The 2012–13 UEFA Women's Champions League was the 12th edition of the European women's championship for football clubs.

The final was held at Stamford Bridge, London, England on 23 May 2013.

The national champions and runners-up, where known, in nations that have participated in the past five years are listed as expected to compete.

Norway has overtaken Iceland in the UEFA coefficients and thus assured themselves a second entry.

Countries are allocated places according to their UEFA league coefficient for women.

[2] A first entry list was posted on 14 June 2012 by the Belgian representative.

Apollon's 21–0 victory over Ada set a new competition record.

The match against the fourth-placed team in the group does not count for the purposes of the runners-up table.

There was an open draw held for the quarterfinals and the following rounds on 27 November 2012.

Top scorers (excluding qualifying rounds and play-off round): The top-scorer award is given to the player scoring the most goals including the qualifying rounds, thus Romanian player Laura Rus from Apollon Limassol won the award by scoring 11 goals up to the round of 32.

[12] Conny Pohlers scored her 42nd goal in the competition history, to become the sole all-time topscorer.

The following are the top scorers excluding the qualifying round.