The 2023–24 UEFA Europa Conderence League will be the third season of the UEFA Europa Conference League, Europe's tertiary club football tournament organised by UEFA
The final will be played at the yet to be announced venue. The winners of the tournament will automatically qualify for the 2024–25 UEFA Europa League group stage, and also earn the right to play against the winners of the 2024–25 UEFA Champions League group tstage.
This edition will be the final season with the current format of 32 teams participating at the group stage, after UEFA announced that a brand new format would be introduced for the following edition.
Contents
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 2023–24 UEFA Europa Conference 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 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 to the Champions League through league performance]
- 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
A total of 177 teams from 54 of the 55 UEFA member associations [excluding Russia] will participate in the 2022–23 UEFA Europa Conference League. The association ranking based on the is used to determine the number of participating teams for each association
Association ranking for 2023–24 UEFA Europa LeagueRankAssociationCoeff. TeamsNotes1Distribution
The following is the access list for this season
Access list for 2023–24 UEFA Europa LeagueTeams entering in this roundTeams advancing from previous roundTeams transferred from Champions LeagueTeams transferred from Europa LeagueFirst qualifying round[72 teams]
- 26 domestic cup winners from associations 30–55
- 25 domestic league runners-up from associations 30–55 [except Liechtenstein]
- 21 domestic league third-placed teams from associations 29–50 [except Liechtenstein]
[20 teams]
- 17 teams eliminated from Champions League first qualifying round
- 3 teams eliminated from Champions League preliminary round
[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
[10 teams]
- 10 winners from the second qualifying round for champions
[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 for non-champions
[10 teams]
- 5 winners from the third qualifying round for champions
- 5 teams eliminated from Europa League third qualifying round for champions
[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 for non-champions
- 3 teams eliminated from Europa League third qualifying round for non-champions
[32 teams]
- 5 winners from the play-off round for champions
- 17 winners from the play-off round for non-champions
- 10 teams eliminated from Europa League play-off round
[16 teams]
- 8 group runners-up from the group stage
- 8 group third-placed teams from Europa League group stage
[16 teams]
- 8 group winners from the group stage
- 8 winners from the preliminary knockout round
If the suspension of Russian clubs from European competitions is upheld for the 2023–24 European season, and if the Europa Conference League title holders already qualify for the Europa League group stage, the following changes to the access list will be made
- The cup winners of associations 16 [Czech Republic] enter the Europa League instead of the second qualifying round
- The cup winners of associations 17 to 19 [Norway, Denmark and Croatia] enter the third qualifying round instead of the second qualifying round
- The cup winners of associations 30 to 39 [Slovakia, Slovenia, Belarus, Moldova, Lithuania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Finland, Luxembourg, Latvia and Kosovo] enter the second qualifying round instead of the first qualifying round
Teams
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. 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
- Abd-. League positions of abandoned season as determined by the national association; all teams are subject to approval by UEFA
- 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]