2022–23 UEFA Europa League#Play-off round

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:{{cite web |url=https://documents.uefa.com/r/Regulations-of-the-UEFA-Europa-League-2022/23-Online |title=Regulations of the UEFA Europa League, 2022/23 Season |website=UEFA |publisher=Union of European Football Associations |date=1 May 2022 |access-date=10 May 2022 |archive-date=5 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220505213006/https://documents.uefa.com/r/Regulations-of-the-UEFA-Europa-League-2022/23-Online |url-status=live }}

• 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.

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.{{cite web |url=https://www.uefa.com/nationalassociations/uefarankings/country/#/yr/2021 |title=Country coefficients 2020/21 |website=UEFA |publisher=Union of European Football Associations |year=2020 |access-date=16 February 2020 |archive-date=4 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191204125228/https://www.uefa.com/memberassociations/uefarankings/country/#/yr/2021 |url-status=live }}

Apart from the allocation based on the country coefficients, associations may have had additional teams participating in the Europa League, as noted below:

• {{small|(UCL)}} – Additional teams transferred from the UEFA Champions League
• {{small|(UECL)}} – Additional berth for UEFA Europa Conference League title holders

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The following is the access list for this season.{{cite web |url=https://www.uefa.com/MultimediaFiles/Download/uefaorg/General/02/58/61/42/2586142_DOWNLOAD.pdf |title=Access list 2021–24 |website=UEFA |publisher=Union of European Football Associations |access-date=16 February 2020 |archive-date=4 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181204074949/https://www.uefa.com/MultimediaFiles/Download/uefaorg/General/02/58/61/42/2586142_DOWNLOAD.pdf |url-status=live }}

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.

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.

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).

Notes

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{{Cnote2|Note RUS|Russia (RUS): On 28 February 2022, Russian football clubs and national teams were suspended from FIFA and UEFA competitions due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/60560567/ |title=Ukraine crisis: Fifa and Uefa suspend all Russian clubs and national teams |website=BBC.co.uk |publisher=British Broadcasting Corporation |date=28 February 2022 |access-date=28 February 2022 |url-status=live |archive-date=25 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220425233706/https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/60560567 }} On 2 May 2022, UEFA confirmed that Russian clubs would be excluded from the 2022–23 UEFA competitions.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/61301238|title=Uefa announces further sanctions on Russian clubs and national teams amid Ukraine invasion|date=2 May 2022|website=BBC.co.uk|publisher=British Broadcasting Corporation|access-date=2 May 2022|archive-date=23 June 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220623113557/https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/61301238|url-status=live}}}}

{{Cnote2|Note UKR|Ukraine (UKR): The 2021–22 Ukrainian Cup was abandoned due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The berth reserved for the cup winners was transferred to the third-placed team of the league at the time of the abandonment, SC Dnipro-1, who were selected to play in the 2022–23 UEFA Europa League by the Ukrainian Association of Football.}}

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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.{{cite news |url=https://www.uefa.com/news-media/news/0271-1418c37e08e1-9c223aeae6cb-1000/ |title=2022 European football calendar: Match and draw dates for all UEFA competitions |website=UEFA |publisher=Union of European Football Associations |date=1 January 2022 |access-date=6 January 2022 |archive-date=11 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220311083608/https://www.uefa.com/insideuefa/about-uefa/news/0271-1418c37e08e1-9c223aeae6cb-1000/ |url-status=live }} The group stage draw took place in Istanbul, Turkey.{{cite news |url=https://www.uefa.com/news-media/news/026b-12c542441355-1c2040c5e54b-1000/ |title=Venues appointed for club competition finals |website=UEFA |publisher=Union of European Football Associations |date=16 July 2021 |access-date=16 July 2021 |archive-date=16 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210716203913/https://www.uefa.com/insideuefa/mediaservices/mediareleases/news/026b-12c542441355-1c2040c5e54b-1000/ |url-status=live }}

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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.{{cite web |url=https://www.uefa.com/nationalassociations/uefarankings/club/#/yr/2022 |title=Club coefficients 2021/22 |website=UEFA |publisher=Union of European Football Associations |access-date=9 May 2022 |archive-date=9 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211109131431/https://www.uefa.com/nationalassociations/uefarankings/club/#/yr/2022 |url-status=live }} 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.

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In the knockout phase, teams played against each other over two legs on a home-and-away basis, except for the one-match final.{{#lst:2022–23 UEFA Europa League knockout phase|Format}}

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Statistics exclude qualifying round and play-off round.

===Team of the season===

The UEFA technical study group selected the following players as the team of the tournament.{{cite news|url=https://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/news/0282-182d1295f910-056c87a02b5e-1000--europa-league-all-star-xi/|title=2022/23 UEFA Europa League Team of the Season|website=UEFA |publisher=Union of European Football Associations |date=4 June 2023 |access-date=4 June 2023}}

• {{flagicon|ESP}} Jesús Navas ({{fbaicon|ESP}} Sevilla)

• {{flagicon|GER}} Florian Wirtz ({{fbaicon|GER}} Bayer Leverkusen){{cite news|date=4 June 2022|title=Florian Wirtz named 2022/23 UEFA Europa League Young Player of the Season|url=https://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/news/0282-182d1283e6f7-c924b47ad4e6-1000--young-player-of-the-season-florian-wirtz/|access-date=4 June 2023|website=UEFA|publisher=Union of European Football Associations}}

• 2022–23 UEFA Champions League
• 2022–23 UEFA Europa Conference League
• 2023 UEFA Super Cup
• 2022–23 UEFA Women's Champions League
• 2022–23 UEFA Youth League

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