The 2020–21 UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying rounds was played between 3 and 19 November 2020.

[1] A total of 40 teams competed in the qualifying rounds to decide ten of the 32 places in the knockout phase of the 2020–21 UEFA Women's Champions League.

[1] The tournament would have originally started in August 2020, but was initially delayed to October due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe.

However, due to the continuing pandemic in Europe, UEFA announced a new format and schedule on 16 September 2020.

[8] The twenty winners of the first qualifying round were seeded based on their UEFA women's club coefficients.