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.3 Association coefficient calculation

The season coefficient of an association is calculated by adding up the points obtained by all its clubs in a given season of the UEFA Women’s Champions League and UEFA Women’s Europa Cup and then dividing the total by the number of clubs from that association that took part in the two UEFA women's club competitions in question.

From 2025/26 onwards, points are awarded as follows:

a. 2 points for a win (1 point for qualifying matches);

b. 1 point for a draw (0.5 points for qualifying matches);

c. 0 points for a defeat.

For previous seasons, points are awarded in accordance with the relevant competition regulations for that specific season.

If a club refused to enter a UEFA competition for which it qualified, or was excluded from or not admitted to the competition and was not replaced by another club from the same association, the association's coefficient is calculated by dividing the total number of points obtained by its clubs by the number of clubs the association was entitled to enter according to the access list.

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.