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The 2020-21 UEFA Champions League will be the 66th season of Europe's premier club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 29th season since it was renamed from the European Champion Clubs' Cup to the UEFA Champions League.

The winners of the 2020-21 UEFA Champions League will automatically qualify for the 2021-22 UEFA Champions League group stage, and also earn the right to play against the winners of the 2020-21 UEFA Europa League in the 2021 UEFA Super Cup.

Association team allocation
A total of 79, 80 or 81 teams from 54 of the 55 UEFA member associations participate in the 2020-21 UEFA Champions League (the exception being Liechtenstein, which does not organize a domestic league). The association ranking based on the UEFA country coefficients is used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:
 * Associations 1-4 each have four teams qualify.
 * Associations 5-6 each have three teams qualify.
 * Associations 7-15 each have two teams qualify.
 * Associations 16-55 (except Liechtenstein) each have one team qualify.
 * The winners of the 2019-20 UEFA Champions League and 2019-20 UEFA Europa League are each given an additional entry if they do not qualify for the 2020-21 UEFA Champions League through their domestic league.

Association ranking
For the 2020-21 UEFA Champions League, the associations are allocated places according to their 2019 UEFA country coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 2014-15 to 2018-19.

Apart from the allocation based on the country coefficients, associations may have additional teams participating in the Champions League, as noted below:
 * (UCL) - Additional berth for UEFA Champions League title holders
 * (UEL) - Additional berth for UEFA Europa League title holders

Distribution
The following is the default access list.

Changes will be made to the access list above if the Champions League and/or Europa League title holders qualify for the tournament via their domestic leagues.
 * If the Champions League title holders qualify for the group stage via their domestic league, the champions of association 11 (Netherlands) will enter the group stage, and champions of the highest-ranked associations in earlier rounds will also be promoted accordingly.
 * If the Europa League title holders qualify for the group stage via their domestic league, the third-placed team of association 5 (France) will enter the group stage, and runners-up of the highest-ranked associations in the second qualifying round will also be promoted accordingly.
 * If the Champions League and/or Europa League title holders qualify for the qualifying rounds via their domestic league, their spot in the qualifying rounds is vacated, and teams of the highest-ranked associations in earlier rounds will be promoted accordingly.
 * An association may have a maximum of five teams in the Champions League. Therefore, if both the Champions League and Europa League title holders come from the same top-four association and finish outside of the top four of their domestic league, the fourth-placed team of the league will not compete in the Champions League and will instead compete in the Europa League.

Teams
League positions of the previous season shown in parentheses (TH: Champions League title holders; EL: Europa League title holders).