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Association team allocation

A total of 58 teams from between 31 and 36 of the 55

member associations are expected to participate in the 2023–24 UEFA Europa Conference 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 association which cannot have a participant is

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, 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: *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 through league performance). *Associations 1–5 each have two teams qualify. *Associations 6–15 each have one team qualify. *37 teams eliminated from the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League are transferred to the Europa League.

Association ranking

A total of 177 teams from 54 of the 55

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:

Distribution

The following is the access list for this season. Due to the suspension of Russia for the 2023–24 European season, the following changes to the access list have been made: * The cup winners of association 16 (Czech Republic) enter the Europa League instead of the second qualifying round. * The cup winners of associations 17 to 19 (Norway, Denmark and Croatia ) enter the third qualifying round instead of the second qualifying round. * The cup winners of associations 30 to 39 (Slovakia, Slovenia, Belarus, Moldova, Lithuania, Bosnia and Herzegovina , Finland, Luxemburg, Latvia and Kosovo) enter the second qualifying round instead of the first qualifying round.

Teams

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round: 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). Notes

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.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Uefa Europa Conference League 2023-24 3 2023–24 Scheduled association football competitions