2022–23 UEFA Europa Conference League

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2022–23 UEFA Europa Conference League
Tournament details
DatesQualifying:
7 July – 25 August 2022
Competition proper:
8 September 2022 – 7 June 2023
TeamsCompetition proper: 32+8
Total: 136+45 (from 55 associations)

The 2022–23 UEFA Europa Conference League will be the second season of the UEFA Europa Conference League, Europe's tertiary club football tournament organised by UEFA.

The final will be played at a single venue. The winners of the 2022–23 UEFA Europa Conference League will automatically qualify for the 2023–24 UEFA Europa League group stage, unless they manage to qualify for the 2023–24 UEFA Champions League group stage.[1]

This season is the second since 1998–99 (the last season that the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup was played) where three major European club competitions (UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League and UEFA Europa Conference League) organised by UEFA take place.[2]

On 24 June 2021, UEFA approved the proposal to abolish the away goals rule in all UEFA club competitions, which had been used since 1965. Therefore, if in a two-legged tie, two teams score the same amount of aggregate goals, the winner of tie will not be decided by the number of away goals scored by each team, but always by 30 minutes of extra time, and if the two teams score the same amount of goals in extra time, the winner will be decided by a penalty shoot-out.[3]

Association team allocation[]

A total of 184 teams from the 55 UEFA member associations will participate in the 2022–23 UEFA Europa Conference League. The association ranking based on the UEFA country coefficients is used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:[4]

  • Associations 1–5 each have one team qualify.
  • Associations 6–15 and 51–55 each have two teams qualify.
  • Associations 16–50 (except Liechtenstein)[Note LIE] each have three teams qualify.
  • Liechtenstein have one team qualify (Liechtenstein organises only a domestic cup and no domestic league).[Note LIE]
  • Moreover, 20 teams eliminated from the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League and 26 teams eliminated from the 2022–23 UEFA Europa League are transferred to the Europa Conference League.

Association ranking[]

For the 2022–23 UEFA Europa Conference League, the associations are allocated places according to their 2021 UEFA country coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 2016–17 to 2020–21.[5]

Apart from the allocation based on the country coefficients, associations may have additional teams participating in the Europa Conference League, as noted below:

  • (UCL) – Additional teams transferred to/from the UEFA Champions League
  • (UEL) – Additional teams transferred from the UEFA Europa League
Association ranking for 2022–23 UEFA Europa Conference League
Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes
1  England 100.569 1
2  Spain 97.855
3  Italy 75.438
4  Germany 73.570
5  France 56.081
6  Portugal 48.549 2
7  Netherlands 39.200
8  Russia 38.382
9  Belgium 36.500
10  Austria 35.825
11  Scotland 33.375
12  Ukraine 33.100
13  Turkey 30.100
14  Denmark 27.875
15  Cyprus 27.750
16  Serbia 26.750 3
17  Czech Republic 26.600
18  Croatia 26.275
19   Switzerland 26.225
Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes
20  Greece 26.000 3
21  Israel 24.375
22  Norway 21.000
23  Sweden 20.500
24  Bulgaria 20.375
25  Romania 18.200
26  Azerbaijan 16.875
27  Kazakhstan 15.625
28  Hungary 15.500
29  Belarus 15.250
30  Poland 15.125
31  Slovenia 14.250
32  Slovakia 13.625
33  Liechtenstein 9.000 1 [Note LIE]
34  Lithuania 8.750 3
35  Luxembourg 8.250
36  Bosnia and Herzegovina 8.000
37  Republic of Ireland 7.875
Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes
38  North Macedonia 7.625 3
39  Armenia 7.375
40  Latvia 7.375
41  Albania 7.250
42  Northern Ireland 6.958
43  Georgia 6.875
44  Finland 6.875
45  Moldova 6.875
46  Malta 6.375
47  Faroe Islands 6.125
48  Kosovo 5.833
49  Gibraltar 5.666
50  Montenegro 5.000
51  Wales 5.000 2
52  Iceland 4.875
53  Estonia 4.750
54  Andorra 3.331
55  San Marino 1.166

Distribution[]

The following is the access list for this season.[6] In the default access list, the title holders of the Europa Conference League qualify for the Europa League group stage.

Access list for 2022–23 UEFA Europa Conference League
Teams entering in this round Teams advancing from previous round Teams transferred from Champions League or Europa League
First qualifying round
(72 teams)
  • 26 domestic cup winners from associations 30–55
  • 25 domestic league runners-up from associations 30–55 (except Liechtenstein)[Note LIE]
  • 21 domestic league third-placed teams from associations 29–50 (except Liechtenstein)[Note LIE]
Second qualifying round
(110 teams) 		Champions Path
(20 teams)
  • 3 teams eliminated from Champions League preliminary round
  • 17 teams eliminated from Champions League first qualifying round
Main Path
(90 teams)
  • 14 domestic cup winners from associations 16–29
  • 14 domestic league runners-up from associations 16–29
  • 16 domestic league third-placed teams from associations 13–28
  • 9 domestic league fourth-placed teams from associations 7–15
  • 1 domestic league fifth-placed team from association 6
  • 36 winners from the first qualifying round
Third qualifying round
(62 teams) 		Champions Path
(10 teams)
  • 10 winners from the second qualifying round (Champions Path)
Main Path
(52 teams)
  • 6 domestic league third-placed teams from associations 7–12
  • 1 domestic league fourth-placed team from association 6
  • 45 winners from the second qualifying round (Main Path)
Play-off round
(44 teams) 		Champions Path
(10 teams)
  • 5 winners from the third qualifying round (Champions Path)
  • 5 teams eliminated from Europa League third qualifying round (Champions Path)
Main Path
(34 teams)
  • 1 domestic league fifth-placed team from association 5
  • 4 domestic league sixth-placed teams from associations 1–4 (EFL Cup winners for England)
  • 26 winners from the third qualifying round (Main Path)
  • 3 teams eliminated from Europa League third qualifying round (Main Path)
Group stage
(32 teams)
  • 5 winners from the play-off round (Champions Path)
  • 17 winners from the play-off round (Main Path)
  • 10 teams eliminated from Europa League play-off round
Preliminary knockout round
(16 teams)
  • 8 group runners-up from the group stage
  • 8 group third-placed teams from Europa League group stage
Knockout phase
(16 teams)
  • 8 group winners from the group stage
  • 8 winners from the preliminary knockout round

Teams[]

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:

  • CW: Domestic cup winners
  • 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, etc.: League position of the previous season
  • LC: League cup winners
  • RW: Regular season winners
  • PW: End-of-season Europa Conference League play-offs winners
  • UCL: Transferred from the Champions League
    • Q1: Losers from the first qualifying round
    • PR: Losers from the preliminary round (F: final; SF: semi-finals)
  • UEL: Transferred from the Europa League
    • GS: Third-placed teams from the group stage
    • PO: Losers from the play-off round
    • CH/MP Q3: Losers from the third qualifying round (Champions/Main Path)

The second qualifying round, third qualifying round and play-off round are divided into Champions Path (CH) and Main Path (MP).

CC: 2022 UEFA club coefficients.[7]

Qualified teams for 2022–23 UEFA Europa Conference League
Entry round Teams
Knockout round play-offs (UEL GS) (UEL GS) (UEL GS) (UEL GS)
(UEL GS) (UEL GS) (UEL GS) (UEL GS)
Group stage (UEL PO) (UEL PO) (UEL PO) (UEL PO)
(UEL PO) (UEL PO) (UEL PO) (UEL PO)
(UEL PO) (UEL PO)
Play-off round CH (UEL CH Q3) (UEL CH Q3) (UEL CH Q3) (UEL CH Q3)
(UEL CH Q3)
MP England (LC) Spain (6th) Italy (6th) Germany (6th)
France (5th) (UEL MP Q3) (UEL MP Q3) (UEL MP Q3)
Third qualifying round MP Portugal (4th) Netherlands (3rd) Russia (3rd) Belgium (3rd)
Austria (3rd) Scotland (3rd) Ukraine (3rd)
Second qualifying round CH (UCL Q1) (UCL Q1) (UCL Q1) (UCL Q1)
(UCL Q1) (UCL Q1) (UCL Q1) (UCL Q1)
(UCL Q1) (UCL Q1) (UCL Q1) (UCL Q1)
(UCL Q1) (UCL Q1) (UCL Q1) (UCL Q1)
(UCL Q1) (UCL PR F) (UCL PR SF) (UCL PR SF)
MP Portugal (5th) Netherlands (PW) Russia (4th) Belgium (PW)
Austria (PW) Scotland (4th) Ukraine (4th) Turkey (3rd)
Turkey (4th) Denmark (3rd) Denmark (PW) Cyprus (3rd)
Cyprus (4th) Serbia (CW) Serbia (2nd) Serbia (3rd)
Czech Republic (CW) Czech Republic (2nd) Czech Republic (3rd) Croatia (CW)
Croatia (2nd) Croatia (3rd) Switzerland (CW) Switzerland (2nd)
Switzerland (3rd) Greece (CW) Greece (2nd) Greece (3rd)
Israel (CW) Israel (2nd) Israel (3rd) Norway (CW)
Norway Molde (2nd) Norway Viking (3rd) Sweden (CW) Sweden AIK (2nd)
Sweden Djurgårdens IF (3rd) Bulgaria (CW) Bulgaria (2nd) Bulgaria (PW)
Romania (CW) Romania (2nd) Romania (PW) Azerbaijan (CW)
Azerbaijan (2nd) Azerbaijan (3rd) Kazakhstan Kairat (CW) Kazakhstan Astana (2nd)
Kazakhstan Kyzylzhar (4th) Hungary (CW) Hungary (2nd) Hungary (3rd)
Belarus (CW) Belarus BATE Borisov (2nd)
First qualifying round Belarus Dinamo Minsk (3rd)[Note BLR] Poland (CW) Poland (2nd) Poland (3rd)
Slovenia () Slovenia (2nd) Slovenia (3rd) Slovakia ()
Slovakia (2nd) Slovakia (3rd) Liechtenstein (CW)[Note LIE] Lithuania Sūduva (2nd)
Lithuania Kauno Žalgiris (3rd) Lithuania Panevėžys (4th) Luxembourg () Luxembourg (2nd)
Luxembourg (3rd) Bosnia and Herzegovina (CW) Bosnia and Herzegovina (2nd) Bosnia and Herzegovina (3rd)
Republic of Ireland St Patrick's Athletic (CW) Republic of Ireland Sligo Rovers (3rd) Republic of Ireland Derry City (4th) North Macedonia (CW)
North Macedonia (2nd) North Macedonia (3rd) Armenia (CW) Armenia (2nd)
Armenia (3rd) Latvia Valmiera (2nd) Latvia Liepāja (3rd) Latvia Riga (4th)
Albania (CW) Albania (2nd) Albania (3rd) Northern Ireland (CW)
Northern Ireland (2nd) Northern Ireland (PW) Georgia (country) Saburtalo Tbilisi (CW) Georgia (country) Dinamo Tbilisi (2nd)
Georgia (country) Dila Gori (3rd) Finland KuPS (CW) Finland SJK (3rd) Finland Inter Turku (4th)
Moldova (CW) Moldova (2nd) Moldova (3rd) Malta (CW)
Malta (2nd) Malta (3rd) Faroe Islands B36 Tórshavn (CW) Faroe Islands HB Tórshavn (2nd)
Faroe Islands Víkingur (3rd) Kosovo (CW) Kosovo (2nd) Kosovo (3rd)
Gibraltar (CW) Gibraltar (2nd) Gibraltar (3rd) Montenegro (CW)
Montenegro (2nd) Montenegro (3rd) Wales (CW) Wales (2nd)
Iceland Breiðablik (2nd) Iceland KR (3rd) Estonia (CW) Estonia Flora (2nd)
Andorra () Andorra (2nd) San Marino (CW) San Marino (2nd)

Notes

  1. ^
    Belarus (BLR): Dinamo Minsk will enter the second qualifying round if they or BATE Borisov win the 2021–22 Belarusian Cup.
  2. ^
    Liechtenstein (LIE): The seven teams affiliated with the Liechtenstein Football Association (LFV) all play in the Swiss football league system. The only competition organised by the LFV is the Liechtenstein Football Cup – the winners of which qualify for the UEFA Europa Conference League.

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 (especially featuring teams from associations where there are few approved stadiums, such as Gibraltar and Wales). Scheduled kick-off times starting from the group stage are 18:45 and 21:00 CEST/CET, though exceptionally can take place at 16:30 due to geographical reasons.[8]

All draws start at 13:00 or 14:00 CEST/CET and are held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.[9]

Schedule for 2022–23 UEFA Europa Conference League[10]
Phase Round Draw date First leg Second leg
Qualifying First qualifying round 14 June 2022 7 July 2022 14 July 2022
Second qualifying round 15 June 2022 21 July 2022 28 July 2022
Third qualifying round 18 July 2022 4 August 2022 11 August 2022
Play-offs 2 August 2022 18 August 2022 25 August 2022
Group stage Matchday 1 26 August 2022 8 September 2022
Matchday 2 15 September 2022
Matchday 3 6 October 2022
Matchday 4 13 October 2022
Matchday 5 27 October 2022
Matchday 6 3 November 2022
Knockout phase Knockout round play-offs 7 November 2022 16 February 2023 23 February 2023
Round of 16 TBD 2023 9 March 2023 16 March 2023
Quarter-finals TBD 2023 13 April 2023 20 April 2023
Semi-finals 11 May 2023 18 May 2023
Final 7 June 2023 at TBD

See also[]

References[]

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  2. ^ "UEFA Executive Committee approves new club competition". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 2 December 2018. Archived from the original on 13 May 2019. Retrieved 2 December 2018.
  3. ^ "Abolition of the away goals rule in all UEFA club competitions". UEFA.com. 24 June 2021.
  4. ^ "Regulations of the UEFA Europa Conference League, 2021/22 Season". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 2021. Retrieved 30 April 2021.
  5. ^ "Country coefficients 2020/21". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 2021. Archived from the original on 4 December 2019. Retrieved 16 February 2020.
  6. ^ "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.
  7. ^ "Club coefficients 2021/22". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations.
  8. ^ "Format change for 2020/21 UEFA Nations League". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 24 September 2019. Archived from the original on 26 September 2019. Retrieved 17 February 2020.
  9. ^ "2022 European football calendar: Match and draw dates for all UEFA competitions". UEFA. 1 January 2022. Retrieved 6 January 2022.
  10. ^ "International match calendar and access list for 2022/23". UEFA Circular Letter. No. 51/2021. Union of European Football Associations. 19 July 2021. Retrieved 5 November 2021.

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