 TheMetropolitano Stadium inMadrid will host the final. | |
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| Teams | Competition proper: 36 Total: 83 (from 53 associations) |
2027–28 → All statistics correct as of 6 October 2025. | |
The2026–27 UEFA Champions League will be the 72nd season of Europe's premier football tournament organized by UEFA and the 35th season since it was rebranded from the European Cup to the UEFA Champions League.
Thefinal will be played on 5 June 2027 at theMetropolitano Stadium inMadrid, Spain.[1] It will be the second time the Metropolitano Stadium has hosted the UEFA Champions League final after the2019 UEFA Champions League Final. The winners of the 2026–27 UEFA Champions League will automatically qualify for the 2027–28 UEFA Champions League league phase, the 2027 FIFA Intercontinental Cup Final, the2029 FIFA Club World Cup group stage and earn the right to play against the winners of the2026–27 UEFA Europa League in the 2027 UEFA Super Cup.
A total of 83 teams from 53 of the 55UEFA member associations are set to participate in the 2026–27 UEFA Champions League (the exceptions beingLiechtenstein which does not organise a domestic league andRussia which is currently suspended). The association ranking based on theUEFA association coefficients is used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:[2]
For the 2026–27 UEFA Champions League, the associations are allocated places according to their 2025UEFA association coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 2020–21 to 2024–25.[3] The table reflects Russia's ongoing suspension from UEFA.
Apart from the allocation based on the association coefficients, associations may have additional teams participating in the Champions League, as noted below:
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| First qualifying round (30 teams) |
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| Third qualifying round (20 teams) | Champions Path (12 teams) |
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| Play-off round (14 teams) | Champions Path (10 teams) |
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| League phase (36 teams) |
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| Knockout phase play-offs (16 teams) |
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| Round of 16 (16 teams) |
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The information here reflects the ongoing suspension of Russia in European football, and so the following changes to the default access list have been made:
The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:
The label of European Performance Spots and title holders already qualified via league position are superscripted.
The second qualifying round, third qualifying round and play-off round are divided into Champions Path (CH) and League Path (LP).
| Entry round | Teams | ||||
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| League phase | TH | EL | EPS | EPS | |
 (1st) | (2nd) | (3rd) | (4th) | ||
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 (1st) | (2nd) | (3rd) |  (1st) | ||
| (2nd) |  (1st) |  (1st) |  (1st) | ||
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| Play-off round | CH |  Viking(1st) |  (1st) |  (1st) |  (1st) |
| Third qualifying round | LP | (4th) | (3rd) | (2nd) | (2nd) |
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| Second qualifying round | CH |  (1st) |  (1st) |  (1st) |  (1st) |
 (1st) |  Mjällby AIF(1st) |  (1st) |  (1st) | ||
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| LP | (2nd) | Bodø/Glimt(2nd)[Note NOR] | (2nd) | (2nd) | |
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| First qualifying round | CH |  (1st) |  (1st) |  (1st) |  (1st) |
 (1st) |  (1st) |  Shamrock Rovers(1st) |  (1st) | ||
 Víkingur Reykjavík(1st) |  (1st) |  (1st) |  Riga(1st) | ||
 (1st) |  KuPS(1st) |  Kairat(1st) |  KÍ(1st) | ||
 (1st) |  (1st) |  Kauno Žalgiris(1st) |  Flora(1st) | ||
 (1st) |  (1st) |  (1st) |  (1st) | ||
 Iberia 1999(1st) |  (1st) |  ML Vitebsk(1st) |  (1st) | ||
 (1st) |  (1st) | ||||
The schedule of the competition is as follows.[6]
| Phase | Round | Draw date | First leg | Second leg |
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| Qualifying | First qualifying round | 16 June 2026 | 7–8 July 2026 | 14–15 July 2026 |
| Second qualifying round | 17 June 2026 | 21–22 July 2026 | 28–29 July 2026 | |
| Third qualifying round | 20 July 2026 | 4–5 August 2026 | 11 August 2026 | |
| Play-offs | Play-off round | 3 August 2026 | 18–19 August 2026 | 25–26 August 2026 |
| League phase | Matchday 1 | 27 August 2026 | 8–10 September 2026 | |
| Matchday 2 | 13–14 October 2026 | |||
| Matchday 3 | 20–21 October 2026 | |||
| Matchday 4 | 3–4 November 2026 | |||
| Matchday 5 | 24–25 November 2026 | |||
| Matchday 6 | 8–9 December 2026 | |||
| Matchday 7 | 19–20 January 2027 | |||
| Matchday 8 | 27 January 2027 | |||
| Knockout phase | Knockout phase play-offs | 29 January 2027 | 16–17 February 2027 | 23–24 February 2027 |
| Round of 16 | 26 February 2027 | 9–10 March 2027 | 16–17 March 2027 | |
| Quarter-finals | N/a | 6–7 April 2027 | 13–14 April 2027 | |
| Semi-finals | 27–28 April 2027 | 4–5 May 2027 | ||
| Final | 5 June 2027 atMetropolitano Stadium,Madrid | |||
