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2024–25 UEFA Europa League

The San Mamés Stadium in Bilbao will host the final
Tournament details
Dates	Qualifying: 11 July – 29 August 2024 Competition proper: 25 September 2024 – 21 May 2025
Teams	Competition proper: 25+11 Total: 45+31 (from 41 associations)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	108
Goals scored	304 (2.81 per match)
Attendance	2,879,615 (26,663 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Samu Aghehowa (Porto) Yunus Akgün (Galatasaray) Rasmus Højlund (Manchester United) Barnabás Varga (Ferencváros) 5 goals each
← 2023–24 2025–26 → All statistics correct as of 12 December 2024.

The 2024–25 UEFA Europa League is the 54th season of Europe's secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 16th season since it was renamed from the UEFA Cup to the UEFA Europa League. This is the first season played under a new format, which replaces the 32-team group stage with a 36-team league phase. This increases the total number of matches played in the competition (excluding qualifying rounds) from 141 to 189. The new format also does not allow teams to transfer from the Champions League league or knockout phase to the Europa League knockout phase, and thus Europa League winners (Atalanta in the 2023–24 edition) can no longer defend their title as the winner of the Europa League automatically qualifies for the Champions League league phase.

The final will be played on 21 May 2025 at the San Mamés Stadium in Bilbao, Spain. The winners of the 2024–25 UEFA Europa League will automatically qualify for the 2025–26 UEFA Champions League league phase and earn the right to play against the winners of the 2024–25 UEFA Champions League in the 2025 UEFA Super Cup.

Association team allocation

A total of 76 teams from 41 of the 55 UEFA member associations are set to participate in the 2024–25 UEFA Europa League. Among them, 32 associations had teams directly qualifying for the Europa League, while for the other 23 associations that did not have any teams directly qualifying, 9 of them had teams playing after being transferred from the Champions League. The association ranking based on the UEFA association coefficients was used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:

• The title holders of the Europa Conference League were given an entry in the Europa League (if they did not qualify for the Champions League or Europa League via league position).
• Associations 1–12 each have two teams.
• Associations 13–33 (except Russia) each have one team.
• 31 teams eliminated from the 2024–25 Champions League were transferred to the Europa League.

Association ranking

For the 2024–25 UEFA Europa League, the associations were allocated places according to their 2023 UEFA association coefficients, which took into account their performance in European competitions from 2018–19 to 2022–23.

Apart from the allocation based on the association coefficients, associations could have additional teams participating in the Europa League, as noted below:

• (UCL) – Additional teams transferred from the UEFA Champions League
• (UECL) – Additional berth for 2023–24 UEFA Europa Conference League title holders

Association ranking for 2024–25 UEFA Europa League

Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes 1  England 109.570 2 2  Spain 92.998 3  Germany 82.481 4  Italy 81.926 5  France 61.164 6  Netherlands 59.900 +1 (UCL) 7  Portugal 56.216 8  Belgium 42.200 +1 (UCL) 9  Scotland 36.400 +1 (UCL) 10  Austria 34.000 11  Serbia 32.375 +1 (UCL) 12  Turkey 32.100 +2 (UCL) 13  Switzerland 31.675 1 +1 (UCL) 14  Ukraine 29.500 +1 (UCL) 15  Czech Republic 29.050 +1 (UCL) 16  Norway 29.000 +1 (UCL) 17  Denmark 27.825 +1 (UCL) 18  Russia 26.215 0 19  Croatia 25.400 1

Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes 20  Greece 25.225 1 +1 (UECL) +1 (UCL) 21  Israel 25.000 +1 (UCL) 22  Cyprus 24.475 +1 (UCL) 23  Sweden 23.750 +1 (UCL) 24  Poland 20.750 +1 (UCL) 25  Hungary 20.625 +1 (UCL) 26  Romania 20.500 +1 (UCL) 27  Bulgaria 20.000 +1 (UCL) 28  Slovakia 19.750 29  Azerbaijan 16.625 +1 (UCL) 30  Kazakhstan 12.625 31  Slovenia 12.500 +1 (UCL) 32  Moldova 12.250 +1 (UCL) 33  Kosovo 11.041 34  Liechtenstein 11.000 0 35  Latvia 10.625 +1 (UCL) 36  Republic of Ireland 10.375 +1 (UCL) 37  Finland 10.200

Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes 38  Lithuania 10.000 0 +1 (UCL) 39  Armenia 9.875 40  Belarus 9.875 +1 (UCL) 41  Bosnia and Herzegovina 9.750 +1 (UCL) 42  Luxembourg 9.000 43  Faroe Islands 8.750 +1 (UCL) 44  Northern Ireland 8.583 45  Malta 8.250 46  Georgia 8.000 47  Estonia 7.582 48  Iceland 7.250 49  Albania 6.250 50  Wales 6.166 +1 (UCL) 51  Gibraltar 5.791 +1 (UCL) 52  North Macedonia 5.500 53  Andorra 5.165 +1 (UCL) 54  Montenegro 4.750 55  San Marino 1.999

Distribution

The information here reflects the ongoing suspension of Russia in European football, and so the following changes to the default access were made:

• The cup winners of association 16 (Norway) entered the second qualifying round instead of the first qualifying round.

As the Europa League title holders (Atalanta) qualified for the Champions League via their domestic league's standard berth allocation, the following changes to the default access list were made:

• The cup winners of associations 17 to 21 (except Russia) (Denmark, Croatia, Greece and Israel) entered the second qualifying round instead of the first qualifying round.

Teams

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:

• UECL: Europa Conference League title holders
• CW: Cup winners
• 3rd, 4th, 5th, etc.: League position of the previous season
• UCL: Transferred from the Champions League
  • CH/LP PO: Losers from the play-off round (Champions/League path)
  • CH/LP Q3: Losers from the third qualifying round (Champions/League path)
  • CH/LP Q2: Losers from the second qualifying round (Champions/League path)

The third qualifying round was divided into Champions Path (CH) and Main Path (MP).

Qualified teams for 2024–25 UEFA Europa League

Entry round		Teams
League phase		Olympiacos (UECL)	Manchester United (CW)	Tottenham Hotspur (5th)	Athletic Bilbao (CW)
		Real Sociedad (6th)	Eintracht Frankfurt (6th)	TSG Hoffenheim (7th)	Roma (6th)
		Lazio (7th)	Nice (5th)	Lyon (6th)	AZ (4th)
		Porto (CW)	Galatasaray (UCL CH PO)	Bodø/Glimt (UCL CH PO)	Midtjylland (UCL CH PO)
		Malmö FF (UCL CH PO)	Qarabağ (UCL CH PO)	Dynamo Kyiv (UCL LP PO)	Slavia Prague (UCL LP PO)
		Twente (UCL LP Q3)	Union Saint-Gilloise (UCL LP Q3)	Rangers (UCL LP Q3)	Fenerbahçe (UCL LP Q3)
Play-off round		Anderlecht (3rd)	Heart of Midlothian (3rd)	LASK (3rd)	TSC (3rd)
		Beşiktaş (CW)	PAOK (UCL CH Q3)	APOEL (UCL CH Q3)	Jagiellonia Białystok (UCL CH Q3)
		Ferencváros (UCL CH Q3)	FCSB (UCL CH Q3)	Ludogorets Razgrad (UCL CH Q3)
Third qualifying round	CH	Maccabi Tel Aviv (UCL CH Q2)	Celje (UCL CH Q2)	Petrocub Hîncești (UCL CH Q2)	RFS (UCL CH Q2)
		Shamrock Rovers (UCL CH Q2)	Panevėžys (UCL CH Q2)	Dinamo Minsk (UCL CH Q2)	Borac Banja Luka (UCL CH Q2)
		KÍ (UCL CH Q2)	The New Saints (UCL CH Q2)	Lincoln Red Imps (UCL CH Q2)	UE Santa Coloma (UCL CH Q2)
	MP	Servette (CW)	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih (3rd)	Viktoria Plzeň (3rd)	Partizan (UCL LP Q2)
		Lugano (UCL LP Q2)
Second qualifying round		Ajax (5th)	Braga (4th)	Cercle Brugge (4th)	Kilmarnock (4th)
		Rapid Wien (4th)	Vojvodina (4th)	Trabzonspor (3rd)	Molde (CW)
		Silkeborg (CW)	Rijeka (2nd)	Panathinaikos (CW)	Maccabi Petah Tikva (CW)
First qualifying round		Pafos (CW)	IF Elfsborg (2nd)	Wisła Kraków (CW)	Paks (CW)
		Corvinul Hunedoara (CW)	Botev Plovdiv (CW)	Ružomberok (CW)	Zira (2nd)
		Tobol (CW)	Maribor (2nd)	Sheriff Tiraspol (2nd)	Llapi (2nd)

Two teams not playing in a national top division took part in the competition: Corvinul Hunedoara (2nd tier) and Wisła Kraków (2nd tier).

Notes

1. Russia (RUS): On 28 February 2022, Russian football clubs and national teams were suspended from FIFA and UEFA competitions due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The tables reflect Russia's ongoing suspension from UEFA competitions.
2. Slovenia (SVN): Cup winners Rogaška failed to obtain a UEFA licence, so the berth reserved for the cup winners was transferred to the second-placed team in the league, Maribor.

Schedule

The schedule of the competition is as follows. Matches are scheduled for Thursdays, apart from the final, which takes place on a Wednesday, though exceptionally can take place on Tuesdays or Wednesdays due to scheduling conflicts. Compared to past seasons, one exclusive week will be introduced where both Wednesday and Thursdays are matchdays, held on September 25 and 26.

Qualifying rounds

First qualifying round

The draw for the first qualifying round was held on 18 June 2024. The first legs were played on 11 July, and the second legs were played on 18 July 2024.

The winners of the ties advanced to the second qualifying round. The losers were transferred to the Conference League Main Path second qualifying round.

First qualifying round

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Botev Plovdiv	4–3	Maribor	2–1	2–2
IF Elfsborg	8–2	Pafos	3–0	5–2
Paks	2–4	Corvinul Hunedoara	0–4	2–0
Sheriff Tiraspol	2–2 (5–4 p)	Zira	0–1	2–1 (a.e.t.)
Wisła Kraków	4–1	Llapi	2–0	2–1
Ružomberok	5–3	Tobol	5–2	0–1

1. Order of legs reversed after original draw.

Second qualifying round

The draw for the second qualifying round was held on 19 June 2024. The first legs were played on 25 July, and the second legs were played on 1 August 2024.

The winners of the ties advanced to the Main Path third qualifying round. The losers were transferred to the Conference League Main Path third qualifying round.

Second qualifying round

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Ajax	4–1	Vojvodina	1–0	3–1
Ružomberok	0–3	Trabzonspor	0–2	0–1
Wisła Kraków	2–8	Rapid Wien	1–2	1–6
Kilmarnock	1–2	Cercle Brugge	1–1	0–1
Molde	5–4	Silkeborg	3–1	2–3
Corvinul Hunedoara	0–1	Rijeka	0–0	0–1
Braga	7–0	Maccabi Petah Tikva	2–0	5–0
Panathinaikos	6–1	Botev Plovdiv	2–1	4–0
Sheriff Tiraspol	0–3	IF Elfsborg	0–1	0–2

Third qualifying round

The draw for the third qualifying round was held on 22 July 2024. The first legs were played on 6 and 8 August, and the second legs were played on 13, 14 and 15 August 2024.

The winners of the ties advanced to the play-off round. The Champions Path losers were transferred to the Conference League Champions Path play-off round, while the Main Path losers were transferred to the Conference League Main Path play-off round.

Third qualifying round

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Champions Path
KÍ	3–4	Borac Banja Luka	2–1	1–3 (a.e.t.)
UE Santa Coloma	0–9	RFS	0–2	0–7
Celje	2–3	Shamrock Rovers	1–0	1–3 (a.e.t.)
Panevėžys	1–5	Maccabi Tel Aviv	1–2	0–3
Petrocub Hîncești	1–0	The New Saints	1–0	0–0
Dinamo Minsk	3–2	Lincoln Red Imps	2–0	1–2
Main Path
Partizan	2–3	Lugano	0–1	2–2 (a.e.t.)
Molde	3–1	Cercle Brugge	3–0	0–1
Panathinaikos	1–1 (12–13 p)	Ajax	0–1	1–0 (a.e.t.)
Trabzonspor	0–3	Rapid Wien	0–1	0–2
Braga	2–1	Servette	0–0	2–1
Rijeka	1–3	IF Elfsborg	1–1	0–2
Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	1–3	Viktoria Plzeň	1–2	0–1

Play-off round

The draw for the play-off round was held on 5 August 2024. The first legs were played on 22 August, and the second legs were played on 29 August 2024.

The winners of the ties advanced to the league phase. The losers were transferred to the Conference League league phase.

Play-off round

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Dinamo Minsk	0–2	Anderlecht	0–1	0–1
Jagiellonia Białystok	1–7	Ajax	1–4	0–3
Ludogorets Razgrad	6–1	Petrocub Hîncești	4–0	2–1
Lugano	4–8	Beşiktaş	3–3	1–5
LASK	1–2	FCSB	1–1	0–1
RFS	3–3 (4–2 p)	APOEL	2–1	1–2 (a.e.t.)
Maccabi Tel Aviv	8–1	TSC	3–0	5–1
PAOK	6–0	Shamrock Rovers	4–0	2–0
Ferencváros	1–1 (3–2 p)	Borac Banja Luka	0–0	1–1 (a.e.t.)
Molde	1–1 (2–4 p)	IF Elfsborg	0–1	1–0 (a.e.t.)
Braga	4–3	Rapid Wien	2–1	2–2
Viktoria Plzeň	2–0	Heart of Midlothian	1–0	1–0

League phase

The league phase draw for the 2024–25 UEFA Europa League took place at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco on 30 August 2024, 13:00 CEST. The 36 teams were divided into four pots of nine teams each based on their UEFA club coefficient.

The 36 teams were manually drawn and then automated software digitally drew their eight different opponents at random, determining which of their matches were at home and which ones away. Each team will face two opponents from each of the four pots, one at home and one away. Teams could not face opponents from their own association, and could only be drawn against a maximum of two sides from the same association.

RFS made their debut appearance since the introduction of the group stage.

A total of 23 national associations are represented in the league phase.

Table

The top eight ranked teams will receive a bye to the round of 16. The teams ranked from 9th to 24th will contest the knockout phase play-offs, with the teams ranked from 9th to 16th seeded for the draw. Teams ranked from 25th to 36th are eliminated from all competitions, with no access to the 2024–25 UEFA Conference League.

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Lazio (W)	6	5	1	0	14	3	+11	16	Advance to round of 16 (seeded)
2	Athletic Bilbao (W)	6	5	1	0	11	2	+9	16
3	Anderlecht (X)	6	4	2	0	11	6	+5	14
4	Lyon (X)	6	4	1	1	15	7	+8	13
5	Eintracht Frankfurt (X)	6	4	1	1	12	8	+4	13
6	Galatasaray (X)	6	3	3	0	15	11	+4	12
7	Manchester United (X)	6	3	3	0	12	8	+4	12
8	Rangers	6	3	2	1	13	7	+6	11
9	Tottenham Hotspur	6	3	2	1	11	7	+4	11	Advance to knockout phase play-offs (seeded)
10	FCSB	6	3	2	1	7	5	+2	11
11	Ajax	6	3	1	2	14	6	+8	10
12	Real Sociedad	6	3	1	2	10	6	+4	10
13	Bodø/Glimt	6	3	1	2	10	9	+1	10
14	Roma	6	2	3	1	8	5	+3	9
15	Olympiacos	6	2	3	1	5	3	+2	9
16	Ferencváros	6	3	0	3	11	10	+1	9
17	Viktoria Plzeň	6	2	3	1	10	9	+1	9	Advance to knockout phase play-offs (unseeded)
18	Porto	6	2	2	2	12	10	+2	8
19	AZ	6	2	2	2	9	9	0	8
20	Union Saint-Gilloise	6	2	2	2	5	5	0	8
21	Fenerbahçe	6	2	2	2	7	9	−2	8
22	PAOK	6	2	1	3	10	8	+2	7
23	Midtjylland	6	2	1	3	5	7	−2	7
24	IF Elfsborg	6	2	1	3	8	11	−3	7
25	Braga	6	2	1	3	7	10	−3	7
26	TSG Hoffenheim	6	1	3	2	5	8	−3	6
27	Maccabi Tel Aviv	6	2	0	4	7	13	−6	6
28	Beşiktaş	6	2	0	4	6	13	−7	6
29	Slavia Prague (Y)	6	1	1	4	5	7	−2	4
30	Twente (Y)	6	0	4	2	4	7	−3	4
31	Malmö FF (Y)	6	1	1	4	6	12	−6	4
32	Ludogorets Razgrad (Z)	6	0	3	3	3	8	−5	3
33	Qarabağ (Z)	6	1	0	5	4	14	−10	3
34	RFS (Z)	6	0	2	4	5	12	−7	2
35	Nice (Z)	6	0	2	4	6	14	−8	2
36	Dynamo Kyiv (E)	6	0	0	6	1	15	−14	0

Results

Matchday 1

Home team	Score	Away team
AZ	3–2	IF Elfsborg
Bodø/Glimt	3–2	Porto
Dynamo Kyiv	0–3	Lazio
Midtjylland	1–1	TSG Hoffenheim
Galatasaray	3–1	PAOK
Manchester United	1–1	Twente
Nice	1–1	Real Sociedad
Ludogorets Razgrad	0–2	Slavia Prague
Anderlecht	2–1	Ferencváros
Fenerbahçe	2–1	Union Saint-Gilloise
Malmö FF	0–2	Rangers
Ajax	4–0	Beşiktaş
Roma	1–1	Athletic Bilbao
Eintracht Frankfurt	3–3	Viktoria Plzeň
FCSB	4–1	RFS
Lyon	2–0	Olympiacos
Braga	2–1	Maccabi Tel Aviv
Tottenham Hotspur	3–0	Qarabağ

Matchday 2

Home team	Score	Away team
RFS	2–2	Galatasaray
Ferencváros	1–2	Tottenham Hotspur
Maccabi Tel Aviv	0–2	Midtjylland
Olympiacos	3–0	Braga
Qarabağ	1–2	Malmö FF
Real Sociedad	1–2	Anderlecht
Lazio	4–1	Nice
Slavia Prague	1–1	Ajax
TSG Hoffenheim	2–0	Dynamo Kyiv
Athletic Bilbao	2–0	AZ
Beşiktaş	1–3	Eintracht Frankfurt
Porto	3–3	Manchester United
Twente	1–1	Fenerbahçe
Viktoria Plzeň	0–0	Ludogorets Razgrad
IF Elfsborg	1–0	Roma
PAOK	0–1	FCSB
Union Saint-Gilloise	0–0	Bodø/Glimt
Rangers	1–4	Lyon

Matchday 3

Home team	Score	Away team
Galatasaray	4–3	IF Elfsborg
Braga	1–2	Bodø/Glimt
Roma	1–0	Dynamo Kyiv
Eintracht Frankfurt	1–0	RFS
Midtjylland	1–0	Union Saint-Gilloise
Ferencváros	1–0	Nice
Maccabi Tel Aviv	1–2	Real Sociedad
PAOK	2–2	Viktoria Plzeň
Qarabağ	0–3	Ajax
Athletic Bilbao	1–0	Slavia Prague
Porto	2–0	TSG Hoffenheim
Twente	0–2	Lazio
Fenerbahçe	1–1	Manchester United
Malmö FF	0–1	Olympiacos
Lyon	0–1	Beşiktaş
Rangers	4–0	FCSB
Anderlecht	2–0	Ludogorets Razgrad
Tottenham Hotspur	1–0	AZ

Matchday 4

Home team	Score	Away team
Beşiktaş	2–1	Malmö FF
Eintracht Frankfurt	1–0	Slavia Prague
Bodø/Glimt	1–2	Qarabağ
FCSB	2–0	Midtjylland
Galatasaray	3–2	Tottenham Hotspur
IF Elfsborg	1–1	Braga
Nice	2–2	Twente
Olympiacos	1–1	Rangers
Ludogorets Razgrad	1–2	Athletic Bilbao
Union Saint-Gilloise	1–1	Roma
Ajax	5–0	Maccabi Tel Aviv
AZ	3–1	Fenerbahçe
Dynamo Kyiv	0–4	Ferencváros
RFS	1–1	Anderlecht
Viktoria Plzeň	2–1	Real Sociedad
Manchester United	2–0	PAOK
Lazio	2–1	Porto
TSG Hoffenheim	2–2	Lyon

Matchday 5

Home team	Score	Away team
Athletic Bilbao	3–0	IF Elfsborg
AZ	1–1	Galatasaray
Beşiktaş	1–3	Maccabi Tel Aviv
Dynamo Kyiv	1–2	Viktoria Plzeň
RFS	0–2	PAOK
Qarabağ	1–4	Lyon
Anderlecht	2–2	Porto
Lazio	0–0	Ludogorets Razgrad
Midtjylland	1–2	Eintracht Frankfurt
Twente	0–1	Union Saint-Gilloise
Ferencváros	4–1	Malmö FF
FCSB	0–0	Olympiacos
Manchester United	3–2	Bodø/Glimt
Nice	1–4	Rangers
Real Sociedad	2–0	Ajax
Braga	3–0	TSG Hoffenheim
Slavia Prague	1–2	Fenerbahçe
Tottenham Hotspur	2–2	Roma

Matchday 6

Home team	Score	Away team
Fenerbahçe	0–2	Athletic Bilbao
Roma	3–0	Braga
Viktoria Plzeň	1–2	Manchester United
Malmö FF	2–2	Galatasaray
Olympiacos	0–0	Twente
PAOK	5–0	Ferencváros
Ludogorets Razgrad	2–2	AZ
Union Saint-Gilloise	2–1	Nice
TSG Hoffenheim	0–0	FCSB
Ajax	1–3	Lazio
Porto	2–0	Midtjylland
Bodø/Glimt	2–1	Beşiktaş
IF Elfsborg	1–0	Qarabağ
Maccabi Tel Aviv	2–1	RFS
Lyon	3–2	Eintracht Frankfurt
Rangers	1–1	Tottenham Hotspur
Real Sociedad	3–0	Dynamo Kyiv
Slavia Prague	1–2	Anderlecht

Matchday 7

Home team	Score	Away team
Galatasaray	21 Jan	Dynamo Kyiv
Beşiktaş	22 Jan	Athletic Bilbao
AZ	23 Jan	Roma
Porto	23 Jan	Olympiacos
Viktoria Plzeň	23 Jan	Anderlecht
Fenerbahçe	23 Jan	Lyon
Bodø/Glimt	23 Jan	Maccabi Tel Aviv
Malmö FF	23 Jan	Twente
Qarabağ	23 Jan	FCSB
TSG Hoffenheim	23 Jan	Tottenham Hotspur
Eintracht Frankfurt	23 Jan	Ferencváros
RFS	23 Jan	Ajax
IF Elfsborg	23 Jan	Nice
Manchester United	23 Jan	Rangers
PAOK	23 Jan	Slavia Prague
Ludogorets Razgrad	23 Jan	Midtjylland
Union Saint-Gilloise	23 Jan	Braga
Lazio	23 Jan	Real Sociedad

Matchday 8

Home team	Score	Away team
Ajax	30 Jan	Galatasaray
Roma	30 Jan	Eintracht Frankfurt
Athletic Bilbao	30 Jan	Viktoria Plzeň
Dynamo Kyiv	30 Jan	RFS
Midtjylland	30 Jan	Fenerbahçe
Twente	30 Jan	Beşiktaş
Ferencváros	30 Jan	AZ
FCSB	30 Jan	Manchester United
Maccabi Tel Aviv	30 Jan	Porto
Nice	30 Jan	Bodø/Glimt
Olympiacos	30 Jan	Qarabağ
Lyon	30 Jan	Ludogorets Razgrad
Rangers	30 Jan	Union Saint-Gilloise
Real Sociedad	30 Jan	PAOK
Anderlecht	30 Jan	TSG Hoffenheim
Braga	30 Jan	Lazio
Slavia Prague	30 Jan	Malmö FF
Tottenham Hotspur	30 Jan	IF Elfsborg

Knockout phase

In the knockout phase, teams will play against each other over two legs on a home-and-away basis, except for the one-match final. The bracket structure for the knockout phase is partially fixed in advance using seeding, with teams' positions in the bracket determined by the final standings in the league phase. In the knockout phase, there is no country protection, with teams from the same association able to face each other in any round. Teams can also face opponents they played during the league phase.

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

• In the draw for the knockout phase play-offs, the eight teams finishing the league phase in positions 9–16 are seeded, and the eight teams finishing the league phase in positions 17–24 are unseeded. The draw is split into four sections based on the predetermined bracket, with the seeded teams in each section drawn against one of their two possible unseeded opponents. The seeded teams host the second leg.
• In the draw for the round of 16, the eight teams finishing the league phase in positions 1–8 are seeded, and the eight winners of the knockout phase play-offs are unseeded. Again, the draw is split into four sections based on the predetermined bracket, with the seeded teams in each section drawn against one of their two possible unseeded opponents. The seeded teams host the second leg.
• In the quarter-finals and semi-finals, the exact match pairings are predetermined based on the tournament bracket. A draw is conducted only to determine which team plays the first leg at home. A draw is also held to determine which semi-final winner is designated as the "home" team for the final (for administrative purposes as it is played at a neutral venue).

Qualified teams

The following teams have secured a place in the knockout phase:

Guaranteed to finish 1–16 (round TBD, guaranteed seeded)

• Lazio
• Athletic Bilbao

Guaranteed to finish 1–24 (round TBD)

• Anderlecht
• Eintracht Frankfurt
• Galatasaray
• Lyon
• Manchester United

Bracket

Knockout phase play-offs

Round of 16

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

17/18

15/16

Winner PO1

1/2

Winner R16–1

23/24

Winner R16–2

9/10

Winner PO2

7/8

Winner QF1

21/22

Winner QF2

11/12

Winner PO3

5/6

Winner R16–3

19/20

Winner R16–4

13/14

Winner PO4

21 May – Bilbao

3/4

Winner SF

20/19

Winner SF

14/13

Winner PO5

4/3

Winner R16–5

22/21

Winner R16–6

12/11

Winner PO6

6/5

Winner QF3

24/23

Winner QF4

10/9

Winner PO7

8/7

Winner R16–7

18/17

Winner R16–8

16/15

Winner PO8

2/1

1. While the ties are predetermined, a draw will determine the order of the legs for the quarter-finals and semi-finals, as well as the administrative "home" team for the final.

Knockout phase play-offs

The draw for the knockout phase play-offs will be held on 31 January 2025. The first legs will be played on 13 February, and the second legs will be played on 20 February 2025.

Round of 16

The draw for the round of 16 will be held on 21 February 2025. The first legs will be played on 6 March, and the second legs will be played on 13 March 2025.

Quarter-finals

The draw for the order of the quarter-final legs will be held on 21 February 2025, after the round of 16 draw. The first legs will be played on 10 April, and the second legs will be played on 17 April 2025.

1. ^ While the ties are predetermined, the order of the legs will be determined by a draw.

Semi-finals

The draw for the order of the semi-final legs will be held on 21 February 2025, after the round of 16 and quarter-final draws. The first legs will be played on 1 May, and the second legs will be played on 8 May 2025.

1. ^ While the ties are predetermined, the order of the legs will be determined by a draw.

Final

The final will be played on 21 May 2025 at the San Mamés Stadium in Bilbao. A draw will be held on 21 February 2025 (after the round of 16, quarter-final and semi-final draws) to determine the "home" team for administrative purposes.

TBD	v	TBD

Statistics

Statistics exclude qualifying rounds and play-off round.

Top goalscorers

As of 12 December 2024

Rank	Player	Team	Goals	Minutes played
1	Rasmus Højlund	Manchester United	5	328
	Barnabás Varga	Ferencváros		422
	Samu Aghehowa	Porto		512
	Yunus Akgün	Galatasaray		521
5	Hamza Igamane	Rangers	4	188
	Malick Fofana	Lyon		368
	Omar Marmoush	Eintracht Frankfurt		408
	Erik Botheim	Malmö		457
	Iñaki Williams	Athletic Bilbao		500
	Pedro	Lazio		504
	Ayoub El Kaabi	Olympiacos		535

See also

• 2024–25 UEFA Champions League
• 2024–25 UEFA Conference League
• 2025 UEFA Super Cup
• 2024–25 UEFA Women's Champions League
• 2024–25 UEFA Youth League

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External links

• Official website

• 2024–25 UEFA Europa League
• 2024–25 in UEFA football
• UEFA Europa League seasons
• Current association football seasons