2026–27 UEFA Conference League qualifying

The 2026–27 UEFA Conference League qualifying phase and play-off round began on 7 July and ended on 27 August 2026.

A total of teams competed in the qualifying system of the 2026–27 UEFA Conference League, which consisted of the qualifying phase and the play-off round. Of these, 20 teams entered through the Champions Path and 133 through the Main Path. The 24 winners of the play-off round advanced to the league phase, where they joined the 12 losers of the Europa League play-off round.

Times are CEST (UTC+2), as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Format The qualifying phase and play-off round were split into two paths – the Champions Path and the Main Path. The Champions Path contained teams which were eliminated from the Champions League Champions Path and the Europa League Champions Path, and the Main Path contained teams which qualified through their domestic league or as domestic cup winners as well as teams eliminated from the Europa League Main Path.

Each tie was played over two legs, with each team playing one leg at home. The team that scored more goals on aggregate over the two legs advanced to the next round. If the aggregate score was level at the end of normal time of the second leg, extra time was played, and if the same number of goals was scored by both teams during extra time, the tie was decided by a penalty shoot-out.

In the draws for each round, teams were seeded based on their UEFA club coefficients at the beginning of the season, with the teams divided into seeded and unseeded pots containing the same number of teams. A seeded team was drawn against an unseeded team, with the order of legs in each tie decided by draw. As the identity of the winners of the previous round may not have been known at the time of the draws, the seeding was carried out under the assumption that the team with the higher coefficient of an undecided tie advanced to the subsequent round, which meant if the team with the lower coefficient advanced, it simply took the seeding of its opponent.

Prior to the draws, UEFA could form "groups" in accordance with the principles set by the Club Competitions Committee, purely for the convenience of the draw and not to resemble any real groupings in the sense of the competition. Teams from associations with political conflicts as decided by UEFA could not be drawn into the same tie. After the draws, the order of legs of a tie could be reversed by UEFA due to scheduling or venue conflicts.

Schedule The schedule of the competition was as follows. Matches were scheduled for Thursdays, though exceptionally could take place on Tuesdays or Wednesdays due to scheduling conflicts.

+Schedule for 2026–27 UEFA Conference LeagueRoundDraw dateFirst legSecond legFirst qualifying round16 June 20269 July 202616 July 2026Second qualifying round17 June 202623 July 202630 July 2026Third qualifying round20 July 20266 August 202613 August 2026Play-off round3 August 202620 August 202627 August 2026

Teams Champions Path The Champions Path included league champions which were eliminated from the Champions Path qualifying phase of the Champions League and the Champions Path qualifying phase of the Europa League and consisted of the following rounds: Second qualifying round (12 teams): 12 of the 14 losers of the Champions League first qualifying round (two of the teams received a bye to the third qualifying round). Third qualifying round (8 teams): 6 winners of the second qualifying round, and 2 losers of the Champions League first qualifying round that received a bye. Play-off round (10 teams): 4 winners of the third qualifying round, and 6 losers of the Europa League Champions Path third qualifying round.

Below were the participating teams of the Champions Path (with their 2026 UEFA club coefficients, not used as seeding for the Champions Path, however), grouped by their starting rounds.

Key to coloursWinners of play-off round advanced to league phase +Play-off roundTeam Shamrock Rovers 19.375 KuPS 14.000 Lincoln Red Imps 13.500 Víkingur Reykjavík 11.750 KÍ 10.500 Larne 9.000+Third qualifying roundTeam Inter Club d'Escaldes 7.500 Tre Fiori 2.500+Second qualifying roundTeam Drita 13.625 Borac Banja Luka 13.125 Riga 10.500 Flora 10.000 Petrocub Hîncești 9.000 The New Saints 9.000 Sutjeska 6.000 ETO Győr 5.437 Floriana 4.000 Vardar 1.551 ML Vitebsk 1.325 Atert Bissen 1.325

Notes

Main Path The Main Path included league non-champions and domestic cup winners and consisted of the following rounds: First qualifying round (52 teams): 52 teams which entered in this round. Second qualifying round (86 teams): 54 teams which entered in this round, 6 losers of the Europa League Main Path first qualifying round, and 26 winners of the first qualifying round. Third qualifying round (52 teams): 9 losers of the Europa League Main Path second qualifying round, and 43 winners of the second qualifying round. Play-off round (38 teams): 5 teams which entered this round, 7 losers of the Europa League Main Path third qualifying round, and 26 winners of the third qualifying round.

Below were the participating teams of the League Path (with their 2026 UEFA club coefficients), grouped by their starting rounds.

Key to coloursWinners of play-off round advanced to league phase +Play-off roundTeam Atalanta84.000 Rangers 59.250 SC Freiburg56.500 Monaco56.000 PAOK 48.250 Maccabi Tel Aviv 32.500 Pafos 24.125 Brighton & Hove Albion23.903 Getafe19.409 Heart of Midlothian 11.500 Hradec Králové 9.705 Górnik Zabrze 9.350 +Third qualifying roundTeam Midtjylland 48.250 Qarabağ 42.750 Sheriff Tiraspol 20.000 Dynamo Kyiv 17.500 Twente 13.585 Hajduk Split 10.000 Tromsø 8.247 St Gallen 6.940 Hammarby 6.000+Second qualifying roundTeam Braga63.750 Ajax58.250 Copenhagen54.375 Gent39.000 Rapid Wien29.750 Panathinaikos29.250 Ludogorets Razgrad28.750 FCSB25.500 Raków Częstochowa22.250 Partizan22.000 Lugano21.250 AEK Larnaca20.250 İstanbul Başakşehir19.500 Rijeka18.625 CFR Cluj17.500 HJK14.000 Zrinjski Mostar13.250 Brann12.250 Noah10.750 Spartak Trnava10.500 Jablonec9.705 Austria Wien9.500 GKS Katowice9.350 Vaduz8.500 Nordsjælland8.421 Tobol8.000 Apollon Limassol7.138 Hibernian7.000 HB7.000 Sion6.940 Panevėžys6.500 Neftçi6.500 Motherwell6.410 DAC Dunajská Streda6.000 GAIS5.925 IFK Göteborg5.925 Varaždin5.631 Beitar Jerusalem5.500 Žilina 5.500 Vojvodina 5.500 Hapoel Tel Aviv5.500 Paks5.437 Debrecen5.437 Polissya Zhytomyr5.182 LNZ Cherkasy5.182 Železničar Pančevo5.150 Universitatea Cluj 5.050 Koper4.893 Bravo4.893 Aluminij 4.893 Zimbru Chișinău4.500 Valur4.500 Auda4.500 CSKA 19484.212 Shelbourne4.000 Derry City 4.000 Vestri 3.304 Dukagjini2.797 Valletta1.800 Coleraine1.450+First qualifying roundTeam RFS12.500 Astana12.500 Žalgiris12.000 Shkëndija10.875 Ballkani10.000 Pyunik10.000 Linfield9.500 Hamrun Spartans8.500 Milsami Orhei7.500 FCI Levadia7.500 Paide Linnameeskond7.500 Differdange 036.500 Dinamo Minsk6.500 Vllaznia6.500 Víkingur6.000 La Fiorita6.000 Zira5.500 Dečić5.500 Dila Gori5.500 BATE Borisov5.500 Sarajevo5.000 Atlètic Club d'Escaldes5.000 St Joseph's5.000 FC Santa Coloma5.000 Dinamo Tbilisi5.000 Alashkert5.000 Torpedo Kutaisi4.500 Velež Mostar4.500 Virtus4.000 Liepāja4.000 Ilves3.500 Connah's Quay Nomads3.500 Bohemians3.468 Stjarnan3.304 Europa3.000 Inter Turku2.800 Malisheva2.797 Yelimay2.750 Dinamo City2.500 UNA Strassen2.500 Hegelmann2.000 Penybont2.000 NSÍ2.000 Sileks2.000 Mornar2.000 Glentoran2.000 Marsaxlokk1.800 Nõmme Kalju1.641 Elbasani1.625 Caernarfon Town1.500 Mondorf-les-Bains1.325 Petrovac1.316 Notes

First qualifying round The draw for the first qualifying round was held on 16 June 2026.

Seeding A total of 52 teams played in the first qualifying round. Seeding of the teams was based on their 2026 UEFA club coefficients. Before the draw, UEFA allocated the teams into five groups: four groups of five seeded teams and five unseeded teams, and one group of six seeded teams and six unseeded teams, in accordance with the principles set by the Club Competitions Committee. UEFA pre-assigned numbers to the teams so that the draw could be conducted in one run for the four groups consisting of five seeded and five unseeded teams each. The remaining group, consisting of six seeded and six unseeded teams, was drawn separately. The team represented by the ball drawn first was designated as the home team for the first leg.

+ Main PathGroup 1Group 2Group 3SeededUnseededSeededUnseededSeededUnseededGroup 4Group 5SeededUnseededSeededUnseeded

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Matches

Second qualifying round The draw for the second qualifying round was held on 17 June 2026.

Seeding A total of 98 teams played in the second qualifying round: 12 in the Champions Path and 86 in the Main Path. Seeding of the teams was based on their 2026 UEFA club coefficients. For the winners of the first qualifying round, whose identity was not known at the time of the draw, the club coefficient of the highest-ranked remaining team in each tie was used. For the losers of the Champions League first qualifying round and the Europa League first qualifying round, the club coefficient of the lower-ranked team in each tie was used. Before the draw, UEFA divided the teams and/or pairings into groups in accordance with the principles set by the Club Competitions Committee. In the Champions Path, the 12 pairings were divided into two groups, each containing three seeded and three unseeded pairings. In the Main Path, the 86 teams and/or pairings were divided into nine groups: seven groups of ten and two groups of eight, each with an equal number of seeded and unseeded teams and/or pairings. For the Main Path draw, the entries in each group were randomly assigned numbers so that the draw could be conducted in two runs: one for Groups 1 to 7, in which seeded entries were assigned numbers 1 to 5 and unseeded entries numbers 6 to 10, and one for Groups 8 and 9, in which seeded entries were assigned numbers 1 to 4 and unseeded entries numbers 5 to 8. The team or pairing represented by the ball drawn first was designated as the home team for the first leg.

+Champions PathGroup 1Group 2SeededUnseededSeededUnseeded

+Main PathGroup 1Group 2Group 3SeededUnseededSeededUnseededSeededUnseededGroup 4Group 5Group 6SeededUnseededSeededUnseededSeededUnseededGroup 7Group 8Group 9SeededUnseededSeededUnseededSeededUnseeded

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Third qualifying round The draw for the third qualifying round was held on 20 July 2026.

Seeding A total of 60 teams played in the third qualifying round: eight in the Champions Path and 52 in the Main Path. Seeding of the teams was based on their 2026 UEFA club coefficients. For the winners of the second qualifying round, whose identity was not known at the time of the draw, the club coefficient of the highest-ranked team in each tie was used. For the losers of the Europa League second qualifying round, the club coefficient of the lower-ranked team in each tie was used. Before the draw, UEFA divided the teams and/or pairings into groups in accordance with the principles set by the Club Competitions Committee. In the Champions Path, the eight teams and/or pairings were divided into two groups of four, each containing two seeded and two unseeded entries. In the Main Path, the 52 teams and/or pairings were divided into six groups: four groups of eight and two groups of ten, each with an equal number of seeded and unseeded entries. For the Main Path draw, the entries in each group were randomly assigned numbers so that the draw could be conducted in two runs: one for Groups 1 to 4, in which seeded entries were assigned numbers 1 to 4 and unseeded entries numbers 5 to 8, and one for Groups 5 and 6, in which seeded entries were assigned numbers 1 to 5 and unseeded entries numbers 6 to 10. In each tie, the team or pairing represented by the ball drawn first was designated as the home team for the first leg.

+Champions PathGroup 1Group 2SeededUnseededSeededUnseeded