Draft:2025–26 UEFA Champions League

The 2025–26 UEFA Champions League will be the 71th season of Europe's premier club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 33rd season since it was rebranded from the European Champion Clubs' Cup to the UEFA Champions League.

The final tournament will be played in Hungary from 10 March to 30 May 2026.

Schedule
The schedule of the competition is as follows. Compared to past seasons, "exclusive week" will be introduced in which Thursday will also be a matchday. All matches in other weeks will be played on Tuesdays and Wednesdays apart from the final.

Association team allocation
A total of 81 teams from 53 of the 55 UEFA member associations are set to participate in the 2025–26 UEFA Champions League (the exceptions being Liechtenstein which does not organise a domestic league and Russia which is currently suspended). The association ranking based on the UEFA association coefficients is used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:
 * Associations 1–5 each have four teams.
 * Association 6 has three teams.
 * Associations 7–15 each have two teams.
 * Associations 16–55 (except Liechtenstein and Russia) each have one team.
 * The winners of the 2024-25 UEFA Champions League and 2024-25 UEFA Europa League are each given an additional entry if they do not qualify for the 2025–26 UEFA Champions League through their domestic league.
 * The two associations who obtain the most coefficient points in the 2024–25 season will each have one European Performance Spot into the league phase. The winners of the UEFA Champions League and Europa League cannot fill the European Performance Spots.

Association ranking
For the 2025–26 UEFA Champions League, the associations are allocated places according to their 2024 UEFA association coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 2019–20 to 2023–24. The table reflects Russia's ongoing suspension from UEFA.

Apart from the allocation based on the association coefficients, associations may have additional teams participating in the Champions League, as noted below:
 * (EPS) – European Performance Spot, the additional berths for associations who finished in the top 2 of the 2023–24 association coefficients
 * (TH) – Additional berth for UEFA Champions League title holders
 * (EL) – Additional berth for UEFA Europa League title holders