2026–27 UEFA Women's Europa Cup
Association football tournament
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The 2026–27 UEFA Women's Europa Cup will be the second 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 (including the final) played as a two-legged home-and-away tie.[1][2][3]
26 August – 1 October 2026
Competition proper:
28 October 2026 – 8 or 9 May 2027
Total: 44 (from TBD associations)
The winners will automatically qualify for the third qualifying round (Champions Path) of the 2027–28 UEFA Women's Champions League.
As the title holders, BK Häcken qualified for the Champions League league phase and are unable to defend their title.
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:[1]
- Associations 8–13 and 18–24 each have one team qualify directly.
- 31 teams eliminated from the 2026–27 Women's Champions League qualifying rounds 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 2026–27 UEFA Women's Europa Cup, the associations are allocated places according to their 2025 UEFA women's Association coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 2020–21 to 2024–25.[4]
Apart from the allocation based on the association coefficients, associations may have additional teams participating in the Europa Cup, as noted below:
- (UCL) – Additional teams transferred from the UEFA Women's Champions League
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Distribution
| Teams entering in this round | Teams advancing from the previous round | Teams entering from the Champions League qualifying rounds | |
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| First qualifying round (24 teams) |
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| Second qualifying 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, 4th: 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
Notes
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- ^ Serbia (SRB): Red Star Belgrade finished first and champions of the 2025–26 Serbian Women's Super League and qualified for the second qualifying round (Champions Path) of the 2026–27 UEFA Women's Champions League but failed to obtain a UEFA licence. As a result, their place in the competition was passed on to the second-placed team, TSC Bačka Topola, and the place that was entitled to TSC Bačka Topola in the first qualifying round of the 2026–27 UEFA Women's Europa Cup was passed on to the third-placed team, Spartak Subotica.[8][9]
- ^ Ukraine (UKR): Vorskla Poltava finished third in the 2025–26 Ukrainian Women's Higher League and qualified for the first qualifying round but failed to obtain a UEFA licence and because of their financial difficulties. As a result, their place in the competition was passed on to the fourth-placed team, Kolos Kovalivka.[10][11]
Schedule
The schedule of the competition is as follows.[12][13]
| Round | Draw date | First leg | Second leg |
|---|---|---|---|
| First qualifying round | 11 August 2026 | 26 and 29 August 2026 | 1–2 September 2026 |
| Second qualifying round | 4 September 2026 | 23 September 2026 | 30 September 2026 |
| Round of 16 | 2 October 2026 | 28–29 October 2026 | 10–11 November 2026 |
| Quarter-finals | 3–4 February 2027 | 10–11 February 2027 | |
| Semi-finals | 23–24 March 2027 | 31 March–1 April 2027 | |
| Final | 1 or 2 May 2027 | 8 or 9 May 2027 |
Qualifying rounds
First qualifying round
The first legs were played on 26 and 29 August, and the second legs on 1 and 2 September 2026. 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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FC Minsk  | 1–0 |  Agram | 0–0 | 1–0 |
| Hajduk Split | 1–3 |  Fortuna Hjørring | 0–2 | 1–1 |
Radomlje  | 1–9 |  Vålerenga | 0–2 | 1–7 |
Apollon Ladies  | 1–2 |  FH | 0–2 | 1–0 |
Mitrovica  | 0–5 |  Metalist 1925 Kharkiv | 0–0 | 0–5 |
Sturm Graz  | 7–4 |  Gintra | 2–1 | 5–3 |
Torreense  | 9–2 | Kolos Kovalivka | 6–1 | 3–1 |
SFK 2000  | 3–4 |  Slovan Liberec | 2–3 | 1–1 |
| Breiðablik | 9–1 |  Csíkszereda | 8–1 | 1–0 |
| SeaSters Odesa | 1–3 | Rosenborg | 1–0 | 0–3 |
Anderlecht  | 3–4 |  Feyenoord | 2–1 | 1–3 |
Spartak Subotica  | 1–9 | Brøndby | 0–5 | 1–4 |
Second qualifying round
The first legs will be played on 23 September, and the second legs on 30 September 2026. The winners of the ties will advance to the round of 16.
| Team 1 | Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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| FC Minsk | Match 1 |  Fenerbahçe | 23 Sep | 30 Sep |
| Metalist 1925 Kharkiv | Match 2 | Torreense | 23 Sep | 30 Sep |
| Ajax | Match 3 |  Aktobe | 23 Sep | 30 Sep |
VfL Wolfsburg  | Match 4 | Sturm Graz | 23 Sep | 30 Sep |
| Sparta Prague | Match 5 | Farul Constanța | 23 Sep | 30 Sep |
| Brøndby | Match 6 | Sporting CP | 23 Sep | 30 Sep |
| St. Pölten | Match 7 |  Malmö FF | 23 Sep | 30 Sep |
| Breiðablik | Match 8 |  Czarni Sosnowiec | 23 Sep | 30 Sep |
| Feyenoord | Match 9 | Vålerenga | 23 Sep | 30 Sep |
| Slovan Liberec | Match 10 | Rosenborg | 23 Sep | 30 Sep |
HJK  | Match 11 | Brann | 23 Sep | 30 Sep |
Heart of Midlothian  | Match 12 |  Real Sociedad | 23 Sep | 30 Sep |
| FH | Match 13[a] | Eintracht Frankfurt | 23 Sep | 30 Sep |
PAOK  | Match 14 |  Spartak Myjava | 23 Sep | 30 Sep |
| Hammarby IF | Match 15 | Rangers | 23 Sep | 30 Sep |
| PSV Eindhoven | Match 16 | Fortuna Hjørring | 23 Sep | 30 Sep |
- The order of the legs was reversed after the original draw.
Knockout phase
Bracket
Round of 16
| Team 1 | Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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| Seed 1/2 or unseed | Match 1 | Seed 1/2 or unseed | 28–29 Oct | 10–11 Nov |
| Seed 8/7 or unseed | Match 2 | Seed 8/7 or unseed | 28–29 Oct | 10–11 Nov |
| Seed 5/6 or unseed | Match 3 | Seed 5/6 or unseed | 28–29 Oct | 10–11 Nov |
| Seed 3/4 or unseed | Match 4 | Seed 3/4 or unseed | 28–29 Oct | 10–11 Nov |
| Seed 2/1 or unseed | Match 5 | Seed 2/1 or unseed | 28–29 Oct | 10–11 Nov |
| Seed 6/5 or unseed | Match 6 | Seed 6/5 or unseed | 28–29 Oct | 10–11 Nov |
| Seed 6/5 or unseed | Match 7 | Seed 6/5 or unseed | 28–29 Oct | 10–11 Nov |
| Seed 4/3 or unseed | Match 8 | Seed 4/3 or unseed | 28–29 Oct | 10–11 Nov |
Quarter-finals
| Team 1 | Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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| Winner R16 Match 1 | Match 1 | Winner R16 Match 2 | 3–4 Feb | 10–11 Feb |
| Winner R16 Match 3 | Match 2 | Winner R16 Match 4 | 3–4 Feb | 10–11 Feb |
| Winner R16 Match 5 | Match 3 | Winner R16 Match 6 | 3–4 Feb | 10–11 Feb |
| Winner R16 Match 7 | Match 4 | Winner R16 Match 8 | 3–4 Feb | 10–11 Feb |
Semi-finals
| Team 1 | Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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| Winner QF Match 1 | Match 1 | Winner QF Match 2 | 23–24 Mar | 31 Mar - 1 Apr |
| Winner QF Match 3 | Match 2 | Winner QF Match 4 | 23–24 Mar | 31 Mar - 1 Apr |