2025–26 UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying rounds|
| Dates | 30 July – 18 September 2025 |
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| Teams | 65 |
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2026–27 → |
The 2025–26 UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying rounds will begin on 30 July and end on 18 September 2025.[1]
A total of 65 teams competed in the group stage qualifying rounds of the 2025–26 UEFA Women's Champions League, which included three rounds, with 44 teams in the Champions Path and 21 teams in the League Path. The 9 winners in the third round (four from Champions Path, five from League Path) will advance to the group stage, to join the nine teams that entered in that round.[2]
Times are CEST (UTC+2), as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).
Teams
Champions Path
The Champions Path included all league champions who did not qualified directly for the group stage, and consists of the following rounds:
- First Round (21 teams playing mini tournament): 21 teams enter in this round.
- Second Round (28 teams playing mini tournament): 22 teams enter in this round and six winners of the first round finals.
- Third Round (8 teams): one team enters in this round and seven winners of the second round finals.
Below are the participating teams of the Champions Path (with their 2025 UEFA club coefficients),[3] grouped by the starting rounds.
League Path
The League Path includes all league non-champions and consisted of the following rounds:
- Second Round (15 teams playing mini tournament): 15 teams enter in this round.
- Third Round (10 teams): six teams enters in this round and four winners of the second round finals.
Below are the participating teams of the League Path (with their 2025 UEFA club coefficients),[3] grouped by the starting rounds.
First and Second round qualifying consist of mini-tournaments with two semi-finals, a final and a third-place play-off hosted by one of the participating teams. If the score was level at the end of normal time, extra time was played, and if the same number of goals was scored by both teams during extra time, the tie was decided by a penalty shoot-out. Third round qualifying is played over two legs, with each team playing one leg at home. The team that scored more goals on aggregate over the two legs advanced to the next round. If the aggregate score was level at the end of normal time of the second leg, extra time was played, and if the same number of goals was scored by both teams at the end of normal time, the tie was decided by a penalty shoot-out.[1]
In the draws for each round, teams were seeded based on their UEFA club coefficients at the beginning of the season, with the teams divided into seeded and unseeded pots containing the same number of teams. Prior to the draws, UEFA may form "groups" in accordance with the principles set by the Club Competitions Committee, but they were purely for convenience of the draw and did not resemble any real groupings in the sense of the competition. Teams from associations with political conflicts as decided by UEFA were not drawn into the same tie. After the draws, the order of legs of a tie could have been reversed by UEFA due to scheduling or venue conflicts.
Schedule
The schedule of the competition was as follows (all draws were held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland).[1]
Schedule for 2025–26 UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying rounds
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Draw date
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First leg
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Second leg
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| First Round
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24 June 2025
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30 July 2025 (semi-finals)
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2 August 2025 (third-place play-off & final)
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| Second Round
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27 August 2025 (semi-finals)
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30 August 2025 (third-place play-off & final)
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| Third Round
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31 August 2025
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11 September 2025
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18 September 2025
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First qualifying round
Seeding
The draw for the first qualifying round was held on 24 June 2025.[4]
Seeding of teams for the semi-final round was based on their 2025 UEFA club coefficients,[3] with 12 seeded teams and the remaining teams unseeded in the Champions Path. Teams were drawn into two semi-finals within each four team group and, for the groups with three teams, the team with the highest coefficient was given a bye to the final. In the semi-finals, seeded teams were considered the "home" team, while in the third-place play-offs and finals, the teams with the highest coefficients were considered the "home" team for administrative purposes. Due to political reasons, teams from the following associations could not be drawn into the same group: Armenia / Azerbaijan.[5]
Champions Path
| Seeded
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Unseeded
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Champions Path
Tournament 1
Bracket
Hosted by Racing Union.
Semi-finals
Third-place play-off
Final
Tournament 2
Bracket
Hosted by Spartak Myjava.
Semi-finals
Third-place play-off
Final
Tournament 3
Bracket
Hosted by Ljuboten.
Semi-finals
Third-place play-off
Final
Tournament 4
Bracket
Hosted in a neutral venue.
Semi-finals
Final
Tournament 5
Bracket
Hosted by Athlone Town.
Semi-finals
Final
Tournament 6
Bracket
Hosted by TBA.
Semi-finals
Final
Second qualifying round
Seeding
The draw for the first qualifying round was held on 24 June 2025.[4]
Seeding of teams for the semi-final round was based on their 2025 UEFA club coefficients,.[3] Like in first round qualifying, teams were drawn into two semi-finals within each four team group and, for the groups with three teams, the team with the highest coefficient was given a bye to the final. In the semi-finals, seeded teams were considered the "home" team, while in the third-place play-offs and finals, the teams with the highest coefficients were considered the "home" team for administrative purposes. Due to political reasons, teams from the following associations could not be drawn into the same group: Kosovo / Bosnia and Herzegovina; Kosovo / Serbia; Kosovo / Russia; Ukraine / Belarus.
Champions Path
| Seeded
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Unseeded
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League Path
| Seeded
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Unseeded
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Champions Path
Tournament 1
Bracket
Hosted by TBA.
Semi-finals
Third-place play-off
Final
Tournament 2
Bracket
Hosted by TBA.
Semi-finals
Third-place play-off
Final
Tournament 3
Bracket
Hosted by OH Leuven.
Semi-finals
Third-place play-off
Final
Tournament 4
Bracket
Hosted by TBA.
Semi-finals
Third-place play-off
Final
Tournament 5
Bracket
Hosted by TBA.
Semi-finals
Third-place play-off
Final
Tournament 6
Bracket
Hosted by Twente.
Semi-finals
Third-place play-off
Final
Tournament 7
Bracket
Hosted by TBA.
Semi-finals
Third-place play-off
Final
League Path
Tournament 1
Bracket
Hosted by Hammarby.
Semi-finals
Third-place play-off
Final
Tournament 2
Bracket
Hosted by TBA.
Semi-finals
Third-place play-off
Final
Tournament 3
Bracket
Hosted by TBA.
Semi-finals
Third-place play-off
Final
Tournament 4
Bracket
Hosted by TBA.
Semi-finals
Final
Third qualifying round
Seeding
The draw for the third qualifying round will be held on 31 August 2025.
A total of 18 teams will compete in third round qualifying. Seeding of teams was based on their 2025 UEFA club coefficients,[3] with four seeded and unseeded teams in the Champions Path and five of each in the League Path. Teams will be drawn into two-legged-ties, where the first drawn team played the first leg at home and teams from the same association could not be drawn against each other.
Champions Path
| Seeded
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To be confirmed
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Unseeded
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- 7 winners of the second qualifying round
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League Path
| Seeded
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To be confirmed
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Unseeded
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References
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