Clubs are seeded for these draws in accordance with the club coefficient rankings established at the beginning of the season (see Annex D) and with the principles set by the Women’s Football Committee. If, for any reason, any of the participants in the rounds in question are not known at the time of the draw, the coefficient of the club with the higher coefficient of the clubs involved in undecided ties is used for the purposes of the draw.
For the draws for the first and second qualifying rounds, which are played in the form of mini-tournaments, the clubs are divided into two pots. For four-team mini-tournaments, the clubs are all drawn into semi-final pairings with the clubs from pot 1 designated as the home teams. For the final and third-place match, the club with the highest coefficient in the tie concerned is designated as the home team. If it is necessary to draw clubs into groups of three teams, the club with the highest coefficient qualifies automatically for the final and is designated as the home team for that tie; the remaining two clubs play a single-leg semi-final, with the club from pot 1 designated as the home team.
For the third qualifying round, a draw between the same number of seeded and unseeded clubs determines the ties. The club drawn first plays the first leg of the tie at home.
The UEFA administration may form groups for the qualifying phase draws in accordance with the principles set by the Women's Football Committee. Clubs from the same association cannot be drawn against each other.