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2024–25 UEFA Europa League qualifying phase and play-off round

The 2024–25 UEFA Europa League qualifying phase and play-off round began on 11 July and will end on 29 August 2024.^[1]

A total of 52 teams will compete in the qualifying system which includes the qualifying phase and the play-off round. The 12 winners of the play-off round will advance to the league phase, to join the 13 teams that enter in the league stage, along with the seven losers of the Champions League play-off round (five from Champions Path and two from League Path), and the four losers of the Champions League third qualifying round (League Path).^[2]

Times are CEST (UTC+2), as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

The qualifying phase is split into two paths – the Champions Path and the Main Path. The Champions Path contains teams which were eliminated from the Champions League Champions Path and the Main Path contains teams which qualify as the third-placed or the fourth-placed team from their domestic league or as domestic cup winners. The paths are merged in the play-off round.

Each tie will played over two legs, with each team playing one leg at home. The team that scored more goals on aggregate over the two legs will advance to the next round. If the aggregate score is level at the end of normal time of the second leg, extra time will be played, and if the same number of goals is scored by both teams during extra time, the tie will be decided by a penalty shoot-out.^[3]

In the draws for each round in the Main Path, teams will be seeded based on their UEFA club coefficients at the beginning of the season, with the teams divided into seeded and unseeded pots containing the same number of teams. A seeded team will be drawn against an unseeded team, with the order of legs in each tie decided by draw. As the identity of the winners of the previous round may not known at the time of the draws, the seeding will be carried out under the assumption that the team with the higher coefficient of an undecided tie advances to the subsequent round, which means if the team with the lower coefficient advances, it will simply take the seeding of its opponent.

In the draw for the Champions Path third qualifying round, there will be no seeding.

Prior to the draws, UEFA can form "groups" in accordance with the principles set by the Club Competitions Committee purely for the convenience of the draw and not to resemble any real groupings in the sense of the competition. Teams from associations with political conflicts as decided by UEFA cannot be drawn into the same tie. After the draws, the order of legs of a tie can be reversed by UEFA due to scheduling or venue conflicts.

The schedule of the competition is as follows. All matches are scheduled to be played on Thursdays.^[1]

In the qualifying stage, the teams will be divided into two paths:

• Champions Path (12 teams):
  • Third qualifying round: 12 losers of the Champions League Champions Path second qualifying round.
• Main Path:
  • First qualifying round (12 teams): 12 teams which enter in this round.
  • Second qualifying round (18 teams): 12 teams which enter in this round, and 6 winners of the first qualifying round.
  • Third qualifying round (14 teams): 3 teams which enter in this round, 2 losers of the Champions League League Path second qualifying round, and 9 winners of the second qualifying round.

The winners of the third qualifying round will be combined into a single path for the play-off round:

• Play-off round (24 teams): 5 teams which enter this round, 6 losers of the Champions League Champions Path third qualifying round, 6 winners of the Champions Path third qualifying round, and 7 winners of the Main Path third qualifying round.

All teams eliminated from the qualifying phase and play-off round will enter the Conference League:

• The 6 losers of the Main Path first qualifying round enter the Main Path second qualifying round.
• The 9 losers of the Main Path second qualifying round enter the Main Path third qualifying round.
• The 6 losers of the Champions Path third qualifying round enter the Champions Path play-off round.
• The 7 losers of the Main Path third qualifying round enter the Main Path play-off round.
• The 12 losers of the play-off round enter the league stage.

Below are the participating teams (with their 2024 UEFA club coefficients, not to be used as seeding for the Champions Path, however),^[4] grouped by their starting rounds. Teams in italic text may still qualify for the Champions League.

Play-off round Team Coeff.[4] LASK 37.000 Anderlecht 14.500 Beşiktaş 12.000 Heart of Midlothian 7.210 TSC 5.555 [CH Q3] [CH Q3] [CH Q3] [CH Q3] [CH Q3] [CH Q3]

Third qualifying round (Champions Path) Team Coeff.[4] [CH Q2] [CH Q2] [CH Q2] [CH Q2] [CH Q2] [CH Q2] [CH Q2] [CH Q2] [CH Q2] [CH Q2] [CH Q2] [CH Q2] Third qualifying round (Main Path) Team Coeff.[4] Viktoria Plzeň 28.000 Servette 9.000 Kryvbas 5.600 [LP Q2] [LP Q2]

Second qualifying round Team Coeff.[4] Ajax 67.000 Braga 49.000 Molde 28.500 Rapid Wien 14.000 Rijeka 12.000 Trabzonspor 11.500 Cercle Brugge 9.760 Kilmarnock 7.210 Panathinaikos 6.305 Silkeborg 6.290 Maccabi Petah Tikva 6.225 Vojvodina 5.555

First qualifying round Team Coeff.[4] Sheriff Tiraspol 20.000 Maribor 9.500 Tobol 7.500 Wisła Kraków 5.075 Pafos 4.420 Paks 4.375 Elfsborg 4.300 Corvinul Hunedoara 4.275 Botev Plovdiv 4.075 Zira 4.025 Ružomberok 3.925 Llapi 2.308

Notes

The draw for the first qualifying round was held on 18 June 2024.

A total of 12 teams would play in the first qualifying round. Seeding of the teams was based on their 2024 UEFA club coefficients.^[4] The first team drawn in each tie would be the home team for the first leg.

Seeded	Unseeded
Sheriff Tiraspol Maribor Tobol Wisła Kraków Pafos Paks	Elfsborg Corvinul Hunedoara Botev Plovdiv Zira Ružomberok Llapi

The first legs were played on 11 July, and the second legs were played on 18 July 2024.

The winners of the ties advanced to the second qualifying round. The losers were transferred to the Conference League Main Path second qualifying round.

First qualifying round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Botev Plovdiv	4–3	Maribor	2–1	2–2
Elfsborg	8–2	Pafos	3–0	5–2
Paks	2–4	Corvinul Hunedoara	0–4	2–0
Sheriff Tiraspol	2–2 (5–4 p)	Zira	0–1	2–1 (a.e.t.)
Wisła Kraków	4–1[A]	Llapi	2–0	2–1
Ružomberok	5–3	Tobol	5–2	0–1

Botev Plovdiv	2–1	Maribor
Ujah 9' Iliev 74'	Report[6]	Širvys 19'

Attendance: 16,318^[5]

Referee: David Dickinson (Scotland)

Maribor	2–2	Botev Plovdiv
J. Repas 13' Beugre 80'	Report[8]	Nwachukwu 47' Ujah 60'

Attendance: 8,124^[7]

Referee: Vitaliy Romanov (Ukraine)

Botev Plovdiv won 4–3 on aggregate.

Elfsborg	3–0	Pafos
B. Zeneli 9' Hult 59' Frick 82'	Report[10]

Attendance: 5,011^[9]

Referee: Dmytro Panchyshyn (Ukraine)

Pafos	2–5	Elfsborg
Holmén 25' (o.g.) Dragomir 43'	Report[12]	Ouma 23' Baidoo 47' Baldursson 48' Abdullai 58' A. Zeneli 85'

Attendance: 3,952^[11]

Referee: Gai Leibovitz (Israel)

Elfsborg won 8–2 on aggregate.

Paks	0–4	Corvinul Hunedoara
	Report[14]	Buș 9' Lupu 45+2', 86', 90+3'

Attendance: 4,182^[13]

Referee: Mohammad Usman Aslam (Norway)

Corvinul Hunedoara	0–2	Paks
	Report[16]	Könyves 79' Böde 90'

Attendance: 8,582^[15]

Referee: Peter Kralovič (Slovakia)

Corvinul Hunedoara won 4–2 on aggregate.

Sheriff Tiraspol	0–1	Zira
	Report[18]	Volkovi 88'

Attendance: 3,594^[17]

Referee: Alessandro Dudic (Switzerland)

Zira	1–2 (a.e.t.)	Sheriff Tiraspol
Utzig 5'	Report[20]	Allach 54' Yade 77'
Penalties
Alıyev Ruan Renato Nuriyev Ibrahimli F. Bayramov	4–5	Badolo Akanbi Pata João Paulo Allach

Attendance: 4,700^[19]

Referee: Bulat Sariyev (Kazakhstan)

2–2 on aggregate. Sheriff Tiraspol won 5–4 on penalties.

Wisła Kraków	2–0	Llapi
Sapała 2' Rodado 90+5'	Report[22]

Attendance: 24,403^[21]

Referee: Marc Nagtegaal (Netherlands)

Llapi	1–2	Wisła Kraków
Tahiri 74'	Report[25]	Rodado 58' Kiakos 90'

Attendance: 0^{[23][note 4]}

Referee: Trustin Farrugia Cann (Malta)

Wisła Kraków won 4–1 on aggregate.

Ružomberok	5–2	Tobol
Gabriel 11', 88' Selecký 40' Malý 45+3' Madleňák 77'	Report[27]	Ivanović 9' Henen 45'

Attendance: 3,025^[26]

Referee: Kyriakos Athanasiou (Cyprus)

Tobol	1–0	Ružomberok
El Messaoudi 8'	Report[29]

Attendance: 6,830^[28]

Referee: Mikkel Redder (Denmark)

Ružomberok won 5–3 on aggregate.

The draw for the second qualifying round was held on 19 June 2024.

A total of 18 teams will play in the second qualifying round. Seeding of the teams was based on their 2024 UEFA club coefficients.^[4] For the winners of the first qualifying round, whose identity was not known at the time of the draw, the club coefficient of the highest-ranked remaining team in each tie was used. Prior to the draw, UEFA formed 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.

Group 1		Group 2
Seeded	Unseeded	Seeded	Unseeded
Ajax Molde Rapid Wien Trabzonspor Cercle Brugge	Ružomberok[†] Kilmarnock Silkeborg Vojvodina Wisła Kraków[†]	Braga Sheriff Tiraspol[†] Rijeka Botev Plovdiv[†]	Panathinaikos Maccabi Petah Tikva Elfsborg[†] Corvinul Hunedoara[†]

Notes

The first legs will be played on 25 July, and the second legs will be played on 1 August 2024.

The winners of the ties will advance to the Main Path third qualifying round. The losers will be transferred to the Conference League Main Path third qualifying round.

Second qualifying round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Ajax	Match 1	Vojvodina	25 July	1 Aug
Ružomberok	Match 2	Trabzonspor	25 July	1 Aug
Wisła Kraków	Match 3	Rapid Wien	25 July	1 Aug
Kilmarnock	Match 4	Cercle Brugge	25 July	1 Aug
Molde	Match 5	Silkeborg	25 July	1 Aug
Corvinul Hunedoara	Match 6	Rijeka	25 July	1 Aug
Braga	Match 7	Maccabi Petah Tikva	25 July	1 Aug
Panathinaikos	Match 8	Botev Plovdiv	25 July	1 Aug
Sheriff Tiraspol	Match 9	Elfsborg	25 July	1 Aug

Ajax	v	Vojvodina
	Report[30]

Referee: César Soto Grado (Spain)

Vojvodina	v	Ajax
	Report[31]

Referee: Arda Kardeşler (Turkey)

Ružomberok	v	Trabzonspor
	Report[32]

Referee: Bastian Dankert (Germany)

Trabzonspor	v	Ružomberok
	Report[33]

Referee: Nenad Minaković (Serbia)

Wisła Kraków	v	Rapid Wien
	Report[34]

Referee: Mohammed Al-Emara (Finland)

Rapid Wien	v	Wisła Kraków
	Report[35]

Referee: John Brooks (England)

Kilmarnock	v	Cercle Brugge
	Report[36]

Referee: Martin Dohal (Slovakia)

Cercle Brugge	v	Kilmarnock
	Report[37]

Referee: Sivert Øksnes Amland (Norway)

Molde	v	Silkeborg
	Report[38]

Referee: Adam Ladebäck (Sweden)

Silkeborg	v	Molde
	Report[39]

Referee: Luka Bilbija (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Corvinul Hunedoara	v	Rijeka
	Report[40]

Referee: Philip Farrugia (Malta)

Rijeka	v	Corvinul Hunedoara
	Report[41]

Referee: Luís Godinho (Portugal)

Braga	v	Maccabi Petah Tikva
	Report[42]

Referee: Luca Pairetto (Italy)

Maccabi Petah Tikva	v	Braga
	Report[44]

Referee: Evangelos Manouchos (Greece)

Panathinaikos	v	Botev Plovdiv
	Report[45]

Referee: David Fuxman (Israel)

Botev Plovdiv	v	Panathinaikos
	Report[46]

Referee: Daniel Schlager (Germany)

Sheriff Tiraspol	v	Elfsborg
	Report[47]

Referee: Marek Radina (Czech Republic)

Elfsborg	v	Sheriff Tiraspol
	Report[48]

Referee: Ante Čulina (Croatia)

The draw for the third qualifying round was held on 22 July 2024.

A total of 26 teams will play in the third qualifying round – 12 in the Champions Path and 14 in the Main Path. Seeding of the teams will be based on their 2024 UEFA club coefficients.^[4] For the winners of the second qualifying round, whose identity will not be known at the time of the draw, the club coefficient of the highest-ranked remaining team in each tie will be used. For the losers of the Champions League second qualifying round, the club coefficient of the lower-ranked team in each tie will be used. Prior to the draw, UEFA formed 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.

Main Path

Group 1		Group 2
Seeded	Unseeded	Seeded	Unseeded
Winner of match 1[††] Winner of match 5[††] Loser of CL Q2 match 2[†] Winner of match 3[††]	Winner of match 2[††] Winner of match 4[††] Loser of CL Q2 match 1[†] Winner of match 8[††]	Winner of match 7[††] Viktoria Plzeň Winner of match 9[††]	Winner of match 6[††] Servette Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih

Notes

The first legs will be played on 8 August, and the second legs will be played on 15 August 2024.

The winners of the ties will advance to the play-off round. The Champions Path losers will be transferred to the Conference League Champions Path play-off round, while the Main Path losers will be transferred to the Conference League Main Path play-off round.

Third qualifying round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Champions Path
Loser of CL Q2 match 6	Match 1	Loser of CL Q2 match 4	8 August	15 August
Loser of CL Q2 match 8	Match 2	Loser of CL Q2 match 5	8 August	15 August
Loser of CL Q2 match 9	Match 3	Loser of CL Q2 match 7	8 August	15 August
Loser of CL Q2 match 10	Match 4	Loser of CL Q2 match 12	8 August	15 August
Loser of CL Q2 match 2	Match 5	Loser of CL Q2 match 3	8 August	15 August
Loser of CL Q2 match 1	Match 6	Loser of CL Q2 match 11	8 August	15 August
Main Path
Loser of CL Q2 match 2	Match 1	Loser of CL Q2 match 1	8 August	15 August
Winner of match 5	Match 2	Winner of match 4	8 August	15 August
Winner of match 8	Match 3	Winner of match 1	8 August	15 August
Winner of match 2	Match 4	Winner of match 3	8 August	15 August
Winner of match 7	Match 5	Servette	8 August	15 August
Winner of match 6	Match 6	Winner of match 9	8 August	15 August
Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	Match 7	Viktoria Plzeň	8 August	15 August

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The draw for the play-off round will be held on 5 August 2024.

A total of 24 teams will play in the play-off round. Seeding of the teams will be based on their 2024 UEFA club coefficients.^[4] For the winners of the third qualifying round, whose identity will not be known at the time of the draw, the club coefficient of the highest-ranked remaining team in each tie will be used. For the losers of the Champions League third qualifying round, the club coefficient of the lower-ranked team in each tie will be used. 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.

Seeding

Seeding to be determined
LASK Winner of the tie involving Viktoria Plzeň[††] Anderlecht Beşiktaş Heart of Midlothian TSC 12 winners from third qualifying round[††] 6 losers from Champions League Champions Path third qualifying round[†]

Notes

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