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The 2021–22 UEFA Champions League will be the 67th season of Europe's premier club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 30th season since it was renamed from the European Champion Clubs' Cup to the UEFA Champions League.

The final will be played at the Krestovsky Stadium in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It was originally scheduled to be played at the Allianz Arena in Munich, Germany. However, due to the postponement and relocation of the 2020 final, the final hosts were shifted back a year, with Saint Petersburg instead hosting the 2022 final. The winners of the 2021–22 UEFA Champions League will automatically qualify for the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League group stage, and also earn the right to play against the winners of the 2021–22 UEFA Europa League in the 2022 UEFA Super Cup.

This season will be the first since 1998–99 (last season when the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup was played) where three major European club competitions (UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, and the newly created UEFA Europa Conference League) are organised by UEFA. However, no changes are made to the format of the Champions League, but teams which are eliminated from the preliminary round and first qualifying round of the Champions League are now transferred to the Europa Conference League instead of the Europa League.

Association team allocation
A total of 79, 80 or 81 teams from 54 of the 55 UEFA member associations participate in the 2021–22 UEFA Champions League (the exception being Liechtenstein, which does not organise a domestic league). The association ranking based on the UEFA association 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 2020–21 UEFA Champions League and 2020–21 UEFA Europa League are each given an additional entry if they do not qualify for the 2021–22 UEFA Champions League through their domestic league.

Association ranking
For the 2021–22 UEFA Champions League, the associations are allocated places according to their 2020 UEFA association coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 2015–16 to 2019–20.

Apart from the allocation based on the association 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 following changes to the access list will be made:
 * The champions of association 11 (Turkey) enter the group stage instead of the play-off round.
 * The champions of association 13 (Denmark) enter the play-off round instead of the third qualifying round.
 * The champions of association 15 (Czech Republic) enter the third qualifying round instead of the second qualifying round.
 * The champions of associations 18 (Greece) and 19 (Serbia) enter the second qualifying round instead of the first qualifying round.
 * If the Europa League title holders qualify for the group stage via their domestic league, the following changes to the access list will be made:
 * The third-placed team of association 5 (France) enter the group stage instead of the third qualifying round.
 * The runners-up of associations 10 (Netherlands) and 11 (Turkey) enter the third qualifying round instead of the second qualifying round.
 * 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
The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:
 * TH: Champions League title holders
 * EL: Europa League title holders
 * 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc.: League positions of the previous season
 * Abd-: League positions of abandoned season due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe as determined by the national association; all teams are subject to approval by UEFA as per the guidelines for entry to European competitions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The second qualifying round, third qualifying round and play-off round are divided into Champions Path (CH) and League Path (LP).

Notes

Schedule
The schedule of the competition is as follows. All matches are played on Tuesdays and Wednesdays apart from the preliminary round final, which takes place on a Friday, and the final, which takes place on a Saturday. The third qualifying round second legs are only played on a Tuesday due to the 2021 UEFA Super Cup on the following Wednesday. Scheduled kick-off times starting from the play-off round are 18:45 (instead of 18:55 previously) and 21:00 CEST/CET.

All draws, except the group stage draw, start at 12:00 CEST/CET, and are held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. The group stage draw starts at 18:00 CEST, at a venue to be confirmed.

Group stage
Pot 1
 * 2020–21 UEFA Champions League title holders
 * 2020–21 UEFA Europa League title holders
 * Champions of 2020–21 La Liga
 * Champions of 2020–21 Premier League
 * Champions of 2020–21 Bundesliga
 * Champions of 2020–21 Serie A
 * Champions of 2020–21 Ligue 1
 * Champions of 2020–21 Primeira Liga

Pot 1 or 2
 * Bayern Munich CC: ≥132.000 (Pot 1 if champions or Champions League title holders)

Pot 1, 2, 3 or 4
 * Champions of 2020–21 Russian Premier League
 * Champions of 2020–21 Belgian First Division A

Pot 2, 3 or 4
 * Runners-up of 2020–21 La Liga
 * Third place of 2020–21 La Liga
 * Fourth place of 2020–21 La Liga
 * Runners-up of 2020–21 Premier League
 * Third place of 2020–21 Premier League
 * Fourth place of 2020–21 Premier League
 * Runners-up or third place of 2020–21 Bundesliga
 * Third or fourth place of 2020–21 Bundesliga
 * Runners-up of 2020–21 Serie A
 * Third place of 2020–21 Serie A
 * Fourth place of 2020–21 Serie A
 * Runners-up of 2020–21 Ligue 1
 * Runners-up of 2020–21 Primeira Liga
 * Champions of 2020–21 Ukrainian Premier League
 * Champions of 2020–21 Eredivisie
 * 4 winners from the play-off round (Champions Path)
 * 2 winners from the play-off round (League Path)