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2023–24 UEFA Europa Conference League

The 2023–24 UEFA Europa Conference League is the third season of the UEFA Europa Conference League, Europe's tertiary club football tournament organised by UEFA.

The final will be played at the Agia Sophia Stadium in Athens, Greece. The winners of the tournament will automatically qualify for the 2024–25 UEFA Europa League league stage, unless they qualify for the 2024–25 UEFA Champions League through their league performance.

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. Due to the change to a Swiss format, no clubs can be transferred from the Europa League group stage to the UEFA Europa Conference League, and this edition's winners onwards will no longer be able to defend their title.

As the title holders, West Ham United have qualified for the 2023–24 UEFA Europa League.

Association team allocation

A total of 178 teams from 54 of the 55 UEFA member associations (excluding Russia) will participate in the 2023–24 UEFA Europa Conference League. The association ranking based on the UEFA country coefficients is used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:

Associations 1–5 each have one team qualify.
Associations 6–16 (except Russia) and 51–55 each have two teams qualify.
Associations 17–50 (except Liechtenstein) each have three teams qualify.
Liechtenstein has only one team that qualifies as they organize only a domestic cup and no domestic league.
Moreover, 18 teams eliminated from the 2023–24 UEFA Champions League and 25 teams eliminated from the 2023–24 UEFA Europa League are transferred to the Europa Conference League.

Association ranking

For the 2023–24 UEFA Europa Conference 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.

Apart from the allocation based on the country coefficients, associations may have additional teams participating in the Europa Conference League, as noted below:

(UCL) – Additional teams transferred from the UEFA Champions League
(UEL) – Additional teams transferred from the UEFA Europa League

Distribution

The following is the access list for this season.

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 association 16 (Czech Republic) enter the Europa League third qualifying round instead of the second qualifying round.
The cup winners of associations 17 to 19 (Norway, Denmark and Croatia) enter the third qualifying round instead of the second qualifying round.
The cup winners of associations 30 to 39 (Slovakia, Slovenia, Belarus, Moldova, Lithuania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Finland, Luxembourg, Latvia and Kosovo) enter the second qualifying round instead of the first qualifying round.

Combining with the Champions League title holder (Manchester City) qualifying for the Champions League group stage via their domestic league, the following changes to the access list have been made:

Two of the Champions League first qualifying round losers receive byes and enter the third qualifying round instead of the second qualifying round.

Teams

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

CW: Domestic cup winners
2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, etc.: League position of the previous season
LC: League cup winners
RW: Regular season winners
PW: End-of-season Europa Conference League play-offs winners
UCL: Transferred from the Champions League
- Q1: Losers from the first qualifying round
- PR: Losers from the preliminary round (F: final; SF: semi-finals)
UEL: Transferred from the Europa League
- GS: Third-placed teams from the group stage
- PO: Losers from the play-off round
- CH/MP Q3: Losers from the third qualifying round (Champions/Main Path)

The second qualifying round, third qualifying round and play-off round are divided into Champions Path (CH) and Main Path (MP).

CC: 2023 UEFA club coefficients.

One team not playing in a national top division will take part in the competition: Vaduz (2nd tier).

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.

Qualifying rounds

First qualifying round

The draw for the first qualifying round was made on 20 June 2023. The first legs were played on 12 and 13 July, and the second legs were played on 18 and 20 July 2023.

The winners of the ties advanced to the Main Path second qualifying round. The losers were eliminated from European competitions for the season.

Second qualifying round

The draw for the second qualifying round was made on 21 June 2023. The first legs were played on 25, 26 and 27 July, and the second legs were played on 1, 2 and 3 August 2023.

The winners of the ties will advance to the third qualifying round of their respective path. The losers will be eliminated from European competitions for the season.

Notes

Third qualifying round

The draw for the third qualifying round was held on 24 July 2023. The first legs were played on 9 and 10 August, and the second legs were played on 16 and 17 August 2023.

The winners of the ties will advance to the play-off round of their respective path. The losers will be eliminated from European competitions for the season.

Play-off round

The draw for the play-off round was held on 7 August 2023. The first legs were played on 23 and 24 August, and the second legs were played on 31 August 2023.

The winners of the ties will advance to the group stage. The losers will be eliminated from European competitions for the season.

In this season VAR will be used from this stage.

Group stage

The draw for the group stage was held on 1 September 2023, 14:30 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 (CC). Teams from the same association could not be drawn into the same group.

All teams besides AZ, Ballkani, Bodø/Glimt, Fiorentina, Gent, HJK, Maccabi Tel Aviv, PAOK, Slovan Bratislava and Zorya Luhansk made their debut appearances in the group stage. Breiðablik, Čukarički, KÍ, Olimpija Ljubljana and Zrinjski Mostar all made their debut appearances in a UEFA competition group stage. Breiðablik, KÍ and Zrinjski Mostar were the first teams from Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Bosnia and Herzegovina, respectively, to play in a UEFA competition group stage. Breiðablik also became the first ever team to qualify for the group stages of a UEFA club competition after starting in a preliminary round.

A total of 28 national associations were represented in the group stage.

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Group E

Group F

Group G

Group H

Final

Statistics

Statistics exclude qualifying rounds and play-off round.

Tables updated as of 21 September 2023.

Top goalscorers

Top assists

References

External links

Official website

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