2023–24 UEFA Europa Conference League group stage

The 2023–24 UEFA Europa Conference League group stage began on 20 September 2023 and ended on 14 December 2023. A total of 32 teams competed in the group stage to decide 8 of the 16 places in the knockout phase of the 2023–24 UEFA Europa Conference League.

All teams besides AZ, Ballkani, Bodø/Glimt, Fiorentina, Gent, HJK, Maccabi Tel Aviv, PAOK, Slovan Bratislava and Zorya Luhansk made their debut appearances in the group stage. Breiðablik, Čukarički, KÍ, Olimpija Ljubljana and Zrinjski Mostar made their debut appearances in a UEFA competition group stage. Breiðablik, KÍ and Zrinjski Mostar were the first teams from Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Bosnia and Herzegovina, respectively, to play in a UEFA competition group stage. Breiðablik also became the first ever team to qualify for the group stages of a UEFA club competition after starting in a preliminary round.

A total of 28 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.^[1]

Draw

The draw for the group stage was held on 1 September 2023, 14:30 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.^[2] 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 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 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 UEL played in the Europa League group stage):

Teams

Below were the participating teams (with their 2023 UEFA club coefficients),^[2] grouped by their seeding pot. They included:

• 22 winners of the play-off round (5 from Champions Path, 17 from Main Path)
• 10 losers of the Europa League play-off round

Key to colours
Group winners advanced directly to round of 16
Group runners-up advanced to knockout round play-offs

Pot 1 Team Notes Coeff.[2] Eintracht Frankfurt [ECL-MP] 77.000 Dinamo Zagreb [EL-PO] 55.000 Club Brugge [ECL-MP] 54.000 AZ [ECL-MP] 47.500 Gent [ECL-MP] 37.500 Fenerbahçe [ECL-MP] 30.000 Lille [ECL-MP] 30.000 Ferencváros [ECL-CP] 27.000

Pot 2 Team Notes Coeff.[2] PAOK [ECL-MP] 25.000 Slovan Bratislava [EL-PO] 24.500 Maccabi Tel Aviv [ECL-MP] 24.000 Viktoria Plzeň [ECL-MP] 22.000 Aston Villa [ECL-MP] 21.914 Ludogorets Razgrad [EL-PO] 21.000 Fiorentina [ECL-MP] 20.000 Bodø/Glimt [ECL-MP] 20.000

Pot 3 Team Notes Coeff.[2] Genk [ECL-MP] 18.000 Zorya Luhansk [EL-PO] 16.000 Astana [ECL-CP] 14.000 Beşiktaş [ECL-MP] 14.000 HJK [ECL-CP] 11.000 Legia Warsaw [ECL-MP] 11.000 Spartak Trnava [ECL-MP] 10.500 Olimpija Ljubljana [EL-PO] 9.000

Pot 4 Team Notes Coeff.[2] Zrinjski Mostar [EL-PO] 8.500 KÍ [EL-PO] 8.000 Aberdeen [EL-PO] 8.000 Čukarički [EL-PO] 6.475 Lugano [EL-PO] 6.335 Breiðablik [ECL-CP] 6.000 Nordsjælland [ECL-MP] 5.565 Ballkani [ECL-CP] 3.000

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 and 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 Conference League):^[3]

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 20–21 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, with possible exceptions at 16:30 CET/CEST due to geographical reasons.

Times are CET/CEST,^{[note 1]} as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		LOSC	SLO	LJU	KÍ
1	Lille	6	4	2	0	10	2	+8	14	Advance to round of 16		—	2–1	2–0	3–0
2	Slovan Bratislava	6	3	1	2	8	7	+1	10	Advance to knockout round play-offs		1–1	—	1–2	2–1
3	Olimpija Ljubljana	6	2	0	4	4	9	−5	6			0–2	0–1	—	2–0
4	KÍ	6	1	1	4	5	9	−4	4			0–0	1–2	3–0	—

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Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		MTA	GNT	ZOR	BRE
1	Maccabi Tel Aviv	6	5	0	1	14	9	+5	15	Advance to round of 16		—	3–1	3–2	3–2
2	Gent	6	4	1	1	16	7	+9	13	Advance to knockout round play-offs		2–0	—	4–1	5–0
3	Zorya Luhansk	6	2	1	3	10	11	−1	7			1–3	1–1	—	4–0
4	Breiðablik	6	0	0	6	5	18	−13	0			1–2	2–3	0–1	—

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Group C

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		PLZ	DZG	AST	BAL
1	Viktoria Plzeň	6	6	0	0	9	1	+8	18	Advance to round of 16		—	1–0	3–0	1–0
2	Dinamo Zagreb	6	3	0	3	10	5	+5	9	Advance to knockout round play-offs		0–1	—	5–1	3–0
3	Astana	6	1	1	4	4	13	−9	4[a]			1–2	0–2	—	0–0
4	Ballkani	6	1	1	4	3	7	−4	4[a]			0–1	2–0	1–2	—

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Group D

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		BRU	BOD	BEŞ	LUG
1	Club Brugge	6	5	1	0	15	3	+12	16	Advance to round of 16		—	3–1	1–1	2–0
2	Bodø/Glimt	6	3	1	2	11	8	+3	10	Advance to knockout round play-offs		0–1	—	3–1	5–2
3	Beşiktaş	6	1	1	4	7	14	−7	4[a]			0–5	1–2	—	2–3
4	Lugano	6	1	1	4	6	14	−8	4[a]			1–3	0–0	0–2	—

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Group E

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		AVL	LEG	AZ	ZRI
1	Aston Villa	6	4	1	1	12	7	+5	13	Advance to round of 16		—	2–1	2–1	1–0
2	Legia Warsaw	6	4	0	2	10	6	+4	12	Advance to knockout round play-offs		3–2	—	2–0	2–0
3	AZ	6	2	0	4	7	12	−5	6			1–4	1–0	—	1–0
4	Zrinjski Mostar	6	1	1	4	6	10	−4	4			1–1	1–2	4–3	—

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Group F

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		FIO	FER	GNK	ČUK
1	Fiorentina	6	3	3	0	14	6	+8	12	Advance to round of 16		—	2–2	2–1	6–0
2	Ferencváros	6	2	4	0	9	6	+3	10	Advance to knockout round play-offs		1–1	—	1–1	3–1
3	Genk	6	2	3	1	8	5	+3	9			2–2	0–0	—	2–0
4	Čukarički	6	0	0	6	2	16	−14	0			0–1	1–2	0–2	—

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Group G

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		PAOK	FRA	ABE	HJK
1	PAOK	6	5	1	0	16	10	+6	16	Advance to round of 16		—	2–1	2–2	4–2
2	Eintracht Frankfurt	6	3	0	3	11	7	+4	9	Advance to knockout round play-offs		1–2	—	2–1	6–0
3	Aberdeen	6	1	3	2	10	10	0	6			2–3	2–0	—	1–1
4	HJK	6	0	2	4	7	17	−10	2			2–3	0–1	2–2	—

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Group H

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		FEN	LUD	NOR	TRN
1	Fenerbahçe	6	4	0	2	13	11	+2	12[a]	Advance to round of 16		—	3–1	3–1	4–0
2	Ludogorets Razgrad	6	4	0	2	11	11	0	12[a]	Advance to knockout round play-offs		2–0	—	1–0	4–0
3	Nordsjælland	6	3	1	2	17	7	+10	10			6–1	7–1	—	1–1
4	Spartak Trnava	6	0	1	5	3	15	−12	1			1–2	1–2	0–2	—

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Notes

References

External links

• Official website