2025–26 UEFA Europa League

The **2025–26 UEFA Europa League** is the 55th season of Europe's secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 17th season since it was renamed from the UEFA Cup to the UEFA Europa League. The final will be played on 20 May 2026 at the Beşiktaş Stadium in Istanbul, Turkey.

## Schedule

|Phase|Round|Draw date|First leg|Second leg|||
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|rowspan="3"|Qualifying|First qualifying round|17 June 2025|10 July 2025|17 July 2025||
|Second qualifying round|18 June 2025|24 July 2025|31 July 2025||||
|Third qualifying round|21 July 2025|7 August 2025|14 August 2025||||
|Play-offs|Play-off round|4 August 2025|21 August 2025|28 August 2025|||
|rowspan="8"|League phase|Matchday 1|rowspan="8"|29 August 2025|colspan="2"|24–25 September 2025|
|Matchday 2|colspan="2"|2 October 2025|||||
|Matchday 3|colspan="2"|23 October 2025|||||
|Matchday 4|colspan="2"|6 November 2025|||||
|Matchday 5|colspan="2"|27 November 2025|||||
|Matchday 6|colspan="2"|11 December 2025|||||
|Matchday 7|colspan="2"|22 January 2026|||||
|Matchday 8|colspan="2"|29 January 2026|||||
|rowspan="5"|Knockout phase|Knockout round play-offs|rowspan="1"|30 January 2026|19 February 2026|26 February 2026|
|Round of 16|rowspan="4"|27 February 2026|12 March 2026|19 March 2026|||
|Quarter-finals|9 April 2026|16 April 2026|||||
|Semi-finals|30 April 2026|7 May 2026|||||
|Final|colspan="2"|20 May 2026 at Beşiktaş Stadium, Istanbul|||||

## Teams

|colspan=2|Entry round|colspan=4|Teams||||
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|style="min-width:10em"|Aston Villa|style="min-width:10em"|Nottingham Forest|style="min-width:10em"|Bologna|Roma|
|Real Betis|Celta Vigo|VfB Stuttgart|SC Freiburg||||
|Lille|Lyon||Porto||||
|Dinamo Zagreb|Celtic|Basel|Sturm Graz||||
|Red Star Belgrade|Ferencváros|Fenerbahçe|Rangers||||
|Nice|Feyenoord|Viktoria Plzeň|Red Bull Salzburg||||
|Genk|||Aberdeen||||
|Young Boys|Dynamo Kyiv|Lech Poznań|Malmö FF||||
|Ludogorets Razgrad|Slovan Bratislava||||||
|Maccabi Tel Aviv|Rijeka|FCSB|||||
||Shelbourne||||||
||||Lincoln Red Imps||||
|Wolfsberger AC||PAOK|Servette||||
||Panathinaikos|colspan=2|||||
|Utrecht|Braga|Anderlecht|Beşiktaş||||
||Hibernian|Lugano|||||
|Hapoel Be'er Sheva|Shakhtar Donetsk|Partizan|Legia Warsaw||||
|||BK Häcken|CFR Cluj||||
|Levski Sofia|||||||
|Sheriff Tiraspol|||||||

### First qualifying round

The winners of the ties advanced to the second qualifying round. The losers were transferred to the Conference League Main Path second qualifying round.

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### Second qualifying round

The winners of the ties advanced to the Main Path third qualifying round. The losers were transferred to the Conference League Main Path third qualifying round.

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### Third qualifying round

The winners of the ties advanced to the play-off round. The losers were transferred to the Conference League play-off round.

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## Play-off round

The winners of the ties will advance to the league phase. The losers will be transferred to the Conference League league phase.

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## League phase

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### Knockout phase play-offs

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### Round of 16

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### Quarter-finals

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### Semi-finals

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### Final

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## Infobox (international football competition)

- **tourney name**: UEFA Europa League
- **year**: 2025–26
- **image**: Vodafone Park.jpg
- **size**: 275px
- **caption**: The Beşiktaş Stadium in Istanbul will host the final
- **dates**: _Qualifying:_
10 July – 28 August 2025
_Competition proper:_
24 September 2025 – 20 May 2026
- **num teams**: _Competition proper:_ 25_+11_
_Total:_ 45_+32_
- **associations**: 41
- **prevseason**: 2024–25 UEFA Europa League, 2024–25
- **nextseason**: _2026–27_