2022–23 UEFA Europa League
The 2022–23 UEFA Europa League will be the 52nd season of Europe's secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 14th season since it was renamed from the UEFA Cup to the UEFA Europa League. The final will be played at the Puskás Aréna in Budapest, Hungary. The winners of the tournament will automatically qualify for the 2023–24 UEFA Champions League group stage, and also earn the right to play against the winners of the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League in the 2023 UEFA Super Cup. Association team allocation. A total of 58 teams from  between 31 and 36 of the 55 UEFA member associations are expected to participate in the 2022–23 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: Association ranking. For the 2022–23 UEFA Europa League, the associations are allocated places according to their 2021 UEFA country coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 2016–17 to 2020–21. Apart from the allocation based on the country coefficients, associations may have additional teams participating in the Europa League, as noted below: Distribution. The following is the access list for this season. Teams. The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its  starting round: The third qualifying round is divided into Champions Path (CH) and Main Path (MP). "Note: Teams in italics may still qualify for the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League through domestic performance." "CC: 2022 UEFA club coefficients." 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. Scheduled kick-off times starting from the group stage are 18:45 and 21:00 CEST/CET, though exceptionally can take place at 16:30 due to geographical  reasons. All draws are held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. Group stage. The draw for the group stage was held on 26 August 2022. 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 2022 UEFA club coefficients. Teams from the same association could not be drawn into the same group.