The 2026–27 UEFA Women's Europa Cup is the second season of the UEFA Women's Europa Cup, Europe's secondary women's club football tournament organised by UEFA. The competition features a straight knockout format, with every round (including the final) played as a two-legged home-and-away tie.
The winners will automatically qualify for the third qualifying round (Champions Path) of the 2027–28 UEFA Women's Champions League.
As the title holders, BK Häcken qualified for the Champions League league phase and are unable to defend their title.
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 8–13 and 18–24 each have one team qualify directly. 31 teams eliminated from the 2026–27 Women's Champions League qualifying rounds will be transferred to the Europa Cup.
An association must have an eleven-a-side women's domestic league to enter a team. As of 2026–27, 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 2026–27 UEFA Women's Europa Cup, the associations are allocated places according to their 2025 UEFA women's Association coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 2020–21 to 2024–25.
Apart from the allocation based on the association coefficients, associations may have additional teams participating in the Europa Cup, as noted below: – Additional teams transferred from the UEFA Women's Champions League
+Association ranking for 2026–27 UEFA Women's Europa CupRankAssociationCoeff.TeamsNotes168.4990268.333366.999461.332538.000633.000724.665823.0001921.0001020.7501119.3321219.0001314.7501414.25001513.0001612.0001712.0001811.75011911.500RankAssociationCoeff.TeamsNotes2011.25012111.0002211.0002310.5002410.0002510.0000269.750279.500289.500299.000309.000319.000329.000339.000348.500358.000367.500377.500RankAssociationCoeff.TeamsNotes387.0000397.000406.500416.500426.500436.500446.000456.000465.500475.500485.000495.000504.000511.000————
Distribution Teams 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 qualifying round (Champions Path) mini-tournaments 4 third-placed teams from the second qualifying round (League Path) mini-tournamentsSecond qualifying round(32 teams) 12 winners from the first qualifying round 7 runners-up from the second qualifying round (Champions Path) mini-tournaments 4 runners-up from the second qualifying round (League Path) mini-tournaments 4 losers from the third qualifying round (Champions Path) 5 losers from the third qualifying round (League Path)Round 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, 4th: 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 2026–27 UEFA Women's Europa CupEntry roundTeamsSecond qualifying round Brann PSV Eindhoven Sparta Prague Czarni Sosnowiec Real Sociedad VfL Wolfsburg Eintracht Frankfurt Ajax St. Pölten Heart of Midlothian Farul Constanța Aktobe Fenerbahçe HJK PAOK Spartak Myjava Sporting CP Hammarby IF Malmö FF Rangers First qualifying round Rosenborg Feyenoord Sturm Graz Slovan Liberec Kolos Kovalivka Fortuna Hjørring FH Spartak Subotica FC Minsk Anderlecht Radomlje Agram Csíkszereda Metalist 1925 Kharkiv Apollon Ladies Breiðablik Hajduk Split SFK 2000 Gintra Mitrovica Torreense Vålerenga SeaSters Odesa Brøndby Notes
Schedule The schedule of the competition is as follows.
+RoundDraw dateFirst legSecond legFirst qualifying round11 August 202626 and 29 August 20261–2 September 2026Second qualifying round4 September 202623 September 202630 September 2026Round of 162 October 202628–29 October 202610–11 November 2026Quarter-finals3–4 February 202710–11 February 2027Semi-finals23–24 March 202731 March–1 April 2027Final1 or 2 May 20278 or 9 May 2027
Qualifying rounds
First qualifying round
Second qualifying round
Knockout phase
In the knockout phase, teams play against each other over two legs on a home-and-away basis. The bracket was predetermined by a draw held on 2 October 2026 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
See also 2026–27 UEFA Women's Champions League 2026–27 UEFA Champions League 2026–27 UEFA Europa League 2026–27 UEFA Conference League 2026 UEFA Super Cup 2026–27 UEFA Youth League
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