The 2014–15 UEFA Champions League qualifying phase and play-off round were played from 1 July to 27 August 2014.
A total of 55 teams competed in the qualifying phase and play-off round to decide 10 of the 32 places in the group stage of the 2014–15 UEFA Champions League.
The team that scored more goals on aggregate over the two legs advanced to the next round.
If no goals were scored during extra time, the tie was decided by penalty shoot-out.
For these draws (or in any cases where the result of a tie in the previous round was not known at the time of the draw), the seeding was carried out under the assumption that the team with the higher coefficient of an undecided tie advanced to this round, which means if the team with the lower coefficient was to advance, it simply took the seeding of its defeated opponent.
Prior to the draws, UEFA may form "groups" in accordance with the principles set by the Club Competitions Committee, but they were purely for convenience of the draw and for ensuring that teams from the same association were not drawn against each other, and did not resemble any real groupings in the sense of the competition.
[1] Below were the participating teams (with their 2014 UEFA club coefficients),[6] grouped by their starting rounds.
FC Santa Coloma Banants La Fiorita Lincoln Red Imps The first legs were played on 1 and 2 July, and the second legs were played on 8 July 2014.
[9] BATE Borisov Maccabi Tel Aviv Sheriff Tiraspol Maribor Aktobe Dinamo Tbilisi Skënderbeu Zrinjski Mostar Sutjeska FC Santa Coloma[†] Celtic Sparta Prague Partizan Debrecen Slovan Bratislava Ventspils Malmö FF
Steaua București Dinamo Zagreb Ludogorets Razgrad Legia Warsaw Qarabağ
A total of 30 teams played in the third qualifying round:[12] The draw was held on 18 July 2014.
[13] Red Bull Salzburg Celtic[†] BATE Borisov[†] Dinamo Zagreb[†] Sheriff Tiraspol[†] Legia Warsaw[†] Debrecen[†] Slovan Bratislava[†] Qarabağ[†] AaB Steaua București[†]
Sparta Prague[†] Ludogorets Razgrad[†] Maccabi Tel Aviv[†] Maribor[†] Partizan[†] Aktobe[†] Malmö FF[†]
Zenit Saint Petersburg[‡] Lille Copenhagen Standard Liège Beşiktaş Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk[‡] Panathinaikos Feyenoord Grasshopper AEL Limassol The first legs were played on 29 and 30 July, and the second legs were played on 5 and 6 August 2014.
A total of 20 teams played in the play-off round:[17] The draw was held on 8 August 2014.
Celtic BATE Borisov Ludogorets Razgrad Maribor Slovan Bratislava Malmö FF AaB Arsenal Porto Zenit Saint Petersburg Bayer Leverkusen Napoli Athletic Bilbao Lille Copenhagen Standard Liège Beşiktaş The first legs were played on 19 and 20 August, and the second legs were played on 26 and 27 August 2014.