2024–25 UEFA Women's Champions League

The 2024–25 UEFA Women's Champions League will be the 24th edition of the European women's club football championship organised by UEFA, and the 16th edition since being rebranded as the UEFA Women's Champions League. It will start on 24–25 July 2024 and end with the final on 23–25 May 2024.

2024–25 UEFA Women's Champions League
The Estádio José Alvalade in Lisbon will host the final
Dates24 July 2024 – 23–25 May 2025

The final will be held at the Estádio José Alvalade in Lisbon, Portugal.[1]

Association team allocation edit

The association ranking based on the UEFA women's country coefficients is used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:[2]

  • Associations 1–6 each have three teams qualify.
  • Associations 7–16 each have two teams qualify.
  • All other associations,if they entered, each have one team qualify.
  • The winners of the 2023–24 UEFA Women's Champions League are given an additional entry if they do not qualify for the 2024–25 UEFA Women's Champions League through their domestic league.

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 edit

For the 2024–25 UEFA Women's Champions League, the associations are allocated places according to their 2023 UEFA women's Association coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 2018-19 to 2022–23.[3]

Association ranking for 2024–25 UEFA Women's Champions League
Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes
1   France 80.833 3
2   Germany 76.666
3   Spain 71.166
4   England 61.833
5   Italy 35.000
6   Sweden 26.999
7   Czech Republic 26.166 2
8   Denmark 25.750
9   Portugal 24.000
10   Netherlands 22.000
11   Norway 20.500
12   Scotland 20.500
13   Austria 20.250
14   Ukraine 20.000
15   Iceland 18.500
16   Belarus 18.500
17   Kazakhstan 18.500 1
18   Switzerland 16.250
19   Albania 14.000
Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes
20   Cyprus 14.000 1
21   Serbia 14.000
22   Belgium 12.000
23   Bosnia and Herzegovina 11.500
24   Russia 14.250 0 [Note RUS]
25   Finland 11.000 1
26   Hungary 9.500
27   Poland 9.500
28   Lithuania 9.500
29   Romania 8.000
30   Croatia 8.500
31   Republic of Ireland 7.500
32   Slovenia 7.500
33   Turkey 7.500
34   Greece 7.000
35   Kosovo 7.000
36   Slovakia 6.500
37   Bulgaria 6.500
Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes
38   Montenegro 6.000 1
39   Israel 5.500
40   Estonia 5.500
41   Wales 5.500
42   Georgia 5.000
43   Luxembourg 4.500
44   Northern Ireland 4.500
45   Malta 4.000
46   Latvia 3.500
47   Faroe Islands 3.000
  Armenia 3.000
  North Macedonia 3.000
  Moldova 3.000
NR   Azerbaijan
  Gibraltar
  Andorra 0 NL
  Liechtenstein
  San Marino

Distribution edit

Access list for 2023–24 UEFA Women's Champions League[4]
Path Teams entering in this round Teams advancing from previous round
Round 1
(Mini-tournament)
Champions Path
  • 43 champions from associations 7–50 (except Russia)[Note RUS]
League Path
  • 6 third-placed teams from associations 1–6
  • 10 second-placed teams from associations 7–16
Round 2 Champions Path
  • 3 champions from associations 4–6
  • 11 knockout winners of the previous round
League Path
  • 6 second-placed teams from associations 1–6
  • 4 knockout winners of the previous round
Group stage
(16 Teams)
  • Title holders
  • 3 champions from associations 1–3
  • 7 knockout winners of the Champions Path
  • 5 knockout winners of the League Path
Knockout stage
(8 Teams)
  • 4 group winners from group stage
  • 4 group runners-up from group stage

Teams edit

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:

  • TH: Title holders
  • 1st, 2nd, 3rd: League positions of the previous season

The two qualifying rounds, round 1 and round 2, are divided into Champions Path (CP) and League Path (LP).

Qualified teams for 2024–25 UEFA Women's Champions League
Entry round Teams
Group stage (TH)   (1st)   Bayern Munich (1st)   Barcelona (1st)
Round 2 CH   (1st)[Note ENG]   Roma (1st)   Hammarby (1st)
LP   (2nd)   VfL Wolfsburg (2nd)   Real Madrid (2nd)   (2nd)[Note ENG]
  Juventus (2nd)   BK Häcken (2nd)
Round 1 CH   Slavia Prague (1st)   (1st)   Benfica (1st)   (1st)
  Vålerenga (1st)   (1st)   (1st)   (1st)
  (1st)   (1st)   (1st)   (1st)
  (1st)   (1st)   (1st)   (1st)
  (1st)   [Note RUS]   (1st)   (1st)
  (1st)   (1st)   (1st)   Osijek (1st)
  (1st)   (1st)   Galatasaray (1st)   PAOK (1st)
  (1st)   (1st)   (1st)   (1st)
  (1st)   (1st)   Cardiff City (1st)   (1st)
  (1st)   Glentoran (1st)   (1st)   (1st)
  (1st)   Agarista Anenii Noi (1st)
LP   (3rd)   (3rd)   (3rd)   (3rd)[Note ENG]
  (3rd)   Linköping (3rd)   Sparta Prague (2nd)   (2nd)
  Sporting CP (2nd)   (2nd)   Rosenborg (2nd)   (2nd)
  (2nd)   (2nd)   (2nd)   (2nd)
Premiminary round CH   (1st)   (1st) Association 51 Association 52

Notes

  1. ^
    England (ENG): Manchester City, Chelsea and Arsenal have qualified as they will all finish in the top three of the 2023–24 Women's Super League.
  2. ^
    Russia (RUS): On 28 February 2022, Russian football clubs and national teams were suspended from FIFA and UEFA competitions.[5]

Schedule edit

The schedule of the competition is as follows.[2]

Schedule for 2024–25 UEFA Women's Champions League
Phase Round Draw date First leg Second leg
Qualifying Preliminary round (if needed) 5 July 2024 24–25 July 2024 31 July – 1 August 2024
First round 5 July 2024 4 September 2024 (semi-finals) 7 September 2024 (third-place play-off & final)
Second round 9 September 2024 18–11 September 2024 25–26 September 2024
Group stage Matchday 1 27 September 2024 8–9 October 2024
Matchday 2 16–17 October 2024
Matchday 3 12–13 November 2024
Matchday 4 20–21 November 2024
Matchday 5 11–12 December 2024
Matchday 6 17–18 December 2024
Knockout phase Quarter-finals 7 February 2025 18–19 March 2025 26–27 March 2025
Semi-finals 19–20 April 2025 26–27 April 2025
Final 23–25 May 2025 at Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Lisbon to stage 2025 UEFA Women's Champions League final". UEFA. Retrieved 28 June 2023.
  2. ^ a b "2024/25 Women's Champions League: Dates, access list, full guide". UEFA. 20 April 2024. Retrieved 20 April 2024.
  3. ^ "Women's association club coefficients 2023/24". UEFA. 9 May 2024. Retrieved 9 May 2024.
  4. ^ "Access List for the UEFA Women's Champions League 2024/25 (provisional)" (PDF). UEFA. 9 May 2024. Retrieved 9 May 2024.
  5. ^ "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.

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