The inaugural version of the Europa Conference League was won by Italy’s AS Roma last season. The tournament provides another outlet for European clubs to compete in high-level continental competition despite missing out on Champions League and Europa League participation.
The 22 teams that emerge from the playoff round will join the 10 losers from the Europa League playoff round to make up the Conference League group stage.
Recognisable teams such as West Ham United, Villarreal, Fiorentina, and Koln will all participate in the Conference League playoff stage and all four teams were seeded.
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Europa Conference League Playoff Round draw, fixtures, and schedule
The Europa Conference League playoff round is broken into two paths: the Champions Path, which features teams that won their domestic league the previous season, and the Main Path, which features all other teams that qualified for the competition.
Champions Path
Team 1 plays first leg at home. Scorelines are written with home score first in both legs.
Main Path
Team 1 plays first leg at home. Scorelines are written with home score first in both legs.
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Teams in the Europa Conference League playoff round draw
Champions Path
The 10 teams in the Champions Path portion of the Europa Conference League playoff round will be pulled from two pots, one seeded and the other unseeded.
The seeded pot will include five losing teams from the Europa League third qualifying round.
The unseeded pot will include five winning teams from the Europa Conference League third qualifying round. These matchups feature only clubs that are current reigning champions in their respective nation.
Main Path
The 34 teams in the Main Path of the Conference League playoff round will include:
27 winners from the Conference League third qualifying round; 2 losers from Europa League third qualifying round; 5 clubs (below) directly entering the playoff stage of the competition after qualifying via domestic table finish.
All 34 teams participating in the Main Path have been previously separated by UEFA into four groups (Group 4 will have 10 teams) with seeds established per UEFA club coefficients. (For matchups that are still undecided, the highest coefficient of the two clubs in that matchup is used.)
Matchups will be drawn within each group for practical execution of the draw.
GROUP 1
GROUP 2
GROUP 3
GROUP 4
How to watch UEFA Europa Conference League 2022/23
Select matches from the Europa Conference League preliminary rounds are available for broadcast, chosen by the broadcast partner for each market.
Per UEFA, other select matches are made available for streaming by the home team, often via their official YouTube page.
Europa Conference League schedule 2022, 2023
Preliminary and qualifying rounds schedule
Group stage schedule
The draw for the 2022/23 Europa Conference League group stage will take place on Aug. 26, 2022 in Istanbul, Turkey.
Knockout stage schedule
The draw for the 2022/23 Europa Conference League knockout round playoffs will take place on Nov. 7, 2022, and the draw for the Round of 16 will take place on Feb. 24, 2022. The draw for the rest of the 2022-23 Europa League knockout stage will take place on March 17, 2023.
The 2023 Europa Conference League final will be in Prague, Czech Republic on June 7, 2023.
