2025–26 UEFA Women's Champions League
 The Ullevaal Stadion in Oslo will host the final. | |
| Tournament details | |
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| Dates | Qualifying: 30 July – 18 September 2025 Competition proper: 7 October 2025 – 23 May 2026 |
| Teams | Competition proper: 18 Total: 74 (from 50 associations) |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 45 |
| Goals scored | 154 (3.42 per match) |
| Attendance | 161,099 (3,580 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) | seven players 4 goals each |
← 2024–25 2026–27 →
All statistics correct as of 10 December 2025. | |
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.
The Ullevaal Stadion in Oslo will host the final. Video Assistant Referee (VAR) will be used from the League Phase onwards.
Association team allocation
[edit]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 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
[edit]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.[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
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Distribution
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| First round | Champions path (21 teams) |
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| Second round | Champions path (28 teams) |
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| League path (15 teams) |
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| Third 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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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
[edit]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).
Notes
Schedule
[edit]The schedule of the competition is as follows.[6]
| Phase | Round | Draw date | First leg | Second leg |
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| Qualifying | First qualifying round | 24 June 2025 | 30 July 2025 (semi-finals) | 2 August 2025 (third-place play-off & final) |
| Second qualifying round | 27 August 2025 (semi-finals) | 30 August 2025 (third-place play-off & final) | ||
| Third qualifying round | 31 August 2025 | 11 September 2025 | 18 September 2025 | |
| League phase | Matchday 1 | 19 September 2025 | 7–8 October 2025 | |
| Matchday 2 | 15–16 October 2025 | |||
| Matchday 3 | 11–12 November 2025 | |||
| Matchday 4 | 19–20 November 2025 | |||
| Matchday 5 | 9–10 December 2025 | |||
| Matchday 6 | 17 December 2025 | |||
| Knockout phase | Knockout phase play-offs | 18 December 2025 | 11–12 February 2026 | 18–19 February 2026 |
| Quarter-finals | 24–25 March 2026 | 1–2 April 2026 | ||
| Semi-finals | 25–26 April 2026 | 2–3 May 2026 | ||
| Final | 23 May 2026 at Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo |
Qualifying rounds
[edit]First qualifying round
[edit]Champions Path
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Hosted by Racing Union.
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Hosted by Spartak Myjava.
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Hosted by Ljuboten.
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Hosted in a neutral venue.
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Hosted by Athlone Town.
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Hosted by Mitrovica.
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Second qualifying round
[edit]Champions Path
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Hosted by Mura.
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Hosted by Apollon Ladies.
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Hosted by OH Leuven.
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Hosted by Vllaznia.
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Hosted by Gintra.
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Hosted by Twente.
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Hosted by HJK.
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League Path
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Hosted by Hammarby.
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Hosted by Sparta Prague.
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Hosted by Inter Milan.
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Hosted by Austria Wien.
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Third qualifying round
[edit]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.
| Team 1 | Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Vålerenga  | 5–1 |  Ferencváros | 3–0 | 2–1 |
Vorskla Poltava  | 0–2 | .svg/40px-Flag_of_Belgium_(civil).svg.png){kind=small} OH Leuven | 0–2 | 0–0 |
St. Pölten  | 5–2 |  Fortuna Hjørring | 3–1 | 2–1 |
GKS Katowice  | 1–8 |  Twente | 0–4 | 1–4 |
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BK Häcken  | 2–3 |  Atlético Madrid | 1–1 | 1–2 (a.e.t.) |
Paris FC  | 2–0 | Austria Wien | 0–0 | 2–0 |
| Brann | 1–3 |  Manchester United | 1–0 | 0–3 |
Eintracht Frankfurt  | 1–5 | Real Madrid | 1–2 | 0–3 |
Roma  | 3–2 | .svg/40px-Flag_of_Portugal_(official).svg.png){kind=small} Sporting CP | 1–2 | 2–0 |
League phase
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Madrid
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 faces 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, will be 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.[7]
Table
[edit]The top four ranked teams will advance 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 will be eliminated from all competitions, with no access to the 2025–26 UEFA Women's Europa Cup.
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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| 1 | Barcelona
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6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 20 | 3 | +17 | 16 | Advance to the quarter-finals (seeded) |
| 2 | Lyon
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6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 18 | 5 | +13 | 16 | |
| 3 | Chelsea
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6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 20 | 3 | +17 | 14 | |
| 4 | Bayern Munich
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6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 13 | +1 | 13 | |
| 5 | Arsenal
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6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 6 | +5 | 12 | Advance to the knockout phase play-offs (seeded) |
| 6 | Manchester United
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6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 9 | −2 | 12 | |
| 7 | Real Madrid
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6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 7 | +6 | 11 | |
| 8 | Juventus
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6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 8 | +5 | 10 | |
| 9 | VfL Wolfsburg
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6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 13 | 10 | +3 | 9 | Advance to the knockout phase play-offs (unseeded) |
| 10 | Paris FC
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6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 9 | −3 | 8 | |
| 11 | Atlético Madrid
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6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 9 | +4 | 7 | |
| 12 | OH Leuven
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6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 10 | −5 | 6 | |
| 13 | Vålerenga
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6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 9 | −5 | 4 | |
| 14 | Roma
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6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 19 | −10 | 4 | |
| 15 | Twente
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6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 | −6 | 3 | |
| 16 | Benfica
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6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 11 | −7 | 2 | |
| 17 | Paris Saint-Germain
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6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 12 | −8 | 2 | |
| 18 | St. Pölten
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6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 28 | −25 | 1 |
Results
[edit]Knockout phase
[edit]Bracket
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| 9/10 | VfL Wolfsburg or Paris FC | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 7/8 | Real Madrid or Juventus |  Winner PO1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1/2 | Barcelona or Lyon | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 11/12 | Atlético Madrid or OH Leuven | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 5/6 | Arsenal or Manchester United | Winner PO2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 3/4 | Chelsea or Bayern Munich | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 12/11 | OH Leuven or Atlético Madrid | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 6/5 | Manchester United or Arsenal | Winner PO3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 4/3 | Bayern Munich or Chelsea | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 10/9 | Paris FC or VfL Wolfsburg | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 8/7 | Juventus or Real Madrid | Winner PO4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2/1 | Lyon or Barcelona | |||||||||||||||||||||||
- † While the ties are predetermined, a draw will determine the order of the legs for the semi-finals, as well as the administrative "home" team for the final.
Knockout phase play-offs
[edit]The draw for the knockout phase play-offs will be held on 18 December 2025, 13:00 CET. The first legs will be played on 11 and 12 February, and the second legs on 18 and 19 February 2026.
| Team 1 | Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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| Match 1 | 11–12 Feb | 18–19 Feb | ||
| Match 2 | 11–12 Feb | 18–19 Feb | ||
| Match 3 | 11–12 Feb | 18–19 Feb | ||
| Match 4 | 11–12 Feb | 18–19 Feb |
Quarter-finals
[edit]The draw for the quarter-finals was held on 18 December 2025 (after the Knockout phase play-offs draw). The first legs will be played on 24 and 25 March, and the second legs on 1 and 2 April 2026.
| Team 1 | Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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| Match 1 | 24–25 Mar | 1–2 Apr | ||
| Match 2 | 24–25 Mar | 1–2 Apr | ||
| Match 3 | 24–25 Mar | 1–2 Apr | ||
| Match 4 | 24–25 Mar | 1–2 Apr |
Semi-finals
[edit]The draw for the semi-finals was held on 18 December 2025 (after the Knockout phase play-offs draw). The first legs will be played on 25 and 26 April, and the second legs on 2 and 3 May 2026.
| Team 1 | Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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| Match 1 | 25–26 Apr | 2–3 May | ||
| Match 2 | 25–26 Apr | 2–3 May |
Final
[edit]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.
| Winner SF1 | v | Winner SF2 |
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Statistics
[edit]Statistics exclude qualifying rounds and play-off round.
- As of 11 December 2025[8].
Top goalscorers
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| 1 | Alessia Russo
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Arsenal
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Real Madrid
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| Fiamma
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Lyon
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| Pernille Harder
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Bayern Munich
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| Ewa Pajor
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Barcelona
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| 8 | Alba Redondo
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Real Madrid
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| Ada Hegerberg
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Lyon
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| Alexia Putellas
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Barcelona
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| Fridolina Rolfö
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Manchester United
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| Ella Peddemors
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VfL Wolfsburg
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See also
[edit]- 2025–26 UEFA Women's Europa Cup
- 2025–26 UEFA Champions League
- 2025–26 UEFA Europa League
- 2025–26 UEFA Conference League
- 2025 UEFA Super Cup
- 2025–26 UEFA Youth League
References
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- ^ "UEFA Women's Champions League 2025/26 Provisional Access List" (PDF). UEFA. 1 February 2024. Archived (PDF) from the original on 11 November 2024. Retrieved 2 February 2025.
- ^ "Provisional access list for the UEFA Women's Champions League and 2nd competition 2025/26" (PDF). UEFA. Archived (PDF) from the original on 7 December 2023. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
- ^ "Ukraine crisis: Fifa and Uefa suspend all Russian clubs and national teams". bbc.co.uk. 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" (Press release). Nyon: UEFA. 2 May 2022. Archived from the original on 2 May 2022. Retrieved 2 May 2022.
- ^ "2025/26 UEFA Women's Champions League and new UEFA Women's Europa Cup: Dates, access list, full guide". UEFA. 18 December 2024. Retrieved 2 February 2025.
- ^ "Klart: Här är alla lagen i Women's Champions League". Fotbollskanalen. 18 September 2025.
- ^ "UEFA Women's Champions League – Top Scorers". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 12 November 2025.