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The 2023–24 UEFA Challenge Cup will be the first season of Europe's quaternary club football tournament organised by UEFA.

The competition will form the fourth-tier European football competition and will comprise a group stage and knock-out phase. In total, 112 teams from between 30 and 55 associations will compete. The final will be played at the Friends Arena in Stockholm, Sweden on 22 May 2024.

Draw
The draw for the competition was made on 19 May 2023. Teams were seeded into five pots based on their association's 2023 UEFA coefficients, which takes into account their association's performance in European competitions from 2018–19 to 2022–23. Teams from the same association could not be drawn into the same group.

Teams
Below are the participating teams grouped by their seeding pot.

Notes

Format
In each group, teams play against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The top two teams of each group will advance to the round of 64 while the remaining teams will be eliminated from European competitions for the season.

Tiebreakers
Teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If two or more teams are tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria will be applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (see Article 17 Equality of points – group stage, Regulations of the UEFA Champions League):
 * 1) Points in head-to-head matches among the tied teams;
 * 2) Goal difference in head-to-head matches among the tied teams;
 * 3) Goals scored in head-to-head matches among the tied teams;
 * 4) If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
 * 5) Goal difference in all group matches;
 * 6) Goals scored in all group matches;
 * 7) Away goals scored in all group matches;
 * 8) Wins in all group matches;
 * 9) Away wins in all group matches;
 * 10) Disciplinary points (direct red card = 3 points; double yellow card = 3 points; single yellow card = 1 point);
 * 11) UEFA club coefficient.

Seeding
The teams will be seeded according to their results in the group stage.

Bracket

 * Top half


 * Bottom half