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The 2023–24 UEFA Europa League knockout phase began on 15 February with the knockout round play-offs and ended on 22 May 2024 with the final at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin, Republic of Ireland, to decide the champions of the 2023–24 UEFA Europa League. A total of 24 teams competed in the knockout phase.

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

Qualified teams

The knockout phase involved 24 teams: the 16 teams which qualified as winners and runners-up of each of the eight groups in the group stage, and the eight third-placed teams from the Champions League group stage.

Europa League group stage winners and runners-up

Group	Winners (advance to round of 16 and seeded in draw)	Runners-up (advance to KO play-offs and seeded in draw)
A	West Ham United	SC Freiburg
B	Brighton & Hove Albion	Marseille
C	Rangers	Sparta Prague
D	Atalanta	Sporting CP
E	Liverpool	Toulouse
F	Villarreal	Rennes
G	Slavia Prague	Roma
H	Bayer Leverkusen	Qarabağ

Champions League group stage third-placed teams

Group	Third-placed teams (advance to KO play-offs and unseeded in draw)
A	Galatasaray
B	Lens
C	Braga
D	Benfica
E	Feyenoord
F	Milan
G	Young Boys
H	Shakhtar Donetsk

Format

Each tie in the knockout phase, apart from the final, was played over two legs, with each team playing one leg at home. The team that scored more goals on aggregate over the two legs advanced to the next round. If the aggregate score was level, then 30 minutes of extra time was played (the away goals rule was not applied). If the score was still level at the end of extra time, the winners were decided by a penalty shoot-out. In the final, which was played as a single match, if the score was level at the end of normal time, extra time was played, followed by a penalty shoot-out if the score was still level.

The mechanism of the draws for each round was as follows:

• In the draw for the knockout round play-offs, the eight group runners-up were seeded, and the eight Champions League group third-placed teams were unseeded. The seeded teams were drawn against the unseeded teams, with the seeded teams hosting the second leg. Teams from the same association could not be drawn against each other.
• In the draw for the round of 16, the eight group winners were seeded, and the eight winners of the knockout round play-offs were unseeded. Again, the seeded teams were drawn against the unseeded teams, with the seeded teams hosting the second leg. Teams from the same association could not be drawn against each other.
• In the draws for the quarter-finals onwards, there were no seedings, and teams from the same association could be drawn against each other. As the draws for the quarter-finals and semi-finals were held together before the quarter-finals were played, the identity of the quarter-final winners was not known at the time of the semi-final draw. A draw was also held to determine which semi-final winner would be designated as the "home" team for the final (for administrative purposes as it was played at a neutral venue).

In the knockout phase, teams from the same or nearby cities (Benfica and Sporting CP) were not scheduled to play at home on the same day, due to logistics and crowd control. To avoid such scheduling conflicts, adjustments had to be made by UEFA. For the knockout round play-offs and a round of 16, since both teams were drawn to play at home in a given leg, the home match of the team that was not domestic cup champions in the qualifying season, or the team with the lower domestic ranking (if neither team were the domestic cup champions, i.e. Sporting CP for this season), was moved from Thursday to Wednesday. For the quarter-finals and semi-finals, if the two teams were drawn to play at home for the same leg, the order of legs of the tie involving the team with the lowest priority would be reversed from the original draw.

Bracket

	Knockout round play-offs							Round of 16							Quarter-finals							Semi-finals							Final
	Benfica		2	0	2
	Toulouse		1	0	1			Benfica		2	1	3
								Rangers		2	0	2
															Benfica		2	0	2 (2)
	Shakhtar Donetsk		2	1	3
															Marseille (p)		1	1	2 (4)
	Marseille		2	3	5			Marseille		4	1	5
								Villarreal		0	3	3
																						Marseille		1	0	1
	Galatasaray		3	1	4
																						Atalanta		1	3	4
	Sparta Prague		2	4	6			Sparta Prague		1	1	2
								Liverpool		5	6	11
															Liverpool		0	1	1
	Young Boys		1	1	2
															Atalanta		3	0	3
	Sporting CP		3	1	4			Sporting CP		1	1	2
																													22 May – Dublin
								Atalanta		1	2	3
																													Atalanta		3
	Milan		3	2	5
																													Bayer Leverkusen		0
	Rennes		0	3	3			Milan		4	3	7
								Slavia Prague		2	1	3
															Milan		0	1	1
	Feyenoord		1	1	2 (2)
															Roma		1	2	3
	Roma (p)		1	1	2 (4)			Roma		4	0	4
								Brighton & Hove Albion		0	1	1
																						Roma		0	2	2
	Braga		2	3	5
																						Bayer Leverkusen		2	2	4
	Qarabağ (a.e.t.)		4	2	6			Qarabağ		2	2	4
								Bayer Leverkusen		2	3	5
															Bayer Leverkusen		2	1	3
	Lens		0	2	2
															West Ham United		0	1	1
	SC Freiburg (a.e.t.)		0	3	3			SC Freiburg		1	0	1
								West Ham United		0	5	5

Knockout round play-offs

The draw for the knockout round play-offs was held on 18 December 2023, 13:00 CET.

Summary

The first legs were played on 15 February, and the second legs were played on 22 February 2024.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Feyenoord	2–2 (2–4 p)	Roma	1–1	1–1 (a.e.t.)
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

Matches

Feyenoord	1–1	Roma
Paixão 45+1'	Report	Lukaku 67'

Roma	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Feyenoord
Pellegrini 15'	Report	Giménez 5'
Penalties
Paredes Lukaku Cristante Aouar Zalewski	4–2	Ueda Hancko Jahanbakhsh Hartman

2–2 on aggregate; Roma won 4–2 on penalties.

Milan	3–0	Rennes
Loftus-Cheek 32', 47' Leão 53'	Report

Rennes	3–2	Milan
Bourigeaud 11', 54' (pen.), 68' (pen.)	Report	Jović 22' Leão 58'

Milan won 5–3 on aggregate.

Lens	0–0	SC Freiburg
	Report

SC Freiburg	3–2 (a.e.t.)	Lens
Sallai 67', 90+2' Gregoritsch 99'	Report	Costa 28' Wahi 45+2'

SC Freiburg won 3–2 on aggregate.

Young Boys	1–3	Sporting CP
Ugrinic 42'	Report	Amenda 31' (o.g.) Gyökeres 41' (pen.) Inácio 48'

Sporting CP	1–1	Young Boys
Gyökeres 13'	Report	Ganvoula 84' (pen.)

Sporting CP won 4–2 on aggregate.

Benfica	2–1	Toulouse
Di María 68' (pen.), 90+8' (pen.)	Report	Desler 75'

Toulouse	0–0	Benfica
	Report

Benfica won 2–1 on aggregate.

Braga	2–4	Qarabağ
Banza 44' Moutinho 90+1' (pen.)	Report	Janković 21' (pen.) Zoubir 54', 69' Juninho 65'

Qarabağ	2–3 (a.e.t.)	Braga
Silva 102' Akhundzade 120+2'	Report	Fernandes 70' Djaló 83' Banza 115' (pen.)

Qarabağ won 6–5 on aggregate.

Galatasaray	3–2	Sparta Prague
Demirbay 19' Mertens 61' Icardi 90+1'	Report	Preciado 47' Kuchta 65'

Sparta Prague	4–1	Galatasaray
Preciado 8' Tuci 74' Haraslín 80' Kuchta 90+6'	Report	Bardakcı 16'

Sparta Prague won 6–4 on aggregate.

Shakhtar Donetsk	2–2	Marseille
Matviyenko 68' Eguinaldo 90+3'	Report	Aubameyang 64' Ndiaye 90'

Marseille	3–1	Shakhtar Donetsk
Aubameyang 23' Sarr 74' Kondogbia 81'	Report	Sudakov 12' (pen.)

Marseille won 5–3 on aggregate.

Round of 16

The draw for the round of 16 was held on 23 February 2024, 12:00 CET.

Summary

The first legs were played on 6 and 7 March, and the second legs were played on 14 March 2024.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Sparta Prague	2–11	Liverpool	1–5	1–6
Marseille	5–3	Villarreal	4–0	1–3
Roma	4–1	Brighton & Hove Albion	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
Milan	7–3	Slavia Prague	4–2	3–1
Qarabağ	4–5	Bayer Leverkusen	2–2	2–3

Matches

Sparta Prague	1–5	Liverpool
Bradley 46' (o.g.)	Report	Mac Allister 6' (pen.) Núñez 25', 45+3' Díaz 53' Szoboszlai 90+4'

Liverpool	6–1	Sparta Prague
Núñez 7' Clark 8' Salah 10' Gakpo 14', 55' Szoboszlai 48'	Report	Birmančević 42'

Liverpool won 11–2 on aggregate.

Marseille	4–0	Villarreal
Veretout 23' Mosquera 28' (o.g.) Aubameyang 42' (pen.), 59'	Report

Villarreal	3–1	Marseille
Capoue 32' Sørloth 54' Mosquera 86'	Report	Clauss 90+4'

Marseille won 5–3 on aggregate.

Roma	4–0	Brighton & Hove Albion
Dybala 13' Lukaku 43' Mancini 64' Cristante 68'	Report

Brighton & Hove Albion	1–0	Roma
Welbeck 37'	Report

Roma won 4–1 on aggregate.

Benfica	2–2	Rangers
Di María 45+2' (pen.) Goldson 67' (o.g.)	Report	Lawrence 7' Sterling 45+5'

Rangers	0–1	Benfica
	Report	R. Silva 66'

Benfica won 3–2 on aggregate.

SC Freiburg	1–0	West Ham United
Gregoritsch 81'	Report

West Ham United	5–0	SC Freiburg
Paquetá 9' Bowen 32' Cresswell 52' Kudus 77', 85'	Report

West Ham United won 5–1 on aggregate.

Sporting CP	1–1	Atalanta
Paulinho 17'	Report	Scamacca 39'

Atalanta	2–1	Sporting CP
Lookman 46' Scamacca 59'	Report	Gonçalves 33'

Atalanta won 3–2 on aggregate.

Milan	4–2	Slavia Prague
Giroud 34' Reijnders 44' Loftus-Cheek 45+1' Pulisic 85'	Report	Douděra 36' Schranz 65'

Slavia Prague	1–3	Milan
Jurásek 84'	Report	Pulisic 33' Loftus-Cheek 36' Leão 45+6'

Milan won 7–3 on aggregate.

Qarabağ	2–2	Bayer Leverkusen
Benzia 26' Juninho 45+2'	Report	Wirtz 70' Schick 90+2'

Bayer Leverkusen	3–2	Qarabağ
Frimpong 72' Schick 90+3', 90+8'	Report	Zoubir 58' Juninho 67'

Bayer Leverkusen won 5–4 on aggregate.

Quarter-finals

The draw for the quarter-finals was held on 15 March 2024, 13:00 CET.

Summary

The first legs were played on 11 April, and the second legs were played on 18 April 2024.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Milan	1–3	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 p)	Marseille	2–1	0–1 (a.e.t.)

Matches

Milan	0–1	Roma
	Report	Mancini 17'

Roma	2–1	Milan
Mancini 12' Dybala 22'	Report	Gabbia 85'

Roma won 3–1 on aggregate.

Liverpool	0–3	Atalanta
	Report	Scamacca 38', 60' Pašalić 83'

Atalanta	0–1	Liverpool
	Report	Salah 7' (pen.)

Atalanta won 3–1 on aggregate.

Bayer Leverkusen	2–0	West Ham United
Hofmann 83' Boniface 90+1'	Report

West Ham United	1–1	Bayer Leverkusen
Antonio 13'	Report	Frimpong 89'

Bayer Leverkusen won 3–1 on aggregate.

Benfica	2–1	Marseille
R. Silva 16' Di María 52'	Report	Aubameyang 67'

Marseille	1–0 (a.e.t.)	Benfica
Moumbagna 79'	Report
Penalties
Correa Kondogbia Balerdi Luis Henrique	4–2	Di María Kökçü Otamendi A. Silva

2–2 on aggregate; Marseille won 4–2 on penalties.

Semi-finals

The draw for the semi-finals was held on 15 March 2024, 13:00 CET, after the quarter-final draw.

Summary

The first legs were played on 2 May, and the second legs were played on 9 May 2024.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Marseille	1–4	Atalanta	1–1	0–3
Roma	2–4	Bayer Leverkusen	0–2	2–2

Matches

Marseille	1–1	Atalanta
Mbemba 20'	Report	Scamacca 11'

Atalanta	3–0	Marseille
Lookman 30' Ruggeri 52' Touré 90+5'	Report

Atalanta won 4–1 on aggregate.

Roma	0–2	Bayer Leverkusen
	Report	Wirtz 28' Andrich 73'

Bayer Leverkusen	2–2	Roma
Mancini 82' (o.g.) Stanišić 90+7'	Report	Paredes 43' (pen.), 66' (pen.)

Bayer Leverkusen won 4–2 on aggregate.

Final

The final was played on 22 May 2024 at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin. A draw was held on 15 March 2024, after the quarter-final and semi-final draw, to determine the "home" team for administrative purposes.

Atalanta	3–0	Bayer Leverkusen
Lookman 12', 26', 75'	Report

Notes

1. CET (UTC+1) for dates up to 25 March 2023 (round of 16), and CEST (UTC+2) for dates thereafter (quarter-finals, semi-finals and final).
2. Due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ukrainian teams were required to play their home matches at neutral venues until further notice.

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