UEFA Champions League play-offs Teams occupying a play-off spot have one final chance to join the 29 teams already qualified for the 36-team league phase format of the competition, including defending two-time champions PSG CHAMPIONS PATH Third qualifying round: Aug 4-5, 11 Hapoel Beer-Sheva ISR Red Star SRB GNK Dinamo CRO  Kauno Žalgiris LIT Mjällby AIF SWE Slovan Bratislava SVK Ararat-Armenia ARM NK Celje SVN Levski Sofia BUL Kairat Almaty KAZ AGF Aarhus DEN Sabah AZE Play-off round: Aug 18-19, 25-26 Winner match 5 AEK Athens GRE Celtic SCO LASK AUT Winner match 2 Viking NOR Winner match 3 Winner match 4 Winner match 1 Winner match 6 LEAGUE PATH Third qualifying round Sparta Prague CZE Lyon FRA Union Saint-Gilloise BEL Bodø/Glimt NOR Olympiacos GRE  NEC Nijmegen NED Fenerbahçe TUR Sturm Graz AUT Play-off round Winner match 4 Winner match 1 Winner match 3 Winner match 2 UEFA Champions League 2026-27 official matchball LEAGUE PHASE QUALIFIERS* Pot 1 Paris St-Germain Bayern Munich Real Madrid Liverpool Internazionale Manchester City Arsenal Barcelona Atlético Madrid Pot 2 Borussia Dortmund Roma Sporting CP Aston Villa Porto Manchester Utd Club Brugge Real Betis PSV Eindhoven Pot 3 Feyenoord Lille Napoli RB Leipzig Villarreal Shakhtar Donetsk Galatasaray Pot 3 / 4 Slavia Prague Stuttgart Como Lens Source: UEFA Picture: ADIDAS *Provisional allocation based on UEFA club coefficients © GRAPHIC NEWS