Draw Details: UEFA Women’s Champions League Second Qualifying Round

The 2025/26 UEFA Women’s Champions League second qualifying round draw takes place today (Wednesday 24 June) at 1pm.

Hibernian Women enter the second qualifying round of European women’s football elite competition after winning the 2024/25 ScottishPower Women’s Premier League title.

What is the format? 

Hibs Women will enter the competition at the second qualifying round in the Champions Path.

28 teams will feature in the champions path second qualifying round stage across seven mini-tournaments held in one host team’s city. 22 clubs enter directly, including Hibs, while six enter by progressing through the first qualifying round. 

In each mini-tournament, four teams will face off in two one-legged semi-finals – with the two winners progressing to the final, while the two defeated teams play in a third-place play-off. 

The winning team in the mini-tournament final will progress to the UEFA Women’s Champions League third qualifying round. 

The runners-up and third-place play-off winners will continue to compete in European competition in the form of the inaugural 2025/26 UEFA Women’s Europa Cup, entering in the second qualifying round and first qualifying round of the new continental tournament, respectively. 

The fourth-placed team will be eliminated from all European competition. 

Who can we face? 

We will find out our Women’s Champions League opponents this afternoon, with the Hibees to be drawn into a group of four and assigned a second qualifying round semi-final opponent. 

There are 14 seeded teams and 14 unseeded teams. Each mini-tournament group will feature two teams from each pot – with the seeded clubs always drawn against unseeded clubs at the semi-final stage.

Hibs are unseeded for the draw and will be drawn against a seeded club for the semi-final, while also finding out who our potential final/third-place play-off opponents are.

The seeded team list is as follows:

• SK Slavia Praha (CZE)
• FC Rosengård (NOR)
• FC Twente (NED)
• Vålerenga Fotball (NOR)
• FC Vorskla Poltava (UKR)
• WFC BIIK-Shymkent (KAZ)
• KFF Vllaznia (ALB)
• Apollon Ladies FC (CYP)
• ŽNK Mura (SVN)
• SFK 2000 Sarajevo (BIH)
• FC Gintra (LTU)
• Ferencvárosi TC (HUN)
• Fortuna Hjørring (DEN)
• Breiðablik (ISL)

The unseeded team list is as follows:

• FC Dinamo-BSUPC (BLR)
• BSC Young Boys (SUI)
• Hibernian FC Women (SCO)
• ŽFK Crvena Zvezda (SRB)
• OH Leuven (BEL)
• FCV Farul Constanța (ROU)
• HJK Helsinki (FIN)
• GKS Katowice (POL)
• Six winners from the first qualifying round champions path

When are the fixtures?

The semi-final of the mini-tournaments will be played on Wednesday 27 August, before the final and third-place play-offs will be held on Saturday 30 August.

Kick-off times for all of these fixtures will be announced by Friday 4 July. 

The fixtures will be held in a host city still to be determined. 

How can we follow the draw? 

Both the Women’s Champions League first and second qualifying round draws will be streamed live on UEFA.com. 

The first qualifying round draw will begin at 11am (UK time). 

The second qualifying round draw – the stage at which Hibernian FC Women will enter – commences at 1pm (UK time). 

We will also bring updates as soon as we have them across all our social media channels.