The draw for the UEFA Europa League group stage will be held at a venue to be confirmed on Friday 1 September 2023. When will the draw and our matches take place? For example, Liverpool’s CC is 123.000, Roma’s is 97.000 after their recent Conference League win and Europa League final appearance, and Villarreal’s is 82.000. The positions of the other 31 clubs who take part in the group stage will be governed by their UEFA club coefficient (CC) – a sum of points earned by clubs in European competition over the previous five seasons, or 20% of the club’s association coefficient over the same period, whichever coefficient is higher.Īfter our victory in Prague, West Ham United’s CC is up to 50.000 exactly.Ĭlubs who have competed in Europe regularly in recent seasons have higher CCs and will therefore receive a higher seeding in the draw. We have never faced any of those sides in European competition previously.Īs UEFA Europa Conference League winners, we will be automatically placed among the eight teams in Pot 1. The Hammers will definitely be joined by Liverpool and Brighton, as stated, French Cup winners Toulouse and Ligue 1 qualifiers Rennes, German Bundesliga qualifiers SC Freiburg and Bayer Leverkusen, Italian Serie A qualifiers Atalanta and Roma, Spanish La Liga qualifiers Villarreal and Real Betis and Portuguese Primeira Liga qualifiers Sporting Lisbon. The winners of those ten Play-Off round ties will join the 12 group-stage qualifiers already confirmed, including West Ham United! However, we do know the identity of seven of the 20 clubs who will contest the Play-Off round, all of whom finished third in their respective domestic leagues – Ajax of the Netherlands, LASK of Austria, Aberdeen of Scotland, Čukarički of Serbia, Zorya Luhansk of Ukraine, Union Saint-Gilloise of Belgium and Lugano of Switzerland. Of course, the ten Play-Off round winners and the ten teams who drop out of the Champions League qualifying and play-off rounds will not be known until next season. The 16 remaining teams will then be gradually whittled down to two, who will contest the final at the Lansdowne Road in Dublin, Republic of Ireland on Wednesday. The eight group-stage runners-up will contest a preliminary knockout round in ties against the eight clubs who finish third in their UEFA Champions League groups for the right to join them. They will be drawn into eight groups of four, with the eight group winners qualifying directly for the round of 16. Therefore, the 2023/24 group stage will be comprised of three clubs from England, two each from France, Germany, Italy and Spain and one from Portugal, ten winners from the Europa League Play-Off round, six teams eliminated from the UEFA Champions League Play-Off round and four eliminated from the Champions League third qualifying round (League Path). West Ham’s Conference League triumph means there will be three English clubs competing, with Liverpool and Brighton & Hove Albion also in after finishing fifth and sixth respectively in the Premier League. ![]() ![]() Russian clubs are currently barred from UEFA competitions, so the place they had in 2021/22 has gone. There is a difference, however, in the number of clubs from certain countries who have direct access to the Europa League group stage. The group stage will be contested by 32 teams, with the eight group winners progressing directly to the round of 16, and the runners-up playing-off against eight UEFA Champions League third-place group-stage finishers to join them. We got to the Europa League semi-finals in 2021/22, so is it basically the same tournament in 2023/24?
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