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

The 2023–24 UEFA Europa League qualifying phase and play-off round began on 8 August and ended on 31 August 2023.

A total of 27 teams competed in the qualifying system which included the qualifying phase and the play-off round. The 10 winners of the play-off round advanced to the group stage, to join the 12 teams that enter in the group stage, the six losers of the Champions League play-off round (four from Champions Path and two from League Path) and the four League Path losers of the Champions League third qualifying round.

Times are CEST (UTC+2), as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Teams[]

In the third qualifying round, the teams were divided into two paths:

Champions Path (10 teams): 10 teams which entered this round (10 losers of the Champions League Champions Path second qualifying round).
Main Path (4 teams): 4 teams which entered this round (including 2 losers of the Champions League League Path second qualifying round).

The winners of the third qualifying round were combined into a single path for the play-off round:

Play-off round (20 teams): 13 teams which entered this round (including 6 losers of the Champions League Champions Path third qualifying round) and 7 winners of the third qualifying round.

All teams eliminated from the qualifying phase and play-off round entered the Europa Conference League:

The 5 losers of the Champions Path third qualifying round entered the Champions Path play-off round.
The 2 losers of the Main Path third qualifying round entered the Main Path play-off round.
The 10 losers of the play-off round entered the group stage.

Below are the participating teams (with their 2023 UEFA club coefficients, not to be used as seeding for qualifying phase and play-off round, however), grouped by their starting rounds.

Key to colours
Winners of play-off round advance to group stage
Losers of play-off round enter Europa Conference League group stage
Losers of third qualifying round enter Europa Conference League play-off round

Play-off round
Team	Coeff.
Ajax	89.000
Dinamo Zagreb ^{[CH Q3]}	55.000
LASK	36.000
Slovan Bratislava ^{[CH Q3]}	24.500
Union Saint-Gilloise	19.000
Zorya Luhansk	16.000
Sparta Prague ^{[CH Q3]}	14.000
Olimpija Ljubljana ^{[CH Q3]}	9.000
KÍ ^{[CH Q3]}	8.000
Aberdeen	8.000
Čukarički	6.475
Lugano	6.335
Aris Limassol ^{[CH Q3]}	4.895

Third qualifying round (Champions Path)
Team	Coeff.
Qarabağ ^{[CH Q2]}	25.000
Ludogorets Razgrad ^{[CH Q2]}	21.000
Sheriff Tiraspol ^{[CH Q2]}	19.500
BATE Borisov ^{[CH Q2]}	15.000
Astana ^{[CH Q2]}	14.000
Žalgiris ^{[CH Q2]}	11.000
HJK ^{[CH Q2]}	11.000
Zrinjski Mostar ^{[CH Q2]}	8.500
Breiðablik ^{[CH Q2]}	6.000
BK Häcken ^{[CH Q2]}	4.750

Third qualifying round (Main Path)
Team	Coeff.
Slavia Prague	52.000
Olympiacos	39.000
Genk ^{[LP Q2]}	18.000
Dnipro-1 ^{[LP Q2]}	8.000

Notes

^{CH Q3} Losers of Champions League third qualifying round (Champions Path).
^{CH Q2} Losers of Champions League second qualifying round (Champions Path).
^{LP Q2} Losers of Champions League second qualifying round (League Path).

Format[]

Each tie was played over two legs, with each team playing one leg at home. The team that scored more goals on aggregate over the two legs advance to the next round. If the aggregate score was level at the end of normal time of the second leg, extra time was played, and if the same number of goals were scored by both teams during extra time, the tie was decided by a penalty shoot-out.

Schedule[]

The schedule of the competition is as follows. Matches are scheduled for Thursdays though exceptionally can take place on Tuesdays or Wednesdays due to scheduling conflicts.

Schedule for the qualifying phase of the 2023–24 UEFA Europa League
Round	Draw date	First leg	Second leg
Third qualifying round	24 July 2023	10 August 2023	17 August 2023
Play-off round	7 August 2023	24 August 2023	31 August 2023

Third qualifying round[]

The draw for the third qualifying round was held on 24 July 2023.

Seeding[]

A total of 14 teams played in the qualifying round. They were divided into two paths:

Champions Path (10 teams): 10 losers of the 2023–24 UEFA Champions League second qualifying round (Champions Path), whose identity was not known at the time of draw. There would be no seeding.
Main Path (4 teams): The teams was seeded as follows:
- Seeded: 2 teams which enter in this round.
- Unseeded: 2 losers of the 2023–24 UEFA Champions League second qualifying round (League Path), whose identity was not known at the time of draw.

Teams from the same association would not be drawn against each other. The first team drawn in each tie will be the home team of the first leg.

Since Olympiacos cannot be drawn against Panathinaikos, they were drawn against the loser of the match Servette/Genk, and Slavia Prague were drawn against the loser of the match Dnipro-1/Panathinaikos.

Champions Path
Group 1	Group 2
Žalgiris^[†] Qarabağ^[†] BK Häcken^[†] HJK^[†] Breiðablik^[†] Zrinjski Mostar^[†]	Ludogorets Razgrad^[†] BATE Borisov^[†] Sheriff Tiraspol^[†] Astana^[†]

Main Path
Seeded	Unseeded
Slavia Prague Olympiacos	Genk^[†] Dnipro-1^[†]

Notes

^† Losers of the UEFA Champions League second qualifying round, whose identity was not known at the time of draw.

Summary[]

The first legs were played on 8 and 10 August and the second legs were played on 17 August 2023.

The winners of the ties will advance to the play-off round. The losers will be transferred to the Europa Conference League play-off round of their respective path.

Champions Path
Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Žalgiris	1–8	BK Häcken	1–3	0–5
Qarabağ	4–2	HJK	2–1	2–1
Zrinjski Mostar	6–3	Breiðablik	6–2	0–1
Sheriff Tiraspol	7–3	BATE Borisov	5–1	2–2
Astana	3–6	Ludogorets Razgrad	2–1	1–5

Main Path
Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Olympiacos	2–1	Genk	1–0	1–1
Slavia Prague	4–1	Dnipro-1	3–0	1–1

Champions Path[]

10 August 2023 (2023-08-10) 18:00 (19:00 EEST)	Žalgiris	1–3	BK Häcken	LFF Stadium, Vilnius Attendance: 4,789 Referee: Mykola Balakin (Ukraine)
	Hnid 85'	Report	Hrstić 38', 48' Rygaard 70'

17 August 2023 (2023-08-17) 19:00	BK Häcken	5–0	Žalgiris	Bravida Arena, Gothenburg Attendance: 3,926 Referee: António Nobre (Portugal)
	Hrstić 27' Gustafson 56' Sadiq 63', 73' (pen.) Sonko 90+2'	Report

BK Häcken won 8–1 on aggregate.

10 August 2023 (2023-08-10) 18:00 (20:00 AZT)	Qarabağ	2–1	HJK	Tofiq Bahramov Republican Stadium, Baku Attendance: 24,984 Referee: Roi Reinshreiber (Israel)
	L. Andrade 55' Juninho 85'	Report	Olusanya 77'

17 August 2023 (2023-08-17) 18:00 (19:00 EEST)	HJK	1–2	Qarabağ	Bolt Arena, Helsinki Attendance: 7,612 Referee: Willy Delajod (France)
	Hostikka 10'	Report	Bayramov 45+3' (pen.) Benzia 56'

Qarabağ won 4–2 on aggregate.

10 August 2023 (2023-08-10) 21:00	Zrinjski Mostar	6–2	Breiðablik	Stadion pod Bijelim Brijegom, Mostar Attendance: 6,200 Referee: Nick Walsh (Scotland)
	Kiš 2', 30' Malekinušić 22', 40' Bilbija 33' Ivančić 55'	Report	Lúðvíksson 64' Eyjólfsson 74'

17 August 2023 (2023-08-17) 19:30 (17:30 WET)	Breiðablik	1–0	Zrinjski Mostar	Kópavogsvöllur, Kópavogur Attendance: 673 Referee: Anastasios Papapetrou (Greece)
	Jakovljević 56' (o.g.)	Report

Zrinjski Mostar won 6–3 on aggregate.

10 August 2023 (2023-08-10) 19:00 (20:00 EEST)	Sheriff Tiraspol	5–1	BATE Borisov	Sheriff Arena, Tiraspol Attendance: 5,400 Referee: Mohammed Al-Hakim (Sweden)
	Ankeye 12', 47' Badolo 32' Yansané 90+3', 90+8'	Report	Bane 50'

17 August 2023 (2023-08-17) 20:00	BATE Borisov	2–2	Sheriff Tiraspol	Mezőkövesdi Városi Stadion, Mezőkövesd, Hungary Attendance: 0 Referee: Tamás Bognár (Hungary)
	Kontsevoy 25' Laptev 90+4'	Report	Ricardinho 40' (pen.) Luvannor 45+2' (pen.)

Sheriff Tiraspol won 7–3 on aggregate.

8 August 2023 (2023-08-08) 16:00 (20:00 ALMT)	Astana	2–1	Ludogorets Razgrad	Astana Arena, Astana Attendance: 23,967 Referee: Horațiu Feșnic (Romania)
	Tomašević 40' Marochkin 53'	Report	Sonko Sundberg 34'

17 August 2023 (2023-08-17) 20:00 (21:00 EEST)	Ludogorets Razgrad	5–1	Astana	Huvepharma Arena, Razgrad Attendance: 5,469 Referee: Anthony Taylor (England)
	Tekpetey 25', 50' Piotrowski 47', 58' Despodov 67'	Report	Darboe 29'

Ludogorets Razgrad won 6–3 on aggregate.

Main Path[]

10 August 2023 (2023-08-10) 21:00 (22:00 EEST)	Olympiacos	1–0	Genk	Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus Attendance: 24,123 Referee: Glenn Nyberg (Sweden)
	Fortounis 1'	Report

17 August 2023 (2023-08-17) 20:00	Genk	1–1	Olympiacos	Cegeka Arena, Genk Attendance: 11,998 Referee: Tobias Stieler (Germany)
	Paintsil 30' (pen.)	Report	Alexandropoulos 90+6'

Olympiacos won 2–1 on aggregate.

10 August 2023 (2023-08-10) 19:00	Slavia Prague	3–0	Dnipro-1	Fortuna Arena, Prague Attendance: 19,102 Referee: Lawrence Visser (Belgium)
	Schranz 5', 37' Wallem 81'	Report

17 August 2023 (2023-08-17) 20:00	Dnipro-1	1–1	Slavia Prague	Košická futbalová aréna, Košice, Slovakia Attendance: 5,855 Referee: Jesús Gil Manzano (Spain)
	Rubchynskyi 45+1'	Report	Jurečka 52'

Slavia Prague won 4–1 on aggregate.

Play-off round[]

The draw for the play-off round was held on 7 August 2023.

Seeding[]

A total of 20 teams played in the play-off round. The teams were seeded into four "priority groups":

Priority 1: The 6 teams from the higher ranking association which entered in this round.
Priority 2: 6 losers of the 2023–24 UEFA Champions League third qualifying round (Champions Path), whose identity was not known at the time of the draw
Priority 3: 5 winners of the third qualifying round (Champions Path), whose identity was not known at the time of the draw
Priority 4: The remaining team which entered in this round and 2 winners of the third qualifying round (Main Path), whose identity was not known at the time of the draw

The procedure of the draw was as follows:

Three teams from Pot 1 (Priority 1) were paired with the three teams in Pot 4 (Priority 4).
The three remaining Pot 1 (Priority 1) teams would then be paired with teams from Pot 3 (Priority 3).
The two remaining Pot 3 (Priority 3) teams would then be paired with teams from Pot 2 (Priority 2).
The four remaining Pot 2 (Priority 2) balls would then be drawn one after another to complete the ninth and tenth pairings (open draw).

Association protection was not applied. The first team drawn in each tie was the home team of the first leg.

Priority 1	Priority 2	Priority 3	Priority 4
Ajax LASK Aberdeen Čukarički Zorya Luhansk Union Saint-Gilloise	Aris Limassol^[††] Slovan Bratislava^[††] Dinamo Zagreb^[††] Olimpija Ljubljana^[††] Sparta Prague^[††] KÍ^[††]	BK Häcken^[†] Qarabağ^[†] Zrinjski Mostar^[†] Sheriff Tiraspol^[†] Ludogorets Razgrad^[†]	Lugano Olympiacos^[†] Slavia Prague^[†]

Notes

^† Winners of the third qualifying round, whose identity will not be known at the time of draw.
^†† Losers of the UEFA Champions League third qualifying round, whose identity will not be known at the time of draw.

Summary[]

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
Slavia Prague	3–2	Zorya Luhansk	2–0	1–2
Olympiacos	6–1	Čukarički	3–1	3–0
Union Saint-Gilloise	3–0	Lugano	2–0	1–0
Ludogorets Razgrad	2–4	Ajax	1–4	1–0
BK Häcken	5–3	Aberdeen	2–2	3–1
LASK	3–2	Zrinjski Mostar	2–1	1–1
KÍ	2–3	Sheriff Tiraspol	1–1	1–2
Olimpija Ljubljana	1–3	Qarabağ	0–2	1–1
Slovan Bratislava	4–7	Aris Limassol	2–1	2–6
Dinamo Zagreb	4–5	Sparta Prague	3–1	1–4

Matches[]

24 August 2023 (2023-08-24) 19:00	Slavia Prague	2–0	Zorya Luhansk	Fortuna Arena, Prague Attendance: 18,522 Referee: Kristo Tohver (Estonia)
	Tijani 81' Masopust 90+4'	Report

31 August 2023 (2023-08-31) 19:00	Zorya Luhansk	2–1	Slavia Prague	Arena Lublin, Lublin, Poland Attendance: 964 Referee: Jérôme Brisard (France)
	Alefirenko 32' Antyukh 41'	Report	Jurásek 83'

Slavia Prague won 3–2 on aggregate.

24 August 2023 (2023-08-24) 21:00 (22:00 EEST)	Olympiacos	3–1	Čukarički	Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus Attendance: 24,332 Referee: Donatas Rumšas (Lithuania)
	El Kaabi 3', 40' Fortounis 16'	Report	Miladinović 90+2'

31 August 2023 (2023-08-31) 20:00	Čukarički	0–3	Olympiacos	Dubočica Stadium, Leskovac Attendance: 6,812 Referee: Danny Makkelie (Netherlands)
		Report	Masouras 34' Biel 45+1' Retsos 53'

Olympiacos won 6–1 on aggregate.

24 August 2023 (2023-08-24) 20:30	Union Saint-Gilloise	2–0	Lugano	Constant Vanden Stock Stadium, Brussels Attendance: 7,238 Referee: Enea Jorgji (Albania)
	Eckert 8' Terho 71'	Report

31 August 2023 (2023-08-31) 20:30	Lugano	0–1	Union Saint-Gilloise	Stade de Genève, Geneva Attendance: 1,171 Referee: Harm Osmers (Germany)
		Report	Eckert 7'

Union Saint-Gilloise won 3–0 on aggregate.

24 August 2023 (2023-08-24) 20:00 (21:00 EEST)	Ludogorets Razgrad	1–4	Ajax	Huvepharma Arena, Razgrad Attendance: 9,880 Referee: Marco Di Bello (Italy)
	Verdon 70' (pen.)	Report	Kudus 16', 18', 50' Brobbey 40'

31 August 2023 (2023-08-31) 20:00	Ajax	0–1	Ludogorets Razgrad	Johan Cruyff Arena, Amsterdam Attendance: 50,900 Referee: Ivan Kružliak (Slovakia)
		Report	Tissera 62'

Ajax won 4–2 on aggregate.

24 August 2023 (2023-08-24) 19:00	BK Häcken	2–2	Aberdeen	Bravida Arena, Gothenburg Attendance: 4,424 Referee: Filip Glova (Slovakia)
	Layouni 36' Sadiq 69' (pen.)	Report	Miovski 75' Devlin 79'

31 August 2023 (2023-08-31) 20:45 (19:45 BST)	Aberdeen	1–3	BK Häcken	Pittodrie Stadium, Aberdeen Attendance: 19,237 Referee: Daniel Siebert (Germany)
	Miovski 56' (pen.)	Report	Sadiq 14', 41' Layouni 81' (pen.)

BK Häcken won 5–2 on aggregate.

24 August 2023 (2023-08-24) 21:00	LASK	2–1	Zrinjski Mostar	Raiffeisen Arena, Linz Attendance: 8,300 Referee: Orel Grinfeld (Israel)
	Žulj 4', 12'	Report	Bilbija 71'

31 August 2023 (2023-08-31) 21:00	Zrinjski Mostar	1–1	LASK	Stadion pod Bijelim Brijegom, Mostar Attendance: 6,520 Referee: Tiago Martins (Portugal)
	Bilbija 38' (pen.)	Report	Jovičić 52'

LASK won 3–2 on aggregate.

24 August 2023 (2023-08-24) 20:45 (19:45 WEST)	KÍ	1–1	Sheriff Tiraspol	Tórsvøllur, Tórshavn Attendance: 3,413 Referee: Rade Obrenovič (Slovenia)
	Da Silva 52'	Report	Mbekeli 73'

31 August 2023 (2023-08-31) 19:00 (20:00 EEST)	Sheriff Tiraspol	2–1	KÍ	Sheriff Arena, Tiraspol Attendance: 5,493 Referee: Halil Umut Meler (Turkey)
	Luvannor 16' (pen.) Zohouri 74'	Report	Kassi 34'

Sheriff Tiraspol won 3–2 on aggregate.

24 August 2023 (2023-08-24) 20:00	Olimpija Ljubljana	0–2	Qarabağ	Stožice Stadium, Ljubljana Attendance: 6,123 Referee: Georgi Kabakov (Bulgaria)
		Report	Medina 32' Andrade 44'

31 August 2023 (2023-08-31) 18:00 (20:00 AZT)	Qarabağ	1–1	Olimpija Ljubljana	Tofiq Bahramov Republican Stadium, Baku Attendance: 27,354 Referee: Alejandro Hernández Hernández (Spain)
	Bayramov 24' (pen.)	Report	Pinto 36'

Qarabağ won 3–1 on aggregate.

24 August 2023 (2023-08-24) 20:30	Slovan Bratislava	2–1	Aris Limassol	Tehelné pole, Bratislava Attendance: 17,564 Referee: Willie Collum (Scotland)
	Tolić 34' Strelec 57'	Report	Mayambela 73'

31 August 2023 (2023-08-31) 19:00 (20:00 EEST)	Aris Limassol	6–2	Slovan Bratislava	Alphamega Stadium, Limassol Attendance: 2,872 Referee: Erik Lambrechts (Belgium)
	Gomis 21', 45+7', 51' Szöke 24' Mayambela 67' Brown 72'	Report	Strelec 37' Barseghyan 89'

Aris Limassol won 7–4 on aggregate.

24 August 2023 (2023-08-24) 20:00	Dinamo Zagreb	3–1	Sparta Prague	Stadion Maksimir, Zagreb Attendance: 12,170 Referee: Marco Guida (Italy)
	Špikić 44' Perić 59' Ivanušec 61'	Report	Krejčí 39' (pen.)

31 August 2023 (2023-08-31) 19:00	Sparta Prague	4–1	Dinamo Zagreb	Stadion Letná, Prague Attendance: 17,953 Referee: Tobias Stieler (Germany)
	Haraslín 2' Sørensen 24' Panák 67' Olatunji 87'	Report	Baturina 71'

Sparta Prague won 5–4 on aggregate.

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[cnote_CH_Q3] {CH Q3} Losers of Champions League third qualifying round (Champions Path).

[cnote_CH_Q2] {CH Q2} Losers of Champions League second qualifying round (Champions Path).

[cnote_LP_Q2] {LP Q2} Losers of Champions League second qualifying round (League Path).

[cnote_†_grp_PO] † Losers of the UEFA Champions League second qualifying round, whose identity was not known at the time of draw.

[cnote_†_grp_PO] † Winners of the third qualifying round, whose identity will not be known at the time of draw.

[cnote_††_grp_PO] †† Losers of the UEFA Champions League third qualifying round, whose identity will not be known at the time of draw.

[CH Q3]

[CH Q2]

[LP Q2]

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