The UEFA Champions League has three knockout qualifying rounds.
== Format ===== Qualification ===Qualification for the competition is based on UEFA coefficients, with better entrance rounds being offered to the more successful nations
The UEFA Champions League (abbreviated as UCL, or sometimes, UEFA CL) is an annual club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and contested by top-division European clubs, deciding the competition winners through a round robin group stage to qualify for a double-legged knockout format, and a single leg final

