Ten teams will qualify for the 2022/23 UEFA Europa League group stage via a knockout phase. Who will be there? How it works ? Where are the matches played? UEFA.com tells you everything.
Europa League, qualifying schedule
3e qualifying round, first leg: 4 August 2022
3e qualifying round, return: 11 August 2022
Play-off draw: August 2
Play-offs, one-way: August 18, 2022
Play-offs, return: August 25, 2022
Résumé
A total of 27 teams will face off in 2022/23 Europa League qualifying, with nine of them qualifying automatically. As in 2021/22, there are only two stages: the third qualifying round and the play-offs. Ten teams will qualify for the group stage.
The teams play home and away. If the teams are tied following 180 minutes, extra time and penalty shootouts will be played. The away goals rule will not apply.
Third qualifying round
Teams competing (14)
10 teams eliminated from the second qualifying round for the Champions League (the Champions path)
2 teams automatically qualified
2 teams eliminated from the second qualifying round for the Champions League (the League route)
The matches (August 4 & 11)
Žalgiris (LTU) / Malmö FF (SWE) – Diddeleng (LUX)
Shamrock Rovers (IRL) – Skopje (MKD)
Linfield (NIR) / Bodø/Glimt (NOR) – Karabakh (AZE) / Zurich (SUI)
Maccabi Haifa (ISR) / Olympiacos (GRE) – Ferencváros (HUN) / Slovan Bratislava (SVK)
Maribor (SVN) – HJK Helsinki (FIN)
AEK Larnaca (CYP) – Partizan (SRB)
Dynamo Kyiv (UKR) / Fenerbahçe (TUR) – Slovakia (CZE)
The following
Winners will qualify for the Europa League play-offs.
Losers will be transferred to their respective lane for the Europa Conference League play-offs.
Barrages
Teams competing (20)
7 teams automatically qualified (Priority 1)
6 teams eliminated from the Champions League third qualifying round (Priority 2)
5 Europa League third qualifying round winners (Priority 3)
2 Europa League third qualifying round main path winners (Priority 4)
Draw
It will be held on Tuesday August 2.
Meetings
They will be confirmed on August 2. The matches will be played on August 18 and 25.
The following
Winners will qualify for the Europa League group stage.
Losers will be transferred to the group stage of the Europa Conference League.
The group stage
Automatically qualified
Third qualifying round
Partizan (SRB)
Slovakia (CZE)
Barrages
Ghent (BEL)
Austria Vienna (AUT)
Hearts (SCO)
Omonoia (CYP)
Sivasspor (TUR)
Dnipro-1 (UKR)
Silkeborg (DEN)