The Road to the League Phase: 257 Clubs, 108 Places, One Week Left

108 places across three league phases. 257 clubs entered qualifying to chase them. As of 24 August 2026, 43 ties are still standing - and every one of them is settled this week.

1. 07-09.07First qualifying round
2. 21-23.07Second qualifying round
3. 04-06.08Third qualifying round
4. 18-20.08Play-off first legs
5. 25-27.08Play-off second legs43 ties, 108 league phase places settled.

Three competitions, three brackets

Champions League7Europa League12Conference League24

52in qualifying

7play-off tickets

29already in

First qualifying round07-08.0728→14

↓ 14to Conference League qualifying

Second qualifying round21-22.0728→14

↓ 14to Europa League third qualifying round

Third qualifying round04-05.0820→10

↓ 10to Europa League: 6 to the play-off, 4 straight to the league phase

Play-off round18-19.08 / 25-26.0814→7

↓ 7to the Europa League league phase

League phase36

Box width follows the number of clubs entering each round. In UEFA's system elimination is rarely goodbye - the branch on the right shows where the losers land.

Seven ties, two paths: five in the Champions Path (domestic title winners), two in the League Path. Nobody here goes home empty-handed - every loser lands in the Europa League league phase.

Celtic

entered at this round

3-0first leg25.08League phase

LASK

entered at this round

Hapoel Beer-Sheva

Q2beat Víkingur Reykjavík3-2Q3beat Red Star Belgrade3-0

2-1first leg25.08League phase

Sabah FK

Q1beat The New Saints4-1Q2beat KuPS Kuopio3-0Q3beat AGF Aarhus5-2

NEC Nijmegen

Q3beat Olympiakos Piraeus2-1

1-3first leg25.08League phase

Bodø/Glimt

Q3beat Union Saint-Gilloise6-5

Dinamo Zagreb

Q2beat FC Thun4-3Q3beat Kauno Žalgiris7-1

2-2first leg26.08League phase

Viking Stavanger

entered at this round

Fenerbahçe

Q2beat Górnik Zabrze2-1Q3beat Sturm Graz3-0

1-1first leg26.08League phase

Olympique Lyon

Q3beat Sparta Praha4-2

Levski Sofia

Q1beat Borac Banja Luka5-1Q2beat Universitatea Craiova3-2Q3beat Kairat Almaty2-0

0-0first leg26.08League phase

AEK Athens

entered at this round

Slovan Bratislava

Q2beat Iberia 1999 Tbilisi3-1Q3beat Mjällby AIF4-1

1-1first leg26.08League phase

NK Celje

Q2beat Egnatia Rrogozhinë5-5 (1-4 p)Q3beat Ararat-Armenia3-2

Each card is one play-off tie. Above and below it, every qualifying round that side has already come through - a badge marks rounds played in a different competition, and an orange outline marks the round where a club was knocked down into this one.

Norway2

Austria1

Azerbaijan1

Bulgaria1

Croatia1

France1

Greece1

Israel1

Who is banking the points

Every qualifying win feeds the country coefficient - the number that decides how many places each association gets in future seasons. This is what the 2026/27 season has produced so far.

Portugal4.000

Spain3.875

Germany3.571

Italy3.500

England3.388

Azerbaijan3.375

Latvia3.375

Netherlands3.333

Denmark3.250

Croatia3.250

Finland3.125

Türkiye3.100

Points earned this season only, divided by the number of clubs each country entered.

Snapshot as of 24 August 2026. Fixtures and coefficients from the eurocoefficient.com database; ties, aggregate scores and round dates verified against UEFA match reports via the Wikipedia qualifying-phase pages.