UEFA Europa Conference League 2021–22 Champions, matches

UEFA Europa Conference League 2021–22 was the inaugural season of the UEFA Europa Conference League, Europe’s tertiary club football tournament organized by UEFA.
The final was played at the Arena Kombëtare in Tirana, Albania, with Roma defeating Feyenoord 1–0. As winners, Roma automatically qualified for the UEFA Europa League 2022–23 group stage, although they had already done so through their league position.

This season was the first since 1999–2000 (the first season after the dissolution of the UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup) where three major European club competitions (UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, and UEFA Europa Conference League) took place.
On 24 June 2021, UEFA approved the proposal to abolish the away goals rule in all UEFA club competitions, which had been used since 1965. Therefore, if in a two-legged tie, two teams scored the same number of aggregate goals, the winner was not decided by the number of away goals scored by each team, but always by 30 minutes of extra time, and if the two teams scored the same number of goals in extra time, the winner was decided by a penalty shoot-out.

Champions:  AS Roma (1st title)
Runners-Up:  Feyenoord
Best Player:  Lorenzo Pellegrini ( AS Roma)
Best Young Player: Luis Sinisterra ( Feyenoord )
Top Goal Scorer:  Cyriel Dessers ( Feyenoord), 10 goal

UEFA Europa Conference League 2021–22 Teams
The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:

• CW: Domestic cup winners
• 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, etc.: League position of the previous season
• LC: League cup winners
• RW: Regular season winners
• PW: End-of-season Europa Conference League play-offs winners
• UCL: Transferred from the Champions League
  Q1: Losers from the first qualifying round
  PR: Losers from the preliminary round (F: final; SF: semi-finals)
• UEL: Transferred from the Europa League
  GS: Third-placed teams from the group stage
  PO: Losers from the play-off round
  CH/MP Q3: Losers from the third qualifying round (Champions/Main Path)
• Abd-: League positions of abandoned season due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe as determined by the national association; all teams were subject to approval by UEFA as per the guidelines for entry to European competitions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The second qualifying round, third qualifying round and play-off round were divided into Champions Path (CH) and Main Path (MP).

UEFA Europa Conference League 2021–22 Group stage

Group A

Position	Team	Played	Win	Draw	Loss	GF	GA	GD	Points	Qualification
1	LASK	6	5	1	0	12	1	+11	16	Advance to round of 16
2	Maccabi Tel Aviv	6	3	2	1	14	4	+10	11	Advance to knockout round play-offs
3	HJK	6	2	0	4	5	15	−10	6
4	Alashkert	6	0	1	5	4	15	−11	1

Group B

Position	Team	Played	Win	Draw	Loss	GF	GA	GD	Points	Qualification
1	Gent	6	4	1	1	6	2	+4	13	Advance to round of 16
2	Partizan	6	2	2	2	6	4	+2	8	Advance to knockout round play-offs
3	Anorthosis Famagusta	6	1	3	2	6	9	−3	6
4	Flora	6	1	2	3	5	8	−3	5

Group C

Position	Team	Played	Win	Draw	Loss	GF	GA	GD	Points	Qualification
1	AS Roma	6	4	1	1	18	11	+7	13	Advance to round of 16
2	Bodø/Glimt	6	3	3	0	14	5	+9	12	Advance to knockout round play-offs
3	Zorya Luhansk	6	2	1	3	5	11	−6	7
4	CSKA Sofia	6	0	1	5	3	13	−10	1

Group D

Position	Team	Played	Win	Draw	Loss	GF	GA	GD	Points	Qualification
1	AZ	6	4	2	0	8	3	+5	14	Advance to round of 16
2	Randers	6	1	4	1	9	9	0	7	Advance to knockout round play-offs
3	Jablonec	6	1	3	2	6	8	−2	6
4	CFR Cluj	6	1	1	4	4	7	−3	4

Group E

Position	Team	Played	Win	Draw	Loss	GF	GA	GD	Points	Qualification
1	Feyenoord	6	4	2	0	11	6	+5	14	Advance to round of 16
2	Slavia Prague	6	2	2	2	8	7	+1	8	Advance to knockout round play-offs
3	Union Berlin	6	2	1	3	8	9	−1	7
4	Maccabi Haifa	6	1	1	4	2	7	−5	4

Group F

Position	Team	Played	Win	Draw	Loss	GF	GA	GD	Points	Qualification
1	Copenhagen	6	5	0	1	15	5	+10	15	Advance to round of 16
2	PAOK	6	3	2	1	8	4	+4	11	Advance to knockout round play-offs
3	Slovan Bratislava	6	2	2	2	8	7	+1	8
4	Lincoln Red Imps	6	0	0	6	2	17	−15	0

Group G

Position	Team	Played	Win	Draw	Loss	GF	GA	GD	Points	Qualification
1	Rennes	6	4	2	0	13	7	+6	14	Advance to round of 16
2	Vitesse	6	3	1	2	12	9	+3	10	Advance to knockout round play-offs
3	Tottenham Hotspur	6	2	1	3	11	11	0	7
4	Mura	6	1	0	5	5	14	−9	3

Note: The Tottenham Hotspur v Rennes match was awarded as a 3–0 win to Rennes due to numerous positive COVID-19 tests in the Tottenham Hotspur squad.

Group H

Position	Team	Played	Win	Draw	Loss	GF	GA	GD	Points	Qualification
1	Basel	6	4	2	0	14	6	+8	14	Advance to round of 16
2	Qarabağ	6	3	2	1	10	8	+2	11	Advance to knockout round play-offs
3	Omonia	6	0	4	2	5	10	−5	4
4	Kairat	6	0	2	4	6	11	−5	2

UEFA Europa Conference League 2021–22 Round of 16 matches
The draw for the round of 16 was held on 25 February 2022, 13:00 CET. The first legs were played on 10 March, and the second legs were played on 17 March 2022.

Team 1	Aggregate	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Marseille	4–2	Basel	2–1	2–1
Leicester City	3–2	Rennes	2–0	1–2
PAOK	3–1	Gent	1–0	2–1
Vitesse	1–2	AS Roma	0–1	1–1
PSV Eindhoven	8–4	Copenhagen	4–4	4–0
Slavia Prague	7–5	LASK	4–1	3–4
Bodø/Glimt	4–3	AZ	2–1	2–2 (a.e.t.)
Partizan	3–8	Feyenoord	2–5	1–3

UEFA Europa Conference League 2021–22 Quarter Final matches
The draw for the quarter-finals was held on 18 March 2022, 15:00 CET. The first legs were played on 7 April, and the second legs were played on 14 April 2022.

Team 1	Aggregate	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Bodø/Glimt	2–5	AS Roma	2–1	0–4
Feyenoord	6–4	Slavia Prague	3–3	3–1
Marseille	3–1	PAOK	2–1	1–0
Leicester City	2–1	PSV Eindhoven	0–0	2–1

UEFA Europa Conference League 2021–22 Semi Final matches
The draw for the semi-finals was held on 18 March 2022, 15:00 CET, after the quarter-final draw. The first legs were played on 28 April, and the second legs were played on 5 May 2022.

Team 1	Aggregate	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Leicester City	1–2	AS Roma	1–1	0–1
Feyenoord	3–2	Marseille	3–2	0–0

UEFA Europa Conference League 2021–22 Final match
25 May 2022 21:00 CEST, Arena Kombëtare, Tirana

AS Roma	1 – 0	Feyenoord
Nicolo Zaniolo 32′

UEFA Conference League 2021–22 Top Goal scorers

Rank	Player	Team	Goals
1	Cyriel Dessers	Feyenoord	10
2	Tammy Abraham	AS Roma	9
3	Yira Sor	Slavia Prague	6
4	Ola Solbakken	Bodø/Glimt	6
5	Luis Sinisterra	Feyenoord	6
6	Gaëtan Laborde	Rennes	5
7	Arthur Cabral	Basel	5
8	Nicolò Zaniolo	AS Roma	5
9	Amahl Pellegrino	Bodø/Glimt	5

UEFA Conference League 2021–22 Most Assist provider list

Rank	Player	Team	Assists
1	Eli Dasa	Vitesse	4
2	Erik Botheim	Bodo / Glimt	4
3	Luis Sinisterra	Feyenoord	4
4	Nicolò Zaniolo	AS Roma	4
5	Pep Biel	Kobenhavn	4
6	Rick Karsdorp	AS Roma	4

UEFA Conference League 2021–22 Team of the season
The UEFA technical study group selected the following players as the team of the tournament.

Position	Player	Team
Goalkeeper	Rui Patrício	AS Roma
Defender	Lutsharel Geertruida	Feyenoord
Defender	Chris Smalling	AS Roma
Defender	Gernot Trauner	Feyenoord
Defender	Tyrell Malacia	Feyenoord
Midfielder	Lorenzo Pellegrini	AS Roma
Midfielder	Dimitri Payet	Marseille
Midfielder	Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall	Leicester City
Midfielder	Luis Sinisterra	Feyenoord
Forward	Cyriel Dessers	Feyenoord
Forward	Tammy Abraham	AS Roma