Overview

• The draw begins at 13:00 CEST at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco, with a free UEFA.tv stream from 12:55 CEST and an additional stream on RTL+.
• Thirty-six teams are seeded into four pots of nine, with each club drawn to face eight different opponents—four at home and four away—with two opponents from each pot and no same‑association pairings.
• Bundesliga representation includes SC Freiburg in Pot 3 and VfB Stuttgart in Pot 4, positioning both for potentially challenging matchups.
• UEFA will run a computer-assisted procedure expected to take about an hour, avoiding a manual process that would have required roughly 900 balls and several hours.
• The ligaphase runs from 24 September 2025 to 29 January 2026, with the top eight advancing directly to the round of 16 and places 9–24 entering knockout playoffs.