When Is the Europa League Draw
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| Dates | Qualifying: 4–25 August 2022 Competition proper: 8 September 2022 – 31 May 2023 |
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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.
The final will be played at the Puskás Aréna in Budapest, Hungary. Budapest was originally scheduled to host the final match for the 2021–22 UEFA Europa League, but several hosts were shifted because of the delay and ultimate relocation of the 2020 final due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[1]
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.
As the title holders of the Europa League, Eintracht Frankfurt qualified for the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League. They will only be able to defend their title if they finish third in their group.
Association team allocation [edit]
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:[2]
- 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 [edit]
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.[3]
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
- (UECL) – Additional berth for UEFA Europa Conference League title holders
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Distribution [edit]
The following is the access list for this season.[4]
| Teams entering in this round | Teams advancing from previous round | Teams transferred from Champions League | ||
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| Third qualifying round (14 teams) | Champions Path (10 teams) |
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| Main Path (4 teams) |
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| Play-off round (20 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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Due to the suspension of Russia for the 2022–23 European season, and since the Europa Conference League title holders (Roma) have qualified through their league positions, the following changes to the access list have been made:
- The cup winners of association 7 (Netherlands) enter the group stage instead of the play-off round
- The cup winners of associations 13 (Turkey), 14 (Denmark) and 15 (Cyprus) enter the play-off round instead of the third qualifying round.
- The cup winners of associations 16 (Serbia) and 17 (Czech Republic) enter the third qualifying round instead of the Europa Conference League.
Redistribution rules [edit]
A Europa League place is vacated when a team qualifies for both the Champions League and the Europa League, or qualifies for the Europa League by more than one method. When a place is vacated, it is redistributed within the national association by the following rules:
- When the domestic cup winners (considered as the "highest-placed" qualifier within the national association with the latest starting round) also qualify for the Champions League, their Europa League place is vacated. As a result, the highest-placed team in the league which have not yet qualified for European competitions qualify for the Europa League, with the Europa League qualifiers which finish above them in the league moved up one "place".
- When the domestic cup winners also qualify for the Europa League through league position, their place through the league position is vacated. As a result, the highest-placed team in the league which have not yet qualified for European competitions qualify for the Europa League, with the Europa League qualifiers which finish above them in the league moved up one "place" if possible.
- For associations where a Europa League place is reserved for either the League Cup or end-of-season European competition play-offs winners, they always qualify for the Europa League as the "lowest-placed" qualifier. If the League Cup winners have already qualified for European competitions through other methods, this reserved Europa League place is taken by the highest-placed team in the league which have not yet qualified for European competitions.
Teams [edit]
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
- 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).
CC: 2022 UEFA club coefficients. [5]
| Entry round | Teams | ||||
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| Knockout round play-offs |  (UCL GS) | (UCL GS) | (UCL GS) | (UCL GS) | |
| (UCL GS) | (UCL GS) | (UCL GS) | (UCL GS) | ||
| Group stage |  Roma (6th) ECL |  Arsenal (5th) | Manchester United (6th) |  Real Betis (CW) | |
| Real Sociedad (6th) | Lazio (5th) |  Union Berlin (5th) | SC Freiburg (6th) | ||
 Nantes (CW) | Rennes (4th) |  Braga (4th) |  Feyenoord (3rd) | ||
| (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 |  Gent (CW) |  Austria Wien (3rd) |  Heart of Midlothian (3rd) |  Dnipro-1 (Abd-3rd) [Note UKR] | |
 Sivasspor (CW) |  Silkeborg (3rd) |  Omonia (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 |  Partizan (2nd) |  Slovácko (CW) | (UCL LP Q2) | (UCL LP Q2) | |
Notes
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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 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[6] On 2 May 2022, UEFA confirmed that Russian clubs would be excluded from the 2022–23 UEFA competitions.[7]
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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 [edit]
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.
The draws for the qualifying round will be held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.[8] The group stage draw, will take place in Istanbul, Turkey.[9]
| Phase | Round | Draw date | First leg | Second leg |
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| Qualifying | Third qualifying round | 18 July 2022 | 4 August 2022 | 11 August 2022 |
| Play-offs | Play-off round | 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 | |||
Third qualifying round [edit]
The draw for the third qualifying round will be held on 18 July 2022.A total of 16 teams will play in the qualifying round. They will be divided into two paths:
- Champions Path (10 teams): 10 losers of the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League second qualifying round (Champions Path), whose identity will not be known at the time of draw. There will be no seeding.
- Main Path (4 teams): The teams will be seeded as follows:
- Seeded: 2 teams which enter in this round.
- Unseeded: 2 losers of the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League second qualifying round (League Path), whose identity will not be known at the time of draw.
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.
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Play-off round [edit]
The draw for the play-off round will be held on 1 August 2022.
| Priority 1 | Priority 2 | Priority 3 | Priority 4 |
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Group stage [edit]
Location of teams of the 2022–23 UEFA Europa League group stage.
The draw for the group stage will be held on 26 August 2022. The 32 teams will be drawn into eight groups of four. For the draw, the teams will be 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.
Nantes and Union Berlin will make their debut appearances in the Europa League group stage.
| Pot 1 Pot 1 or 2 | Pot 1, 2, 3 or 4
| Pot 2 or 3 | Pot 2, 3 or 4 |
See also [edit]
- 2022–23 UEFA Champions League
- 2022–23 UEFA Europa Conference League
- 2023 UEFA Super Cup
- 2022–23 UEFA Women's Champions League
- 2022–23 UEFA Youth League
References [edit]
- ^ "Budapest to host 2022 UEFA Europa League Final". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 2 March 2020. Archived from the original on 25 August 2020. Retrieved 2 March 2020.
- ^ "Regulations of the UEFA Europa League, 2022/23 Season". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 1 May 2022. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
- ^ "Country coefficients 2020/21". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 2020. 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". BBC.co.uk. British Broadcasting Corporation. 2 May 2022.
- ^ "2022 European football calendar: Match and draw dates for all UEFA competitions". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 1 January 2022. Retrieved 6 January 2022.
- ^ "Venues appointed for club competition finals". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 16 July 2021. Retrieved 16 July 2021.
- ^ "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.
External links [edit]
- Official website
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%E2%80%9323_UEFA_Europa_League
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