Possible clubs for 2025/26 CL and EL direct rebalancing by club ranking								UEFA rebalancing methods
Club		Ranking	CL-Q3nc	CL-Q2nc	CL-PO	CL-Q2	CL-Q1	EL-PO	EL-Q3	EL-Q2	EL-Q1
Paris Saint-Germain	Fra	118.500	N4
Benfica	Por	87.750	N2							N3
FC Porto	Por	79.750	N2							N3
Club Brugge	Bel	71.750	N2					CW		(N3)**
Glasgow Rangers	Sco	71.250		(N2)*	CH			CW		(N3)**
Feyenoord	Ned	71.000	N3							N4
PSV Eindhoven	Ned	69.250	N3							N4
Ajax	Ned	67.250	N3							N4
Lille OSC	Fra	66.000	N4
Sporting CP Lisbon	Por	59.000	N2							N3
Olympiakos Piraeus	Gre	56.500		(N2)*		CH			CW
Dinamo Zagreb	Cro	56.000				CH					CW
AZ Alkmaar	Ned	54.500	N3							N4
Shakhtar Donetsk	Ukr	52.000				CH					CW
Slavia Praha	Cze	51.000		N2				CW		(N3)**
Bodø/Glimt	Nor	49.000		(N2)*	CH				CW
FC Salzburg	Aut	48.000		(N2)*	CH				CW
Olympique Marseille	Fra	48.000	N4
Fenerbahçe	Tur	47.250	N2					CW		(N3)**
Sporting Braga	Por	46.000	N2							N3
FC København	Den	44.875				CH				CW
Red Star Belgrade	Srb	44.000				CH					CW
Olympique Lyon	Fra	43.750	N4
PAOK Thessaloniki	Gre	42.250		(N2)*		CH			CW
AA Gent	Bel	42.000	N2					CW		(N3)**
AS Monaco	Fra	41.000	N4
Stade Rennais	Fra	40.000	N4
Viktoria Plzen	Cze	39.250		N2				CW		(N3)**
Ferencváros	Hun	39.000				CH					CW
Galatasaray	Tur	38.250	N2					CW		(N3)**
Celtic	Sco	38.000		(N2)*	CH			CW		(N3)**
Maccabi Tel-Aviv	Isr	37.500				CH					CW
Union Saint-Gilloise	Bel	36.000	N2					CW		(N3)**
Young Boys	Sui	34.500		(N2)*	CH			CW		(N3)**
Djurgårdens IF	Swe	34.000					CH				CW
Molde FK	Nor	33.750		(N2)*	CH				CW
Slovan Bratislava	Svk	33.500					CH				CW
FC Basel	Sui	33.000		(N2)*	CH			CW		(N3)**
FC Midtjylland	Den	32.750				CH				CW
Rapid Wien	Aut	32.250		(N2)*	CH				CW
Qarabag FK	Azb	32.000					CH				CW
Legia Warsaw	Pol	31.000				CH					CW
Sparta Praha	Cze	29.500		N2				CW		(N3)**
Anderlecht	Bel	28.250	N2					CW		(N3)**
LASK	Aut	28.000		(N2)*	CH				CW
Ludogorets Razgrad	Bul	24.000					CH				CW
Dynamo Kyiv	Ukr	23.500				CH					CW
Sturm Graz	Aut	23.000		(N2)*	CH				CW
Istanbul Basaksehir	Tur	23.000	N2					CW		(N3)**
FCSB	Rom	22.500					CH				CW
Partizan Belgrade	Srb	22.000				CH					CW
Royal Antwerp	Bel	20.500	N2					CW		(N3)**
OGC Nice	Fra	20.000	N4
Sheriff Tiraspol	Mol	20.000				CH					CW
FC Lugano	Sui	19.250		(N2)*	CH			CW		(N3)**
CFR Cluj	Rom	19.000				CH					CW
Lech Poznan	Pol	19.000				CH					CW
Vitória Guimarães	Por	18.750	N2							N3
Maccabi Haifa	Isr	18.000				CH					CW
Shamrock Rovers	Irl	17.875					CH
Olimpija Ljubljana	Slo	17.375					CH				CW
Omonia Nicosia	Cyp	17.375				CH					CW
APOEL Nicosia	Cyp	17.250				CH					CW
Stade Brestois	Fra	16.750	N4
Hapoel Beer-Sheva	Isr	16.500				CH					CW
Sivasspor	Tur	16.500	N2					CW		(N3)**
Panathinaikos	Gre	16.000		(N2)*		CH			CW
Zorya Luhansk	Ukr	16.000				CH					CW
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Notes:
1) If clubs from a certain qualifying round are eligible for direct rebalancing then the club with the highest ranking is selected for promotion.
2) CW indicates the CW spot. If the cup winner qualifies for CL then the next-best club of the domestic league takes that spot.
3) This list contains clubs from non-top4 associations with a ranking of at least 16.000 or still in competition.
4) Color key: green = confirmed spot, red = not possible for direct rebalancing, yellow = still in competition, and white = still possible.
5) Until further notice Russian clubs are suspended from participation in UEFA competitions
*) The runners-up of Sco, Sui, Aut, Nor and Gre are not eligible for promotion to CL-GS as long as the champions are not in CL-GS (no leapfrog)
**) 3rd ranked clubs of Bel, Tur, Cze, Sco, and Sui are not eligible for promotion to EL-GS as long as the cup winners are not in EL-GS (no leapfrog)
From 2024 on there are two kinds of rebalancing.
Direct rebalancing: to fill an open spot in the access list because the titleholder already qualified for the competition, including the
knock-on effects to lower qualifying rounds of the same competition. Either because the titleholder qualified for that competition by the
domestic league, or the Conference League titleholder qualified for the Champions League (and chooses to take that route).
Indirect rebalancing: all other reasons for rebalancing, including the knock-on effects to lower competitions because of direct rebalancing
in the Champions League or Europa League.
Direct rebalancing fills open spots in the format by the club(s) with the highest 5-yr club ranking from lower levels in the same competition.
An open spot in the league stage is filled by the club with highest ranking of all clubs in the qualifying phase, but for an open spot in
other rounds only clubs from the previous round are eligible. For rebalancing of the CL titleholder spot only champions are eligble, but all
clubs of the qualifying rounds do compete for rebalancing of the EL titleholder spot.
Indirect rebalancing fills open spots in the format by clubs from the next best association. This is the rebalancing that was used until 2024.
A club is only eligible for direct rebalancing if it does not leapfrog over clubs from the same association. For the current access list that means
that the runners-up of countries at rank 11-15 are not  eligible for promotion to the CL league stage as long as the champions are not in the
CL league stage. And that the 3rd ranked clubs of countries at rank 8-12 are not eligible for promotion to the EL league stage as long as the
cup winners (or the club at the cup winner spot if the cup winner qualified for CL) are not in the EL league stage.
So, the Champions League mainly uses direct rebalancing (except for non-titleholder related changes like bans, etc). In the Conference
League it's always indirect rebalancing (including the selection of clubs promoting to the Europa League), because there is no titleholder spot.
In the Europa League it can either be direct rebalancing (Conference League titleholder related), or indirect rebalancing due to knock-on
effects from Champions League rebalancing. Direct rebalancing in the Europa League can include cross competition rebalancing between
Europa League and Conference League (cup winners in CO-Q2 are moved to EL-Q1).
Clubs of EL-Q2 will not be promoted to EL-Q3, but clubs of EL-Q1 will be moved to EL-Q2 instead. In general, the rounds without starting
clubs (CL-POnc, CL-Q3, and CO-Q3) are skipped with rebalancing, and are not considered as previous round within this context.
More details may be found in the official UEFA club competition regulations:
CL regulations 2025/26
EL regulations 2025/26
CO regulations 2025/26