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Association team allocation

A total of 72 teams participated in the 2001–02 Champions League, from 48 of 51 UEFA associations. Liechtenstein (who don't have their own league) as well as lowest-ranked associations (Andorra and San Marino) were not admitted.

Below is the qualification scheme for the 2001–02 UEFA Champions League:¹

• 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 16–49 each have one team qualify (except Liechtenstein)

Association ranking

Countries are allocated places according to their 2000 UEFA league coefficient, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 1995–96 to 1999–2000.²

Rank Association Coeff. Teams 1  Spain 59.599 4 2  Italy 55.927 3  Germany 46.403 4  France 42.727 3 5  England 41.455 6  Netherlands 36.666 7  Russia 29.275 2 8  Czech Republic 29.124 9  Greece 28.866 10  Portugal 24.549 11  Turkey 23.850 12  Ukraine 23.166 13  Norway 22.100 14  Switzerland 21.000 15  Scotland 20.500 16  Austria 20.500 1 17  Belgium 19.050

Rank Association Coeff. Teams 18  Denmark 18.175 1 19  Poland 18.000 20  Romania 17.833 21  Croatia 16.124 22  Sweden 15.533 23  Hungary 15.416 24  Israel 13.541 25  Slovakia 12.832 26  Slovenia 11.831 27  Cyprus 11.498 28  FR Yugoslavia 11.415 29  Bulgaria 10.540 30  Georgia 9.666 31  Latvia 8.332 32  Finland 8.041 33  Belarus 7.583 34  Moldova 6.333

Rank Association Coeff. Teams 35  Iceland 6.332 1 36  Macedonia 5.081 37  Lithuania 4.665 38  Estonia 2.582 39  Wales 2.332 40  Armenia 2.249 41  Republic of Ireland 1.665 42  Malta 1.498 43  Northern Ireland 1.498 44  Faroe Islands 1.415 45  Luxembourg 1.332 46  Azerbaijan 1.249 47  Liechtenstein 1.000 0 48  Albania 0.832 1 49  Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.500 50  Andorra 0.000 0 51  San Marino 0.000

Distribution

Since the title holders (Bayern Munich) qualified for the Champions League group stage through their domestic league, the group stage spot reserved for the title holders was vacated. The following changes to the default access list are made:

• The champions of association 10 (Portugal) are promoted from the third qualifying round to the group stage.
• The champions of association 16 (Austria) are promoted from the second qualifying round to the third qualifying round.
• The champions of associations 27 and 28 (Cyprus and FR Yugoslavia) are promoted from the first qualifying round to the second qualifying round.

		Teams entering in this round	Teams advancing from previous round
First qualifying round(20 teams)		20 champions from associations 29–49 (except Liechtenstein)
Second qualifying round(28 teams)		12 champions from associations 17–28 6 runners-up from associations 10–15	10 winners from the first qualifying round
Third qualifying round(32 teams)		6 champions from associations 11–16 3 runners-up from associations 7–9 6 third-place finishers from associations 1–6 3 fourth-place finishers from associations 1–3	14 winners from the second qualifying round
Group stage(32 teams)		10 champions from associations 1–10 (including title holders Bayern Munich) 6 runners-up from associations 1–6	16 winners from the third qualifying round
Second group stage(16 teams)			8 group winners from the first group stage 8 group runners-up from the first group stage
Knockout phase(8 teams)			4 group winners from the second group stage 4 group runners-up from the second group stage

Teams

League positions of the previous season shown in parentheses (TH: Champions League title holders).

Group stage
Real Madrid (1st)	Bayern Munich (1st)TH	Manchester United (1st)	Spartak Moscow (1st)
Deportivo La Coruña (2nd)	Schalke 04 (2nd)	Arsenal (2nd)	Sparta Prague (1st)
Roma (1st)	Nantes (1st)	PSV Eindhoven (1st)	Olympiacos (1st)
Juventus (2nd)	Lyon (2nd)	Feyenoord (2nd)	Boavista (1st)
Third qualifying round
Mallorca (3rd)	Bayer Leverkusen (4th)	Slavia Prague (2nd)	Rosenborg (1st)
Barcelona (4th)	Lille (3rd)	Panathinaikos (2nd)	Grasshopper (1st)
Lazio (3rd)	Liverpool (3rd)	Fenerbahçe (1st)	Celtic (1st)
Parma (4th)	Ajax (3rd)	Dynamo Kyiv (1st)	Tirol Innsbruck (1st)
Borussia Dortmund (3rd)	Lokomotiv Moscow (2nd)
Second qualifying round
Porto (2nd)	Rangers (2nd)	Hajduk Split (1st)	Inter Bratislava (1st)
Galatasaray (2nd)	Anderlecht (1st)	Halmstads BK (1st)	Maribor (1st)
Shakhtar Donetsk (2nd)	Copenhagen (1st)	Ferencváros (1st)	Omonia (1st)
Brann (2nd)	Wisła Kraków (1st)	Maccabi Haifa (1st)	Red Star Belgrade (1st)
Lugano (2nd)	Steaua București (1st)
First qualifying round
Levski Sofia (1st)	Sheriff Tiraspol (1st)	Barry Town (1st)	VB (1st)
Torpedo Kutaisi (1st)	KR (1st)	Araks-Impeks (1st)[Note ARM]	F91 Dudelange (1st)
Skonto (1st)	Sloga Jugomagnat (1st)	Bohemians (1st)	Shamkir (1st)
Haka (1st)	Kaunas (1st)	Valletta (1st)	Vllaznia (1st)
Slavia Mozyr (1st)	Levadia Maardu (1st)	Linfield (1st)	Željezničar (1st)

Notes

1. ^ Armenia (ARM): Armenian Premier League winners Araks Ararat had their rights sold to Araks-Impeks. Thus, Araks-Impeks took Armenia's spot in the Champions League.

Round and draw dates

The schedule of the competition is as follows (all draws are held at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, unless stated otherwise).³

Phase	Round	Draw date	First leg	Second leg
Qualifying	First qualifying round	22 June 2001(Geneva)	11 July 2001	18 July 2001
	Second qualifying round		24–25 July 2001	31 July – 1 August 2001
	Third qualifying round	20 July 2001	7–8 August 2001	21–22 August 2001
First group stage	Matchday 1	23 August 2001(Monaco)	11 September & 10 October 20014
	Matchday 2		18–19 September 2001
	Matchday 3		25–26 September 2001
	Matchday 4		16–17 October 2001
	Matchday 5		23–24 October 2001
	Matchday 6		30–31 October 2001
Second group stage	Matchday 1	2 November 2001(Geneva)	20–21 November 2001
	Matchday 2		4–5 December 2001
	Matchday 3		19–20 February 2002
	Matchday 4		26–27 February 2002
	Matchday 5		12–13 March 2002
	Matchday 6		19–20 March 2002
Knockout phase	Quarter-finals	22 March 2002	2–3 April 2002	9–10 April 2002
	Semi-finals		23–24 April 2002	30 April – 1 May 2002
	Final		15 May 2002 at Hampden Park, Glasgow

Notes

Qualifying rounds

Main article: 2001–02 UEFA Champions League qualifying rounds

First qualifying round

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Araks-Impeks	0–3	Sheriff Tiraspol	0–1	0–2
Linfield	0–1	Torpedo Kutaisi	0–0	0–1
Bohemians	3–0	Levadia Maardu	3–0	0–0
F91 Dudelange	2–6	Skonto	1–6	1–0
Levski Sofia	4–0	Željezničar	4–0	0–0
VB	0–5	Slavia Mozyr	0–0	0–5
Valletta	0–5	Haka	0–0	0–5
Sloga Jugomagnat	1–1 (a)	Kaunas	0–0	1–1
KR	2–2 (a)	Vllaznia	2–1	0–1
Barry Town	3–0	Shamkir	2–0	1–0

Second qualifying round

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Haka	3–1	Maccabi Haifa	0–1	3–05
Shakhtar Donetsk	4–2	Lugano	3–0	1–2
Omonia	2–3	Red Star Belgrade	1–1	1–2
Ferencváros	0–0 (4–5 p)	Hajduk Split	0–0	0–0 (a.e.t.)
Porto	9–3	Barry Town	8–0	1–3
Maribor	1–6	Rangers	0–3	1–3
Galatasaray	6–1	Vllaznia	2–0	4–1
Slavia Mozyr	0–2	Inter Bratislava	0–1	0–1
Anderlecht	6–1	Sheriff Tiraspol	4–0	2–1
Torpedo Kutaisi	2–4	Copenhagen	1–1	1–3
Levski Sofia	1–1 (a)	Brann	0–0	1–1
Skonto	1–3	Wisła Kraków	1–2	0–1
Bohemians	1–4	Halmstads BK	1–2	0–2
Steaua București	5–1	Sloga Jugomagnat	3–0	2–1

Notes:

Third qualifying round

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Shakhtar Donetsk	1–5	Borussia Dortmund	0–2	1–3
Lokomotiv Moscow	3–2	Tirol Innsbruck	3–1	0–16
Steaua București	3–5	Dynamo Kyiv	2–4	1–1
Haka	1–9	Liverpool	0–5	1–4
Hajduk Split	1–2	Mallorca	1–0	0–2 (a.e.t.)
Red Star Belgrade	0–3	Bayer Leverkusen	0–0	0–3
Wisła Kraków	3–5	Barcelona	3–4	0–1
Copenhagen	3–5	Lazio	2–1	1–4
Inter Bratislava	3–7	Rosenborg	3–3	0–4
Halmstads BK	3–4	Anderlecht	2–3	1–1
Slavia Prague	1–3	Panathinaikos	1–2	0–1
Galatasaray	3–2	Levski Sofia	2–1	1–1
Ajax	2–3	Celtic	1–3	1–0
Porto	5–4	Grasshopper	2–2	3–2
Parma	1–2	Lille	0–2	1–0
Rangers	1–2	Fenerbahçe	0–0	1–2

Notes:

First group stage

Main article: 2001–02 UEFA Champions League first group stage

16 winners from the third qualifying round, 10 champions from countries ranked 1–10, and six second-placed teams from countries ranked 1–6 were drawn into eight groups of four teams each. The top two teams in each group advance to the second group stage, and the third placed team in each group advance to the Third Round of the UEFA Cup.

Celtic, Lille, Liverpool, Lokomotiv Moscow, Mallorca, Roma and Schalke 04 made their debut in the group stage.

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		RMA	ROM	LMO	AND
1	Real Madrid	6	4	1	1	13	5	+8	13	Advance to second group stage		—	1–1	4–0	4–1
2	Roma	6	2	3	1	6	5	+1	9			1–2	—	2–1	1–1
3	Lokomotiv Moscow	6	2	1	3	9	9	0	7	Transfer to UEFA Cup		2–0	0–1	—	1–1
4	Anderlecht	6	0	3	3	4	13	−9	3			0–2	0–0	1–5	—

Source: RSSSF

Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		LIV	BOA	DOR	DKV
1	Liverpool	6	3	3	0	7	3	+4	12	Advance to second group stage		—	1–1	2–0	1–0
2	Boavista	6	2	2	2	8	7	+1	8			1–1	—	2–1	3–1
3	Borussia Dortmund	6	2	2	2	6	7	−1	8	Transfer to UEFA Cup		0–0	2–1	—	1–0
4	Dynamo Kyiv	6	1	1	4	5	9	−4	4			1–2	1–0	2–2	—

Source: RSSSF

Group C

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		PAN	ARS	MLL	SCH
1	Panathinaikos	6	4	0	2	8	3	+5	12	Advance to second group stage		—	1–0	2–0	2–0
2	Arsenal	6	3	0	3	9	9	0	9			2–1	—	3–1	3–2
3	Mallorca	6	3	0	3	4	9	−5	9	Transfer to UEFA Cup		1–0	1–0	—	0–4
4	Schalke 04	6	2	0	4	9	9	0	6			0–2	3–1	0–1	—

Source: RSSSF

Group D

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		NAN	GAL	PSV	LAZ
1	Nantes	6	3	2	1	8	3	+5	11	Advance to second group stage		—	0–1	4–1	1–0
2	Galatasaray	6	3	1	2	5	4	+1	10			0–0	—	2–0	1–0
3	PSV Eindhoven	6	2	1	3	6	9	−3	7	Transfer to UEFA Cup		0–0	3–1	—	1–0
4	Lazio	6	2	0	4	4	7	−3	6			1–3	1–0	2–1	—

Source: RSSSF

Group E

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		JUV	POR	CEL	ROS
1	Juventus	6	3	2	1	11	8	+3	11	Advance to second group stage		—	3–1	3–2	1–0
2	Porto	6	3	1	2	7	5	+2	10			0–0	—	3–0	1–0
3	Celtic	6	3	0	3	8	11	−3	9	Transfer to UEFA Cup		4–3	1–0	—	1–0
4	Rosenborg	6	1	1	4	4	6	−2	4			1–1	1–2	2–0	—

Source: RSSSF

Group F

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		BAR	LEV	LYO	FEN
1	Barcelona	6	5	0	1	12	5	+7	15	Advance to second group stage		—	2–1	2–0	1–0
2	Bayer Leverkusen	6	4	0	2	10	9	+1	12			2–1	—	2–4	2–1
3	Lyon	6	3	0	3	10	9	+1	9	Transfer to UEFA Cup		2–3	0–1	—	3–1
4	Fenerbahçe	6	0	0	6	3	12	−9	0			0–3	1–2	0–1	—

Source: RSSSF

Group G

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		DEP	MUN	LIL	OLY
1	Deportivo La Coruña	6	2	4	0	10	8	+2	10	Advance to second group stage		—	2–1	1–1	2–2
2	Manchester United	6	3	1	2	10	6	+4	10			2–3	—	1–0	3–0
3	Lille	6	1	3	2	7	7	0	6	Transfer to UEFA Cup		1–1	1–1	—	3–1
4	Olympiacos	6	1	2	3	6	12	−6	5			1–1	0–2	2–1	—

Source: RSSSF

Group H

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		BAY	SPP	FEY	SPM
1	Bayern Munich	6	4	2	0	14	5	+9	14	Advance to second group stage		—	0–0	3–1	5–1
2	Sparta Prague	6	3	2	1	10	3	+7	11			0–1	—	4–0	2–0
3	Feyenoord	6	1	2	3	7	14	−7	5	Transfer to UEFA Cup		2–2	0–2	—	2–1
4	Spartak Moscow	6	0	2	4	7	16	−9	2			1–3	2–2	2–2	—

Source: RSSSF

Second group stage

Main article: 2001–02 UEFA Champions League second group stage

Eight winners and eight runners-up from the first group stage were drawn into four groups of four teams each, each containing two group winners and two runners-up. Teams from the same country or from the same first round group could not be drawn together. The top two teams in each group advanced to the quarter-finals.

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		MUN	BAY	BOA	NAN
1	Manchester United	6	3	3	0	13	3	+10	12	Advance to knockout stage		—	0–0	3–0	5–1
2	Bayern Munich	6	3	3	0	5	2	+3	12			1–1	—	1–0	2–1
3	Boavista	6	1	2	3	2	8	−6	5			0–3	0–0	—	1–0
4	Nantes	6	0	2	4	4	11	−7	2			1–1	0–1	1–1	—

Source: RSSSF

Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		BAR	LIV	ROM	GAL
1	Barcelona	6	2	3	1	7	7	0	9	Advance to knockout stage		—	0–0	1–1	2–2
2	Liverpool	6	1	4	1	4	4	0	7			1–3	—	2–0	0–0
3	Roma	6	1	4	1	6	5	+1	7			3–0	0–0	—	1–1
4	Galatasaray	6	0	5	1	5	6	−1	5			0–1	1–1	1–1	—

Source: RSSSF

Group C

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		RMA	PAN	SPP	POR
1	Real Madrid	6	5	1	0	14	5	+9	16	Advance to knockout stage		—	3–0	3–0	1–0
2	Panathinaikos	6	2	2	2	7	8	−1	8			2–2	—	2–1	0–0
3	Sparta Prague	6	2	0	4	6	10	−4	6			2–3	0–2	—	2–0
4	Porto	6	1	1	4	3	7	−4	4			1–2	2–1	0–1	—

Source: RSSSF

Group D

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		LEV	DEP	ARS	JUV
1	Bayer Leverkusen	6	3	1	2	11	11	0	10	Advance to knockout stage		—	3–0	1–1	3–1
2	Deportivo La Coruña	6	3	1	2	7	6	+1	10			1–3	—	2–0	2–0
3	Arsenal	6	2	1	3	8	8	0	7			4–1	0–2	—	3–1
4	Juventus	6	2	1	3	7	8	−1	7			4–0	0–0	1–0	—

Source: RSSSF

Knockout phase

Main article: 2001–02 UEFA Champions League knockout stage

Bracket

	Quarter-finals							Semi-finals							Final
	Deportivo La Coruña		0	2	2
	Manchester United		2	3	5
								Manchester United		2	1	3
								Bayer Leverkusen (a)		2	1	3
	Liverpool		1	2	3
															15 May – Glasgow
	Bayer Leverkusen		0	4	4
															Bayer Leverkusen		1
															Real Madrid		2
	Panathinaikos		1	1	2
	Barcelona		0	3	3
								Barcelona		0	1	1
								Real Madrid		2	1	3
	Bayern Munich		2	0	2
	Real Madrid		1	2	3

Quarter-finals

The first legs were played on 2 and 3 April, and the second legs were played on 9 and 10 April 2002.

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Panathinaikos	2–3	Barcelona	1–0	1–3
Bayern Munich	2–3	Real Madrid	2–1	0–2
Deportivo La Coruña	2–5	Manchester United	0–2	2–3
Liverpool	3–4	Bayer Leverkusen	1–0	2–4

Semi-finals

The first legs were played on 23 and 24 April, and the second legs were played on 30 April and 1 May 2002.

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Barcelona	1–3	Real Madrid	0–2	1–1
Manchester United	3–3 (a)	Bayer Leverkusen	2–2	1–1

Final

Main article: 2002 UEFA Champions League final

The final was played on 15 May 2002 at Hampden Park in Glasgow, Scotland.

15 May 2002 (2002-05-15)19:45 UTC+1

Bayer Leverkusen	1–2	Real Madrid
Lúcio 14'	Report	Raúl 8' Zidane 45'

Hampden Park, GlasgowAttendance: 50,499⁷Referee: Urs Meier (Switzerland)

Statistics

The top scorers from the 2001–02 UEFA Champions League (excluding qualifying rounds) are as follows:⁸

Top goalscorers

Rank	Name	Team	Goals	Appearances	Minutes played
1	Ruud van Nistelrooy	Manchester United	10	14	1,207
2	David Trezeguet	Juventus	8	10	841
3	Ole Gunnar Solskjær	Manchester United	7	15	630
	Thierry Henry	Arsenal	7	11	981
5	Giovane Élber	Bayern Munich	6	11	730
	Diego Tristán	Deportivo La Coruña	6	12	797
	Michalis Konstantinou	Panathinaikos	6	14	955
	Raúl	Real Madrid	6	12	1,080
	Patrick Kluivert	Barcelona	6	15	1,300
	Michael Ballack	Bayer Leverkusen	6	15	1,346

See also

• 2001–02 UEFA Cup
• 2001 UEFA Intertoto Cup
• 2002 UEFA Super Cup
• 2002 Intercontinental Cup
• 2001–02 UEFA Women's Cup

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to 2001-2002 UEFA Champions League.

• 2001–02 All matches – season at UEFA website
• European Cup results at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
• All scorers 2001–02 UEFA Champions League (excluding qualifying round) according to protocols UEFA + all scorers qualifying round
• 2001/02 UEFA Champions League - results and line-ups (archive)
• Regulations of the UEFA Champions League 2001/2002[permanent dead link]

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3. "UEFA European Football Calendar 2001/2002". Bert Kassies. https://kassiesa.net/uefa/history/dates2001.html ↩

4. All 8 games originally scheduled on 12 September 2001 were postponed to 10 October following the September 11 attacks; matches played on 11 September were allowed to continue and be completed.[4] /wiki/September_11_attacks ↩

5. UEFA awarded Haka a 3–0 win due to Maccabi Haifa fielding suspended player Walid Badir in the second leg. The original match had ended in a 4–0 win for Maccabi Haifa.[5] /wiki/FC_Haka ↩

6. UEFA decided to replay the second leg (which originally ended in 1–0 win to Lokomotiv) after accepting Tirol's protest on refereeing mistake, which resulted in Lokomotiv player not being shown a red card after receiving a second yellow card.[6] /wiki/2001%E2%80%9302_UEFA_Champions_League_qualifying_rounds#Tirol_Innsbruck_v_Lokomotiv_Moscow_(original) ↩

7. "2. Finals" (PDF). UEFA Champions League Statistics Handbook 2022/23. Nyon: Union of European Football Associations. 4 June 2023. p. 2. Archived (PDF) from the original on 21 August 2023. Retrieved 17 June 2024. https://editorial.uefa.com/resources/0282-18407a7a3056-fed61d05639b-1000/ucl_202223_finals_md13.pdf ↩

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