The 2023–24 UEFA Europa Conference League group stage will begin on 21 September 2023 and end on 14 December 2023. A total of 32 teams will compete in the group stage to decide the 16 places in the knockout phase of the 2023–24 UEFA Europa Conference League.

All teams besides AZ, Ballkani, Bodø/Glimt, Fiorentina, Gent, HJK, Maccabi Tel Aviv, PAOK, Slovan Bratislava and Zorya Luhansk will make their debut appearances in the group stage.  Breiðablik, Čukarički, KÍ, Olimpija Ljubljana and Zrinjski Mostar will make their debut appearances in a UEFA competition group stage. Breiðablik, KÍ and Zrinjski Mostar will be the first teams from Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Bosnia and Herzegovina, respectively, to play in a UEFA competition group stage. A total of 28 national associations will be represented in the group stage.

This is the final season with the group stage format, which will be replaced by the league phase format starting from the next season.

Draw
The draw for the group stage was held on 1 September 2023, 14:30 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 2023 UEFA club coefficients. Teams from the same association could not be drawn into the same group. Prior to the draw, UEFA formed pairings of teams from the same association, including those playing in the Europa League group stage (one pairing for associations with two or three teams, two pairings for associations with four or five teams), based on television audiences, where one team would be drawn into Groups A–D and another team would be drawn into Groups E–H, so that the two teams would have different kick-off times. The following pairings were announced by UEFA after the group stage teams were confirmed (the second team in a pairing marked by UEL played in the Europa League group stage):

 C  AZ and Ajax (UEL)
 F  Aberdeen and Rangers (UEL)
 K  Bodø/Glimt and Molde (UEL)
 L  Aston Villa and Brighton & Hove Albion (UEL)
 M  Brugge and Union Saint-Gilloise (UEL)
 N  Maccabi Tel Aviv and Maccabi Haifa (UEL)
 O  Lille and Toulouse (UEL)
 P  PAOK and AEK Athens (UEL)
 Q  Čukarički and TSC (UEL)
 R  Lugano and Servette (UEL)
 S  Legia Warsaw and Raków Częstochowa (UEL)
 T  Gent and Genk
 U  Fenerbahçe and Beşiktaş
 V  Slovan Bratislava and Spartak Trnava

Teams
Below were the participating teams (with their 2023 UEFA club coefficients), grouped by their seeding pot. They included:
22 winners of the play-off round (5 from Champions Path, 17 from Main Path)
10 losers of the Europa League play-off round

Notes

Format
In each group, teams will play against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The winners of each group will advance to the round of 16, while the runners-up will advance to the knockout round play-offs. The third-placed and fourth-placed teams were eliminated from European competitions for the season.

Tiebreakers
Teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If two or more teams were tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria was applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (see Article 16 Equality of points – group stage, Regulations of the UEFA Europa Conference League):
Points in head-to-head matches among the tied teams;
Goal difference in head-to-head matches among the tied teams;
Goals scored in head-to-head matches among the tied teams;
If more than two teams were tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams were still tied, all head-to-head criteria above were reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
Goal difference in all group matches;
Goals scored in all group matches;
Away goals scored in all group matches;
Wins in all group matches;
Away wins in all group matches;
Disciplinary points (direct red card = 3 points; double yellow card = 3 points; single yellow card = 1 point);
UEFA club coefficient.

Groups
The fixtures will be announced on 2 September 2023, the day after the draw. The matches will be played on 21 September, 5 October, 26 October, 9 November, 30 November and 14 December 2023. The scheduled kick-off times will be 18:45 and 21:00 CET/CEST.

Times are CET/CEST, as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Group E

Group F

Group G

Group H

Notes

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