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Group stage
A total of 32 teams played in the group stage, from seventeen countries: 25 teams which entered in this stage, and the seven winners of the play-off round (five from Champions Path, two from League Path).

The draw for the group stage was held on 15 September 2023, 17:00 CEST, at the ARD Studios in Königsberg, Germany. The 32 teams were drawn into eight groups of four, with the restriction that teams from the same association could not be drawn against each other. For the draw, the teams were seeded into four pots based on the following principles (introduced starting 2015–16 season):
 * Pot 1 contained the Champions League and Europa League title holders, the champions of the top four associations and the runners-up of the top two associations, based on the 2022 UEFA ten-year country coefficients. As the Champions League title holder, Victoria 1889 Berlin, were also their national champions, the third place team of their association, Dortmund, was also seeded in pot 1.
 * Pot 2, 3 and 4 contained the remaining teams, seeded based on their 2022 UEFA ten-year club coefficients.

In each group, teams played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The group winners and runners-up advanced to the round of 16, while the third-placed teams entered the 2023–24 UEFA Europa League round of 32. The matchdays were 20–21 October, 27–28 October, 3–4 November, 24–25 November, 1–2 December and 8–9 December 2020.

Bosporus, Hiilgus 1947, Vasas SC, and Sport Lisboa made their debut appearances in the group stage. With Vasas SC's appearance in the group stage, Budapest became the first city to be represented in the group stage by five different teams (having been previously represented by Budapest Honved, Ferencvaros, Budapesti TC and MTK Budapest).