2022–23 UEFA Europa League

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2022–23 UEFA Europa League

The 2022–23 UEFA Europa League was the 52nd season of Europe's secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 14th season since it was renamed from the UEFA Cup to the UEFA Europa League.

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2022–23 UEFA Europa League
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The Puskás Aréna in Budapest hosted the final
Tournament details
DatesQualifying:
4–25 August 2022
Competition proper:
8 September 2022 – 31 May 2023
TeamsCompetition proper: 32+8
Total: 21+36 (from 33 associations)
Final positions
Champions Sevilla (7th title)
Runners-up Roma
Tournament statistics
Matches played141
Goals scored381 (2.7 per match)
Attendance4,067,872 (28,850 per match)
Top scorer(s)Victor Boniface (Union Saint-Gilloise)
Marcus Rashford (Manchester United)
6 goals each
Best player(s)Jesús Navas (Sevilla)[1]
Best young playerFlorian Wirtz (Bayer Leverkusen)[2]
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Sevilla defeated Roma in the final played at the Puskás Aréna in Budapest, Hungary, 4–1 on penalties following a 1–1 draw after extra time, winning the competition for a record-extending seventh time.[3] Budapest was originally scheduled to host the final match for the 2021–22 UEFA Europa League, but several hosts were shifted because of the delay and ultimate relocation of the 2020 final due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[4]

As winners of the tournament, Sevilla automatically qualified for the 2023–24 UEFA Champions League group stage and also earned the right to play against the winners of the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League, Manchester City, in the 2023 UEFA Super Cup.

As the title holders, Eintracht Frankfurt qualified for the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League. They were unable to defend their title after advancing to the knockout phase, and were eliminated by Napoli in the first knockout round.

Association team allocation

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A total of 57 teams from 33 of the 55 UEFA member associations participated in the 2022–23 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, 18 of them had teams playing after being transferred from the Champions League (the only member associations which could not have a participant were Russia and Liechtenstein, which did not organise a domestic league, and could only enter their cup winner into the UEFA 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]

  • The title holders of the UEFA Europa Conference League were given an entry in the Europa League (as they did not qualify for the Champions League group stage).
  • Associations 1–5 each had two teams qualify.
  • Associations 6–7 and 9–15 each had one team qualify.
  • 36 teams eliminated from the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League were transferred to the Europa League.

Association ranking

For the 2022–23 UEFA Europa League, the associations were allocated places according to their 2021 UEFA country coefficients, which took into account their performance in European competitions from 2016–17 to 2020–21.[6]

Apart from the allocation based on the country coefficients, associations may have had additional teams participating in the Europa League, as noted below:

  • (UCL) – Additional teams transferred from the UEFA Champions League
  • (UECL) – Additional berth for UEFA Europa Conference League title holders
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Association ranking for 2022–23 UEFA Europa League
Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes
1  England 100.569 2
2  Spain 97.855 +2 (UCL)
3  Italy 75.438 +1 (UCL)
4  Germany 73.570 +1 (UCL)
5  France 56.081 +1 (UCL)
6  Portugal 48.549 1 +1 (UCL)
7  Netherlands 39.200 +2 (UCL)
8  Russia 38.382 0 [Note RUS]
9  Belgium 36.500 1 +1 (UCL)
10  Austria 35.825 +2 (UCL)
11  Scotland 33.375
12  Ukraine 33.100 +2 (UCL)
13  Turkey 30.100 +2 (UCL)
14  Denmark 27.875 +1 (UCL)
15  Cyprus 27.750 +2 (UCL)
16  Serbia 26.750 +1 (UCL)
17  Czech Republic 26.600
18  Croatia 26.275 0
19  Switzerland 26.225 +1 (UCL)
Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes
20  Greece 26.000 0 +1 (UCL)
21  Israel 24.375
22  Norway 21.000 +1 (UCL)
23  Sweden 20.500 +1 (UCL)
24  Bulgaria 20.375 +1 (UCL)
25  Romania 18.200
26  Azerbaijan 16.875 +1 (UCL)
27  Kazakhstan 15.625
28  Hungary 15.500 +1 (UCL)
29  Belarus 15.250
30  Poland 15.125
31  Slovenia 14.250 +1 (UCL)
32  Slovakia 13.625 +1 (UCL)
33  Liechtenstein 9.000
34  Lithuania 8.750 +1 (UCL)
35  Luxembourg 8.250 +1 (UCL)
36  Bosnia and Herzegovina 8.000
37  Republic of Ireland 7.875 +1 (UCL)
Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes
38  North Macedonia 7.625 0 +1 (UCL)
39  Armenia 7.375 +1 (UCL)
40  Latvia 7.375
41  Albania 7.250
42  Northern Ireland 6.958 +1 (UCL)
43  Georgia 6.875
44  Finland 6.875 +1 (UCL)
45  Moldova 6.875 +1 (UCL)
46  Malta 6.375
47  Faroe Islands 6.125
48  Kosovo 5.833
49  Gibraltar 5.666
50  Montenegro 5.000
51  Wales 5.000
52  Iceland 4.875
53  Estonia 4.750
54  Andorra 3.331
55  San Marino 1.166
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Distribution

The following is the access list for this season.[7]

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Access list for 2022–23 UEFA Europa League
Teams entering in this round Teams advancing from previous round Teams transferred from Champions League
Third qualifying round
(14 teams)
Champions Path
(10 teams)
  • 10 teams eliminated from Champions League second qualifying round (Champions Path)
Main Path
(4 teams)
  • 2 domestic cup winners from associations 16–17
  • 2 teams eliminated from Champions League second qualifying round (League Path)
Play-off round
(20 teams)
  • 7 domestic cup winners from associations 8–15 (except Russia)[Note RUS]
  • 5 winners from the third qualifying round (Champions Path)
  • 2 winners from the third qualifying round (Main Path)
  • 6 teams eliminated from Champions League third qualifying round (Champions Path)
Group stage
(32 teams)
  • 7 domestic cup winners from associations 1–7
  • 1 domestic league fourth-placed team from association 5
  • 4 domestic league fifth-placed teams from associations 1–4
  • 10 winners from the play-off round
  • 4 teams eliminated from Champions League play-off round (Champions Path)
  • 2 teams eliminated from Champions League play-off round (League Path)
  • 4 teams eliminated from Champions League third qualifying round (League Path)
Preliminary knockout round
(16 teams)
  • 8 group runners-up from the group stage
  • 8 group third-placed teams from Champions League group stage
Knockout phase
(16 teams)
  • 8 group winners from the group stage
  • 8 winners from the preliminary knockout round
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Due to the suspension of Russia for the 2022–23 European season, the following changes to the access list were made:

  • The cup winners of associations 13 (Turkey) and 14 (Denmark) enter the play-off round instead of the third qualifying round.
  • The cup winners of association 16 (Serbia) enter the third qualifying round instead of the Europa Conference League second qualifying round.

Since the Europa Conference League title holders (Roma) qualified through their league position, the following changes to the access list were made:

  • The cup winners of association 7 (Netherlands) enter the group stage instead of the play-off round.
  • The cup winners of association 15 (Cyprus) enter the play-off round instead of the third qualifying round.
  • The cup winners of association 17 (Czech Republic) enter the third qualifying round instead of the Europa Conference League second qualifying round.

Redistribution rules

A Europa League place was vacated when a team qualified for both the Champions League and the Europa League, or qualified for the Europa League by more than one method. When a place was vacated, it was redistributed within the national association by the following rules:

  • When the domestic cup winners (considered as the "highest-placed" qualifier within the national association with the latest starting round) also qualified for the Champions League, their Europa League place was vacated. As a result, the highest-placed team in the league which had not yet qualified for European competitions qualified for the Europa League, with the Europa League qualifiers which finished above them in the league moved up one "place".
  • When the domestic cup winners also qualified for the Europa League through league position, their place through the league position was vacated. As a result, the highest-placed team in the league which had not yet qualified for European competitions qualified for the Europa League, with the Europa League qualifiers which finished above them in the league moved up one "place" if possible.
  • For associations where a Europa League place was reserved for either the League Cup or end-of-season European competition play-offs winners, they always qualified for the Europa League as the "lowest-placed" qualifier. If the League Cup winners had already qualified for European competitions through other methods, this reserved Europa League place was taken by the highest-placed team in the league which had not yet qualified for European competitions.

Teams

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:

  • ECL: Europa Conference League title holders
  • CW: Cup winners
  • 4th, 5th, etc.: League position of the previous season
  • Abd-: League positions of abandoned season as determined by the national association; all teams were subject to approval by UEFA
  • UCL: Transferred from the Champions League
    • GS: Third-placed teams from the group stage
    • CH/LP PO: Losers from the play-off round (Champions/League Path)
    • CH/LP Q3: Losers from the third qualifying round (Champions/League Path)
    • CH/LP Q2: Losers from the second qualifying round (Champions/League Path)

The third qualifying round was divided into Champions Path (CH) and Main Path (MP).

Notes

  1. ^
    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] On 2 May 2022, UEFA confirmed that Russian clubs would be excluded from the 2022–23 UEFA competitions.[9]
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    Ukraine (UKR): The 2021–22 Ukrainian Cup was abandoned due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The berth reserved for the cup winners was transferred to the third-placed team of the league at the time of the abandonment, SC Dnipro-1, who were selected to play in the 2022–23 UEFA Europa League by the Ukrainian Association of Football.

Round and draw dates

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The schedule of the competition was as follows. 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. Scheduled kick-off times starting from the group stage were 18:45 and 21:00 CEST/CET, though exceptionally could take place at 16:30 due to geographical reasons.

As the 2022 FIFA World Cup took place in Qatar between 20 November and 18 December 2022, the group stage commenced in the first week of September 2022 and concluded in the first week of November 2022 to make way for the World Cup.

The draws for the qualifying round were held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.[10] The group stage draw took place in Istanbul, Turkey.[11]

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Schedule for 2022–23 UEFA Europa League[12][13]
Phase Round Draw date First leg Second leg
Qualifying Third qualifying round 18 July 2022 4 August 2022 11 August 2022
Play-offs Play-off round 2 August 2022 18 August 2022 25 August 2022
Group stage Matchday 1 26 August 2022 8 September 2022
Matchday 2 15 September 2022
Matchday 3 6 October 2022
Matchday 4 13 October 2022
Matchday 5 27 October 2022
Matchday 6 3 November 2022
Knockout phase Knockout round play-offs 7 November 2022 16 February 2023 23 February 2023
Round of 16 24 February 2023 9 March 2023 16 March 2023
Quarter-finals 17 March 2023 13 April 2023 20 April 2023
Semi-finals 11 May 2023 18 May 2023
Final 31 May 2023 at Puskás Aréna, Budapest
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Third qualifying round

The draw for the third qualifying round was held on 18 July 2022. The first legs were played on 4 August, and the second legs were played on 9 and 11 August 2022.

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.

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Champions Path
Malmö FF Sweden 5–2 Luxembourg F91 Dudelange 3–0 2–2
Shamrock Rovers Republic of Ireland 5–2 North Macedonia Shkupi 3–1 2–1
Linfield Northern Ireland 0–5 Switzerland Zürich 0–2 0–3
Olympiacos Greece 3–3 (4–3 p) Slovakia Slovan Bratislava 1–1 2–2 (a.e.t.)
Maribor Slovenia 0–3 Finland HJK 0–2 0–1
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Main Path
AEK Larnaca Cyprus 4–3 Serbia Partizan 2–1 2–2
Fenerbahçe Turkey 4–1 Czech Republic Slovácko 3–0 1–1
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Play-off round

The draw for the play-off round was held on 2 August 2022. The first legs were played on 18 August, and the second legs were played on 25 August 2022.

The winners of the ties advanced to the group stage. The losers were transferred to the Europa Conference League group stage.

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Group stage

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Location of teams of the 2022–23 UEFA Europa League group stage.
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 26 August 2022. 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 2022 UEFA club coefficients.[14] Teams from the same association could not be drawn into the same group.

Bodø/Glimt, Nantes, Union Berlin and Union Saint-Gilloise made their debut appearances in the group stage. Union Saint-Gilloise made their debut appearance in a UEFA competition group stage.

A total of 23 national associations were represented in the group stage.

Group A

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification ARS PSV BOD ZUR
1 England Arsenal 6 5 0 1 8 3 +5 15 Advance to round of 16 1–0 3–0 1–0
2 Netherlands PSV Eindhoven 6 4 1 1 15 4 +11 13 Advance to knockout round play-offs 2–0 1–1 5–0
3 Norway Bodø/Glimt 6 1 1 4 5 10 5 4 Transfer to Europa Conference League 0–1 1–2 2–1
4 Switzerland Zürich 6 1 0 5 5 16 11 3 1–2 1–5 2–1
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Source: UEFA

Group B

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification FEN REN AEK DKV
1 Turkey Fenerbahçe 6 4 2 0 13 7 +6 14 Advance to round of 16 3–3 2–0 2–1
2 France Rennes 6 3 3 0 11 8 +3 12 Advance to knockout round play-offs 2–2 1–1 2–1
3 Cyprus AEK Larnaca 6 1 2 3 7 10 3 5 Transfer to Europa Conference League 1–2 1–2 3–3
4 Ukraine Dynamo Kyiv 6 0 1 5 5 11 6 1 0–2 0–1 0–1
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Group C

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification BET ROM LUD HJK
1 Spain Real Betis 6 5 1 0 12 4 +8 16 Advance to round of 16 1–1 3–2 3–0
2 Italy Roma 6 3 1 2 11 7 +4 10 Advance to knockout round play-offs 1–2 3–1 3–0
3 Bulgaria Ludogorets Razgrad 6 2 1 3 8 9 1 7 Transfer to Europa Conference League 0–1 2–1 2–0
4 Finland HJK 6 0 1 5 2 13 11 1 0–2 1–2 1–1
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Source: UEFA

Group D

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification USG UBE BRA MAL
1 Belgium Union Saint-Gilloise 6 4 1 1 11 7 +4 13 Advance to round of 16 0–1 3–3 3–2
2 Germany Union Berlin 6 4 0 2 4 2 +2 12 Advance to knockout round play-offs 0–1 1–0 1–0
3 Portugal Braga 6 3 1 2 9 7 +2 10 Transfer to Europa Conference League 1–2 1–0 2–1
4 Sweden Malmö FF 6 0 0 6 3 11 8 0 0–2 0–1 0–2
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Group E

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification RSO MUN SHE OMO
1 Spain Real Sociedad 6 5 0 1 10 2 +8 15[a] Advance to round of 16 0–1 3–0 2–1
2 England Manchester United 6 5 0 1 10 3 +7 15[a] Advance to knockout round play-offs 0–1 3–0 1–0
3 Moldova Sheriff Tiraspol 6 2 0 4 4 10 6 6 Transfer to Europa Conference League 0–2 0–2 1–0
4 Cyprus Omonia 6 0 0 6 3 12 9 0 0–2 2–3 0–3
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  1. Tied on head-to-head results. Overall goal difference is used as the tiebreaker.

Group F

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification FEY MID LAZ STU
1 Netherlands Feyenoord 6 2 2 2 13 9 +4 8[a] Advance to round of 16 2–2 1–0 6–0
2 Denmark Midtjylland 6 2 2 2 12 8 +4 8[a] Advance to knockout round play-offs 2–2 5–1 2–0
3 Italy Lazio 6 2 2 2 9 11 2 8[a] Transfer to Europa Conference League 4–2 2–1 2–2
4 Austria Sturm Graz 6 2 2 2 4 10 6 8[a] 1–0 1–0 0–0
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Source: UEFA
Notes:
  1. Tied on head-to-head results. Overall goal difference is used as the tiebreaker. Between Feyenoord and Midtjylland, overall goals scored is used as the tiebreaker.

Group G

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification FRE NAN QRB OLY
1 Germany SC Freiburg 6 4 2 0 13 3 +10 14 Advance to round of 16 2–0 2–1 1–1
2 France Nantes 6 3 0 3 6 11 5 9 Advance to knockout round play-offs 0–4 2–1 2–1
3 Azerbaijan Qarabağ 6 2 2 2 9 5 +4 8 Transfer to Europa Conference League 1–1 3–0 0–0
4 Greece Olympiacos 6 0 2 4 2 11 9 2 0–3 0–2 0–3
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Group H

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification FER MON TRA ZVE
1 Hungary Ferencváros 6 3 1 2 8 9 1 10[a] Advance to round of 16 1–1 3–2 2–1
2 France Monaco 6 3 1 2 9 8 +1 10[a] Advance to knockout round play-offs 0–1 3–1 4–1
3 Turkey Trabzonspor 6 3 0 3 11 9 +2 9 Transfer to Europa Conference League 1–0 4–0 2–1
4 Serbia Red Star Belgrade 6 2 0 4 9 11 2 6 4–1 0–1 2–1
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Source: UEFA
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  1. Head to head points: Ferencváros 4, Monaco 1.

Knockout phase

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:

  • In the draw for the knockout round play-offs, the eight group runners-up were seeded, and the eight Champions League group third-placed teams were unseeded. The seeded teams were drawn against the unseeded teams, with the seeded teams hosting the second leg. Teams from the same association could not be drawn against each other.
  • In the draw for the round of 16, the eight group winners were seeded, and the eight winners of the knockout round play-offs were unseeded. Again, the seeded teams were drawn against the unseeded teams, with the seeded teams hosting the second leg. Teams from the same association could not be drawn against each other.
  • In the draws for the quarter-finals onwards, there were no seedings, and teams from the same association could be drawn against each other. As the draws for the quarter-finals and semi-finals were held together before the quarter-finals were played, the identity of the quarter-final winners was not known at the time of the semi-final draw. A draw was also held to determine which semi-final winner would be designated as the "home" team for the final (for administrative purposes as it was played at a neutral venue).

Bracket

Knockout round play-offsRound of 16Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
Italy Juventus134
France Nantes101 Italy Juventus123
Germany SC Freiburg000
Italy Juventus112
Portugal Sporting CP145
Portugal Sporting CP011
Denmark Midtjylland101 Portugal Sporting CP (p)213 (5)
England Arsenal213 (3)
Italy Juventus112
Spain Barcelona213
Spain Sevilla (a.e.t.)123
England Manchester United224 England Manchester United415
Spain Real Betis101
England Manchester United202
Spain Sevilla303
Spain Sevilla235
Netherlands PSV Eindhoven022 Spain Sevilla202
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Turkey Fenerbahçe011
Spain Sevilla (p)1 (4)
Ukraine Shakhtar Donetsk (p)213 (5)
Italy Roma1 (1)
France Rennes123 (4) Ukraine Shakhtar Donetsk112
Netherlands Feyenoord178
Netherlands Feyenoord112
Austria Red Bull Salzburg101
Italy Roma (a.e.t.)044
Italy Roma022 Italy Roma202
Spain Real Sociedad000
Italy Roma101
Germany Bayer Leverkusen (p)235 (5)
Germany Bayer Leverkusen000
France Monaco325 (3) Germany Bayer Leverkusen224
Hungary Ferencváros000
Germany Bayer Leverkusen145
Netherlands Ajax011
Belgium Union Saint-Gilloise112
Germany Union Berlin033 Germany Union Berlin303
Belgium Union Saint-Gilloise336

Knockout round play-offs

The draw for the knockout round play-offs was held on 7 November 2022, 13:00 CET.[15] The first legs were played on 16 February, and the second legs were played on 23 February 2023.

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Round of 16

The draw for the round of 16 was held on 24 February 2023, 12:00 CET.[16] The first legs were played on 9 March, and the second legs were played on 16 March 2023.

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Quarter-finals

The draw for the quarter-finals was held on 17 March 2023, 13:00 CET.[17] The first legs were played on 13 April, and the second legs were played on 20 April 2023.

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Manchester United England 2–5 Spain Sevilla 2–2 0–3
Juventus Italy 2–1 Portugal Sporting CP 1–0 1–1
Bayer Leverkusen Germany 5–2 Belgium Union Saint-Gilloise 1–1 4–1
Feyenoord Netherlands 2–4 Italy Roma 1–0 1–4 (a.e.t.)
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Semi-finals

The draw for the semi-finals was held on 17 March 2023, 13:00 CET, after the quarter-final draw.[17] The first legs were played on 11 May, and the second legs were played on 18 May 2023.

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Juventus Italy 2–3 Spain Sevilla 1–1 1–2 (a.e.t.)
Roma Italy 1–0 Germany Bayer Leverkusen 1–0 0–0
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Final

The final was played on 31 May 2023 at the Puskás Aréna in Budapest. A draw was held on 17 March 2023, after the quarter-final and semi-final draws, to determine the "home" team for administrative purposes.[17]

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Sevilla Spain1–1 (a.e.t.)Italy Roma
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Penalties
4–1
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Attendance: 61,476[18]

Statistics

Statistics exclude qualifying round and play-off round.

Top goalscorers

Team of the season

The UEFA technical study group selected the following players as the team of the tournament.[20]

Player of the Season

Young Player of the Season

See also

References

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