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| Dates | Qualifying: August 2023 Competition proper: September 2023 – May 2024 |
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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 Puskás Aréna in Budapest, Hungary. 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.
Association team allocation edit
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:[1]
- 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 group stage).
- 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 edit
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.[2]
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
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Distribution edit
The following is the access list for this season.[4]
| 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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Redistribution rules edit
A Europa League place is vacated when a team qualifies for both the Champions League and the Europa League, or qualifies for the Europa League by more than one method. When a place is vacated, it is redistributed within the national association by the following rules:
- When the domestic cup winners (considered as the "highest-placed" qualifier within the national association with the latest starting round) also qualify for the Champions League, their Europa League place is vacated. As a result, the highest-placed team in the league which have not yet qualified for European competitions qualify for the Europa League, with the Europa League qualifiers which finish above them in the league moved up one "place".
- When the domestic cup winners also qualify for the Europa League through league position, their place through the league position is vacated. As a result, the highest-placed team in the league which have not yet qualified for European competitions qualify for the Europa League, with the Europa League qualifiers which finish above them in the league moved up one "place" if possible.
- For associations where a Europa League place is reserved for either the League Cup or end-of-season European competition play-offs winners, they always qualify for the Europa League as the "lowest-placed" qualifier. If the League Cup winners have already qualified for European competitions through other methods, this reserved Europa League place is taken by the highest-placed team in the league which have not yet qualified for European competitions.
Teams edit
| NOTE: The following list of qualified teams is provisional, subject to final confirmation by UEFA in June 2023, as each participating team must obtain a UEFA club licence. All qualified teams are included in this list as long as they have not been banned by UEFA or have not failed their final appeal with their football association on obtaining a licence. |
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).
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| Knockout round play-offs |  (UCL GS)
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| Group stage |  Fiorentina West Ham U Basel AZ (ECL TH)
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Manchester C[Note ENG] Manchester Un (CW)
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 Real M[Note ESP] Osasuna (CW)
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Inter Milan or Fiorentina (CW)
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 Eintracht Fr Freiburg Leipzig Stuttgart (CW)
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 Toulouse (CW)
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 Braga Nacional (2) Famalicão (2) Porto (CW)
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| Play-off round | Ajax or PSV (CW)
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 Rapid W or Sturm Graz (CW)
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 KV Mechelen or Antwerp (CW)
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Young Boys or Lugano (CW)
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| Third qualifying round | CH | (UCL CH Q2)
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| MP |  (CW)
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Notes
- ^ 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]
- ^ 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.
- ^ England (ENG): If winner
Manchester C or Manchester Un (CW) and finish (1st/5th) ->(6th) , or if win New teams Sheffield Un (2) or Brighton & HA CC: ~21.285 - ^
- ^ "Regulations of the UEFA Europa League, 2021/22 Season". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 2021. Retrieved 30 April 2021.
- ^ "Country coefficients 2021/22". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 2021. Archived from the original on 4 December 2020. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
{{cite web}}:|archive-date=/|archive-url=timestamp mismatch; 4 December 2019 suggested (help) - ^ "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.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "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.