The UEFA Women's Europa Cup is a European women's association football competition organised by UEFA, the governing body of the sport for Europe. It serves as a secondary club competition below the UEFA Women's Champions League and runs concurrently to it. The first edition took place in the 2025–26 season.
+ Winners Season UEFA Women's Europa Cup 2025–26 BK Häcken 2026–27
The winners of the UEFA Women's Europa Cup qualify for the third qualifying round (Champions Path) of the following season's UEFA Women's Champions League. Alternatively, they will qualify for the league phase (competition proper) should the Champions League title holders qualify for the league phase via their domestic league.
Background After several decades successfully running knock-out competitions for men's football clubs, the UEFA Women's Cup was created in 2001 to offer similar opportunities for women's clubs. The Women's Cup was renamed to the UEFA Women's Champions League in 2009 to match the styling of the men's tournament, and the tournament was expanded to include more clubs and more countries.
Following UEFA's expansion of men's competitions with the third-tier Europa Conference League playing its first season in 2021, proposals for a second-tier women's competition were submitted to offer a similar increase in scale to the women's game. On 4 December 2023 UEFA announced that it would act on these proposals with the creation of a new second-tier tournament which would commence from the 2025–26 season. The name of the competition was confirmed as the "UEFA Women's Europa Cup" on 16 December 2024.
Format Similarly to the UEFA Europa League in men's football, clubs can enter the tournament both by virtue of their league position in the previous season or by elimination from early stages of the same season's Champions League. It is a pure knock-out tournament with no group stage or league phase. Every round, up to and including the final, will be played as a two-legged home-and-away tie.
The tournament is be contested by 44 clubs in total – thirteen direct qualifiers from associations ranked 8–13 and 18–24 based on domestic league placement in the previous season plus thirty-one teams eliminated in the second and third qualifying rounds of the same season's Women's Champions League.
+Provisional access listTeams entering in this roundTeams advancing from the previous roundTeams entering from the Champions League qualifying roundsFirst qualifying round(24 teams) 7 runners-up from associations 18–24 6 third-placed teams from associations 8–13 7 third-placed teams from the second round champions path mini-tournaments 4 third-placed teams from the second round league path mini-tournamentsSecond qualifying round(32 teams) 12 winners from the first qualifying round 7 runners-up from the second round champions path mini-tournaments 4 runners-up from the second round league path mini-tournaments 4 losers from the third round champions path 5 losers from the third round league pathRound of 16(16 teams) 16 winners from the second qualifying round
Records and statistics
Winners + Performances in the UEFA Women's Europa CupClubTitle(s)Runners-upSeasons wonSeasons runner-up BK Häcken1 0 2025–26— Hammarby IF0 1 — 2025–26
By nation + Performances in finals by nationNationTitle(s)Runners-upTotal112
Top scorers +Top Scorers per SeasonSeasonPlayerClubGoals2025–26 Felicia Schröder BK Häcken8
Appearances
By club + Appearances in the UEFA Women's Europa Cup by clubClubApperancesBest finishLast appearance Ajax2Round of 16 (25/26)2026–27 Anderlecht1Round of 16 (25/26)2025–26 Austria Wien1Quarter Finals (25/26)2025–26 BK Häcken1Winner (25/26)2025–26 Brann1TBD2026–27 Brøndby1TBD2026–27 Breiðablik1Quarter Finals (25/26)2025–26 Czarni Sosnowiec1TBD2026–27 Eintracht Frankfurt2Semi Finals (25/26)2026–27 Fenerbahçe1TBD2026–27 Feyenoord1TBD2026–27 Fortuna Hjørring1Round of 16 (25/26)2025–26 Glasgow City1Round of 16 (25/26)2025–26 Hammarby IF2Final (25/26)2026–27 Inter Milan1Round of 16 (25/26)2025–26 Malmö FF1TBD2026–27 Mura1Round of 16 (25/26)2025–26 Nordsjælland1Quarter Finals (25/26)2025–26 PSV Eindhoven2Round of 16 (25/26)2026–27 Real Sociedad1TBD2026–27 Rosenborg1TBD2026–27 Sparta Prague2Semi Finals (25/26)2026–27 Spartak Myjava1TBD2026–27 Sporting CP1Quarter Finals (25/26)2025–26 Torreense1TBD2026–27 VfL Wolfsburg1TBD2026–27 Young Boys1Round of 16 (25/26)2025–26
By nation +Appearances in the UEFA Women's Europa Cup by nationNationApperancesBest finishLast appearance1Quarter Finals (25/26)2025–261Round of 16 (25/26)2025–262Semi Finals (25/26)2026–272Quarter Finals (25/26)2026–272Semi Finals (25/26)2026–271Quarter Finals (25/26)2025–261Round of 16 (25/26)2025–262Round of 16 (25/26)2026–271TBD2026–271TBD2026–272Quarter Finals (25/26)2026–271Round of 16 (25/26)2025–261TBD2026–271Round of 16 (25/26)2025–261TBD2026–272Winner (25/26)2026–271Round of 16 (25/26)2025–261TBD2026–27
See also
UEFA Women's Champions League UEFA Europa League
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