Conference League qualifying: Fixtures, results, dates, how it works

All 36 teams enter the league phase of the 2026/27 UEFA Conference League via qualifying, with none directly through. The stage at which teams enter qualifying will be based on their association club coefficient rankings and all ties are played over two legs.

Qualifying for the UEFA club competitions has been specifically designed to ensure that teams from a minimum of 37 national associations make their way to the league phase of the Champions League, Europa League or Conference League.

Losing sides from the qualifying rounds of the Champions League and Europa League are given another chance to progress when they parachute down into the Europa League or Conference League. Losing sides from the Champions League and Europa League play-offs go directly into the league phase of the Europa League and Conference League respectively.

For more information about the qualifying competition, including the rules around player registration, see the official regulations.

See how qualifying works and keep track of the fixtures and results.

First qualifying round

Teams involved
Main path: 52 (enter in this round)

First legs

Tuesday 7 July

UNA Strassen 1-0 La Fiorita
Elbasani 1-1 BATE

Wednesday 8 July

Zire 3-0 Torpedo Kutaisi 
Connah's Quay 0-0 Ballkani 
Differdange 0-0 Ilves

Thursday 9 July

Atlètic Club d'Escaldes 2-1 Mornar
Alashkert 1-1 Elimai
Dila 3-1 Virtus
Hegelmann 1-1 Paide
Kalju 1-0 Linfield
Liepāja 1-0 Dečić
Bohemians 2-0 St Joseph's
Dinamo-Minsk 0-1 Sileks
Marsaxlokk 0-3 Pyunik
Velež 1-1 Milsami
Mondorf 1-2 Dinamo Tbilisi
Caernarfon 0-5 Levadia Tallinn
Europa 0-5 Shkëndija
Vllaznia 2-1 Malisheva
Glentoran 1-2 RFS
Penybont 0-1 FC Santa Coloma
Petrovac 1-3 Žalgiris
Runavík 1-1 Hamrun Spartans
Dinamo City 0-1 Astana
Sarajevo 1-1 Inter Turku
Stjarnan 3-1 Víkingur

Second legs

Tuesday 14 July

La Fiorita 0-2 UNA Strassen (agg: 0-3)

Wednesday 15 July

Malisheva 5-0 Vllaznia (agg: 6-2)
Dečić 1-2 Liepāja (agg: 1-3)

Thursday 16 July

Astana 1-4aet Dinamo City (agg: 2-4)
Elimai 2-2aet Alashkert (agg: 3-3, Alashkert win 6-5 on penalties)
Inter Turku 2-1 Sarajevo (agg: 3-2)
Ilves 3-1 Differdange (agg: 3-1)
Paide 3-0 Hegelmann (agg: 4-1)
Pyunik 1-0 Marsaxlokk (agg: 4-0)
St Joseph's 0-0 Bohemians (agg: 0-2)
Torpedo Kutaisi 0-3 Zire (agg: 0-6)
Levadia Tallinn 5-0 Caernarfon (agg: 10-0)
RFS 2-0 Glentoran (agg: 4-1)
BATE 0-0aet Elbasani (agg: 1-1, BATE win 5-4 on penalties)
Dinamo Tbilisi 1-1aet Mondorf (agg 3-2)
FC Santa Coloma 3-0 Penybont (agg: 4-0)
Milsami 0-1 Velež (agg: 1-2)
Víkingur 2-2 Stjarnan (agg: 3-5)
Žalgiris 2-1 Petrovac (agg: 5-2)
Hamrun Spartans 1-2 Runavík (agg: 2-3)
Ballkani 3-2 Connah's Quay (agg: 3-2)
Shkëndija 1-0 Europa (agg: 6-0)
Sileks 0-1aet Dinamo-Minsk (agg: 1-1, Dinamo-Minsk win 6-5 on penalties)
Linfield 2-2 Kalju (agg: 2-3)
Mornar 1-2 Atlètic Club d'Escaldes (agg: 2-4)
Virtus 1-0 Dila (agg: 2-3)

How does it work?

• The winners of each tie advance to the second qualifying round.
• Defeated sides are eliminated from the competition.

Second qualifying round

Teams involved
Champions path: 12 (12 of the 14 defeated sides from the UEFA Champions League first qualifying round)
Main path: 86 (60 teams, including the six defeated sides from the UEFA Europa League first qualifying round, join the 26 first qualifying round winners)

All kick-off times CET

First legs

Tuesday 21 July

Champions path
Floriana 1-1 Drita
Atert Bissen 2-6 Győri ETO

Main path
IFK Göteborg 1-2 Levadia Tallinn

Wednesday 22 July

Champions path
Vardar 2-3 Riga

Main path
Neftchi 2-4 Dinamo-Minsk
Bohemians 2-1 Ballkani
Başakşehir 1-1 Inter Turku
Spartak Trnava 0-0 CSKA 1948
Železničar Pančevo 0-1 Braga

Thursday 23 July

Champions path
Flora Tallinn 1-0 The New Saints
ML Vitebsk 3-0 Sutjeska
Borac 3-0 Petrocub

Main path

Malisheva 2-0 Hibernian
Liepāja 0-2 Austria Wien
Alashkert 1-1 CFR Cluj
Panevėžys 1-1 Tobol
HJK 5-0 Coleraine
Debrecen 1-0 Pyunik
Dila 0-4 Apollon
Paide 1-0 Zire
AEK Larnaca 0-1 Beitar
RFS 4-1 Vestri
Raków 3-1 Valletta
DAC 1904 1-0 Velež
GAIS 1-0 Nordsjælland
Universitatea Cluj 2-2 Brann
Zimbru 1-1 Noah
Dinamo Tbilisi 3-0 Žalgiris
BATE 1-1 Sion
FC Santa Coloma 1-3 SK Rapid
Vaduz 4-0 Atlètic Club d'Escaldes
FCSB 2-3 Auda
Varaždin 3-2 Jablonec
Aluminij 1-1 Dinamo City
Paksi 1-2 Panathinaikos
Vojvodina 1-4 Ajax
Polissya 3-3 Copenhagen
Lugano 1-0 Dukagjini
Žilina 2-1 Katowice
LNZ Cherkasy 0-0 Gent
Hapoel Tel-Aviv 2-0 Ludogorets
Runavík 0-2 Koper
Rijeka 1-0 Derry
Bravo 2-1 Shkëndija
Shelbourne 5-2 Kalju
Motherwell 2-0 Havnar Bóltfelag
Partizan 4-0 UNA Strassen
Stjarnan 1-0 Ilves
Valur 1-0 Zrinjski

Second legs

Tuesday 28 July 

Champions path
Riga 5-2aet Vardar (agg: 8-4)
Drita 2-1aet Floriana (agg: 3-2)

Main path
Apollon 3-0 Dila (agg: 7-0)
CSKA 1948 0-0aet Spartak Trnava (agg: 0-0, CSKA 1948 win 5-3 on penalties)

Wednesday 29 July 

Main path
Dukagjini 1-5 Lugano (agg: 1-6)
Copenhagen 2-1 Polissya (agg: 5-4)
SK Rapid 6-2 FC Santa Coloma (agg: 9-3)

Thursday 30 July 

Champions path
Petrocub 3-3 Borac (agg: 3-6)
Győri ETO 1-1 Atert Bissen (agg: 7-3)
The New Saints 1-0aet Flora Tallinn (agg: 1-1, Flora Tallinn win 4-2 on penalties)
Sutjeska 1-2 ML Vitebsk (agg: 1-5)

Main path


Tobol 1-1aet Panevėžys (agg: 2-2, Tobol win 3-2 on penalties)
Atlètic Club d'Escaldes 0-2 Vaduz (agg: 0-6)
Inter Turku 2-0 Başakşehir (agg: 3-1)
Auda 4-1 FCSB (agg: 7-3)
Pyunik 0-0 Debrecen (agg: 0-1)
Jablonec 2-0 Varaždin (agg: 4-3)
Kalju 2-1 Shelbourne (agg: 4-6)
Noah 2-1 Zimbru (agg: 3-2)
Ilves 2-1aet Stjarnan (agg: 2-2, Ilves win 5-4 on penalties)
Zire 1-1 Paide (agg: 1-2)
Levadia Tallinn 1-3aet IFK Göteborg (agg: 3-4)
Nordsjælland 6-0 GAIS (agg: 6-1)
Brann 3-1 Universitatea Cluj (agg: 5-3)
Žalgiris 7-2 Dinamo Tbilisi (agg: 7-5)
Velež 0-3 DAC 1904 (agg: 0-4)
Havnar Bóltfelag 0-3 Motherwell (agg: 0-5)
Dinamo-Minsk 0-1 Neftchi (agg: 4-3)
Derry 0-1 Rijeka (agg: 0-2)
Valletta 0-4 Raków (agg: 1-7)
Beitar 2-3aet AEK Larnaca (agg: 3-3, Beitar win 4-3 on penalties)
Shkëndija 3-1 Bravo (agg: 4-3)
Ajax 4-1 Vojvodina (agg: 8-2)
Ludogorets 2-2 Hapoel Tel-Aviv (agg: 2-4)
Ballkani 3-2aet Bohemians (agg: 4-4, Bohemians win 5-4 on penalties)
Sion 4-0 BATE (agg: 5-1)
UNA Strassen 0-1 Partizan (agg: 0-5)
Austria Wien 3-1 Liepāja (agg: 5-1)
Katowice 3-1 Žilina (agg: 4-3)
Zrinjski 2-2 Valur (agg: 2-3)
Panathinaikos 2-2 Paksi (agg: 4-3)
Gent 0-0aet LNZ Cherkasy (agg: 0-0, Gent win 4-2 on penalties)
CFR Cluj 3-0 Alashkert (agg: 4-1)
Coleraine 0-3 HJK (agg: 0-8)
Koper 1-3aet Runavík (agg: 3-3, Runavík win 4-3 on penalties)
Dinamo City 3-0 Aluminij (agg: 4-1)
Hibernian 4-1 Malisheva (agg: 4-3)
Braga 4-0 Železničar Pančevo (agg: 5-0)
Vestri 1-1 RFS (agg: 2-5)

How does it work?

• The winners of each tie advance to the third qualifying round.
• Defeated sides are eliminated from the competition.

Third qualifying round

Teams involved
Champions path: 8 (Two enter at this round along with the six second qualifying round winners)
League path: 52 (Nine defeated teams enter from the UEFA Europa League second qualifying round along with the 43 second qualifying round winners)

First legs: Thursday 6 August

Champions path

Tre Fiori vs Drita
Borac vs ML Vitebsk
Flora Tallinn vs Inter Club d'Escaldes
Riga vs Győri ETO

Main path

Inter Turku vs Vaduz
Žalgiris vs Hajduk Split
Partizan vs Tobol
Panathinaikos vs CSKA 1948
Ajax vs Shelbourne
Auda vs Dinamo City
Noah vs Sion
Braga vs Dinamo-Minsk
Valur vs Nordsjælland
Sheriff vs St. Gallen
Hapoel Tel-Aviv vs Katowice
Beitar vs Austria Wien
CFR Cluj vs Tromsø
Dynamo Kyiv vs Qarabağ
Brann vs Apollon
Lugano vs Runavík
Raków vs Hammarby
HJK vs Motherwell
Hibernian vs Shkëndija
IFK Göteborg vs Gent
Paide vs SK Rapid
Bohemians vs Midtjylland
Debrecen vs Copenhagen
Jablonec vs RFS
Rijeka vs Ilves
Twente vs DAC 1904

Second legs: Thursday 13 August

Champions path

Drita vs Tre Fiori
ML Vitebsk vs Borac
Inter Club d'Escaldes vs Flora Tallinn
Győri ETO vs Riga

Main path

Vaduz vs Inter Turku
Hajduk Split vs Žalgiris
Tobol vs Partizan
CSKA 1948 vs Panathinaikos
Shelbourne vs Ajax
Dinamo City vs Auda
Sion vs Noah
Dinamo-Minsk vs Braga
Nordsjælland vs Valur
St. Gallen vs Sheriff
Katowice vs Hapoel Tel-Aviv
Austria Wien vs Beitar
Tromsø vs CFR Cluj
Qarabağ vs Dynamo Kyiv
Apollon vs Brann
Runavík vs Lugano
Hammarby vs Raków
Motherwell vs HJK
Shkëndija vs Hibernian
Gent vs IFK Göteborg
SK Rapid vs Paide
Midtjylland vs Bohemians
Copenhagen vs Debrecen
RFS vs Jablonec
Ilves vs Rijeka
DAC 1904 vs Twente

How does it work?

• The winners of each tie advance to the play-off round.
• Defeated sides are eliminated from the competition.

Play-off round

Draw: Friday 3 August
First legs: Thursday 20 August
Second legs: Thursday 27 August

How does it work?

• The winners of each tie qualify for the league phase.
• Defeated sides are eliminated from the competition.

League phase draw

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The league phase draw for the 2026/27 Conference League takes place on Friday 28 August.