The 2023–24 UEFA Europa League was the 53rd season of Europe's secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 15th season since it was renamed from the UEFA Cup to the UEFA Europa League.
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| Dates | Qualifying: 8–31 August 2023 Competition proper: 21 September 2023 – 22 May 2024 |
| Teams | Competition proper:32+8 Total:21+36 (from 32 associations) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  Atalanta (1st title) |
| Runners-up |  Bayer Leverkusen |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 141 |
| Goals scored | 439 (3.11 per match) |
| Attendance | 4,370,262 (30,995 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) | Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Marseille) 10 goals |
| Best player(s) | Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Marseille)[1] |
| Best young player | Florian Wirtz (Bayer Leverkusen)[2] |
← 2022–23 2024–25 → | |
The final was played at Aviva StadiuminDublin, Republic of Ireland, with Italian club Atalanta defeating German club Bayer Leverkusen 3–0 to win their first European title. Atalanta became the first Italian team to win the competition since Parmain1999. Their win also denied Leverkusen’s bid to win a continental treble and complete the entire season unbeaten across all competitions. As winners of the tournament, Atalanta automatically qualified for the 2024–25 UEFA Champions League league stage and also earned the right to play against Real Madrid, the winners of the 2023–24 UEFA Champions League, in the 2024 UEFA Super Cup, as well as the winners of the 2023 Copa Sudamericana in the 2024 UEFA–CONMEBOL Club Challenge.
This edition was the final season with the current format of 32 teams participating in the group stage, after UEFA announced that a brand new format would be introduced for the following edition.[3] Due to the format change, no clubs can be transferred from the Champions League group stage to the UEFA Europa League under the Swiss format, and this edition's winners onwards will no longer be able to defend the title.[4]
Sevilla were the defending champions, but could not defend their title after being eliminated in the group stage of the 2023–24 UEFA Champions League.
A total of 57 teams from 34 of the 55 UEFA member associations participated in the 2023–24 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, 19 of them have teams playing after being transferred from the Champions League (the only member association which could not have a participant was Liechtenstein, which did not organise a domestic league, and could only enter their cup winner into the 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:[5]
For the 2023–24 UEFA Europa League, the associations were allocated places according to their 2022 UEFA country coefficients, which took into account their performance in European competitions from 2017–18 to 2021–22.[6]
Apart from the allocation based on the country coefficients, associations could have additional teams participating in the Europa League, as noted below:
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The following is the access list for this season.[7]
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| Third qualifying round (14 teams) |
Champions Path (10 teams) |
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| Play-off round (20 teams) |
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| Group stage (32 teams) |
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| Preliminary knockout round (16 teams) |
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| Knockout phase (16 teams) |
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Due to the suspension of Russia for the 2023–24 European season, the following changes to the access list were made:
The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:
The third qualifying round was divided into Champions Path (CH) and Main Path (MP).
Notes
The schedule of the competition was as follows.[10][11][12] 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.
| Phase | Round | Draw date | First leg | Second leg |
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| Qualifying | Third qualifying round | 24 July 2023 | 10 August 2023 | 17 August 2023 |
| Play-offs | Play-off round | 7 August 2023 | 24 August 2023 | 31 August 2023 |
| Group stage | Matchday 1 | 1 September 2023 | 21 September 2023 | |
| Matchday 2 | 5 October 2023 | |||
| Matchday 3 | 26 October 2023 | |||
| Matchday 4 | 9 November 2023 | |||
| Matchday 5 | 30 November 2023 | |||
| Matchday 6 | 14 December 2023 | |||
| Knockout phase | Knockout round play-offs | 18 December 2023 | 15 February 2024 | 22 February 2024 |
| Round of 16 | 23 February 2024 | 7 March 2024 | 14 March 2024 | |
| Quarter-finals | 15 March 2024 | 11 April 2024 | 18 April 2024 | |
| Semi-finals | 2 May 2024 | 9 May 2024 | ||
| Final | 22 May 2024 at Aviva Stadium, Dublin | |||
The draw for the third qualifying round was held on 24 July 2023. The first legs were played on 8 and 10 August, and the second legs were played on 17 August 2023.
The winners of the ties advanced to the play-off round. The losers were transferred to the Europa Conference League play-off round of their respective path.
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Žalgiris 
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1–8 |  BK Häcken
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1–3 | 0–5 |
Qarabağ 
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4–2 |  HJK
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2–1 | 2–1 |
Zrinjski Mostar 
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6–3 |  Breiðablik
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6–2 | 0–1 |
Sheriff Tiraspol 
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7–3 |  BATE Borisov
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5–1 | 2–2 |
Astana 
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3–6 |  Ludogorets Razgrad
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2–1 | 1–5 |
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Olympiacos 
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2–1 |  Genk
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1–0 | 1–1 |
Slavia Prague 
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4–1 |  Dnipro-1
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3–0 | 1–1 |
The draw for the play-off round was held on 7 August 2023. The first legs were played on 24 August and the second legs were played on 31 August 2023.
The winners of the ties advanced to the group stage. The losers were transferred to the Europa Conference League group stage.
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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| Slavia Prague
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3–2 | Zorya Luhansk
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2–0 | 1–2 |
| Olympiacos
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6–1 |  Čukarički
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3–1 | 3–0 |
| Union Saint-Gilloise
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3–0 |  Lugano
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2–0 | 1–0 |
| Ludogorets Razgrad
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2–4 |  Ajax
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1–4 | 1–0 |
| BK Häcken
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5–3 |  Aberdeen
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2–2 | 3–1 |
LASK 
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3–2 | Zrinjski Mostar
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2–1 | 1–1 |
KÍ 
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2–3 | Sheriff Tiraspol
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1–1 | 1–2 |
Olimpija Ljubljana 
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1–3 | Qarabağ
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0–2 | 1–1 |
Slovan Bratislava 
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4–7 |  Aris Limassol
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2–1 | 2–6 |
Dinamo Zagreb 
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4–5 | Sparta Prague
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3–1 | 1–4 |
Prague
Athens
Athens teams
AEK
Olympiacos
Panathinaikos
Prague teams
Slavia
Sparta
Brown: Group A; Red: Group B; Orange: Group C; 
Yellow: Group D;
Green: Group E; Blue: Group F; Purple: Group G; 
Pink: Group H
The draw for the group stage was held on 1 September 2023, 13:00 CEST, in Monaco. 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 club coefficients. As the winners of the 2022–23 UEFA Europa Conference League, West Ham United entered Pot 1 regardless of their club coefficient (CC).[13] Teams from the same association could not be drawn into the same group.
Aris Limassol, Brighton & Hove Albion, BK Häcken, Raków Częstochowa, Servette and TSC made their debut appearances in the group stage and their debut appearances in a UEFA competition group stage. Furthermore, Brighton & Hove Albion qualified for European football for the first time in their history.
A total of 21 national associations were represented in the group stage.
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Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | WHU | FRE | OLY | TSC | |
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| 1 |  West Ham United
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6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 4 | +6 | 15 | Advance to round of 16 | — | 2–0 | 1–0 | 3–1 | |
| 2 | SC Freiburg
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6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 17 | 7 | +10 | 12 | Advance to knockout round play-offs | 1–2 | — | 5–0 | 5–0 | |
| 3 | Olympiacos
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6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 14 | −3 | 7 | Transfer to Europa Conference League | 2–1 | 2–3 | — | 5–2 | |
| 4 | TSC
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6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 19 | −13 | 1 | 0–1 | 1–3 | 2–2 | — |
| Pos | Team
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Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | BHA | MAR | AJA | AEK | |
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| 1 | Brighton & Hove Albion
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6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 5 | +5 | 13 | Advance to round of 16 | — | 1–0 | 2–0 | 2–3 | |
| 2 |  Marseille
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6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 10 | +4 | 11 | Advance to knockout round play-offs | 2–2 | — | 4–3 | 3–1 | |
| 3 | Ajax
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6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 13 | −3 | 5 | Transfer to Europa Conference League | 0–2 | 3–3 | — | 3–1 | |
| 4 | AEK Athens
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6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 12 | −6 | 4 | 0–1 | 0–2 | 1–1 | — |
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Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | RAN | SPP | BET | ALI | |
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| 1 | Rangers
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6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 6 | +2 | 11 | Advance to round of 16 | — | 2–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | |
| 2 | Sparta Prague
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6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 7 | +2 | 10 | Advance to knockout round play-offs | 0–0 | — | 1–0 | 3–2 | |
| 3 |  Real Betis
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6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 7 | +2 | 9 | Transfer to Europa Conference League | 2–3 | 2–1 | — | 4–1 | |
| 4 | Aris Limassol
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6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 13 | −6 | 4 | 2–1 | 1–3 | 0–1 | — |
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Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | ATA | SCP | STU | RAK | |
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| 1 | Atalanta
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6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 4 | +8 | 14 | Advance to round of 16 | — | 1–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 | |
| 2 |  Sporting CP
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6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 6 | +4 | 11 | Advance to knockout round play-offs | 1–2 | — | 3–0 | 2–1 | |
| 3 | Sturm Graz
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6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 9 | −5 | 4[a] | Transfer to Europa Conference League | 2–2 | 1–2 | — | 0–1 | |
| 4 |  Raków Częstochowa
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6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 10 | −7 | 4[a] | 0–4 | 1–1 | 0–1 | — |
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Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | LIV | TOU | USG | LAS | |
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| 1 | Liverpool
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6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 17 | 7 | +10 | 12 | Advance to round of 16 | — | 5–1 | 2–0 | 4–0 | |
| 2 | Toulouse
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6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 9 | −1 | 11 | Advance to knockout round play-offs | 3–2 | — | 0–0 | 1–0 | |
| 3 | Union Saint-Gilloise
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6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 8 | −3 | 8 | Transfer to Europa Conference League | 2–1 | 1–1 | — | 2–1 | |
| 4 | LASK
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6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 12 | −6 | 3 | 1–3 | 1–2 | 3–0 | — |
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Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | VIL | REN | MHA | PAO | |
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| 1 | Villarreal
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6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 7 | +2 | 13 | Advance to round of 16 | — | 1–0 | 0–0 | 3–2 | |
| 2 | Rennes
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6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 6 | +7 | 12 | Advance to knockout round play-offs | 2–3 | — | 3–0 | 3–1 | |
| 3 |  Maccabi Haifa
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6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 9 | −6 | 5 | Transfer to Europa Conference League | 1–2 | 0–3 | — | 0–0 | |
| 4 | Panathinaikos
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6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 10 | −3 | 4 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 1–2 | — |
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Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | SLP | ROM | SRV | SHE | |
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| 1 | Slavia Prague
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6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 4 | +13 | 15 | Advance to round of 16 | — | 2–0 | 4–0 | 6–0 | |
| 2 | Roma
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6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 4 | +8 | 13 | Advance to knockout round play-offs | 2–0 | — | 4–0 | 3–0 | |
| 3 | Servette
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6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 13 | −9 | 5 | Transfer to Europa Conference League | 0–2 | 1–1 | — | 2–1 | |
| 4 | Sheriff Tiraspol
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6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 17 | −12 | 1 | 2–3 | 1–2 | 1–1 | — |
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Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | LEV | QAR | MOL | HAC | |
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| 1 | Bayer Leverkusen
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6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 3 | +16 | 18 | Advance to round of 16 | — | 5–1 | 5–1 | 4–0 | |
| 2 | Qarabağ
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6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 9 | −2 | 10 | Advance to knockout round play-offs | 0–1 | — | 1–0 | 2–1 | |
| 3 |  Molde
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6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 12 | 0 | 7 | Transfer to Europa Conference League | 1–2 | 2–2 | — | 5–1 | |
| 4 | BK Häcken
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6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 17 | −14 | 0 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 1–3 | — |
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 mechanism of the draws for each round was as follows:
| Knockout round play-offs | Round of 16 | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Benfica | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Benfica | 2 | 0 | 2 | Rangers | 2 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Benfica | 2 | 0 | 2 (2) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Toulouse | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Marseille (p) | 1 | 1 | 2 (4) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Marseille | 4 | 1 | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Shakhtar Donetsk | 2 | 1 | 3 | Villarreal | 0 | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Marseille | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Marseille | 2 | 3 | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Atalanta | 1 | 3 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sparta Prague | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Galatasaray | 3 | 1 | 4 | Liverpool | 5 | 6 | 11 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Liverpool | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sparta Prague | 2 | 4 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Atalanta | 3 | 0 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sporting CP | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Young Boys | 1 | 1 | 2 | Atalanta | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Atalanta | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sporting CP | 3 | 1 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bayer Leverkusen | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Milan | 4 | 3 | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Milan | 3 | 2 | 5 | Slavia Prague | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Milan | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rennes | 0 | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Roma | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Roma | 4 | 0 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Feyenoord | 1 | 1 | 2 (2) | Brighton & Hove Albion | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Roma | 0 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Roma (p) | 1 | 1 | 2 (4) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bayer Leverkusen | 2 | 2 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Qarabağ | 2 | 2 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Braga | 2 | 3 | 5 | Bayer Leverkusen | 2 | 3 | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bayer Leverkusen | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Qarabağ (a.e.t.) | 4 | 2 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| West Ham United | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| SC Freiburg | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lens | 0 | 2 | 2 | West Ham United | 0 | 5 | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| SC Freiburg (a.e.t.) | 0 | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The draw for the knockout round play-offs was held on 18 December 2023, 13:00 CET.[14] The first legs were played on 15 February, and the second legs were played on 22 February 2024.
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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| Feyenoord
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2–2 (2–4 p) | Roma
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1–1 | 1–1 (a.e.t.) |
| Milan
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5–3 | Rennes
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3–0 | 2–3 |
| Lens
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2–3 | SC Freiburg
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0–0 | 2–3 (a.e.t.) |
| Young Boys
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2–4 | Sporting CP
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1–3 | 1–1 |
| Benfica
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2–1 | Toulouse
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2–1 | 0–0 |
| Braga
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5–6 | Qarabağ
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2–4 | 3–2 (a.e.t.) |
| Galatasaray
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4–6 | Sparta Prague
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3–2 | 1–4 |
| Shakhtar Donetsk
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3–5 | Marseille
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2–2 | 1–3 |
The draw for the round of 16 was held on 23 February 2024, 12:00 CET.[15] The first legs were played on 6 and 7 March, and the second legs were played on 14 March 2024.
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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| Sparta Prague
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2–11 | Liverpool
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1–5 | 1–6 |
| Marseille
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5–3 | Villarreal
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4–0 | 1–3 |
| Roma
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4–1 | Brighton & Hove Albion
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4–0 | 0–1 |
| Benfica
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3–2 | Rangers
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2–2 | 1–0 |
| SC Freiburg
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1–5 | West Ham United
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1–0 | 0–5 |
| Sporting CP
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2–3 | Atalanta
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1–1 | 1–2 |
| Milan
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7–3 | Slavia Prague
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4–2 | 3–1 |
| Qarabağ
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4–5 | Bayer Leverkusen
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2–2 | 2–3 |
The draw for the quarter-finals was held on 15 March 2024, 13:00 CET.[16] The first legs were played on 11 April, and the second legs were played on 18 April 2024.
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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| Milan
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1–3 | Roma
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0–1 | 1–2 |
| Liverpool
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1–3 | Atalanta
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0–3 | 1–0 |
| Bayer Leverkusen
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3–1 | West Ham United
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2–0 | 1–1 |
| Benfica
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2–2 (2–4 p) | Marseille
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2–1 | 0–1 (a.e.t.) |
The draw for the semi-finals was held on 15 March 2024, 13:00 CET, after the quarter-final draw.[16] The first legs were played on 2 May, and the second legs were played on 9 May 2024.
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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| Marseille
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1–4 | Atalanta
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1–1 | 0–3 |
| Roma
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2–4 | Bayer Leverkusen
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0–2 | 2–2 |
The final was played on 22 May 2024 at the Aviva StadiuminDublin. A draw was held on 15 March 2024, after the quarter-final and semi-final draw, to determine the "home" team for administrative purposes.[16]
| Atalanta | 3–0 | Bayer Leverkusen |
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Attendance: 47,135[17]
Referee: István Kovács (Romania)
Statistics exclude qualifying rounds and play-off round.
| Rank[18] | Player | Team | Goals | Minutes played |
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| 1 |  Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
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Marseille
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10 | 1030 |
| 2 | Romelu Lukaku
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Roma
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7 | 1082 |
| 3 | Gianluca Scamacca
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Atalanta
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6 | 697 |
 João Pedro
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Brighton & Hove Albion
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436 | ||
| 5 | Juninho
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Qarabağ
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5 | 794 |
 Mohammed Kudus
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West Ham United
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771 | ||
 Ademola Lookman
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Atalanta
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720 | ||
| Viktor Gyökeres
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Sporting CP
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622 | ||
 Darwin Núñez
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Liverpool
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459 | ||
| Fotis Ioannidis
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Panathinaikos
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435 | ||
 Mohamed Salah
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Liverpool
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399 | ||
| Victor Boniface
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Bayer Leverkusen
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379 | ||
| Michael Gregoritsch
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SC Freiburg
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345 | ||
| Patrik Schick
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Bayer Leverkusen
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301 |
The UEFA technical study group selected the following players as the team of the tournament.[19]
