UEFA Europa League 2023-24 Champions, Standings and Matches

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 United	6	5	0	1	10	4	+6	15	Advance to round of 16
2	SC Freiburg	6	4	0	2	17	7	+10	12	Advance to knockout round play-offs
3	Olympiacos	6	2	1	3	11	14	−3	7	Transfer to Europa Conference League
4	TSC	6	0	1	5	6	19	−13	1

Group B

Position	Team	Played	Win	Draw	Loss	GF	GA	GD	Points	Qualification
1	Brighton	6	4	1	1	10	5	+5	13	Advance to round of 16
2	Marseille	6	3	2	1	14	10	+4	11	Advance to knockout round play-offs
3	Ajax	6	1	2	3	10	13	−3	5	Transfer to Europa Conference League
4	AEK Athens	6	1	1	4	6	12	−6	4

Group C

Position	Team	Played	Win	Draw	Loss	GF	GA	GD	Points	Qualification
1	Rangers	6	3	2	1	8	6	+2	11	Advance to round of 16
2	Sparta Prague	6	3	1	2	9	7	+2	10	Advance to knockout round play-offs
3	Real Betis	6	3	0	3	9	7	+2	9	Transfer to Europa Conference League
4	Aris Limassol	6	1	1	4	7	13	−6	4

Group D

Position	Team	Played	Win	Draw	Loss	GF	GA	GD	Points	Qualification
1	Atalanta	6	4	2	0	12	4	+8	14	Advance to round of 16
2	Sporting CP	6	3	2	1	10	6	+4	11	Advance to knockout round play-offs
3	Sturm Graz	6	1	1	4	4	9	−5	4	Transfer to Europa Conference League
4	Raków Częstochowa	6	1	1	4	3	10	−7	4

Group E

Position	Team	Played	Win	Draw	Loss	GF	GA	GD	Points	Qualification
1	Liverpool	6	4	0	2	17	7	+10	12	Advance to round of 16
2	Toulouse	6	3	2	1	8	9	−1	11	Advance to knockout round play-offs
3	Union Saint-Gilloise	6	2	2	2	5	8	−3	8	Transfer to Europa Conference League
4	LASK	6	1	0	5	6	12	−6	3

Group F

Position	Team	Played	Win	Draw	Loss	GF	GA	GD	Points	Qualification
1	Villarreal	6	4	1	1	9	7	+2	13	Advance to round of 16
2	Rennes	6	4	0	2	13	6	+7	12	Advance to knockout round play-offs
3	Maccabi Haifa	6	1	2	3	3	9	−6	5	Transfer to Europa Conference League
4	Panathinaikos	6	1	1	4	7	10	−3	4

Group G

Position	Team	Played	Win	Draw	Loss	GF	GA	GD	Points	Qualification
1	Slavia Prague	6	5	0	1	17	4	+13	15	Advance to round of 16
2	AS Roma	6	4	1	1	12	4	+8	13	Advance to knockout round play-offs
3	Servette	6	1	2	3	4	13	−9	5	Transfer to Europa Conference League
4	Sheriff Tiraspol	6	0	1	5	5	17	−12	1

Group H

Position	Team	Played	Win	Draw	Loss	GF	GA	GD	Points	Qualification
1	Bayer Leverkusen	6	6	0	0	19	3	+16	18	Advance to round of 16
2	Qarabağ	6	3	1	2	7	9	−2	10	Advance to knockout round play-offs
3	Molde	6	2	1	3	12	12	0	7	Transfer to Europa Conference League
4	BK Häcken	6	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
Feyenoord	2–2 2–4 (penalties)	AS Roma	1–1	1–1 (a.e.t.)
AC Milan	5–3	Rennes	3–0	2–3
Lens	2–3	SC Freiburg	0–0	2–3 (a.e.t.)
Young Boys	2–4	Sporting CP	1–3	1–1
Benfica	2–1	Toulouse	2–1	0–0
Braga	5–6	Qarabağ	2–4	3–2 (a.e.t.)
Galatasaray	4–6	Sparta Prague	3–2	1–4
Shakhtar Donetsk	3–5	Marseille	2–2	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 Prague	2–11	Liverpool	1–5	1–6
Marseille	5–3	Villarreal	4–0	1–3
AS Roma	4–1	Brighton	4–0	0–1
Benfica	3–2	Rangers	2–2	1–0
SC Freiburg	1–5	West Ham United	1–0	0–5
Sporting CP	2–3	Atalanta	1–1	1–2
AC Milan	7–3	Slavia Prague	4–2	3–1
Qarabağ	4–5	Bayer Leverkusen	2–2	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 Milan	1–3	AS Roma	0–1	1–2
Liverpool	1–3	Atalanta	0–3	1–0
Bayer Leverkusen	3–1	West Ham United	2–0	1–1
Benfica	2–2 2–4 (penalties)	Marseille	2–1	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
Marseille	1–4	Atalanta	1–1	0–3
AS Roma	2–4	Bayer Leverkusen	0–2	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	Marseille	10
2	Romelu Lukaku	AS Roma	7
3	João Pedro	Brighton	6
4	Gianluca Scamacca	Atalanta	6
5	Patrik Schick	Bayer Leverkusen	5
6	Michael Gregoritsch	SC Freiburg	5
7	Victor Boniface	Bayer Leverkusen	5
8	Mohamed Salah	Liverpool	5
9	Fotis Ioannidis	Panathinaikos	5
10	Darwin Núñez	Liverpool	5
11	Viktor Gyökeres	Sporting CP	5
12	Ademola Lookman	Atalanta	5
13	Mohammed Kudus	West Ham United	5
14	Juninho	Qarabağ	5

UEL 2023–24 Top Assist Provider List

Rank	Player	Club	Assist
1	Kostas Fortounis	Olympiacos	7
2	Amine Harit	Marseille	6
3	Jonathan Clauss	Marseille	6
4	Stephan El Shaarawy	AS Roma	5
5	Aleksei Miranchuk	Atalanta	4
6	Florian Wirtz	Leverkusen	4
7	Harvey Elliott	Liverpool	4
8	James Ward-Prowse	West Ham United	4
9	Jarrod Bowen	West Ham United	4
10	Josip Stanišić	Leverkusen	4
11	Kaan Kairinen	Sparta Praha	4

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)
  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).