The 2016–17 UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying round was played on 23, 25 and 28 August 2016.
[1] A total of 36 teams competed in the qualifying round to decide nine of the 32 places in the knockout phase of the 2016–17 UEFA Women's Champions League.
[3][4] The 36 teams were allocated into four seeding positions based on their UEFA club coefficients at the beginning of the season.
First, the nine teams which were pre-selected as hosts were drawn from their own designated pot and allocated to their respective group as per their seeding positions.
If two or more teams are equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria are applied in the order given to determine the rankings (regulations Articles 14.01 and 14.02):[2] All times were CEST (UTC+2).