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| Dates | 10 September 2025 – 2 or 3 May 2026 |
| Teams | 44 |
| 2026–27 → | |
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:
- Associations 8–13 and 18–24 each have one team qualify directly.
- 31 teams eliminated from the 2025–26 Women's Champions League will be transferred to the Europa Cup.
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.
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Distribution
| Teams entering in this round | Teams advancing from the previous round | Teams entering from the Champions League | |
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| First round (24 teams) |
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| Second round (32 teams) |
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| Round of 16 (16 teams) |
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Teams
The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:
- 2nd, 3rd: League position of the previous season
- CL: Transferred from the Women's Champions League
- CH/LP Q3: Transferred from the third qualifying round (Champions/League Path)
- CH/LP Q2: Transferred from the second qualifying round mini-tournaments (Champions/League Path)
- RU: Runner-up of the mini-tournament
- TP: Third place of the mini-tournament
| Entry round | Teams | |||
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| Second qualifying round |  (CL CH Q3)
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(CL CH Q3)
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(CL CH Q3)
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(CL CH Q3)
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(CL LP Q3)
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(CL LP Q3)
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(CL LP Q3)
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(CL CH Q2 RU)
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(CL CH Q2 RU)
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(CL CH Q2 RU)
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(CL CH Q2 RU)
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(CL CH Q2 RU)
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(CL CH Q2 RU)
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| (CL LP Q2 RU)
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(CL LP Q2 RU)
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(CL LP Q2 RU)
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(CL LP Q2 RU)
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| First qualifying round |  (3rd)
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 Rosenborg (3rd)
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(CL CH Q2 TP)
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(CL CH Q2 TP)
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(CL CH Q2 TP)
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Notes
- Russia (RUS): On 28 February 2022, Russian football clubs and national teams were suspended from FIFA and UEFA competitions. The tables reflect Russia's ongoing suspension from UEFA competitions.
Schedule
The schedule of the competition is as follows.
| Round | Draw date | First leg | Second leg |
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| First qualifying round | TBC 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 | 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 |
See also
- 2025–26 UEFA Women's Champions League
- 2025–26 UEFA Champions League
- 2025–26 UEFA Europa League
- 2025–26 UEFA Conference League
- 2025 UEFA Super Cup
- 2025–26 UEFA Youth League
References
- ^ "New UEFA women's club football system explained". UEFA. 30 July 2024. Retrieved 30 July 2024.
- "Women's association club coefficients 2023/24". UEFA. 16 December 2024. Retrieved 16 December 2024.
- "Women's football to enter new era with UEFA Women's Europa Cup". UEFA. 16 December 2024. Retrieved 16 December 2024.
- "Access List 2025/26* (Provisional)" (PDF). UEFA. 2024. Retrieved 16 December 2024.
- "Ukraine crisis: Fifa and Uefa suspend all Russian clubs and national teams". bbc.co.uk. British Broadcasting Corporation. 28 February 2022. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
- "UEFA decisions for upcoming competitions relating to the ongoing suspension of Russian national teams and clubs" (Press release). Nyon: UEFA. 2 May 2022. Retrieved 2 May 2022.
- "2025/26 Women's Champions League and new UEFA women's club competition: Dates, access list, full guide". UEFA. 21 November 2024. Retrieved 16 December 2024.
- "UEFA women's match calendar: Match dates 2025/26" (PDF). UEFA. 2024. Retrieved 16 December 2024.