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

7Hacken @ 4-0   Katowice 1
  3-1 @
5Sparta Praha @ 0-0   Ferencvaros 0
  5-0 @
12Inter Milan @ 7-0   Vllaznia 0
  5-0 @
1Grasshopper @ 0-0   Ajax 2
  1-2 @
5Sporting Lisbon @ 3-0   Rosengard 2
  2-2 @
0FC Minsk   0-2 ^ PSV 2
5Eintracht Frankfurt@ 4-0   Slovacko 0
  1-0 @
1Vorskla Poltava @ 1-1   Fortuna 2
  0-1 @
5Breidablik @ 4-0   Spartak Subotica1
  1-1 @
1Gintra @ 1-0   Nordsjaelland 5
  0-5 @
4Anderlecht @ 1-1   Braga 3
  3-2 @
aet
3Young Boys @ 2-0   SFK 2000 0
  1-0 @
5Koge @ 2-1   Glasgow City 6
  3-5 @
3.3Slavia Praha @ 2-1   Austria Wien 3.5
  1-2 @
3 pen 5
3Mura @ 2-0   Dinamo Minsk 2
  1-2 @
5Hammarby @ 4-1   Brann 2
  1-1 @

^ - Due to FC Minsk not being permitted into Netherlands, this series is to be played as a single neutral-site game.

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.

Seeded Teams Unseeded Teams
Pot A Pot B TeamAssocCoeff
TeamAssocCoeff TeamAssocCoeff Young BoysSUI2.85
⑴ HackenSWE28 ⑶ Sparta PrahaCZE21 NordsjaellandDEN2.95
⑵ AjaxNED21 ⑷ E. FrankfurtGER12.5 Austria WienAUT4.15
Pot C Pot D PSVNED5.0
TeamAssocCoeff TeamAssocCoeff Sporting LisbonPOR6.6
⑸ AnderlechtBEL11 ⑺ Glasgow CitySCO10 Inter MilanITA7.6
⑹ MuraSVN11 ⑻ FortunaDEN9 HammarbySWE8
BreidablikISL8.5

Pairings

2Glasgow City @ 1-1   Sporting Lisbon 4
  1-3 @
aet
4Breidablik @ 0-1   Fortuna 3
  4-2 @
aet
1Anderlecht @ 0-1   Austria Wien 3
  1-2 @
5Nordsjaelland @ 1-0   Mura 0
  4-0 @
4Sparta Praha @ 0-3   Young Boys 3
  4-0 @
2PSV @ 1-2   Eintracht Frankfurt 5
  1-3 @
2Ajax @ 1-3   Hammarby 6
  1-3 @
1Hacken @ 1-0   Inter Milan 0
  0-0 @

Bracket

Quarterfinals Semifinals Final
BSparta Praha
CAustria Wien
Home SF1
Road SF1
DSporting Lisbon
AHammarby
Finalist #1
Finalist #2
BEintracht Frankfurt
CNordsjaelland
Home SF2
Road SF2
AHacken
DBreidablik