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]

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
Qualified for the Champions League round of 16.
Qualified for the Europa League round of 32.

Pot 1 Team Notes Coeff. Barcelona [TH] 141.465 Manchester United 151.157 Chelsea 129.157 Bayern Munich [LR] 118.887 Arsenal [LR] 108.157 Real Madrid 103.408 Porto 100.319 Internazionale 100.110

Pot 2 Team Notes Coeff. Milan 94.110 Lyon [LR] 92.735 Shakhtar Donetsk 87.776 Valencia 85.408 Benfica [LR] 81.319 Villarreal [LR] 75.465 CSKA Moscow 73.941 Marseille 68.735

Pot 3 Team Notes Coeff. Zenit Saint Petersburg 60.441 Ajax 56.025 Bayer Leverkusen 54.887 Olympiacos 50.833 Manchester City 47.157 Lille 40.735 Basel 39.980 BATE Borisov [CR] 23.216

Pot 4 Team Notes Coeff. Borussia Dortmund 22.887 Napoli 21.110 Dinamo Zagreb [CR] 20.224 APOEL [CR] 13.124 Trabzonspor 12.010 Genk [CR] 8.400 Viktoria Plzeň [CR] 5.170 Oțelul Galați 5.164

Notes

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.

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]

1. higher number of points obtained in the group matches played among the teams in question;
2. superior goal difference from the group matches played among the teams in question;
3. higher number of goals scored in the group matches played among the teams in question;
4. higher number of goals scored away from home in the group matches played among the teams in question;
5. 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;
6. superior goal difference from all group matches played;
7. higher number of goals scored from all group matches played;
8. higher number of coefficient points accumulated by the club in question, as well as its association, over the previous five seasons.

Times are CET/CEST,^{[note 1]} as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		BAY	NAP	MCI	VIL
1	Bayern Munich	6	4	1	1	11	6	+5	13	Advance to knockout phase		—	3–2	2–0	3–1
2	Napoli	6	3	2	1	10	6	+4	11			1–1	—	2–1	2–0
3	Manchester City	6	3	1	2	9	6	+3	10	Transfer to Europa League		2–0	1–1	—	2–1
4	Villarreal	6	0	0	6	2	14	−12	0			0–2	0–2	0–3	—

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		INT	CSKA	TRA	LIL
1	Internazionale	6	3	1	2	8	7	+1	10	Advance to knockout phase		—	1–2	0–1	2–1
2	CSKA Moscow	6	2	2	2	9	8	+1	8			2–3	—	3–0	0–2
3	Trabzonspor	6	1	4	1	3	5	−2	7	Transfer to Europa League		1–1	0–0	—	1–1
4	Lille	6	1	3	2	6	6	0	6			0–1	2–2	0–0	—

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		BEN	BSL	MUN	OTE
1	Benfica	6	3	3	0	8	4	+4	12	Advance to knockout phase		—	1–1	1–1	1–0
2	Basel	6	3	2	1	11	10	+1	11			0–2	—	2–1	2–1
3	Manchester United	6	2	3	1	11	8	+3	9	Transfer to Europa League		2–2	3–3	—	2–0
4	Oțelul Galați	6	0	0	6	3	11	−8	0			0–1	2–3	0–2	—

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		RMA	LYO	AJX	DZG
1	Real Madrid	6	6	0	0	19	2	+17	18	Advance to knockout phase		—	4–0	3–0	6–2
2	Lyon	6	2	2	2	9	7	+2	8[a]			0–2	—	0–0	2–0
3	Ajax	6	2	2	2	6	6	0	8[a]	Transfer to Europa League		0–3	0–0	—	4–0
4	Dinamo Zagreb	6	0	0	6	3	22	−19	0			0–1	1–7	0–2	—

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		CHE	LEV	VAL	GNK
1	Chelsea	6	3	2	1	13	4	+9	11	Advance to knockout phase		—	2–0	3–0	5–0
2	Bayer Leverkusen	6	3	1	2	8	8	0	10			2–1	—	2–1	2–0
3	Valencia	6	2	2	2	12	7	+5	8	Transfer to Europa League		1–1	3–1	—	7–0
4	Genk	6	0	3	3	2	16	−14	3			1–1	1–1	0–0	—

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		ARS	MAR	OLY	DOR
1	Arsenal	6	3	2	1	7	6	+1	11	Advance to knockout phase		—	0–0	2–1	2–1
2	Marseille	6	3	1	2	7	4	+3	10			0–1	—	0–1	3–0
3	Olympiacos	6	3	0	3	8	6	+2	9	Transfer to Europa League		3–1	0–1	—	3–1
4	Borussia Dortmund	6	1	1	4	6	12	−6	4			1–1	2–3	1–0	—

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		APO	ZEN	POR	SHK
1	APOEL	6	2	3	1	6	6	0	9[a]	Advance to knockout phase		—	2–1	2–1	0–2
2	Zenit Saint Petersburg	6	2	3	1	7	5	+2	9[a]			0–0	—	3–1	1–0
3	Porto	6	2	2	2	7	7	0	8	Transfer to Europa League		1–1	0–0	—	2–1
4	Shakhtar Donetsk	6	1	2	3	6	8	−2	5			1–1	2–2	0–2	—

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		BAR	MIL	PLZ	BATE
1	Barcelona	6	5	1	0	20	4	+16	16	Advance to knockout phase		—	2–2	2–0	4–0
2	Milan	6	2	3	1	11	8	+3	9			2–3	—	2–0	2–0
3	Viktoria Plzeň	6	1	2	3	4	11	−7	5	Transfer to Europa League		0–4	2–2	—	1–1
4	BATE Borisov	6	0	2	4	2	14	−12	2			0–5	1–1	0–1	—

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• 2011–12 UEFA Champions League, UEFA.com