When the new format was initially announced, the eight top countries according to the On 4 December 2019, the UEFA Executive Committee approved a new format for the 2021–22 season.Under this new format, the group stage - four groups of four - qualifies eight teams to the home-and-away quarterfinals, at which point the competition remains the same as before. The competition was postponed indefinitely on 17 March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe. The groups were played again as mini-tournaments at a single location over the course of five days. Seven teams qualify from the champions path - guaranteeing that at least ten nations will be represented in the group stage - and five from the league path. On 17 June 2020, UEF… For the men's UEFA Champions League, see As of 2019–20, 52 of the 55 UEFA member associations organize a women's domestic league, with the exceptions being Andorra, Liechtenstein and San Marino.For the 2020–21 UEFA Women's Champions League, the associations are allocated places according to their 2019 In early April 2020, UEFA announced that due to the The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round: The group winners then advanced to the quarter-finals. Prize-money was awarded for a first time in 2010 when both finalists received money. An association must have an eleven-a-side women's domestic league to enter a team. That included the final which was only played as a single leg in 2002. The schedule of the competition is as follows (all draws are held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland).The original schedule of the competition, as planned before the pandemic, was as follows.The 20th edition of the European women's club football championship organised by UEFAOriginal schedule for 2020–21 UEFA Women's Champions League For the 2004–05 season the group stage was played in four groups with the top two teams advancing to the quarter-finals. Teams were then divided into eight groups of four. In this format, the first round is similar to the previous qualifying round except that teams play a two-game knockout tournament instead of a three-game round-robin, and the second round is similar to the previous round of 32 except that the range of possible opponents is more stratified. Four teams qualify directly to the group stage: the defending UWCL champions and the league champions from the nations ranked 1–3 by UEFA coefficient. The principles are inferred from the access list:For example, in a 53-team tournament, 25 teams directly enter the R32, with seven qualifying groups providing seven group winners and no runners-up; if the tournament were 60 teams instead, 20 teams would directly enter the R32, with ten qualifying groups providing ten group winners and two runners-up. The 2020–21 UEFA Women's Champions League will be the 20th edition of the European women's club football championship organised by UEFA, and the 12th edition since being rebranded as the UEFA Women's Champions League. Due to the varying participation, the number of teams playing the qualifying round and teams entering in the round of 32 change from year to year.
However, not all associations have or had a qualifying women's league, and not all nations opt to participate each year. That resulted in more qualifying groups. The UEFA Women's Champions League, previously called the UEFA Women's Cup (2001–09), is an international women's association football competition. The 2019–20 UEFA Women's Champions League is the 19th edition of the European women's club football championship organised by UEFA, and the 11th edition since being rebranded as the UEFA Women's Champions League. The final, originally scheduled to be played on 24 May 2020 at the Generali Arena in Vienna, Austria, was officially postponed on 23 March 2020. There have been several complaints about the sum, which doesn't cover costs for some longer trips which include flights.Until the 2015–18 cycle, UEFA Women's Champions League used to have the same sponsors as the Since the format change in 2009, no team from a nation outside the top two has made the final, save for The top-scorer award is given to the player who scores the most goals in the entire competition, thus it includes the qualifying rounds. It involves the top club teams from countries affiliated with the European governing body UEFA. The competition was first played in 2001–02 under the name A preliminary round was played to reduce teams to 32, in the first season only two teams played a two-legged match, the following seasons were played as four team mini-tournaments which had the winner advance to the group stage. Iceland's Margrét Lára Vidarsdóttir has won the award three times. On 11 December 2008, UEFA announced that the competition would be reformatted and renamed to the UEFA Women's Champions League.The competition is open to the champions of all 55 UEFA associations. Qualification along both paths takes place in two rounds: a first round consisting of four-team, predetermined-venue miniature tournaments (one-off semifinals, third place, and final matches) and a second round of paired home-and-away ties. In 2011 the payments were extended to losing semi- and quarter-finalists.In the Champions League teams also receive 20,000 Euro for playing each round or the qualifying. The knock-out rounds were played as two-legged. This article is about the UEFA Women's Champions League.