| Tournament details | |
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| Dates | Qualifying: 10 September – 16 October 2025 Competition proper: 12 November 2025 – 2 or 3 May 2026 |
| Teams | Competition proper: 16 Total: 43 (from 28 associations) |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 16 |
| Goals scored | 45 (2.81 per match) |
| Attendance | 20,019 (1,251 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) | Telma Encarnação Michaela Khýrová (3 goals) |
2026–27 → All statistics correct as of 20 November 2025. | |
The2025–26 UEFA Women's Europa Cup is the inaugural season of theUEFA Women's Europa Cup, Europe's secondary women's clubfootball tournament organised byUEFA. The competition features a straight knockout format, with every round, up to and including the final, played as atwo-legged home-and-away tie.[1][2][3]
The winners will automatically qualify for the third qualifying round of the champions path of the2026–27 UEFA Women's Champions League.
The association ranking based on theUEFA women's country coefficients is used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:[1]
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).
For the 2025–26 UEFA Women's Europa Cup, the associations are allocated places according to their 2024UEFA women's Association coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 2019–20 to 2023–24.[4][5]
Apart from the allocation based on the association coefficients, associations may have additional teams participating in the Europa Cup, as noted below:
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| First qualifying round (22 teams) |
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| Second qualifying round (32 teams) |
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| Round of 16 (16 teams) |
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The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:
Notes
The schedule of the competition is as follows.[9][10][11]
| Round | Draw date | First leg | Second leg |
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| First qualifying round | 31 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 | 17 October 2025 | 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 |
The first legs were played on 10 and 11 September, and the second legs on 17 and 18 September 2025.
The winners of the ties advanced to the second qualifying round.
| Team 1 | Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Glasgow City  | 6–0 |  Athlone Town | 3–0 | 3–0 |
Grasshopper  | 5–1 |  BIIK Shymkent | 2–0 | 3–1 |
Køge  | 6–2 |  Farul Constanța | 3–2 | 3–0 |
| Nordsjælland | 8–2 |  KuPS | 3–1 | 5–1 |
Ajax  | 4–0 |  Sturm Graz | 2–0 | 2–0 |
Aris Limassol  | 0–14 |  Anderlecht | 0–5 | 0–9 |
Vllaznia  | 4–0 |  Kolos Kovalivka | 2–0 | 2–0 |
Rosenborg  | 3–4 | PSV Eindhoven | 3–0 | 0–4 |
SFK 2000  | 3–3 (3–2p) |  ABB Fomget | 0–0 | 3–3 (a.e.t.) |
Inter Milan  | 5–1 | Hibernian | 4–1 | 1–0 |
| Partizani | 0–8 |  Spartak Subotica | 0–5 | 0–3 |
The first legs were played on 7 and 8 October, and the second legs on 15 and 16 October 2025.
The winners of the ties advanced to the round of 16.
| Team 1 | Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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BK Häcken  | 7–1 |  GKS Katowice | 4–0 | 3–1 |
Sparta Prague  | 5–0 |  Ferencváros | 0–0 | 5–0 |
| Inter Milan | 12–0 | Vllaznia | 7–0 | 5–0 |
| Grasshopper | 1–2 | Ajax | 0–0 | 1–2 |
Sporting CP  | 5–2 | Rosengård | 3–0 | 2–2 |
| PSV Eindhoven | 2–0 |  FC Minsk | ||
Eintracht Frankfurt  | 5–0 | Slovácko | 4–0 | 1–0 |
| Vorskla Poltava | 1–2 | Fortuna Hjørring | 1–1 | 0–1 |
Breiðablik  | 5–1 | Spartak Subotica | 4–0 | 1–1 |
Gintra  | 1–5 | Nordsjælland | 1–0 | 0–5 |
| Anderlecht | 4–3 | Braga | 1–1 | 3–2 (a.e.t.) |
| Young Boys | 3–0 | SFK 2000 | 2–0 | 1–0 |
| Køge | 5–6 | Glasgow City | 2–1 | 3–5 |
| Slavia Prague | 3–3 (3–5p) | Austria Wien | 2–1 | 1–2 (a.e.t.) |
Mura  | 3–2 | Dinamo Minsk | 2–0 | 1–2 |
| Hammarby | 5–2 | Brann | 4–1 | 1–1 |
In theknockout phase, teams play against each other overtwo legs on a home-and-away basis. The bracket is predetermined and a draw was held on 17 October 2025 to place the 16 teams into positions in the bracket. Eight teams will be seeded according to club coefficients and drawn to face the unseeded teams in the round of 16. Which club plays the first leg at home for each match of every round was also decided.[12][13]
The draw for the round of 16 was held on 17 October 2025.[13]
The first legs were played on 12 November, and the second legs on 19 and 20 November 2025.
| Team 1 | Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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| Ajax | 2–6 | Hammarby | 1–3 | 1–3 |
| Glasgow City | 2–4 | Sporting CP | 1–1 | 1–3 (a.e.t.) |
| Anderlecht | 1–3 | Austria Wien | 0–1 | 1–2 |
| Sparta Prague | 4–3 | Young Boys | 0–3 | 4–0 |
| BK Häcken | 1–0 | Inter Milan | 1–0 | 0–0 |
| Breiðablik | 4–3 | Fortuna Hjørring | 0–1 | 4–2 (a.e.t.) |
| Nordsjælland | 5–0 | Mura | 1–0 | 4–0 |
| PSV Eindhoven | 2–5 | Eintracht Frankfurt | 1–2 | 1–3 |
The draw for the quarter-finals was held on 17 October 2025.[13]
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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| Sporting CP | Match 1 | Hammarby | 11–12 Feb | 18–19 Feb |
| Sparta Prague | Match 2 | Austria Wien | 11–12 Feb | 18–19 Feb |
| BK Häcken | Match 3 | Breiðablik | 11–12 Feb | 18–19 Feb |
| Eintracht Frankfurt | Match 4 | Nordsjælland | 11–12 Feb | 18–19 Feb |
The draw for the semi-finals was held on 17 October 2025.[13]
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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| Winner QF Match 2 | Match 1 | Winner QF Match 1 | 24–25 Mar | 1–2 Apr |
| Winner QF Match 4 | Match 2 | Winner QF Match 3 | 24–25 Mar | 1–2 Apr |
The draw for the finals was held on 17 October 2025.[13]
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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| Winner SF Match 1 | Winner SF Match 2 | 25–26 Apr | 2–3 May |
Statistics exclude qualifying rounds and play-off round.
| Rank | Player | Team | Goals |
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| 1 | Telma Encarnação | Sporting CP | 3 |
| Michaela Khýrová | Sparta Prague | ||
| 3 |  Joy Omewa Ogochukwu | Fortuna Hjørring | 2 |
| Laura Freigang | Eintracht Frankfurt | ||
| Nicole Anyomi | Eintracht Frankfurt | ||
| 6 | 31 players | 1 | |
