2023–24 UEFA Europa League
The Aviva Stadium in Dublin will host the final
Dates	Qualifying: August 2023 Competition proper: September 2023 – May 2024
← 2022–23 2024–25 →

The 2023–24 UEFA Europa League will be 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 will be played at the Puskás Aréna in Budapest, Hungary. The winners of the tournament will automatically qualify for the 2024–25 UEFA Champions League group stage, and also earn the right to play against the winners of the 2023–24 UEFA Champions League in the 2024 UEFA Super Cup.

Association team allocation

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A total of 58 teams from between 31 and 36 of the 55 UEFA member associations are expected to participate in the 2022–23 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, between 15 and 20 of them may have 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 is used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:^[1]

The title holders of the UEFA Europa Conference League will be given an entry in the Europa League (if they do not qualify to the Champions League group stage).
Associations 1–5 each have two teams qualify.
Associations 6–15 each have one team qualify.
37 teams eliminated from the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League are transferred to the Europa League.

Association ranking

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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.^[2]

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

Association ranking for 2023–24 UEFA Champions League

Rank	Coe	Tea	Not
1	106.641	2	GS
2	96.141
3	76.902
4	75.213
5	60.081
6	53.382	1
7	49.300	1	PO
8	38.850
9	36.900
10	34.482
11	33.375
12	31.800
13	30.600	1	TR
14	29.675
15	28.200
16	27.800
17	27.250
18	27.175
19	27.150

Rank	Coe.	Tea
20	27.100	0
21	26.375
22	24.375
23	22.875
24	19.500
25	17.150
26	17.000
27	16.375
28	15.875
29	15.750
30	15.625
31	15.000
32	12.500
33	11.250
34	10.000
35	09.125
36	08.875
37	08.750

Rank	Coe.	Tea
38	8.625	0
39	8.166
40	8.125
41	8.125
42	8.083
43	8.000
44	7.250
45	7.041
46	7.000
47	7.000
48	7.000
49	6.500
50	5.500
51	5.416
52	5.375
53	4.875
54	4.665
55	1.332

Notes

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Russia (RUS): On 28 February 2022, Russian football clubs and national teams were suspended from FIFA and UEFA competitions.^[3]

Distribution

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The following is the access list for this season.^[4]

Access list for 2023–24 UEFA Europa League
		Teams entering in this round	Teams advancing from previous round	Teams transferred from Champions League
Third qualifying round (14 teams)	Champions Path (10 teams)			10 teams eliminated from Champions League second qualifying round (Champions Path)
Third qualifying round (14 teams)	Main Path (4 teams)	2 domestic cup winners from associations 16–17		2 teams eliminated from Champions League second qualifying round (League Path)
Play-off round (20 teams)		7 domestic cup winners from associations 8–15 (except Russia)^{[Note RUS]}	5 winners from the third qualifying round (Champions Path) 2 winners from the third qualifying round (Main Path)	6 teams eliminated from Champions League third qualifying round (Champions Path)
Group stage (32 teams)		7 domestic cup winners from associations 1–7 1 domestic league fourth-placed team from association 5 4 domestic league fifth-placed teams from associations 1–4	10 winners from the play-off round	4 teams eliminated from Champions League play-off round (Champions Path) 2 teams eliminated from Champions League play-off round (League Path) 4 teams eliminated from Champions League third qualifying round (League Path)
Preliminary knockout round (16 teams)			8 group runners-up from the group stage	8 group third-placed teams from Champions League group stage
Knockout phase (16 teams)			8 group winners from the group stage 8 winners from the preliminary knockout round

Redistribution rules

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A Europa League place is vacated when a team qualifies for both the Champions League and the Europa League, or qualifies for the Europa League by more than one method. When a place is vacated, it is redistributed within the national association by the following rules:

When the domestic cup winners (considered as the "highest-placed" qualifier within the national association with the latest starting round) also qualify for the Champions League, their Europa League place is vacated. As a result, the highest-placed team in the league which have not yet qualified for European competitions qualify for the Europa League, with the Europa League qualifiers which finish above them in the league moved up one "place".
When the domestic cup winners also qualify for the Europa League through league position, their place through the league position is vacated. As a result, the highest-placed team in the league which have not yet qualified for European competitions qualify for the Europa League, with the Europa League qualifiers which finish above them in the league moved up one "place" if possible.
For associations where a Europa League place is reserved for either the League Cup or end-of-season European competition play-offs winners, they always qualify for the Europa League as the "lowest-placed" qualifier. If the League Cup winners have already qualified for European competitions through other methods, this reserved Europa League place is taken by the highest-placed team in the league which have not yet qualified for European competitions.

Teams

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NOTE: The following list of qualified teams is provisional, subject to final confirmation by UEFA in June 2023, 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
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).

Qualified teams for 2023–24 UEFA Europa League
Entry round		Teams
Knockout round play-offs		(UCL GS)	(UCL GS)	(UCL GS)	(UCL GS)
Knockout round play-offs		(UCL GS)	(UCL GS)	(UCL GS)	(UCL GS)

Group stage		Fiorentina West Ham U 0Basel AZ (ECL TH)	Manchester C^{[Note ENG]} Manchester Un (CW)	(5th)	Real M^{[Note ESP]} Osasuna (CW)
		(5th)	Inter Milan or Fiorentina (CW)	(5th)	Eintracht Fr Freiburg Leipzig Stuttgart (CW)
		(5th)	Toulouse (CW)	(4th)	Braga Nacional (2) Famalicão (2) Porto (CW)
		(UCL CH PO)	(UCL CH PO)	(UCL CH PO)	(UCL CH PO)
		(UCL LP PO)	(UCL LP PO)	(UCL LP Q3)	(UCL LP Q3)
		(UCL LP Q3)	(UCL LP Q3)

Play-off round		Ajax or PSV (CW)	Rapid W or Sturm Graz (CW)	(CW)	(CW)
		(3rd)^{[Note UKR]}	KV Mechelen or Antwerp (CW)	Young Boys or Lugano (CW)	(UCL CH Q3)
		(UCL CH Q3)	(UCL CH Q3)	(UCL CH Q3)	(UCL CH Q3)
		(UCL CH Q3)

Third qualifying round	CH	(UCL CH Q2)	(UCL CH Q2)	(UCL CH Q2)	(UCL CH Q2)
		(UCL CH Q2)	(UCL CH Q2)	(UCL CH Q2)	(UCL CH Q2)
		(UCL CH Q2)	(UCL CH Q2)
	MP	(CW)	Sparta Pr or Slavia Pr (CW)	/ (UCL LP Q2)	/ (UCL LP Q2)

Notes

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Russia (RUS): On 28 February 2022, Russian football clubs and national teams were suspended from FIFA and UEFA competitions due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.^[5] The tables reflect Russia's ongoing suspension from UEFA competitions.^[6]
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Ukraine (UKR): The 2022–23 Ukrainian Cup was abandoned due to the ongoing 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. The berth reserved for the cup winners is transferred to the third-placed team in the league.
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England (ENG): If winner Manchester C or Manchester Un (CW) and finish (1st/5th) ->(6th) , or if win New teams Sheffield Un (2) or Brighton & HA CC: ~21.285
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Spain (ESP): The win Real M (CW) and finish (1st/5th) ->(6th) , or if win New team Osasuna CC: ~18.171

^ "Regulations of the UEFA Europa League, 2021/22 Season". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 2021. Retrieved 30 April 2021.
^ "Country coefficients 2021/22". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 2021. Archived from the original on 4 December 2020. Retrieved 16 February 2021. ((cite web)): |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; 4 December 2019 suggested (help)
^ "Ukraine crisis: Fifa and Uefa suspend all Russian clubs and national teams". bbc.co.uk. British Broadcasting Corporation. 28 February 2022. Retrieved 28 February 2022.((cite news)): CS1 maint: url-status (link)
^ "Access list 2021–24" (PDF). UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 December 2018. Retrieved 16 February 2020.
^ "Ukraine crisis: Fifa and Uefa suspend all Russian clubs and national teams". BBC.co.uk. British Broadcasting Corporation. 28 February 2022. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
^ "UEFA decisions for upcoming competitions relating to the ongoing suspension of Russian national teams and clubs" (Press release). Nyon: UEFA. 2 May 2022. Retrieved 2 May 2022.