The 2025–26 UEFA Women's Champions League will be the 25th edition of the European women's club football championship organised by UEFA, and the 17th edition since being rebranded as the UEFA Women's Champions League. It will start on 30 July 2025 and end with the final on 22–24 May 2026.
 The Ullevaal Stadion in Oslo will host the final. | |
| Dates | 30 July 2025 – 22, 23 or 24 May 2026 |
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The Ullevaal Stadion in Oslo will host the final.
Association team allocation
editThe association ranking based on the UEFA women's country coefficients is used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:[1]
- Associations 1–7 each have three teams qualify.
- Associations 8–17 each have two teams qualify.
- All other associations, if they entered, each have one team qualify.
- The winners of the 2024–25 UEFA Women's Champions League are given an additional entry if they do not qualify for the 2025–26 UEFA Women's Champions League through their domestic league.
An association must have an eleven-a-side women's domestic league to enter a team. As of 2019–20, 52 of the 55 UEFA member associations organize a women's domestic league, with the exceptions being Andorra (1 club in Spain), Liechtenstein (3 clubs in Switzerland) and San Marino (1 club in Italy).
Association ranking
editFor the 2025–26 UEFA Women's Champions League, the associations are allocated places according to their 2024 UEFA women's Association coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 2019-20 to 2023–24.[2]
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Distribution
edit| Teams entering in this round | Teams advancing from the previous round | ||
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| First round | Champions path
(24 teams) |
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| Second round | Champions path
(28 teams) |
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| League path
(16 teams) |
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| Third round | Champions path
(8 teams) |
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| League path
(10 teams) |
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| League stage
(18 teams) |
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| Knockout round play-offs
(8 teams) |
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| Knockout phase
(8 teams) |
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Schedule
editThe schedule of the competition is as follows.[4]
| Phase | Round | Draw date | First leg | Second leg |
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| Qualifying | First qualifying round | 16 June 2025 | 30 July 2025 (semi-finals) | 2 August 2025 (third-place play-off & final) |
| Second qualifying round | 27 August 2025 (semi-finals) | 30 August 2025 (third-place play-off & final) | ||
| Third qualifying round | 1 September 2025 | 11 September 2025 | 18 September 2025 | |
| League stage | Matchday 1 | 19 September 2025 | 7–8 October 2025 | |
| Matchday 2 | 15–16 October 2025 | |||
| Matchday 3 | 11–12 November 2025 | |||
| Matchday 4 | 19–20 November 2025 | |||
| Matchday 5 | 9–10 December 2025 | |||
| Matchday 6 | 17 December 2025 | |||
| Knockout phase | Knockout play-offs | 19 December 2025 | 11–12 February 2026 | 18–19 February 2026 |
| Quarter-finals | 24–25 March 2026 | 1–2 April 2026 | ||
| Semi-finals | 25–26 April 2026 | 2–3 May 2026 | ||
| Final | 22–24 May 2026 at Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo | |||
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "2024/25 Women's Champions League: Dates, access list, full guide". UEFA. 20 April 2024. Retrieved 20 April 2024.
- ^ "UEFA Women's Champions League 2025/26 Provisional Access List" (PDF). UEFA. Union of European Football Associations. 1 February 2024. Retrieved 2 February 2025.
- ^ "Provisional access list for the UEFA Women's Champions League and 2nd competition 2025/26" (PDF). uefa.com. UEFA. Archived (PDF) from the original on 7 December 2023. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
- ^ "2025/26 UEFA Women's Champions League and new UEFA Women's Europa Cup". UEFA. Union of European Football Associations. 1 February 2024. Retrieved 2 February 2025.