2023–24 UEFA Europa League

2023–24 UEFA Europa League
The 2023–24 UEFA Europa League is the 53rd season of Europe's secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 15th season since it was renamed from the UEFA Cup to the UEFA Europa League.
The final will be played at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin, Republic of Ireland. The winners of the tournament will automatically qualify for the 2024–25 UEFA Champions League group stage, and also earn the right to play against the winners of the 2023–24 UEFA Champions League in the 2024 UEFA Super Cup.
This edition will be the final season with the current format of 32 teams participating at the group stage, after UEFA announced that a brand new format would be introduced for the following edition. Due to the format change, no clubs can be transferred from the Champions League group stage to the UEFA Europa League under the Swiss format, and this edition's winners onwards will no longer be able to defend the title.
As the title holders, Sevilla have qualified for the 2023–24 UEFA Champions League.
Association team allocation
A total of 57 teams from between 31 and 36 of the 55 UEFA member associations are expected to participate in the 2023–24 UEFA Europa League. Among them, 15 associations have teams directly qualifying for the Europa League, while for the other 40 associations that do not have any teams directly qualifying, between 15 and 20 of them may have teams playing after being transferred from the Champions League (the only member association which cannot have a participant is Liechtenstein, which does not organise a domestic league, and can only enter their cup winner into the Europa Conference League given their association ranking). The association ranking based on the UEFA country coefficients is used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:
The title holders of the UEFA Europa Conference League will be given an entry in the Europa League (if they do not qualify for the Champions League through league performance).
Associations 1–5 each have two teams qualify.
Associations 6–16 (except Russia) each have one team qualify.
36 teams eliminated from the 2023–24 UEFA Champions League are transferred to the Europa League.
Association ranking
For the 2023–24 UEFA Europa League, the associations are allocated places according to their 2022 UEFA country coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 2017–18 to 2021–22.
Apart from the allocation based on the country coefficients, associations may have additional teams participating in the Europa League, as noted below:
– Additional teams transferred from the UEFA Champions League
– Additional berth for UEFA Europa Conference League title holders
Distribution
The following is the access list for this season.
Due to the suspension of Russia for the 2023–24 European season, the following changes to the access list have been made:
The cup winners of associations 13 (Belgium) and 14 (Switzerland) enter the play-off round instead of the third qualifying round.
The cup winners of association 16 (Czech Republic) enter the third qualifying round instead of the Europa Conference League second qualifying round.
Teams
The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:
ECL: Europa Conference League title holders
CW: Cup winners
3rd, 4th, 5th, etc.: League position of the previous season
UCL: Transferred from the Champions League
GS: Third-placed teams from the group stage
CH/LP PO: Losers from the play-off round (Champions/League Path)
CH/LP Q3: Losers from the third qualifying round (Champions/League Path)
CH/LP Q2: Losers from the second qualifying round (Champions/League Path)
The third qualifying round is divided into Champions Path (CH) and Main Path (MP).
Notes
Schedule
The schedule of the competition is as follows. Matches are scheduled for Thursdays apart from the final, which takes place on a Wednesday, though exceptionally can take place on Tuesdays or Wednesdays due to scheduling conflicts.
Third qualifying round
Play-off round
Group stage
The draw for the group stage was held on 1 September 2023, 13:00 CEST, in Monaco. The 32 teams were drawn into eight groups of four. For the draw, the teams were seeded into four pots each of eight teams, based on their club coefficients. As the winners of the 2022–23 UEFA Europa Conference League, West Ham United entered Pot 1 regardless of their club coefficient (CC). Teams from the same association could not be drawn into the same group.
Aris Limassol, Brighton & Hove Albion, BK Häcken, Raków Częstochowa, Servette and TSC made their debut appearances in the group stage and their debut appearances in a UEFA competition group stage. Furthermore, Brighton & Hove Albion qualified for European football for the first time in their history.
A total of 21 national associations are represented in the group stage.
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Group E
Group F
Group G
Group H
Final
Statistics
Statistics exclude qualifying rounds and play-off round.
Tables updated as of 26 October 2023.
Top goalscorers
Top assists
See also
2023–24 UEFA Champions League
2023–24 UEFA Europa Conference League
2024 UEFA Super Cup
2023–24 UEFA Women's Champions League
2023–24 UEFA Youth League
References
External links
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