UEFA Europa Conference League 2022–23 Champions, matches

The 2022–23 UEFA Europa Conference League was the second season of the UEFA Europa Conference League, Europe’s tertiary club football tournament organized by UEFA. The final was played at Fortuna Arena in Prague, Czech Republic. It was won by West Ham United, who defeated Fiorentina 2–1, and qualified for the 2023–24 UEFA Europa League group stage as a result.
As the title holders, Roma qualified for the 2022–23 UEFA Europa League. They were unable to defend their title after advancing to the Europa League knockout phase.

Champions: West Ham United (1st title)
Runners-Up: Fiorentina
Player of the Season: Declan Rice ( West Ham United)
Young Player of the Season: Andy Diouf ( Basel)
Top Goal Scorer: Zeki Amdouni ( Basel) and Arthur Cabral ( Fiorentina), 7 goal each

UEFA Europa Conference League 2022–23 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
• Abd-: League positions of abandoned season as determined by the national association; all teams were subject to approval by UEFA
• 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)

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 2022–23 Group stage

Group A

Position	Team	Played	Win	Draw	Loss	GF	GA	GD	Points	Qualification
1	İstanbul Başakşehir	6	4	1	1	14	3	+11	13	Advance to round of 16
2	Fiorentina	6	4	1	1	14	6	+8	13	Advance to knockout round play-offs
3	Heart of Midlothian	6	2	0	4	6	16	−10	6
4	RFS	6	0	2	4	2	11	−9	2

Notes: Tied on head-to-head points. Head-to-head goal difference: İstanbul Başakşehir +2, Fiorentina −2.

Group B

Position	Team	Played	Win	Draw	Loss	GF	GA	GD	Points	Qualification
1	West Ham United	6	6	0	0	13	4	+9	18	Advance to round of 16
2	Anderlecht	6	2	2	2	6	5	+1	8	Advance to knockout round play-offs
3	Silkeborg	6	2	0	4	12	7	+5	6
4	FCSB	6	0	2	4	3	18	−15	2

Group C

Position	Team	Played	Win	Draw	Loss	GF	GA	GD	Points	Qualification
1	Villarreal	6	4	1	1	14	9	+5	13	Advance to round of 16
2	Lech Poznań	6	2	3	1	12	7	+5	9	Advance to knockout round play-offs
3	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	6	1	4	1	8	5	+3	7
4	Austria Wien	6	0	2	4	2	15	−13	2

Group D

Position	Team	Played	Win	Draw	Loss	GF	GA	GD	Points	Qualification
1	Nice	6	2	3	1	8	7	+1	9	Advance to round of 16
2	Partizan	6	2	3	1	9	7	+2	9	Advance to knockout round play-offs
3	1. FC Köln	6	2	2	2	8	8	0	8
4	Slovácko	6	1	2	3	8	11	−3	5

Notes: Head-to-head points: Nice 4, Partizan 1.

Group E

Position	Team	Played	Win	Draw	Loss	GF	GA	GD	Points	Qualification
1	AZ	6	5	0	1	12	6	+6	15	Advance to round of 16
2	Dnipro-1	6	3	1	2	9	7	+2	10	Advance to knockout round play-offs
3	Apollon Limassol	6	2	1	3	5	7	−2	7
4	Vaduz	6	0	2	4	5	11	−6	2

Group F

Position	Team	Played	Win	Draw	Loss	GF	GA	GD	Points	Qualification
1	Djurgårdens IF	6	5	1	0	12	6	+6	16	Advance to round of 16
2	Gent	6	2	2	2	10	6	+4	8	Advance to knockout round play-offs
3	Molde	6	2	1	3	9	10	−1	7
4	Shamrock Rovers	6	0	2	4	1	10	−9	2

Group G

Position	Team	Played	Win	Draw	Loss	GF	GA	GD	Points	Qualification
1	Sivasspor	6	3	2	1	11	7	+4	11	Advance to round of 16
2	CFR Cluj	6	3	1	2	5	5	0	10	Advance to knockout round play-offs
3	Slavia Prague	6	2	2	2	6	7	−1	8
4	Ballkani	6	1	1	4	8	11	−3	4

Group H

Position	Team	Played	Win	Draw	Loss	GF	GA	GD	Points	Qualification
1	Slovan Bratislava	6	3	2	1	9	7	+2	11	Advance to round of 16
2	Basel	6	3	2	1	11	9	+2	11	Advance to knockout round play-offs
3	Pyunik	6	2	0	4	8	9	−1	6
4	Žalgiris	6	1	2	3	5	8	−3	5

Notes: Head-to-head points: Slovan Bratislava 4, Basel 1.

UEFA Europa Conference League 2022–23 Knockout phase
In the knockout phase, teams played against each other over two legs on a home-and-away basis, except for the one-match final. The mechanism of the draws for each round was as follows:
In the draw for the knockout round play-offs, the eight group runners-up were seeded, and the eight Europa League group third-placed teams were unseeded. The seeded teams were drawn against the unseeded teams, with the seeded teams hosting the second leg. Teams from the same association could not be drawn against each other.
In the draw for the round of 16, the eight group winners were seeded, and the eight winners of the knockout round play-offs were unseeded. Again, the seeded teams were drawn against the unseeded teams, with the seeded teams hosting the second leg. Teams from the same association could not be drawn against each other.
In the draws for the quarter-finals and semi-finals, there were no seedings, and teams from the same association could be drawn against each other. As the draws for the quarter-finals and semi-finals were held together before the quarter-finals were played, the identity of the quarter-final winners was not known at the time of the semi-final draw. A draw was also held to determine which semi-final winner would be designated as the “home” team for the final (for administrative purposes as it was played at a neutral venue).

UEFA Europa Conference League 2022–23 Round of 16 matches
The draw for the round of 16 was held on 24 February 2023, 13:00 CET. The first legs were played on 7 and 9 March, and the second legs were played on 15 and 16 March 2023.

Team 1	Aggregate	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
AEK Larnaca	0–6	West Ham United	0–2	0–4
Fiorentina	5–1	Sivasspor	1–0	4–1
Lazio	2–4	AZ	1–2	1–2
Lech Poznań	5–0	Djurgårdens IF	2–0	3–0
Basel	4–4 4–1 (penalties)	Slovan Bratislava	2–2	2–2 (a.e.t.)
Sheriff Tiraspol	1–4	Nice	0–1	1–3
Anderlecht	2–1	Villarreal	1–1	1–0
Gent	5–2	İstanbul Başakşehir	1–1	4–1

UEFA Europa Conference League 2022–23 Quarter-finals
The draw for the quarter-finals was held on 17 March 2023, 14:00 CET. The first legs were played on 13 April, and the second legs were played on 20 April 2023.

Team 1	Aggregate	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Lech Poznań	4–6	Fiorentina	1–4	3–2
Gent	2–5	West Ham United	1–1	1–4
Anderlecht	2–2 1–4 (penalties)	AZ	2–0	0–2 (a.e.t.)
Basel	4–3	Nice	2–2	2–1 (a.e.t.)

Notes: Order of legs reversed after original draw.

UEFA Europa Conference League 2022–23 Semi finals
The draw for the semi-finals was held on 17 March 2023, 14:00 CET, after the quarter-final draw. The first legs were played on 11 May, and the second legs were played on 18 May 2023.

Team 1	Aggregate	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Fiorentina	4–3	Basel	1–2	3–1 (a.e.t.)
West Ham United	3–1	AZ	2–1	1–0

UEFA Europa Conference League 2022–23 Final Match
7 June 2023 21:00 CEST, Fortuna Arena, Prague

Fiorentina	1–2	West Ham United
Bonaventura 67′		Benrahma 62′ (pen.) Bowen 90′

UEFA Europa Conference League 2022–23 Top Goal Scorer list

Rank	Player	Team	Goals
1	Arthur Cabral	Fiorentina	7
2	Zeki Amdouni	Basel	7
3	Michail Antonio	West Ham United	6
4	Luka Jović	Fiorentina	6
5	Hugo Cuypers	Gent	6
6	Kristoffer Velde	Lech Poznań	5
7	Gift Orban	Gent	5
8	Antonín Barák	Fiorentina	5
9	Vangelis Pavlidis	AZ	5
10	Artem Dovbyk	Dnipro-1	5
11	Jarrod Bowen	West Ham United	5
12	Andi Zeqiri	Basel	5
13	Nicolás González	Fiorentina	5
14	Mikael Ishak	Lech Poznań	5
15	Michał Skóraś	Lech Poznań	5

UEFA Europa Conference League 2022–23 Team of the season
The UEFA technical study group selected the following players as the team of the tournament.

Position	Player	Team
Goalkeeper	Alphonse Areola	West Ham United
Defender	Dan Ndoye	Basel
Defender	Nikola Milenković	Fiorentina
Defender	Nayef Aguerd	West Ham United
Defender	Cristiano Biraghi	Fiorentina
Midfielder	Andy Diouf	Basel
Midfielder	Lucas Paquetá	West Ham United
Midfielder	Declan Rice	West Ham United
Forward	Nicolás González	Fiorentina
Forward	Michail Antonio	West Ham United
Forward	Jarrod Bowen	West Ham United