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championship organised by

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, and the 16th edition since being rebranded as the

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. It will be the final edition to feature a 16-team group stage. The

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will be held at the

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, Portugal.

Association team allocation

The association ranking based on the UEFA women's country coefficients is used to determine the number of participating teams for each association: *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 The 2023–24 UEFA Women's Champions League will be the 23rd edition of the European women's club football championship organised by UEFA, and the 15th edition since being rebranded as the UEFA Women's Champions League. It is the third edition t ...

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.

Distribution

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). Notes

Schedule

The schedule of the competition is as follows.

Qualifying rounds

Round 1

A total of 59 teams played in Round 1.

Champions Path

;Tournament 1 ;Tournament 2 ;Tournament 3 ;Tournament 4 ;Tournament 5 ;Tournament 6 ;Tournament 7 ;Tournament 8 ;Tournament 9 ;Tournament 10 ;Tournament 11

League Path

;Tournament 1 ;Tournament 2 ;Tournament 3 ;Tournament 4

Round 2

Seeding

A total of 24 teams will play in Round 2. The draw will take place on 9 September 2024.

Group stage

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CC: 130.633 *

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CC: 118.666 *

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CC: 87.799 *

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CC: 84.999 *7 winners of round 2 (Champions Path) *5 winners of round 2 (League Path)

Knockout phase

Final

References

External links

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