Overview

• Benfica, FC Copenhagen, Club Brugge, Pafos FC, Qarabağ, SK Sturm Graz and FC Kairat clinched the last seven places through the final reclassification round.
• The competition retains the 36-team single-league format in which each club plays eight different opponents and the top eight advance directly to the round of 16 while places nine to 24 enter playoffs.
• Paris Saint-Germain enters as reigning champion and will head pot 1 for the draw.
• Twenty-five clubs qualified automatically via domestic leagues, with Tottenham entering as Europa League winner and Olympiacos gaining a berth through reallocation because PSG had already qualified domestically.
• Mexican participation remains unclear, with La Crónica naming only Rodrigo Huescas while Mediotiempo lists Huescas and Alex Padilla.