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| Dates | 'Qualifying: 11 July–29 August 2024 Competition proper: 25 September 2024–21 May 2025 |
| Teams | Competition proper: 36 Total: 46+32 |
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The 2024–25 UEFA Europa League will be the 54th season of Europe's secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 16th season since it was renamed from the UEFA Cup to the UEFA Europa League. This will be the first season of UEFA Europa League played under the new format of the Swiss-system.
The final will be played on 21 May 2025 at San Mamés Stadium in Bilbao, Spain. The winners of the 2024–25 UEFA Europa League will automatically qualify for the 2025–26 UEFA Champions League league phase and earn the right to play against the winners of the 2024–25 UEFA Champions League in the 2025 UEFA Super Cup.
Association team allocation[]
A total of 78 teams from between 33 and 48 of the 55 UEFA member associations are expected to participate in the 2023–24 UEFA Europa League. Among them, 33 associations have teams directly qualifying for the Europa League, while for the other 15 associations that do not have any teams directly qualifying may have teams playing after being transferred from the Champions League. The association ranking based on the UEFA association coefficients is used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:
- The title holders of the UEFA Europa Conference League will be given an entry in the Europa League (if they do not qualify for the Champions League through league performance).
- Associations 1–12 each have two teams.
- Associations 13–34 (except RussiaNote RUS[›]) each have one team.
- 32 teams eliminated from the 2024–25 UEFA Champions League will be transferred to the Europa League.
Association ranking[]
For the 2024–25 UEFA Europa League, the associations are allocated places according to their 2023 UEFA association coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 2018–19 to 2022–23.
Apart from the allocation based on the association 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
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Distribution[]
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| First qualifying round (18 teams) |
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Champions (12 teams) |
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| League stage (36 teams) |
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The information here reflects the ongoing suspension of Russia in European football, and so the following changes to the default access list have been made:
- The cup winners of associations 34 (Liechtenstein) will enter the first-qualifying round instead of the Europa Conference League second-qualifying round.
Should the Europa Conference League title holders have qualified for the Champions League or Europa League League Stage via their domestic league:
- The club in the qualifiers with the highest club coefficient will enter the league stage.
Teams[]
NOTE: The following list of qualified teams is provisional, subject to final confirmation by UEFA in June 2024, 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:
- 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
- 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).
- ^ 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. The tables reflect Russia's ongoing suspension from UEFA competitions.
- ^ Slovenia (SVN): Cup winners Rogaška failed to obtain a UEFA licence, so the berth reserved for the cup winners was transferred to the second-placed team in the league, Maribor.
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.
| Phase | Round | Draw date | First leg | Second leg |
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| Qualifying | First qualifying round | TBD | 11 July 2024 | 18 July 2024 |
| Second qualifying round | 25 July 2024 | 1 August 2024 | ||
| Third qualifying round | 8 August 2024 | 15 August 2024 | ||
| Play-offs | Play-off round | 22 August 2024 | 29 August 2024 | |
| League stage | Matchday 1 | 25–26 September 2024 | ||
| Matchday 2 | 3 October 2024 | |||
| Matchday 3 | 24 October 2024 | |||
| Matchday 4 | 7 November 2024 | |||
| Matchday 5 | 28 November 2024 | |||
| Matchday 6 | 12 December 2024 | |||
| Matchday 7 | 23 January 2025 | |||
| Matchday 8 | 30 January 2025 | |||
| Knockout phase | Knockout round play-offs | 13 February 2025 | 20 February 2025 | |
| Round of 16 | 6 March 2025 | 13 March 2025 | ||
| Quarter-finals | 10 April 2025 | 17 April 2025 | ||
| Semi-finals | 1 May 2025 | 8 May 2025 | ||
| Final | 21 May 2025 at San Mamés Stadium, Bilbao | |||
Qualifying rounds[]
First qualifying round[]
The draw for the first qualifying round was held on 18 June 2024. The first legs are being played on 11 July, and the second legs are being played on 18 July 2024.
The winners of the ties will advance to the second qualifying round. The losers will be transferred to the Conference League Main Path second qualifying round.
| Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Botev Plovdiv  | 4–3 |  Maribor | 2–1 | 2–2 |
Elfsborg  | 8–2 |  Pafos | 3–0 | 5–1 |
Paks  | 2–4 |  Corvinul Hunedoara | 0–4 | 2–0 |
Sheriff Tiraspol  | 2–2 (5–4 p) |  Zira | 0–1 | 2–1 (a.e.t.) |
Wisła Kraków  | 4–1 |  Llapi | 2–0 | 2–1 |
Ružomberok  | 5–3 |  Tobol | 5–2 | 0–1 |
Second qualifying round[]
The draw for the second qualifying round was held on 19 June 2024. The first legs were played on 25 July, and the second legs were played on 1 August 2024.
The winners of the ties will advance to the Main Path third qualifying round. The losers will be transferred to the Conference League Main Path third qualifying round.
| Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Ajax  | 4–1 |  Vojvodina | 1–0 | 3–1 |
| Ružomberok | 0–3 |  Trabzonspor | 0–2 | 0–1 |
| Wisła Kraków | 2–8 |  Rapid Wien | 1–2 | 1–6 |
Kilmarnock  | 1–2 |  Cercle Brugge | 1–1 | 0–1 |
Molde  | 5–4 |  Silkeborg | 3–1 | 2–3 |
| Corvinul Hunedoara | 0–1 |  Rijeka | 0–0 | 0–1 |
Braga  | 7–0 |  Maccabi Petah Tikva | 2–0 | 5–0 |
Panathinaikos  | 6–1 | Botev Plovdiv | 2–1 | 4–0 |
| Sheriff Tiraspol | 0–3 | Elfsborg | 0–1 | 0–2 |
Third qualifying round[]
The draw for the third qualifying round was held on 22 July 2024.
Seeding[]
A total of 26 teams will play in the third qualifying round – 12 in the Champions Path and 14 in the Main Path. Seeding of the teams will be based on their 2024 UEFA club coefficients. For the winners of the second qualifying round, whose identity will not be known at the time of the draw, the club coefficient of the highest-ranked remaining team in each tie will be used. For the losers of the Champions League second qualifying round, the club coefficient of the lower-ranked team in each tie will be used. Before the draw, UEFA may form groups of seeded and unseeded teams per the principles set by the Club Competitions Committee. The first team drawn in each tie will be the home team for the first leg.
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| Seeded | Unseeded | Seeded | Unseeded |
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| Seeded | Unseeded | Seeded | Unseeded |
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- † Losers of the Champions League second qualifying round, whose identity will not be known at the time of draw.
- †† Winners of the second qualifying round, whose identity will not be known at the time of draw.
The first legs were played on 6 and 8 August, and the second legs were played on 13, 14 and 15 August 2024.
The winners of the ties will advance to the play-off round. The Champions Path losers will be transferred to the Conference League Champions Path play-off round, while the Main Path losers will be transferred to the Conference League Main Path play-off round.
| Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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KÍ  | 3–4 |  Borac Banja Luka | 2–1 | 1–3 (a.e.t.) |
UE Santa Coloma  | 0–9 |  RFS | 0–2 | 0–7 |
| Celje | 2–3 |  Shamrock Rovers | 1–0 | 1–3 (a.e.t.) |
Panevėžys  | 1–5 | Maccabi Tel Aviv | 1–2 | 0–3 |
| Petrocub Hîncești | 1–0 |  The New Saints | 1–0 | 0–0 |
Dinamo Minsk  | 3–2 |  Lincoln Red Imps | 2–0 | 1–2 |
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| Partizan | 2–3 |  Lugano | 0–1 | 2–2 (a.e.t.) |
| Molde | 3–1 | Cercle Brugge | 3–0 | 0–1 |
| Panathinaikos | 1–1 (12–13 p) | Ajax | 0–1 | 1–0 (a.e.t.) |
| Trabzonspor | 0–3 | Rapid Wien | 0–1 | 0–2 |
| Braga | 2–1 | Servette | 0–0 | 2–1 |
| Rijeka | 1–3 | Elfsborg | 1–1 | 0–2 |
Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih  | 1–3 |  Viktoria Plzeň | 1–2 | 0–1 |
Play-off round[]
The draw for the play-off round was held on 5 August 2024.
Seeding[]
A total of 24 teams will play in the play-off round. Before the draw, UEFA may form groups of teams per the principles set by the Club Competitions Committee. The first team drawn in each tie will be the home team for the first leg.
| Group 1 | Group 2 | Group 3 | |||
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| Seeded | Unseeded | Seeded | Unseeded | Seeded | Unseeded |
- Notes
- † Losers of the Champions League third qualifying round, whose identity was not known at the time of draw. Teams in italics lost to a team with a lower coefficient, thus effectively taking the coefficient of their opponent in the draw.
- †† Winners of the third qualifying round, whose identity was not known at the time of draw. Teams in italics defeated a team with a higher coefficient, thus effectively taking the coefficient of their opponent in the draw.
The first legs were played on 22 August, and the second legs were played on 29 August 2024.
The winners of the ties will advance to the league phase. The losers will be transferred to the Conference League league phase.
| Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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| Dinamo Minsk | 0–2 | Anderlecht | 0–1 | 0–1 |
| Jagiellonia Białystok | 1-7 | Ajax | 1–4 | 0-3 |
| Ludogorets Razgrad | 6-1 | Petrocub Hîncești | 4–0 | 2-1 |
| Lugano | 4-8 | Beşiktaş | 3–3 | 1-5 |
| LASK | 1-2 | FCSB | 1–1 | 0-1 |
| RFS | 3–3 (4–2 p) | APOEL | 2–1 | 1–2 |
| Maccabi Tel Aviv | 8–1 | TSC | 3–0 | 5–1 |
| PAOK | 6–0 | Shamrock Rovers | 4–0 | 2–0 |
| Ferencváros | 1–1 (3–2 p) | Borac Banja Luka | 0–0 | 1–1 |
| Molde | 1–1 (2–4 p) | Elfsborg | 0–1 | 1–0 |
| Braga | 4–3 | Rapid Wien | 2–1 | 2–2 |
| Viktoria Plzeň | 2–0 | Heart of Midlothian | 1–0 | 1–0 |
League phase[]
- Main article: 2024–25 UEFA Europa League league phase
A total of 36 teams will play in the league phase.
| Pot 1 | Pot TBD |
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Each team plays eight games, four at home and four away, against eight different teams (two from each pot).
Teams ranked 1st–8th qualify directly for the round of 16 in the knockout stage, while the teams ranked 9th–24th compete in a playoff round, with the eight winners advancing to the round of 16. In this playoff round, the teams ranked 9th–16th are seeded. Teams ranked 25th–36th are eliminated from all competitions, with no access to the 2024–25 UEFA Conference League.
Final[]
- Main article: 2025 UEFA Europa League Final
| 21 May 2025 21:00 CEST |
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See also[]
- 2024–25 UEFA Champions League
- 2024–25 UEFA Conference League
- 2025 UEFA Super Cup
- 2024–25 UEFA Women's Champions League
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