2024–25 UEFA Europa League
The 2024–25 UEFA Europa League will be the 54th season of Europe's secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 16th season since it was renamed from the UEFA Cup to the UEFA Europa League. This will be the first season of UEFA Europa League played under the new format of the Swiss-system.[1]
.jpg.webp) The San Mamés Stadium in Bilbao will host the final. | |
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| Dates | Qualifying: 11 July – 29 August 2024 Competition proper: 25 September 2024 – 21 May 2025 |
| Teams | Competition proper: 36 Total: 46+32 (from 33–48 associations) |
The final will be played on 21 May 2025 at San Mamés Stadium in Bilbao, Spain.[2] The winners of the 2024–25 UEFA Europa League will automatically qualify for the 2025–26 UEFA Champions League league phase and earn the right to play against the winners of the 2024–25 UEFA Champions League in the 2025 UEFA Super Cup.
Association team allocation
A total of 78 teams from between 33 and 48 of the 55 UEFA member associations are expected to participate in the 2023–24 UEFA Europa League. Among them, 33 associations have teams directly qualifying for the Europa League, while for the other 15 associations that do not have any teams directly qualifying may have teams playing after being transferred from the Champions League. The association ranking based on the UEFA association coefficients is used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:[3]
- 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 through league performance).
- Associations 1–12 each have two teams.
- Associations 13–34 (except Russia[Note RUS]) each have one team.
- 32 teams eliminated from the 2024–25 UEFA Champions League will be transferred to the Europa League.
Association ranking
For the 2024–25 UEFA Europa League, the associations are allocated places according to their 2023 UEFA association coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 2018–19 to 2022–23.[4]
Apart from the allocation based on the association 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
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Distribution
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| First qualifying round (18 teams) |
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| Second qualifying round (16 teams) |
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Champions (12 teams) |
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| Play-off round (24 teams) |
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| League stage (36 teams) |
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The information here reflects the ongoing suspension of Russia in European football, and so the following changes to the default access list have been made:
- The cup winners of associations 34 (Liechtenstein) will enter the first-qualifying round instead of the Europa Conference League second-qualifying round.
Should the Europa Conference League title holders have qualified for the Champions League or Europa League League Stage via their domestic league:
- The club in the qualifiers with the highest club coefficient will enter the league stage.
Teams
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
- 3rd, 4th, 5th, etc.: League position of the previous season
- UCL: Transferred from the Champions League
- 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).
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| League stage |  (ECL) |
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(5th) |
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(5th) |
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(UCL CH PO) |
(UCL CH PO) |
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| (UCL CH PO) |
(UCL CH PO) |
(UCL LP PO) |
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| (UCL LP Q3) |
(UCL LP Q3) |
(UCL LP Q3) |
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 (CW) |
(UCL CH Q3) |
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| Third qualifying round | CH | (UCL CH Q2) |
(UCL CH Q2) |
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| (UCL CH Q2) |
(UCL CH Q2) |
(UCL CH Q2) |
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(UCL CH Q2) |
(UCL CH Q2) |
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| MP | .svg.png.webp){kind=small} (CW) |
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| (UCL LP Q2) |
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| Second qualifying round | (4th) |
(3rd) |
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| First qualifying round |  (CW) |
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- ^ Russia (RUS): On 28 February 2022, Russian football clubs and national teams were suspended from FIFA and UEFA competitions due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[5] The tables reflect Russia's ongoing suspension from UEFA competitions.[6]
Schedule
The schedule of the competition is as follows.[7] 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.
| Phase | Round | Draw date | First leg | Second leg |
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| Qualifying | First qualifying round | TBD | 11 July 2024 | 18 July 2024 |
| Second qualifying round | 25 July 2024 | 1 August 2024 | ||
| Third qualifying round | 8 August 2024 | 15 August 2024 | ||
| Play-offs | Play-off round | 22 August 2024 | 29 August 2024 | |
| League stage | Matchday 1 | 25–26 September 2024 | ||
| Matchday 2 | 3 October 2024 | |||
| Matchday 3 | 24 October 2024 | |||
| Matchday 4 | 7 November 2024 | |||
| Matchday 5 | 28 November 2024 | |||
| Matchday 6 | 12 December 2024 | |||
| Matchday 7 | 23 January 2025 | |||
| Matchday 8 | 30 January 2025 | |||
| Knockout phase | Knockout round play-offs | 13 February 2025 | 20 February 2025 | |
| Round of 16 | 6 March 2025 | 13 March 2025 | ||
| Quarter-finals | 10 April 2025 | 17 April 2025 | ||
| Semi-finals | 1 May 2025 | 8 May 2025 | ||
| Final | 21 May 2025 at San Mamés Stadium, Bilbao | |||
See also
References
- "UEFA approves final format and access list for its club competitions as of the 2024/25 season". UEFA.com. 10 May 2022. Retrieved 8 March 2023.
- "Venues appointed for club competition finals". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 16 July 2021. Retrieved 16 July 2021.
- "Regulations of the UEFA Europa League, 2023/24 Season". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 2023. Retrieved 4 March 2023.
- "Association coefficients 2022/23". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 1 June 2023.
- "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.
- "UEFA decisions for upcoming competitions relating to the ongoing suspension of Russian national teams and clubs" (Press release). Nyon: UEFA. 2 May 2022. Retrieved 2 May 2022.
- "UEFA club competitions cycle 2024–27 ("Post 2024")". UEFA Circular Letter. No. 36/2023. Union of European Football Associations. 7 July 2023. Retrieved 10 July 2023.