The 2025–26 UEFA Women's Europa Cup was the inaugural season of the UEFA Women's Europa Cup, Europe's secondary women's club football tournament organised by UEFA. The competition featured a straight knockout format, with every round (including the final) played as a two-legged home-and-away tie.
The final was played between BK Häcken and Hammarby IF. BK Häcken won 4–2 on aggregate. As winners, they qualified for the league phase of the 2026–27 UEFA Women's Champions League.
Association team allocation The association ranking based on the UEFA women's country coefficients was used to determine the number of participating teams for each association: Associations 8–13 and 18–24 (excluding Russia) each had one team qualify directly. 31 teams eliminated from the 2025–26 Women's Champions League qualifying rounds were transferred to the Europa Cup.
An association had to have an eleven-a-side women's domestic league to enter a team. As of 2019–20, 52 of the 55 UEFA member associations organized women's domestic leagues, 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 2025–26 UEFA Women's Europa Cup, the associations were allocated places according to their 2024 UEFA women's association coefficients, which took into account their performance in European competitions from 2019–20 to 2023–24.
Apart from the allocation based on the association coefficients, associations could have additional teams participating in the Europa Cup, as noted below: – Additional teams transferred from the UEFA Women's Champions League
+Association ranking for 2025–26 UEFA Women's Europa CupRankAssociationCoeff.TeamsNotes178.3330268.999368.166459.999534.000634.000724.999822.3321922.0001021.7501121.5001221.2501319.0001418.00001517.7501617.0001714.7501814.25011914.000RankAssociationCoeff.TeamsNotes2014.00012112.0002212.0002310.25002410.00012510.0000269.500279.000289.000299.000308.500318.500328.000338.000347.500357.000367.000377.000RankAssociationCoeff.TeamsNotes387.0000396.500406.500416.000426.000435.500445.500455.500465.500474.500484.000494.000503.000—————
Distribution +Access list for 2025–26 UEFA Women's Europa CupTeams entering in this roundTeams advancing from the previous roundTeams entering from the Champions League qualifying roundsFirst qualifying round(22 teams) 6 runners-up from associations 18–24 (except Russia) 5 third-placed teams from associations 9–13 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) 1 third-placed teams from association 8 11 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
Teams The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round: 2nd, 3rd: League position of the previous season CL: Transferred from the Women's Champions League CH/LP Q3: Transferred from the third qualifying round (Champions/League Path) CH/LP Q2: Transferred from the second qualifying round mini-tournaments (Champions/League Path) RU: Runner-up of the mini-tournament TP: Third place of the mini-tournament
+Qualified teams for 2025–26 UEFA Women's Europa CupEntry roundTeamsSecond qualifying round Slovácko Fortuna Hjørring Vorskla Poltava Ferencváros GKS Katowice Eintracht Frankfurt Sporting CP BK Häcken Brann Austria Wien Rosengård Slavia Prague Dinamo Minsk Breiðablik Young Boys Mura Gintra Braga Hammarby IF Sparta Prague FC Minsk First qualifying round Ajax HB Køge Rosenborg Sturm Graz Kolos Kovalivka Grasshopper Spartak Subotica Partizani Aris Limassol Anderlecht KuPS Hibernian BIIK Shymkent Vllaznia SFK 2000 Farul Constanța Athlone Town ABB Fomget Inter Milan PSV Eindhoven Nordsjælland Glasgow City Notes
Schedule The schedule of the competition was as follows.
+RoundDraw dateFirst legSecond legFirst qualifying round31 August 202510–11 September 202517–18 September 2025Second qualifying round19 September 20257–8 October 202515–16 October 2025Round of 1617 October 202512 November 202519–20 November 2025Quarter-finals11 February 202618 February 2026Semi-finals25 March 20262 April 2026Final25 April 20261 May 2026
Qualifying rounds
First qualifying round
Second qualifying round
Knockout phase
In the knockout phase, teams played against each other over two legs on a home-and-away basis. The bracket was predetermined and a draw was held on 17 October 2025 to place the 16 teams into positions in the bracket. Eight teams were seeded according to club coefficients and drawn to face the unseeded teams in the round of 16. Which club played the first leg at home for each tie of every round was also decided.
Bracket
Round of 16
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Final
Statistics Statistics exclude qualifying rounds and play-off round.
Top goalscorers RankPlayerTeamGoals1 Felicia Schröder BK Häcken82 Michaela Khýrová Sparta Prague53 Telma Encarnação Sporting CP4 Nicole Anyomi Eintracht Frankfurt5 Monica Jusu Bah BK Häcken2 Paulina Nyström BK Häcken Vilde Hasund Hammarby IF Antonie Stárová Sparta Prague Remina Chiba Eintracht Frankfurt Laura Freigang Eintracht Frankfurt Rebecka Blomqvist Eintracht Frankfurt Princess Marfo FC Nordsjælland Hammarby IF Helena Sampaio BK Häcken Alva Selerud BK Häcken Hammarby IF Joy Omewa Ogochukwu Fortuna Hjørring
See also 2025–26 UEFA Women's Champions League 2025–26 UEFA Champions League 2025–26 UEFA Europa League 2025–26 UEFA Conference League 2025 UEFA Super Cup 2025–26 UEFA Youth League
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