The text that follows has been taken from Annex D of the official UEFA Women’s Champions League regulations, and appears in the same place in the official UEFA Women’s Europa Cup regulations.

D.1 System overview

UEFA calculates the coefficient of each club and association each season based on the clubs' results in the UEFA Women's Champions League and the UEFA Women's Europa Cup. The season coefficients from five seasons are used to determine the positions of the associations in the access list (association coefficient) and to rank the clubs for seeding purposes (club coefficient).

D.2 Reference periods for rankings

The associations' positions in the 2025/26 UEFA Women's Champions League and UEFA Women's Europa Cup access list (Annex A) are determined on the basis of the five-season association coefficients established at the end of the 2023/24 season, i.e. the cumulative total of the associations' season coefficients from seasons 2019/20 to 2023/24 inclusive.

The five-season club coefficients for the 2025/26 UEFA Women's Champions League and the UEFA Women's Europa Cup are established before the start of the 2025/26 season, on the basis of each club's season coefficients from seasons 2020/21 to 2024/25 inclusive.

D.4 Club coefficient calculation

The season coefficient of a club is calculated by adding up the total number of points it obtained in a given season of the UEFA Women's Champions League or UEFA Women's Europa Cup in accordance with this Annex D of the competition regulations for that season. A club's five-season coefficient is the cumulative total of its five season coefficients from the reference period stipulated in Annex D.2 or 20% of its association's five-season association coefficient, whichever is higher. Points awarded each season are in accordance with the relevant competition regulations for that specific season, so Annex D.4.1 and Annex D.4.2 apply only to the awarding of points in the 2025/26 season.

D.4.1 Points awarded in the UEFA Women's Champions League

a. First qualifying round:

• 0.5 points for a club defeated in a third-place match

• 1 point for the winner of a third-place match (four-team mini-tournament) or a club defeated in a MD1 semi-final (three-team mini-tournament)

• 1.5 points for a defeated finalist

b. Second qualifying round:

• 2 points for a club defeated in a third-place match

• 1 point for the winner of a third-place match

• 1.5 points for a defeated finalist

c. Third qualifying round:

• 2 points for each defeated team

d. League phase onwards (except knockout phase play-offs)

• 2 points for a win

• 1 point for a draw

• 0 points for a defeat

D.4.2 Points awarded in the UEFA Women's Europa Cup

a. First qualifying round:

• 1.5 points for each club eliminated in the first qualifying round.

b. Second qualifying round:

• 2 points for each club eliminated in the second qualifying round.

c. Round of 16 onwards:

• 2 points for a win

• 1 point for a draw

• 0 points for a defeat

D.5 Bonus points

Clubs are awarded the following bonus points based on their final position in the league phase rankings:

Clubs that reach the round of 16 in the UEFA Women's Europa Cup are awarded 2.5 extra points. Clubs that reach the quarter-finals, semi-finals or final are awarded 1 extra point for each such round in the UEFA Women's Champions League, and 0.5 extra points for each such round in the UEFA Women's Europa Cup.

These bonus points are also included in the association coefficient calculation.

D.6 Calculation principles

Match points are awarded based on the final scores ratified by UEFA. Penalty shoot-outs do not count.

Coefficients are calculated to the thousandth and not rounded up.

If competition rounds are changed and matches are played as single legs instead of home and away, the points awarded under Annex D.3, Annex D.4.1(d) and Annex D.4.2(b) are adapted as follows:

a. 3 points for a win in regular time or extra time (1.5 points for qualifying matches);

b. 2 points for a draw in extra time (1 point for qualifying matches);

c. 1 point for a defeat in regular time or extra time (0.5 points for qualifying matches).

This does not apply to the final of the UEFA Women's Champions League.

D.7 Equal coefficients

If two or more clubs are ranked equally, the following criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine their final rankings:

• their coefficients in the most recent of the seasons on which the rankings are based;

• their coefficients in the next most recent season in which they are not equal;

• their national associations' coefficients;

• their positions in their domestic championships in the most recent season.

If two or more associations are ranked equally, the following criteria are applied in this order, to determine their final rankings:

• their coefficients in the most recent of the seasons on which the rankings are based;

• their coefficients in the next most recent season in which they are not equal.

D.8 Final decisions

The UEFA administration takes final decisions on any matters not provided for in this annex.