Europa League group stage: All you need about pots, match days

The draw for the group stage of this season’s Europa League will be conducted on Friday from 12pm.

Liverpool, West Ham and Rangers will all be in Pot 1.

The 32 teams have been placed in four seeding pots based on UEFA’s club coefficient rankings.

Clubs from the same country cannot play each other in the group stage.

The winners of each group qualify for the round of 16, while the runners-up go into the knockout round play-offs and will face the teams who finish third in their Champions League group.

The third-placed teams in each Europa League group will go into the Europa Conference League knockout round play-offs, where they will face the Europa Conference League group runners-up for spots in the last 16.

EUROPA LEAGUE GROUP STAGE DRAW POT 1
West Ham
Liverpool
Roma
Ajax
Villarreal
Bayer Leverkusen
Atalanta
Rangers

EUROPA LEAGUE GROUP STAGE DRAW POT 2
Sporting CP
Slavia Prague
Rennes
Olympiakos
Real Betis
LASK
Marseille
Qarabag

EUROPA LEAGUE GROUP STAGE DRAW POT 3
Molde
Brighton
FC Sheriff
Union Saint-Gilloise
Freiburg
Sparta Prague
Maccabi Haifa
Sturm Graz

EUROPA LEAGUE GROUP STAGE DRAW POT 4
Toulouse
AEK Athens
Backa Topola
Servette
Panathinaikos
Rakow Czestochowa
Aris Limassol
BK Hacken

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 23-24 SCHEDULE
GROUP STAGE
Matchday 1: September 21
Matchday 2: October 5
Matchday 3: October 26
Matchday 4: November 9
Matchday 5: November 30
Matchday 6: December 14

KNOCKOUT PHASE
Knockout round play-offs: February 15 and 22, 2024
Round of 16: March 7 and 14, 2024
Quarter-finals: April 11 and 18, 2024
Semi-finals: May 2 and 9, 2024
Final: May 22, 2024

 

By Evans Manasseh