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The 2020–21 UEFA Women's Champions League was the 20th edition of the European women's club football championship organised by UEFA, and the 12th edition since being rebranded as the UEFA Women's Champions League.
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| Dates | Qualifying rounds: 3–19 November 2020 Knockout phase: 8 December 2020 – 16 May 2021 |
| Teams | Knockout phase: 32 Total: 62 (from 50 associations) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  Barcelona (1st title) |
| Runners-up |  Chelsea |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 89 |
| Goals scored | 318 (3.57 per match) |
| Attendance | 2,576 (29 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) | Jennifer Hermoso Fran Kirby (6 goals each) |
| Best player(s) |
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The final was held at the Gamla Ullevi in Gothenburg, Sweden.[5][6] The winners of the 2020–21 UEFA Women's Champions League automatically qualified for the 2021–22 UEFA Women's Champions League group stage, which will be the first edition to feature a 16-team group stage.[7]
Lyon were the defending champions, having won the previous five editions, but were eliminated by Paris Saint-Germain in the quarter-finals. Barcelona won their first title by beating Chelsea in the final, becoming the first club to have won both men's and women's Champions League titles.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, each local health department allowed a different number of spectators.
The association ranking based on the UEFA women's country coefficients was used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:[8]
An association must have had an eleven-a-side women's domestic league to enter a team. In 2019–20, 52 of the 55 UEFA member associations organized a women's domestic league, with the exceptions being Andorra, Liechtenstein and San Marino.[9]
For the 2020–21 UEFA Women's Champions League, the associations were allocated places according to their 2019 UEFA women's country coefficients, which took into account their performance in European competitions from 2014–15 to 2018–19.[10] For the first time there were two entries for the Netherlands and Kazakhstan.[6]
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Unlike the men's Champions League, not every association entered a team, and so the exact number of teams entering in the qualifying rounds (played as two rounds of single-legged ties for this season) and knockout phase (starting from the round of 32, played as home-and-away two-legged ties except for the one-match final) could not be determined until the full entry list was known. In general, the title holders, the champions of the top 12 associations, and the runners-up of highest-ranked associations (exact number depending on the number of entries) received a bye to the round of 32. All other teams (runners-up of lowest-ranked associations and champions of associations starting from 13th) entered the qualifying round, with the group winners and a maximum of two best runners-up advancing to the round of 32.[11]
The following was the access list for this season.[12]
| Teams entering in this round | Teams advancing from previous round | |
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| First qualifying round (40 teams) |
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| Second qualifying round (20 teams) |
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| Knockout phase (32 teams) |
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In early April 2020, UEFA announced that due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, the deadline for entering the tournament had been postponed until further notice.[13] On 17 June 2020, UEFA announced that associations had to enter their teams by 10 August 2020.[14] The 2020–21 season was the first where teams had to obtain a UEFA club license to participate in the UEFA Women's Champions League.[15]
A total of 62 teams from 50 of the 55 UEFA member associations participated in the 2020–21 UEFA Women's Champions League.[16]
The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:
Notes
The schedule of the competition was as follows (all draws were held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland).[6] The tournament would have originally started in August 2020, but was initially delayed to October due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe. However, due to the continuing pandemic in Europe, UEFA announced a new format and schedule on 16 September 2020. Instead of mini-tournaments, the qualifying rounds were played as two rounds of single leg knockout matches.[98]
| Phase | Round | Draw date | First leg | Second leg |
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| Qualifying | First qualifying round | 22 October 2020 | 3–4 November 2020 | |
| Second qualifying round | 6 November 2020 | 18–19 November 2020 | ||
| Knockout phase | Round of 32 | 24 November 2020 | 8–9 December 2020 | 15–16 December 2020 |
| Round of 16 | 16 February 2021 | 3–4 March 2021 | 10–11 March 2021 | |
| Quarter-finals | 12 March 2021 | 23–24 March 2021 | 31 March – 1 April 2021 | |
| Semi-finals | 24–25 April 2021 | 1–2 May 2021 | ||
| Final | 16 May 2021 at Gamla Ullevi, Gothenburg | |||
The original schedule of the competition, as planned before the pandemic, and the schedule announced in June 2020, under the original format, was as follows.
| Phase | Round | Draw date | First leg | Second leg |
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| Qualifying | Qualifying round | 19 June 2020 | 12, 15 & 18 August 2020 | |
| Knockout phase | Round of 32 | 21 August 2020 | 7–8 October 2020 | 14–15 October 2020 |
| Round of 16 | 19 October 2020 | 11–12 November 2020 | 18–19 November 2020 | |
| Quarter-finals | 27 November 2020 | 23–24 March 2021 | 31 March – 1 April 2021 | |
| Semi-finals | 24–25 April 2021 | 1–2 May 2021 | ||
| Final | 16 May 2021 at Gamla Ullevi, Gothenburg | |||
| Phase | Round | Draw date | First leg | Second leg |
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| Qualifying | Qualifying round | September 2020 | 7, 10 & 13 October 2020 | |
| Knockout phase | Round of 32 | October 2020 | 11–12 November 2020 | 18–19 November 2020 |
| Round of 16 | November 2020 | 3–4 March 2021 | 10–11 March 2021 | |
| Quarter-finals | March 2021 | 23–24 March 2021 | 31 March – 1 April 2021 | |
| Semi-finals | 24–25 April 2021 | 1–2 May 2021 | ||
| Final | 16 May 2021 at Gamla Ullevi, Gothenburg | |||
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, the following special rules were applicable to the competition:[101]
On 24 September 2020, UEFA announced that five substitutions would be permitted, with a sixth allowed in extra time. However, each team was only given three opportunities to make substitutions during matches, with a fourth opportunity in extra time, excluding substitutions made at half-time, before the start of extra time and at half-time in extra time. Consequently, a maximum of twelve players could be listed on the substitute bench.[102]
The draw for the first qualifying round was held on 22 October 2020, 12:00 CEST.[103] The matches were played on 3 and 4 November 2020.
The draw for the second qualifying round was held on 6 November 2020, 12:00 CET.[104] The matches were played on 18 and 19 November 2020.
| Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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Górnik Łęczna  |
2–1 |  Apollon Limassol |
Gintra Universitetas  |
0–7 |  Vålerenga |
Pomurje  |
4–1 |  Ferencváros |
Anderlecht  |
1–2 |  Benfica |
NSA Sofia  |
0–7 |  Spartak Subotica |
SFK 2000  |
0–2 |  Zhytlobud-2 Kharkiv |
Valur  |
1–1 (a.e.t.) (3–4 p) |
 Glasgow City |
St. Pölten  |
1–0 |  CSKA Moscow |
Vllaznia  |
0–2 |  FC Minsk |
Olimpia Cluj  |
0–1 |  Lanchkhuti |
The draw for the round of 32 was held on 24 November 2020, 12:00 CET.[105] The first legs were played on 9 and 10 December, and the second legs on 15, 16 and 17 December 2020. The tie between Vålerenga and Brøndby was played as a single-leg match in Brøndby on 11 February 2021 due to the quarantine restrictions imposed by the relevant Norwegian authorities in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway.
| Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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| St. Pölten |
3–0 |  Zürich |
2–0 | 1–0 |
Juventus  |
2–6 |  Lyon |
2–3 | 0–3 |
| Pomurje |
2–6 |  Fortuna Hjørring |
0–3 | 2–3 |
PSV  |
2–8 | Barcelona |
1–4 | 1–4 |
| Lanchkhuti |
0–17 |  Rosengård |
0–7 | 0–10 |
| Spartak Subotica |
0–7 |  VfL Wolfsburg |
0–5 | 0–2 |
| Zhytlobud-2 Kharkiv |
2–2 (a) |  BIIK Kazygurt |
2–1 | 0–1 |
| FC Minsk |
1–2 | LSK Kvinner |
0–2 | 1–0 |
| Kopparbergs/Göteborg |
1–5 | Manchester City |
1–2 | 0–3 |
| Fiorentina |
3–2 |  Slavia Prague |
2–2 | 1–0 |
| Vålerenga |
1–1 (4–5 p) | Brøndby |
— | 1–1 (a.e.t.) |
| Górnik Łęczna |
1–8 | Paris Saint-Germain |
0–2 | 1–6 |
| Sparta Prague |
3–1 | Glasgow City |
2–1 | 1–0 |
| Benfica |
0–8 | Chelsea |
0–5 | 0–3 |
| Ajax |
1–6 | Bayern Munich |
1–3 | 0–3 |
| Servette Chênois |
2–9 | Atlético Madrid |
2–4 | 0–5 |
The draw for the round of 16 was held on 16 February 2021, 12:00 CET.[106] The first legs were played on 3, 4 and 9 March, and the second legs on 10, 11 and 17 March 2021.
| Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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| VfL Wolfsburg |
4–0 | LSK Kvinner |
2–0 | 2–0 |
| Barcelona |
9–0 | Fortuna Hjørring |
4–0 | 5–0 |
| Rosengård |
4–2 | St. Pölten |
2–2 | 2–0 |
| BIIK Kazygurt |
1–9 | Bayern Munich |
1–6 | 0–3 |
| Manchester City |
8–0 | Fiorentina |
3–0 | 5–0 |
| Paris Saint-Germain |
5–3[A] | Sparta Prague |
5–0 | 0–3 (awd.)[B] |
| Lyon |
5–1 | Brøndby |
2–0 | 3–1 |
| Chelsea |
3–1 | Atlético Madrid |
2–0 | 1–1 |
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The draw for the quarter-finals was held on 12 March 2021, 12:00 CET.[110][111] The first legs were played on 24 March, and the second legs on 31 March, 1 and 18 April 2021.
| Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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| Bayern Munich |
4–0 | Rosengård |
3–0 | 1–0 |
| Paris Saint-Germain |
2–2 (a) | Lyon |
0–1 | 2–1 |
| Barcelona |
4–2 | Manchester City |
3–0 | 1–2 |
| Chelsea |
5–1 | VfL Wolfsburg |
2–1 | 3–0 |
The draw for the semi-finals was held on 12 March 2021, 12:00 CET (after the quarter-final draw).[110] The first legs were played on 25 April and the second legs on 2 May 2021.
| Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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| Paris Saint-Germain |
2–3 | Barcelona |
1–1 | 1–2 |
| Bayern Munich |
3–5 | Chelsea |
2–1 | 1–4 |
The final was played on 16 May 2021 at Gamla Ullevi, Gothenburg.[112] A draw was held on 12 March 2021, 12:00 CET (after the quarter-final and semi-final draws), to determine which semi-final winner would be designated as the "home" team for administrative purposes.[110]
There were 318 goals scored in 89 matches, with an average of 3.57 goals per match.[114]
Goals scored in qualifying rounds count toward the topscorer award.
| Rank | Player | Team | Goals | ||
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| Qual. | Tourn. | Total | |||
| 1 | Jennifer Hermoso |
Barcelona |
— | 6 | 6 |
| Fran Kirby |
Chelsea |
— | 6 | ||
| 3 | Lieke Martens |
Barcelona |
— | 5 | 5 |
 Sam Mewis |
Manchester City |
— | 5 | ||
| 5 | Jelena Čanković |
Rosengård |
— | 4 | 4 |
| Pernille Harder |
Chelsea |
— | 4 | ||
| Marie-Antoinette Katoto |
Paris Saint-Germain |
— | 4 | ||
| Špela Kolbl |
Pomurje |
3 | 1 | ||
| Sydney Lohmann |
Bayern Munich |
— | 4 | ||
| Melvine Malard |
Lyon |
— | 4 | ||
 Asisat Oshoala |
Barcelona |
— | 4 | ||
| Natia Pantsulaia |
Zhytlobud-2 Kharkiv |
4 | 0 | ||
| Violeta Slović |
Spartak Subotica |
4 | 0 | ||
| Sanne Troelsgaard |
Rosengård |
— | 4 | ||
The following 23 players were named in the squad of the season by the UEFA's technical observers:[117]
Votes were cast for players of the season by coaches of the sixteen teams who participated in the tournament's round of 16, together with twenty journalists selected by the European Sports Media (ESM) group who specialize in women's football. The coaches were not allowed to vote for players from their own teams. Jury members selected their top three players, with the first receiving five points, the second three and the third one. The shortlist of the top three players was announced on 13 August 2021.[118] The award winners were announced and presented during the 2021–22 UEFA Champions League group stage draw in Turkey on 26 August 2021.
Goalkeeper of the season
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