2023–24 UEFA Europa League

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2023–24 UEFA Europa League
Aviva Stadium(Dublin Arena).JPG
The Aviva Stadium in Dublin will host the final
Tournament details
DatesQualifying:
10–31 August 2023
Competition proper:
21 September 2023 – 22 May 2024
TeamsCompetition proper: 32+8
Total: 21+37 (from 31–36 associations)

The 2023–24 UEFA Europa League will be 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]

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 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:[2]

  • The title holders of the UEFA Europa Conference League will be given an entry in the Europa League (if they do not qualify to the Champions League through league performance).
  • Associations 1–5 each have two teams qualify.
  • Associations 6–15 each have one team qualify.
  • 37 teams eliminated from the 2022–23 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.[3]

Association ranking for 2023–24 UEFA Europa League
Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes
1  England 106.641 2
2  Spain 96.141
3  Italy 76.902
4  Germany 75.213
5  France 60.081
6  Portugal 53.382 1
7  Netherlands 49.300
8  Austria 38.850
9  Scotland 36.900
10  Russia 34.482 0 [Note RUS]
11  Serbia 33.375 1
12  Ukraine 31.800
13  Belgium 30.600
14  Switzerland 29.675
15  Greece 28.200
16  Czech Republic 27.800
17  Norway 27.250 0
18  Denmark 27.175
19  Croatia 27.150
Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes
20  Turkey 27.100 0
21  Cyprus 26.375
22  Israel 24.375
23  Sweden 22.875
24  Bulgaria 19.500
25  Romania 17.150
26  Azerbaijan 17.000
27  Hungary 16.375
28  Poland 15.875
29  Kazakhstan 15.750
30  Slovakia 15.625
31  Slovenia 15.000
32  Belarus 12.500
33  Moldova 11.250
34  Lithuania 10.000
35  Bosnia and Herzegovina 9.125
36  Finland 8.875
37  Luxembourg 8.750
38  Latvia 8.625
Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes
39  Kosovo 8.166 0
40  Republic of Ireland 8.125
41  Armenia 8.125
42  Northern Ireland 8.083
43  Albania 8.000
44  Faroe Islands 7.250
45  Estonia 7.041
46  Malta 7.000
47  Georgia 7.000
48  North Macedonia 7.000
49  Liechtenstein 6.500
50  Wales 5.500
51  Gibraltar 5.416
52  Iceland 5.375
53  Montenegro 4.875
54  Andorra 4.665
55  San Marino 1.332

Distribution

The following is the access list for this season.[4]

Access list for 2023–24 UEFA Europa League
Teams entering in this round Teams advancing from previous round Teams transferred from Champions League
Third qualifying round
(16 teams) 		Champions Path
(10 teams)
  • 10 teams eliminated from Champions League second qualifying round (Champions Path)
Main Path
(6 teams)
  • 2 domestic cup winners from associations 16–17
  • 2 teams eliminated from Champions League second qualifying round (League Path)
Play-off round
(20 teams)
  • 7 domestic cup winners from associations 8–15 (except Russia)
  • 5 winners from the third qualifying round (Champions Path)
  • 3 winners from the third qualifying round (Main Path)
  • 6 teams eliminated from Champions League third qualifying round (Champions Path)
Group stage
(32 teams)
  • 1 Europa Conference League title holder
  • 7 domestic cup winners from associations 1–7
  • 1 domestic league fourth-placed team from association 5
  • 4 domestic league fifth-placed teams from associations 1–4
  • 10 winners from the play-off round
  • 4 teams eliminated from Champions League play-off round (Champions Path)
  • 2 teams eliminated from Champions League play-off round (League Path)
  • 4 teams eliminated from Champions League third qualifying round (League Path)
Preliminary knockout round
(16 teams)
  • 8 group runners-up from the group stage
  • 8 group third-placed teams from Champions League group stage
Knockout phase
(16 teams)
  • 8 group winners from the group stage
  • 8 winners from the preliminary knockout round

If the suspension of Russian clubs from European competitions is upheld for the 2023–24 European season, and if the Europa Conference League title holders already qualify for the Europa League, or the Champions League through their league position, the following changes to the access list will be made:

  • The cup winners of association 7 (Netherlands) enter the group stage instead of the play-off round
  • The cup winners of associations 13 (Belgium), 14 (Switzerland) and 15 (Greece) enter the play-off round instead of the third qualifying round.
  • The cup winners of associations 16 (Czech Republic) and 17 (Norway) enter the third qualifying round instead of the Europa Conference League.

Teams

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:

  • CW: Cup winners
  • 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).

Qualified teams for 2023–24 UEFA Europa League
Entry round Teams
Knockout round play-offs (UCL GS) (UCL GS) (UCL GS) (UCL GS)
(UCL GS) (UCL GS) (UCL GS) (UCL GS)
Group stage (ECL TH) England (CW) England (5th) Spain (CW)
Spain (5th) Italy (CW) Italy (5th) Germany (CW)
Germany (5th) France (CW) France (4th) Portugal (CW)
(UCL CH PO) (UCL CH PO) (UCL CH PO) (UCL CH PO)
(UCL LP PO) (UCL LP PO) (UCL LP Q3) (UCL LP Q3)
(UCL LP Q3) (UCL LP Q3)
Play-off round Netherlands (CW) Austria (CW) Scotland (CW) Serbia (CW)
Ukraine (3rd)[Note UKR] Belgium (CW) (UCL CH Q3) (UCL CH Q3)
(UCL CH Q3) (UCL CH Q3) (UCL CH Q3) (UCL CH Q3)
Third qualifying round CH (UCL CH Q2) (UCL CH Q2) (UCL CH Q2) (UCL CH Q2)
(UCL CH Q2) (UCL CH Q2) (UCL CH Q2) (UCL CH Q2)
(UCL CH Q2) (UCL CH Q2)
MP Switzerland (CW) Greece (CW) Czech Republic (CW) (UCL LP Q2)
(UCL LP Q2) (UCL LP Q2)

Notes

  1. ^
    Russia (RUS): On 28 February 2022, Russian football clubs and national teams were suspended from FIFA and UEFA competitions due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[5] The tables reflect Russia's ongoing suspension from UEFA competitions.[6]
  2. ^
    Ukraine (UKR): The 2022–23 Ukrainian Cup was abandoned due to the ongoing 2022 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.[7] 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.

Schedule for 2023–24 UEFA Europa League
Phase Round Draw date First leg Second leg
Qualifying Third qualifying round TBA 10 August 2023 17 August 2023
Play-offs Play-off round TBA 24 August 2023 31 August 2023
Group stage Matchday 1 TBA 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 TBA 15 February 2024 22 February 2024
Round of 16 TBA 7 March 2024 14 March 2024
Quarter-finals TBA 11 April 2024 18 April 2024
Semi-finals 2 May 2024 9 May 2024
Final 22 May 2024 at Aviva Stadium, Dublin

See also

References

  1. ^ "New format for Champions League post-2024: everything you need to know". Nyon: UEFA. 25 May 2021. Retrieved 27 July 2022.
  2. ^ "Regulations of the UEFA Europa League, 2021/22 Season". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 2021. Retrieved 30 April 2021.
  3. ^ "Country coefficients 2021/22". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 2022. Retrieved 4 August 2022.
  4. ^ "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.
  5. ^ "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.
  6. ^ "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.
  7. ^ "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.

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