2023–24 UEFA Europa League group stage

The 2023–24 UEFA Europa League group stage began on 21 September 2023 and ended on 14 December 2023. A total of 32 teams competed in the group stage to decide 16 of the 24 places in the knockout phase of the 2023–24 UEFA Europa League.

Aris Limassol, Brighton & Hove Albion, BK Häcken, Raków Częstochowa, Servette and TSC made their debut appearances in the group stage. All six clubs also made their debut appearances in a UEFA competition group stage. Furthermore, Brighton & Hove Albion qualified for European football for the first time in their history. A total of 21 national associations were represented in the group stage.

This was the final season with the group stage format, which was replaced by the league phase format starting from the next season.

Draw

The draw for the group stage was held on 1 September 2023, 13:00 CEST, in Monaco. The 32 teams were drawn into eight groups of four. For the draw, the teams were seeded into four pots, each of eight teams, based on their 2023 UEFA club coefficients. Teams from the same association could not be drawn into the same group. Prior to the draw, UEFA formed pairings of teams from the same association, including those playing in the Europa Conference League group stage (one pairing for associations with two or three teams, two pairings for associations with four or five teams), based on television audiences, where one team was drawn into Groups A–D and another team was drawn into Groups E–H, so that the two teams would have different kick-off times. The following pairings were announced by UEFA after the group stage teams were confirmed (the second team in a pairing marked by UECL played in the Europa Conference League group stage):

Teams

Below were the participating teams (with their 2023 UEFA club coefficients), grouped by their seeding pot. They included:

• 12 teams which entered in this stage
• 10 winners of the play-off round
• 6 losers of the Champions League play-off round (4 from Champions Path, 2 from League Path)
• 4 League Path losers of the third qualifying round

Key to colours
Group winners advanced directly to round of 16
Group runners-up advanced to knockout round play-offs
Third-placed teams entered Europa Conference League knockout round play-offs

Pot 1 Team Notes Coeff. West Ham United 50.000 Liverpool 123.000 Roma 97.000 Ajax 89.000 Villarreal 82.000 Bayer Leverkusen 72.000 Atalanta 55.500 Rangers 54.000

Pot 2 Team Notes Coeff. Sporting CP 52.500 Slavia Prague 52.000 Rennes 44.000 Olympiacos 39.000 Real Betis 37.000 LASK 36.000 Marseille 33.000 Qarabağ 25.000

Pot 3 Team Notes Coeff. Molde 24.000 Brighton & Hove Albion 21.914 Sheriff Tiraspol 19.500 Union Saint-Gilloise 19.000 SC Freiburg 16.496 Sparta Prague 14.000 Maccabi Haifa 13.000 Sturm Graz 12.500

Pot 4 Team Notes Coeff. Toulouse 12.232 AEK Athens 11.000 TSC 6.475 Servette 6.335 Panathinaikos 5.045 Raków Częstochowa 5.000 Aris Limassol 4.895 BK Häcken 4.750

Notes

Format

In each group, teams played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The winners of each group advanced to the round of 16, while the runners-up advanced to the knockout round play-offs. The third-placed teams were transferred to the Europa Conference League knockout round play-offs, while the fourth-placed teams were eliminated from European competitions for the season.

Tiebreakers

Teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If two or more teams were tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (see Article 16 Equality of points – group stage, Regulations of the UEFA Europa League):

1. Points in head-to-head matches among the tied teams;
2. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among the tied teams;
3. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among the tied teams;
4. If more than two teams were tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams were still tied, all head-to-head criteria above were reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
5. Goal difference in all group matches;
6. Goals scored in all group matches;
7. Away goals scored in all group matches;
8. Wins in all group matches;
9. Away wins in all group matches;
10. Disciplinary points (direct red card = 3 points; double yellow card = 3 points; single yellow card = 1 point);
11. UEFA club coefficient.

Groups

The fixtures were announced on 2 September 2023, the day after the draw. The matches were played on 21 September, 5 October, 26 October, 9 November, 30 November and 14 December 2023. The scheduled kick-off times were 18:45 and 21:00 CET/CEST.

Times are CET/CEST, as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		WHU	FRE	OLY	TSC
1	West Ham United	6	5	0	1	10	4	+6	15	Advance to round of 16		—	2–0	1–0	3–1
2	SC Freiburg	6	4	0	2	17	7	+10	12	Advance to knockout round play-offs		1–2	—	5–0	5–0
3	Olympiacos	6	2	1	3	11	14	−3	7	Transfer to Europa Conference League		2–1	2–3	—	5–2
4	TSC	6	0	1	5	6	19	−13	1			0–1	1–3	2–2	—

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Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		BHA	MAR	AJA	AEK
1	Brighton & Hove Albion	6	4	1	1	10	5	+5	13	Advance to round of 16		—	1–0	2–0	2–3
2	Marseille	6	3	2	1	14	10	+4	11	Advance to knockout round play-offs		2–2	—	4–3	3–1
3	Ajax	6	1	2	3	10	13	−3	5	Transfer to Europa Conference League		0–2	3–3	—	3–1
4	AEK Athens	6	1	1	4	6	12	−6	4			0–1	0–2	1–1	—

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Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		RAN	SPP	BET	ALI
1	Rangers	6	3	2	1	8	6	+2	11	Advance to round of 16		—	2–1	1–0	1–1
2	Sparta Prague	6	3	1	2	9	7	+2	10	Advance to knockout round play-offs		0–0	—	1–0	3–2
3	Real Betis	6	3	0	3	9	7	+2	9	Transfer to Europa Conference League		2–3	2–1	—	4–1
4	Aris Limassol	6	1	1	4	7	13	−6	4			2–1	1–3	0–1	—

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Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		ATA	SCP	STU	RAK
1	Atalanta	6	4	2	0	12	4	+8	14	Advance to round of 16		—	1–1	1–0	2–0
2	Sporting CP	6	3	2	1	10	6	+4	11	Advance to knockout round play-offs		1–2	—	3–0	2–1
3	Sturm Graz	6	1	1	4	4	9	−5	4	Transfer to Europa Conference League		2–2	1–2	—	0–1
4	Raków Częstochowa	6	1	1	4	3	10	−7	4			0–4	1–1	0–1	—

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Group E

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		LIV	TOU	USG	LAS
1	Liverpool	6	4	0	2	17	7	+10	12	Advance to round of 16		—	5–1	2–0	4–0
2	Toulouse	6	3	2	1	8	9	−1	11	Advance to knockout round play-offs		3–2	—	0–0	1–0
3	Union Saint-Gilloise	6	2	2	2	5	8	−3	8	Transfer to Europa Conference League		2–1	1–1	—	2–1
4	LASK	6	1	0	5	6	12	−6	3			1–3	1–2	3–0	—

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Group F

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		VIL	REN	MHA	PAO
1	Villarreal	6	4	1	1	9	7	+2	13	Advance to round of 16		—	1–0	0–0	3–2
2	Rennes	6	4	0	2	13	6	+7	12	Advance to knockout round play-offs		2–3	—	3–0	3–1
3	Maccabi Haifa	6	1	2	3	3	9	−6	5	Transfer to Europa Conference League		1–2	0–3	—	0–0
4	Panathinaikos	6	1	1	4	7	10	−3	4			2–0	1–2	1–2	—

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Group G

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		SLP	ROM	SRV	SHE
1	Slavia Prague	6	5	0	1	17	4	+13	15	Advance to round of 16		—	2–0	4–0	6–0
2	Roma	6	4	1	1	12	4	+8	13	Advance to knockout round play-offs		2–0	—	4–0	3–0
3	Servette	6	1	2	3	4	13	−9	5	Transfer to Europa Conference League		0–2	1–1	—	2–1
4	Sheriff Tiraspol	6	0	1	5	5	17	−12	1			2–3	1–2	1–1	—

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Group H

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		LEV	QAR	MOL	HAC
1	Bayer Leverkusen	6	6	0	0	19	3	+16	18	Advance to round of 16		—	5–1	5–1	4–0
2	Qarabağ	6	3	1	2	7	9	−2	10	Advance to knockout round play-offs		0–1	—	1–0	2–1
3	Molde	6	2	1	3	12	12	0	7	Transfer to Europa Conference League		1–2	2–2	—	5–1
4	BK Häcken	6	0	0	6	3	17	−14	0			0–2	0–1	1–3	—

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