2024–25 UEFA Europa League qualifying phase and play-off round

The 2024–25 UEFA Europa League qualifying phase and play-off round began on 11 July and ended on 29 August 2024.

A total of 53 or 54 teams will compete in the qualifying system which includes the qualifying phase and the play-off round. The 12 winners of the play-off round will advance to the league phase, to join the 13 teams that enter in the league stage, along with the seven losers of the Champions League play-off round (five from Champions Path and two from League Path), and the four losers of the Champions League third qualifying round (League Path).

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

Format[]

The qualifying phase is split into two paths – the Champions Path and the Main Path. The Champions Path contains teams which were eliminated from the Champions League Champions Path and the Main Path contains teams which qualify as the third-placed or the fourth-placed team from their domestic league or as domestic cup winners. The paths are merged in the play-off round.

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

In the draws for each round in the Main Path, teams will be seeded based on their UEFA club coefficients at the beginning of the season, with the teams divided into seeded and unseeded pots containing the same number of teams. A seeded team will be drawn against an unseeded team, with the order of legs in each tie decided by draw. As the identity of the winners of the previous round may not known at the time of the draws, the seeding will be carried out under the assumption that the team with the higher coefficient of an undecided tie advances to the subsequent round, which means if the team with the lower coefficient advances, it will simply take the seeding of its opponent.

In the draw for the Champions Path third qualifying round, there will be no seeding.

Prior to the draws, UEFA can form "groups" in accordance with the principles set by the Club Competitions Committee purely for the convenience of the draw and not to resemble any real groupings in the sense of the competition. Teams from associations with political conflicts as decided by UEFA cannot be drawn into the same tie. After the draws, the order of legs of a tie can be reversed by UEFA due to scheduling or venue conflicts.

Schedule[]

The schedule of the competition is as follows. All matches are scheduled to be played on Thursdays.

Schedule for 2024–25 UEFA Europa League
Round	Draw date	First leg	Second leg
First qualifying round	18 June 2024	11 July 2024	18 July 2024
Second qualifying round	19 June 2024	25 July 2024	1 August 2024
Third qualifying round	22 July 2024	8 August 2024	15 August 2024
Play-off round	5 August 2024	22 August 2024	29 August 2024

Teams[]

In the qualifying stage, the teams will be divided into two paths:

Champions Path (12 teams):
- Third qualifying round: 12 losers of the Champions League Champions Path second qualifying round.
Main Path:
- First qualifying round (12 teams): 12 teams which enter in this round.
- Second qualifying round (18 teams): 12 teams which enter in this round, and 6 winners of the first qualifying round.
- Third qualifying round (14 teams): 3 teams which enter in this round, 2 losers of the Champions League League Path second qualifying round, and 9 winners of the second qualifying round.

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

Play-off round (24 teams): 5 teams which enter this round, 6 losers of the Champions League Champions Path third qualifying round, 6 winners of the Champions Path third qualifying round, and 7 winners of the Main Path third qualifying round.

All teams eliminated from the qualifying phase and play-off round will enter the Conference League:

The 6 losers of the Main Path first qualifying round enter the Main Path second qualifying round.
The 9 losers of the Main Path second qualifying round enter the Main Path third qualifying round.
The 6 losers of the Champions Path third qualifying round enter the Champions Path play-off round.
The 7 losers of the Main Path third qualifying round enter the Main Path play-off round.
The 12 losers of the play-off round enter the league stage.

Below are the participating teams (with their 2024 UEFA club coefficients, not to be used as seeding for the Champions Path, however), grouped by their starting rounds. Teams in italic text may still qualify for the Champions League.

Key to colours
Winners of play-off round advance to league stage
Losers of play-off round enter Conference League league stage
Losers of third qualifying round enter Conference League play-off round
Losers of second qualifying round enter Conference League third qualifying round
Losers of the first qualifying round enter Conference League second qualifying round

Play-off round
Team	Coeff.
LASK	37.000
Anderlecht	14.500
Beşiktaş	12.000
Heart of Midlothian	7.210
TSC	5.555
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Third qualifying round (Champions Path)
Team	Coeff.
Maccabi Tel Aviv ^{[CH Q2]}	35.500
KÍ ^{[CH Q2]}	10.000
Shamrock Rovers ^{[CH Q2]}	9.500
Lincoln Red Imps ^{[CH Q2]}	9.000
The New Saints ^{[CH Q2]}	8.500
RFS ^{[CH Q2]}	8.000
Petrocub Hîncești ^{[CH Q2]}	7.000
Borac Banja Luka ^{[CH Q2]}	5.500
Celje ^{[CH Q2]}	4.500
Dinamo Minsk ^{[CH Q2]}	4.500
Panevėžys ^{[CH Q2]}	4.000
UE Santa Coloma ^{[CH Q2]}	1.199

Third qualifying round (Main Path)
Team	Coeff.
Viktoria Plzeň	28.000
Partizan ^{[LP Q2]}	25.500
Servette	9.000
Lugano ^{[LP Q2]}	8.000
Kryvbas	5.600

Second qualifying round
Team	Coeff.
Ajax	67.000
Braga	49.000
Molde	28.500
Rapid Wien	14.000
Rijeka	12.000
Trabzonspor	11.500
Cercle Brugge	9.760
Kilmarnock	7.210
Panathinaikos	6.305
Silkeborg	6.290
Maccabi Petah Tikva	6.225
Vojvodina	5.555

First qualifying round
Team	Coeff.
Sheriff Tiraspol	20.000
Maribor	9.500
Tobol	7.500
Wisła Kraków	5.075
Pafos	4.420
Paks	4.375
Elfsborg	4.300
Corvinul Hunedoara	4.275
Botev Plovdiv	4.075
Zira	4.025
Ružomberok	3.925
Llapi	2.308

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).

First qualifying round[]

The draw for the first qualifying round was held on 18 June 2024.

Seeding[]

A total of 12 teams will play in the first qualifying round. Seeding of the teams will be based on their 2024 UEFA club coefficients. 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.

Seeded	Unseeded
Sheriff Tiraspol Maribor Tobol Wisła Kraków Pafos Paks	Elfsborg Corvinul Hunedoara Botev Plovdiv Zira Ružomberok Llapi

Summary[]

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.

First qualifying round
Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
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

Matches[]

11 July 2024 (2024-07-11) 20:00 (21:00 EEST)	Botev Plovdiv	2–1	Maribor	Stadion Hristo Botev, Plovdiv Attendance: 16,318 Referee: David Dickinson (Scotland)
	Ujah 9' Iliev 74'	Report	Širvys 19'

18 July 2024 (2024-07-18) 20:15	Maribor	2–2	Botev Plovdiv	Ljudski vrt, Maribor Referee: Vitaliy Romanov (Ukraine)
	Repas 13' Beugre 80'	Report	Nwachukwu 48' Ujah 60'	Ljudski vrt, Maribor Referee: Vitaliy Romanov (Ukraine)

Botev Plovdiv won 4–3 on aggregate.

11 July 2024 (2024-07-11) 19:00	Elfsborg	3–0	Pafos	Borås Arena, Borås Attendance: 5,011 Referee: Helgi Mikael Jónasson (Iceland)
	Zeneli 9' Hult 59' >Frick 82'	Report

18 July 2024 (2024-07-18) 18:00 (19:00 EEST)	Pafos	2–5	Elfsborg	Alphamega Stadium, Limassol Referee: Gai Leibovitz (Israel)
	Holmén 25' (o.g.) Dragomir 43'	Report	Ouma 23' Baidoo 47' Baldursson 48' Abdullai 58' A. Zeneli 85'	Alphamega Stadium, Limassol Referee: Gai Leibovitz (Israel)

Elfsborg won 8–2 on aggregate.

11 July 2024 (2024-07-11) 19:00	Paks	0–4	Corvinul Hunedoara	Fehérvári úti Stadion, Paks Attendance: 4,182 Referee: Mohammad Usman Aslam (Norway)
		Report	Buș 9' Lupu 45+2', 86', 90+3'

18 July 2024 (2024-07-18) 20:00 (21:00 EEST)	Corvinul Hunedoara	0–2	Paks	Sibiu Municipal Stadium, Sibiu Referee: Peter Kralovič (Slovakia)
		Report	Könyves 79' Böde 90'

Corvinul Hunedoara won 4–2 on aggregate.

11 July 2024 (2024-07-11) 19:00 (20:00 EEST)	Sheriff Tiraspol	0–1	Zira	Sheriff Arena, Tiraspol Attendance: 3,594 Referee: Alessandro Dudic (Switzerland)
		Report	Volkov 88'

18 July 2024 (2024-07-18) 18:00 (20:00 AZT)	Zira	1–2 (a.e.t.)	Sheriff Tiraspol	Dalga Arena, Baku Referee: Bulat Sariyev (Kazakhstan)
	Utzig 5'	Report	Allach 54' Yade 77'	Dalga Arena, Baku Referee: Bulat Sariyev (Kazakhstan)
		Penalties
	Alıyev Ruan Renato Nuriyev Ibrahimli F. Bayramov	4–5	Badolo Akanbi Pata João Paulo Allach

2–2 on aggregate. Sheriff Tiraspol won 5–4 on penalties.

11 July 2024 (2024-07-11) 20:30	Wisła Kraków	2–0	Llapi	Henryk Reyman Stadium, Kraków Attendance: 24,403 Referee: Marc Nagtegaal (Netherlands)
	Sapała 2' Rodado 90+5'	Report

18 July 2024 (2024-07-18) 16:30	Llapi	1–2	Wisła Kraków	Zahir Pajaziti Stadium, Podujevo Referee: Trustin Farrugia Cann (Malta)
	Tahiri 74'	Report	Rodado 58' Kiakos 90'

Wisła Kraków won 4–1 on aggregate.

11 July 2024 (2024-07-11) 19:00	Ružomberok	5–2	Tobol	Štadión pod Čebraťom, Ružomberok Attendance: 3,025 Referee: Kyriakos Athanasiou (Cyprus)
	Gabriel 11', 88' Selecký 40' Malý 45+3' Madleňák 77'	Report	Ivanović 9' Henen 45'

18 July 2024 (2024-07-18) 17:00 (20:00 KZT)	Tobol	1–0	Ružomberok	Kostanay Central Stadium, Kostanay Referee: Mikkel Redder (Denmark)
	El Messaoudi 8'	Report

Ružomberok won 5–3 on aggregate.