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Revision as of 23:34, 4 May 2022
| Dates | Qualifying: 7 July – 25 August 2022 Competition proper: 8 September 2022 – 7 June 2023 |
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The 2022–23 UEFA Europa Conference League will be the second season of the UEFA Europa Conference League, Europe's tertiary club football tournament organised by UEFA.
The final will be played at a single venue. The winners of the 2022–23 UEFA Europa Conference League will automatically qualify for the 2023–24 UEFA Europa League group stage, unless they manage to qualify for the 2023–24 UEFA Champions League group stage.[1]
This season is the second since 1998–99 (the last season that the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup was played) where three major European club competitions (UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League and UEFA Europa Conference League) organised by UEFA take place.[2]
Association team allocation
A total of 181 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 UEFA country coefficients is used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:[3]
- Associations 1–5 each have one team qualify.
- Associations 6–7, 9–15 and 51–55 each have two teams qualify.
- Associations 16–50 (except Liechtenstein)[Note LIE] each have three teams qualify.
- Liechtenstein have one team qualify (Liechtenstein organises only a domestic cup and no domestic league).[Note LIE]
- Moreover, 19 teams eliminated from the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League and 25 teams eliminated from the 2022–23 UEFA Europa League are transferred to the Europa Conference League.
Association ranking
For the 2022–23 UEFA Europa Conference 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.[4]
Apart from the allocation based on the country coefficients, associations may have additional teams participating in the Europa Conference League, as noted below:
- (UCL) – Additional teams transferred to/from the UEFA Champions League
- (UEL) – Additional teams transferred from the UEFA Europa League
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Distribution
The following is the access list for this season.[5] In the default access list, the title holders of the Europa Conference League qualify for the Europa League group stage.
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 association 16 (Serbia) enter the Europa League instead of the second qualifying round.
- The cup winners of associations 17 to 19 (Czech Republic, Croatia and Switzerland) enter the third qualifying round instead of the second qualifying round.
- The cup winners of associations 30 to 39 (Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republic of Ireland, North Macedonia and Armenia) enter the second qualifying round instead of the first qualifying round.
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| First qualifying round (62 teams) |
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| Second qualifying round (106 teams) |
Champions Path (16 teams) |
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| Main Path (90 teams) |
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| Third qualifying round (64 teams) |
Champions Path (10 teams) |
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| Main Path (54 teams) |
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| Play-off round (44 teams) |
Champions Path (10 teams) |
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| Main Path (34 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: 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).
Note: Teams in italics may still qualify for the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League or 2022–23 UEFA Europa League, either through domestic performance, or by winning the 2021–22 UEFA Champions League.
CC: 2022 UEFA club coefficients.[6]
Notes
- ^ Champions League (UCL Q1): Two of the Champions League first qualifying round losers will be drawn to receive byes to the third qualifying round (Champions Path), as two fewer losers were transferred to the second qualifying round (Champions Path), due to Champions League group stage berths vacated following the UCL Title Holders qualifying via league position and the suspension of Russia from the 2022–23 European season.
- ^ Belgium (BEL): Union SG may still qualify for the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League by their final position in the Belgian First Division A Play-Off I.
- ^ Belarus (BLR): Gomel have qualified for the 2022–23 UEFA Europa Conference League as they finished in the top four of the 2021 Belarusian Premier League and reached the final of the 2021–22 Belarusian Cup. They will enter the second qualifying round if they win Belarusian Cup. They will enter the first qualifying round if BATE Borisov win the Belarusian Cup and, as a result, Dinamo Minsk would be promoted to the second qualifying round.
- ^ Croatia (CRO): Rijeka have qualified for the 2022–23 UEFA Europa Conference League due to their final position in the 2021–22 Croatian First Football League. They will enter the third qualifying round if they win the 2021–22 Croatian Football Cup otherwise they will enter the second qualifying round.
- ^ Czech Republic (CZE): Slovácko have qualified for the 2022–23 UEFA Europa Conference League due to their final position in the 2021–22 Czech First League. They will enter the third qualifying round if they win the 2021–22 Czech Cup otherwise they will enter the second qualifying round.
- ^ Liechtenstein (LIE): The seven teams affiliated with the Liechtenstein Football Association (LFV) all play in the Swiss football league system. The only competition organised by the LFV is the Liechtenstein Football Cup – the winners of which qualify for the UEFA Europa Conference League.
- ^ Poland (POL): Raków Częstochowa may still qualify for Champions League if they win the 2021–22 Ekstraklasa.
- ^ Portugal (POR): Braga may still qualify for Europa League if Porto wins the 2021–22 Taça de Portugal.
- ^ 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.[7] On 2 May 2022, UEFA confirmed that Russian clubs would be excluded from the 2022–23 UEFA competitions.[8]
- ^ San Marino (SMR): Tre Fiori may still qualify for Champions League if they win the 2021–22 Campionato Sammarinese di Calcio.
- ^ Slovakia (SVK): Spartak Trnava and Ružomberok have qualified for the 2022–23 UEFA Europa Conference League due to their final positions in the 2021–22 Slovak First Football League. If Spartak Trnava win the 2021–22 Slovak Cup or finish second in the league, they will enter the second qualifying round and Ružomberok will enter the first qualifying round. If Ružomberok finish second and Spartak Trnava do not win the cup, Ružomberok will enter the second qualifying round and Spartak Trnava will enter the first qualifying round.
- ^ Ukraine (UKR): The 2021–22 Ukrainian Premier League was abandoned due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. The fourth and fifth-placed teams of the league at the time of the abandonment (Zorya Luhansk and Vorskla Poltava) were selected to play in the 2022–23 UEFA Europa Conference 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 (especially featuring teams from associations where there are few approved stadiums, such as Gibraltar and Wales). 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.[9]
All draws start at 13:00 or 14:00 CEST/CET and are held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.[10]
| Phase | Round | Draw date | First leg | Second leg |
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| Qualifying | First qualifying round | 14 June 2022 | 7 July 2022 | 14 July 2022 |
| Second qualifying round | 15 June 2022 | 21 July 2022 | 28 July 2022 | |
| 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 | 7 June 2023 at TBD | |||
See also
- 2022–23 UEFA Champions League
- 2022–23 UEFA Europa League
- 2022–23 UEFA Women's Champions League
- 2022–23 UEFA Youth League
References
- ^ "UEFA Europa Conference League: what is it? When does it start? Who's involved?". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 31 October 2019. Archived from the original on 22 August 2020. Retrieved 21 February 2020.
- ^ "UEFA Executive Committee approves new club competition". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 2 December 2018. Archived from the original on 13 May 2019. Retrieved 2 December 2018.
- ^ "Regulations of the UEFA Europa Conference 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. 2021. 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.
- ^ "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) - ^ "Uefa announces further sanctions on Russian clubs and national teams amid Ukraine invasion". British Broadcasting Corporation. 2 May 2022.
- ^ "Format change for 2020/21 UEFA Nations League". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 24 September 2019. Archived from the original on 26 September 2019. Retrieved 17 February 2020.
- ^ "2022 European football calendar: Match and draw dates for all UEFA competitions". UEFA. 1 January 2022. Retrieved 6 January 2022.
- ^ "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.