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The 2023–24 UEFA Europa League will be the 53rd season of Europe's secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the first season since the reorganisation of European club football.

The competition will form the second-tier European football competition and will comprise a group stage and knock-out phase. In total, 96 teams from 32 associations will compete. The final will be played at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin, Ireland on 29 May 2024.

Draw
The draw for the competition was made on 14 June 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. The winners of the 2022–23 UEFA Europa Conference League were automatically assigned to pot one. 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 winners of each group will advance to the round of 32 and the runners-up will advance to the play-off round. The third-placed teams will be transferred to the Conference League knockout phase and the fourth-placed teams will be transferred to the Challenge Cup knockout phase while the fifth-placed 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