2022–23 UEFA Champions League#Second qualifying round

A total of 78 teams from 53 of the 55 UEFA member associations participated in the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League (the exceptions being Russia, who were banned from participating due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and Liechtenstein,{{Cref2|Note LIE}} which did not organise a domestic league). The association ranking based on the UEFA association coefficients was used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:{{cite web |year=2022 |title=Regulations of the UEFA Champions League, 2022/23 Season |url=https://kassiesa.net/uefa/files/2022-23-uefa-cl-rules.pdf |access-date=30 April 2021 |publisher=UEFA |location=Nyon}}

• Associations 1–4 each had four teams qualify.
• Associations 5–6 each had three teams qualify.
• Associations 7–15 (except Russia){{Cref2|Note RUS}} each had two teams qualify.
• Associations 16–55 (except Liechtenstein){{Cref2|Note LIE}} each had one team qualify.
• The winners of the 2021–22 UEFA Champions League and 2021–22 UEFA Europa League were each given an additional entry if they did not qualify for the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League through their domestic league.

For the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League, the associations were allocated places according to their 2021 UEFA association coefficients, which took into account their performance in European competitions from 2016–17 to 2020–21.{{cite web |url=https://www.uefa.com/nationalassociations/uefarankings/country/#/yr/2021 |title=Association coefficients 2020/21 |website=UEFA |publisher=Union of European Football Associations |date=20 August 2021 |access-date=29 November 2021 |archive-date=2 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211102093931/https://www.uefa.com/memberassociations/uefarankings/country/#/yr/2021 |url-status=live }}

Apart from the allocation based on the association coefficients, associations could have additional teams participating in the Champions League, as noted below:

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The following is the access list for this season.{{cite web |url=https://www.uefa.com/MultimediaFiles/Download/uefaorg/General/02/58/61/42/2586142_DOWNLOAD.pdf |title=Access list 2021–24 |website=UEFA |publisher=Union of European Football Associations |access-date=16 February 2020 |archive-date=4 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181204074949/https://www.uefa.com/MultimediaFiles/Download/uefaorg/General/02/58/61/42/2586142_DOWNLOAD.pdf |url-status=live }}

Due to the suspension of Russia for the 2022–23 European season, the following changes to the access list were made:{{cite press release|url=https://www.uefa.com/news-media/news/0275-150c9887cacb-882c686f407f-1000/ |title=UEFA decisions for upcoming competitions relating to the ongoing suspension of Russian national teams and clubs |publisher=UEFA|location=Nyon|date=2 May 2022 |access-date=2 May 2022}}

• The champions of association 11 (Scotland) enter the group stage instead of the play-off round (Champions Path).
• The champions of association 13 (Turkey) enter the play-off round instead of the third qualifying round (Champions Path).
• The champions of association 15 (Cyprus) enter the third qualifying round instead of the second qualifying round (Champions Path).
• The champions of associations 18 (Croatia) and 19 (Switzerland) enter the second qualifying round instead of the first qualifying round (Champions Path).
• The runners-up of associations 10 (Austria) and 11 (Scotland) enter the third qualifying round instead of the second qualifying round (League Path).

Since the Champions League title holders (Real Madrid) qualified via their domestic league, the following changes to the access list were made:

• The champions of association 12 (Ukraine) enter the group stage instead of the play-off round (Champions Path).
• The champions of association 14 (Denmark) enter the play-off round instead of the third qualifying round (Champions Path).
• The champions of association 16 (Serbia) enter the third qualifying round instead of the second qualifying round (Champions Path).
• The champions of associations 20 (Greece) and 21 (Israel) enter the second qualifying round instead of the first qualifying round (Champions Path).

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

• TH: Champions League title holders
• EL: Europa League title holders
• 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc.: League positions of the previous season
• Abd-: League positions of abandoned season as determined by the national association; all teams were subject to approval by UEFA

The second qualifying round, third qualifying round and play-off round were divided into Champions Path (CH) and League Path (LP).

Notes

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{{Cnote2|Note LIE|Liechtenstein (LIE): The seven teams affiliated with the Liechtenstein Football Association (LFV) all played in the Swiss football league system. The only competition organised by the LFV was the Liechtenstein Football Cup – the winners of which qualified for the UEFA Europa Conference League.}}

{{Cnote2|Note RUS|Russia (RUS): On 28 February 2022, Russian football clubs and national teams were suspended from FIFA and UEFA competitions due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/60560567/ |title=Ukraine crisis: Fifa and Uefa suspend all Russian clubs and national teams |website=BBC Sport |publisher=British Broadcasting Corporation |date=28 February 2022 |access-date=28 February 2022}} On 2 May 2022, UEFA confirmed that Russian clubs would be excluded from the 2022–23 UEFA competitions.}}

{{Cnote2|Note UKR|Ukraine (UKR): The 2021–22 Ukrainian Premier League was abandoned due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The top two teams of the league at the time of the abandonment (Shakhtar Donetsk and Dynamo Kyiv) were selected to play in the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League by the Ukrainian Association of Football.}}

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The schedule of the competition was as follows. All matches were played on Tuesdays and Wednesdays apart from the preliminary round final and the final. Scheduled kick-off times starting from the play-off round were 18:45 and 21:00 CEST/CET.{{cite web |url=https://www.uefa.com/news-media/news/0255-0e99f578e557-a64ea0ed91c9-1000--format-change-for-2020-21-uefa-nations-league/ |title=Format change for 2020/21 UEFA Nations League |website=UEFA |publisher=Union of European Football Associations |date=24 September 2019 |access-date=17 February 2020 |archive-date=26 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190926223650/https://www.uefa.com/insideuefa/about-uefa/news/newsid=2625412.html |url-status=live }}

As the 2022 FIFA World Cup took place in Qatar between 20 November and 18 December 2022, the group stage commenced in the first week of September 2022 and concluded in the first week of November 2022 to make way for the World Cup.

The draws for the qualifying round started at 12:00 CEST/CET and were held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.{{cite news |url=https://www.uefa.com/news-media/news/0271-1418c37e08e1-9c223aeae6cb-1000/ |title=2022 European football calendar: Match and draw dates for all UEFA competitions |website=UEFA |publisher=Union of European Football Associations|date=1 January 2022 |access-date=6 January 2022}} The group stage draw took place in Istanbul, Turkey.{{cite news |url=https://www.uefa.com/news-media/news/026b-12c542441355-1c2040c5e54b-1000/ |title=Venues appointed for club competition finals |website=UEFA |publisher=Union of European Football Associations |date=16 July 2021 |access-date=16 July 2021}}

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The draw for the group stage was held on 25 August 2022. The 32 teams were drawn into eight groups of four. For the draw, the teams were seeded into four pots, each of eight teams, based on the following principles:

• Pot 1 contained the Champions League and Europa League title holders, and the champions of the top six associations based on their 2021 UEFA country coefficients. Since the Champions League title holders, Real Madrid, were also the champions of Association 2 (Spain), the champions of Association 7 (Netherlands), Ajax, were seeded into Pot 1.
• Pots 2, 3 and 4 contained the remaining teams, seeded based on their 2022 UEFA club coefficients.{{cite web |url=https://www.uefa.com/nationalassociations/uefarankings/club/#/yr/2022 |title=Club coefficients 2021/22 |website=UEFA |date=30 June 2024 |publisher=Union of European Football Associations }}

Teams from the same association could not be drawn into the same group.

Eintracht Frankfurt made their debut appearance in the group stage (and first appearance in the European Cup since their loss in the 1960 final) after winning the 2021–22 UEFA Europa League and, as a result, this was the first time that five German clubs played in the group stage.

A total of 15 national associations were represented in the group stage. This season was the first since the 1995–96 edition in which a Turkish side failed to qualify for the group stage. It was also the first time since the 2007–08 season that two Scottish sides qualified for the group stage.

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In the knockout phase, teams played against each other over two legs on a home-and-away basis, except for the one-match final.{{#lst:2022–23 UEFA Champions League knockout phase|Format}}

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Statistics exclude qualifying rounds and play-off round.

File:Erling Haaland 2023 (cropped-v2).jpg was the tournament's top scorer with 12 goals.]]

The UEFA technical study group selected the following players as the team of the tournament.{{cite news|url=https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/news/0282-183b47300272-09e23ed6220b-1000--2022-23-team-of-the-season/|title=2022/23 UEFA Champions League Team of the Season|website=UEFA |publisher=Union of European Football Associations |date=11 June 2023|access-date=11 June 2023}}

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• {{flagicon|ESP}} Rodri ({{fbaicon|ENG}} Manchester City){{cite news|date=11 June 2023|title=Rodri named 2022/23 UEFA Champions League Player of the Season|url=https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/news/0282-183b473eaf28-b2fde4465718-1000--player-of-the-season-rodri/|access-date=11 June 2023|website=UEFA|publisher=Union of European Football Associations}}

• {{flagicon|GEO}} Khvicha Kvaratskhelia ({{fbaicon|ITA}} Napoli){{cite news|date=11 June 2023|title=Khvicha Kvaratskhelia named 2022/23 UEFA Champions League Young Player of the Season|url=https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/news/0282-183b47355fb9-5778e4a7c37f-1000--young-player-of-the-season-kvaratskhelia/|access-date=11 June 2023|website=UEFA|publisher=Union of European Football Associations}}

• 2022–23 UEFA Europa League
• 2022–23 UEFA Europa Conference League
• 2023 UEFA Super Cup
• 2022–23 UEFA Women's Champions League
• 2022–23 UEFA Youth League

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