2022–23 UEFA Europa League
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Dates | Qualifying: 4–25 August 2022 Competition proper: 8 September 2022 – 31 May 2023 |
Teams | Competition proper: 32+8 Total: 21+37 (from 31–36 associations) |
The 2022–23 UEFA Europa League will be the 52nd season of Europe's secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 14th 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 2023–24 UEFA Champions League group stage, and also earn the right to play against the winners of the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League in the 2023 UEFA Super Cup.
Association team allocation[]
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[]
For the 2022–23 UEFA Europa 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.[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
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Distribution[]
The following is the access list for this season.[3]
Teams entering in this round | Teams advancing from previous round | Teams transferred from Champions League | ||
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Third qualifying round (16 teams) |
Champions Path (10 teams) |
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Main Path (6 teams) |
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Play-off round (20 teams) |
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Group stage (32 teams) |
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Preliminary knockout round (16 teams) |
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Knockout phase (16 teams) |
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Teams[]
NOTE: The following list of qualified teams is provisional, subject to final confirmation by UEFA in June 2022, 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).
CC: 2022 UEFA club coefficients.[4]
Entry round | Teams | ||||
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Knockout round play-offs | (UCL GS) | (UCL GS) | (UCL GS) | (UCL GS) | |
(UCL GS) | (UCL GS) | (UCL GS) | (UCL GS) | ||
Group stage | (CW) | (5th) | (CW) | (5th) | |
(CW) | (5th) | (CW) | (5th) | ||
(CW) | (4th) | (CW) | (ECL TH) | ||
(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 | (CW) | (CW) | (CW) | (CW) | |
(CW) | (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) | (CW) | (CW) | (UCL LP Q2) | |
(UCL LP Q2) | (UCL LP Q2) |
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. 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.
All draws are held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.
Phase | Round | Draw date | First leg | Second leg |
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Qualifying | Third qualifying round | TBD 2022 | 4 August 2022 | 11 August 2022 |
Play-offs | TBD 2022 | 18 August 2022 | 25 August 2022 | |
Group stage | Matchday 1 | TBD 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 | TBD 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 | 31 May 2023 at Puskás Aréna, Budapest |
See also[]
- 2022–23 UEFA Champions League
- 2022–23 UEFA Europa Conference League
- 2023 UEFA Super Cup
- 2022–23 UEFA Women's Champions League
- 2022–23 UEFA Youth League
References[]
- ^ "Regulations of the UEFA Europa League, 2021/22 Season". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 2021. Retrieved 30 April 2021.
- ^ "Country coefficients 2020/21". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 2020. Archived from the original on 4 December 2019. Retrieved 16 February 2020.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Club coefficients 2021/22". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations.
- ^ "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.
External links[]
- 2022–23 UEFA Europa League
- 2022–23 in UEFA football
- UEFA Europa League seasons
- Scheduled association football competitions