st)	Marseille (2nd)	Porto (1st)
Manchester United (1st)	Internazionale (2nd)	Zenit Saint Petersburg (1st)	Ajax (1st)
Chelsea (2nd)	Napoli (3rd)	CSKA Moscow (2nd)	Trabzonspor (2nd)
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)	Standard Liège (2nd)
Rangers (1st)	Vaslui (3rd)	Panathinaikos (2nd)	Odense (2nd)
	Benfica (2nd)
Second qualifying round
Litex Lovech (1st)	Partizan (1st)	Skonto (1st)	Tobol (1st)
Viktoria Plzeň (1st)	Wisła Kraków (1st)	Dacia Chișinău (1st)	Flora (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)	Zestaponi (1st)	Bangor City (1st)
Rosenborg (1st)	HJK (1st)	Neftçi (1st)	Mogren (1st)
Slovan Bratislava (1st)	Borac Banja Luka (1st)	Breiðablik (1st)	HB (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)

Round and draw dates

2011–12 UEFA Champions League

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

<table><thead><tr><th>Phase</th><th>Round</th><th>Draw date</th><th>First leg</th><th>Second leg</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Qualifying</td><td>First qualifying round</td><td>20 June 2011</td><td>28–29 June 2011</td><td>5–6 July 2011</td></tr><tr><td>Second qualifying round</td><td>12–13 July 2011</td><td>19–20 July 2011</td></tr><tr><td>Third qualifying round</td><td>15 July 2011</td><td>26–27 July 2011</td><td>2–3 August 2011</td></tr><tr><td>Play-off</td><td>Play-off round</td><td>5 August 2011</td><td>16–17 August 2011</td><td>23–24 August 2011</td></tr><tr><td>Group stage</td><td>Matchday 1</td><td>25 August 2011 (Monaco)</td><td>13–14 September 2011</td></tr><tr><td>Matchday 2</td><td>27–28 September 2011</td></tr><tr><td>Matchday 3</td><td>18–19 October 2011</td></tr><tr><td>Matchday 4</td><td>1–2 November 2011</td></tr><tr><td>Matchday 5</td><td>22–23 November 2011</td></tr><tr><td>Matchday 6</td><td>6–7 December 2011</td></tr><tr><td>Knockout phase</td><td>Round of 16</td><td>16 December 2011</td><td>14–15 & 21–22 February 2012</td><td>6–7 & 13–14 March 2012</td></tr><tr><td>Quarter-finals</td><td>16 March 2012</td><td>27–28 March 2012</td><td>3–4 April 2012</td></tr><tr><td>Semi-finals</td><td>17–18 April 2012</td><td>24–25 April 2012</td></tr><tr><td>Final</td><td>19 May 2012 at Allianz Arena, Munich</td></tr></tbody></table>

Qualifying rounds

2011–12 UEFA Champions League

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	2–0	1–1
Sturm Graz	4–3	Videoton	2–0	2–3
Zestaponi	3–2	Dacia Chișinău	3–0	0–2
Dinamo Zagreb	3–0	Neftçi	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 FF	3–1	HB	2–0	1–1
Shamrock Rovers	1–0	Flora	1–0	0–0
Rosenborg	5–2	Breiðablik	5–0	0–2
Bangor City	0–13	HJK	0–3	0–10
Skonto	0–3	Wisła Kraków	0–1	0–2
Linfield	1–3	BATE Borisov	1–1	0–2

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.

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Champions Route
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
Zestaponi	1–2	Sturm Graz	1–1	0–1
Ekranas	1–3	BATE Borisov	0–0	1–3
Rangers	1–2	Malmö FF	0–1	1–1
League Route
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

Play-off round

2011–12 UEFA Champions League

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.

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Champions Route
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 FF	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
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

Group stage

2011–12 UEFA Champions League

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):

• higher number of points obtained in the group matches played among the teams in question; • superior goal difference from the group matches played among the teams in question; • higher number of goals scored in the group matches played among the teams in question; • higher number of goals scored away from home in the group matches played among the teams in question; • 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; • superior goal difference from all group matches played; • higher number of goals scored from all group matches played; • higher number of coefficient points accumulated by the club in question, as well as its association, over the previous five seasons.

Manchester City, Napoli, Oțelul Galați, Trabzonspor and Viktoria Plzeň made their debut appearances in the group stage.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		BAY	NAP	MCI	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	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		INT	CSKA	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	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		BEN	BSL	MUN	OTE
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	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		RMA	LYO	AJX	DZG
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	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	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		ARS	MAR	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	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		APO	ZEN	POR	SHK
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	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		BAR	MIL	PLZ	BATE
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	—

Knockout phase

2011–12 UEFA Champions League

In the knockout phase, teams play against each other over two legs on a home-and-away basis, except for the one-match 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.

Round of 16

The draw for the round of 16 was held on 16 December 2011. 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 draw for the quarter-finals was held on 16 March 2012. 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 draw for the semi-finals was held on 16 March 2012, after the quarter-final draw. 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. A draw was held on 16 March 2012, after the quarter-final and semi-final draws, to determine the "home" team for administrative purposes.

Statistics

2011–12 UEFA Champions League

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