2022–23 Uefa Europa League
The 2022–23 UEFA Europa League was 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 Puskás Aréna in Budapest hosted the final | |
| Tournament details | |
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| Dates | Qualifying: 4–25 August 2022 Competition proper: 8 September 2022 – 31 May 2023 |
| Teams | Competition proper: 32+8 Total: 21+36 (from 33 associations) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  Sevilla (7th title) |
| Runners-up |  Roma |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 141 |
| Goals scored | 381 (2.7 per match) |
| Attendance | 4,067,872 (28,850 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) | Victor Boniface (Union Saint-Gilloise) Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) 6 goals each |
| Best player(s) | Jesús Navas (Sevilla) |
Sevilla defeated Roma in the final played at the Puskás Aréna in Budapest, Hungary, 4–1 on penalties following a 1–1 draw after extra time, winning the competition for a record-extending seventh time. 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.
As winners of the tournament, Sevilla automatically qualified for the 2023–24 UEFA Champions League group stage and also earned the right to play against the winners of the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League, Manchester City, in the 2023 UEFA Super Cup.
As the title holders, Eintracht Frankfurt qualified for the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League. They were unable to defend their title after advancing to the knockout phase.
Association team allocation
A total of 57 teams from 33 of the 55 UEFA member associations participated in the 2022–23 UEFA Europa League. Among them, 15 associations had teams directly qualifying for the Europa League, while for the other 40 associations that did not have any teams directly qualifying, 18 of them had teams playing after being transferred from the Champions League (the only member associations which could not have a participant were Russia and Liechtenstein, which did not organise a domestic league, and could only enter their cup winner into the UEFA Europa Conference League given their association ranking). The association ranking based on the UEFA country coefficients was used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:
- The title holders of the UEFA Europa Conference League were given an entry in the Europa League (as they did not qualify for the Champions League group stage).
- Associations 1–5 each had two teams qualify.
- Associations 6–7 and 9–15 each had one team qualify.
- 36 teams eliminated from the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League were transferred to the Europa League.
Association ranking
For the 2022–23 UEFA Europa League, the associations were allocated places according to their 2021 UEFA country coefficients, which took into account their performance in European competitions from 2016–17 to 2020–21.
Apart from the allocation based on the country coefficients, associations may have had 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
The following is the access list for this season.
| 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, the following changes to the access list were 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.
Since the Europa Conference League title holders (Roma) qualified through their league position, the following changes to the access list were made:
- The cup winners of association 7 (Netherlands) enter the group stage instead of the play-off round.
- The cup winners of association 15 (Cyprus) enter the play-off round instead of the third qualifying round.
- The cup winners of association 17 (Czech Republic) enter the third qualifying round instead of the Europa Conference League second qualifying round.
Redistribution rules
A Europa League place was vacated when a team qualified for both the Champions League and the Europa League, or qualified for the Europa League by more than one method. When a place was vacated, it was 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 qualified for the Champions League, their Europa League place was vacated. As a result, the highest-placed team in the league which had not yet qualified for European competitions qualified for the Europa League, with the Europa League qualifiers which finished above them in the league moved up one "place".
- When the domestic cup winners also qualified for the Europa League through league position, their place through the league position was vacated. As a result, the highest-placed team in the league which had not yet qualified for European competitions qualified for the Europa League, with the Europa League qualifiers which finished above them in the league moved up one "place" if possible.
- For associations where a Europa League place was reserved for either the League Cup or end-of-season European competition play-offs winners, they always qualified for the Europa League as the "lowest-placed" qualifier. If the League Cup winners had already qualified for European competitions through other methods, this reserved Europa League place was taken by the highest-placed team in the league which had not yet qualified for European competitions.
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
- 4th, 5th, etc.: League position of the previous season
- Abd-: League positions of abandoned season as determined by the national association; all teams were 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 was divided into Champions Path (CH) and Main Path (MP).
CC: 2022 UEFA club coefficients.
Notes
Schedule
The schedule of the competition was as follows. Matches were scheduled for Thursdays apart from the final, which took place on a Wednesday, though exceptionally could take place on Tuesdays or Wednesdays due to scheduling conflicts. Scheduled kick-off times starting from the group stage were 18:45 and 21:00 CEST/CET, though exceptionally could take place at 16:30 due to geographical reasons.
As the 2022 FIFA World Cup took place in Qatar between 20 November and 18 December 2022, the group stage commenced in the first week of September 2022 and concluded in the first week of November 2022 to make way for the World Cup.
The draws for the qualifying round were held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. The group stage draw took place in Istanbul, Turkey.
| 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 | 2 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
The draw for the third qualifying round was held on 18 July 2022. The first legs were played on 4 August, and the second legs were played on 9 and 11 August 2022.
The winners of the ties advanced to the play-off round. The losers were transferred to the Europa Conference League play-off round of their respective path.
| Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Malmö FF  | 5–2 |  F91 Dudelange | 3–0 | 2–2 |
Shamrock Rovers  | 5–2 |  Shkupi | 3–1 | 2–1 |
Linfield  | 0–5 |  Zürich | 0–2 | 0–3 |
Olympiacos  | 3–3 (4–3 p) |  Slovan Bratislava | 1–1 | 2–2 (a.e.t.) |
Maribor  | 0–3 |  HJK | 0–2 | 0–1 |
| Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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AEK Larnaca  | 4–3 |  Partizan | 2–1 | 2–2 |
Fenerbahçe  | 4–1 |  Slovácko | 3–0 | 1–1 |
Play-off round
The draw for the play-off round was held on 2 August 2022. The first legs were played on 18 August, and the second legs were played on 25 August 2022.
The winners of the ties advanced to the group stage. The losers were transferred to the Europa Conference League group stage.
| Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Dnipro-1  | 1–5 | AEK Larnaca | 1–2 | 0–3 |
Gent  | 0–4 | Omonia | 0–2 | 0–2 |
Austria Wien  | 1–6 | Fenerbahçe | 0–2 | 1–4 |
| Zürich | 3–1 |  Heart of Midlothian | 2–1 | 1–0 |
| HJK | 2–1 |  Silkeborg | 1–0 | 1–1 |
| Malmö FF | 5–1 | Sivasspor | 3–1 | 2–0 |
Ferencváros  | 4–1 | Shamrock Rovers | 4–0 | 0–1 |
| Apollon Limassol | 2–2 (1–3 p) | Olympiacos | 1–1 | 1–1 (a.e.t.) |
Pyunik  | 0–0 (2–3 p) |  Sheriff Tiraspol | 0–0 | 0–0 (a.e.t.) |
Ludogorets Razgrad  | 4–3 |  Žalgiris | 1–0 | 3–3 (a.e.t.) |
Group stage
Brown: Group A; 
Red: Group B; 
Orange: Group C; 
Yellow: Group D;
Green: Group E; 
Blue: Group F; 
Purple: Group G; 
Pink: Group H.The draw for the group stage was 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 (CC). Teams from the same association could not be drawn into the same group.
Bodø/Glimt, Nantes, Union Berlin and Union Saint-Gilloise made their debut appearances in the group stage. Union Saint-Gilloise made their debut appearance in a UEFA competition group stage.
A total of 23 national associations were represented in the group stage.
Group A
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | ARS | PSV | BOD | ZUR | |
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| 1 |  Arsenal | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 3 | +5 | 15 | Advance to round of 16 | — | 1–0 | 3–0 | 1–0 | |
| 2 |  PSV Eindhoven | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 4 | +11 | 13 | Advance to knockout round play-offs | 2–0 | — | 1–1 | 5–0 | |
| 3 |  Bodø/Glimt | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 10 | −5 | 4 | Transfer to Europa Conference League | 0–1 | 1–2 | — | 2–1 | |
| 4 | Zürich | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 16 | −11 | 3 | 1–2 | 1–5 | 2–1 | — |
Group B
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | FEN | REN | AEK | DKV | |
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| 1 | Fenerbahçe | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 7 | +6 | 14 | Advance to round of 16 | — | 3–3 | 2–0 | 2–1 | |
| 2 |  Rennes | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 8 | +3 | 12 | Advance to knockout round play-offs | 2–2 | — | 1–1 | 2–1 | |
| 3 | AEK Larnaca | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 10 | −3 | 5 | Transfer to Europa Conference League | 1–2 | 1–2 | — | 3–3 | |
| 4 | Dynamo Kyiv | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 11 | −6 | 1 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 0–1 | — |
Group C
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | BET | ROM | LUD | HJK | |
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| 1 | Real Betis | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 4 | +8 | 16 | Advance to round of 16 | — | 1–1 | 3–2 | 3–0 | |
| 2 | Roma | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 7 | +4 | 10 | Advance to knockout round play-offs | 1–2 | — | 3–1 | 3–0 | |
| 3 | Ludogorets Razgrad | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 9 | −1 | 7 | Transfer to Europa Conference League | 0–1 | 2–1 | — | 2–0 | |
| 4 | HJK | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 13 | −11 | 1 | 0–2 | 1–2 | 1–1 | — |
Group D
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | USG | UBE | BRA | MAL | |
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| 1 | Union Saint-Gilloise | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 7 | +4 | 13 | Advance to round of 16 | — | 0–1 | 3–3 | 3–2 | |
| 2 |  Union Berlin | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 | +2 | 12 | Advance to knockout round play-offs | 0–1 | — | 1–0 | 1–0 | |
| 3 |  Braga | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 7 | +2 | 10 | Transfer to Europa Conference League | 1–2 | 1–0 | — | 2–1 | |
| 4 | Malmö FF | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 11 | −8 | 0 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 0–2 | — |
Group E
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | RSO | MUN | SHE | OMO | |
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| 1 | Real Sociedad | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 2 | +8 | 15 | Advance to round of 16 | — | 0–1 | 3–0 | 2–1 | |
| 2 | Manchester United | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 3 | +7 | 15 | Advance to knockout round play-offs | 0–1 | — | 3–0 | 1–0 | |
| 3 | Sheriff Tiraspol | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 10 | −6 | 6 | Transfer to Europa Conference League | 0–2 | 0–2 | — | 1–0 | |
| 4 | Omonia | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 12 | −9 | 0 | 0–2 | 2–3 | 0–3 | — |
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Group F
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | FEY | MID | LAZ | STU | |
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| 1 | Feyenoord | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 9 | +4 | 8 | Advance to round of 16 | — | 2–2 | 1–0 | 6–0 | |
| 2 | Midtjylland | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 8 | +4 | 8 | Advance to knockout round play-offs | 2–2 | — | 5–1 | 2–0 | |
| 3 | Lazio | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 11 | −2 | 8 | Transfer to Europa Conference League | 4–2 | 2–1 | — | 2–2 | |
| 4 | Sturm Graz | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 10 | −6 | 8 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | — |
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