The 2021–22 UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying rounds began on 17 August and ended on 9 September 2021.
The Champions Path included all league champions which did not qualify directly for the group stage, and consisted of the following rounds: Below are the participating teams of the Champions Path (with their 2021 UEFA club coefficients),[3] grouped by their starting rounds.
Round 1 consisted of mini-tournaments with two semi-finals, a final and a third-place play-off hosted by one of the participating teams.
The team that scored more goals on aggregate over the two legs advance to the next round.
If the aggregate score was level at the end of normal time of the second leg, the away goals rule was no longer applied starting from this season.
[4] To decide the winner of the tie, extra time was played, and if the same number of goals were scored by both teams at the end of normal time, the tie was decided by a penalty shoot-out.
An additional preliminary round consisting of two-legged home-and-away matches would have been played by the champions from the lowest-ranked associations if more than 50 associations had entered the tournament and the title holders hadn't qualified through league position.
Prior to the draws, UEFA may form "groups" in accordance with the principles set by the Club Competitions Committee, but they are purely for convenience of the draw and do not resemble any real groupings in the sense of the competition.
Teams from associations with political conflicts as decided by UEFA may not be drawn into the same tie.
After the draws, the order of legs of a tie could have been reversed by UEFA due to scheduling or venue conflicts.
The schedule of the competition is as follows (all draws are held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland).
The third place play-off between Peamount United and Tbilisi Nike was cancelled following a decision taken by the Dutch health authorities to put the whole team of Tbilisi Nike into quarantine after a player had tested positive for COVID-19.
The result of the match was awarded by UEFA as a walkover for Peamount United.