2026–27 UEFA Women's Champions League
 The Stadion Narodowy in Warsaw will host the final. | |
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| Dates | Qualifying rounds: 22 July – 2 September 2026 Competition proper: 22 September 2026 – 28/29/30 May 2027 |
| Teams | Competition proper: 18 Total: 74 (from 50 associations) |
← 2025–26 2027–28 → | |
The 2026–27 UEFA Women's Champions League is the 26th edition of the European women's club football championship organised by UEFA, and the 18th edition since being rebranded as the UEFA Women's Champions League. It started on 22 July 2026 and will end with the final on 28, 29, or 30 May 2027. This is the second season under a new format, which has 18 participating teams, playing six games each against different opponents in a league phase, all in a joint group.
The Stadion Narodowy in Warsaw will host the final. The winners will automatically qualify for the 2027–28 UEFA Women's Champions League league phase and the 2028 FIFA Women's Club World Cup. Video assistant referee (VAR) will be used from the league phase onwards.
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:[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 2025–26 UEFA Women's Champions League and the 2025–26 UEFA Women's Europa Cup are each given an additional entry if they do not qualify for the 2026–27 UEFA Women's Champions League through their domestic leagues.
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 2026–27 UEFA Women's Champions League, the associations are allocated places according to their 2025 UEFA women's Association coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 2020–21 to 2024–25.[2]
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
- (EC) – Additional berth for UEFA Women's Europa Cup title holders
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Distribution
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| First qualifying round | Champions Path (19 teams) |
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| Second qualifying round | Champions Path (28 teams) |
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| League Path (16 teams) |
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| Third qualifying round | Champions Path (8 teams) |
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| League Path (10 teams) |
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| League phase (18 teams) |
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| Knockout phase play-offs (8 teams) |
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| Quarter-finals (8 teams) |
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As the Champions League title holders (Barcelona) qualified for the league phase and the Europa Cup title holders (BK Häcken) qualified for the second qualifying round (Champions Path) via their domestic leagues' standard berth allocations, the following changes to the default access list have been made:[3]
- BK Häcken, as Europa Cup title holders that would otherwise have entered the third qualifying round (Champions Path), will enter the league phase.
- Sparta Prague, as the club with the highest club coefficient that would otherwise have entered the second qualifying round (Champions Path), will enter the third qualifying round (Champions Path).
- Ferencváros, Gintra and Racing Union, as the three clubs with the highest club coefficients that would otherwise have entered the first qualifying round (Champions Path), will enter the second qualifying round (Champions Path).
Teams
The label in parentheses shows the route by which the club appears in that entry-round cell.
Superscript labels show additional access-list information held by that club but not used as the primary route for that cell.
- TH: Women's Champions League title holders
- EC: Women's Europa Cup title holders
- 1st, 2nd, 3rd: League positions of the previous season
Second and third qualifying rounds are divided into Champions Path (CH) and League Path (LP).
Notes
- ^ BK Häcken (BKH): BK Häcken entered the league phase as UEFA Women's Europa Cup title holders. They had also qualified for the second qualifying round (Champions Path) as Swedish champions; that domestic berth was rebalanced.
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- ^ Serbia (SRB): Red Star Belgrade finished first and champions of the 2025–26 Serbian Women's Super League and qualified for the second qualifying round (Champions Path) but failed to obtain a UEFA licence. As a result, their place in the competition was passed on to the second-placed team, TSC Bačka Topola, and the place that was entitled to TSC Bačka Topola in the first qualifying round of the 2026–27 UEFA Women's Europa Cup was passed on to the third-placed team, Spartak Subotica.[9][10]
Schedule
The schedule of the competition is as follows.[11][12]
| Phase | Round | Draw date | First leg | Second leg |
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| Qualifying rounds | First qualifying round | 18 June 2026 | 22 July 2026 (semi-finals) | 25 July 2026 (third-place play-off & final) |
| Second qualifying round | 4–5 August 2026 (semi-finals) | 7–8 August 2026 (third-place play-off & final) | ||
| Third qualifying round | 11 August 2026 | 25–26 August 2026 | 1–2 September 2026 | |
| League phase | Matchday 1 | 4 September 2026 | 22–23 September 2026 | |
| Matchday 2 | 30 September–1 October 2026 | |||
| Matchday 3 | 28–29 October 2026 | |||
| Matchday 4 | 10–11 November 2026 | |||
| Matchday 5 | 18–19 November 2026 | |||
| Matchday 6 | 16 December 2026 | |||
| Knockout phase | Knockout phase play-offs | 18 December 2026 | 3–4 February 2027 | 10–11 February 2027 |
| Quarter-finals | 23–24 March 2027 | 31 March–1 April 2027 | ||
| Semi-finals | N/a | 1–2 May 2027 | 8–9 May 2027 | |
| Final | 28, 29, or 30 May 2027 at Stadion Narodowy, Warsaw | |||
Qualifying rounds
First qualifying round
Champions Path
Hosted by PAOK.
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Hosted by Mitrovica.
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Hosted by Wrexham.
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Hosted by Czarni Sosnowiec.
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- Mini-tournament 5
Hosted by Spartak Myjava.
| Semi-finals | Final | |||||
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 Spartak Myjava | 6 | |||||
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 Mġarr United | 1 | |||||
 Flora | 0 | |||||
| Mġarr United | 4 | |||||
Second qualifying round
Champions Path
Hosted by Mura.
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Hosted by Ferencváros.
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Hosted by Aktobe.
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Hosted by Racing Union.
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Hosted by OH Leuven.
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Hosted by Apollon Ladies.
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- Mini-tournament 7
Hosted by HB Køge.
| Semi-finals | Final | |||||
| 5 August | ||||||
 Gintra | 1 | |||||
| 8 August | ||||||
 Heart of Midlothian | 2 | |||||
 HB Køge | 2 | |||||
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| Heart of Midlothian | 1 | |||||
| HB Køge | 4 | |||||
 Riga FC | 1 | |||||
| Third place | ||||||
| 8 August | ||||||
| Gintra | 4 | |||||
| Riga FC | 1 | |||||
League Path
Hosted by Rangers.
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Hosted by Juventus.
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Hosted by Eintracht Frankfurt.
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Hosted by St. Pölten.
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Third qualifying round
The first legs will be played on 25 and 26 August, and the second legs on 1 and 2 September 2026. The winners of the ties will advance to the league phase.
| Team 1 | Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Sparta Prague  | Match 1 | .svg.png){kind=small} Servette Chênois | 3–2 | 2 Sep |
PSV Eindhoven  | Match 2 | HB Køge | 0–1 | 2 Sep |
Brann  | Match 3 |  Austria Wien | 2–1 | 1 Sep |
Czarni Sosnowiec  | Match 4[a] | .svg.png){kind=small} OH Leuven | 1–4 | 2 Sep |
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Eintracht Frankfurt  | Match 1 |  Paris Saint-Germain | 1–1 | 2 Sep |
| St. Pölten | Match 2 |  Juventus | 0–3 | 2 Sep |
| VfL Wolfsburg | Match 3 | Inter Milan | 2–0 | 2 Sep |
Chelsea  | Match 4 |  Real Sociedad | 5–2 | 2 Sep |
| Ajax | Match 5 | Real Madrid | 0–2 | 2 Sep |
- ↑ Order of legs reversed after original draw.
League phase
The league phase draw for the 2026–27 UEFA Women's Champions League is scheduled to take place on 4 September 2026. The 18 teams will be divided into three pots of six teams. Each team will face two opponents from each of the three pots, one at home and one away.
The following is a provisional allocation of the qualified teams into seeding pots, based on their UEFA club coefficients.
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Pot 1
Pot 1/2
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Pot 1/2/3
Pot 1/3
Pot 2
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Pot 2/3
Pot 3
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See also
References
- ↑ "2024/25 Women's Champions League: Dates, access list, full guide". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 20 April 2024. Archived from the original on 29 February 2024. Retrieved 20 April 2024.
- ↑ "UEFA Women's Champions League 2025/26 Provisional Access List" (PDF). UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 1 February 2024. Archived (PDF) from the original on 11 November 2024. Retrieved 2 February 2025.
- ↑ "Regulations of the UEFA Women's Champions League – 2026/27 Season". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 1 March 2026. Retrieved 3 May 2026.
- ↑ "Access list for the 2026/27 UEFA Women's Club Competitions". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 27 July 2026.
- ↑ "Αποτελέσματα Ελέγχου Αδειοδότησης Κριτηρίων UEFA 2026/2027 – Α' Κατηγορία και Γυναικείο Ποδόσφαιρο" [Results of the UEFA Licensing Criteria Audit for the 2026/2027 Season – First Division and Women’s Football]. Cyprus Football Association (in Greek). 30 May 2026. Retrieved 8 June 2026.
- ↑ "Η Ομόνοια αντικαθιστά τον Άρη στις διοργανώσεις της UEFA!" [Omonia replaces Aris in UEFA competitions!]. sportime.com.cy (in Greek). 30 May 2026. Retrieved 8 June 2026.
- ↑ "Ukraine crisis: Fifa and Uefa suspend all Russian clubs and national teams". BBC Sport. British Broadcasting Corporation. 28 February 2022. Archived from the original on 25 April 2022. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
- ↑ "UEFA decisions for upcoming competitions relating to the ongoing suspension of Russian national teams and clubs. However this could change depending on what happens". UEFA.com (Press release). Nyon: Union of European Football Associations. 2 May 2022. Archived from the original on 2 May 2022. Retrieved 2 May 2022.
- ↑ "ШОК! Црвена звезда неће играти Лигу шампиона, УЕФА донела коначну одлуку" [SHOCK! Red Star will not play in the Champions League, UEFA has made a final decision]. novosti.rs (in Serbian). 8 June 2026. Retrieved 8 June 2026.
- ↑ "УЕФА ДОНЕЛА ШОКАНТНУ ОДЛУКУ: ФК Црвена звезда неће играти у Лиги шампиона" [UEFA MAKES SHOCKING DECISION: FK Crvena Zvezda will not play in the Champions League]. sd.rs (in Serbian). 8 June 2026. Retrieved 8 June 2026.
- ↑ "UEFA women's match calendar" (PDF). UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 26 March 2026. Retrieved 26 March 2026.
- ↑ "2026/27 UEFA Women's Champions League: Dates, access list, full guide". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 10 June 2026. Retrieved 10 June 2026.