Who has qualified for Champions League's league phase?

Two places for this season's Champions League league phase go to the winners of last season's Champions League and Europa League.

Following that, to determine how many places each nation gets, Uefa uses its association rankings from the five-year period ending two seasons prior to that campaign.

For example, for the 2026-27 season, places are used based on Uefa rankings between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 seasons.

With England, Italy, Spain and Germany ranked first to fourth respectively, the top four teams in their leagues qualify straight to the league path.

From France, which ranks fifth, the top three teams in Ligue 1 directly qualify. Fourth place will also earn a spot in the third qualifying round of the competition.

The Netherlands is ranked sixth and is awarded spots for the top two Eredivisie sides, with the third-placed domestic side entering the third qualifying round.

Portugal, Belgium, Czech Republic and Turkey, ranked seventh to 10th in order, are given two places each. The league winners from all four countries get a spot in the league phase. The league runners-up in Portugal, Belgium and the Czech Republic all get a place in the third qualifying round, while Turkey are given an extra team in the second qualifying round.

Norway, Greece, Austria and Scotland are the nations ranked 11th to 14th. The winners of each league get a place in the play-off qualifying round, effectively the fourth and final round of qualifying. All four countries also get a second place in the second qualifying round.

Poland, ranked 15th, will have its top two clubs enter in the second qualifying round. All other nations only get one team each, all of which will enter in either of the first two rounds of qualifying.

Through qualifying, seven spots in the league phase are available. Teams are split into the 'champions path' and the 'league path'.

Champions path clubs, who are league winners from nations outside the top 10 during the qualifying period, will compete for five spots.

The other two spots go to league path clubs, a separate qualifying route for clubs from nations given multiple qualifying spots without winning their domestic league.

The EPS spots for this season went to teams from England and Spain.

The winners of this season's Champions League - Paris St-Germain - have already qualified for next season's competition because of performances in their domestic league.

Uefa has awarded the spot set aside for the holders to the league winner that has yet to directly qualify for the Champions League with the highest club coefficient ranking over a five-year period ending this season.

This spot was won by Shakhtar.

Like in the Champions League, this season's Europa League winners Villa had already qualified for this season's competition prior to beating Freiburg in the final.

Because of England's EPS and Villa not finishing outside of the top five, England only got five qualification places instead of six.

As they finished in the top four, they surrender their Europa League title-winner spot to the best-ranked team in Uefa's club coefficient rankings to only reach the qualifying rounds.

In that scenario, Portuguese side Sporting will move up from the league path of the third qualifying round to the league phase.