Champions League 2025/26 taking shape

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Already 29 teams have qualified for the 2025/26 Champions League. AFP

The 2024-25 Champions League has just ended and the 2025-26 is taking shape. The 29 qualified teams for the League Phase are already known. There are still 7 teams that will qualify after qualifying through the various preliminary rounds to reach the quota of 36.

Paris Saint-Germain were crowned the new Champions League 2024-25 winners. With the various leagues in Europe now completed and with no time to lose, the 2025-26 edition is already taking shape.

Already 29 teams have qualified for the League Phase. The names of the last 7 (5 from the league champions' route and 2 from the non-champions' route) that will enter through the various preliminary rounds are still to be known, bringing the total to 36. The draw for the League Phase will take place on August 28th, one day after the last qualified team is known.

The composition of the 4 pots will be as follows, provided that the teams with the highest coefficient in the preliminary round qualify for the league phase. Thus, the composition of the pots for the draw may vary slightly.

* Teams that have to play the preliminary round to qualify. In case they do not qualify, the fixed teams will move up one place in the pots.

Pot 1 (Champions League winners and the 8 best UEFA coefficients)
- Real Madrid
- Manchester City
- Bayern Munich
- Liverpool
- PSG
- Inter Milan
- Chelsea
- Borussia Dortmund
- Barcelona

Pot 2
- Arsenal
- Bayer Leverkusen
- Atletico Madrid
- Benfica
- Atalanta
- Villarreal
- Juventus
- Eintracht Frankfurt
- Brugge

Pot 3
- Tottenham
- PSV
- Ajax
- Napoli
- Sporting CP
- Olympiacos
- Slavia Prague
- Bodo Glimt
- Olympique Marseille

Pot 4
- Copenhagen*
- Red Star Belgrade*
- Monaco
- Ferencvaros*
- Galatasaray
- Celtic*
- Union St. Gilloise
- Athletic
- Newcastle