2025-26 UWEC

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The 2025-26 UEFA Women's Europa Cup consists of two qualifying rounds and four main rounds, all played as home-and-away series.

Twelve teams enter the UWEC directly; 31 additional teams drop into the competition after losing in the qualifying rounds of the UWCL.

Qualifying teams are indicated by this chart:

RankAssociationsEntry
8Czechia 3rd*
9-13NED, DEN, NOR,
AUT, UKR 		3rd
18-24SUI, SRB, ALB, CYP,
BEL, RUS, FIN 		2nd

Because Russia's exclusion creates a vacancy, Czechia's third-place team is automatically advanced to the second qualifying round.

Qualifying Rounds

Round 1

There are 22 entrants in the first qualifying round: 11 who begin here, and 11 who finish third in UWCL Round 2. The entrants are seeded based on their 2025 club coefficient, with the top 11 being seeded and the remainder unseeded. The order of home advantage is determined by the draw. Teams from the same association cannot be drawn together.

Qualified teams, organized by coefficient

Seeded Teams Unseeded Teams
TeamAssocCoeff TeamAssocCoeff
AjaxNED21 Athlone TownIRL1.6
BIIK ShymkentKAZ13.5 FomgetTUR1.9
VllazniaALB13 Farul ConstantaROU2.0
AnderlechtBEL11 Aris LimassolCYP2.4
SFK 2000BIH10 HibernianSCO2.4
Spartak SuboticaSRB10 PartizaniALB2.6
Glasgow CitySCO10 GrasshopperSUI2.85
KogeDEN 8.5 NordsjaellandDEN2.95
Inter MilanITA 7.6 Kolos KovalivkaUKR3.8
RosenborgNOR 7 Sturm GrazAUT4.15
KuPSFIN 6.5 PSVNED5.0

Pairings

6Glasgow City @ 3-0   Athlone Town 0
  3-0 @
5Grasshopper @ 2-0   BIIK Shymkent 1
  3-1 @
6Koge @ 3-2   Farul Constanta 2
  3-0 @
8Nordsjaelland @ 3-1   KuPS 2
  5-1 @
4Ajax @ 2-0   Sturm Graz 0
  2-0 @
0Aris Limassol @ 0-5   Anderlecht 14
  0-9 @
4Vllaznia @ 2-0   Kolos Kovalivka 0
  2-0 @
3Rosenborg @ 3-0   PSV 4
  0-4 @
3.3SFK 2000 @ 0-0   Fomget 3.2
  3-3 @
3 pen 2
5Inter Milan @ 4-1   Hibernian 1
  1-0 @
0Partizani @ 0-5   Spartak Subotica 8
  0-3 @

Round 2

There are 32 entrants in the second qualifying round: 11 winners of round 1, 1 team starting here, 11 who finish second in UWCL Round 2, and 9 who lose in UWCL Round 3. The entrants are seeded based on their 2025 club coefficient, with the top 16 being seeded and the remainder unseeded. The order of home advantage is determined by the draw. Teams from the same association cannot be drawn together.

Seeded Teams Unseeded Teams
TeamAssocCoeff TeamAssocCoeff
HackenSWE28 KatowicePOL1.8
Slavia PrahaCZE24 GrasshopperSUI2.85
RosengardSWE24 Young BoysSUI2.85
Sparta PrahaCZE21 NordsjaellandDEN2.95
AjaxNED21 SlovackoCZE3.86
BrannNOR17 Austria WienAUT4.15
Vorskla PoltavaUKR14 PSVNED5.0
VllazniaALB13 BragaPOR6.6
Eintracht FrankfurtGER12.5Sporting LisbonPOR6.6
AnderlechtBEL11 Dinamo MinskBLR7
MuraSVN11 Inter MilanITA7.6
FC MinskBLR10.5 HammarbySWE8
SFK 2000BIH10 BreidablikISL8.5
Spartak SuboticaSRB10 KogeDEN8.5
Glasgow CitySCO10 FortunaDEN9
GintraLTU 9 FerencvarosHUN9

Pairings

Hacken @ Oct 07   Katowice
  Oct 16 @
Sparta Praha @ Oct 08   Ferencvaros
  Oct 16 @
Inter Milan @ Oct 08   Vllaznia
  Oct 15 @
Grasshopper @ Oct 08   Ajax
  Oct 16 @
Sporting Lisbon @ Oct 07   Rosengard
  Oct 15 @
FC Minsk @ Oct 08   PSV
  Oct 15 @
Eintracht Frankfurt@ Oct 08   Slovacko
  Oct 15 @
Vorskla Poltava @ Oct 08   Fortuna
  Oct 15 @
Breidablik @ Oct 08   Spartak Subotica
  Oct 15 @
Gintra @ Oct 07   Nordsjaelland
  Oct 15 @
Anderlecht @ Oct 08   Braga
  Oct 15 @
Young Boys @ Oct 08   SFK 2000
  Oct 16 @
Koge @ Oct 08   Glasgow City
  Oct 15 @
Slavia Praha @ Oct 08   Austria Wien
  Oct 15 @
Mura @ Oct 08   Dinamo Minsk
  Oct 12 @
Hammarby @ Oct 07   Brann
  Oct 16 @

Main Competition

Round of 16

The 16 teams that win qualifying round 2 are seeded based on their 2025 club coefficient and divided into five pots. The first four pots each consist of two teams (#1 and #2 into Pot A, all the way to #7 and #8 into Pot D). The remaining teams are all unseeded (which I am designating Pot U). In the round of 16, a seeded team is drawn against an unseeded team. The order of home advantage is determined by the draw. There is no association protection.

The remainder of the bracket is drawn up, with a Pot A pairing playing a Pot D pairing in two quarterfinals, while a Pot B pairing plays a Pot C pairing in two quarterfinals. Each semifinal matches an A-D block with a B-C block. The order of home advantage for each series is determined by the draw.