2022-23 UEFA Europa League

The 2022–23 UEFA Europa League is 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. Budapest was originally scheduled to host the final match for the 2021–22 UEFA Europa League, but several hosts were shifted because of the delay and ultimate relocation of the 2020 final due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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.

Eintracht Frankfurt were the defending champions, but reached the Champions League knockout phase and were therefore unable to defend their title.

Association team allocation[edit]
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 associations which cannot have a participant are Russia and 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:


 * 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 group stage).
 * Associations 1–5 each have two teams qualify.
 * Associations 6–7 and 9–15 each have one team qualify.
 * 37 teams eliminated from the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League are transferred to the Europa League.

Association ranking[edit]
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.

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
 * (UECL) – Additional berth for UEFA Europa Conference League title holders

Distribution[edit]
The following is the access list for this season. Due to the suspension of Russia for the 2022–23 European season, the following changes to the access list have been made:


 * The cup winners of associations 13 (Turkey) and 14 (Denmark) enter the play-off round instead of the third qualifying round.
 * The cup winners of association 16 (Serbia) enter the third qualifying round instead of the Europa Conference League.

Since the Europa Conference League title holders (Roma) have qualified through their league positions, the following changes to the access list have been made:


 * The cup winners of association 7 (Netherlands) enter the group stage instead of the play-off round
 * The cup winners of association 15 (Cyprus) enter the play-off round instead of the third qualifying round.
 * The cup winners of association 17 (Czech Republic) enter the third qualifying round instead of the Europa Conference League.

Redistribution rules[edit]
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[edit]
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
 * 4th, 5th, etc.: League position of the previous season
 * Abd-: League positions of abandoned season as determined by the national association; all teams are subject to approval by UEFA
 * 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. Notes


 * 1) ^  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. On 2 May 2022, UEFA confirmed that Russian clubs would be excluded from the 2022–23 UEFA competitions.
 * 2) ^  Ukraine (UKR): The 2021–22 Ukrainian Cup was abandoned due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. The berth reserved for the cup winners was transferred to the third-placed team of the league at the time of the abandonment, SC Dnipro-1, who were selected to play in the 2022–23 UEFA Europa League by the Ukrainian Association of Football.

Schedule[edit]
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.

As the 2022 FIFA World Cup took place in Qatar between 20 November and 18 December 2022, the group stage commenced in the first week of September 2022 and concluded in the first week of November 2022 to make way for the World Cup.

The draws for the qualifying round were held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. The group stage draw took place in Istanbul, Turkey.

Third qualifying round[edit]
Main article: 2022–23 UEFA Europa League third qualifying round

The draw for the third qualifying round was held on 18 July 2022. The first legs were played on 4 August, and the second legs were played on 9 and 11 August 2022.

The winners of the ties advanced to the play-off round. The losers were transferred to the Europa Conference League play-off round of their respective path.

Play-off round[edit]
Main article: 2022–23 UEFA Europa League play-off round

The draw for the play-off round was held on 2 August 2022. The first legs were played on 18 August, and the second legs were played on 25 August 2022.

The winners of the ties advanced to the group stage. The losers were transferred to the Europa Conference League group stage.

Group stage[edit]
Main article: 2022–23 UEFA Europa League group stage

Sturm

Qarabağ

Union SG

Ludogorets

AEK

Omonia

Midtjylland

Arsenal

Man. United

HJK

Nantes

Rennes

Monaco

Freiburg

Union Berlin

Olympiacos

Ferencváros

Rome

Sheriff

Feyenoord

PSV

Bodø/Glimt

Braga

Red Star

Betis

Sociedad

Malmö

Zürich

Trabzonspor

Fenerbahçe

Dynamo

Rome teams

Lazio

Roma

class=notpageimage| Location of teams of the 2022–23 UEFA Europa League group stage.

Brown: Group A;  Red: Group B;  Orange: Group C;  Yellow: Group D; Green: Group E;  Blue: Group F;  Purple: Group G;  Pink: Group H. The draw for the group stage was held on 26 August 2022. The 32 teams were drawn into eight groups of four. For the draw, the teams were seeded into four pots, each of eight teams, based on their 2022 UEFA club coefficients (CC). Teams from the same association could not be drawn into the same group.

Bodø/Glimt, Nantes, Union Berlin and Union Saint-Gilloise made their debut appearances in the group stage. Union Saint-Gilloise made their debut appearance in a UEFA competition group stage.

A total of 23 national associations were represented in the group stage.

Group A[edit]
Source: UEFA

Group B[edit]
Source: UEFA

Group C[edit]
Source: UEFA

Group D[edit]
Source: UEFA

Group E[edit]
Source: UEFA

Notes:


 * 1) ^ Jump up to: a b Tied on head-to-head results. Overall goal difference is used as the tiebreaker.

Group F[edit]
Source: UEFA

Notes:


 * 1) ^ Jump up to: a b c d Tied on head-to-head results. Overall goal difference is used as the tiebreaker. Between Feyenoord and Midtjylland, overall goals scored is used as the tiebreaker.

Group G[edit]
Source: UEFA

Group H[edit]
Source: UEFA

Notes:


 * 1) ^ Jump up to: a b Head to head points: Ferencváros 4, Monaco 1.

Knockout phase[edit]
Main article: 2022–23 UEFA Europa League knockout phase

In the knockout phase, teams play against each other over two legs on a home-and-away basis, except for the one-match final. The mechanism of the draws for each round is as follows:


 * In the draw for the knockout round play-offs, the eight group runners-up were seeded, and the eight Champions League group third-placed teams were unseeded. The seeded teams were drawn against the unseeded teams, with the seeded teams hosting the second leg. Teams from the same association could not be drawn against each other.
 * In the draw for the round of 16, the eight group winners were seeded, and the eight winners of the knockout round play-offs were unseeded. Again, the seeded teams were drawn against the unseeded teams, with the seeded teams hosting the second leg. Teams from the same association could not be drawn against each other.
 * In the draws for the quarter-finals and semi-finals, there will be no seedings, and teams from the same association could be drawn against each other. As the draws for the quarter-finals and semi-finals will be held together before the quarter-finals were played, the identity of the quarter-final winners will not be known at the time of the semi-final draw. A draw will also be held to determine which semi-final winner will be designated as the "home" team for the final (for administrative purposes as it will be played at a neutral venue).

Knockout round play-offs[edit]
The draw for the knockout round play-offs was held on 7 November 2022, 13:00 CET. The first legs were played on 16 February, and the second legs were played on 23 February 2023.

Round of 16[edit]
The draw for the round of 16 was held on 24 February 2023, 12:00 CET. The first legs were played on 9 March, and the second legs will be played on 16 March 2023.

Quarter-finals[edit]
The draw for the quarter-final will be held on 17 March 2023, 13:00 CET. The first legs will be played on 13 April, and the second legs will be played on 20 April 2023.

Semi-finals[edit]
The draw for the semi-finals will be held on 17 March 2023, 13:00 CET, after the quarter-final draw. The first legs will be played on 11 May, and the second legs will be played on 18 May 2023.

Final[edit]
Main article: 2023 UEFA Europa League final

The final will be played on 31 May 2023 at the Puskás Aréna in Budapest. A draw will be held on 17 March 2023, after the quarter-final and semi-final draws, to determine the "home" team for administrative purposes.

Statistics[edit]
Statistics exclude qualifying round and play-off round.

Tables updated as of 9 March 2023.

See also[edit]

 * 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