The 2022–23 UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying rounds began on 18 August and ended on 29 September 2022.
The Champions Path included all league champions which did not qualify directly for the group stage, and consisted of the following rounds: Below are the participating teams of the Champions Path (with their 2022 UEFA club coefficients),[2] grouped by the starting rounds.
Round 1 consisted of mini-tournaments with two semi-finals, a final and a third-place play-off hosted by one of the participating teams.
The team that scored more goals on aggregate over the two legs advanced to the next round.
If the aggregate score was level at the end of normal time of the second leg, extra time was played, and if the same number of goals was scored by both teams at the end of normal time, the tie was decided by a penalty shoot-out.
An additional preliminary round consisting of two-legged home-and-away matches would have been played by the champions from the lowest-ranked associations if more than 50 associations had entered the tournament and the title holders hadn't qualified through league position.
Prior to the draws, UEFA may form "groups" in accordance with the principles set by the Club Competitions Committee, but they are purely for convenience of the draw and do not resemble any real groupings in the sense of the competition.
Teams from associations with political conflicts as decided by UEFA may not be drawn into the same tie.
After the draws, the order of legs of a tie could have been reversed by UEFA due to scheduling or venue conflicts.
The schedule of the competition was as follows (all draws were held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland).
Due to political reasons, teams from the following associations could not be drawn into the same group: Kosovo / Bosnia and Herzegovina; Kosovo / Serbia; Ukraine / Belarus.