Every team qualified for the Champions League in 2018/19

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The winner of this season’s Champions League is still to be decided, with Liverpool and Real Madrid due to battle it out in the final on 26 May, with places in next season’s tournament still up for grabs. 

Those clubs who have qualified or have qualification in their sights will be looking to next year’s competition, with all domestic leagues throughout the continent concluding by the end of this month.

But qualifying for the tournament can be a complicated process. Only the top four associations: England, Germany, Spain and Italy are allocated four automatic qualification places in the group stages.

Then the 5th and 6th ranked associations send their top two teams to the tournament, and the champions in associations ranked 7th to 10th also qualify.

Group stage: Manchester United (England), Manchester City (England), Bayern Munich (Germany), Schalke (Germany), Paris Saint-Germain (France), Juventus (Italy), Napoli (Italy), Barcelona (Spain), Atletico Madrid (Spain), Real Madrid (Spain), Valencia (Spain) Lokomotiv Moscow (Russia), Porto (Portugal), Tottenham Hotspur (England).

So far only 13 clubs, out of 26, have secured an automatic qualification place into the 2018-19 Champions League group stages.

Real Madrid, who could still win this season’s tournament, have already booked their place into next season’s tournament, and all the other places have been filled in La Liga by champions Barcelona, Atletico Madrid, and Valencia.

Premier League champions Manchester City, rivals Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur have all booked their places, with Liverpool and Chelsea still battling it out.

Bayern Munich won their sixth consecutive Bundesliga title this year and were the first club to clinch their domestic crown out of Europe’s top-five leagues.

Champions route (four group places): Qarabag (Azerbaijan), Zrinjski (Bosnia and Herzegovina),  BATE Borisov (Belarus), Ludogorets Razgrad (Bulgaria), Flora (Estonia), HJK Helsinki (Finland) Víkingur (Faroe Islands), Torpedo Kutaisi (Georgia) AEK Athens (Greece) Cork City (Ireland), Valur (Iceland) Astana (Kazakhstan), Suduva (Lithuania), Spartaks Jurmala (Latvia), Sheriff (Moldova), Shkendija (Macedonia), Valetta (Malta), Sutjeska Niksic (Montenegro), PSV Eindhoven (Netherlands), Crusaders (Northern Ireland), Rosenburg (Norway), Celtic (Scotland), Young Boys (Switzerland), Malmo (Sweden), The New Saints (Wales).

This route consists of the champions of the associations ranked 11th and below, and now includes a preliminary round as well as three qualifying rounds and a play-off round

All teams eliminated in the champions path between the preliminary round and the third qualifying round will be given a second chance to compete at European level by entering a new dedicated champions path of UEFA Europa League qualifying with staggered access according to the round of elimination from the UEFA Champions League. Teams eliminated in champions path play-offs enter the UEFA Europa League group stage directly.

So far popular clubs like Celtic and PSV Eindhoven have made next year’s tournament alongside more obscure clubs like Suduva from Lithuania and Vikingur from the Faroe Islands.