2026–27 UEFA Conference League
The 2026–27 UEFA Conference League is the sixth season of the UEFA Conference League, Europe's tertiary club football tournament organised by UEFA.
The winners of the tournament will automatically qualify for the 2027–28 UEFA Europa League league phase, unless they qualify for the 2027–28 UEFA Champions League or Europa League through their league performance.
Association team allocation
A total of 167 teams from 54 of the 55 UEFA member associations are participating in the 2026–27 UEFA Conference League. The association ranking based on the UEFA association coefficients was used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:- Associations 1–12 each have one team.
- Associations 13–33 and 51–55 each have two teams.
- Associations 34–50 each have three teams.
- 15 teams eliminated from the 2026–27 UEFA Champions League and 41 teams eliminated from the 2026–27 UEFA Europa League will be transferred to the Conference League.
Association ranking
For the 2026–27 UEFA Conference League, the associations were allocated places according to their 2025 UEFA association coefficients, which took into account their performance in European competitions from 2020–21 to 2024–25.Apart from the allocation based on the association coefficients, associations could have additional teams participating in the Conference League, as noted below:
- – Additional teams transferred from the UEFA Champions League
- – Additional/vacated teams transferred from/to the UEFA Europa League
Distribution
The following is the access list for this season.The information here reflects the ongoing suspension of Russia in European football, and so the following changes to the default access list were made:
- The cup winners of associations 38 to 44 will enter the second qualifying round instead of the first qualifying round.
- As a result of corresponding changes to the Champions League access list, there will be one fewer loser from the Champions League first qualifying round transferred to the Conference League second qualifying round so one transferred team will receive a bye to the third qualifying round.
Teams
The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:- CW: Domestic cup winners
- 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, etc.: League position of the previous season
- LC: League cup winners
- RW: Regular season winners
- PW: End-of-season Conference League play-offs winners
- CL: Transferred from the Champions League
- *Q1: Losers from the first qualifying round
- EL: Transferred from the Europa League
- *PO: Losers from the play-off round
- *CH/MP Q3: Losers from the third qualifying round
- *Q2: Losers from the second qualifying round
- *Q1: Losers from the first qualifying round
'''Notes'''