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The 2023–24 UEFA European Club Championships will be the first season of UEFA's four-tier European football competition. The new competition will see the elimination of the qualifying and play-off phases and an increase in the number of teams competing. The four competitions – European Cup, Europa League, Conference League and Challenge Cup – will each begin with a group stage comprising of 16 groups of five teams for a total of 320 teams.
The finals will be played in May and June 2024 at Wembley Stadium in London, the Aviva Stadium in Dublin, the Rajko Mitić Stadium in Belgrade and the Friends Arena in Stockholm.
Association team allocation
[edit]A total of 320 teams from the 55 UEFA member associations are set to participate in the 2022–23 UEFA European Club Championships. The association ranking based on the UEFA association coefficients is used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:
- Associations 1–8 each have eight teams qualify.
- Associations 9–16 each have seven teams qualify.
- Associations 17–24 each have six teams qualify.
- Associations 25–53 (except Liechtenstein)[Note LIE] each have five teams qualify.
- Associations 54–55 each have four teams qualify.
- The winners of the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League, 2022–23 UEFA Europa League and 2022–23 UEFA Europa Conference League also qualify.
Association ranking
[edit]For the 2023–24 UEFA European Club Championships, 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.[1]
Apart from the allocation based on the association coefficients, associations may have additional teams participating in the Champions League, as noted below:
- (UCL) – Additional berth for UEFA Champions League title holders
- (UEL) – Additional berth for UEFA Europa League title holders
- (UECL) – Additional berth for UEFA Europa Conference League title holders
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Distribution
[edit]The following is the default access list for the 2023–24 season.
| Competition | Teams entering group stage |
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| European Cup |
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| Europa League |
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| Conference League |
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| Challenge Cup |
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Should the winners of the Champions League, Europa League, Europa Conference League or Liechtenstein Cup also qualify via their domestic league the following changes to the default list will be made:
- If the winners of the Champions League or Europa League also qualify via their domestic league then the qualifying berth for teams from their domestic league will be passed onto the next highest ranked team in their domestic league. This process will be repeated among teams within the domestic league until there are no more qualifying berths to redistribute.
- If the winners of the Europa Conference League also qualify for either the Europa League, Conference League or Challenge Cup via their domestic league, the above process will be followed. If they qualify for the European Cup via their domestic league, the following changes will be made:
- The Europa Conference League winners berth will be vacated.
- The champions of association 33 will enter the Europa League.
- The runners-up of association 42 will enter the Conference League.
- The fifth-placed team of association 54 will enter the Challenge Cup.
- If the winners of the Liechtenstein Cup also qualify via their domestic league then they will take whichever berth is higher. The remaining berths below that of the Liechtenstein Cup winners will be ordered from highest to lowest and distributed to the highest-ranked remaining teams from their domestic league.
Teams
[edit]The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:
- UCL: Champions League title holders
- UEL: Europa League title holders
- UECL: Europa Conference League title holders
- 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc.: League positions of the previous season
- CW: Domestic cup winners
Schedule
[edit]The schedule of the competition is as follows.[2]
| Phase | Round | First leg | Second leg |
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| Group stage | Matchday 1 | 8–10 August 2023 | |
| Matchday 2 | 15–17 August 2023 | ||
| Matchday 3 | 22–24 August 2023 | ||
| Matchday 4 | 29–31 August 2023 | ||
| Matchday 5 | 19–21 September 2023 | ||
| Matchday 6 | 3–5 October 2023 | ||
| Matchday 7 | 24–26 October 2023 | ||
| Matchday 8 | 7–9 November 2023 | ||
| Matchday 9 | 28–30 November 2023 | ||
| Matchday 10 | 12–14 December 2023 | ||
| Knockout phase | Round of 64/Play-off round | 9–11 January 2024 | 23–25 January 2024 |
| Round of 32 | 13–15 February 2024 | 20–22 February 2024 | |
| Round of 16 | 5–7 March 2024 | 12–14 March 2024 | |
| Quarter-finals | 9–11 April 2024 | 16–18 April 2024 | |
| Semi-finals | 30 April – 2 May 2024 | 7–9 May 2024 | |
| Finals | 22, 25, 29 May & 1 June 2024 | ||
European Cup
[edit]Europa League
[edit]Conference League
[edit]Challenge Cup
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "UEFA Country Ranking 2023". kassiesa.net. Bert Kassies. 7 June 2023. Retrieved 7 June 2023.
- ^ "International match calendar and access list for the 2023/24 season". UEFA Circular Letter. No. 65/2022. Union of European Football Associations. 26 September 2022. Retrieved 27 September 2022.