Champions League: Which teams have qualified for the 2026-27 tournament?

The primary two locations into subsequent season’s Champions League’s league section go to the winners of this season’s Champions League and Europa League.

Following that, to find out what number of locations every nation will get, Uefa makes use of their affiliation rankings from the five-year interval ending two seasons previous to that marketing campaign.

For instance, for the 2026-27 season, locations are used based mostly on Uefa’s rankings between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 seasons.

With England, Italy, Spain and Germany ranked first to fourth respectively, the highest 4 groups of their leagues qualify straight to the league path.

France, ranked in fifth, see the highest three groups in Ligue 1 instantly qualify. Fourth place may also earn a spot within the third qualifying spherical of the competitors.

Netherlands are ranked sixth and are awarded spots for the highest two Eredivisie sides, in addition to third place getting into the third qualifying spherical.

Portugal, Belgium, Czech Republic and Turkey, ranked seventh to tenth so as, are given two locations every. The league winners from all 4 nations get a spot within the league section. The league runners-up in Portugal, Belgium and Czech Republic all get a spot within the third qualifying spherical, whereas Turkey are given an additional crew within the second qualifying spherical.

Norway, Greece, Austria and Scotland are the nations ranked eleventh to 14th. The winners of every league all get a spot within the play-off qualifying spherical, successfully the fourth and ultimate spherical of qualifying. All 4 nations additionally get a second place within the second qualifying spherical.

Poland, ranked fifteenth, will see their prime two golf equipment enter within the second qualifying spherical. All different nations solely get one crew every, all of which is able to enter in both of the primary two rounds of qualifying.

In qualifying, seven spots can be found. Groups are break up into the ‘champions path’ and the ‘league path’.

Champions path golf equipment, league winners from nations exterior the highest 10 through the qualifying interval, will compete for one in every of 5 spots.

The opposite two spots go to league path golf equipment, a separate qualifying path for golf equipment from nations given a number of qualifying spots with out profitable their home league.

The opposite EPS spot is but to be determined, however solely Germany, Spain and Portugal can mathematically qualify for it.

Whereas not formally assured, there’s a possible situation through which the winners of this season’s Champions League could have already certified for subsequent season’s competitors by way of their home competitors.

In that occasion, Uefa will re-award that spot to the league winner that has but to instantly qualify for the Champions League with the very best membership coefficient rating over a five-year interval ending this season.

Olympiakos are the highest-ranked membership within the race for the title-holder alternative spot however are 5 factors shy of Greek Tremendous League leaders AEK Athens.

Second on the listing is Rangers, that means in the event that they win the Scottish Premiership and Olympiakos don’t overturn their present deficit of their home league, Rangers would qualify straight into subsequent season’s league section.