2023–24 UEFA Europa League

2023–24 UEFA Europa League
	275px The Aviva Stadium in Dublin will host the final
Tournament details
Dates	Qualifying:; 8–31 August 2023; Competition proper:; 21 September 2023 – 22 May 2024
Teams	Competition proper: 32+8; Total: 21+36 (from 32 associations)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	96
Goals scored	293 (3.05 per match)
Attendance	2,490,178 (25,939 per match)
Top scorer(s)	João Pedro (Brighton & Hove Albion); 6 goals
	← 2022–23 2024–25 → All statistics correct as of 14 December 2023.

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 in 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 can be transferred from the Champions League group stage to the UEFA Europa League under the Swiss format, and this edition's winners onwards will no longer be able to defend the title.^[2]

Sevilla were the defending champions, but they cannot defend their title after being eliminated from European competition in the group stage of the 2023–24 UEFA Champions League.

Association team allocation

A total of 57 teams from 34 of the 55 UEFA member associations are participating in the 2023–24 UEFA Europa League. Among them, 15 associations had teams directly qualifying for the Europa League, while for the other 40 associations that did not have any teams directly qualifying, 19 of them have teams playing after being transferred from the Champions League (the only member association which could not have a participant was Liechtenstein, which did not organise a domestic league, and could only enter their cup winner into the Europa Conference League given their association ranking). The association ranking based on the UEFA country coefficients was used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:^[3]

The title holders of the UEFA Europa Conference League were given an entry in the Europa League (if they did not qualify for the Champions League through league performance).
Associations 1–5 each had two teams qualify.
Associations 6–16 (except Russia)^{Note RUS[›]} each had one team qualify.
36 teams eliminated from the 2023–24 UEFA Champions League were transferred to the Europa League.

Association ranking

For the 2023–24 UEFA Europa League, the associations were allocated places according to their 2022 UEFA country coefficients, which took into account their performance in European competitions from 2017–18 to 2021–22.^[4]

Apart from the allocation based on the country coefficients, associations could 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

Association ranking for 2023–24 UEFA Europa League

Rank	Association	Coeff.	Teams	Notes
1	England	106.641	2	+1 (UECL)
2	Spain	96.141
3	Italy	76.902		+1 (UCL)
4	Germany	75.213
5	France	60.081		+2 (UCL)
6	Portugal	53.382	1	+2 (UCL)
7	Netherlands	49.300		+1 (UCL)
8	Austria	38.850		+1 (UCL)
9	Scotland	36.900		+1 (UCL)
10	Russia	34.482	0	^{Note RUS[›]}
11	Serbia	33.375	1	+1 (UCL)
12	Ukraine	31.800		+2 (UCL)
13	Belgium	30.600		+1 (UCL)
14	Switzerland	29.675		+2 (UCL)
15	Greece	28.200		+2 (UCL)
16	Czech Republic	27.800		+1 (UCL)
17	Norway	27.250	0	+1 (UCL)
18	Denmark	27.175
19	Croatia	27.150		+1 (UCL)

Rank	Association	Coeff.	Teams	Notes
20	Turkey	27.100	0	+1 (UCL)
21	Cyprus	26.375		+1 (UCL)
22	Israel	24.375		+1 (UCL)
23	Sweden	22.875		+1 (UCL)
24	Bulgaria	19.500		+1 (UCL)
25	Romania	17.150
26	Azerbaijan	17.000		+1 (UCL)
27	Hungary	16.375
28	Poland	15.875		+1 (UCL)
29	Kazakhstan	15.750		+1 (UCL)
30	Slovakia	15.625		+1 (UCL)
31	Slovenia	15.000		+1 (UCL)
32	Belarus	12.500		+1 (UCL)
33	Moldova	11.250		+1 (UCL)
34	Lithuania	10.000		+1 (UCL)
35	Bosnia and Herzegovina	9.125		+1 (UCL)
36	Finland	8.875		+1 (UCL)
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		+1 (UCL)
45	Estonia	7.041
46	Malta	7.000
47	Georgia	7.000
48	[[\|Macedonia]]	7.000
49	Liechtenstein	6.500
50	Wales	5.500
51	Gibraltar	5.416
52	Iceland	5.375		+1 (UCL)
53	Montenegro	4.875
54	Andorra	4.665
55	San Marino	1.332

Distribution

The following is the access list for this season.^[5]

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 (14 teams)	Champions Path (10 teams)	N/A	N/A	10 teams eliminated from Champions League second qualifying round (Champions Path)
Third qualifying round (14 teams)	Main Path (4 teams)	2 domestic cup winners from associations 15–16	N/A	2 teams eliminated from Champions League second qualifying round (League Path)
Play-off round (20 teams)		7 domestic cup winners from associations 7–14 (except Russia)^{Note RUS[›]}	5 winners from the third qualifying round (Champions Path) 2 winners from the third qualifying round (Main Path)	6 teams eliminated from Champions League third qualifying round (Champions Path)
Group stage (32 teams)		Europa Conference League title holder 6 domestic cup winners from associations 1–6 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)		N/A	8 group runners-up from the group stage	8 group third-placed teams from Champions League group stage
Knockout phase (16 teams)		N/A	8 group winners from the group stage 8 winners from the preliminary knockout round

Due to the suspension of Russia for the 2023–24 European season, the following changes to the access list were made:

The cup winners of associations 13 (Belgium) and 14 (Switzerland) entered the play-off round instead of the third qualifying round.
The cup winners of association 16 (Czech Republic) entered 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 was divided into Champions Path (CH) and Main Path (MP).

Qualified teams for 2023–24 UEFA Europa League
Entry round		Teams
Knockout round play-offs		Galatasaray (UCL GS)	Lens (UCL GS)	Braga (UCL GS)	Benfica (UCL GS)
Knockout round play-offs		Feyenoord (UCL GS)	Milan (UCL GS)	Young Boys (UCL GS)	Shakhtar Donetsk (UCL GS)

Group stage		West Ham United (ECL)	Liverpool (5th)	Brighton & Hove Albion (6th)	Villarreal (5th)
		Real Betis (6th)	Atalanta (5th)	Roma (6th)	SC Freiburg (5th)
		Bayer Leverkusen (6th)	Toulouse (CW)	Rennes (4th)	Sporting CP (4th)
		Rangers (UCL LP PO)	AEK Athens (UCL CH PO)	Panathinaikos (UCL LP PO)	Molde (UCL CH PO)
		Maccabi Haifa (UCL CH PO)	Raków Częstochowa (UCL CH PO)	Marseille (UCL LP Q3)	Sturm Graz (UCL LP Q3)
		TSC (UCL LP Q3)	Servette (UCL LP Q3)

Play-off round		Ajax (3rd)	LASK (3rd)	Aberdeen (3rd)	Čukarički (3rd)
		Zorya Luhansk (3rd)^{[Note UKR]}	Union Saint-Gilloise (3rd)	Lugano (3rd)	Sparta Prague (UCL CH Q3)
		Dinamo Zagreb (UCL CH Q3)	Aris Limassol (UCL CH Q3)	Slovan Bratislava (UCL CH Q3)	Olimpija Ljubljana (UCL CH Q3)
		KÍ (UCL CH Q3)

Third qualifying round	CH	BK Häcken (UCL CH Q2)	Ludogorets Razgrad (UCL CH Q2)	Qarabağ (UCL CH Q2)	Astana (UCL CH Q2)
		BATE Borisov (UCL CH Q2)	Sheriff Tiraspol (UCL CH Q2)	Žalgiris (UCL CH Q2)	Zrinjski Mostar (UCL CH Q2)
		HJK (UCL CH Q2)	Breiðablik (UCL CH Q2)
	MP	Olympiacos (3rd)	Slavia Prague (CW)	Dnipro-1 (UCL LP Q2)	Genk (UCL LP Q2)

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 was transferred to the third-placed team in the league, Zorya Luhansk.

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.

Schedule for 2023–24 UEFA Europa League
Phase	Round	Draw date	First leg	Second leg
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

2023–24 UEFA Europa League qualifying phase and play-off round

Play-off round

2023–24 UEFA Europa League qualifying phase and play-off round

Group stage

Prague

Athens

Athens teams

AEK
Olympiacos
Panathinaikos

Prague teams
Slavia

Sparta

Location of teams of the 2023–24 UEFA Europa League group stage

Brown: Group A;

Red: Group B;

Orange: Group C;

Yellow: Group D;

Green: Group E;

Blue: Group F;

Purple: Group G;

Pink: Group H

The draw for the group stage was held on 1 September 2023, 13:00 CEST, in Monaco. 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 club coefficients. As the winners of the 2022–23 UEFA Europa Conference League, West Ham United entered Pot 1 regardless of their club coefficient (CC).^[11] Teams from the same association could not be drawn into the same group.

Aris Limassol, Brighton & Hove Albion, BK Häcken, Raków Częstochowa, Servette and TSC made their debut appearances in the group stage and their debut appearances in a UEFA competition group stage. Furthermore, Brighton & Hove Albion qualified for European football for the first time in their history.

A total of 21 national associations were represented in the group stage.

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.2023–24 UEFA Europa League knockout phase

Knockout round play-offs

2023–24 UEFA Europa League knockout phase

Round of 16

2023–24 UEFA Europa League knockout phase

Quarter-finals

2023–24 UEFA Europa League knockout phase

Semi-finals

2023–24 UEFA Europa League knockout phase

Final

2023–24 UEFA Europa League knockout phase

Statistics

Statistics exclude qualifying rounds and play-off round.

Tables updated as of 14 December 2023.

Top goalscorers

Rank^[12]	Player	Team	Goals	Minutes played
1	João Pedro	Brighton & Hove Albion	6	436
2	Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang	Marseille	5	336
	Fotis Ioannidis	Panathinaikos		435
	Romelu Lukaku	Roma		497
5	Luis Muriel	Atalanta	4	268
	Victor Boniface	Bayer Leverkusen		275
	Mojmír Chytil	Slavia Prague		278
	Kristian Eriksen	Molde		376
	Vincenzo Grifo	SC Freiburg		466
	Thijs Dallinga	Toulouse		492

Top assists

Rank^[13]	Player	Team	Assists	Minutes played
1	Kostas Fortounis	Olympiacos	5	493
2	Florian Wirtz	Bayer Leverkusen	4	237
	Amine Harit	Marseille		497
	James Ward-Prowse	West Ham United		521
	Jonathan Clauss	Marseille		537
6	Trent Alexander-Arnold	Liverpool	3	208
	Enzo Le Fée	Rennes		321
	Leo Bengtsson	Aris Limassol		461
	Kristoffer Haugen	Molde		465
	Maximilian Eggestein	SC Freiburg		482
	Martin Ellingsen	Molde		519

References

↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

External links

Official website

Template:2023–24 European club competitions

[cnote_Note_RUS] 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]

[cnote_Note_UKR] 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 was transferred to the third-placed team in the league, Zorya Luhansk.

[1] Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

[2] Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

[regulations-3] Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

[country_coefficients-4] Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

[5] Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

[6] Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

[rus-susp-22.2F23-7] Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

[schedule-8] Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

[9] Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

[10] Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

[11] Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

[12] Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

[13] Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

[1]

[2]

[3]

Note RUS[›]

[4]

[5]

[Note UKR]

[6]

[7]

[8]

[9]

[10]

[11]

[12]

[13]

v t e 2023–24 in European men's football (UEFA)
Domestic leagues	Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus '23 '24 Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia '23 '24 Faroe Islands '23 '24 Finland '23 '24 France Georgia '23 '24 Germany Gibraltar Greece Hungary Iceland '23 '24 Israel Italy Kazakhstan '23 '24 Kosovo Latvia '23 '24 Lithuania '23 '24 Luxembourg Malta Moldova Montenegro Netherlands North Macedonia Northern Ireland Norway '23 '24 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland '23 '24 Romania Russia San Marino Scotland Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden '23 '24 Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales
Domestic cups	Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia Faroe Islands '23 '24 Finland '23 '24 France Georgia '23 '24 Germany Gibraltar Greece Hungary Iceland '23 '24 Israel Italy Kazakhstan '23 '24 Kosovo Latvia '23 '24 Liechtenstein Lithuania '23 '24 Luxembourg Malta Moldova Montenegro Netherlands North Macedonia Northern Ireland Norway '23 '24 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland '23 '24 Romania Russia San Marino Scotland Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales
League cups	England Finland Iceland Israel Kazakhstan '24 Northern Ireland Portugal Scotland Wales
Supercups	Albania Andorra Armenia Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus England Estonia '23 '24 Faroe Islands France Georgia Germany Iceland Israel Italy Kazakhstan '23 '24 Kosovo Latvia '24 Lithuania '23 '24 Malta Moldova Netherlands Northern Ireland Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland '23 '24 Romania Russia San Marino Spain Turkey ~~Ukraine~~
UEFA competitions	Champions League qualifying phase and play-off round group stage knockout phase Final Europa League qualifying phase and play-off round group stage knockout phase Final Europa Conference League qualifying phase and play-off round Champions Path Main Path group stage knockout phase Final Super Cup UEFA–CONMEBOL Club Challenge Youth League UEFA Champions League Path Domestic Champions Path knockout phase Under-20 Intercontinental Cup
International competitions	UEFA Euro 2024 qualification 2022–23 UEFA Nations League League C relegation play-outs 2023 FIFA U-20 World Cup 2023 FIFA U-17 World Cup 2025 Euro Under-21 qualification 2024 Euro Under-19 qualification 2024 Euro Under-17 qualification

2023–24 UEFA Europa League

Contents

Association team allocation

Association ranking

Distribution

Teams

Schedule

Third qualifying round

Play-off round

Group stage

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Group E

Group F

Group G

Group H

Knockout phase

Knockout round play-offs

Round of 16

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

Statistics

Top goalscorers

Top assists

See also

References

External links

Navigation menu

Personal tools

Namespaces

Variants

Views

More

Search

Navigation

Tools

Tournament details
275px The Aviva Stadium in Dublin will host the final
Dates	Qualifying: 8–31 August 2023 Competition proper: 21 September 2023 – 22 May 2024
Teams	Competition proper: 32+8 Total: 21+36 (from 32 associations)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	96
Goals scored	293 (3.05 per match)
Attendance	2,490,178 (25,939 per match)
Top scorer(s)	João Pedro (Brighton & Hove Albion) 6 goals
← 2022–23 2024–25 → All statistics correct as of 14 December 2023.