The 2024–25 UEFA Conference League will be the fourth season of the
UEFA Conference League
The UEFA Europa Conference League (abbreviated as UECL) is an annual football club competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) for eligible European football clubs. Clubs qualify for the competition based on their ...
, Europe's tertiary club
football tournament organised by
UEFA
Union of European Football Associations (UEFA ; french: Union des associations européennes de football; german: Union der europäischen Fußballverbände) is one of six continental bodies of governance in association football. It governs f ...
.
This will be the first UEFA Conference League played under the new format of the
Swiss-system
A Swiss-system tournament is a non-eliminating tournament format that features a fixed number of rounds of competition, but considerably fewer than for a round-robin tournament; thus each competitor (team or individual) does not play all the other ...
. From this season, the competition is renamed to UEFA Conference League from the UEFA Europa Conference League.
The
final
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** Another term for playoffs, describing a sequence of con ...
will be played in
Stadion Wrocław
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in
Wrocław
Wrocław (; german: Breslau, or . ; Silesian German: ''Brassel'') is a city in southwestern Poland and the largest city in the historical region of Silesia. It lies on the banks of the River Oder in the Silesian Lowlands of Central Europe, rou ...
,
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou ...
. The winners of the tournament will automatically qualify for the
2025–26 UEFA Europa League league stage, unless they qualify for the
2025–26 UEFA Champions League through their league performance.
Association team allocation
A total of 168 teams from 53 of the 55
UEFA
Union of European Football Associations (UEFA ; french: Union des associations européennes de football; german: Union der europäischen Fußballverbände) is one of six continental bodies of governance in association football. It governs f ...
member associations are set to participate in the 2024–25 UEFA Europa League (the exceptions being
Liechtenstein
Liechtenstein (), officially the Principality of Liechtenstein (german: link=no, Fürstentum Liechtenstein), is a German-speaking microstate located in the Alps between Austria and Switzerland. Liechtenstein is a semi-constitutional monarch ...
which does not organise a domestic league and
Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eig ...
who is currently suspended). The association ranking based on the
UEFA association coefficients is used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:
*Associations 1–12 each have one team.
*Association 13–34 and 51–55 (except Liechtenstein and Russia) each have two teams.
*Association 35–50 each have three teams.
Association ranking
For the 2024–25 UEFA Conference 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.
Apart from the allocation based on the association coefficients, associations may have additional teams participating in the Champions League, as noted below:
* – Additional teams transferred from the UEFA Champions League
* – Additional berth for UEFA Europa League title holders
Distribution
The following is the access list for this season.
The information here reflects the ongoing suspension of Russia in European football, and so the following changes to the access list have been made:
* The cup winners of association 34 (Liechtenstein) will enter the Europa League first-qualifying round instead of the Conference League second-qualifying round.
* The cup winners of associations 39 to 44 (Armenia, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Luxembourg, Faroe Islands and Northern Ireland) will 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
*LC: League cup winners
*RW: Regular season winners
*PW: End-of-season Conference League play-offs winners
*UCL: Transferred from the Champions League
**Q1: Losers from the first qualifying round
*UEL: Transferred from the Europa League
**PO: Losers from the play-off round
**CH/MP Q3: Losers from the third qualifying round (Champions/Main Path)
**MP Q2: Losers from the second qualifying round (Main Path)
**MP Q1: Losers from the first qualifying round (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
2024–25 UEFA Champions League
The UEFA Champions League (abbreviated as UCL, or sometimes, UEFA CL) is an annual club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and contested by top-division European clubs, deciding the competit ...
or
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 U ...
.''
''CC: 2023
UEFA club coefficients.''
Notes
Schedule
The schedule of the competition is as follows. Matches are scheduled for Thursdays (including an exclusive day of December 19) apart from the final, which takes place on a Wednesday, though exceptionally can take place on Tuesdays or Wednesdays due to scheduling conflicts.
Qualifying rounds
First qualifying round
A total of 52 teams will play in the first qualifying round.
*
KuPS
Kuopion Palloseura (or KuPS) is a Finnish football club, based in the ninth most populated city of Finland, Kuopio. KuPS plays in Finland's Premier League, Veikkausliiga.
KuPS has won the Finnish championship six times, the Finnish Cup 4 time ...
CC: 10.000
*
Breiðablik CC: 8.500
*
Dinamo Tbilisi
Dinamo Tbilisi is a sports club from Tbilisi, Georgia. It was founded in 1925.
Among its highest honors, is the European trophy earned by its football team which won the Cup Winners' Cup in 1981, beating FC Carl Zeiss Jena of East Germany 2–1 ...
CC: 8.000
*
B36 Tórshavn
B36 Tórshavn ( fo, Bóltfelagið 1936 Tórshavn) is a Faroe Islands, Faroese semi professional Association football, football club based in the capital of Tórshavn, playing in the Faroe Islands Premier League, the top tier of Faroese football. ...
CC: 7.000
*
Kauno Žalgiris CC: 6.000
*
FCI Levadia CC: 6.000
*
Valmiera
Valmiera (; german: link=no, Wolmar; pl, Wolmar see other names) is the largest city of the historical Vidzeme region, Latvia, with a total area of . As of 2002, Valmiera had a population of 27,323, and in 2020 – 24 879. It is a state cit ...
CC: 5.500
*
Saburtalo Tbilisi CC: 4.500
*
Derry City CC: 4.000
*
Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino CC: 3.000
*
Valur CC: 3.000
*
Torpedo Kutaisi CC: 2.500
*
Víkingur Gøta
Víkingur is a semi-professional football club in the Faroe Islands. The club was founded in 2008 after the merger of GÍ Gøta and Leirvík ÍF. The club is based in Leirvík, while the stadium is in Norðragøta. Both villages are part of th ...
CC: 2.500
*
Stjarnan
Ungmennafélagið Stjarnan, commonly known as Stjarnan, is an Icelandic multi-sports club specialising in handball, football, basketball, volleyball and gymnastics located in Garðabær.and in the top 10 in the World and they have won the League ...
CC: 2.500
*
Aktobe
Aktobe ( kz, Ақтөбе, Aqtöbe; russian: Актобе, Aktobe) is a city on the Ilek River in Kazakhstan. It is the administrative center of Aktobe Region. In 2020, it had a population of 500,757 people.
Aktobe is located in the west of K ...
CC: 2.300
*
VPS CC: 2.225
*
Shelbourne CC: 2.175
*
Auda
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CC: 2.125
*
Neman Grodno CC: 2.000
*
Šiauliai
Šiauliai (; bat-smg, Šiaulē; german: Schaulen, ) is the fourth largest city in Lithuania, with a population of 107,086. From 1994 to 2010 it was the capital of Šiauliai County.
Names
Šiauliai is referred to by various names in different la ...
CC: 1.700
*
Tallinna Kalev CC: 1.441
* Third place of
2023–24 Slovenian PrvaLiga
* Third place of
2023–24 Moldovan Super Liga
* Third place of
2023–24 Football Superleague of Kosovo
* Runner-up of
2023–24 Armenian Premier League
* Third place of
2023–24 Armenian Premier League
* Runner-up of
2023–24 Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina
* Third place of
2023–24 Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina
* Runner-up of
2023–24 Luxembourg National Division
* Third place of
2023–24 Luxembourg National Division
* Runner-up of
2023–24 NIFL Premiership
* Winners of
2023–24 NIFL Premiership play-offs
* Winners of
2023–24 Maltese FA Trophy
* Runner-up of
2023–24 Maltese Premier League
* Third place of
2023–24 Maltese Premier League
* Winners of
2023–24 Estonian Cup
* Winners of
2023–24 Albanian Cup
* Runner-up of
2023–24 Kategoria Superiore
* Third place of
2023–24 Kategoria Superiore
* Winners of
2023–24 Welsh Cup
* Runner-up of
2023–24 Cymru Premier
* Winners of
2023–24 Cymru Premier play-offs
* Winners of
2023–24 Rock Cup
* Runner-up of
2023–24 Gibraltar Football League
* Winners of
2023–24 Macedonian Football Cup
* Runner-up of
2023–24 Macedonian First Football League
* Winners of
2024 Copa Constitució
* Runner-up of
2023–24 Primera Divisió
* Winners of
2023–24 Montenegrin Cup
* Runner-up of
2023–24 Montenegrin First League
* Winners of
2023–24 Coppa Titano
* Runner-up of
2023–24 Campionato Sammarinese di Calcio
The winners of the ties will advance to the second qualifying round. The losers will be eliminated from European competitions for the season.
Second qualifying round
A total of 102 teams will play in the second qualifying round. They will be divided into two paths:
*Champions Path (14 teams): 14 losers of the
first qualifying round
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.
*Main Path (88 teams): 43 teams which enter in this round, 26 winners from the first qualifying round and 9 losers of the
Europa League first qualifying round.
Champions Path
*14 losers of
first qualifying round
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*World record, specifically the first instance of a particular achievement
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Main Path
*
Žalgiris CC: 11.500
*
Astana
Astana, previously known as Akmolinsk, Tselinograd, Akmola, and most recently Nur-Sultan, is the capital city of Kazakhstan.
The city lies on the banks of the Ishim River in the north-central part of Kazakhstan, within the Akmola Region, tho ...
CC: 11.000
*
Riga CC: 11.000
* ''
BK Häcken
Bollklubben Häcken, more commonly known as BK Häcken or simply Häcken (), is a Swedish professional football club based in Gothenburg. It currently plays in Allsvenskan, the top tier of Swedish football. Formed on 2 August 1940, Häcken has p ...
'' CC: 6.000
*
HB Tórshavn CC: 6.000
*
Brann CC: ''≥5.975''
*
Tromsø IL
Tromsø Idrettslag is a Norwegian professional football club founded in 1920, based in the city of Tromsø. They play their home games at Alfheim Stadion. Tromsø play in the Eliteserien.
Tromsø have won the Norwegian Cup twice, in 1986 and 19 ...
CC: ''≥5.975''
* ''
IF Elfsborg
Idrottsföreningen Elfsborg, more commonly known as IF Elfsborg or simply Elfsborg (), is a professional football club based in Borås, Sweden, and is affiliated to the Västergötlands Fotbollförbund. They play in the Allsvenskan and have spent ...
'' CC: 4.300
*
St Patrick's Athletic CC: 4.000
*
Ilves
Ilves (; Finnish for "Lynx") is a Finnish professional ice hockey team based in Tampere. They play in the Liiga at the Tampere Deck Arena.
The colors of Ilves, green, yellow, and black, were taken from what was then the coat of arms of the cit ...
CC: 2.225
* Winners of
2023–24 Eredivisie play-offs
* Fourth place of
2023–24 Primeira Liga
* Winners of
2023–24 Belgian Pro League play-offs
* Fourth place of
2023–24 Scottish Premiership
* Winners of
2023–24 Austrian Football Bundesliga play-offs
* Fourth place of
2023–24 Serbian SuperLiga
* Fourth place of
2023–24 Süper Lig
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* Third place of
2023–24 Swiss Super League
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* Fourth place of
2023–24 Swiss Super League
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* Third place of
2023–24 Ukrainian Premier League
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* Fourth place of
2023–24 Ukrainian Premier League
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* Third place of
2023–24 Czech First League
* Fourth place of
2023–24 Czech First League
* Runner-up of
2023–24 Danish Superliga
* Winners of
2023–24 Danish Superliga play-offs
* Runner-up of
2023–24 Croatian Football League
* Third place of
2023–24 Croatian Football League
* Runner-up of
2023–24 Super League Greece
* Third place of
2023–24 Super League Greece
* Runner-up of
2023–24 Israeli Premier League
* Third place of
2023–24 Israeli Premier League
* Runner-up of
2023–24 Cypriot First Division
* Third place of
2023–24 Cypriot First Division
* Runner-up of
2023–24 Ekstraklasa
The 2023–24 Ekstraklasa (also known as PKO Bank Polski Ekstraklasa due to its Sponsor (commercial), sponsorship by PKO Bank Polski) is the 98th season of List of Polish football champions, the Polish Football Championship, the 90th season of Spo ...
* Third place of
2023–24 Ekstraklasa
The 2023–24 Ekstraklasa (also known as PKO Bank Polski Ekstraklasa due to its Sponsor (commercial), sponsorship by PKO Bank Polski) is the 98th season of List of Polish football champions, the Polish Football Championship, the 90th season of Spo ...
* Runner-up of
2023–24 Nemzeti Bajnokság I
The 2023–24 Nemzeti Bajnokság I (also known as 2023–24 OTP Bank Liga), also known as NB I, is the 125th season of top-tier football in Hungary. The league was officially named ''OTP Bank Liga'' for sponsorship reasons. The fixtures were annou ...
* Third place of
2023–24 Nemzeti Bajnokság I
The 2023–24 Nemzeti Bajnokság I (also known as 2023–24 OTP Bank Liga), also known as NB I, is the 125th season of top-tier football in Hungary. The league was officially named ''OTP Bank Liga'' for sponsorship reasons. The fixtures were annou ...
* Runner-up of
2023–24 SuperLiga
* Winners of
2023–24 SuperLiga play-offs
* Runner-up of
2023–24 First Professional Football League (Bulgaria)
* Winners of
2023–24 First Professional Football League play-offs
* Runner-up of
2023–24 Slovak First Football League
* Winners of
2023–24 Slovak First Football League play-offs
* Runner-up of
2023–24 Azerbaijan Premier League
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Teams
Team changes
Stadia and locat ...
* Third place of
2023–24 Azerbaijan Premier League
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Stadia and locat ...
* Runner-up of
2023–24 Slovenian PrvaLiga
* Runner-up of
2023–24 Moldovan Super Liga
* Runner-up of
2023–24 Football Superleague of Kosovo
* Winners of
2023–24 Armenian Cup
* Winners of
2023–24 Belarusian Cup
* Winners of
2023–24 Bosnia and Herzegovina Football Cup
* Winners of
2023–24 Luxembourg Cup
* Winners of
2023–24 Irish Cup
* 26 winners of the first qualifying round
* 9 losers of the
Europa League first qualifying round
The winners of the ties will advance to the third qualifying round of their respective path. The losers will be eliminated from European competitions for the season.
Third qualifying round
A total of 60 teams will play in the third qualifying round. They will be divided into two paths:
*Champions Path (8 teams): 1 loser of the
Champions League first qualifying round and 7 winners of second qualifying.
*Main Path (52 teams): 44 winners of the second qualifying round and 8 losers of the
Europa League second qualifying round.
Champions Path
* 7 winners of the second qualifying round
* 1 loser of the
Champions League first qualifying round
Main Path
* 44 winners of the second qualifying round
* 8 losers of the
Europa League second qualifying round
The winners of the ties will advance to the play-off round of their respective path. The losers will be eliminated from European competitions for the season.
Play-off round
A total of 48 teams will play in the third qualifying round. They will be divided into two paths:
*Champions Path (10 teams): 4 winners of the third qualifying round and 6 losers of the
Europa League third qualifying round (Champions Path).
*Main Path (38 teams): 5 teams, which enter in this round, 26 winners of the third qualifying round and 7 losers of the
Europa League third qualifying round (Main Path).
Champions Path
* 4 winners of the third qualifying round
* 6 losers of the
Europa League third qualifying round (Champions Path)
Main Path
* Winners of
2023–24 EFL Cup
* Sixth place of
2023–24 La Liga
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Barcelona are the defen ...
* Sixth place of
2023–24 Serie A
The 2023–24 Serie A (known as the Serie A TIM for sponsorship reasons or Serie A Made in Italy for abroad naming) is the 122nd season of top-tier Italian football, the 92nd in a round-robin tournament, and the 14th since its organizat ...
* Sixth place of
2023–24 Bundesliga
The 2023–24 Bundesliga will be the 61st season of the Bundesliga, Germany's premier football competition. It will begin on 18 August 2023 and will conclude on 18 May 2024.
Bayern Munich are the eleven-time consecutive defending champions.
Th ...
* Sixth place of
2023–24 Ligue 1
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* 26 winners of the third qualifying round
* 7 losers of the
Europa League third qualifying round (Main Path)
The winners of the ties will advance to the
league stage. The losers will be eliminated from European competitions for the season.
League stage
Qualified teams
* 5 winners from the play-off round (Champions Path)
* 19 winners from the play-off round for (Main Path)
* 12 teams eliminated from
Europa League play-off round
Final
See also
*
2024–25 UEFA Champions League
The UEFA Champions League (abbreviated as UCL, or sometimes, UEFA CL) is an annual club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and contested by top-division European clubs, deciding the competit ...
*
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 U ...
*
2025 UEFA Super Cup
The UEFA Super Cup is an annual super cup football match organised by UEFA and contested by the winners of the two main European club competitions; the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League. The competition's official name was original ...
*
2024–25 UEFA Women's Champions League
*
2024–25 UEFA Youth League
References
External links
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