As ever, England is well represented in Europe, with almost half the Premier League playing in continental competition this season.
Let’s take a look at the English clubs competing in the Champions League, Europa League and Conference League in 2026/27.
Which English clubs are in Europe this season?
Champions League
Arsenal
Arsenal are in the Champions League for the fourth straight season – and, for the first time since 2004, they enter Europe’s elite club competition as champions of England.
The Gunners will be hoping that this is the season they finally get the Champions League monkey off their back, having lost their second final last term – agonisingly beaten on penalties by PSG, who retained their European crown.
Mikel Arteta’s side will play Real Madrid, Borussia Dortmund, Lille and Sabah at home and Bayern Munich, Real Betis, Napoli and Slavia Prague away in the Champions League league phase – which they topped with a 100% record last time around.
Aston Villa
The reigning Europa League champions, Aston Villa would have returned to the Champions League anyway – but they do so having secured a top-four Premier League finish in 2025/26.
It was a summer of huge upheaval for Unai Emery’s men, with key players Morgan Rogers, Youri Tielemans and Ollie Watkins all leaving the club.
Villa, whose finest hour came when they won the European Cup back in 1982, have been handed a tough-looking set of opponents for the league phase: they face PSG, Dortmund, Fenerbahce and Viking at home and Barcelona, Club Brugge, Galatasaray and Slavia Prague away. They reached the quarter-finals in their last Champions League campaign in 2024/25.
Liverpool
Liverpool fell well short in their Premier League title defence last term but finished fifth to clinch Champions League football for the ninth time in 10 years.
The six-time European champions – who last lifted the trophy in 2019 – head into the new Champions League campaign under new head coach Andoni Iraola, who led Bournemouth to an historic Europa League qualification last season but has never managed in continental competition (though he did make 46 European appearances as a player for Athletic Bilbao).
Iraola’s Reds will take on Atletico Madrid, Porto, Villarreal and Lens at home in the league phase and Inter, Club Brugge, Fenerbahce and LASK away.
Man City
Another English Champions League regular with a new manager at the helm, Manchester City are heading into their first European campaign post-Pep Guardiola having finished as Premier League runners-up in their legendary boss’ final season at the Etihad Stadium.
Enzo Maresca is the new man in charge as Man City target a second Champions League crown – having won the competition for the first time as part of a memorable treble in 2023/24.
Man City’s home league-phase opponents are PSG, Sporting CP, Napoli and AEK Athens, while they’ll travel to take on Barcelona, Porto, RB Leipzig and Lens.
Man United
Initially appointed on an interim basis in January, Michael Carrick led Manchester United back into the Champions League for the first time in five years with a strong finish to the 2025/26 season – in which United finished third in the Premier League.
Knocked out in the group stage in 2023/24 (the final edition of the Champions League before the change to the current format), the three-time European champions haven’t made it past the last 16 since 2019. It goes without saying Carrick will be hoping to change that.
In the league phase, United host Bayern, Roma, RB Leipzig and Sabah; away from home, they’ve been to drawn to play Atletico, Sporting, Villarreal and Como.
Europa League
Bournemouth
Less than two decades after finishing 21st in the fourth tier of English football, Bournemouth are gearing up for their first-ever European adventure.
The man who got them into the Europa League, the aforementioned Iraola, may have left, but the Cherries are now guided by an experienced continental operator: Marco Rose, who took FC Salzburg to the semi-finals of the Europa League and steered Borussia Monchengladbach into the Champions League knockout stage.
Bournemouth’s league-phase opponents are AC Milan, Viktoria Plzen, Sturm Graz and Hapoel Be’er Sheva at home and Real Sociedad, Sparta Prague, Celta Vigo and Lillestrom away.
Crystal Palace
Crystal Palace’s maiden European campaign couldn’t have gone any better: they won the Conference League – lifting the second major trophy in their history just 12 months after getting their hands on the first, the FA Cup.
Like Bournemouth, they’ve also lost their inspirational boss, Oliver Glasner – but his successor at Selhurst Park, Pierre Sage, did oversee Lyon’s run to the quarter-finals of the 2024/25 Europa League, where they were agonisingly beaten by Man United in an all-time classic.
In the league phase, Palace have been drawn at home to Real Sociedad, Sparta Prague, Lech Poznan and Hoffenheim and away to Lyon, FC Salzburg, Jagiellonia Bialystok and Besiktas.
Conference League
Brighton
Brighton are England’s sole Conference League representatives in 2026/27, competing in Europe for the second time in their history – having previously reached the Europa League last 16.
That was under Roberto De Zerbi; this will be Brighton’s first continental campaign under Fabian Hurzeler, making his European debut and looking to take the Seagulls further than they’ve ever been before.
Brighton’s Conference League phase opponents are Monaco, Craiova and Kauno Zalgiris at home and Panathinaikos, Getafe and Jablonec away.
