2022–23 UEFA Europa League

The **2022–23 UEFA Europa League** was the 52nd season of Europe's second-tier club football competition organized by UEFA. It's the 14th season since it was changed from the UEFA Cup to the UEFA Europa League. In the final match, Sevilla beat Roma at the Puskás Aréna in Budapest, Hungary. They won 4–1 in a penalty shootout after the game ended 1–1 even after extra time. This victory marked their seventh win in this competition, which is more than any other team. Originally, Budapest was supposed to host the final for the 2021–22 UEFA Europa League, but plans changed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which caused delays and relocations.

Because they won the tournament, Sevilla automatically got a spot in the 2023–24 UEFA Champions League group stage. They also earned the right to play against the winners of the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League, Manchester City, in the 2023 UEFA Super Cup.

As the previous champions, Eintracht Frankfurt qualified for the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League, but they couldn't keep their title because they were eliminated in the knockout stage.

## When matches will take place

|Phase|Round|Draw date|First leg|Second leg|||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Qualifying|Third qualifying round|18 July 2022|4 August 2022|11 August 2022|||
|Play-offs|Play-off round|2 August 2022|18 August 2022|25 August 2022|||
|rowspan="6"|Group stage|Matchday 1|rowspan="6"|26 August 2022|colspan="2"|8 September 2022|
|Matchday 2|colspan="2"|15 September 2022|||||
|Matchday 3|colspan="2"|6 October 2022|||||
|Matchday 4|colspan="2"|13 October 2022|||||
|Matchday 5|colspan="2"|27 October 2022|||||
|Matchday 6|colspan="2"|3 November 2022|||||
|rowspan="5"|Knockout phase|Knockout round play-offs|7 November 2022|16 February 2023|23 February 2023||
|Round of 16|24 February 2023|9 March 2023|16 March 2023||||
|Quarter-finals|rowspan="3"|17 March 2023|13 April 2023|20 April 2023|||
|Semi-finals|11 May 2023|18 May 2023|||||
|Final|colspan="2"|31 May 2023 at Puskás Aréna, Budapest|||||

## Statistics

Statistics exclude qualifying round and play-off round.

### Top goalscorers

|Rank|Player|Team|Goals|Minutes played|||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="2"|1|align="left"|Marcus Rashford|align="left"|Manchester United|rowspan="2"|6|560|
|align="left"|Victor Boniface|align="left"|Union Saint-Gilloise|777|||||
|rowspan="2"|3|align="left"|Santiago Giménez|align="left"|Feyenoord|rowspan="2"|5|432|
|align="left"|Paulo Dybala|align="left"|Roma|668|||||
|rowspan="6"|5|align="left"|Vitinha|align="left"|Braga|rowspan="6"|4|406|
|align="left"|Wissam Ben Yedder|align="left"|Monaco|528|||||
|align="left"|Ángel Di María|align="left"|Juventus|554|||||
|align="left"|Youssef En-Nesyri|align="left"|Sevilla|720|||||
|align="left"|Robin Knoche|align="left"|Union Berlin|892|||||
|align="left"|Lorenzo Pellegrini|align="left"|Roma|1167|||||

### Top assists

|Rank|Player|Team|Assists|Minutes played|||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|align="left"|Evander|align="left"|Midtjylland|5|514|||
|rowspan="5"|2|align="left"|Tasos Bakasetas|align="left"|Trabzonspor|rowspan="5"|4|463|
|align="left"|Loïc Lapoussin|align="left"|Union Saint-Gilloise|740|||||
|align="left"|Bruno Fernandes|align="left"|Manchester United|866|||||
|align="left"|Tammy Abraham|align="left"|Roma|868|||||
|align="left"|Lorenzo Pellegrini|align="left"|Roma|1167|||||
|rowspan="10"|7|align="left"|Diego Rossi|align="left"|Fenerbahçe|rowspan="10"|3|278|
|align="left"|Cody Gakpo|align="left"|PSV Eindhoven|370|||||
|align="left"|Oussama Idrissi|align="left"|Feyenoord|404|||||
|align="left"|Simon Adingra|align="left"|Union Saint-Gilloise|410|||||
|align="left"|Amine Gouiri|align="left"|Rennes|453|||||
|align="left"|Juan Miranda|align="left"|Real Betis|540|||||
|align="left"|Ludovic Blas|align="left"|Nantes|675|||||
|align="left"|Sebastian Szymański|align="left"|Feyenoord|680|||||
|align="left"|Jesús Navas|align="left"|Sevilla|690|||||
|align="left"|Teddy Teuma|align="left"|Union Saint-Gilloise|776|||||

### Team of the season

The UEFA technical study group selected the following players as the team of the tournament.
||Player|Team||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||align="left"|Yassine Bounou|align="left"|Sevilla||
|rowspan="4"||align="left"|Marcos Acuña|align="left"|Sevilla|
|align="left"|Chris Smalling|align="left"|Roma|||
|align="left"|Jonathan Tah|align="left"|Bayer Leverkusen|||
|align="left"|Jesús Navas|align="left"|Sevilla|||
|rowspan="3"||align="left"|Lorenzo Pellegrini|align="left"|Roma|
|align="left"|Nemanja Matić|align="left"|Roma|||
|align="left"|Ivan Rakitić|align="left"|Sevilla|||
|rowspan="3"||align="left"|Marcus Rashford|align="left"|Manchester United|
|align="left"|Victor Boniface|align="left"|Union Saint-Gilloise|||
|align="left"|Paulo Dybala|align="left"|Roma|||

### Player of the Season

- Jesús Navas ( Sevilla)

### Young Player of the Season

- Florian Wirtz ( Bayer Leverkusen)

## Infobox (international football competition)

- **tourney name**: UEFA Europa League
- **year**: 2022–23
- **image**: Puskás Aréna 05.jpg
- **image size**: 275
- **caption**: The Puskás Aréna in Budapest hosted the final
- **dates**: _Qualifying:_
4–25 August 2022
_Competition proper:_
8 September 2022 – 31 May 2023
- **num teams**: _Competition proper:_ 32_+8_
_Total:_ 21_+36_
- **associations**: 33
- **champion other**: Sevilla FC, Sevilla
- **count**: 7
- **second other**: A.S. Roma, Roma
- **matches**: 141
- **goals**: 381
- **top scorer**:

6 goals each
- **player**: Jesús Navas (Sevilla)
- **prevseason**: 2021–22 UEFA Europa League, 2021–22
- **nextseason**: 2023–24 UEFA Europa League, 2023–24