# 2025–26 UEFA Women's Champions League

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.

## Association team allocation

The association ranking based on the UEFA women's country coefficients is used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:
* 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

For 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.
| Rank | Association | Coeff. | Teams |
| 1 | France | 78.333 | 3 |
| 2 | Germany | 68.999 | 3 |
| 3 | Spain | 68.166 | 3 |
| 4 | England | 59.999 | 3 |
| 5 | Portugal | 34.000 | 3 |
| 6 | Italy | 34.000 | 3 |
| 7 | Sweden | 24.999 | 3 |
| 8 | Czech Republic | 22.332 | 2 |
| 9 | Netherlands | 22.000 | 2 |
| 10 | Denmark | 21.750 | 2 |
| 11 | Norway | 21.500 | 2 |
| 12 | Austria | 21.250 | 2 |
| 13 | Ukraine | 19.000 | 2 |
| 14 | Belarus | 18.000 | 2 |
| 15 | Iceland | 17.750 | 2 |
| 16 | Scotland | 17.000 | 2 |
| 17 | Kazakhstan | 14.750 | 2 |
| 18 | Switzerland | 14.250 | 1 |
| 19 | Serbia | 14.000 | 1 |
| Rank | Association | Coeff. | Teams |
| 20 | Albania | 14.000 | 1 |
| 21 | Cyprus | 12.000 | 1 |
| 22 | Belgium | 12.000 | 1 |
| 23 | Russia | 10.250 | 0 |
| 24 | Finland | 10.000 | 1 |
| 25 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 10.000 | 1 |
| 26 | Hungary | 9.500 | 1 |
| 27 | Romania | 9.000 | 1 |
| 28 | Slovenia | 9.000 | 1 |
| 29 | Poland | 9.000 | 1 |
| 30 | Croatia | 8.500 | 1 |
| 31 | Lithuania | 8.500 | 1 |
| 32 | Republic of Ireland | 8.000 | 1 |
| 33 | Kosovo | 8.000 | 1 |
| 34 | Turkey | 7.500 | 1 |
| 35 | Greece | 7.000 | 1 |
| 36 | Israel | 7.000 | 1 |
| 37 | Georgia | 7.000 | 1 |
| Rank | Association | Coeff. | Teams | Notes |
| 38 | Montenegro | 7.000 | 1 | |
| 39 | Slovakia | 6.500 | 1 | |
| 40 | Bulgaria | 6.500 | 1 | |
| 41 | Luxembourg | 6.000 | 1 | |
| 42 | Wales | 6.000 | 1 | |
| 43 | Estonia | 5.500 | 1 | |
| 44 | Northern Ireland | 5.500 | 1 | |
| 45 | Latvia | 5.500 | 1 | |
| 46 | Malta | 5.500 | 1 | |
| 47 | Moldova | 4.500 | 1 | |
| 48 | North Macedonia | 4.000 | 1 | |
| 49 | Faroe Islands | 4.000 | 1 | |
| 50 | Armenia | 3.000 | 1 | |
| NR | Azerbaijan | — | 1 | |
| NR | Gibraltar | — | 1 | DNE |
| NR | Andorra | — | 1 | NL |
| NR | Liechtenstein | — | 1 | NL |
| NR | San Marino | — | 1 | NL |

### Distribution

Provisional access list :
| | | Teams entering in this round | Teams advancing from the previous round |
| First round | Champions path (24 teams) | 24 champions from associations 29–52 | |
| Second round | Champions path (28 teams) | 22 champions from associations 7–28 | 6 mini-tournament winners from the first round |
| Second round | League path (16 teams) | 12 runners-up from associations 6–17 4 third-placed teams from associations 4–7 | |
| Third round | Champions path (8 teams) | TBC (Placeholder for unheld UEFA Women's Europa Cup title holders) | 7 mini-tournament winners from the second round |
| Third round | League path (10 teams) | 3 runners-up from associations 3–5 3 third-placed teams from associations 1–3 | 4 mini-tournament winners from the second round |
| League phase (18 teams) | League phase (18 teams) | UEFA Women's Champions League title holder 6 champions from associations 1–6 2 runners-up from associations 1–2 | 4 winners from the third round (Champions Path) 5 winners from the third round (League Path) |
| Knockout phase play-offs (8 teams) | Knockout phase play-offs (8 teams) | | 8 teams ranked 5–12 from the league phase |
| Quarter-finals (8 teams) | Quarter-finals (8 teams) | | 4 teams ranked 1–4 from the league phase 4 winners from the knockout phase play-offs |

## Schedule

The schedule of the competition is as follows.
Schedule for 2025–26 UEFA Women's Champions League :
| Phase | Round | Draw date | First leg | Second leg |
| Qualifying | First qualifying round | 16 June 2025 | 30 July 2025 (semi-finals) | 2 August 2025 (third-place play-off & final) |
| Qualifying | Second qualifying round | 16 June 2025 | 27 August 2025 (semi-finals) | 30 August 2025 (third-place play-off & final) |
| Qualifying | Third qualifying round | 1 September 2025 | 11 September 2025 | 18 September 2025 |
| League phase | Matchday 1 | 19 September 2025 | 7–8 October 2025 | 7–8 October 2025 |
| League phase | Matchday 2 | 19 September 2025 | 15–16 October 2025 | 15–16 October 2025 |
| League phase | Matchday 3 | 19 September 2025 | 11–12 November 2025 | 11–12 November 2025 |
| League phase | Matchday 4 | 19 September 2025 | 19–20 November 2025 | 19–20 November 2025 |
| League phase | Matchday 5 | 19 September 2025 | 9–10 December 2025 | 9–10 December 2025 |
| League phase | Matchday 6 | 19 September 2025 | 17 December 2025 | 17 December 2025 |
| Knockout phase | Knockout phase play-offs | 19 December 2025 | 11–12 February 2026 | 18–19 February 2026 |
| Knockout phase | Quarter-finals | 19 December 2025 | 24–25 March 2026 | 1–2 April 2026 |
| Knockout phase | Semi-finals | 19 December 2025 | 25–26 April 2026 | 2–3 May 2026 |
| Knockout phase | Final | 19 December 2025 | 22–24 May 2026 at Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo | 22–24 May 2026 at Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo |