2040-41 UEFA club football tournaments

**Access list for 2040–41 UEFA Champions League**
 **League Path (8 teams)** | 7 runners-up from associations 14–20
 **Third qualifying round (26 teams)** | **Champions Path (14 teams)** | 4 champions from associations 18-21
 **League Path (12 teams)** | 6 runners-up from associations 8–13
 **Play-off round (16 teams)** | **Champions Path** **(10 teams)** | 3 champions from associations 15-17
 **League Stage (40 teams)** | * UEFA Champions League title holders
* UEFA Europa League title holders
* 13 champions from associations 1–13 \*
* 7 runners-up from associations 1–7
* 5 third-placed teams from associations 1–5
* 4 fourth-placed teams from associations 1–4
* 1 fifth-placed team from association 1

\* (if UCL winner is already qualified, the champion of the 14th ranked league qualifies to the league stage)
* 3 winners from the play-off round (League Path)

### Teams

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:

* **TH**: Champions League title holders
* **EL**: Europa League title holders
* 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th: League positions of the previous season

The second qualifying round, third qualifying round and play-off round are divided into Champions Path (**CH**) and League Path (**LG**).

### League stage

The 40 teams are no longer drawn into groups. Instead, they all start the competition together in one league, with every team playing against eight others. The league stage draw for the 2040–41 UEFA Champions League took place at the Grimaldi Forum, Monaco, on 30 August at 18:00 CEST. The 40 teams were seeded into four pots of ten based on the 2039–40 UEFA club coefficients. Each club plays five matches at home and five matches away, one home and one away match against a team from each of the four pots. The seeding was based on the following principles:

* Pot 1 contained the Champions League and Europa League title holders, and the 8 qualified teams with the highest UEFA club coefficient (CC).
* Pots 2, 3 and 4 contained the remaining qualified teams, seeded based on their 2040 UEFA club coefficients.

Teams from the same association could not be drawn against each other in the league stage. A total of 19 national associations were represented in the league stage.

### Knockout phase

In the knockout phase, teams played against each other over two legs on a home-and-away basis, except for the one-match final.

#### **FINAL**

The final was played on **1 June 2041** at the **Nou Mestalla** in Valencia, Spain. A draw was held on 15 March 2041, after the quarter-final and semi-final draws, to determine the "home" team for administrative purposes.

 21:00 CEST

## **2040-41 UEFA Europa League**

### Teams

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:

* **ECL**: Europa Conference League title holders
* **CW**: Cup winners
* 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th: League position of the previous season
* UCL: Transferred from the Champions League
	+ PO: Losers from the play-off round (Champions/League Path)
	+ Q3: Losers from the third qualifying round (Champions/League Path)
	+ Q2: Losers from the second qualifying round (Champions/League Path)

The third qualifying round is divided into Champions Path (**CH**) and Main Path (**MP**).

## **2040-41 UEFA Europa Conference League**

### Teams

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:

* **CW**: Domestic cup winners
* **LC**: League cup winners
* **RW**: Regular season winners
* **PW**: End-of-season Europa Conference League play-offs winners
* 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th: League position of the previous season
* UCL: Transferred from the Champions League
	+ Q1: Losers from the first qualifying round
* UEL: Transferred from the Europa League
	+ GS: Third-placed teams from the group stage
	+ PO: Losers from the play-off round
	+ Q3: Losers from the third qualifying round

The second qualifying round, third qualifying round and play-off round were divided into Champions Path (**CH**) and Main Path (**MP**).