2025–26 UEFA Women's Champions League

The 2025–26 UEFA Women's Champions League is 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 started on 30 July 2025 and will end with the final on 23 May 2026. This is the first season under a new format, which have 18 participating teams, playing six games each against different opponents in a league phase, all in a joint group.

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2025–26 UEFA Women's Champions League

The Ullevaal Stadion in Oslo will host the final. The winners will automatically qualify for the 2026–27 UEFA Women's Champions League league phase, the 2027 FIFA Women's Champions Cup semi-finals and the 2028 FIFA Women's Club World Cup. Video Assistant Referee (VAR) will be used from the League Phase onwards.

Association team allocation

2025–26 UEFA Women's Champions League

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.

Apart from the allocation based on the association coefficients, associations may have additional teams participating in the Champions League, as noted below:

• (TH) – Additional berth for UEFA Women's Champions League title holders

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

Distribution

<table><thead><tr><th></th><th>Teams entering in this round</th><th>Teams advancing from the previous round</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>First round</td><td>Champions path (21 teams)</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Second round</td><td>Champions path (28 teams)</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>League path (15 teams)</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Third round</td><td>Champions path (8 teams)</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>League path (10 teams)</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>League phase (18 teams)</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Knockout phase play-offs (8 teams)</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Quarter-finals (8 teams)</td><td></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>

Due to the suspension of Russia, the following changes to the access list were made:

• The champions of associations 29 (Poland) will enter the second qualifying round instead of the first qualifying round (Champions Path).

As the Champions League title holders (Arsenal) qualified for the third qualifying round via their domestic league's standard berth allocation, the following changes to the default access list have been made:

• BK Häcken as the club with the highest club coefficient that would otherwise have entered the League Path of the second qualifying round, will enter the third qualifying phase instead.

Since this season marks the inaugural edition of the UEFA Women's Europa Cup, with no title holders from previous season, the following changes to the default access list have been made:

• St. Pölten as the club with the highest club coefficient that would otherwise have entered the Champions Path second qualifying round, will enter the Champions Path third qualifying round. • Gintra as the club with the highest club coefficient that would otherwise have entered the Champions Path first qualifying round, will enter the Champions Path second qualifying round.

Teams

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

• TH: Title holders • 1st, 2nd, 3rd: League positions of the previous season

Two qualifying rounds, round 2 and round 3, are divided into Champions Path (CH) and League Path (LP).

<table><thead><tr><th>Entry round</th><th>Teams</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>League phase</td><td>Arsenal (2nd)TH</td><td>Lyon (1st)</td><td>Paris Saint-Germain (2nd)</td><td>Bayern Munich (1st)</td></tr><tr><td>VfL Wolfsburg (2nd)</td><td>Barcelona (1st)</td><td>Chelsea (1st)</td><td>Benfica (1st)</td></tr><tr><td>Juventus (1st)</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Round 3</td><td>CH</td><td>St. Pölten (1st)</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>LP</td><td>Paris FC (3rd)</td><td>Eintracht Frankfurt (3rd)</td><td>Real Madrid (2nd)</td><td>Atlético Madrid (3rd)</td></tr><tr><td>Sporting CP (2nd)</td><td>BK Häcken (2nd)</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Round 2</td><td>CH</td><td>Rosengård (1st)</td><td>Slavia Prague (1st)</td><td>Twente (1st)</td><td>Fortuna Hjørring (1st)</td></tr><tr><td>Vålerenga (1st)</td><td>Vorskla Poltava (1st)</td><td>Dinamo Minsk (1st)</td><td>Breiðablik (1st)</td></tr><tr><td>Hibernian (1st)</td><td>BIIK Shymkent (1st)</td><td>Young Boys (1st)</td><td>Red Star Belgrade (1st)</td></tr><tr><td>Vllaznia (1st)</td><td>Apollon Ladies (1st)</td><td>OH Leuven (1st)</td><td>HJK (1st)</td></tr><tr><td>SFK 2000 (1st)</td><td>Ferencváros (1st)</td><td>Farul Constanța (1st)</td><td>Mura (1st)</td></tr><tr><td>GKS Katowice (1st)</td><td>Gintra (1st)</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>LP</td><td>Manchester United (3rd)</td><td>Braga (3rd)</td><td>Inter Milan (2nd)</td><td>Roma (3rd)</td></tr><tr><td>Hammarby (3rd)</td><td>Sparta Prague (2nd)</td><td>PSV Eindhoven (2nd)</td><td>Nordsjælland (2nd)</td></tr><tr><td>Brann (2nd)</td><td>Austria Wien (2nd)</td><td>Metalist 1925 Kharkiv (2nd)</td><td>FC Minsk (2nd)</td></tr><tr><td>Valur (2nd)</td><td>Glasgow City (2nd)</td><td>Aktobe (2nd)</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Round 1</td><td>CH</td><td>Agram (1st)</td><td>Athlone Town (1st)</td><td>Mitrovica (1st)</td><td>ABB Fomget (1st)</td></tr><tr><td>AEK Athens (1st)</td><td>Kiryat Gat (1st)</td><td>Lanchkhuti (1st)</td><td>Budućnost Podgorica (1st)</td></tr><tr><td>Spartak Myjava (1st)</td><td>NSA Sofia (1st)</td><td>Racing Union (1st)</td><td>Cardiff City (1st)</td></tr><tr><td>Flora (1st)</td><td>Cliftonville (1st)</td><td>Riga FC (1st)</td><td>Swieqi United (1st)</td></tr><tr><td>Agarista Anenii Noi (1st)</td><td>Ljuboten (1st)</td><td>NSÍ Runavík (1st)</td><td>Pyunik (1st)</td></tr><tr><td>Neftchi Baku (1st)</td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>

Schedule

2025–26 UEFA Women's Champions League

<table><thead><tr><th>Phase</th><th>Round</th><th>Draw date</th><th>First leg</th><th>Second leg</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Qualifying</td><td>First qualifying round</td><td>24 June 2025</td><td>30 July 2025 (semi-finals)</td><td>2 August 2025 (third-place play-off & final)</td></tr><tr><td>Second qualifying round</td><td>27 August 2025 (semi-finals)</td><td>30 August 2025 (third-place play-off & final)</td></tr><tr><td>Third qualifying round</td><td>31 August 2025</td><td>11 September 2025</td><td>18 September 2025</td></tr><tr><td>League phase</td><td>Matchday 1</td><td>19 September 2025</td><td>7–8 October 2025</td></tr><tr><td>Matchday 2</td><td>15–16 October 2025</td></tr><tr><td>Matchday 3</td><td>11–12 November 2025</td></tr><tr><td>Matchday 4</td><td>19–20 November 2025</td></tr><tr><td>Matchday 5</td><td>9–10 December 2025</td></tr><tr><td>Matchday 6</td><td>17 December 2025</td></tr><tr><td>Knockout phase</td><td>Knockout phase play-offs</td><td>18 December 2025</td><td>11–12 February 2026</td><td>18–19 February 2026</td></tr><tr><td>Quarter-finals</td><td>24–25 March 2026</td><td>1–2 April 2026</td></tr><tr><td>Semi-finals</td><td>—N/a</td><td>25–26 April 2026</td><td>2–3 May 2026</td></tr><tr><td>Final</td><td>23 May 2026 at Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo</td></tr></tbody></table>

Qualifying rounds

Third qualifying round

The first legs were played on 11 September, and the second legs were played on 18 September 2025. The winners of the ties advanced to the league phase.

<table><thead><tr><th>Team 1</th><th>Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score</th><th>Team 2</th><th>1st leg</th><th>2nd leg</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Champions Path</td></tr><tr><td>Vålerenga </td><td>5–1</td><td> Ferencváros</td><td>3–0</td><td>2–1</td></tr><tr><td>Vorskla Poltava </td><td>0–2</td><td> OH Leuven</td><td>0–2</td><td>0–0</td></tr><tr><td>St. Pölten </td><td>5–2</td><td> Fortuna Hjørring</td><td>3–1</td><td>2–1</td></tr><tr><td>GKS Katowice </td><td>1–8</td><td> Twente</td><td>0–4</td><td>1–4</td></tr><tr><td>League Path</td></tr><tr><td>BK Häcken </td><td>2–3</td><td> Atlético Madrid</td><td>1–1</td><td>1–2 (a.e.t.)</td></tr><tr><td>Paris FC </td><td>2–0</td><td> Austria Wien</td><td>0–0</td><td>2–0</td></tr><tr><td>Brann </td><td>1–3</td><td> Manchester United</td><td>1–0</td><td>0–3</td></tr><tr><td>Eintracht Frankfurt </td><td>1–5</td><td> Real Madrid</td><td>1–2</td><td>0–3</td></tr><tr><td>Roma </td><td>3–2</td><td> Sporting CP</td><td>1–2</td><td>2–0</td></tr></tbody></table>

League phase

2025–26 UEFA Women's Champions League

The league phase draw for the 2025–26 UEFA Women's Champions League took place on 19 September 2025. The 18 teams were divided into three pots of six teams. Each team faced two opponents from each of the three pots, one at home and one away.

Sweden's Damallsvenskan, despite being one of the strongest leagues in the world, was without any Champions League teams this season for the first time in history, after BK Häcken, Hammarby IF and FC Rosengård were knocked out and sent to the Europa Cup.

Table

The top four ranked teams advanced to the quarter-finals. The teams ranked from 5th to 12th will contest the knockout phase play-offs, with the teams ranked from 5th to 8th seeded for the draw. Teams ranked from 13th to 18th were eliminated from all competitions.

<table><thead><tr><th>Pos</th><th>Team</th><th>Pld</th><th>W</th><th>D</th><th>L</th><th>GF</th><th>GA</th><th>GD</th><th>Pts</th><th>Qualification</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>1</td><td>Barcelona</td><td>6</td><td>5</td><td>1</td><td>0</td><td>20</td><td>3</td><td>+17</td><td>16</td><td>Advance to the quarter-finals (seeded)</td></tr><tr><td>2</td><td>Lyon</td><td>6</td><td>5</td><td>1</td><td>0</td><td>18</td><td>5</td><td>+13</td><td>16</td></tr><tr><td>3</td><td>Chelsea</td><td>6</td><td>4</td><td>2</td><td>0</td><td>20</td><td>3</td><td>+17</td><td>14</td></tr><tr><td>4</td><td>Bayern Munich</td><td>6</td><td>4</td><td>1</td><td>1</td><td>14</td><td>13</td><td>+1</td><td>13</td></tr><tr><td>5</td><td>Arsenal</td><td>6</td><td>4</td><td>0</td><td>2</td><td>11</td><td>6</td><td>+5</td><td>12</td><td>Advance to the knockout phase play-offs (seeded)</td></tr><tr><td>6</td><td>Manchester United</td><td>6</td><td>4</td><td>0</td><td>2</td><td>7</td><td>9</td><td>−2</td><td>12</td></tr><tr><td>7</td><td>Real Madrid</td><td>6</td><td>3</td><td>2</td><td>1</td><td>13</td><td>7</td><td>+6</td><td>11</td></tr><tr><td>8</td><td>Juventus</td><td>6</td><td>3</td><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>13</td><td>8</td><td>+5</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td>9</td><td>VfL Wolfsburg</td><td>6</td><td>3</td><td>0</td><td>3</td><td>13</td><td>10</td><td>+3</td><td>9</td><td>Advance to the knockout phase play-offs (unseeded)</td></tr><tr><td>10</td><td>Paris FC</td><td>6</td><td>2</td><td>2</td><td>2</td><td>6</td><td>9</td><td>−3</td><td>8</td></tr><tr><td>11</td><td>Atlético Madrid</td><td>6</td><td>2</td><td>1</td><td>3</td><td>13</td><td>9</td><td>+4</td><td>7</td></tr><tr><td>12</td><td>OH Leuven</td><td>6</td><td>1</td><td>3</td><td>2</td><td>5</td><td>10</td><td>−5</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td>13</td><td>Vålerenga</td><td>6</td><td>1</td><td>1</td><td>4</td><td>4</td><td>9</td><td>−5</td><td>4</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>14</td><td>Roma</td><td>6</td><td>1</td><td>1</td><td>4</td><td>9</td><td>19</td><td>−10</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td>15</td><td>Twente</td><td>6</td><td>0</td><td>3</td><td>3</td><td>4</td><td>10</td><td>−6</td><td>3</td></tr><tr><td>16</td><td>Benfica</td><td>6</td><td>0</td><td>2</td><td>4</td><td>4</td><td>11</td><td>−7</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td>17</td><td>Paris Saint-Germain</td><td>6</td><td>0</td><td>2</td><td>4</td><td>4</td><td>12</td><td>−8</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td>18</td><td>St. Pölten</td><td>6</td><td>0</td><td>1</td><td>5</td><td>3</td><td>28</td><td>−25</td><td>1</td></tr></tbody></table>

Knockout phase

Knockout phase play-offs

The draw for the knockout phase play-offs was held on 18 December 2025, 13:00 CET. The first legs were played on 11 and 12 February, and the second legs on 18 and 19 February 2026.

<table><thead><tr><th>Team 1</th><th>Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score</th><th>Team 2</th><th>1st leg</th><th>2nd leg</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Atlético Madrid </td><td>0–5</td><td> Manchester United</td><td>0–3</td><td>0–2</td></tr><tr><td>Paris FC </td><td>2–5</td><td> Real Madrid</td><td>2–3</td><td>0–2</td></tr><tr><td>OH Leuven </td><td>1–7</td><td> Arsenal</td><td>0–4</td><td>1–3</td></tr><tr><td>VfL Wolfsburg </td><td>4–2</td><td> Juventus</td><td>2–2</td><td>2–0</td></tr></tbody></table>

Quarter-finals

The draw for the quarter-finals was held on 18 December 2025 (after the knockout phase play-offs draw). The first legs were played on 24 and 25 March, and the second legs will be played on 1 and 2 April 2026.

<table><thead><tr><th>Team 1</th><th>Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score</th><th>Team 2</th><th>1st leg</th><th>2nd leg</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Manchester United </td><td>3–5</td><td> Bayern Munich</td><td>2–3</td><td>1–2</td></tr><tr><td>Real Madrid </td><td>Match 2</td><td> Barcelona</td><td>2–6</td><td>2 Apr</td></tr><tr><td>Arsenal </td><td>3–2</td><td> Chelsea</td><td>3–1</td><td>0–1</td></tr><tr><td>VfL Wolfsburg </td><td>Match 4</td><td> Lyon</td><td>1–0</td><td>2 Apr</td></tr></tbody></table>

Semi-finals

Teams seeded one and two will play the second leg at home if they progress to this stage. If a seeded team is beaten, the team that eliminates them takes over their seeding position. The first legs will be played on 25 and 26 April, and the second legs on 2 and 3 May 2026.

<table><thead><tr><th>Team 1</th><th>Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score</th><th>Team 2</th><th>1st leg</th><th>2nd leg</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Bayern Munich </td><td>Match 1</td><td> Winner QF2</td><td>25–26 Apr</td><td>2–3 May</td></tr><tr><td>Arsenal </td><td>Match 2</td><td>Winner QF4</td><td>25–26 Apr</td><td>2–3 May</td></tr></tbody></table>

Final

The final will be play on 23 May 2026 at the Ullevaal Stadion in Oslo. The winner of semi-final 1 will be designated as the "home" team for administrative purposes.

Statistics

Top goalscorers

<table><thead><tr><th>Rank</th><th>Player</th><th>Team</th><th>Goals</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>1</td><td>Alessia Russo</td><td>Arsenal</td><td>8</td></tr><tr><td>2</td><td>Pernille Harder</td><td>Bayern Munich</td><td>7</td></tr><tr><td>3</td><td>Ewa Pajor</td><td>Barcelona</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td>4</td><td>Caroline Weir</td><td>Real Madrid</td><td>5</td></tr><tr><td>Lineth Beerensteyn</td><td>VfL Wolfsburg</td></tr><tr><td>Evelyne Viens</td><td>Roma</td></tr><tr><td>7</td><td>Alexia Putellas</td><td>Barcelona</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td>Linda Caicedo</td><td>Real Madrid</td></tr><tr><td>Fiamma</td><td>Atlético Madrid</td></tr><tr><td>Melchie Dumornay</td><td>Lyon</td></tr><tr><td>Melvine Malard</td><td>Man. United</td></tr></tbody></table>