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Champions League

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

Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes 1 Spain 103.569 4 2 England 85.462 3 Italy 74.725 4 Germany 71.927 5 France 58.498 3 6 Russia 50.549 7 Portugal 48.232 2 8 Belgium 39.900 9 Ukraine 38.900 10 Turkey 34.600 11 Netherlands 32.433 12 Austria 31.250 13 Czech Republic 28.675 14 Greece 27.600 15 Croatia 27.375 16 Denmark 27.025 1 17 Switzerland 26.900 18 Cyprus 24.925 19 Serbia 22.250

Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes 20 Scotland 22.125 1 21 Belarus 21.875 22 Sweden 20.900 23 Norway 20.200 24 Kazakhstan 19.250 25 Poland 19.250 26 Azerbaijan 19.000 27 Israel 18.625 28 Bulgaria 17.500 29 Romania 15.950 30 Slovakia 15.625 31 Slovenia 15.000 32 Liechtenstein 13.500 0 33 Hungary 10.500 1 34 FUR Macedonia 8.000 35 Moldova 7.750 36 Albania 7.500 37 Republic of Ireland 7.450

Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes 38 Finland 7.275 1 39 Iceland 7.250 40 Bosnia and Herzegovina 7.125 41 Lithuania 6.750 42 Latvia 5.625 43 Luxembourg 5.500 44 Armenia 5.250 45 Malta 5.125 46 Estonia 5.000 47 Georgia 4.750 48 Wales 4.125 49 Montenegro 4.125 50 Faroe Islands 4.000 51 Gibraltar 4.000 52 Northern Ireland 3.875 53 Kosovo 2.500 54 Andorra 1.831 55 San Marino 0.666

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).

Qualified teams for 2020–21 UEFA Champions League (by entry round)
Group stage

Atlético Madrid (1st)	Arsenal (4th)	RB Leipzig (3rd)	Porto (1st)
Manchester United (3rd)	Juventus (1st)	Eintracht Frankfurt (4th)	Standard Liege (1st)
Barcelona (2nd)	Lazio (2nd)	Paris Saint-Germain (1st)	Shakhtar Donetsk (1st)
Sevilla (3rd)	Roma (3rd)	Marseille (2nd)	Beşiktaş (1st)
Valencia (4th)	Milan (4th)	Lyon (3rd)	Ajax (1st)
Manchester City (1st)	Bayern Munich (1st)	CSKA Moscow (1st)
Liverpool (2nd)	Borussia Dortmund (2nd)	Zenit Saint Petersburg (2nd)

Play-off round

Champions Path		League Path
Red Bull Salzburg (1st)	Slavia Prague (1st)

Third qualifying round

Champions Path		League Path
PAOK (1st)	Dinamo Zagreb (1st)	Lokomotiv Moscow (3rd)	Dynamo Kyiv (2nd)
		Benfica (2nd)	Galatasaray (2nd)
		Genk (2nd)	PSV Eindhoven (2nd)

Second qualifying round

Champions Path		League Path
Copenhagen (1st)	APOEL (1st)	Austria Wien (2nd)	Olympiacos (2nd)
Basel (1st)	Red Star Belgrade (1st)	Viktoria Plzeň (2nd)	Rijeka (2nd)

First qualifying round

Celtic (1st)	Ludogorets Razgrad (1st)	Shkëndija (1st)	Dinamo Tbilisi (1st)
BATE Borisov (1st)	Steaua București (1st)	HJK (1st)	Alashkert (1st)
Malmö (1st)	Slovan Bratislava (1st)	Dundalk (1st)	Valletta (1st)
Molde (1st)	Maribor (1st)	Sarajevo (1st)	F91 Dudelange (1st)
Astana (1st)	Sheriff Tiraspol (1st)	Riga FC (1st)	The New Saints (1st)
Legia Warsaw (1st)	Partizani (1st)	Nõmme Kalju (1st)	B36 Tórshavn (1st)
Qarabağ (1st)	Valur (1st)	Sūduva (1st)	Europa (1st)
Maccabi Tel Aviv (1st)	MOL Vidi (1st)	Sutjeska Nikšić (1st)

Preliminary round

Linfield (1st)

Prishtina (1st)

FC Santa Coloma (1st)

La Fiorita (1st)

See also

• 2020–21 UEFA Europa League
• 2021 UEFA Super Cup
• 2020–21 UEFA Women's Champions League
• 2020–21 UEFA Youth League

References

1. "Country coefficients 2018/19". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 3 June 2019. Retrieved 5 June 2019.
2. "UEFA Country Ranking 2019". kassiesa.home.xs4all.nl. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
3. ^ "Champions League and Europa League changes next season". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 27 February 2018. Retrieved 27 February 2018.

External links

• UEFA Champions League

Europa League

Τhe 2020–21 UEFA Europa League will be the 49th season of Europe's secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 12th season since it was renamed from the UEFA Cup to the UEFA Europa League. They will also automatically qualify for the 2021–22 UEFA Champions League group stage. As the title holders of Europa League Manchester United, qualified for the 2019–20 UEFA Champions League, although they had already qualified before the final through their league performance. They will be unable to defend their title unless they finish third in the Champions League group stage.

Association team allocation

A total of 213 teams from all 55 UEFA member associations are expected to participate in the 2020–21 UEFA Europa League. The association ranking based on the UEFA country coefficients is used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:

• Associations 1–51 (except Liechtenstein) each have three teams qualify.
• Associations 52–54 each have two teams qualify.
• Liechtenstein and San Marino (association 55) each have one team qualify (Liechtenstein organises only a domestic cup and no domestic league; Kosovo as per decision by the UEFA Executive Committee).
• Moreover, 55 teams eliminated from the 2020–21 UEFA Champions League are transferred to the Europa League (default number is 57, but 2 fewer teams compete in the 2020–21 UEFA Champions League).

Association ranking

For the 2020–21 UEFA Europa League, the associations are allocated places according to their 2020 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 teams transferred from the UEFA Champions 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

Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes 1 Spain 103.569 3 2 England 85.462 3 Italy 74.725 4 Germany 71.927 5 France 58.498 6 Russia 50.549 7 Portugal 48.232 8 Belgium 39.900 9 Ukraine 38.900 10 Turkey 34.600 11 Netherlands 32.433 12 Austria 31.250 13 Czech Republic 28.675 14 Greece 27.600 15 Croatia 27.375 16 Denmark 27.025 17 Switzerland 26.900 18 Cyprus 24.925 19 Serbia 22.250

Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes 20 Scotland 22.125 3 21 Belarus 21.875 22 Sweden 20.900 23 Norway 20.200 24 Kazakhstan 19.250 25 Poland 19.250 26 Azerbaijan 19.000 27 Israel 18.625 28 Bulgaria 17.500 29 Romania 15.950 30 Slovakia 15.625 31 Slovenia 15.000 32 Liechtenstein 13.500 1 33 Hungary 10.500 3 34 FYR Macedonia 8.000 35 Moldova 7.750 36 Albania 7.500 37 Republic of Ireland 7.450

Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes 38 Finland 7.275 3 39 Iceland 7.250 40 Bosnia and Herzegovina 7.125 41 Lithuania 6.750 42 Latvia 5.625 43 Luxembourg 5.500 44 Armenia 5.250 45 Malta 5.125 46 Estonia 5.000 47 Georgia 4.750 48 Wales 4.125 49 Montenegro 4.125 50 Faroe Islands 4.000 51 Gibraltar 4.000 52 Northern Ireland 3.875 2 53 Kosovo 2.500 54 Andorra 1.831 55 San Marino 0.666 1

Distribution

The following is the access list for this season.

Changes are made to the default access list, if any of the teams that qualify for the Europa League via their domestic competitions also qualify for the Champions League as the Champions League or Europa League title holders, or if there are fewer teams transferred from the Champions League due to changes in the Champions League access list. In any case where a spot in the Europa League is vacated, cup winners of the highest-ranked associations in earlier rounds are promoted accordingly.

• In the default access list, originally 17 losers from the Champions League first qualifying round are transferred to the Europa League second qualifying round (Champions Path). However, since the Champions League title holders qualified for the Champions League group stage via their domestic league, only 16 losers from the Champions League first qualifying round were transferred to the Europa League second qualifying round (Champions Path). As a result, only 19 teams entered the Champions Path second qualifying round (one of the losers from the Champions League first qualifying round would be drawn to receive a bye to the third qualifying round).
• In the default access list, originally three losers from the Champions League second qualifying round (League Path) are transferred to the Europa League third qualifying round (Main Path). However, since the Europa League title holders qualified for the Champions League group stage via their domestic league, only two losers from the Champions League second qualifying round (League Path) were transferred to the Europa League third qualifying round (Main Path). As a result, the following changes to the access list were made:
  • The cup winners of association 18 entered the third qualifying round instead of the second qualifying round.
  • The cup winners of association 25 entered the second qualifying round instead of the first qualifying round.
  • The cup winners of associations 50 and 51 entered the first qualifying round instead of the preliminary round.

Redistribution rules

A Europa League place is vacated when a team qualifies for both the Champions League and the Europa League, or qualifies for the Europa League by more than one method. When a place is vacated, it is redistributed within the national association by the following rules:

• When the domestic cup winners (considered as the "highest-placed" qualifier within the national association with the latest starting round) also qualify for the Champions League, their Europa League place is vacated. As a result, the highest-placed team in the league which have not yet qualified for European competitions qualify for the Europa League, with the Europa League qualifiers which finish above them in the league moved up one "place".
• When the domestic cup winners also qualify for the Europa League through league position, their place through the league position is vacated. As a result, the highest-placed team in the league which have not yet qualified for European competitions qualify for the Europa League, with the Europa League qualifiers which finish above them in the league moved up one "place" if possible.
• For associations where a Europa League place is reserved for either the League Cup or end-of-season European competition play-offs winners, they always qualify for the Europa League as the "lowest-placed" qualifier. If the League Cup winners have already qualified for European competitions through other methods, this reserved Europa League place is taken by the highest-placed team in the league which have not yet qualified for European competitions.

Teams

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:

• CW: Cup winners
• 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, etc.: League position
• LC: League Cup winners
• RW: Regular season winners
• PW: End-of-season Europa League play-offs winners
• UCL: Transferred from the Champions League
  • GS: Third-placed teams from the group stage
  • PO: Losers from the play-off round
  • Q3: Losers from the third qualifying round
  • Q2: Losers from the second qualifying round
  • Q1: Losers from the first qualifying round
  • PR: Losers from the preliminary round

Qualified teams for 2019–20 UEFA Europa League (by entry round)

Round of 32

(UCL GS)	(UCL GS)	(UCL GS)	(UCL GS)
(UCL GS)	(UCL GS)	(UCL GS)	(UCL GS)

Group stage

Real Madrid (5th)	Bayer Leverkusen (6th)	Fenerbahçe (3rd)	(UCL PO)
Athletic Bilbao (6th)	Saint-Étienne (4th)	Feyenoord (CW)	(UCL PO)
Chelsea (5th)	Lille (5th)	LASK Linz (3rd)	(UCL Q3)
Tottenham Hotspur (6th)	Krasnodar (4th)	(UCL PO)	(UCL Q3)
Napoli (5th)	Sporting CP (3rd)	(UCL PO)	(UCL Q3)
Inter Milan (6th)	Club Brugge (3rd)	(UCL PO)	(UCL Q3)
Borussia Mönchengladbach (5th)	Zorya Luhansk (3rd)	(UCL PO)

Play-off round

Champions Path		Main Path
(UCL Q3)	(UCL Q3)
(UCL Q3)	(UCL Q3)
(UCL Q3)	(UCL Q3)

Third qualifying round

Champions Path		Main Path
(UCL Q2)	(UCL Q2)	Spartak Moscow (5th)	Aris (3rd)
(UCL Q2)	(UCL Q2)	Braga (4th)	Hajduk Split (3rd)
(UCL Q2)	(UCL Q2)	Antwerp (4th)	Midtjylland (2nd)
(UCL Q2)	(UCL Q2)	Mariupol (4th)	Luzern (2nd)
(UCL Q2)	(UCL Q2)	Trabzonspor (4th)	AEK Larnaca (2nd)
		Vitesse (4th)	(UCL Q2)
		Sturm Graz (4th)	(UCL Q2)
		Sparta Prague (3rd)

Second qualifying round

Champions Path		Main Path
(UCL Q1)	(UCL Q1)	Real Sociedad (7th)	AEK Athens (4th)
(UCL Q1)	(UCL Q1)	Everton (7th)	Atromitos (5th)
(UCL Q1)	(UCL Q1)	Fiorentina (7th)	Osijek (4th)
(UCL Q1)	(UCL Q1)	Wolfsburg (7th)	Lokomotiva Zagreb (5th)
(UCL Q1)	(UCL Q1)	Stade Rennais (6th)	Brøndby (3rd)
(UCL Q1)	(UCL Q1)	Rostov (6th)	Young Boys (3rd)
(UCL Q1)	(UCL PR)	Vitória de Guimarães (5th)	Apollon Limassol (3rd)
(UCL Q1)	(UCL PR)	Anderlecht (PW)	Partizan (CW)
(UCL Q1)	(UCL PR)	Olimpik Donetsk (5th)	Rangers (2nd)
(UCL Q1)		İstanbul Başakşehir (5th)	Dinamo Minsk (CW)
		FC Utrecht (PW)	Östersunds FK (CW)
		Rapid Wien (PW)	Rosenborg (2nd)
		Jablonec (4th)	Kairat (2nd)
		Mladá Boleslav (PW)

First qualifying round

Esbjerg (PW)	Maccabi Haifa (3rd)	Breiðablik (2nd)	Flora (3rd)
Thun (4th)	Bnei Yehuda (4th)	KR (4th)	Žalgiris (CW)
AEL Limassol (4th)	CSKA Sofia (2nd)	Ferencvárosi TC (2nd)	Riteriai (3rd)
Radnički Niš (3rd)	Lokomotiv Plovdiv (3rd)	Debrecen (3rd)	Kauno Žalgiris (5th)
Čukarički (4th)	Levski Sofia (PW)	Honvéd (4th)	Budućnost Podgorica (CW)
Heart of Midlothian (3rd)	Cluj (2nd)	Vardar (CW)	Zeta (3rd)
Hibernian (4th)	Viitorul Constanța (3rd)	Makedonija GP (3rd)	Titograd (4th)
Dinamo Brest (3rd)	Universitatea Craiova (4th)	Shkupi (4th)	Torpedo Kutaisi (2nd)
Shakhtyor Soligorsk (4th)	Spartak Trnava (2nd)	Inter Turku (CW)	Saburtalo Tbilisi (3rd)
Djurgårdens IF (2nd)	DAC Dunajská Streda (3rd)	RoPS (2nd)	Chikhura Sachkhere (4th)
AIK (3rd)	Ružomberok (4th)	KuPS (3rd)	Ararat-Armenia (2nd)
Brann (3rd)	Olimpija Ljubljana (CW)	Cork City (2nd)	Pyunik (3rd)
Haugesund (4th)	Domžale (3rd)	Shamrock Rovers (3rd)	Banants (4th)
Tobol (3rd)	Mura (4th)	St Patrick's Athletic (4th)	Balzan (CW)
Ordabasy (4th)	Vaduz (CW)	Zrinjski Mostar (2nd)	Hibernians (2nd)
Lechia Gdańsk (2nd)	Milsami Orhei (2nd)	Široki Brijeg (3rd)	Gżira United (3rd)
Piast Gliwice (3rd)	Petrocub Hîncești (3rd)	Radnik Bijeljina (4th)	Fola Esch (2nd)
Cracovia (4th)	Speranța Nisporeni (4th)	Ventspils (2nd)	Jeunesse Esch (3rd)
Gabala (2nd)	Kukësi (2nd)	RFS (3rd)	Crusaders (CW)
Neftçi Baku (3rd)	Teuta (3rd)	Liepāja (4th)	Connah's Quay Nomads (2nd)
Sabail (4th)	Laçi (4th)	Narva Trans (CW)	HB Tórshavn (2nd)
Hapoel Be'er Sheva (2nd)	Stjarnan (CW)	FCI Levadia (2nd)

Preliminary round

Progrès Niederkorn (4th)	Cardiff Metropolitan University (PW)	St Joseph's (3rd)	Sant Julià (2nd)
Ballymena United (2nd)	NSÍ Runavík (3rd)	Feronikeli (2nd)	Tre Fiori (2nd)
Cliftonville (PW)	KÍ Klaksvík (4th)	Trepça'89 (3rd)
Barry Town United (3rd)	Lincoln Red Imps (2nd)	Engordany (CW)

One team not playing a national top division will take part in the competition; Vaduz (representing Liechtenstein) played in 2018–19 Swiss Challenge League, which is Switzerland's 2nd tier.

See also

• 2020–21 UEFA Champions League
• 2021 UEFA Super Cup
• 2020–21 UEFA Women's Champions League
• 2020–21 UEFA Youth League

References

1. "Country coefficients 2018/19". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 3 June 2019. Retrieved 5 June 2019.
2. "UEFA Country Ranking 2019". kassiesa.home.xs4all.nl. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
3. "Champions League and Europa League changes next season". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 27 February 2018. Retrieved 27 February 2018.
4. Cite error: The named reference uefa18193 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

External links

• UEFA Europa League (official website)