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=== Club ===
{{Further|List of UEFA club competition winners}}
[[File:UEFA Members 2016.svg|thumb|upright=1.7|UEFA member countries by club competition entry entitlements, 2009/10]]

The top-ranked UEFA competition is the [[UEFA Champions League]], which started in 1955 as the European Champion Clubs' Cup (or simply the European Cup) and initially only gathered the top team of each country; this competition has since been expanded to gather the top 1–4 teams of each country's league (the number of teams depend on that country's ranking and can be upgraded or downgraded).

A second, lower-ranked competition is the [[UEFA Europa League]]. This competition, for national knockout cup winners and high-placed league teams, was launched by UEFA in 1971 as a successor of both the former UEFA Cup and the [[Inter-Cities Fairs Cup]] (also began in 1955). A third competition, the [[UEFA Cup Winners' Cup]], which started in 1960, was absorbed into the UEFA Cup (now UEFA Europa League) in 1999.

In December 2018, UEFA announced the creation of a third club competition, later named the [[UEFA Europa Conference League]]. The competition features 32 teams in 8 groups of 4, with a knockout round between the second placed teams in Europa Conference League and the third placed teams in the Europa League, leading to a final 16 knockout stage featuring the eight group winners. The first edition of the competition was played in 2021–2022.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/46421656 |title=Europa League 2 to begin in 2021 |work=[[BBC Sport]]}}</ref>

In women's football UEFA also conducts the [[UEFA Women's Champions League]] for club teams. The competition was first held in 2001, and was known as the UEFA Women's Cup until 2009.

The [[UEFA Super Cup]] pits the winners of the Champions League against the winners of the Europa League (previously the winners of the Cup Winners' Cup), and came into being in 1973.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.uefa.com/uefasupercup/history/ |title=History of the UEFA Super Cup |work=UEFA |access-date=21 August 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100701063110/http://www.uefa.com/uefasupercup/history/index.html |archive-date=1 July 2010 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=1973: Ajax enjoy early success |url=https://www.uefa.com/uefasupercup/history/1973/ |work=UEFA |date=March 1974|access-date=5 January 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://en.archive.uefa.com/competitions/ecwc/history/season=1971/intro.html |title=uefa.com – UEFA Cup Winners' Cup |work=UEFA|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100503062850/http://en.archive.uefa.com/competitions/ecwc/history/season%3D1971/intro.html |archive-date=3 May 2010}}</ref>

The [[UEFA Intertoto Cup]] was a summer competition, previously operated by several Central European football associations, which was relaunched and recognised as [[UEFA club competition records|official UEFA club competition]] by UEFA in 1995.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://en.archive.uefa.com/competitions/intertotocup/history/index.html |title=History of the UEFA Intertoto Cup |work=UEFA |access-date=14 August 2009 | url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131208220406/http://en.archive.uefa.com/competitions/intertotocup/history/index.html |archive-date=8 December 2013}}</ref> The last Intertoto Cup took place in 2008.

The [[Intercontinental Cup (1960–2004)|European/South American Cup]] was jointly organised with [[CONMEBOL]] between the [[UEFA Champions League|Champions League]] and the [[Copa Libertadores]] winners.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://en.archive.uefa.com/competitions/eusa/history/index.html |title=History of the UEFA/CONMEBOL Intercontinental Cup |work=UEFA |access-date=14 August 2009 | url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131208213557/http://en.archive.uefa.com/competitions/eusa/history/index.html |archive-date=8 December 2013}}</ref>

Only [[List of UEFA club competition winners|five teams]]<ref>{{cite web |language=es |url=http://hemeroteca.elmundodeportivo.es/preview/2003/09/23/pagina-7/552332/pdf.html |title=Un dilema histórico |work=El Mundo Deportivo's Historical Archive |access-date=23 September 2003 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100326071942/http://hemeroteca.elmundodeportivo.es/preview/2003/09/23/pagina-7/552332/pdf.html |archive-date= 26 March 2010}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://hemeroteca.mundodeportivo.com/preview/1987/03/20/pagina-34/1264069/pdf.html?search=ganadores+de+las+tres+competiciones+europeas |title=Edición del $dateTool.format('EEEE d MMMM yyyy', $document.date), Página $document.page – Hemeroteca – MundoDeportivo.com |website=hemeroteca.mundodeportivo.com |access-date=19 March 2022 |archive-date=30 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220630224218/http://hemeroteca.mundodeportivo.com/preview/1987/03/20/pagina-34/1264069/pdf.html?search=ganadores%20de%20las%20tres%20competiciones%20europeas |url-status=dead }}</ref> ([[Juventus FC|Juventus]], [[AFC Ajax|Ajax]], [[Manchester United F.C.|Manchester United]], [[FC Bayern Munich|Bayern Munich]] and [[Chelsea F.C.|Chelsea]]{{efn|[[Chelsea F.C.|Chelsea]] qualified for [[2012–13 UEFA Europa League|Europa League]]'s Round of 32 after finishing in third place in the group stage of the [[2012–13 UEFA Champions League|2012–13 Champions League]].}}) have [[UEFA club competition records#List of teams to have won the three main European club competitions|won each of the three main competitions]] (European Cup/UEFA Champions League, European Cup Winners' Cup/UEFA Cup Winners' Cup and UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.uefa.com/news/newsid=219635.html#the+with+golden+touch |title=The man with the golden touch |work=UEFA |access-date=27 August 2004 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110430120135/http://www.uefa.com/news/newsid=219635.html |archive-date=30 April 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref> a feat that is no longer possible for any team that did not win the Cup Winners' Cup. There are currently eight teams throughout Europe that have won two of the three trophies; all but one have won the Cup Winners' Cup, four require a win in the Champions League and four require a UEFA Europa League win.

Until the first staging of the [[2021–22 UEFA Europa Conference League|UEFA Europa Conference League]] in 2022, Juventus of Italy was the only team in Europe to win all [[UEFA club competition records|UEFA's official championships and cups]]<ref name="official">{{cite web |url=http://www.uefa.com/competitions/supercup/news/kind=32/newsid=447085.html |title=List of European official clubs' cups and tournaments |work=UEFA |access-date=21 August 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071230020854/http://www.uefa.com/competitions/supercup/news/kind=32/newsid=447085.html |archive-date=30 December 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref> and, in commemoration of achieving that feat, have received ''[[The UEFA Plaque]]'' by the Union of European Football Associations on 12 July 1988.<ref>{{cite news |language=es |url=http://hemeroteca.lavanguardia.es/preview/1988/07/13/pagina-53/33040569/pdf.html |title=Sorteo de las competiciones europeas de fútbol: el Fram de Reykjavic, primer adversario del F.C. Barcelona en la Recopa |newspaper=[[La Vanguardia]] |format=PDF |page=53 |date=13 July 1988 |access-date=15 November 2009}}</ref><ref name="UEFA Plaque">{{cite web |url=http://archiviostorico.gazzetta.it/1997/maggio/24/Tutto_inizio_con_poesia_ga_0_9705246555.shtml |title=Tutto inizio' con un po' di poesia |work=gazzetta.it}}</ref>

UEFA's premier [[futsal]] competition is the [[UEFA Futsal Cup]], a tournament started in 2001 which replaced the former [[Futsal European Clubs Championship]]. This event, despite enjoying a long and well-established tradition in the European futsal community, dating back to 1984, was never recognised as official by UEFA.

There was an attempt to create a Europa League-style second tier women's club competition, which had been in discussion since 2021.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.skysports.com/football/news/28508/12259857/europa-league-style-competition-for-womens-football-among-proposals-from-european-club-association |title=Europa League-style competition for women's football among proposals from European Club Association |date=29 March 2021 |work=Sky Sports |access-date=29 September 2022 }}</ref> In December 2023, the attempt came into a fruition, with the first edition of the competition to be played in 2025–26.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.uefa.com/news-media/news/0288-199d52e851a2-5aae94448728-1000--new-uefa-women-s-club-system-explained/ |title=New UEFA Women's club football system explained |website=UEFA |publisher=Union of European Football Associations |date=4 December 2023 |access-date=4 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231204173817/https://www.uefa.com/insideuefa/news/0288-199d52e851a2-5aae94448728-1000--new-uefa-women-s-club-system-explained/ |archive-date=4 December 2023 |url-status=live }}</ref> In December 2024, the name of the competition, "UEFA Women's Europa Cup", was announced.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.uefa.com/news-media/news/0294-1c956e9c4351-308eb953ce0c-1000/ |title=Record Women's EURO 2025 prize money approved |publisher=UEFA |date=16 December 2024 |access-date=16 December 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.uefa.com/news-media/news/0294-1c95889ab17d-de7a668e4209-1000/ |title=Women's football to enter new era with UEFA Women's Europa Cup |publisher=UEFA |date=16 December 2024 |access-date=16 December 2024}}</ref>