2023–24 UEFA Champions League

2023–24 UEFA Champions League
The 2023–24 UEFA Champions League is the 69th season of Europe's premier club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 32nd season since it was renamed from the European Champion Clubs' Cup to the UEFA Champions League.
The final will be played at Wembley Stadium in London, England. The winners of the 2023–24 UEFA Champions League will automatically qualify for the 2024–25 UEFA Champions League league phase, earn the right to play against the winners of the 2023–24 UEFA Europa League in the 2024 UEFA Super Cup, and also enter the 32-team 2025 FIFA Club World Cup in the United States.
This edition is the final season with the current format of 32 teams participating at the group stage, after UEFA had announced that a new expanded format would be introduced for the following edition.
Manchester City are the defending champions, having won their first title in the previous edition.
Association team allocation
A total of 78 teams from 53 of the 55 UEFA member associations are set to participate in the 2023–24 UEFA Champions League (the exceptions being Liechtenstein, which does not organise a domestic league and Russia). The association ranking based on the UEFA association coefficients is used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:
Associations 1–4 each have four teams qualify.
Associations 5–6 each have three teams qualify.
Associations 7–15 (except Russia) each have two teams qualify.
Associations 16–55 (except Liechtenstein) each have one team qualify.
The winners of the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League and 2022–23 UEFA Europa League are each given an additional entry if they do not qualify for the 2023–24 UEFA Champions League through their domestic league.
Association ranking
For the 2023–24 UEFA Champions League, the associations are allocated places according to their 2022 UEFA association coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 2017–18 to 2021–22. The team allocation reflects Russia's ongoing suspension from UEFA competitions.
Apart from the allocation based on the association coefficients, associations may have additional teams (a maximum of 5 per association) participating in the Champions League, as noted below:
– Additional berth for UEFA Europa League title holders
Distribution
The following is the default access list for the 2023–24 season.
Due to the suspension of Russia for the 2023–24 European season, the following changes to the access list have been made:
The champions of association 11 (Serbia) enter the group stage instead of the play-off round (Champions Path).
The champions of association 13 (Belgium) enter the play-off round instead of the third qualifying round (Champions Path).
The champions of association 15 (Greece) enter the third qualifying round instead of the second qualifying round (Champions Path).
The champions of associations 18 (Denmark) and 19 (Croatia) enter the second qualifying round instead of the first qualifying round (Champions Path).
The runner-up of association 11 (Serbia) enter the third qualifying round instead of the second qualifying round (League Path).
Since the Champions League title holders (Manchester City) have qualified via their domestic league, the following changes to the access list have been made:
The champions of association 12 (Ukraine) enter the group stage instead of the play-off round (Champions Path).
The champions of association 14 (Switzerland) enter the play-off round instead of the third qualifying round (Champions Path).
The champions of association 16 (Czech Republic) enter the third qualifying round instead of the second qualifying round (Champions Path).
The champions of associations 20 (Turkey) and 21 (Cyprus) enter the second qualifying round instead of the first qualifying round (Champions Path).
Teams
The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:
TH: Champions League title holders
EL: Europa League title holders
1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th: League positions of the previous season
The second qualifying round, third qualifying round and play-off round are divided into Champions Path (CH) and League Path (LP).
Notes
Schedule
The schedule of the competition is as follows. All matches are played on Tuesdays and Wednesdays apart from the preliminary round final and the final.
Qualifying rounds
Preliminary round
First qualifying round
Second qualifying round
Third qualifying round
Play-off round
Group stage
The group stage draw for the 2023–24 UEFA Champions League took place at the Grimaldi Forum, Monaco, on 31 August at . 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 the following principles:
Pot 1 contained the Champions League and Europa League title holders, and the champions of the top six associations based on their 2021–22 UEFA association coefficients. Because Manchester City (the champions of the 2022–23 Premier League) won the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League, the champions of Association 7 (Netherlands) Feyenoord entered into Pot 1.
Pots 2, 3 and 4 contained the remaining qualified teams, with their pot being determined by UEFA club coefficient (CC).
Teams from the same association could not be drawn into the same group.
Union Berlin and Antwerp made their debut appearances in the group stage.
A total of 15 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 25 October 2023.
Top goalscorers
Top assists
See also
2023–24 UEFA Europa 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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Current association football seasons
Sports events affected by the Russian invasion of Ukraine