2025–26 UEFA Women's Europa Cup

2025–26 UEFA Women's Europa Cup
Tournament details
Dates	10 September 2025 – 2 or 3 May 2026
Teams	44
	2026–27 →

The 2025–26 UEFA Women's Europa Cup will be the inaugural season of the UEFA Women's Europa Cup, Europe's secondary women's club football tournament organised by UEFA. The competition will feature a straight knockout format, with every round, up to and including the final, played as a two-legged home-and-away tie.^[1]

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 8–13 and 18–24 each have one team qualify directly.
31 teams eliminated from the 2025–26 Women's Champions League will be transferred to the Europa Cup.

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 Europa Cup, 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]^[3]

Association ranking for 2025–26 UEFA Women's Europa Cup

Rank	Association	Coeff.	Teams
1	France	78.333	0
2	Germany	68.999
3	Spain	68.166
4	England	59.999
5	Portugal	34.000
6	Italy	34.000
7	Sweden	24.999
8	Czech Republic	22.332	1
9	Netherlands	22.000
10	Denmark	21.750
11	Norway	21.500
12	Austria	21.250
13	Ukraine	19.000
14	Belarus	18.000	0
15	Iceland	17.750
16	Scotland	17.000
17	Kazakhstan	14.750
18	Switzerland	14.250	1
19	Serbia	14.000	1

Rank	Association	Coeff.	Teams	Notes
20	Albania	14.000	1
21	Cyprus	12.000
22	Belgium	12.000
23	Russia	10.250	0	^{[Note RUS]}
24	Finland	10.000	1
25	Bosnia and Herzegovina	10.000	1
26	Hungary	9.500	0
27	Romania	9.000
28	Slovenia	9.000
29	Poland	9.000
30	Croatia	8.500
31	Lithuania	8.500
32	Republic of Ireland	8.000
33	Kosovo	8.000
34	Turkey	7.500
35	Greece	7.000
36	Israel	7.000
37	Georgia	7.000

Rank	Association	Coeff.	Teams	Notes
38	Montenegro	7.000	0
39	Slovakia	6.500
40	Bulgaria	6.500
41	Luxembourg	6.000
42	Wales	6.000
43	Estonia	5.500
44	Northern Ireland	5.500
45	Latvia	5.500
46	Malta	5.500
47	Moldova	4.500
48	North Macedonia	4.000
49	Faroe Islands	4.000
50	Armenia	3.000
NR	Azerbaijan	—
	Gibraltar	—		DNE
	Andorra	—		NL
	Liechtenstein	—
	San Marino	—

Distribution

Access list for 2025–26 UEFA Women's Europa Cup^[4]
	Teams entering in this round	Teams advancing from the previous round	Teams entering from the Champions League
First round (24 teams)	7 runners-up from associations 18–24 6 third-placed teams from associations 8–13		7 third-placed teams from the second round champions path mini-tournaments 4 third-placed teams from the second round league path mini-tournaments
Second round (32 teams)		12 winners from the first round	4 losers from the third round champions path 5 losers from the third round league path 7 runners-up from the second round champions path mini-tournaments 4 runners-up from the second round league path mini-tournaments
Round of 16 (16 teams)		16 winners from the second round

Teams

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

2nd, 3rd: League position of the previous season
CL: Transferred from the Women's Champions League
- CH/LP Q3: Transferred from the third qualifying round (Champions/League Path)
- CH/LP Q2: Transferred from the second qualifying round mini-tournaments (Champions/League Path)
  - RU: Runner-up of the mini-tournament
  - TP: Third place of the mini-tournament

Qualified teams for 2025–26 UEFA Women's Europa Cup
Entry round	Teams
Second qualifying round	(CL CH Q3)	(CL CH Q3)	(CL CH Q3)	(CL CH Q3)
	(CL LP Q3)	(CL LP Q3)	(CL LP Q3)	(CL LP Q3)
	(CL LP Q3)	(CL CH Q2 RU)	(CL CH Q2 RU)	(CL CH Q2 RU)
	(CL CH Q2 RU)	(CL CH Q2 RU)	(CL CH Q2 RU)	(CL CH Q2 RU)
	(CL LP Q2 RU)	(CL LP Q2 RU)	(CL LP Q2 RU)	(CL LP Q2 RU)

First qualifying round	(3rd)	(3rd)	(3rd)	Rosenborg (3rd)
	(3rd)	(3rd)	(2nd)	(2nd)
	(2nd)	(2nd)	(2nd)	KuPS (2nd)
	(2nd)	(CL CH Q2 TP)	(CL CH Q2 TP)	(CL CH Q2 TP)
	(CL CH Q2 TP)	(CL CH Q2 TP)	(CL CH Q2 TP)	(CL CH Q2 TP)
	(CL LP Q2 TP)	(CL LP Q2 TP)	(CL LP Q2 TP)	(CL LP Q2 TP)

Notes

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Russia (RUS): On 28 February 2022, Russian football clubs and national teams were suspended from FIFA and UEFA competitions.^[5] The tables reflect Russia's ongoing suspension from UEFA competitions.^[6]

Schedule

The schedule of the competition is as follows.^[7]^[8]^[9]

Schedule for 2025–26 UEFA Women's Europa Cup
Round	Draw date	First leg	Second leg
First qualifying round	18 August 2025	10–11 September 2025	17–18 September 2025
Second qualifying round	19 September 2025	7–8 October 2025	15–16 October 2025
Round of 16		11–12 November 2025	19–20 November 2025
Quarter-finals		11–12 February 2026	18–19 February 2026
Semi-finals		24–25 March 2026	1–2 April 2026
Final		25 or 26 April 2026	2 or 3 May 2026

References

^ ^a ^b "New UEFA women's club football system explained". UEFA. 30 July 2024. Retrieved 30 July 2024.
^ "Women's association club coefficients 2023/24". UEFA. 16 December 2024. Retrieved 16 December 2024.
^ "Women's football to enter new era with UEFA Women's Europa Cup". UEFA. 16 December 2024. Retrieved 16 December 2024.
^ "Access List 2025/26* (Provisional)" (PDF). UEFA. 2024. Retrieved 16 December 2024.
^ "Ukraine crisis: Fifa and Uefa suspend all Russian clubs and national teams". bbc.co.uk. British Broadcasting Corporation. 28 February 2022. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
^ "UEFA decisions for upcoming competitions relating to the ongoing suspension of Russian national teams and clubs" (Press release). Nyon: UEFA. 2 May 2022. Retrieved 2 May 2022.
^ "2025/26 Women's Champions League and new UEFA women's club competition: Dates, access list, full guide". UEFA. 21 November 2024. Retrieved 16 December 2024.
^ "UEFA women's match calendar: Match dates 2025/26" (PDF). UEFA. 2024. Retrieved 16 December 2024.
^ "2025 European football calendar: Match and draw dates for all UEFA competitions". UEFA. 31 December 2024. Retrieved 1 January 2025.

External links

Official website

[cnote_Note_RUS] 
Russia (RUS): On 28 February 2022, Russian football clubs and national teams were suspended from FIFA and UEFA competitions.^[5] The tables reflect Russia's ongoing suspension from UEFA competitions.^[6]

[format-1] "New UEFA women's club football system explained". UEFA. 30 July 2024. Retrieved 30 July 2024.

[country_coefficients-2] "Women's association club coefficients 2023/24". UEFA. 16 December 2024. Retrieved 16 December 2024.

[3] "Women's football to enter new era with UEFA Women's Europa Cup". UEFA. 16 December 2024. Retrieved 16 December 2024.

[4] "Access List 2025/26* (Provisional)" (PDF). UEFA. 2024. Retrieved 16 December 2024.

[5] "Ukraine crisis: Fifa and Uefa suspend all Russian clubs and national teams". bbc.co.uk. British Broadcasting Corporation. 28 February 2022. Retrieved 28 February 2022.

[rus-susp-22/23-6] "UEFA decisions for upcoming competitions relating to the ongoing suspension of Russian national teams and clubs" (Press release). Nyon: UEFA. 2 May 2022. Retrieved 2 May 2022.

[7] "2025/26 Women's Champions League and new UEFA women's club competition: Dates, access list, full guide". UEFA. 21 November 2024. Retrieved 16 December 2024.

[8] "UEFA women's match calendar: Match dates 2025/26" (PDF). UEFA. 2024. Retrieved 16 December 2024.

[9] "2025 European football calendar: Match and draw dates for all UEFA competitions". UEFA. 31 December 2024. Retrieved 1 January 2025.

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