2019–20 UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying round

2019–20 UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying round
Tournament details
Dates	7–13 August 2019
Teams	40 (from 40 associations)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	60
Goals scored	282 (4.7 per match)
Attendance	14,763 (246 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Emueje Ogbiagbevha; Berglind Björg Þorvaldsdóttir; (6 goals)

The 2019–20 UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying round was played between 7 and 13 August 2019.^[1] A total of 40 teams competed in the qualifying round to decide 10 of the 32 places in the knockout phase of the 2019–20 UEFA Women's Champions League.^[2]

Draw edit

The draw of the qualifying round was held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland on 21 June 2019, 13:30 CEST.^[3] The 40 teams were allocated into four seeding positions based on their UEFA women's club coefficients at the beginning of the season.^[4] 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 are allocated according to their seeding positions.^[5]

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 are the 40 teams which participated in the qualifying round (with their 2019 UEFA women's club coefficients, which take into account their performance in European competitions from 2014–15 to 2018–19 plus 33% of their association coefficient from the same time span), with the ten teams which are pre-selected as hosts marked by (H).^[4]^[5]

Key to colours
Group winners advanced to round of 32

Seeding position 1
Team	Coeff.^[4]
LSK Kvinner	42.405
BIIK Kazygurt	34.580
Gintra Universitetas (H)	27.930
Twente (H)	26.900
Apollon Limassol	20.270
Spartak Subotica	17.955
FC Minsk	16.625
SFK 2000 (H)	15.960
Olimpia Cluj	15.960
Hibernian	13.085

Seeding position 2
Team	Coeff.^[4]
Zhytlobud-1 Kharkiv (H)	11.800
Sturm Graz	11.270
PAOK	10.965
Breiðablik	10.930
Pomurje (H)	9.640
PK-35 Vantaa	8.635
Górnik Łęczna	7.940
Ferencváros	7.465
Vllaznia	7.315
NSA Sofia	6.650

Seeding position 3
Team	Coeff.^[4]
Wexford Youths	6.305
Anderlecht (H)	5.465
ASA Tel Aviv	3.650
Braga	3.630
Cardiff Met.	3.325
Slovan Bratislava (H)	2.990
Split	2.970
Beşiktaş	2.475
Breznica Pljevlja (H)	1.995
Flora (H)	1.485

Seeding position 4
Team	Coeff.^[4]
Rīgas FS (H)	1.330
Birkirkara	0.830
EB/Streymur/Skála	0.825
Linfield	0.660
Mitrovica	0.330
Agarista-ȘS Anenii Noi	0.165
Dragon 2014	0.000
Bettembourg	0.000
Tbilisi Nike	0.000
Alashkert	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 advanced to the round of 32 to join the 22 teams which received a bye.

Tiebreakers edit

Teams are 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 are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 15.01 and 15.02):^[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.

Groups edit

The matches were played on 7, 10 and 13 August 2019.^[6] In each group, the schedule was as follows (Regulations Article 20.04):

Matchday	Date	Matches
Matchday 1	7 August 2019	1 v 4, 3 v 2
Matchday 2	10 August 2019	1 v 3, 2 v 4
Matchday 3	13 August 2019	2 v 1, 4 v 3

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

Group 1 edit

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Breiðablik	3	3	0	18	2	+16	9	Knockout phase
2	SFK 2000 (H)	3	2	1	7	3	+4	6
3	ASA Tel Aviv	3	1	2	8	5	+3	3
4	Dragon 2014	3	0	3	0	23	−23	0

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

7 August 2019

11:00

ASA Tel Aviv	1–4	Breiðablik
Elinav 70'	Report	Jóhannsdóttir 4' Albertsdóttir 25', 66' (pen.) Hákonardóttir 60'

Koševo City Stadium, Sarajevo

Attendance: 35

Referee: Marina Višnjić (Serbia)

7 August 2019