2022–23 UEFA Europa League

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.

2022–23 UEFA Europa League
The Puskás Aréna in Budapest will host the final
DatesQualifying:
4–25 August 2022
Competition proper:
8 September 2022 – 31 May 2023

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 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:[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 6–7 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

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
Association ranking for 2022–23 UEFA Europa League
Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes
1  England 100.569 2
2  Spain 97.855
3  Italy 75.438
4  Germany 73.570
5  France 56.081
6  Portugal 48.549 1
7  Netherlands 39.200
8  Russia 38.382 0 [Note RUS]
9  Belgium 36.500 1
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
17  Czech Republic 26.600 0
18  Croatia 26.275
19   Switzerland 26.225
Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes
20  Greece 26.000 0
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
34  Lithuania 8.750
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 0
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
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.[3]

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 second qualifying round.
Access list for 2022–23 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)
Main Path
(4 teams)
  • 2 domestic cup winners from association 15–16
  • 2 teams eliminated from Champions League second qualifying round (League Path)
Play-off round
(20 teams)
  • 7 domestic cup winners from associations 7–14 (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)
  • 1 Europa Conference League title holder
  • 6 domestic cup winners from associations 1–6
  • 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

Teams

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
  • 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).

Note: Teams in italics may still qualify for the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League through domestic performance.

CC: 2022 UEFA club coefficients.[4]

Qualified teams for 2022–23 UEFA Europa League
Entry round Teams
Knockout round play-offs (UCL GS) (UCL GS) (UCL GS) (UCL GS)
(UCL GS) (UCL GS) (UCL GS) (UCL GS)
Group stage (CW/5th) (6th) Real Betis (CW)[Note ESP] (5th)
(5th) (6th) (CW) (5th)
(CW) (4th) (CW) (UECL 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 PSV Eindhoven (CW)[Note NED] Gent (CW) (3rd) Heart of Midlothian (CW/3rd)
Dnipro-1 (Abd-3rd)[Note UKR] (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) (UCL LP Q2) (UCL LP Q2)

Notes

  1. ^
    Netherlands (NED): PSV may still qualify for the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League by their final league position.
  2. ^
    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] On 2 May 2022, UEFA confirmed that Russian clubs would be excluded from the 2022–23 UEFA competitions.[6]
  3. ^
    Spain (ESP): Real Betis may still qualify for the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League by their final league position.
  4. ^
    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

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.[7]

Schedule for 2022–23 UEFA Europa League[8]
Phase Round Draw date First leg Second leg
Qualifying Third qualifying round 18 July 2022 4 August 2022 11 August 2022
Play-offs 1 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 24 February 2023 9 March 2023 16 March 2023
Quarter-finals 17 March 2023 13 April 2023 20 April 2023
Semi-finals 11 May 2023 18 May 2023
Final 31 May 2023 at Puskás Aréna, Budapest

Qualifying rounds
Main article: 2022–23 UEFA Europa League qualifying phase and play-off round

Third qualifying round

The draw for the qualifying round will be held on 18 July 2022. Teams from the same association cannot be drawn against each other. The first team drawn in each tie will be the home team of the first leg.

Qualified teams

Play-off round

The draw for the play-off round will be held on 1 August 2022.

Qualified teams

Group stage

The draw for the group stage will be 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. Teams from the same association could not be drawn into the same group.

See also

References
  1. "Regulations of the UEFA Europa League, 2021/22 Season". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 2021. Retrieved 30 April 2021.
  2. "Country coefficients 2020/21". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 2020. Archived from the original on 4 December 2019. Retrieved 16 February 2020.
  3. "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.
  4. "Club coefficients 2021/22". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations.
  5. "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)
  6. "Uefa announces further sanctions on Russian clubs and national teams amid Ukraine invasion". British Broadcasting Corporation. 2 May 2022.
  7. "2022 European football calendar: Match and draw dates for all UEFA competitions". UEFA. 1 January 2022. Retrieved 6 January 2022.
  8. "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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