2026 Women's Champions League final: Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo
Thursday, June 19, 2025
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Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, has been appointed to host the UEFA Women's Champions League final in 2026.
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Ullevaal Stadion in Oslo, Norway, will host the 2026 UEFA Women's Champions League final next May.
The final will be the first UEFA women's club decider to be played in Norway, although Ullevaal – opened in 1926 and renovated on several occasions since – staged the UEFA Women's EURO final in both 1987 and 1997. It is the regular home of the Norway women's and men's national teams. The 2016 men's UEFA Super Cup was also held in Norway, in Trondheim.
Road to Oslo: 2025/26 UEFA Women's Champions League match dates
First qualifying round (one-venue mini-tournaments)
Draw: 24 June, Nyon
Semi-finals: 30 July
Final/third-place play-off: 2 August
Second qualifying round (one-venue mini-tournaments)
Draw: 24 June, Nyon
Semi-finals: 27 August
Final/third-place play-off: 30 August
Third qualifying round
Draw: 31 August, Nyon
First leg: 11 September
Second leg: 18 September
League phase
Draw: 19 September, Nyon
Matchday 1: 7/8 October
Matchday 2: 15/16 October
Matchday 3: 11/12 November
Matchday 4: 19/20 November
Matchday 5: 9/10 December
Matchday 6: 17 December
Knockout phase play-offs
Draw: 18 December, Nyon
First leg: 11/12 February
Second leg: 18/19 February
Quarter-finals
Draw: 18 December, Nyon
First leg: 24/25 March
Second leg: 1/2 April
Semi-finals
Draw: 18 December, Nyon
First leg: 25/26 April
Second leg: 2/3 May
Final (Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo)
22, 23 or 24 May tbc
New format and competition
From 2025/26, there is a new format for UEFA women's club competition.
The new Women's Champions League format will include a single-league stage featuring 18 teams (up from the current 16 in the group stage). The top four sides in the league will qualify automatically for the quarter-finals, while the teams finishing in 5th to 12th place will compete in a two-legged knockout phase play-off to secure their path to the last eight. From the quarter-finals onwards, the competition will follow its existing format of knockout rounds leading to the final staged at a neutral venue selected by UEFA.
For the first time, UEFA will also organise a second women's club competition, the UEFA Women's Europa Cup, meaning new teams can test themselves against European opposition, and some teams who are eliminated in the early rounds of the Women's Champions League will have a second shot at glory.