The 2025–26 Champions League league phase is entering its climax, but despite every team still having at least one more game to play, there are sides who have already been eliminated from Europe’s most prestigious club competition.
All 36 teams competing in the Champions League entered 2026 still with a mathematical chance of qualifying to the knockout rounds. Still, as league phase action resumed following the winter break, some teams were unable to correct course and earned the dishonorable feat of becoming the first eliminated sides in the tournament.
