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The 2023–24 UEFA European Cup will be the 69th season of Europe's premier club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the first season since it was renamed from the UEFA Champions League.

The competition will form the top-tier European football competition and will comprise a group stage and knock-out phase. In total, 80 teams from 30 associations will compete. The final will be played at Wembley Stadium in London, England on 1 June 2024.

Draw
The draw for the competition was made on 21 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 Champions League and 2022–23 UEFA Europa League were automatically be 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 top two teams of each group will advance to the round of 32. The third-placed teams will be transferred to the Europa League knockout phase and the fourth-placed teams will be transferred to the Conference League 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