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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 |
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Champions | ![]() |
Runner-up | ![]() |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 141 |
Goals scored | 439 (3.11 per match) |
Attendance | 4,370,262 (30,995 per match) |
Top scorer(s) | Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Marseille) 10 goals |
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The 2023–24 UEFA Europa League was 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 was played at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin, Republic of Ireland, with Italian side Atalanta defeating German side Bayer Leverkusen 3–0 to win their first European title. As winners of the tournament, Atalanta automatically qualified for the 2024–25 UEFA Champions League group stage, and also earned the right to play against the winners of the 2023–24 UEFA Champions League in the 2024 UEFA Super Cup, as well as the winners of the 2023 Copa Sudamericana in the 2024 UEFA–CONMEBOL Club Challenge.
This edition was 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 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 no longer be able to defend the title.
Sevilla were the defending champions, but could not defend their title after being eliminated 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 were participating 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, 19 of them had 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 was used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:
- The title holders of the UEFA Europa Conference League were given an entry in the Europa League (if they did not qualify to the Champions League through league performance).
- Associations 1–5 each had two teams qualify.
- Associations 6–15 (except Russia) each had one team qualify.
- 36 teams eliminated from the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League are transferred to the Europa League.
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
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.
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Distribution[]
The following is the access list for this season.
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Third qualifying round (16 teams) |
Champions Path (10 teams) |
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Main Path (6 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 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[]
NOTE: The following list of qualified teams is provisional, subject to final confirmation by UEFA in June 2022, 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
- 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
Schedule[]
The schedule of the competition is as follows. Matches are scheduled for Thursdays apart from the final, which took place on a Wednesday, though exceptionally could 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 |
Qualifying rounds[]
Third qualifying round[]
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 ![]() |
1–8 | ![]() |
1–3 | 0–5 |
Qarabağ ![]() |
4–2 | ![]() |
2–1 | 2–1 |
Zrinjski Mostar ![]() |
6–3 | ![]() |
6–2 | 0–1 |
Sheriff Tiraspol ![]() |
7–3 | 5–1 | 2–2 | |
Astana ![]() |
3–6 | ![]() |
2–1 | 1–5 |
Team #1 | Agg. | Team #2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Olympiacos ![]() |
2–1 | ![]() |
1–0 | 1–1 |
Slavia Prague ![]() |
4–1 | ![]() |
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 ![]() |
3–2 | ![]() |
2–0 | 1–2 |
Olympiacos ![]() |
6–1 | ![]() |
3–1 | 3–0 |
Union Saint-Gilloise ![]() |
3–0 | ![]() |
2–0 | 1–0 |
Ludogorets Razgrad ![]() |
2–4 | ![]() |
1–4 | 1–0 |
BK Häcken ![]() |
5–3 | ![]() |
2–2 | 3–1 |
LASK ![]() |
3–2 | ![]() |
2–1 | 1–1 |
KÍ ![]() |
2–3 | ![]() |
1–1 | 1–2 |
Olimpija Ljubljana ![]() |
1–3 | ![]() |
0–2 | 1–1 |
Slovan Bratislava ![]() |
4–7 | ![]() |
2–1 | 2–6 |
Dinamo Zagreb ![]() |
4–5 | ![]() |
3–1 | 1–4 |
Group stage[]
- Main article:2023–24 UEFA Europa League group stage
The draw for the group stage was held on 1 September 2023. 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).
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 will make their debut appearances in the group stage. All six 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.
A total of 21 national associations were represented in the group stage.
Group A[]
Team | Pld |
W |
D |
L |
GF |
GA |
GD |
Pts |
Notes |
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6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 4 | +6 | 15 | Advance to round of 16 |
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6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 17 | 7 | +10 | 12 | Advance to knockout round play-offs |
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6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 14 | −3 | 7 | Transfer to Europa Conference League |
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6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 19 | −13 | 1 |
Group B[]
Team | Pld |
W |
D |
L |
GF |
GA |
GD |
Pts |
Notes |
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6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 5 | +5 | 13 | Advance to round of 16 |
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6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 10 | +4 | 11 | Advance to knockout round play-offs |
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6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 13 | −3 | 5 | Transfer to Europa Conference League |
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6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 12 | −6 | 4 |
Group C[]
Team | Pld |
W |
D |
L |
GF |
GA |
GD |
Pts |
Notes |
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6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 6 | +2 | 11 | Advance to round of 16 |
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6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 7 | +2 | 10 | Advance to knockout round play-offs |
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6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 7 | +2 | 9 | Transfer to Europa Conference League |
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6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 13 | −6 | 4 |
Group D[]
Team | Pld |
W |
D |
L |
GF |
GA |
GD |
Pts |
Notes |
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6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 4 | +8 | 14 | Advance to round of 16 |
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6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 6 | +4 | 11 | Advance to knockout round play-offs |
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6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 9 | −5 | 4 | Transfer to Europa Conference League |
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6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 10 | −7 | 4 |
Group E[]
Team | Pld |
W |
D |
L |
GF |
GA |
GD |
Pts |
Notes |
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6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 17 | 7 | +10 | 12 | Advance to round of 16 |
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6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 9 | −1 | 11 | Advance to knockout round play-offs |
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6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 8 | −3 | 8 | Transfer to Europa Conference League |
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6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 12 | −6 | 3 |
Group F[]
Team | Pld |
W |
D |
L |
GF |
GA |
GD |
Pts |
Notes |
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6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 7 | +2 | 13 | Advance to round of 16 |
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6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 6 | +7 | 12 | Advance to knockout round play-offs |
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6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 9 | −6 | 5 | Transfer to Europa Conference League |
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6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 10 | −3 | 4 |
Group G[]
Team | Pld |
W |
D |
L |
GF |
GA |
GD |
Pts |
Notes |
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6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 4 | +13 | 15 | Advance to round of 16 |
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6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 4 | +8 | 13 | Advance to knockout round play-offs |
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6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 13 | −9 | 5 | Transfer to Europa Conference League |
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6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 17 | −12 | 1 |
Group H[]
Team | Pld |
W |
D |
L |
GF |
GA |
GD |
Pts |
Notes |
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6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 3 | +16 | 18 | Advance to round of 16 |
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6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 9 | −2 | 10 | Advance to knockout round play-offs |
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6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 12 | 0 | 7 | Transfer to Europa Conference League |
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6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 17 | −14 | 0 |
Knockout phase[]
- Main article:2023–24 UEFA Europa League 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. The mechanism of the draws for each round was as follows:
- In the draw for the knockout round play-offs, the eight group runners-up were seeded, and the eight Champions League group third-placed teams were unseeded. The seeded teams were drawn against the unseeded teams, with the seeded teams hosting the second leg. Teams from the same association could not be drawn against each other.
- In the draw for the round of 16, the eight group winners were seeded, and the eight winners of the knockout round play-offs were unseeded. Again, the seeded teams were drawn against the unseeded teams, with the seeded teams hosting the second leg. Teams from the same association could not be drawn against each other.
- In the draws for the quarter-finals onwards, there were no seedings, and teams from the same association could be drawn against each other. As the draws for the quarter-finals and semi-finals were held together before the quarter-finals were played, the identity of the quarter-final winners was not known at the time of the semi-final draw. A draw was also held to determine which semi-final winner would be designated as the "home" team for the final (for administrative purposes as it is played at a neutral venue).
Bracket[]
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Knockout round play-offs[]
The first legs were played on 15 February, and the second legs were played on 22 February 2024.
Team #1 | Agg. | Team #2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Feyenoord ![]() |
2–2 (2–4 p) | ![]() |
1–1 | 1–1 (a.e.t.) |
Milan ![]() |
5–3 | ![]() |
3–0 | 2–3 |
Lens ![]() |
2–3 | ![]() |
0–0 | 2–3 (a.e.t.) |
Young Boys ![]() |
2–4 | ![]() |
1–3 | 1–1 |
Benfica ![]() |
2–1 | ![]() |
2–1 | 0–0 |
Braga ![]() |
5–6 | ![]() |
2–4 | 3–2 (a.e.t.) |
Galatasaray ![]() |
4–6 | ![]() |
3–2 | 1–4 |
Shakhtar Donetsk ![]() |
3–5 | ![]() |
2–2 | 1–3 |
Round of 16[]
The draw for the round of 16 was held on 23 February 2024, 12:00 CET. The first legs were played on 6 and 7 March, and the second legs were played on 14 March 2024.
Team #1 | Agg. | Team #2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Sparta Prague ![]() |
2–11 | ![]() |
1–5 | 1–6 |
Marseille ![]() |
5–3 | ![]() |
4–0 | 1–3 |
Roma ![]() |
4–1 | ![]() |
4–0 | 0–1 |
Benfica ![]() |
3–2 | ![]() |
2–2 | 1–0 |
SC Freiburg ![]() |
1–5 | ![]() |
1–0 | 0–5 |
Sporting CP ![]() |
2–3 | ![]() |
1–1 | 1–2 |
Milan ![]() |
7–3 | ![]() |
4–2 | 3–1 |
Qarabağ ![]() |
4–5 | ![]() |
2–2 | 2–3 |
Quarter-finals[]
The draw for the quarter-finals was held on 15 March 2024, 13:00 CET. The first legs were played on 11 April, and the second legs were played on 18 April 2024.
Team #1 | Agg. | Team #2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Milan ![]() |
1–3 | ![]() |
0–1 | 1–2 |
Liverpool ![]() |
1–3 | ![]() |
0–3 | 1–0 |
Bayer Leverkusen ![]() |
3–1 | ![]() |
2–0 | 1–1 |
Benfica ![]() |
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2–1 | 0–1 (a.e.t.) |
Semi-finals[]
The draw for the quarter-finals was held on 15 March 2024, 13:00 CET.
Summary[]
The first legs were played on 2 May, and the second legs were played on 9 May 2024.
Team #1 | Agg. | Team #2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Marseille ![]() |
1–4 | ![]() |
1–1 | 0–3 |
Roma ![]() |
2–4 | ![]() |
0–2 | 2–2 |
Final[]
- Main article:2024 UEFA Europa League Final
The final was played on 22 May 2024 at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin. A draw was held on 15 March 2024, after the quarter-final and semi-final draw, to determine the "home" team for administrative purposes.
22 May 2024 20:00 IST |
Atalanta ![]() |
3–0 | ![]() |
Aviva Stadium, Dublin Attendance: 47,135 Referee: István Kovács (Romania) |
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Lookman ![]() |
Report |
Statistics[]
Statistics exclude qualifying rounds and play-off round.
Top goalscorers[]
Rank | Player | Team | Goals | Minutes played |
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1 | ![]() |
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10 | 1030 |
2 | ![]() |
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7 | 1082 |
3 | ![]() |
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6 | 436 |
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5 | ![]() |
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5 | 301 |
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399 | ||
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435 | ||
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622 | ||
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720 | ||
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794 |
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
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