2020–21 UEFA Women's Champions League


The 2020–21 UEFA Women's Champions League will be the 20th edition of the European women's club football championship organised by UEFA, and the 12th edition since being rebranded as the UEFA Women's Champions League.
The final will be held at the Gamla Ullevi in Gothenburg, Sweden. The winners of the 2020–21 UEFA Women's Champions League will automatically qualify for the 2021–22 UEFA Women's Champions League group stage, which will be the first edition to feature a 16-team group stage.

Association team allocation

A maximum of 68 teams may participate in the 2020–21 UEFA Women's Champions League. The association ranking based on the UEFA women's country coefficients is used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:
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, Liechtenstein and San Marino.

Association ranking

For the 2020–21 UEFA Women's Champions League, the associations are allocated places according to their 2019 UEFA women's country coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 2014 to 2015 to 2018–19. For the first time there are two entries for the Netherlands and Kazakhstan.
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Unlike the men's Champions League, not every association enters a team, and so the exact number of teams entering in the qualifying round and knockout phase cannot be determined until the full entry list is known. In general, the title holders, the champions of the top 12 associations, and the runners-up of highest-ranked associations receive a bye to the round of 32. All other teams enter the qualifying round, with the group winners and a maximum of two best runners-up advancing to the round of 32.
Teams entering in this roundTeams advancing from previous round
Qualifying round

  • TBD champions from associations 13 or lower
  • TBD runners-up from associations TBD–12
Knockout phase
  • Title holders
  • 12 champions from associations 1–12
  • TBD runners-up from associations 1–TBD
  • TBD group winners from qualifying round

    • Teams

    In early April 2020, UEFA announced that due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, the deadline for entering the tournament had been postponed until further notice. On 17 June 2020, UEFA announced that associations must enter their teams by 10 August 2020. The 2020–21 season is the first where teams must obtain a UEFA club license to participate in the UEFA Women's Champions League.
    The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:
    CC: 2020 UEFA women's club coefficients. Club coefficients which are not final and may increase are marked by ≥.
    Notes

    Schedule

    The schedule of the competition is as follows. The tournament would have originally started in August 2020, but had been delayed to October due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe. The new schedule was announced by the UEFA Executive Committee on 17 June 2020.
    The original schedule of the competition, as planned before the pandemic, was as follows.