2025–26 UEFA Europa League qualifying

The 2025–26 UEFA Europa League qualifying phase and play-off round began on 10 July and ended on 28 August 2025.

A total of 53 teams will compete in the qualifying system, which includes the qualifying phase and the play-off round. The 12 winners of the play-off round will advance to the league phase, to join the 13 teams that enter in the league stage, along with the seven losers of the Champions League play-off round (five from the Champions Path and two from the League Path), and the four losers of the Champions League third qualifying round (League Path).

Times are CEST (UTC+2), as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Format

The qualifying phase will be split into two paths – the Champions Path and the Main Path. The Champions Path contained teams which were eliminated from the Champions League Champions Path, and the Main Path contained teams which qualified as the third-placed or the fourth-placed team from their domestic league or as domestic cup winners. The paths will be merged in the play-off round.

Each tie will be played over two legs, with each team playing one leg at home. The team that scores more goals on aggregate over the two legs will advance to the next round. If the aggregate score is level at the end of normal time of the second leg, extra time will be played, and if the same number of goals is scored by both teams during extra time, the tie will be decided by a penalty shoot-out.

In the draws for each round, teams will be seeded based on their UEFA club coefficients at the beginning of the season, with the teams divided into seeded and unseeded pots containing the same number of teams. A seeded team will be drawn against an unseeded team, with the order of legs in each tie decided by draw. As the identity of the winners of the previous round may not be known at the time of the draws, the seeding will be carried out under the assumption that the team with the higher coefficient of an undecided tie advances to the subsequent round. In practice, this means if the team with the lower coefficient advances in the Europa League or the team with the higher coefficient is eliminated from the Champions League, it will simply take the seeding of its opponent.

Prior to the draws, UEFA could form "groups" in accordance with the principles set by the Club Competitions Committee, purely for the convenience of the draw and not to resemble any real groupings in the sense of the competition. Teams from associations with political conflicts as decided by UEFA can not be drawn into the same tie. After the draws, the order of legs of a tie can be reversed by UEFA due to scheduling or venue conflicts.

Schedule

The schedule of the competition is as follows. Matches are scheduled for Thursdays, though exceptionally could take place on Tuesdays or Wednesdays due to scheduling conflicts.

Schedule for 2025–26 UEFA Europa League

Round	Draw date	First leg	Second leg
First qualifying round	17 June 2025	10 July 2025	17 July 2025
Second qualifying round	18 June 2025	24 July 2025	31 July 2025
Third qualifying round	21 July 2025	7 August 2025	14 August 2025
Play-off round	4 August 2025	21 August 2025	28 August 2025

Teams

In the qualifying stage, the teams will be divided into two paths:

• Champions Path (12 teams):
  • Third qualifying round: 12 losers of the Champions League Champions Path second qualifying round.
• Main Path:
  • First qualifying round (16 teams): 16 teams which entered in this round.
  • Second qualifying round (16 teams): 8 teams which entered in this round, and 8 winners of the first qualifying round.
  • Third qualifying round (14 teams): 3 teams which enter in this round, 3 losers of the Champions League League Path second qualifying round, and 8 winners of the second qualifying round.

The winners of the third qualifying round will be combined into a single path for the play-off round:

• Play-off round (24 teams): 5 teams which enter this round, 6 losers of the Champions League Champions Path third qualifying round, 6 winners of the Champions Path third qualifying round, and 7 winners of the Main Path third qualifying round.

All teams eliminated from the qualifying phase and play-off round enter the Conference League:

• The 8 losers of the Main Path first qualifying round entered the Main Path second qualifying round.
• The 8 losers of the Main Path second qualifying round entered the Main Path third qualifying round.
• The 6 losers of the Champions Path third qualifying round enter the Champions Path play-off round.
• The 7 losers of the Main Path third qualifying round enter the Main Path play-off round.
• The 12 losers of the play-off round enter the league phase.

Below are the participating teams (with their 2025 UEFA club coefficients, not used as seeding for the Champions Path, however), grouped by their starting rounds.

Key to colours
Winners of play-off round advance to league phase
Losers of play-off round enter Conference League league phase
Losers of third qualifying round enter Conference League play-off round
Losers of second qualifying round entered Conference League third qualifying round
Losers of first qualifying round entered Conference League second qualifying round

Play-off round Team Coeff. Young Boys 34.500 Slovan Bratislava 33.500 Ludogorets Razgrad 24.000 Dynamo Kyiv 23.500 Lech Poznań 19.000 Malmö FF 14.500 Genk 11.370 Aberdeen 9.500 Sigma Olomouc 8.820 Samsunspor 8.780 Shkëndija 7.500

Third qualifying round (Champions Path) Team Coeff. Maccabi Tel Aviv 37.500 FCSB 22.500 Rijeka 12.000 RFS 11.000 Zrinjski Mostar 10.000 Lincoln Red Imps 10.000 KuPS 10.000 Drita 9.000 Breiðablik 9.000 Hamrun Spartans 6.000 Noah 5.000 Shelbourne 2.993 Third qualifying round (Main Path) Team Coeff. PAOK 42.250 Panathinaikos 16.000 Servette 11.500 Wolfsberger AC 9.500 Brann 7.937 Fredrikstad 7.937

Second qualifying round Team Coeff. Braga 46.000 Midtjylland 32.750 Anderlecht 28.250 Lugano 19.250 Beşiktaş 15.000 Utrecht 13.430 Baník Ostrava 8.820 Hibernian 7.110

First qualifying round Team Coeff. Shakhtar Donetsk 52.000 Legia Warsaw 31.000 Partizan 22.000 Sheriff Tiraspol 20.000 CFR Cluj 19.000 Hapoel Be'er Sheva 16.500 Celje 14.000 Spartak Trnava 8.500 AEK Larnaca 7.500 BK Häcken 7.000 Paks 4.800 Levski Sofia 4.500 Sabah 4.000 Ilves 3.000 Aktobe 3.000 Prishtina 2.500

Notes

First qualifying round

The draw for the first qualifying round was held on 17 June 2025.

Seeding

A total of 16 teams will play in the first qualifying round. Seeding of the teams will be based on their 2025 UEFA club coefficients. Before the draw, UEFA allocated the teams into two groups of four seeded teams and four unseeded teams in accordance with the principles set by the Club Competitions Committee.The first team drawn in each tie will be the home team for the first leg.

Group 1		Group 2
Seeded	Unseeded	Seeded	Unseeded
Shakhtar Donetsk Sheriff Tiraspol Celje Spartak Trnava	BK Häcken Sabah Ilves Prishtina	Legia Warsaw Partizan CFR Cluj Hapoel Be'er Sheva	AEK Larnaca Paks Levski Sofia Aktobe

Summary

The first legs were played on 10 July, and the second legs were played on 17 July 2025.

The winners of the ties advanced to the second qualifying round. The losers were transferred to the Conference League Main Path second qualifying round.

First qualifying round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Shakhtar Donetsk	6–0	Ilves	6–0	0–0
Sheriff Tiraspol	5-2	Prishtina	4–0	1-2
Spartak Trnava	2–3	BK Häcken	0–1	2–2
Sabah	5–6	Celje	2–3	3–3 (aet)
Legia Warsaw	2–0	Aktobe	1–0	1–0
Levski Sofia	1-1 (3–1 p)	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	0–0	1-1 (aet)
AEK Larnaca	2-2 (6-5 p)	Partizan	1–0	1-2 (aet)
Paks	0–3	CFR Cluj	0–0	0–3

Matches

10 July 2025 (2025-07-10) 20:00	Shakhtar Donetsk	6–0	Ilves	Stožice Stadium, Ljubljana, Slovenia Attendance: 650 Referee: Marc Nagtegaal (Netherlands)
	Alisson  26', 47' Kauã Elias  43' Kevin  74' Pedrinho  87' Newerton  90'	Report

17 July 2025 (2025-07-17) 18:00 (19:00 UTC+3)	Ilves	0–0	Shakhtar Donetsk	Tammelan Stadion, Tampere Attendance: 7,315 Referee: Mohammad Usman Aslam (Norway)
		Report

Shakhtar Donetsk won 6–0 on aggregate.

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10 July 2025 (2025-07-10) 19:00 (20:00 UTC+3)	Sheriff Tiraspol	4–0	Prishtina	Sheriff Arena, Tiraspol Attendance: 6,223 Referee: Dario Bel (Croatia)
	Bayala  11', 19', 74' Odede  79'	Report

17 July 2025 (2025-07-17) 20:00	Prishtina	2–1	Sheriff Tiraspol	Fadil Vokrri Stadium, Pristina Attendance: 1,320 Referee: Henrik Nalbandyan (Armenia)
	Namani  56' Ahmeti  65'	Report	Serobyan  51'

Sheriff Tiraspol won 5–2 on aggregate.

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10 July 2025 (2025-07-10) 20:15	Spartak Trnava	0–1	BK Häcken	Anton Malatinský Stadium, Trnava Attendance: 10,125 Referee: Bence Csonka (Hungary)
		Report	Nioule  63'

17 July 2025 (2025-07-17) 19:00	BK Häcken	2–2	Spartak Trnava	Bravida Arena, Gothenburg Attendance: 3,636 Referee: Ívar Orri Kristjánsson (Iceland)
	Gustafson  13' (pen.) Dembe  90+6'	Report	Procházka  65' Moistsrapishvili  82'

BK Häcken won 3–2 on aggregate.

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10 July 2025 (2025-07-10) 18:00 (20:00 UTC+4)	Sabah	2–3	Celje	Bank Respublika Arena, Masazir Attendance: 7,000 Referee: Daniyar Sakhi (Kazakhstan)
	Šafranko  3', 18' (pen.)	Report	Kovačević  7', 78' Hrka  90+4'

17 July 2025 (2025-07-17) 20:00	Celje	3–3 (a.e.t.)	Sabah	Stadion Z'dežele, Celje Attendance: 3,068 Referee: Dragomir Draganov (Bulgaria)
	Kovačević  19' (pen.) Vuklišević  49' Iosifov  108'	Report	Mickels  9', 63', 64'

Celje won 6–5 on aggregate.

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10 July 2025 (2025-07-10) 21:00	Legia Warsaw	1–0	Aktobe	Polish Army Stadium, Warsaw Attendance: 12,239 Referee: Dalibor Černý (Czech Republic)
	Bichakhchyan  25'	Report

17 July 2025 (2025-07-17) 18:00 (21:00 UTC+5)	Aktobe	0–1	Legia Warsaw	Central Stadium, Aktobe Attendance: 12,190 Referee: Granit Maqedonci (Sweden)
		Report	Elitim  90+1'

Legia Warsaw won 2–0 on aggregate.

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10 July 2025 (2025-07-10) 19:30 (20:30 UTC+3)	Levski Sofia	0–0	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	Stadion Georgi Asparuhov, Sofia Attendance: 15,467 Referee: Ladislav Szikszay (Czech Republic)
		Report

17 July 2025 (2025-07-17) 20:00	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Levski Sofia	Városi Stadion, Nyíregyháza, Hungary Referee: Florian Badstübner (Germany)
	Turgeman  105+3'	Report	Sangaré  114'
		Penalties
	Almog Kangwa Turgeman Levy	1−3	Rupanov Fabien Makoun Sangaré

1–1 on aggregate; Levski Sofia won 3–1 on penalties.

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10 July 2025 (2025-07-10) 18:30 (19:30 UTC+3)	AEK Larnaca	1–0	Partizan	AEK Arena – Georgios Karapatakis, Larnaca Attendance: 4,127 Referee: Jacob Karlsen (Denmark)
	Cabrera  67'	Report

17 July 2025 (2025-07-17) 21:00	Partizan	2–1 (a.e.t.)	AEK Larnaca	Partizan Stadium, Belgrade Attendance: 23,253 Referee: Gustavo Correia (Portugal)
	Ugrešić  69' D. Jovanović  118'	Report	Pons  104'
		Penalties
	Natcho Milovanović Roganović Kalulu Karabelyov A. Kostić D. Jovanović B. Kostić	5−6	Miličević Ledes Suárez Chacón Ivanović Pons Miramón Gnali

2–2 on aggregate; AEK Larnaca won 6–5 on penalties.

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10 July 2025 (2025-07-10) 19:00	Paks	0–0	CFR Cluj	Fehérvári úti Stadion, Paks Attendance: 3,916 Referee: Pavle Ilić (Serbia)
		Report

17 July 2025 (2025-07-17) 19:30 (20:30 UTC+3)	CFR Cluj	3–0	Paks	Dr. Constantin Rădulescu Stadium, Cluj-Napoca Attendance: 6,512 Referee: Kyriakos Athanasiou (Cyprus)
	Fică  35' Munteanu  85' Muhar  90'	Report

CFR Cluj won 3–0 on aggregate.

Second qualifying round

The draw for the second qualifying round was held on 18 June 2025.

Seeding

A total of 16 teams will play in the second qualifying round. Seeding of the teams will be based on their 2025 UEFA club coefficients. Before the draw, UEFA allocated the teams into two groups of four seeded teams and four unseeded teams in accordance with the principles set by the Club Competitions Committee. The first team drawn in each tie will be the home team for the first leg.

Group 1		Group 2
Seeded	Unseeded	Seeded	Unseeded
Braga Winner of the tie involving Legia Warsaw Winner of the tie involving Partizan Lugano	Winner of the tie involving CFR Cluj Winner of the tie involving Hapoel Be'er Sheva Winner of the tie involving Celje Baník Ostrava	Winner of the tie involving Shakhtar Donetsk Midtjylland Anderlecht Winner of the tie involving Sheriff Tiraspol	Beşiktaş Utrecht Winner of the tie involving Spartak Trnava Hibernian

Notes

Summary

The first legs were played on 24 July and the second legs were played on 31 July 2025.

The winners of the ties advanced to the Main Path third qualifying round. The losers were transferred to the Conference League Main Path third qualifying round.

Second qualifying round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Lugano	0-1	CFR Cluj	0–0	0-1 (aet)
Celje	2–3	AEK Larnaca	1–1	1–2
Levski Sofia	0–1	Braga	0-0	0–1 (aet)
Baník Ostrava	3–4	Legia Warsaw	2–2	1–2
Anderlecht	2–2 (2–4 p)	BK Häcken	1–0	1–2 (aet)
Sheriff Tiraspol	2–7	Utrecht	1–3	1–4
Midtjylland	3–2	Hibernian	1-1	2–1 (aet)
Beşiktaş	2–6	Shakhtar Donetsk	2-4	0–2

Matches

24 July 2025 (2025-07-24) 20:30	Lugano	0–0	CFR Cluj	Stockhorn Arena, Thun Attendance: 941 Referee: Darren England (England)
		Report

31 July 2025 (2025-07-31) 19:30 (20:30 UTC+3)	CFR Cluj	1–0 (a.e.t.)	Lugano	Dr. Constantin Rădulescu Stadium, Cluj-Napoca Attendance: 8,564 Referee: Allard Lindhout (Netherlands)
	Sinyan  96'	Report

CFR Cluj won 1–0 on aggregate.

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24 July 2025 (2025-07-24) 20:00	Celje	1–1	AEK Larnaca	Stadion Z'dežele, Celje Attendance: 3,145 Referee: Bastien Dechepy (France)
	Kovačević  28' (pen.)	Report	Miličević  53' (pen.)

31 July 2025 (2025-07-31) 18:30 (19:30 UTC+3)	AEK Larnaca	2–1	Celje	AEK Arena – Georgios Karapatakis, Larnaca Attendance: 4,108 Referee: Chris Kavanagh (England)
	Chacón  43' García  67'	Report	Kvesić  88'

AEK Larnaca won 3–2 on aggregate.

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24 July 2025 (2025-07-24) 19:30 (20:30 UTC+3)	Levski Sofia	0–0	Braga	Stadion Georgi Asparuhov, Sofia Attendance: 16,040 Referee: Matteo Marchetti (Italy)
		Report

31 July 2025 (2025-07-31) 21:00 (20:00 UTC+1)	Braga	1–0 (a.e.t.)	Levski Sofia	Estádio Municipal, Braga Attendance: 16,771 Referee: Lothar D'hondt (Belgium)
	Fran Navarro  104'	Report

Braga won 1–0 on aggregate.

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24 July 2025 (2025-07-24) 19:00	Baník Ostrava	2–2	Legia Warsaw	Městský stadion, Ostrava Attendance: 15,047 Referee: Christian-Petru Ciochirca (Austria)
	Šín  13' Frydrych  65'	Report	Kapustka  32' Nsame  88'

31 July 2025 (2025-07-31) 21:00	Legia Warsaw	2–1	Baník Ostrava	Polish Army Stadium, Warsaw Attendance: 20,226 Referee: Novak Simović (Serbia)
	Nsame  54' Pojezný  74' (o.g.)	Report	Prekop  15'

Legia Warsaw won 4–3 on aggregate.

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24 July 2025 (2025-07-24) 20:00	Anderlecht	1–0	BK Häcken	Constant Vanden Stock Stadium, Brussels Attendance: 12,291 Referee: Eldorjan Hamiti (Albania)
	Dolberg  35'	Report

31 July 2025 (2025-07-31) 19:00	BK Häcken	2–1 (a.e.t.)	Anderlecht	Bravida Arena, Gothenburg Attendance: 4,016 Referee: Patrik Kolarić (Croatia)
	Svanbäck  33' Gustafson  90+2' (pen.)	Report	Dolberg  54' (pen.)
		Penalties
	Gustafson Layouni Lundkvist Berisha	4–2	Hazard Augustinsson Llansana Vázquez

2–2 on aggregate; BK Häcken won 4–2 on penalties.

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24 July 2025 (2025-07-24) 19:00 (20:00 UTC+3)	Sheriff Tiraspol	1–3	Utrecht	Central Stadium, Nisporeni Attendance: 2,674 Referee: Philip Farrugia (Malta)
	Ademo  24'	Report	Jensen  33' Viergever  54' Blake  70'

31 July 2025 (2025-07-31) 20:00	Utrecht	4–1	Sheriff Tiraspol	Stadion Galgenwaard, Utrecht Attendance: 21,611 Referee: Chrysovalantis Theouli (Cyprus)
	Jensen  27' Horemans  46' Viergever  56' El Karouani  89'	Report	Odede  75'

Utrecht won 7–2 on aggregate.

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24 July 2025 (2025-07-24) 19:30	Midtjylland	1–1	Hibernian	MCH Arena, Herning Attendance: 8,863 Referee: Robert Schröder (Germany)
	Şimşir  72'	Report	McGrath  7'

31 July 2025 (2025-07-31) 21:00 (20:00 UTC+1)	Hibernian	1–2 (a.e.t.)	Midtjylland	Easter Road, Edinburgh Attendance: 19,536 Referee: Gustavo Correia (Portugal)
	Bushiri  105+2'	Report	Osorio  94' Brumado  119'

Midtjylland won 3–2 on aggregate.

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24 July 2025 (2025-07-24) 20:00 (21:00 UTC+3)	Beşiktaş	2–4	Shakhtar Donetsk	Beşiktaş Stadium, Istanbul Attendance: 31,739 Referee: Georgi Kabakov (Bulgaria)
	Abraham  40' (pen.) João Mário  87'	Report	Alisson  7' Eguinaldo  28' Kevin  67', 90+6'

31 July 2025 (2025-07-31) 20:00	Shakhtar Donetsk	2–0	Beşiktaş	Henryk Reyman Municipal Stadium, Kraków, Poland Attendance: 12,828 Referee: Juan Martínez Munuera (Spain)
	Kevin  12' Kauã Elias  45+2'	Report

Shakhtar Donetsk won 6–2 on aggregate.

Third qualifying round

The draw for the third qualifying round will be held on 21 July 2025.

Seeding

A total of 26 teams played in the third qualifying round. Seeding of the teams was based on their 2025 UEFA club coefficients. Before the draw, UEFA formed groups of seeded and unseeded teams per the principles set by the Club Competitions Committee. The first team drawn in each tie was the home team for the first leg.

Champions Path

Group 1		Group 2
Seeded	Unseeded	Seeded	Unseeded
Rijeka RFS Lincoln Red Imps	KuPS Noah Shelbourne	Maccabi Tel Aviv Zrinjski Mostar Drita	Breiðablik FCSB Hamrun Spartans

Main Path

Group 1		Group 2
Seeded	Unseeded	Seeded	Unseeded
Braga PAOK Midtjylland Legia Warsaw	CFR Cluj AEK Larnaca Wolfsberger AC Fredrikstad	Shakhtar Donetsk BK Häcken Utrecht	Panathinaikos Servette Brann

Notes

Summary

The first legs were played on 5, 6 and 7 August, and the second legs were played on 12 and 14 August 2025.

The winners of the ties will advance to the play-off round. The losers will be transferred to the Conference League play-off round.

Third qualifying round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Champions Path
Lincoln Red Imps	1–1 (6–5 P)	Noah	1–1	0–0 (aet)
Rijeka	4–3	Shelbourne	1–2	3–1
RFS	1–3	KuPS	1–2	0–1
Hamrun Spartans	2–5	Maccabi Tel Aviv	1–2	1–3
Zrinjski Mostar	3–2	Breiðablik	1–1	2–1
FCSB	6–3	Drita	3–2	3–1
Main Path
AEK Larnaca	5–3	Legia Warsaw	4–1	1–2
Fredrikstad	1–5	Midtjylland	1–3	0–2
CFR Cluj	1–4	Braga	1–2	0–2
PAOK	1–0	Wolfsberger AC	0–0	1–0 (aet)
Servette	2–5	Utrecht	1–3	1–2
BK Häcken	1–2	Brann	0–2	1–0
Panathinaikos	0–0 (4–3 p)	Shakhtar Donetsk	0–0	0–0 (aet)

Champions Path matches

7 August 2025 (2025-08-07) 18:00	Lincoln Red Imps	1–1	Noah	Europa Sports Park, Gibraltar Referee: Filip Glova (Slovakia)
	De Barr  45+9'	Report	Eteki  9'

14 August 2025 (2025-08-14) 18:00 (20:00 UTC+4)	Noah	0–0 (a.e.t.)	Lincoln Red Imps	Abovyan City Stadium, Abovyan Attendance: 3,100 Referee: Sebastian Gishamer (Austria)
		Report
		Penalties
	Mulahusejnović Manvelyan Muradyan Jakoliš Hambardzumyan Þórarinsson Eteki	5–6	Nano De Barr Juanje Gómez Rutjens Clinton Lopes

1–1 on aggregate; Lincoln Red Imps won 6–5 on penalties.

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6 August 2025 (2025-08-06) 20:45	Rijeka	1–2	Shelbourne	Stadion Rujevica, Rijeka Attendance: 6,495 Referee: Ricardo de Burgos Bengoetxea (Spain)
	Janković  56' (pen.)	Report	Bone  58' Martin  70'

12 August 2025 (2025-08-12) 20:45 (19:45 UTC+1)	Shelbourne	1–3	Rijeka	Tolka Park, Dublin Attendance: 3,655 Referee: Marian Alexandru Barbu (Romania)
	Odubeko  86' (pen.)	Report	Fruk  33' Dantas  73' Oreč  90'

Rijeka won 4–3 on aggregate.

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6 August 2025 (2025-08-06) 19:00 (20:00 UTC+3)	RFS	1–2	KuPS	LNK Sporta Parks, Riga Attendance: 1,584 Referee: Aliyar Aghayev (Azerbaijan)
	Diedhiou  61'	Report	Oksanen  14' Toure  24'

14 August 2025 (2025-08-14) 17:00 (18:00 UTC+3)	KuPS	1–0	RFS	Kuopio Football Stadium, Kuopio Attendance: 3,022 Referee: Balázs Berke (Hungary)
	Pennanen  49'	Report

KuPS won 3–1 on aggregate.

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5 August 2025 (2025-08-05) 19:00	Hamrun Spartans	1–2	Maccabi Tel Aviv	Tony Bezzina Stadium, Paola Attendance: 1,097 Referee: Kristo Tohver (Estonia)
	Koffi  71' (pen.)	Report	Revivo  79' Madmon  90+6'

14 August 2025 (2025-08-14) 20:00	Maccabi Tel Aviv	3–1	Hamrun Spartans	TSC Arena, Bačka Topola, Serbia Attendance: 145 Referee: Rohit Saggi (Norway)
	Shahar  37', 45+2' Davida  69'	Report	Mbong  43'

Maccabi Tel Aviv won 5–2 on aggregate.

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7 August 2025 (2025-08-07) 20:00	Zrinjski Mostar	1–1	Breiðablik	Stadion pod Bijelim Brijegom, Mostar Attendance: 5,600 Referee: Enea Jorgji (Albania)
	Bilbija  72' (pen.)	Report	Thomsen  18' (pen.)

14 August 2025 (2025-08-14) 19:30 (17:30 UTC±0)	Breiðablik	1–2	Zrinjski Mostar	Kópavogsvöllur, Kópavogur Attendance: 1,252 Referee: Anastasios Papapetrou (Greece)
	Gunnlaugsson  61' (pen.)	Report	Bilbija  7' Valgeirsson  47' (o.g.)

Zrinjski Mostar won 3–2 on aggregate.

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7 August 2025 (2025-08-07) 20:30 (21:30 UTC+3)	FCSB	3–2	Drita	Arena Națională, Bucharest Attendance: 13,825 Referee: Damian Sylwestrzak (Poland)
	Bîrligea  64', 90+4' (pen.) Graovac  72'	Report	Tusha  7' Manaj  50'

14 August 2025 (2025-08-14) 20:00	Drita	1–3	FCSB	Fadil Vokrri Stadium, Pristina Attendance: 6,530 Referee: Giorgi Kruashvili (Georgia)
	Tusha  52'	Report	Cisotti  1' Miculescu  18' Politic  85'

FCSB won 6–3 on aggregate.

Main Path matches

7 August 2025 (2025-08-07) 18:30 (19:30 UTC+3)	AEK Larnaca	4–1	Legia Warsaw	AEK Arena – Georgios Karapatakis, Larnaca Attendance: 4,102 Referee: Horațiu Feșnic (Romania)
	Pons  16' Angielski  48' Chacón  78' Rajović  85' (o.g.)	Report	Nsame  18'

14 August 2025 (2025-08-14) 21:00	Legia Warsaw	2–1	AEK Larnaca	Polish Army Stadium, Warsaw Attendance: 23,673 Referee: Andris Treimanis (Latvia)
	Nsame  11' Rajović  16'	Report	Ivanović  52'

AEK Larnaca won 5–3 on aggregate.

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7 August 2025 (2025-08-07) 18:00	Fredrikstad	1–3	Midtjylland	Fredrikstad Stadion, Fredrikstad Attendance: 8,779 Referee: Igor Pajač (Croatia)
	Bjartalíð  77'	Report	Franculino  14' Gogorza  32' Castillo  79'

14 August 2025 (2025-08-14) 18:00	Midtjylland	2–0	Fredrikstad	MCH Arena, Herning Attendance: 8,464 Referee: Julian Weinberger (Austria)
	Sørensen  9' Paulinho  17'	Report

Midtjylland won 5–1 on aggregate.

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7 August 2025 (2025-08-07) 18:30 (19:30 UTC+3)	CFR Cluj	1–2	Braga	Dr. Constantin Rădulescu Stadium, Cluj-Napoca Attendance: 10,383 Referee: Elchin Masiyev (Azerbaijan)
	Sinyan  30'	Report	Gorby  17', 50'

14 August 2025 (2025-08-14) 20:30 (19:30 UTC+1)	Braga	2–0	CFR Cluj	Estádio Municipal, Braga Attendance: 16,168 Referee: Sascha Stegemann (Germany)
	Zalazar  19' (pen.), 45+5'	Report

Braga won 4–1 on aggregate.

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7 August 2025 (2025-08-07) 19:30 (20:30 UTC+3)	PAOK	0–0	Wolfsberger AC	Toumba Stadium, Thessaloniki Attendance: 21,340 Referee: Morten Krogh (Denmark)
		Report

14 August 2025 (2025-08-14) 19:00	Wolfsberger AC	0–1 (a.e.t.)	PAOK	Wörthersee Stadion, Klagenfurt Attendance: 6,720 Referee: Orel Grinfeld (Israel)
		Report	Camara  115'

PAOK won 1–0 on aggregate.

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7 August 2025 (2025-08-07) 20:30	Servette	1–3	Utrecht	Stade de Genève, Geneva Attendance: 11,744 Referee: Harm Osmers (Germany)
	Guillemenot  12'	Report	Baron  52' (o.g.) Horemans  55' Zechiël  62'

14 August 2025 (2025-08-14) 20:00	Utrecht	2–1	Servette	Stadion Galgenwaard, Utrecht Attendance: 21,800 Referee: Chris Kavanagh (England)
	Jensen  57', 74'	Report	Jallow  80' (pen.)

Utrecht won 5–2 on aggregate.

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7 August 2025 (2025-08-07) 19:00	BK Häcken	0–2	Brann	Bravida Arena, Gothenburg Attendance: 4,516 Referee: Georgi Kabakov (Bulgaria)
		Report	Magnússon  28', 57'

14 August 2025 (2025-08-14) 19:00	Brann	0–1	BK Häcken	Brann Stadion, Bergen Attendance: 14,750 Referee: Nick Walsh (Scotland)
		Report	De Roeve  38' (o.g.)

Brann won 2–1 on aggregate.

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7 August 2025 (2025-08-07) 20:00 (21:00 UTC+3)	Panathinaikos	0–0	Shakhtar Donetsk	Olympic Stadium, Athens Attendance: 20,636 Referee: Erik Lambrechts (Belgium)
		Report

14 August 2025 (2025-08-14) 20:00	Shakhtar Donetsk	0–0 (a.e.t.)	Panathinaikos	Henryk Reyman Municipal Stadium, Kraków, Poland Attendance: 13,387 Referee: Daniel Siebert (Germany)
		Report
		Penalties
	Nazaryna Tobías Bondarenko Newerton Kauã Elias Pedro Henrique	3–4	Ioannidis Jeremejeff Siopis Chirivella Zaroury Mancini

0–0 on aggregate; Panathinaikos won 4–3 on penalties.

Play-off round

The draw for the play-off round was held on 4 August 2025.

Seeding

A total of 24 teams will play in the play-off round. Seeding of the teams was based on their 2025 UEFA club coefficients. Before the draw, UEFA formed groups of seeded and unseeded teams per the principles set by the Club Competitions Committee. The first team drawn in each tie was the home team for the first leg.

Group 1		Group 2		Group 3
Seeded	Unseeded	Seeded	Unseeded	Seeded	Unseeded
Winner of the tie involving Maccabi Tel Aviv Young Boys Ludogorets Razgrad Malmö FF	Dynamo Kyiv Sigma Olomouc Shkëndija Slovan Bratislava	Winner of the tie involving Shakhtar Donetsk Winner of the tie involving Midtjylland Winner of the tie involving FCSB Lech Poznań	Genk Winner of the tie involving RFS Aberdeen Samsunspor	Winner of the tie involving Braga Winner of the tie involving PAOK Winner of the tie involving Legia Warsaw Winner of the tie involving Utrecht	Rijeka Winner of the tie involving Zrinjski Mostar Winner of the tie involving Lincoln Red Imps Winner of the tie involving Brann

Notes

Summary

The first legs will be played on 21 August, and the second legs will be played on 28 August 2025.

The winners of the ties will advance to the league phase. The losers will be transferred to the Conference League league phase.

Play-off round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Maccabi Tel Aviv	3–2	Dynamo Kyiv	3–1	0–1
Shkëndija	3–5	Ludogorets Razgrad	2–1	1–4 (a.e.t)
Slovan Bratislava	2–4	Young Boys	0—1	2–3
Malmö FF	5–0	Sigma Olomouc	3–0	2–0
Panathinaikos	2–1	Samsunspor	2–1	0–0
Aberdeen	2–5	FCSB	2–2	0–3
Lech Poznań	3–6	Genk	1—5	2–1
Midtjylland	6–0	KuPS	4–0	2–0
Lincoln Red Imps	1–9	Braga	0—4	1–5
Zrinjski Mostar	0–2	Utrecht	0—2	0–0
Brann	6–1	AEK Larnaca	2–1	4–0
Rijeka	1–5	PAOK	1–0	0–5

Matches

21 August 2025 (2025-08-21) 20:00	Maccabi Tel Aviv	3–1	Dynamo Kyiv	TSC Arena, Bačka Topola, Serbia Attendance: 115 Referee: Giorgi Kruashvili (Georgia)
	Peretz  12', 69' Yehezkel  58'	Report	Voloshyn  32'

28 August 2025 (2025-08-28) 20:00	Dynamo Kyiv	1–0	Maccabi Tel Aviv	Arena Lublin, Lublin, Poland Attendance: 1,537 Referee: Nikola Dabanović (Montenegro)
	Guerrero  5'	Report

Maccabi Tel Aviv won 3–2 on aggregate.

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21 August 2025 (2025-08-21) 20:00	Shkëndija	2–1	Ludogorets Razgrad	Toše Proeski Arena, Skopje Attendance: 3,720 Referee: Chris Kavanagh (England)
	Latifi  35' Ibraimi  60'	Report	Duarte  17'

28 August 2025 (2025-08-28) 19:30 (20:30 UTC+3)	Ludogorets Razgrad	4–1 (a.e.t.)	Shkëndija	Huvepharma Arena, Razgrad Attendance: 4,784 Referee: Urs Schnyder (Switzerland)
	Kurtulus  9' Chochev  24' Tekpetey  98' Bile  120+3'	Report	Tamba  64'

Ludogorets Razgrad won 5–3 on aggregate.

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21 August 2025 (2025-08-21) 20:15	Slovan Bratislava	0–1	Young Boys	Tehelné pole, Bratislava Attendance: 15,008 Referee: Sascha Stegemann (Germany)
		Report	Bedia  15'

28 August 2025 (2025-08-28) 20:00	Young Boys	3–2	Slovan Bratislava	Stadion Wankdorf, Bern Attendance: 13,806 Referee: Rade Obrenovič (Slovenia)
	Gigović  29', 52' Bedia  37'	Report	Mak  43' Strelec  87'

Young Boys won 4–2 on aggregate.

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21 August 2025 (2025-08-21) 19:00	Malmö FF	3–0	Sigma Olomouc	Stadion, Malmö Attendance: 12,355 Referee: Tobias Stieler (Germany)
	Hakšabanović  8', 43' Johnsen  90+2' (pen.)	Report

28 August 2025 (2025-08-28) 18:30	Sigma Olomouc	0–2	Malmö FF	Andrův stadion, Olomouc Attendance: 9,508 Referee: Radu Petrescu (Romania)
		Report	Gudjohnsen  62' Ekong  90+1'

Malmö FF won 5–0 on aggregate.

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21 August 2025 (2025-08-21) 20:00 (21:00 UTC+3)	Panathinaikos	2–1	Samsunspor	Olympic Stadium, Athens Attendance: 24,000 Referee: Juan Martínez Munuera (Spain)
	Kyriakopoulos  66' Palmer-Brown  74'	Report	Tómasson  51'

28 August 2025 (2025-08-28) 19:00 (20:00 UTC+3)	Samsunspor	0–0	Panathinaikos	Samsun 19 Mayıs Stadium, Samsun Attendance: 24,914 Referee: Irfan Peljto (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
		Report

Panathinaikos won 2–1 on aggregate.

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21 August 2025 (2025-08-21) 20:45 (19:45 UTC+1)	Aberdeen	2–2	FCSB	Pittodrie Stadium, Aberdeen Attendance: 17,751 Referee: Serdar Gözübüyük (Netherlands)
	Polvara  61' Sokler  89'	Report	Bîrligea  32' Olaru  47'

28 August 2025 (2025-08-28) 20:30 (21:30 UTC+3)	FCSB	3–0	Aberdeen	Arena Națională, Bucharest Attendance: 35,341 Referee: Espen Eskås (Norway)
	Olaru  45+1' (pen.), 59' Șut  52'	Report

FCSB won 5–2 on aggregate.

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21 August 2025 (2025-08-21) 20:30	Lech Poznań	1–5	Genk	Poznań Stadium, Poznań Attendance: 25,443 Referee: Donatas Rumšas (Lithuania)
	Jagiełło  19'	Report	Hrošovský  10', 25' Heynen  33' Oh Hyeon-gyu  40' Gurgul  48' (o.g.)

28 August 2025 (2025-08-28) 20:00	Genk	1–2	Lech Poznań	Cegeka Arena, Genk Attendance: 12,913 Referee: Davide Massa (Italy)
	Itō  31'	Report	Lisman  43' Bengtsson  56'

Genk won 6–3 on aggregate.

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21 August 2025 (2025-08-21) 18:30	Midtjylland	4–0	KuPS	MCH Arena, Herning Attendance: 7,408 Referee: Srđan Jovanović (Serbia)
	Buksa  15' Osorio  19' Brumado  81', 90+1'	Report

28 August 2025 (2025-08-28) 17:00 (18:00 UTC+3)	KuPS	0–2	Midtjylland	Kuopio Football Stadium, Kuopio Attendance: 1,734 Referee: Simone Sozza (Italy)
		Report	Brumado  51' (pen.) Şimşir  54'

Midtjylland won 6–0 on aggregate.

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21 August 2025 (2025-08-21) 21:00 (20:00 UTC+1)	Lincoln Red Imps	0–4	Braga	Estádio Algarve, Faro/Loulé, Portugal Attendance: 1,988 Referee: Morten Krogh (Denmark)
		Report	Gómez  34' Zalazar  39', 80' Víctor  90+1'

28 August 2025 (2025-08-28) 21:00 (20:00 UTC+1)	Braga	5–1	Lincoln Red Imps	Estádio Municipal, Braga Attendance: 12,125 Referee: Erik Lambrechts (Belgium)
	Carvalho  12' Martínez  41',  45+1' Vidigal  77' Víctor  82'	Report	Gómez  89'

Braga won 9–1 on aggregate.

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21 August 2025 (2025-08-21) 20:00	Zrinjski Mostar	0–2	Utrecht	Stadion pod Bijelim Brijegom, Mostar Attendance: 4,400< Referee: Georgi Kabakov (Bulgaria)
		Report	Min  39' (pen.) Jensen  85'

28 August 2025 (2025-08-28) 20:00	Utrecht	0–0	Zrinjski Mostar	Stadion Galgenwaard, Utrecht Attendance: 21,594 Referee: Benoît Bastien (France)
		Report

Utrecht won 2–0 on aggregate.

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21 August 2025 (2025-08-21) 19:00	Brann	2–1	AEK Larnaca	Brann Stadion, Bergen Attendance: 14,750 Referee: Marco Guida (Italy)
	Myhre  20' Torsvik  90+3'	Report	Angielski  16'

27 August 2025 (2025-08-27) 18:30 (19:30 UTC+3)	AEK Larnaca	0–4	Brann	AEK Arena – Georgios Karapatakis, Larnaca Attendance: 4,665 Referee: Danny Makkelie (Netherlands)
		Report	Castro  45+1' Hansen  69' Knudsen  75' Soltvedt  87'

Brann won 6–1 on aggregate.

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21 August 2025 (2025-08-21) 20:45	Rijeka	1–0	PAOK	Stadion Rujevica, Rijeka Attendance: 6,882 Referee: Ivan Kružliak (Slovakia)
	Menalo  39'	Report

28 August 2025 (2025-08-28) 19:30 (20:30 UTC+3)	PAOK	5–0	Rijeka	Toumba Stadium, Thessaloniki Attendance: 24,223 Referee: José María Sánchez Martínez (Spain)
	Meïté  12' Konstantelias  25' Chalov  56' Giakoumakis  77' Pelkas  89'	Report

PAOK won 5–1 on aggregate.

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