{"id":22365,"date":"2026-07-04T16:47:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T13:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7bet.co.uk\/blog\/?p=22365"},"modified":"2026-07-04T16:47:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T13:47:48","slug":"uefa-champions-league-qualification-preview-fixtures-teams-key-matchups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/7bet.co.uk\/blog\/uefa-champions-league-qualification-preview-fixtures-teams-key-matchups\/","title":{"rendered":"UEFA Champions League Qualification Preview: Fixtures, Teams &#038; Key Matchups"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before the 36-team league phase kicks off, 52 clubs have to win their way in through a summer of Champions League qualifiers, played out over two legs between clubs you might not know yet and a few you definitely do.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the champions of Europe&#8217;s smaller leagues it is the only route to the top table. For bigger names who slipped up at home, it is a nervy detour they would rather avoid. Either way, it all starts on 7 July.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Odds are live now, so you can back every qualifying tie on our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/7bet.co.uk\/betting\/football\/europe\/uefa-champions-league\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Champions League betting page<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>UEFA Champions League Qualification Fixtures and Schedule<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 2026\/27 qualifying campaign runs <\/span><strong>from 7 July to 26 August<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which means there is European football to follow all summer, even while the World Cup is still reaching its closing stages in North America. It opens with the first qualifying round, where 28 clubs across 14 ties play their <\/span><strong>first legs on 7 and 8 July<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the<\/span> <strong>return legs a week later on 14 and 15 July<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Every side in that opening round is the champion of one of UEFA&#8217;s lower-ranked nations, and there is plenty for British and Irish fans to keep an eye on. <\/span><b>The New Saints<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> carry Welsh hopes, <\/span><b>Shamrock Rovers<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> fly the flag for the League of Ireland, <\/span><b>Larne <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">represent Northern Ireland and Gibraltar&#8217;s<\/span><b> Lincoln Red Imps<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are back on the European trail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is the full first qualifying round draw, with first-leg hosts listed first:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sabah (Azerbaijan) vs <\/span><b>The New Saints (Wales)<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Lincoln Red Imps (Gibraltar)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> vs Inter Escaldes (Andorra)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Floriana (Malta) vs <\/span><b>Shamrock Rovers (Republic of Ireland)<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tre Fiori (San Marino) vs <\/span><b>Larne (Northern Ireland)<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ararat-Armenia (Armenia) vs Riga (Latvia)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kauno \u017dalgiris (Lithuania) vs Drita (Kosovo)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vardar (North Macedonia) vs KuPS Kuopio (Finland)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Borac Banja Luka (Bosnia and Herzegovina) vs Levski Sofia (Bulgaria)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">K\u00cd Klaksv\u00edk (Faroe Islands) vs Atert Bissen (Luxembourg)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">V\u00edkingur Reykjav\u00edk (Iceland) vs Gy\u0151ri ETO (Hungary)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kairat Almaty (Kazakhstan) vs Sutjeska (Montenegro)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Flora Tallinn (Estonia) vs Iberia Tbilisi (Georgia)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ML Vitebsk (Belarus) vs Universitatea Craiova (Romania)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Petrocub (Moldova) vs Egnatia (Albania)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Qualification round calendar and important dates<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From the first round, the competition builds week by week: <\/span><strong>the second qualifying round is played on 21\/22 and 28\/29 July, the third qualifying round on 4\/5 and 11 August, and the play-offs on 18\/19 and 25\/26 August<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>.<\/strong> Win your tie and you go through. Lose it and your Champions League is over, at least for this season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seven clubs come out the other side of the play-offs and join the 29 sides who qualified directly, completing the 36-team league phase. That field is finalised at the <\/span><b>league phase draw on 27 August<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, with the <\/span><b>opening matchday following between 8 and 10 September<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Only the first and second qualifying rounds have been drawn so far (with the second still showing placeholder slots for the sides who&#8217;ll come through the first round). The later rounds are paired off as the summer goes on, with the <\/span><b>third qualifying round draw on 20 July<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the<\/span><b> play-off draw on 3 August<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, so the marquee ties will take shape over the coming weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><a style=\"color: #ffffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/7bet.co.uk\/betting\/football\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-17265 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/7bet.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Football.jpg\" alt=\"Banner for football betting\" width=\"900\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/7bet.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Football.jpg 900w, https:\/\/7bet.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Football-300x83.jpg 300w, https:\/\/7bet.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Football-768x213.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Format of the Qualification<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Champions League qualifying is a four-stage climb. There is a first, second and third qualifying round, followed by the play-offs, and every tie across all four stages is settled over two legs, home and away.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From the second round onwards the bracket splits into two separate routes:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><strong>The Champions Path<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is reserved for clubs that won their domestic league but were not high-ranked enough to go straight into the league phase.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><strong>The League Path<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is for the runners-up, third and fourth-placed sides from Europe&#8217;s stronger leagues who also have to qualify.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Keeping the two apart means a champion of a smaller nation is matched against similar opposition instead of being thrown straight in against a heavyweight that happened to finish fourth in one of the big five.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In total, 52 clubs participate in the qualifiers: <\/span><strong>42 in the Champions Path and 10 in the League Path.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Only seven of them make it<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, five from the Champions Path and two from the League Path.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>How teams are seeded<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The round a club enters is set <\/span><b>by its national association&#8217;s coefficient<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, so the champions of the lowest-ranked countries start in the first round, while better-ranked sides are seeded straight into later stages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Within each round, the draw is seeded using 2026 UEFA club coefficients, splitting teams into seeded and unseeded groups so the strongest names are kept apart for as long as possible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The wider field works on the same coefficient logic. Twenty-nine teams qualify directly for the league phase, including the holders and the Europa League winners, with the top leagues handed the most places and lower-ranked nations getting fewer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>The access list can also shift right up to the start of qualifying<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. This season, because both 2025\/26 finalists Paris Saint-Germain and Arsenal had already booked their places through their domestic leagues, the berth normally reserved for the title holders passed down the rankings to Shakhtar Donetsk, who move straight into the league phase as a result.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Key Dates and Schedule<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you want the whole calendar in one place, here is how the 2026\/27 qualifying schedule lines up, from the draws through to the final ties.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221; el_class=&#8221;eb-table&#8221;]<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Round<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Draw<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">First legs<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Second legs<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">First qualifying round<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ffffff;\">16 June<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ffffff;\">7\u20138 July<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ffffff;\">14\u201315 July<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Second qualifying round<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ffffff;\">17 June<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ffffff;\">21\u201322 July<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ffffff;\">28\u201329 July<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Third qualifying round<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ffffff;\">20 July<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ffffff;\">4\u20135 August<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ffffff;\">11 August<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Play-off round<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ffffff;\">3 August<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ffffff;\">18\u201319 August<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ffffff;\">25\u201326 August<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once the play-offs are settled, the seven winners join the directly qualified clubs at the league phase draw on 27 August, with matchday one following between 8 and 10 September.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A defeat in qualifying <\/span><strong>does not always mean a club&#8217;s European season is finished<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and this is where the Champions League connects to UEFA&#8217;s other two competitions.<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the Champions Path, clubs knocked out in the first round move into the <\/span><strong>Conference League<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, while those eliminated in the second and third rounds parachute into the <\/span><strong>Europa League<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">League Path casualties also land in the <\/span><strong>Europa League<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The result is a safety net that keeps a steady flow of clubs moving between the three tournaments.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><b>UK &amp; Irish Teams and Key Matchups<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The New Saints (Wales), Shamrock Rovers (Republic of Ireland), Larne (Northern Ireland) and Lincoln Red Imps (Gibraltar)\u00a0 all begin in the first qualifying round. <\/span><b>Hearts <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Scotland)<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">will play during the second qualifying round \u2013 their first match is on 21 or 22 July against Sturm Graz.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The marquee British name arrives much later. <\/span><b>Celtic<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, as Scottish champions, skip the summer slog entirely and enter at the Champions Path play-off round in mid-to-late August.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The League Path is where several recognisable continental sides have to grind their way through. <\/span><b>Olympiacos<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>Lyon <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><b>Bod\u00f8\/Glimt<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> all enter at the third qualifying round.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over in the Champions Path, established European regulars <\/span><b>Red Star Belgrade<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>Dinamo Zagreb<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are seeded into the second round and will fancy their chances of going deep.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For now, the first qualifying round is the only fully drawn stage. The third qualifying round draw on 20 July and the play-off draw on 3 August will finally pair up the heavyweights.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"color: #18ae62;\">Betting is available to those aged 18 and over only. Please bet responsibly. 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