2011–12 UEFA Champions League group stage
This article details the 2011–12 UEFA Champions League group stage.
The group stage featured 32 teams: the 22 automatic qualifiers and the 10 winners of the play-off round (five through the Champions Route, five through the League Route).[1]
The teams were drawn into eight groups of four, and played each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The matchdays were 13–14 September, 27–28 September, 18–19 October, 1–2 November, 22–23 November, and 6–7 December 2011.[2]
The top two teams in each group advanced to the first knockout round, while the third-placed teams dropped down to the Europa League round of 32.[3]
Seeding
The draw for the group stage was held at Grimaldi Forum, Monaco on 25 August 2011 at 17:45 CEST (UTC+02:00).[4]
Teams were seeded into four pots[5] based on their 2011 UEFA club coefficients.[6] The title holders, Barcelona, were automatically seeded into Pot 1. Pot 1 held teams ranked 1–9, Pot 2 held teams ranked 10–24, Pot 3 held teams ranked 31–83, while Pot 4 held teams ranked 86–200 and unranked teams.
Key to colours |
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Qualified for the Champions League round of 16. |
Qualified for the Europa League round of 32. |
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th Title Holder. The title holder automatically gets the top position of seeding list.
CR Qualified through Champions Route
LR Qualified through League Route
For the group stage draw, teams from the same national association cannot be drawn against each other. Moreover, the draw was controlled for teams from the same association in order to split the teams evenly into the two sets of groups (A–D, E–H) for maximum television coverage.
The fixtures were decided after the draw. On each matchday, four groups played their matches on Tuesday, while the other four groups played their matches on Wednesday, with the two sets of groups (A–D, E–H) alternating between each matchday. There are other restrictions, e.g., teams from the same city (e.g. Milan and Internazionale, which also share a stadium) do not play at home on the same matchday (UEFA tries to avoid teams from the same city playing at home on the same day or on consecutive days), and Russian teams do not play at home on the last matchday due to cold weather.
Tie-breaking criteria
If two or more teams were equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria would be applied to determine the rankings:[3]
- 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.
Groups
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Group winners and runners-up advance to the round of 16 |
Third-placed teams enter the UEFA Europa League at the round of 32. |
Times up to 29 October 2011 (matchdays 1–3) are CEST (UTC+02:00), thereafter (matchdays 4–6) times are CET (UTC+01:00).
Group A
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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Bayern Munich | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 6 | +5 | 13 |
Napoli | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 6 | +4 | 11 |
Manchester City | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 6 | +3 | 10 |
Villarreal | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 14 | −12 | 0 |
Group B
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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Internazionale | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 7 | +1 | 10 |
CSKA Moscow | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 8 | +1 | 8 |
Trabzonspor | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 5 | −2 | 7 |
Lille | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
14 September 2011 20:45 |
Lille | 2–2 | CSKA Moscow |
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Sow 44' Pedretti 57' |
Report | Doumbia 72', 90' |
Stade Lille-Metropole, Villeneuve-d'Ascq Attendance: 15,274[7] Referee: Olegário Benquerença (Portugal) |
27 September 2011 18:00 |
CSKA Moscow | 2–3 | Internazionale |
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Dzagoev 45+3' Vágner Love 77' |
Report | Lúcio 6' Pazzini 23' Zárate 79' |
7 December 2011 20:45 |
Internazionale | 1–2 | CSKA Moscow |
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Cambiasso 51' | Report | Doumbia 50' V. Berezutski 86' |
Group C
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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Benfica | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 4 | +4 | 12 |
Basel | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 10 | +1 | 11 |
Manchester United | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 8 | +3 | 9 |
Oțelul Galați | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 11 | −8 | 0 |
27 September 2011 20:45 |
Manchester United | 3–3 | Basel |
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Welbeck 16', 17' Young 90' |
Report | F. Frei 58' A. Frei 61', 76' (pen.) |
22 November 2011 20:45 |
Oțelul Galați | 2–3 | Basel |
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Giurgiu 75' Antal 81' |
Report | F. Frei 10' A. Frei 14' Streller 37' |
22 November 2011 20:45 |
Manchester United | 2–2 | Benfica |
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Berbatov 30' Fletcher 59' |
Report | Jones 3' (o.g.) Aimar 61' |
- Notes
- Note 1: Oțelul Galați played their home matches at Stadionul Național, Bucharest as their own Stadionul Oţelul did not meet UEFA criteria.
Group D
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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Real Madrid | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 2 | +17 | 18 |
Lyon | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 7 | +2 | 8 |
Ajax | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 8 |
Dinamo Zagreb | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 22 | −19 | 0 |
- Lyon and Ajax were tied on their head-to-head records as shown below, so Lyon are ranked ahead of Ajax because of their higher overall goal difference in the group.
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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Lyon | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Ajax | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
2 November 2011 20:45 |
Ajax | 4–0 | Dinamo Zagreb |
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Van der Wiel 20' Sulejmani 25' De Jong 65' Lodeiro 90+2' |
Report |
22 November 2011 20:45 |
Real Madrid | 6–2 | Dinamo Zagreb |
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Benzema 2', 66' Callejón 7', 49' Higuaín 9' Özil 20' |
Report | Bećiraj 81' Tomečak 90' |
7 December 2011 20:45 |
Dinamo Zagreb | 1–7 | Lyon |
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Kovačić 40' | Report | Gomis 45', 48', 52', 70' Gonalons 47' Lisandro 64' Briand 75' |
Group E
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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Chelsea | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 4 | +9 | 11 |
Bayer Leverkusen | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 10 |
Valencia | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 7 | +5 | 8 |
Genk | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 16 | −14 | 3 |
23 November 2011 20:45 |
Valencia | 7–0 | Genk |
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Jonas 10' Soldado 13', 35', 39' Hernández 68' Aduriz 70' T. Costa 81' |
Report |
Group F
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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Arsenal | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 6 | +1 | 11 |
Marseille | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 4 | +3 | 10 |
Olympiacos | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 6 | +2 | 9 |
Borussia Dortmund | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 12 | −6 | 4 |
19 October 2011 20:45 |
Olympiacos | 3–1 | Borussia Dortmund |
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Holebas 8' Djebbour 40' Modesto 78' |
Report | Lewandowski 26' |
6 December 2011 20:45 |
Borussia Dortmund | 2–3 | Marseille |
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Błaszczykowski 23' Hummels 32' (pen.) |
Report | Rémy 45+4' A. Ayew 85' Valbuena 87' |
Group G
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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APOEL | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 9 |
Zenit Saint Petersburg | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 5 | +2 | 9 |
Porto | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 8 |
Shakhtar Donetsk | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 8 | −2 | 5 |
- APOEL and Zenit St. Petersburg are ranked by their head-to-head records, as shown below.
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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APOEL | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | +1 | 4 |
Zenit Saint Petersburg | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 1 |
28 September 2011 18:00 |
Zenit Saint Petersburg | 3–1 | Porto |
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Shirokov 20', 63' Danny 72' |
Report | J. Rodríguez 10' |
19 October 2011 20:45 |
Shakhtar Donetsk | 2–2 | Zenit Saint Petersburg |
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Willian 15' Luiz Adriano 45+1' |
Report | Shirokov 33' Fayzulin 60' |
Group H
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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Barcelona | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 20 | 4 | +16 | 16 |
Milan | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 8 | +3 | 9 |
Viktoria Plzeň | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 11 | −7 | 5 |
BATE Borisov | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 14 | −12 | 2 |
28 September 2011 20:45 |
BATE Borisov | 0–5 | Barcelona |
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Report | Valadzko 19' (o.g.) Pedro 22' Messi 38', 56' Villa 90' |
23 November 2011 20:45 |
Milan | 2–3 | Barcelona |
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Ibrahimović 20' Boateng 54' |
Report | Van Bommel 14' (o.g.) Messi 31' (pen.) Xavi 63' |
- Notes
- Note 2: Viktoria Plzeň played their home matches at Synot Tip Arena, Prague as their own Stadion města Plzně did not meet UEFA criteria.
- Note 3: BATE Borisov played their home matches at Stadion Dynama, Minsk as their own Haradski Stadium did not meet UEFA criteria.
References
- ↑ "2011/12 list of participants". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations.
- ↑ "2011/12 draw and match calendar". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations.
- 1 2 "Regulations of the UEFA Champions League 2011/12" (PDF). Nyon: Union of European Football Associations. March 2011. Retrieved 1 June 2011.
- ↑ "European Club Season Kick-Off Monaco 2011/12". UEFA.com. 3 August 2011.
- ↑ "Eleven former winners grace group stage draw". UEFA.com. 24 August 2011.
- ↑ "Club coefficients 2010/11". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 31 May 2011. Retrieved 1 June 2011.
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External links
- 2011–12 UEFA Champions League, UEFA.com