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2024–25 UEFA Champions League qualifying phase and play-off round

The 2024–25 UEFA Champions League qualifying phase and play-off round began on 9 July and will end on 28 August 2024.^[1]

A total of 52 teams will compete in the qualifying system of the 2024–25 UEFA Champions League, which will include the qualifying phase and the play-off round, with 42 teams in Champions Path and 10 teams in League Path. The seven winners in the play-off round (five from Champions Path, two from League Path) will advance to the league phase, to join the 29 teams that entered it.^[2]

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

Format[edit]

The qualifying phase and play-off round is split into two paths – the Champions Path and the League Path. The Champions Path contains teams which qualify as the winners of their domestic league and the League Path contains teams which qualify as runners-up, third-placed or fourth-placed team from their domestic league.

Each tie will be played over two legs, with each team playing one leg at home. The team that scored more goals on aggregate over the two legs will advance to the next round. If the aggregate score is level at the end of normal time of the second leg, extra time will be played, and if the same number of goals is scored by both teams during extra time, the tie will be decided by a penalty shoot-out.^[3]

The video assistant referee (VAR) will be used in the third qualifying round and the play-off round.^[4]

In the draws for each round, teams will be 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 will be 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 known at the time of the draws, the seeding will be carried out under the assumption that the team with the higher coefficient of an undecided tie advances to the subsequent round, which means if the team with the lower coefficient advances, it will simply take the seeding of its opponent. Prior to the draws, UEFA can 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 can not be drawn into the same tie. After the draws, the order of legs of a tie can be reversed by UEFA due to scheduling or venue conflicts.

Schedule[edit]

The schedule of the competition is as follows. All matches will be played on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.^[1]

Teams[edit]

Champions Path[edit]

The Champions Path will include all league champions which do not qualify directly for the league phase, and consists of the following rounds:

• First qualifying round (28 teams): 28 teams which enter in this round.
• Second qualifying round (24 teams): 10 teams which enter in this round, and 14 winners of the first qualifying round.
• Third qualifying round (12 teams): 12 winners of the second qualifying round.
• Play-off round (10 teams): 4 teams which enter in this round, and 6 winners of the third qualifying round.

All teams eliminated from the Champions Path will enter either the Europa League or the Conference League:

• 12 of the 14 losers of the first qualifying round will enter the Conference League Champions Path second qualifying round.
• 2 losers of the first qualifying round will receive a bye and enter the Conference League Champions Path third qualifying round.
• The 12 losers of the second qualifying round will enter the Europa League Champions Path third qualifying round
• The 6 losers of the third qualifying round will enter the Europa League play-off round.
• The 5 losers of the play-off round will enter the Europa League league phase.

Below are the participating teams of the Champions Path (with their 2024 UEFA club coefficients),^[5] grouped by their starting rounds.

Play-off round Team Coeff.[5] Dinamo Zagreb 50.000 Red Star Belgrade 40.000 Young Boys 34.500 Galatasaray 31.500 Second qualifying round Team Coeff.[5] PAOK 37.000 Maccabi Tel Aviv 35.500 Ferencváros 35.000 Qarabağ 33.000 Bodø/Glimt 28.000 Midtjylland 25.500 Sparta Prague 22.500 Malmö FF 18.500 APOEL 14.500 Jagiellonia Białystok 5.075

First qualifying round Team Coeff.[5] Slovan Bratislava 30.500 Ludogorets Razgrad 26.000 HJK 11.500 Flora 11.000 FCSB 10.500 KÍ 10.000 Shamrock Rovers 9.500 Lincoln Red Imps 9.000 The New Saints 8.500 Pyunik 8.000 RFS 8.000 Petrocub Hîncești 7.000 Ballkani 6.000 Borac Banja Luka 5.500 Dinamo Batumi 5.500 Celje 4.500 Ħamrun Spartans 4.500 Larne 4.500 Dinamo Minsk 4.500 Panevėžys 4.000 Ordabasy 4.000 Víkingur Reykjavík 4.000 Struga 3.500 Differdange 03 3.500 Dečić 2.000 Egnatia 1.475 UE Santa Coloma 1.199 Virtus 0.366

League Path[edit]

The League Path will include all league non-champions which did not qualify directly for the league phase, and consists of the following rounds:

• Second qualifying round (4 teams): 4 teams which enter in this round.
• Third qualifying round (8 teams): 6 teams which enter in this round, and 2 winners of the second qualifying round.
• Play-off round (4 teams): 4 winners of the third qualifying round.

All teams eliminated from the League Path will enter the Europa League:

• The 2 losers of the second qualifying round will enter the Main Path third qualifying round.
• The 4 losers of the third qualifying round will enter the league phase.
• The 2 losers of the play-off round will enter the league phase.

Below are the participating teams of the League Path (with their 2024 UEFA club coefficients),^[5] grouped by their starting rounds.

Third qualifying round Team Coeff.[5] Rangers 63.000 Slavia Prague 53.000 Red Bull Salzburg 50.000 Lille 47.000 Union Saint–Gilloise 27.000 Twente 12.260

Second qualifying round Team Coeff.[5] Fenerbahçe 36.000 Dynamo Kyiv 26.500 Partizan 25.500 Lugano 8.000

First qualifying round[edit]

The draw for the first qualifying round was held on 18 June 2024.

Seeding[edit]

A total of 28 teams will play in the first qualifying round. Seeding of the teams will be based on their 2024 UEFA club coefficients.^[5] Before the draw, UEFA allocated the teams into three groups, two with five seeded and five unseeded teams and one with four seeded and four unseeded team per the principles set by the Club Competitions Committee.^[6] The first team drawn in each tie will be the home team for the first leg.

Group 1		Group 2		Group 3
Seeded	Unseeded	Seeded	Unseeded	Seeded	Unseeded
Slovan Bratislava Lincoln Red Imps The New Saints Ballkani Borac Banja Luka	Ħamrun Spartans Struga Dečić Egnatia UE Santa Coloma	HJK Flora KÍ Shamrock Rovers RFS	Celje Larne Panevėžys Víkingur Reykjavík Differdange 03	Ludogorets Razgrad FCSB Pyunik Petrocub Hîncești	Dinamo Batumi Dinamo Minsk Ordabasy Virtus

Summary[edit]

The first legs were played on 9 and 10 July, and the second legs will be played on 16 and 17 July 2024.

The winners of the ties will advance to the Champions Path second qualifying round. 12 of the 14 losers will be transferred to the Conference League Champions Path second qualifying round and 2 will be transferred to the Conference League Champions Path qualifying and receive a bye to the third qualifying round.

First qualifying round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Slovan Bratislava	Match 1	Struga	4–2	17 July
The New Saints	Match 2	Dečić	3–0	16 July
Borac Banja Luka	Match 3	Egnatia	1–0	17 July
Ħamrun Spartans	Match 4	Lincoln Red Imps	0–1	16 July
UE Santa Coloma	Match 5[A]	Ballkani	1–2	16 July
Flora	Match 6	Celje	0–5	16 July
KÍ	Match 7	Differdange 03	2–0	17 July
Panevėžys	Match 8	HJK	3–0	16 July
RFS	Match 9	Larne	3–0	17 July
Víkingur Reykjavík	Match 10	Shamrock Rovers	0–0	16 July
Virtus	Match 11	FCSB	1–7	16 July
Ludogorets Razgrad	Match 12	Dinamo Batumi	3–1	17 July
Ordabasy	Match 13	Petrocub Hîncești	0–0	17 July
Dinamo Minsk	Match 14	Pyunik	0–0	16 July

Matches[edit]

Slovan Bratislava	4–2	Struga
Weiss 16' Mak 36' Kucka 85', 90+1'	Report[8]	Ibraimi 55' (pen.), 74'

Attendance: 11,259^[7]

Referee: Stéphanie Frappart (France)

Struga	v	Slovan Bratislava
	Report[9]

Referee: Ricardo de Burgos Bengoetxea (Spain)

The New Saints	3–0	Dečić
Young 4', 28' Davies 39'	Report[11]

Attendance: 810^[10]

Referee: Bram Van Driessche (Belgium)

Dečić	v	The New Saints
	Report[12]

Referee: Atilla Karaoğlan (Turkey)

Borac Banja Luka	1–0	Egnatia
Hrelja 90+6'	Report[14]

Attendance: 7,832^[13]

Referee: Daniel Stefański (Poland)

Egnatia	v	Borac Banja Luka
	Report[15]

Referee: Fabio Maresca (Italy)

Ħamrun Spartans	0–1	Lincoln Red Imps
	Report[17]	Britto 37'

Attendance: 1,342^[16]

Referee: Aleksandar Stavrev (North Macedonia)

Lincoln Red Imps	v	Ħamrun Spartans
	Report[18]

Referee: Eric Wattellier (France)

UE Santa Coloma	1–2	Ballkani
El Ghazoui 22'	Report[20]	Emërllahu 42' (pen.) Karrica 90'

Attendance: 445^[19]

Referee: Marcel Birsan (Romania)

Ballkani	v	UE Santa Coloma
	Report[21]

Referee: Oleksiy Derevinskyi (Ukraine)

Flora	0–5	Celje
	Report[23]	Matko 7' Vuklišević 10' Zabukovnik 45+1' Aarons 71' Svetlin 90'

Attendance: 2,002^[22]

Referee: Alejandro Muñiz Ruiz (Spain)

Celje	v	Flora
	Report[24]

Referee: Goga Kikacheishvili (Georgia)

KÍ	2–0	Differdange 03
Frederiksberg 12', 45+4' (pen.)	Report[26]

Attendance: 1,161^[25]

Referee: David Munro (Scotland)

Differdange 03	v	KÍ
	Report[27]

Referee: Javier Alberola Rojas (Spain)

Panevėžys	3–0	HJK
Veliulis 17' Gorobsov 64' (pen.) Mbo 67'	Report[29]

Attendance: 1,100^[28]

Referee: Luca Cibelli (Switzerland)

HJK	v	Panevėžys
	Report[30]

Referee: Andrew Madley (England)

RFS	3–0	Larne
Ķigurs 30' Balodis 49' Panić 60'	Report[32]

Attendance: 1,700^[31]

Referee: Ondřej Berka (Czech Republic)

Larne	v	RFS
	Report[33]

Referee: Gustavo Correia (Portugal)

Víkingur Reykjavík	0–0	Shamrock Rovers
	Report[35]

Attendance: 1,108^[34]

Referee: Sigurd Kringstad (Norway)

Shamrock Rovers	v	Víkingur Reykjavík
	Report[36]

Referee: Jarred Gillett (England)

Virtus	1–7	FCSB
Battistini 86'	Report[38]	Olaru 6' (pen.), 11', 37' Popa 22', 27' Miculescu 70', 73'

Attendance: 1,863^[37]

Referee: Antoni Bandić (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

FCSB	v	Virtus
	Report[39]

Referee: Stefan Ebner (Austria)

Ludogorets Razgrad	3–1	Dinamo Batumi
Tekpetey 13' Rick 24' Witry 72'	Report[41]	Mamuchashvili 62'

Attendance: 4,561^[40]

Referee: Robert Schröder (Germany)

Dinamo Batumi	v	Ludogorets Razgrad
	Report[42]

Referee: Dario Bel (Croatia)

Ordabasy	0–0	Petrocub Hîncești
	Report[44]

Attendance: 16,500^[43]

Referee: Patrik Kolarić (Croatia)

Petrocub Hîncești	v	Ordabasy
	Report[45]

Referee: Miloš Milanović (Serbia)

Dinamo Minsk	0–0	Pyunik
	Report[48]

Attendance: 0^{[46][note 7]}

Referee: Volen Chinkov (Bulgaria)

Pyunik	v	Dinamo Minsk
	Report[49]

Referee: Snir Levy (Israel)

Second qualifying round[edit]

The draw for the second qualifying round was held on 19 June 2024.

Seeding[edit]

A total of 28 teams will play in the second qualifying round – 24 in the Champions Path and 4 in the League Path. Seeding of the teams will be based on their 2024 UEFA club coefficients.^[5] Before the draw, UEFA may form groups of seeded and unseeded teams per the principles set by the Club Competitions Committee. The first team drawn in each tie will be the home team for the first leg.

Champions Path

Group 1		Group 2		Group 3
Seeded	Unseeded	Seeded	Unseeded	Seeded	Unseeded
PAOK Ferencváros Winner of match 12[†] APOEL	Winner of match 2[†] Winner of match 14[†] Winner of match 13[†] Winner of match 3[†]	Bodø/Glimt Midtjylland Sparta Prague Malmö FF	Winner of match 7[†] Winner of match 10[†] Winner of match 9[†] Winner of match 5[†]	Maccabi Tel Aviv Qarabağ Winner of match 1[†] Winner of match 8[†]	Winner of match 6[†] Winner of match 11[†] Winner of match 4[†] Jagiellonia Białystok

League Path

Seeded	Unseeded
Fenerbahçe Dynamo Kyiv	Partizan Lugano

Notes

Summary[edit]

The first legs will be played on 23 and 24 July, and the second legs will be played on 30 and 31 July 2024.

The winners of the ties will advance to the third qualifying round of their respective path. The Champions Path losers will be transferred to the Europa League Champions Path third qualifying round, while the League Path losers will be transferred to the Europa League Main Path third qualifying round.

Second qualifying round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Champions Path
Winner of match 12	Match 1	Winner of match 14	23 or 24 July	30 or 31 July
APOEL	Match 2	Winner of match 13	23 July	30 or 31 July
Ferencváros	Match 3	Winner of match 2	23 July	30 or 31 July
PAOK	Match 4	Winner of match 3	24 July	30 or 31 July
Bodø/Glimt	Match 5	Winner of match 9	23 July	30 or 31 July
Malmö FF	Match 6	Winner of match 7	23 July	30 or 31 July
Winner of match 10	Match 7	Sparta Prague	23 or 24 July	30 July
Winner of match 5	Match 8	Midtjylland	23 or 24 July	31 July
Winner of match 6	Match 9	Winner of match 1	23 or 24 July	30 or 31 July
Winner of match 8	Match 10	Jagiellonia Białystok	23 or 24 July	31 July
Winner of match 4	Match 11	Qarabağ	23 or 24 July	30 July
Winner of match 11	Match 12	Maccabi Tel Aviv	23 or 24 July	31 July
League Path
Lugano	Match 1	Fenerbahçe	23 July	30 July
Dynamo Kyiv	Match 2	Partizan	23 July	31 July

Champions Path[edit]

	v

	v

APOEL	v
	Report[50]

Referee: Robert Schröder (Germany)

	v	APOEL

Ferencváros	v
	Report[51]

Referee: Guillermo Cuadra (Spain)

	v	Ferencváros

PAOK	v
	Report[52]

Referee: David Šmajc (Slovenia)

	v	PAOK

Bodø/Glimt	v
	Report[53]

Referee: Donald Robertson (Scotland)

	v	Bodø/Glimt

Malmö FF	v
	Report[54]

Referee: Lukas Fähndrich (Switzerland)

	v	Malmö FF

	v	Sparta Prague

Sparta Prague	v
	Report[55]

Referee: Simone Sozza (Italy)

	v	Midtjylland

Midtjylland	v
	Report[56]

Referee: Rob Hennessy (Republic of Ireland)

	v

	v

	v	Jagiellonia Białystok

Jagiellonia Białystok	v
	Report[57]

Referee: Vassilis Fotias (Greece)

	v	Qarabağ

Qarabağ	v
	Report[58]

Referee: Viktor Kopiievskyi (Ukraine)

	v	Maccabi Tel Aviv

Maccabi Tel Aviv	v
	Report[60]

Referee: Jérémie Pignard (France)

League Path[edit]

Lugano	v	Fenerbahçe
	[61]

Referee: Tiago Martins (Portugal)

Fenerbahçe	v	Lugano
	[62]

Dynamo Kyiv	v	Partizan
	[64]

Referee: Christian Dingert (Germany)

Partizan	v	Dynamo Kyiv
	[65]

Referee: Marian Barbu (Romania)

Third qualifying round[edit]

The draw for the third qualifying round will be held on 22 July 2024.

Seeding[edit]

A total of 20 teams will play in the third qualifying round – 12 in the Champions Path and 8 in the League Path. Seeding of the teams will be based on their 2024 UEFA club coefficients.^[5] Before the draw, UEFA may form groups of seeded and unseeded teams per the principles set by the Club Competitions Committee. The first team drawn in each tie will be the home team for the first leg.

League Path

Seeded	Unseeded
Rangers Slavia Prague Red Bull Salzburg Lille	Winner of the tie involving Fenerbahçe[†] Union Saint-Gilloise Winner of the tie involving Dynamo Kyiv[†] Twente

Notes

Play-off round[edit]

The draw for the play-off round will be held on 5 August 2024.

Seeding[edit]

A total of 14 teams will play in the play-off round – 10 in the Champions Path and 4 in the League Path. Seeding of the teams will be based on their 2024 UEFA club coefficients.^[5] Before the draw, UEFA may form groups of seeded and unseeded teams per the principles set by the Club Competitions Committee. The first team drawn in each tie will be the home team for the first leg.

Champions Path

Seeded	Seeding to be determined
Dinamo Zagreb Red Star Belgrade	Young Boys Galatasaray 6 winners of the third qualifying round[†]

Notes

Notes[edit]

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Official website