2023–24 UEFA Europa League
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| Dates | Qualifying: 8–31 August 2023 Competition proper: 21 September 2023 – 22 May 2024 |
| Teams | Competition proper: 32+8 Total: 21+36 (from 31–36 associations) |
← 2022–23 2024–25 → | |
The 2023–24 UEFA Europa League is 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 will be played at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin, Republic of Ireland. The winners of the tournament will automatically qualify for the 2024–25 UEFA Champions League group stage, and also earn the right to play against the winners of the 2023–24 UEFA Champions League in the 2024 UEFA Super Cup.
This edition will be the final season with the current format of 32 teams participating at the group stage, after UEFA announced that a brand new format would be introduced for the following edition.[1] Due to the format change, no clubs could be transferred from the Champions League group stage to the UEFA Europa League under the Swiss format, and this edition's winner onwards will not be able to defend the title.[2]
As the title holders, Sevilla have qualified for the 2023–24 UEFA Champions League.
Association team allocation
A total of 57 teams from between 31 and 36 of the 55 UEFA member associations are expected to participate in the 2023–24 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:[3]
- The title holders of the UEFA Europa Conference League will be given an entry in the Europa League (if they do not qualify for the Champions League through league performance).
- Associations 1–5 each have two teams qualify.
- Associations 6–16 (except Russia)[Note RUS] each have one team qualify.
- 36 teams eliminated from the 2023–24 UEFA Champions League are transferred to the Europa League.
Association ranking
For the 2023–24 UEFA Europa League, the associations are allocated places according to their 2022 UEFA country coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 2017–18 to 2021–22.[4]
Apart from the allocation based on the country coefficients, associations may have additional teams participating in the Europa League, as noted below:
- (UCL) – Additional teams transferred from the UEFA Champions League
- (UECL) – Additional berth for UEFA Europa Conference League title holders
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Distribution
The following is the access list for this season.[5]
| Teams entering in this round | Teams advancing from previous round | Teams transferred from Champions League | ||
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| Third qualifying round (14 teams) |
Champions Path (10 teams) |
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| Main Path (4 teams) |
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| Play-off round (20 teams) |
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| Group stage (32 teams) |
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| Preliminary knockout round (16 teams) |
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| Knockout phase (16 teams) |
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Due to the suspension of Russia for the 2023–24 European season, the following changes to the access list have been made:
- The cup winners of associations 13 (Belgium) and 14 (Switzerland) enter the play-off round instead of the third qualifying round.
- The cup winners of association 16 (Czech Republic) enter the third qualifying round instead of the Europa Conference League second qualifying round.
Teams
The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:
- ECL: Europa Conference League title holders
- CW: Cup winners
- 3rd, 4th, 5th, etc.: League position of the previous season
- UCL: Transferred from the Champions League
- GS: Third-placed teams from the group stage
- CH/LP PO: Losers from the play-off round (Champions/League Path)
- CH/LP Q3: Losers from the third qualifying round (Champions/League Path)
- CH/LP Q2: Losers from the second qualifying round (Champions/League Path)
The third qualifying round is divided into Champions Path (CH) and Main Path (MP).
Notes
- ^ Russia (RUS): On 28 February 2022, Russian football clubs and national teams were suspended from FIFA and UEFA competitions due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[6] The tables reflect Russia's ongoing suspension from UEFA competitions.[7]
- ^ Ukraine (UKR): Organization of the 2022–23 Ukrainian Cup was aborted and scratched due to the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. The berth reserved for the cup winners is transferred to the third-placed team in the league.
Schedule
The schedule of the competition is as follows.[8][9][10] 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.
| Phase | Round | Draw date | First leg | Second leg |
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| Qualifying | Third qualifying round | 24 July 2023 | 10 August 2023 | 17 August 2023 |
| Play-offs | Play-off round | 7 August 2023 | 24 August 2023 | 31 August 2023 |
| Group stage | Matchday 1 | 1 September 2023 | 21 September 2023 | |
| Matchday 2 | 5 October 2023 | |||
| Matchday 3 | 26 October 2023 | |||
| Matchday 4 | 9 November 2023 | |||
| Matchday 5 | 30 November 2023 | |||
| Matchday 6 | 14 December 2023 | |||
| Knockout phase | Knockout round play-offs | 18 December 2023 | 15 February 2024 | 22 February 2024 |
| Round of 16 | 23 February 2024 | 7 March 2024 | 14 March 2024 | |
| Quarter-finals | 15 March 2024 | 11 April 2024 | 18 April 2024 | |
| Semi-finals | 2 May 2024 | 9 May 2024 | ||
| Final | 22 May 2024 at Aviva Stadium, Dublin | |||
Third qualifying round
The draw for the third qualifying round was held on 24 July 2023. The first legs were played on 8 and 10 August, and the second legs were played on 17 August 2023.
The winners of the ties advanced to the play-off round. The losers were transferred to the Europa Conference League play-off round of their respective path.
| Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Žalgiris 
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1–8 |  BK Häcken
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1–3 | 0–5 |
Qarabağ 
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4–2 |  HJK
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2–1 | 2–1 |
Zrinjski Mostar 
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6–3 |  Breiðablik
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6–2 | 0–1 |
Sheriff Tiraspol 
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7–3 |  BATE Borisov
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5–1 | 2–2 |
Astana 
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3–6 |  Ludogorets Razgrad
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2–1 | 1–5 |
| Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Olympiacos 
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2–1 |  Genk
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1–0 | 1–1 |
Slavia Prague 
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4–1 |  Dnipro-1
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3–0 | 1–1 |
Play-off round
The draw for the play-off round was held on 7 August 2023. The first legs were played on 24 August and the second legs were played on 31 August 2023.
The winners of the ties advanced to the group stage. The losers were transferred to the Europa Conference League group stage.
| Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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| Slavia Prague
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3–2 | Zorya Luhansk
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2–0 | 1–2 |
| Olympiacos
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6–1 |  Čukarički
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3–1 | 3–0 |
| Union Saint-Gilloise
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3–0 |  Lugano
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2–0 | 1–0 |
| Ludogorets Razgrad
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2–4 |  Ajax
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1–4 | 1–0 |
| BK Häcken
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5–3 |  Aberdeen
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2–2 | 3–1 |
LASK 
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3–2 | Zrinjski Mostar
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2–1 | 1–1 |
KÍ 
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2–3 | Sheriff Tiraspol
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1–1 | 1–2 |
Olimpija Ljubljana 
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1–3 | Qarabağ
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0–2 | 1–1 |
Slovan Bratislava 
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4–7 |  Aris Limassol
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2–1 | 2–6 |
Dinamo Zagreb 
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4–5 | Sparta Prague
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3–1 | 1–4 |
Group stage
The draw for the group stage will be held on 1 September 2023. The 32 teams will be drawn into eight groups of four. For the draw, the teams will be seeded into four pots each of eight teams, based on their club coefficients. As the winners of the 2022–23 UEFA Europa Conference League, West Ham United will enter Pot 1 regardless of their club coefficient (CC).[11]
Teams from the same association cannot be drawn into the same group.
Aris Limassol, Brighton & Hove Albion, Raków Częstochowa, Servette and TSC will make their debut appearances in the group stage. All five clubs are also making their debut appearances in a UEFA competition group stage. Furthermore, Brighton qualified for European football for the first time in their history.
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Final
Atalanta  | 3–0 |  Bayer Leverkusen |
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See also
- 2023–24 UEFA Champions League
- 2023–24 UEFA Europa Conference League
- 2024 UEFA Super Cup
- 2023–24 UEFA Women's Champions League
- 2023–24 UEFA Youth League
References
- ^ "UEFA approves final format and access list for its club competitions as of the 2024/25 season". UEFA.com. 10 May 2022. Retrieved 8 March 2023.
- ^ Wilson, Jonathan (13 March 2021). "New-look Champions League is a pointless waste of time that will destroy the drama". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
- ^ "Regulations of the UEFA Europa League, 2023/24 Season". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 2023. Retrieved 4 March 2023.
- ^ "Association coefficients 2021/22". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 27 July 2022. Retrieved 27 July 2022.
- ^ "Access list 2021–24" (PDF). UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 December 2018. Retrieved 16 February 2020.
- ^ "Ukraine crisis: Fifa and Uefa suspend all Russian clubs and national teams". BBC.co.uk. British Broadcasting Corporation. 28 February 2022. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
- ^ "UEFA decisions for upcoming competitions relating to the ongoing suspension of Russian national teams and clubs" (Press release). Nyon: UEFA. 2 May 2022. Retrieved 2 May 2022.
- ^ "2023/24 UEFA Europa League: Matches, final, key dates". UEFA. 12 October 2022. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
- ^ "International match calendar and access list for the 2023/24 season". UEFA Circular Letter. No. 65/2022. Union of European Football Associations. 26 September 2022. Retrieved 27 September 2022.
- ^ "2023 European football calendar: Match and draw dates for all UEFA competitions". UEFA. 20 December 2022. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
- ^ "UEFA 5-year Club Ranking 2023". kassiesa.bet.
- ^ "Full Time Report Final – Atalanta v Bayer Leverkusen" (PDF). UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 22 May 2024. Retrieved 22 May 2024.