77 teams from 53 of the 54 UEFA member associations participated in the 2014–15 UEFA Champions League. The number are narrowed down to 32 Group Stage teams via the qualifying rounds. Spain, England and Germany have 4 teams. Italy, Portugal and France have 3 teams. Nine countries have 2 teams. The remaining 38 countries are only represented by their champions.
Qualifying Stage[]
The route to the Group Stage. Unless otherwise stated, all teams are the league champions.
Country[1] | ROUNDS | ||||
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1st Qualifying | 2nd Qualifying | 3rd Qualifying | Play-off | Group Stage | |
Jul 1/2 Jul 8/9 |
Jul 15/16 Jul 22/23 |
Jul 29/30 Aug 5/6 |
Aug 19/20 Aug 26/27 |
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1 | Athletic Bilbao 4 |
Atlético Madrid Barcelona 2 Real Madrid 3 Athletic Bilbao 4 | |||
2 | Arsenal 4 |
Manchester City Liverpool 2 Chelsea 3 Arsenal 4 | |||
3 | Bayer Leverkusen 4 |
Bayern Munich Dortmund 2 Schalke 3 Bayer Leverkusen 4 | |||
4 | Napoli 3 |
Juventus Roma 2 | |||
5 | Porto 3 |
Benfica Sporting Lisbon 2 Porto 3 | |||
6 | Lille 3 |
Lille 3 |
PSG Monaco 2 | ||
7 | Dnipro 2 |
Shakhtar Donetsk | |||
8 | Zenit 2 |
Zenit 2 |
CSKA Moscow Zenit 2 | ||
9 | Feyenoord 2 |
Ajax | |||
10 | Beşiktaş 2 |
Beşiktaş 2 |
Galatasaray | ||
11 | Standard Liège 2 |
Standard Liège 2 |
Anderlecht | ||
12 | Panathinaikos 2 |
Olympiacos | |||
13 | Grasshoppers 2 |
Basel | |||
14 | APOEL AEL Limassol 2 |
APOEL | APOEL | ||
15 | Aalborg BK Copenhagen 2 |
Aalborg BK Copenhagen 2 |
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16 | Salzburg | Salzburg | |||
17 | Sparta Prague | Sparta Prague | |||
18 | Steaua București | Steaua București | Steaua Bucureşti | ||
19 | Maccabi Tel Aviv | Maccabi Tel Aviv | |||
20 | BATE Borisov | BATE Borisov | BATE Borisov | BATE Borisov | |
21 | Legia Warsaw | Legia Warsaw | |||
22 | Dinamo Zagreb | Dinamo Zagreb | |||
23 | Malmö | Malmö | Malmö | Malmö | |
24 | Celtic | Celtic | Celtic | ||
25 | Partizan | Partizan | |||
26 | Slovan Bratislava | Slovan Bratislava | Slovan Bratislava | ||
27 | Strømsgodset | ||||
28 | Ludogorets | Ludogorets | Ludogorets | Ludogorets | |
29 | Debrecen | Debrecen | |||
30 | Maribor | Maribor | Maribor | Maribor | |
31 | Dinamo Tbilisi | ||||
32 | Qarabağ | Qarabağ | |||
33 | HJK Helsinki | HJK Helsinki | |||
34 | Zrinjski | ||||
35 | Sheriff Tiraspol | Sheriff Tiraspol | |||
36 | St Patrick's Athletic | ||||
37 | Žalgiris Vilnius | ||||
38 | Aktobe | Aktobe | |||
39 | Ventspils | ||||
40 | KR Reykjavík | ||||
41 | Sutjeska | ||||
42 | Rabotnički | ||||
43 | Skënderbeu | ||||
44 | Valletta | ||||
45 | Liechtenstein does not organise a domestic league | ||||
46 | Dudelange | ||||
47 | Cliftonville | ||||
48 | New Saints | ||||
49 | Levadia | Levadia | |||
50 | Banants | ||||
51 | HB Tórshavn | HB Tórshavn | |||
52 | La Fiorita | ||||
53 | Santa Coloma | Santa Coloma | |||
54 | Lincoln |
- ↑ UEFA country coefficients
Group Stage[]
The top 2 in each group advance to the knockout stage.
Matchday 6
Elimination Stage[]
The round the country's participation ends in this year's competition
Champions League Structure[]
New teams | Teams in Champions League |
Teams to Europa League | |
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Round 1 | 6 teams >>> | 6 teams | |
Round 2 | 31 teams >>> |
3 winners from Round 1 31 new teams -—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-— 34 teams |
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Round 3 | 13 teams >>> |
17 winners from Round 2 13 new teams -—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-— 30 teams |
>>> 15 losing teams |
Play-offs | 5 teams >>> |
15 winners from Round 3 5 new teams -—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-— 20 teams |
>>> 10 losing teams |
Group Stage | 22 teams >>> |
10 winners from Play-offs 22 new teams -—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-— 32 teams |
>>> 8 3rd place teams |