2023–24 UEFA Europa League
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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.
Tournament details | |
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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 Stadium in Dublin, 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 Parma in 1999. 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.