UEFA Europa League 2023–24 was the 53rd season of Europe’s secondary club football tournament organized by UEFA, and the 15th season since it was renamed from the UEFA Cup to the UEFA Europa League.
Champions: 
Atalanta (1st title)
Runners-Up: 
Bayer Leverkusen
Player of the Season: 
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (
Marseille)
Young Player of the Season: Florian Wirtz ( Bayer Leverkusen)
Top Goal Scorer: Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang( Marseille), 10 goals
UEFA Europa League 2023–24 Group Standings
Group A
Position Team Played Win Draw Loss GF GA GD Points Qualification
1 
West Ham United6 5 0 1 10 4 +6 15 Advance to round of 16
2 
SC Freiburg6 4 0 2 17 7 +10 12 Advance to knockout round play-offs
3 
Olympiacos6 2 1 3 11 14 −3 7 Transfer to Europa Conference League
4 
TSC6 0 1 5 6 19 −13 1
Group B
Position Team Played Win Draw Loss GF GA GD Points Qualification
1 Brighton6 4 1 1 10 5 +5 13 Advance to round of 16
2 Marseille6 3 2 1 14 10 +4 11 Advance to knockout round play-offs
3 
Ajax6 1 2 3 10 13 −3 5 Transfer to Europa Conference League
4 AEK Athens6 1 1 4 6 12 −6 4
Group C
Position Team Played Win Draw Loss GF GA GD Points Qualification
1 
Rangers6 3 2 1 8 6 +2 11 Advance to round of 16
2 
Sparta Prague6 3 1 2 9 7 +2 10 Advance to knockout round play-offs
3 
Real Betis6 3 0 3 9 7 +2 9 Transfer to Europa Conference League
4 
Aris Limassol6 1 1 4 7 13 −6 4
Group D
Position Team Played Win Draw Loss GF GA GD Points Qualification
1 Atalanta6 4 2 0 12 4 +8 14 Advance to round of 16
2 
Sporting CP6 3 2 1 10 6 +4 11 Advance to knockout round play-offs
3 
Sturm Graz6 1 1 4 4 9 −5 4 Transfer to Europa Conference League
4 
Raków Częstochowa6 1 1 4 3 10 −7 4
Group E
Position Team Played Win Draw Loss GF GA GD Points Qualification
1 Liverpool6 4 0 2 17 7 +10 12 Advance to round of 16
2 Toulouse6 3 2 1 8 9 −1 11 Advance to knockout round play-offs
3 
Union Saint-Gilloise6 2 2 2 5 8 −3 8 Transfer to Europa Conference League
4 
LASK6 1 0 5 6 12 −6 3
Group F
Position Team Played Win Draw Loss GF GA GD Points Qualification
1 Villarreal6 4 1 1 9 7 +2 13 Advance to round of 16
2 Rennes6 4 0 2 13 6 +7 12 Advance to knockout round play-offs
3 
Maccabi Haifa6 1 2 3 3 9 −6 5 Transfer to Europa Conference League
4 Panathinaikos6 1 1 4 7 10 −3 4
Group G
Position Team Played Win Draw Loss GF GA GD Points Qualification
1 Slavia Prague6 5 0 1 17 4 +13 15 Advance to round of 16
2 AS Roma6 4 1 1 12 4 +8 13 Advance to knockout round play-offs
3 
Servette6 1 2 3 4 13 −9 5 Transfer to Europa Conference League
4 
Sheriff Tiraspol6 0 1 5 5 17 −12 1
Group H
Position Team Played Win Draw Loss GF GA GD Points Qualification
1 Bayer Leverkusen6 6 0 0 19 3 +16 18 Advance to round of 16
2 
Qarabağ6 3 1 2 7 9 −2 10 Advance to knockout round play-offs
3 
Molde6 2 1 3 12 12 0 7 Transfer to Europa Conference League
4 
BK Häcken6 0 0 6 3 17 −14 0
UEL 2023–24 Knockout round play-offs matches
The draw for the knockout round play-offs was held on 18 December 2023, 13:00 CET. The first legs were played on 15 February, and the second legs were played on 22 February 2024.
Team 1 Aggregate Team 2 1st Leg 2nd Leg
Feyenoord2–2
2–4 (penalties) AS Roma1–1 1–1 (a.e.t.)
AC Milan5–3 Rennes3–0 2–3
Lens2–3 SC Freiburg0–0 2–3 (a.e.t.)
Young Boys2–4 Sporting CP1–3 1–1
Benfica2–1 Toulouse2–1 0–0
Braga5–6 Qarabağ2–4 3–2 (a.e.t.)
Galatasaray4–6 Sparta Prague3–2 1–4
Shakhtar Donetsk3–5 Marseille2–2 1–3
UEL 2023–24 Round of 16 matches
The draw for the round of 16 was held on 23 February 2024, 12:00 CET. The first legs were played on 6 and 7 March, and the second legs were played on 14 March 2024.
Team 1 Aggregate Team 2 1st Leg 2nd Leg
Sparta Prague2–11 Liverpool1–5 1–6
Marseille5–3 Villarreal4–0 1–3
AS Roma4–1 Brighton4–0 0–1
Benfica3–2 Rangers2–2 1–0
SC Freiburg1–5 West Ham United1–0 0–5
Sporting CP2–3 Atalanta1–1 1–2
AC Milan7–3 Slavia Prague4–2 3–1
Qarabağ4–5 Bayer Leverkusen2–2 2–3
UEL 2023–24 Quarter Final matches
The draw for the quarter-finals was held on 15 March 2024, 13:00 CET. The first legs were played on 11 April, and the second legs were played on 18 April 2024.
Team 1 Aggregate Team 2 1st Leg 2nd Leg
AC Milan1–3 AS Roma0–1 1–2
Liverpool1–3 Atalanta0–3 1–0
Bayer Leverkusen3–1 West Ham United2–0 1–1
Benfica2–2
2–4 (penalties) Marseille2–1 0–1 (a.e.t.)
Europa League 2023–24 Semi-finals
The draw for the semi-finals was held on 15 March 2024, 13:00 CET, after the quarter-final draw. The first legs were played on 2 May, and the second legs were played on 9 May 2024.
Team 1 Aggregate Team 2 1st Leg 2nd Leg
Marseille1–4 Atalanta1–1 0–3
AS Roma2–4 Bayer Leverkusen0–2 2–2
Europa League 2023–24 Final match
22 May 2024 20:00 IST, Aviva Stadium, Dublin
| Atalanta |
3–0 | Bayer Leverkusen |
Aylola Lookman  12′, 26′, 75′ |
Referee: István Kovács (Romania)
UEFA Europa League 2023–24 Top Goal Scorers
Rank Player Team Goals
1 Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang Marseille10
2 Romelu Lukaku AS Roma7
3 
João Pedro Brighton6
4 Gianluca Scamacca Atalanta6
5 Patrik Schick Bayer Leverkusen5
6 Michael Gregoritsch SC Freiburg5
7 
Victor Boniface Bayer Leverkusen5
8 
Mohamed Salah Liverpool5
9 Fotis Ioannidis Panathinaikos5
10 
Darwin Núñez Liverpool5
11 Viktor Gyökeres Sporting CP5
12 Ademola Lookman Atalanta5
13 
Mohammed Kudus West Ham United5
14 Juninho Qarabağ5
UEL 2023–24 Top Assist Provider List
Rank Player Club Assist
1 Kostas Fortounis Olympiacos7
2 
Amine Harit Marseille6
3 Jonathan Clauss Marseille6
4 Stephan El Shaarawy AS Roma5
5 
Aleksei Miranchuk Atalanta4
6 Florian Wirtz Leverkusen4
7 Harvey Elliott Liverpool4
8 James Ward-Prowse West Ham United4
9 Jarrod Bowen West Ham United4
10 
Josip Stanišić Leverkusen4
11 
Kaan Kairinen Sparta Praha4
UEFA Europa League 2023–24 Team of the Season
Position Player Club
Goalkeeper Mile Svilar AS Roma
Defender Gianluca Mancini AS Roma
Defender Jonathan Tah Bayer Leverkusen
Defender 
Berat Djimsiti Atalanta
Midfielder 
Jeremie Frimpong Bayer Leverkusen
Midfielder Teun Koopmeiners Atalanta
Midfielder Granit Xhaka Bayer Leverkusen
Midfielder Matteo Ruggeri Atalanta
Forward Florian Wirtz Bayer Leverkusen
Forward Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang Marseille
Forward Ademola Lookman Atalanta
UEFA Europa League 2023–24 Summary
The final was played at Aviva Stadium in Dublin, Republic of Ireland, with Italian club Atalanta defeating German club Bayer Leverkusen 3–0 to win their first European title. Atalanta became the first Italian team to win the competition since Parma in 1999. Their win also denied Leverkusen’s bid to win a continental treble and complete the entire season unbeaten across all competitions. As winners of the tournament, Atalanta automatically qualified for the 2024–25 UEFA Champions League league stage and also earned the right to play against the winners of the 2023–24 UEFA Champions League in the 2024 UEFA Super Cup as well as the winners of the 2023 Copa Sudamericana in the 2024 UEFA–CONMEBOL Club Challenge.
This edition was the final season with the current format of 32 teams participating in the group stage, after UEFA announced that a brand new format would be introduced for the following edition. Due to the format change, no clubs can be transferred from the Champions League group stage to the UEFA Europa League under the Swiss format, and this edition’s winners onwards will no longer be able to defend the title.
Sevilla were the defending champions, but could not defend their title after being eliminated in the group stage of the 2023–24 UEFA Champions League.
Association Team Allocation
A total of 57 teams from 34 of the 55 UEFA member associations participated in the 2023–24 UEFA Europa League. Among them, 15 associations had teams directly qualifying for the Europa League, while for the other 40 associations that did not have any teams directly qualifying, 19 of them have teams playing after being transferred from the Champions League (the only member association which could not have a participant was Liechtenstein, which did not organize a domestic league, and could only enter their cup winner into the Europa Conference League given their association ranking). The association ranking based on the UEFA country coefficients was used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:
- The title holders of the UEFA Europa Conference League were given an entry in the Europa League (if they did not qualify for the Champions League through league performance).
- Associations 1–5 each had two teams qualify.
- Associations 6–16 each had one team qualify.
- 36 teams eliminated from the 2023–24 UEFA Champions League were transferred to the Europa League.
Teams
The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:
- ECL: Europa Conference League title holders
- CW: Cup winners
- 3rd, 4th, 5th, etc.: League position of the previous season
- UCL: Transferred from the Champions League
GS: Third-placed teams from the group stage
CH/LP PO: Losers from the play-off round (Champions/League Path)
CH/LP Q3: Losers from the third qualifying round (Champions/League Path)
3rd, 4th, 5th, etc.: League position of the previous season
CH/LP Q2: Losers from the second qualifying round (Champions/League Path)
The third qualifying round was divided into Champions Path (CH) and Main Path (MP).
