2023-24 UEFA Europa League Season (Copy1234 Football)

The 2023-24 UEFA Europa League was 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 was played at the Kazan Arena in Kazan, Russia, between Portuguese & German side Sporting CP and RB Leipzig — Sporting CP defeated RB Leipzig 2-0 and have earned the right to play against FC Barcelona, the winners of the 2023–24 UEFA Champions League, in the 2024 UEFA Super Cup. As winners, Sporting CP would also have been qualified for the 2024–25 UEFA Champions League group stage.
==Host Selection==
For the first time ever, an open bidding process was launched on 10 December 2021 by UEFA to select the venues of the club competition finals (UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, UEFA Women's Champions League and UEFA Super Cup). Associations had until 28 January 2022 to express interest, and bid dossiers must be submitted by 31 May 2022.
UEFA announced on 4 February 2022 that six associations expressed interest in hosting, and confirmed on 1 June 2022 that three associations submitted bids for the 2024 UEFA Europa League Final:
Bidding associations for 2024 UEFA Europa League Final
Country	Stadium 	City 	Capacity
Russia 	Kazan Arena 	Kazan 	54,750
France 	Stade Auguste-Delaune	Reims 	40,742
Austria	Ernst-Happel-Stadion 	Vienna	55,145
The bid evaluation report was published by UEFA on 22 September 2022. The Kazan Arena was selected as the venue by the UEFA Executive Committee on 29 September 2022.
==Group Stage==
The draw for the group stage was held on 31 August 2023 at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco. The 48 teams were drawn into twelve groups of four, with the restriction that teams from the same association cannot be drawn against each other. For the draw, the teams are seeded into four pots based on their 2023 UEFA club coefficients.
In each group, teams played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The group winners and runners-up advance to the round of 32 where they are joined by the eight third-placed teams of the 2023–24 UEFA Champions League group stage. The matchdays are 21 September, 5 October, 26 October, 9 November, 30 November, and 7 December 2023.
===Group A===
# RB Leipzig (title holder): 15pts
# Stade de Reims: 10pts
# Legia Warsaw: 10pts
# FK Žalgiris: 0pts
===Group B===
# FC Porto: 12pts
# Rubin Kazan: 10pts
# SK Brann: 8pts
# AIK: 4pts
===Group C===
# AC Milan: 15pts
# Bayer Leverkusen: 12pts
# Feyenoord: 9pts
# AEK Larnaca: 0pts
===Group D===
# Tottenham Hotspur: 14pts
# Grasshopper Club Zürich: 13pts
# ŠK Slovan Bratislava: 7pts
# FK BATE Borisov: 0pts
===Group E===
# PEC Zwolle: 16pts
# Manchester United: 13pts
# MOL Vidi: 3pts
# Rapid Wien: 3pts
===Group F===
# Sporting CP: 13pts
# Atalanta B.C.: 12pts
# FC Astana: 7pts
# Besiktas: 2pts
===Group G===
# Sevilla: 16pts
# Stade Rennais: 12pts
# VFL Wolfsburg: 7pts
# FC Copenhagen: 0pts
===Group H===
# Southampton: 18pts
# Ludogorets Razgrad: 8pts
# CSKA Moscow: 5pts
# FCSB: 2pts
===Group I===
# Vitória de Guimarães: 15pts
# PSV: 12pts
# KAA Gent: 9pts
# Rangers: 0pts
===Group J===
# Everton: 16pts
# Athletic Club Bilbao: 10pts
# Zorya Luhansk: 9pts
# Qarabag Agdam: 0pts
===Group K===
# AS Monaco: 13pts
# FC Sion: 13pts
# 1899 Hoffenheim: 9pts
# AEK Athens: 0pts
===Group L===
# Juventus: 15pts
# Malmö FF: 15pts
# PAOK: 3pts
# Standard Liège: 3pts
==Knockout Phase==
In the knockout phase, teams play against each other over two legs on a home-and-away basis, except for the one-match final.
The mechanism of the draws for each round is as follows:
*In the draw for the round of 32, the twelve group winners and the four third-placed teams from the Champions League group stage with the better group records are seeded, and the twelve group runners-up and the other four third-placed teams from the Champions League group stage are unseeded. The seeded teams are drawn against the unseeded teams, with the seeded teams hosting the second leg. Teams from the same group or the same association cannot be drawn against each other.
*In the draws for the round of 16, quarter-finals and semi-finals, there are no seedings, and teams from the same group or the same association can be drawn against each other. As the draws for the quarter-finals and semi-finals are held together before the quarter-finals are played, the identity of the quarter-final winners is not known at the time of the semi-final draw. A draw is also held to determine which semi-final winner is designated as the "home" team for the final (for administrative purposes as it is played at a neutral venue).
===Round of 32===
Team 1	AGG. 	Team 2 	1st leg	2nd leg
Rubin Kazan	1-4 	AC Milan 	0-2 	1-2
Atalanta B.C.	5-4 	Sevilla 	1-2 	4-2
Grasshopper Club Zurich	3-3 (a)	Juventus 	0-1 	3-2
Athletic Club Bilbao	1-2 	S.S. Lazio 	1-0 	0-2
FC Sion	1-2 	AS Roma 	0-2 	1-0
Manchester United	1-3 	Napoli 	1-2 	0-1
Stade de Reims	0-3 	Valencia CF 	0-1 	0-2
Stade Rennais	3-1 	FC Porto 	1-0 	2-1
PSV 	2-3 	Sporting CP 	2-0 	0-3
Malmö FF	2-3 	Vitória de Guimarães	1-0 	1-3
Bayer Leverkusen	1-3 	Tottenham Hotspur 	0-2 	1-1
FC Dynamo Kyiv	3-5 	Southampton 	2-3 	1-2
Shakhtar Donetsk	3-5 	Everton 	2-3 	1-2
Zenit St.Petersburg	1-4 	AS Monaco 	0-2 	1-2
Ludogorets Razgrad	1-4 	PEC Zwolle 	0-2 	1-2
Dinamo Zagreb	2-5 	RB Leipzig 	1-3 	1-2
===Round of 16===
Team 1	AGG. 	Team 2 	1st leg	2nd leg
AC Milan	2-3 	Atalanta B.C. 	2-2 	0-1
Grasshopper Club Zurich	0-3 	Lazio 	0-0 	0-3
AS Roma	4-3 	Napoli 	3-2 	1-1
Valencia CF	1-3 	Stade Rennais 	1-2 	0-1
Sporting CP	2-0 	Vitória de Guimarães	0-0 	2-0
Tottenham Hotspur	3-1 	Southampton 	0-1 	3-0
Everton	2-2 (a)	AS Monaco 	0-0 	2-2
PEC Zwolle	0-2 	RB Leipzig 	0-1 	0-1
===Quarter Final===
Team 1	AGG.	Team 2 	1st leg	2nd leg
AS Roma	0-2 	Tottenham Hotspur	0-1 	0-1
Sporting CP	7-1 	Everton 	1-1 	6-0
RB Leipzig	3-2 	Lazio 	1-2 	2-0
Stade Rennais	1-3 	Atalanta B.C. 	1-2 	0-1
===Semi Final===
Team 1	AGG.	Team 2 	1st leg	2nd leg
Tottenham Hotspur	1-2 	Sporting CP 	1-1 	0-1
RB Leipzig	2-1 	Atalanta B.C.	1-0 	1-1
===Final===
====Teams====
In the following table, finals until 2009 were in the UEFA Cup era, since 2010 were in the UEFA Europa League era.
Team	Previous final appearances (bold indicates winners)
 	1 ()
 	1 (2023)
Team 1	Score	Team 2
Sporting CP	2-0 	RB Leipzig
==Final Ambassador==
The ambassador for the final is former Russian international Andrey Arshavin, who won the 2007–08 UEFA Cup with and finished as the Man of the Match.
==Final Opening Ceremony==
American band Evanescence performed at the opening ceremony preceding the final, playing a medley of their hits "Fallen", "The Open Door", "My Immortal" and "Bring Me To Life" while supported by a display of pyrotechnics and fireworks.
==Video==
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