{"id":9677,"date":"2025-03-22T06:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T06:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/?p=9677"},"modified":"2025-03-22T06:37:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T06:37:15","slug":"2025-26-champions-league-who-is-qualifying-for-the-league-phase-as-it-stands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/archives\/9677","title":{"rendered":"2025\/26 Champions League: Who is qualifying for the league phase as it stands?"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class='\"article_header'>\n<div class='\"article_summary\"'>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;\n</p><p>The 2025\/26 UEFA Champions League league phase qualifiers as it stands.\n\n\n</p><div class='\"article_top-content\"'><span class='\"article-embedded_caption\"'>Barcelona are top of the La Liga standings in Spain\n<div class='\"article_content' d3-plugin data-plugin='\"quote-author\"' data-inview-id='\"_inview_b5b3c210-7f0c-4be2-bcec-f01b58657e1f\"'>\n<div class='\"article_body\"'>\n<p>The 2025\/26 UEFA Champions League will be the second to be played under the\u00a0new 36-team league phase format.\n</p><p><b><i>Last updated: 09:00 CET on Wednesday 19 March\n<h3><b>2025\/26 league phase qualifiers as it stands\n</b></h3></i></b></p><p>2024\/25 UEFA Champions League winner (1): TBC<br>\n2024\/25 UEFA Europa League winner (1): TBC<br>\nEngland (4): Liverpool, Arsenal, Nottingham Forest, Chelsea<br>\nItaly (4): Inter, Napoli, Atalanta, Bologna<br>\nSpain (4): Barcelona, Real Madrid, Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid, Athletic Club<br>\nGermany (4): Bayern M\u00fcnchen, Bayer Leverkusen, Mainz, Eintracht Frankfurt<br>\nFrance (3): Paris, Marseille, Monaco<br>\nNetherlands (2): Ajax, PSV<br>\nPortugal (1): Sporting CP<br>\nBelgium (1): Genk<br>\nCzechia (1): Slavia Praha<br>\nT\u00fcrkiye (1): Galatasaray<br>\nEuropean Performance Spots (2): Manchester City, Villarreal<br>\nQualifying rounds \u2013 champions path (5): TBC<br>\nQualifying rounds \u2013 league path (2): TBC\n\n</p><h3><b>Which teams compete in the 36-team league phase?\n</b></h3><p>Twenty-five teams will qualify automatically by virtue of their domestic league placing, with the holders of the Champions League and Europa League also both guaranteed a spot. Rebalancing is required if either of those title winners also qualify automatically via their domestic league placing (see below).\n</p><p>Two further places will be filled by the European Performance Spots (see below), while seven final teams will seal their place via qualifying.\n</p><p>Full explainer: Champions League winner rebalancing<br>\nFull explainer: Europa League winner rebalancing<br>\nFull explainer: European Performance Spots\n</p><p><i>The list above is provisional, based purely on sporting performance and does not account for any potential disciplinary or licensing matters. All Russian teams are suspended from participation in UEFA competitions until further notice.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"</i></p><p>&nbsp; The 2025\/26 UEFA Champions League league phase qualifiers as it stands. Barcelona are top of the La Liga standings in Spain The 2025\/26 UEFA Champions League will be the &hellip; \n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9679,"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9677\/revisions\/9679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}</p></div></div></span></div></div></div></header>