The 2024–25 UEFA Europa League was the 54th season of Europe's secondary club

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tournament organised by

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, and the 16th season since it was renamed from the UEFA Cup to the

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. This was the first season played under a new format, which replaced the 32-team group stage with a 36-team league phase. This increased the total number of matches played in the competition (excluding qualifying rounds) from 141 to 189. The new format also did not allow teams to transfer from the Champions League league or knockout phase to the Europa League knockout phase; as the winner of the Europa League automatically qualifies for the Champions League league phase, the Europa League winners (

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in the 2023–24 edition) could no longer defend their title. The

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was played at San Mamés Stadium in

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, between English clubs

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and

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. Tottenham won 1–0, with Brennan Johnson scoring the only goal of the game shortly before half-time, to win their third UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League title and their first major trophy in 17 years. As the winners of the tournament, Tottenham Hotspur automatically qualified for the

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league phase and earned the right to play against 2024–25 UEFA Champions League winners

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in the 2025 UEFA Super Cup.

Association team allocation

A total of 76 teams from 41 of the 55

member associations participated in the 2024–25 UEFA Europa League. Among them, 32 associations had teams directly qualifying for the Europa League, while for the other 23 associations that did not have any teams directly qualifying, 9 of them had teams playing after being transferred from the Champions League. The association ranking based on the UEFA association coefficients was used to determine the number of participating teams for each association: *The title holders of the Europa Conference League were given an entry in the Europa League (if they did not qualify for the Champions League or Europa League via league position). *Associations 1–12 each had two teams. *Associations 13–33 (except

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) each had one team. *31 teams eliminated from the 2024–25 Champions League were transferred to the Europa League.

Association ranking

For the 2024–25 UEFA Europa League, the associations were allocated places according to their 2023 UEFA association coefficients, which took into account their performance in European competitions from 2018–19 to 2022–23. Apart from the allocation based on the association coefficients, associations could have additional teams participating in the Europa League, as noted below: * – Additional teams transferred from the UEFA Champions League * – Additional berth for 2023–24 UEFA Europa Conference League title holders

Distribution

The information here reflects the ongoing suspension of Russia in European football, and so the following changes to the default access were made: *The cup winners of association 16 (Norway) will enter the second qualifying round instead of the first qualifying round. As the Europa League title holders (

) qualified via their domestic league's standard berth allocation, the following changes to the default access list were made: *The cup winners of associations 17 to 21 (except Russia) (Denmark, Croatia, Greece and Israel) 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: *UECL: 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 was divided into Champions Path (CH) and Main Path (MP). Two teams not playing in a national top division took part in the competition: Corvinul Hunedoara ( 2nd tier) and Wisła Kraków ( 2nd tier). Notes

Round and draw dates

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. Compared to past seasons, one exclusive week was introduced where both Wednesday and Thursdays were matchdays, held on 25 and 26 September.

Qualifying rounds

First qualifying round

Second qualifying round

Third qualifying round

Play-off round

League phase

The league phase draw for the 2024–25 UEFA Europa League took place at the Grimaldi Forum in

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on 30 August 2024, 13:00 CEST. The 36 teams were divided into four pots of nine teams each based on their UEFA club coefficient. The 36 teams were manually drawn and then automated software digitally drew their eight different opponents at random, determining which of their matches were at home and which ones away. Each team faced two opponents from each of the four pots, one at home and one away. Teams could not face opponents from their own association, and could only be drawn against a maximum of two sides from the same association. RFS made their debut appearance since the introduction of the group stage. A total of 22 national associations were represented in the league phase.

Table

The top eight ranked teams received a bye to the round of 16. The teams ranked from 9th to 24th contested the knockout phase play-offs, with the teams ranked from 9th to 16th seeded for the draw. Teams ranked from 25th to 36th were eliminated from all competitions, with no access to the

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Results

Knockout phase

In the knockout phase, teams played against each other over two legs on a home-and-away basis, except for the one-match final. The bracket structure for the knockout phase was partially fixed in advance using seeding, with teams' positions in the bracket determined by the final standings in the league phase.

Bracket

Knockout phase play-offs

Round of 16

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

Statistics

Statistics exclude qualifying rounds and play-off round.

Top goalscorers

Team of the Season

The UEFA technical study group selected the following players as the team of the tournament.

Player of the Season

* Cristian Romero (

)

Young Player of the Season

* Rayan Cherki (

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)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Uefa Europa League 2024-25 2 2

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