2024–25_UEFA_Women's_Champions_League
2024–25 UEFA Women's Champions League
International football competition
The 2024–25 UEFA Women's Champions League will be the 24th edition of the European women's club football championship organised by UEFA, and the 16th edition since being rebranded as the UEFA Women's Champions League. It will be the final edition to feature a 16-team group stage.
The Estádio José Alvalade in Lisbon will host the final | |
| Dates | 24 July 2024 – 25 May 2025 |
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← 2023–24 2025–26 → | |
The final will be held at the Estádio José Alvalade in Lisbon, Portugal.[1]
The association ranking based on the UEFA women's country coefficients is used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:[2]
- Associations 1–6 each have three teams qualify.
- Associations 7–16 each have two teams qualify.
- All other associations, if they entered, each have one team qualify.
- The winners of the 2023–24 UEFA Women's Champions League are given an additional entry if they do not qualify for the 2024–25 UEFA Women's Champions League through their domestic league.
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 (1 club in Spain), Liechtenstein (3 clubs in Switzerland) and San Marino (1 club in Italy).
Association ranking
For the 2024–25 UEFA Women's Champions League, the associations are allocated places according to their 2023 UEFA women's Association coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 2018-19 to 2022–23.[3]
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Distribution
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| Round 1 (Mini-tournament) |
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| Round 2 | Champions Path |
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| Group stage (16 Teams) |
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| Knockout stage (8 Teams) |
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As the Champions League title holders (Barcelona) have already qualified via their domestic leagues, the following changes were made:
- The champions of association 4 (England) enter the group stage instead of Round 2 (Champions Path).
- The champions of association 7 (Czechia) enter Round 2 instead of Round 1 (Champions Path).
Teams
The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:
- TH: Title holders
- 1st, 2nd, 3rd: League positions of the previous season
The two qualifying rounds, round 1 and round 2, are divided into Champions Path (CP) and League Path (LP).
The schedule of the competition is as follows.[2]
| Phase | Round | Draw date | First leg | Second leg |
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| Qualifying | Preliminary round (if needed) | 5 July 2024 | 24–25 July 2024 | 31 July – 1 August 2024 |
| First round | 5 July 2024 | 4 September 2024 (semi-finals) | 7 September 2024 (third-place play-off & final) | |
| Second round | 9 September 2024 | 18–19 September 2024 | 25–26 September 2024 | |
| Group stage | Matchday 1 | 27 September 2024 | 8–9 October 2024 | |
| Matchday 2 | 16–17 October 2024 | |||
| Matchday 3 | 12–13 November 2024 | |||
| Matchday 4 | 20–21 November 2024 | |||
| Matchday 5 | 11–12 December 2024 | |||
| Matchday 6 | 17–18 December 2024 | |||
| Knockout phase | Quarter-finals | 7 February 2025 | 18–19 March 2025 | 26–27 March 2025 |
| Semi-finals | 19–20 April 2025 | 26–27 April 2025 | ||
| Final | 23–25 May 2025 at Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon | |||
- "Lisbon to stage 2025 UEFA Women's Champions League final". UEFA. Retrieved 28 June 2023.
- "2024/25 Women's Champions League: Dates, access list, full guide". UEFA. 20 April 2024. Retrieved 20 April 2024.
- "Women's association club coefficients 2023/24". UEFA. 9 May 2024. Retrieved 9 May 2024.
- "Access List for the UEFA Women's Champions League 2024/25 (provisional)" (PDF). UEFA. 9 May 2024. Retrieved 9 May 2024.