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.
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:
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.
Apart from the allocation based on the association coefficients, associations may have additional teams participating in the Europa Cup, as noted below:
Teams.
The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:
Notes
Schedule.
The schedule of the competition is as follows.
Qualifying rounds.
First qualifying round.
The first qualifying round will consist of 22 teams who will be divided into two pots of 11 seeded teams and 11 unseeded teams according to the club coefficient rankings established at the start of the season. Clubs from the same association cannot be drawn against each other. A draw determines pairings and which team plays the first leg at home. The draw will be held on 31 August 2025.
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Second qualifying round.
The second qualifying round will consist of 32 teams who will be divided into two pots of 16 seeded teams and 16 unseeded teams according to the club coefficient rankings established at the start of the season. Clubs from the same association cannot be drawn against each other. A draw determines pairings and which team plays the first leg at home. The draw will be held on 19 September 2025.
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Knockout phase.
In the knockout phase, teams played against each other over two legs on a home-and-away basis. The mechanism of the draws for each round was as follows:
The draw will be held on 17 October 2025.
Bracket.
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Round of 16.
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Quarter-finals.
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Semi-finals.
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Final.
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