2024–25 UEFA Conference League
The 2024–25 UEFA Conference League will be the fourth season of the UEFA Conference League, Europe's tertiary club football tournament organised by UEFA.
The Stadion Wroclaw in Wrocław will host the final. | |
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| Teams | Competition proper: 36 (from 53 associations) |
← 2023–24 2025–26 → | |
This will be the first UEFA Conference League played under a new format involving a 36-team League stage.[1] From this season, the competition is renamed to UEFA Conference League from the UEFA Europa Conference League.[2]
The final will be played in Stadion Wrocław in Wrocław, Poland.[3] 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 edit
A total of 167 teams from 54 of the 55 UEFA member associations are expected to participate in the 2024–25 UEFA Conference League. The association ranking based on the UEFA association coefficients is used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:[4]
- Associations 1–12 each have one team.
- Associations 13–33 and 51–55 (except Russia)[Note RUS] each have two teams.
- Associations 34–50 each have three teams (except Liechtenstein, which has one)[Note LIE].
- 15 teams eliminated from the 2024–25 UEFA Champions League and 41 teams eliminated from the 2024–25 UEFA Europa League will be transferred to the Conference League.
Association ranking edit
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.[5]
Apart from the allocation based on the association coefficients, associations may have additional teams participating in the Conference League, as noted below:
- (UCL) – Additional teams transferred from the UEFA Champions League
- (UEL) – Additional teams transferred from the UEFA Europa League
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Distribution edit
The following is the access list for this season.
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| First qualifying round (52 teams) |
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| Second qualifying round (102 teams) | Champions path (14 teams) |
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| League path (88 teams) |
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| Third qualifying round (60 teams) | Champions path (8 teams) |
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| League path (52 teams) |
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| Play-off round (48 teams) | Champions path (10 teams) |
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| League path (38 teams) |
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| League stage (36 teams) |
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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 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 edit
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 or 2024–25 UEFA Europa League.
CC: 2023 UEFA club coefficients.[6]
Notes
- ^ Champions League (UCL Q1): One of the Champions League first qualifying round losers will be drawn to receive a bye to the third qualifying round (Champions Path), as one fewer loser was transferred to the second qualifying round (Champions Path), due to suspension of Russia from the 2024–25 European season.
- ^ Belarus (BLR): As the top four teams from the 2023 Belarusian Premier League qualified for the semi-finals of the 2023–24 Belarusian Cup, Isloch Minsk Raion have qualified for the 2024–25 Conference League. The cup winners (Isloch Minsk Raion or Neman Grodno) will enter in the second qualifying round; the losing team will enter in the first qualifying round.
- ^ Georgia (GEO): Georgian Cup winners FC Saburtalo Tbilisi changed their name to FC Iberia 1999 on 27 February 2024.
- ^ Greece (GRE): Olympiacos may still qualify for UEFA Europa League group stage by winning the Conference League.
- ^ Latvia (LVA): Valmiera, who finished 4th in the 2023 Latvian Higher League, were denied a UEFA license. As a result, their place in the competition was passed onto the 5th-placed team, Liepāja.
- ^ Liechtenstein (LIE): The seven teams affiliated with the Liechtenstein Football Association (LFV) all play in the Swiss football league system. The only competition organised by the LFV is the Liechtenstein Football Cup – the winners of which qualify for the UEFA Conference League for the 2024–25 season.
- ^ Lithuania (LTU): Cup winners FK TransINVEST have been granted an exception to the three year rule.[7]
- ^ 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.[8] The tables reflect Russia's ongoing suspension from UEFA competitions.[9]
Schedule edit
The schedule of the competition is as follows.[10][1] Matches are scheduled for Thursdays, with 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.[11][12][13]
| Phase | Round | Draw date | First leg | Second leg |
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| Qualifying | First qualifying round | 18 June 2024 | 11 July 2024 | 18 July 2024 |
| Second qualifying round | 19 June 2024 | 25 July 2024 | 1 August 2024 | |
| Third qualifying round | 22 July 2024 | 8 August 2024 | 15 August 2024 | |
| Play-offs | Play-off round | 5 August 2024 | 22 August 2024 | 29 August 2024 |
| League stage | Matchday 1 | 30 August 2024 | 3 October 2024 | |
| Matchday 2 | 24 October 2024 | |||
| Matchday 3 | 7 November 2024 | |||
| Matchday 4 | 28 November 2024 | |||
| Matchday 5 | 12 December 2024 | |||
| Matchday 6 | 19 December 2024 | |||
| Knockout phase | Knockout round play-offs | 20 December 2024 | 13 February 2025 | 20 February 2025 |
| Round of 16 | 21 February 2025 | 6 March 2025 | 13 March 2025 | |
| Quarter-finals | 10 April 2025 | 17 April 2025 | ||
| Semi-finals | 1 May 2025 | 8 May 2025 | ||
| Final | 28 May 2025 at Wrocław Stadium, Wrocław | |||
Qualifying rounds edit
First qualifying round edit
The draw for the first qualifying round will be held on 18 June 2024.
Seeding edit
A total of 52 teams will play in the first qualifying round. Seeding of the teams will be based on their 2024 UEFA club coefficients.[6] Before the draw, UEFA may form groups of seeded and unseeded teams per the principles set by the Club Competitions Committee. The first team drawn in each tie will be the home team for the first leg.
| Seeded | Seeding to be determined | Unseeded |
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Second qualifying round edit
The draw for the second qualifying round will be held on 19 June 2024.
Seeding edit
A total of 102 teams will be involved in the second qualifying round – 14 in the Champions Path and 88 in the Main Path. There will be no seeding in the Champions Path draw. Seeding of the teams in the Main Path will be based on their 2024 UEFA club coefficients.[6] Before the draw, UEFA may form groups of seeded and unseeded teams per the principles set by the Club Competitions Committee. The first team drawn in each tie will be the home team for the first leg.
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- † Losers of the Champions League first qualifying round, whose identity will not be known at the time of draw.
- †† Winners of the first qualifying round, whose identity will not be known at the time of draw.
- ††† Losers of the Europa League first qualifying round, whose identity will not be known at the time of draw.
Third qualifying round edit
The draw for the third qualifying round will be held on 22 July 2024.
Seeding edit
A total of 60 teams will play in the third qualifying round – eight in the Champions Path and 52 in the Main Path. There will be no seeding in the Champions Path draw. Seeding of the teams in the Main Path will be based on their 2024 UEFA club coefficients.[6] Before the draw, UEFA may form groups of seeded and unseeded teams per the principles set by the Club Competitions Committee. The first team drawn in each tie will be the home team for the first leg.
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- † Winners of the second qualifying round, whose identity will not be known at the time of draw.
- †† Losers of the Europa League second qualifying round, whose identity will not be known at the time of draw.
Play-off round edit
The draw for the play-off round will be held on 5 August 2024.
Seeding edit
A total of 48 teams will play in the third qualifying round – 10 in the Champions Path and 38 in the Main Path. In the Champions Path draw, the six losers of the Europa League third qualifying round will be seeded and the four winners of the Conference League third qualifying round will be unseeded. Seeding of the teams in the Main Path will be based on their 2024 UEFA club coefficients.[6] Before the draw, UEFA may form groups of seeded and unseeded teams per the principles set by the Club Competitions Committee. The first team drawn in each tie will be the home team for the first leg.
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- † Winners of the third qualifying round, whose identity will not be known at the time of draw.
- †† Losers of the Europa League third qualifying round, whose identity will not be known at the time of draw.
League stage edit
Qualified teams
- 5 winners from the play-off round (Champions Path)
- 19 winners from the play-off round (Main Path)
- 12 teams eliminated from Europa League play-off round
Final edit
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See also edit
References edit
- ^ a b "2024/25 UEFA Conference League: Matches, final, key dates". UEFA. 30 April 2024. Retrieved 5 May 2024.
- ^ "UEFA Europa Conference League to be renamed UEFA Conference League next season". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 28 June 2023. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
- ^ "Athens and Wrocław to stage 2024 and 2025 finals". Union of European Football Associations. 28 June 2023. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
- ^ "Regulations of the UEFA Conference League, 2024/25 Season". Nyon: UEFA. 2024. Retrieved 4 April 2024.
- ^ "Association coefficients 2022/23". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 1 June 2023.
- ^ a b c d e "Club coefficients". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 20 May 2024. Retrieved 20 May 2024.
- ^ "„TransINVEST" klubui – palankios žinios dėl dalyvavimo Konferencijų lygos atrankoje". lff.lt (in Lithuanian). Lithuanian Football Federation. 26 April 2024. Retrieved 29 April 2024.
- ^ "Ukraine crisis: Fifa and Uefa suspend all Russian clubs and national teams". BBC.co.uk. British Broadcasting Corporation. 28 February 2022. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
- ^ "UEFA decisions for upcoming competitions relating to the ongoing suspension of Russian national teams and clubs" (Press release). Nyon: UEFA. 2 May 2022. Retrieved 2 May 2022.
- ^ "Europejskie puchary od sezonu 2024/25 – część szczegółów potwierdzona" (in Polish). 10 July 2023. Retrieved 11 July 2023.
- ^ UEFA.com (2023-10-25). "New format for Champions League post-2024: Everything you need to know | UEFA Champions League". UEFA.com. Retrieved 2023-12-11.
- ^ Sheldon, Dan. "How the new Champions League format works". The Athletic. Retrieved 2023-12-11.
- ^ "More national derby games possible when revamped Champions League starts next year". AP News. 2023-07-10. Retrieved 2023-12-11.
External links edit
- Official website