{"id":645712,"date":"2026-05-03T20:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T20:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/645712\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T20:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T20:02:08","slug":"who-has-qualified-for-the-champions-league-next-season-teams-clubs-to-contest-uefa-top-competition-in-2026-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/645712\/","title":{"rendered":"Who has qualified for the Champions League next season? Teams, clubs to contest UEFA top competition in 2026\/27"},"content":{"rendered":"

The UEFA Champions League has for decades been known as not only the top competition in European club football, but even beyond that, the most coveted club trophy around the world.<\/p>\n

As the 2025\/26 competition wraps up, with just four teams remaining, some of the focus has turned to next season’s competition as teams gun for qualifying places in the upcoming Champions League tournament.<\/p>\n

Real Madrid<\/a>, the most successful side in the competition with 15 European titles, lead the pack along with some of the top domestic champions from across the continent.<\/p>\n

The top clubs from around Europe will be on hand, tested by some of the Cinderella stories who look to become household names across the globe. Last season, Norwegian side Bodo\/Glimt made waves with a run into the knockout phase, and they have qualified for next year’s competition as they hope to make a similar charge.<\/p>\n

The Sporting News takes you through all the teams involved in next year’s Champions League tournament, as well as all the places still to be earned and determined.<\/p>\n

MORE:\u00a0Tracking the chase for European qualification across the Premier League table<\/a><\/p>\n

Teams qualified for the Champions League league phase next season<\/p>\n

36 teams will participate in the league phase of the Champions League in 2026\/27.<\/p>\n

Of those, 29 will qualify directly to this lucrative phase of the competition, while seven will qualify from the playoff rounds.<\/p>\n

The top four teams in each of the four highest-ranked leagues across UEFA gain direct access to the league phase. After that, three teams qualify directly from the fifth-ranked league, two from the sixth-ranked league, and one from leagues ranked seven through 10.<\/p>\n

Additionally, there are two places earned via overall league participation in the previous season’s UEFA competition structure, known as European Performance Spots (EPS). For the 2026\/27 season, England has already secured one of these spots, while Spain and Germany are fighting for the second.<\/p>\n

League coefficientsRankNationLeague phase qualifiersPlayoff round qualifiers1.England4 + 102.Italy403.Spain4*04.Germany4*05.France316.Netherlands217.Portugal118.Belgium119.Czechia1110.Turkey11<\/p>\n

* Can potentially gain one more qualifying slot via European Performance Spots<\/p>\n

League phase qualifiersClubCountryHow qualifiedLast appearance\u00a0\u00a0Champions League \u2014 Title winner***\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Europa League \u2014 Title winner***\u00a0ArsenalEnglandPremier League \u2014 1st\/2nd2025\/26Man CityEnglandPremier League \u2014 1st\/2nd\/3rd2025\/26Man UnitedEnglandPremier League \u2014 2nd\/3rd\/4th\/5th2023\/24\u00a0EnglandPremier League \u2014 4th place\u00a0\u00a0EnglandPremier League \u2014 5th place*\u00a0Inter MilanItalySerie A \u2014 1st\/2nd\/3rd2025\/26\u00a0ItalySerie A \u2014 2nd place\u00a0\u00a0ItalySerie A \u2014 3rd place\u00a0\u00a0ItalySerie A \u2014 4th place\u00a0BarcelonaSpainLa Liga \u2014 1st\/2nd2025\/26Real MadridSpainLa Liga \u2014 1st\/2nd\/3rd\/4th2025\/26VillarrealSpainLa Liga \u2014 2nd\/3rd\/4th2025\/26\u00a0SpainLa Liga \u2014 4th place\u00a0Bayern MunichGermanyBundesliga \u2014 1st place2025\/26Borussia DortmundGermanyBundesliga \u2014 2nd\/3rd2025\/26\u00a0GermanyBundesliga \u2014 3rd place\u00a0\u00a0GermanyBundesliga \u2014 4th place\u00a0PSGFranceLigue 1 \u2014 1st\/2nd2025\/26\u00a0FranceLigue 1 \u2014 2nd place\u00a0\u00a0FranceLigue 1 \u2014 3rd place\u00a0PSV EindhovenNetherlandsEredivisie \u2014 1st place2025\/26\u00a0NetherlandsEredivisie \u2014 2nd place\u00a0PortoPortugalPrimeira Liga \u2014 1st place2025\/26\u00a0BelgiumPro League \u2014 1st place\u00a0\u00a0CzechiaFirst League \u2014 1st place\u00a0\u00a0TurkeySuper Lig \u2014 1st place\u00a0\u00a0Spain\/GermanyLa Liga\/Bundesliga \u2014 5th place**\u00a0<\/p>\n

*\u00a0England have mathematically secured a fifth Champions League place via the two slots awarded by UEFA to the top participants in the previous season’s competitions.
**\u00a0The second nation to earn a fifth Champions League place via the two slots awarded by UEFA to the top participants in the previous season’s competitions has not yet been determined, with Spain and Germany still in the running.
*** In the event either the 2025\/26 Champions League or Europa League title winners have already qualified via table position, this slot will fall to the highest-ranked club coefficient not already qualified for the league phase. This will trickle all the way down through the qualifying rounds as necessary, bumping teams up each round until the field is completely filled out.<\/p>\n

Teams qualified for the Champions League qualifying rounds<\/p>\n

All nations ranked 11th or below in the UEFA coefficient will see their league champions qualify for the playoff round, as well as a few others from those qualifying spots given out to additional participants.<\/p>\n

These fall into two “paths” of qualifying. Five participants from the “champions path” made of all league champions will reach the league phase from the qualifying rounds, while two participants from the “league path” will advance.<\/p>\n

Qualifying Playoff RoundClubCountryHow qualifiedLast appearanceVikingNorwayEliteserien \u2014 1st place1992\/93\u00a0GreeceSuper League \u2014 1st place\u00a0\u00a0AustriaBundesliga \u2014 1st place\u00a0\u00a0ScotlandPremiership \u2014 1st place\u00a0Third Qualifying RoundClubCountryHow qualifiedLast appearanceLens*FranceLigue 1 \u2014 4th place2023\/24\u00a0NetherlandsEredivisie \u2014 3rd place\u00a0\u00a0PortugalPrimeira Liga \u2014 2nd place\u00a0\u00a0BelgiumPro League \u2014 2nd place\u00a0Slavia Prague*CzechiaFirst League \u2014 2nd place2025\/26<\/p>\n

* Can still qualify for the league phase via table position<\/p>\n

Second Qualifying RoundClubCountryHow qualifiedLast appearance\u00a0PolandEkstraklasa \u2014 1st place\u00a0\u00a0DenmarkSuperliga \u2014 1st place\u00a0ThunSwitzerlandSuper League \u2014 1st place2005\/06\u00a0IsraelPremier League \u2014 1st place\u00a0Omonia NicosiaCyprusFirst Division \u2014 1st place2021\/22Mjallby AIFSwedenAllsvenskan \u2014 1st placeNone (First appearance)Dinamo ZagrebCroatiaFootball League \u2014 1st place2024\/25Red Star BelgradeSerbiaSuperLiga \u2014 1st place2025\/26\u00a0UkrainePremier League \u2014 1st place\u00a0\u00a0TurkeySuper Lig \u2014 2nd place\u00a0Bodo\/GlimtNorwayEliteserien \u2014 2nd place2025\/26\u00a0GreeceSuper League \u2014 1st place\u00a0\u00a0AustriaBundesliga \u2014 2nd place\u00a0\u00a0ScotlandPremiership \u2014 2nd place\u00a0\u00a0PolandEkstraklasa\u00a0\u2014 2nd place\u00a0First Qualifying RoundClubCountryHow qualifiedLast appearance\u00a0HungaryNB I \u2014 1st place\u00a0\u00a0RomaniaLiga I \u2014 1st place\u00a0Slovan BratislavaSlovakiaFirst Football League \u2014 1st place2025\/26NK CeljeSloveniaPrvaLiga \u2014 1st place2024\/25Levski SofiaBulgariaFirst Professional League \u2014 1st place2009\/10SabahAzerbaijanPremier League \u2014 1st placeNone (First appearance)Shamrock RoversRep. of IrelandPremier Division \u2014 1st place2024\/25\u00a0MoldovaMoldova Liga \u2014 1st place\u00a0Vikingur ReykjavikIcelandBeska Deild Karla \u2014 1st place2024\/25\u00a0Bosnia & HerzegovinaPremier League \u2014 1st place\u00a0\u00a0ArmeniaPremier League \u2014 1st place\u00a0RigaLatviaHigher League \u2014 1st place2021\/22\u00a0KosovoSuperleague \u2014 1st place\u00a0KuPSFinlandVeikkausliiga \u2014 1st place2025\/26Kairat AlmatyKazakhstanPremier League \u2014 1st place2025\/26KIFaroe IslandsPremier League \u2014 1st place2024\/25\u00a0MaltaPremier League \u2014 1st place\u00a0LarneN. IrelandPremiership \u2014 1st place2024\/25Kauno ZalgirisLithuaniaA Lyga \u2014 1st placeNone (First appearance)FloraEstoniaMeistriliiga \u2014 1st place2024\/25\u00a0AlbaniaKategoria Superiore \u2014 1st place\u00a0\u00a0MontenegroFirst League \u2014 1st place\u00a0\u00a0LuxembourgNational Division \u2014 1st place\u00a0The New SaintsWalesCymru Premier \u2014 1st place2025\/26Iberia 1999GeorgiaErovnuli Liga \u2014 1st place2025\/26\u00a0MacedoniaFirst League \u2014 1st place\u00a0ML VitebskBelarusPremier League \u2014 1st placeNone (First appearance)\u00a0AndorraPremiera Divisio \u2014 1st place\u00a0Lincoln Red ImpsGibraltarFootball League \u2014 1st place2025\/26Tre FioriSan MarinoCampionato\u00a0di Calcio \u2014 1st place2020\/21<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UEFA Champions League has for decades been known as not only the top competition in European club…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-645712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}