The 2024–25 UEFA Europa League qualifying phase and play-off round began on 11 July and will end on 29 August 2024.[1]
A total of 52 teams compete in the qualifying system which includes the qualifying phase and the play-off round. The 12 winners of the play-off round will advance to the league phase, to join the 13 teams that enter in the league stage, along with the seven losers of the Champions League play-off round (five from Champions Path and two from League Path), and the four losers of the Champions League third qualifying round (League Path).[2]
Times are CEST (UTC+2), as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).
The qualifying phase is split into two paths – the Champions Path and the Main Path. The Champions Path contains teams which were eliminated from the Champions League Champions Path and the Main Path contains teams which qualify as the third-placed or the fourth-placed team from their domestic league or as domestic cup winners. The paths are merged in the play-off round.
Each tie will played over two legs, with each team playing one leg at home. The team that scored more goals on aggregate over the two legs will advance to the next round. If the aggregate score is level at the end of normal time of the second leg, extra time will be played, and if the same number of goals is scored by both teams during extra time, the tie will be decided by a penalty shoot-out.[3]
In the draws for each round in the Main Path, teams will be seeded based on their UEFA club coefficients at the beginning of the season, with the teams divided into seeded and unseeded pots containing the same number of teams. A seeded team will be drawn against an unseeded team, with the order of legs in each tie decided by draw. As the identity of the winners of the previous round may not known at the time of the draws, the seeding will be carried out under the assumption that the team with the higher coefficient of an undecided tie advances to the subsequent round, which means if the team with the lower coefficient advances, it will simply take the seeding of its opponent.
In the draw for the Champions Path third qualifying round, there will be no seeding.
Prior to the draws, UEFA can form "groups" in accordance with the principles set by the Club Competitions Committee purely for the convenience of the draw and not to resemble any real groupings in the sense of the competition. Teams from associations with political conflicts as decided by UEFA cannot be drawn into the same tie. After the draws, the order of legs of a tie can be reversed by UEFA due to scheduling or venue conflicts.
The schedule of the competition is as follows. All matches are scheduled to be played on Thursdays.[1]
| Round | Draw date | First leg | Second leg | |
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| First qualifying round | 18 June 2024 | 11 July 2024 | 18 July 2024 | |
| Second qualifying round | 19 June 2024 | 25 July 2024 | 1 August 2024 | |
| Third qualifying round | 22 July 2024 | 8 August 2024 | 15 August 2024 | |
| Play-off round | 5 August 2024 | 22 August 2024 | 29 August 2024 |
In the qualifying stage, the teams will be divided into two paths:
The winners of the third qualifying round will be combined into a single path for the play-off round:
All teams eliminated from the qualifying phase and play-off round will enter the Conference League:
Below are the participating teams (with their 2024 UEFA club coefficients, not to be used as seeding for the Champions Path, however), grouped by their starting rounds. Teams in italic text may still qualify for the Champions League.
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| Winners of play-off round advance to league stage | |
| Losers of play-off round enter Conference League league stage | |
| Losers of third qualifying round enter Conference League play-off round | |
| Losers of second qualifying round enter Conference League third qualifying round | |
| Losers of the first qualifying round enter Conference League second qualifying round |
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The draw for the first qualifying round was held on 18 June 2024.
A total of 12 teams played in the first qualifying round. Seeding of the teams was based on their 2024 UEFA club coefficients. The first team drawn in each tie was the home team for the first leg.
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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.
Botev Plovdiv won 4–3 on aggregate.----Elfsborg won 8–2 on aggregate.----Corvinul Hunedoara won 4–2 on aggregate.----2–2 on aggregate. Sheriff Tiraspol won 5–4 on penalties.----Wisła Kraków won 4–1 on aggregate.----Ružomberok won 5–3 on aggregate.
The draw for the second qualifying round was held on 19 June 2024.
A total of 18 teams played in the second qualifying round. Seeding of the teams was based on their 2024 UEFA club coefficients. For the winners of the first qualifying round, whose identity was not known at the time of the draw, the club coefficient of the highest-ranked remaining team in each tie was used. Prior to the draw, UEFA formed groups of seeded and unseeded teams per the principles set by the Club Competitions Committee. The first team drawn in each tie was the home team for the first leg.
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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.
Ajax won 4–1 on aggregate.----Trabzonspor won 3–0 on aggregate.----Rapid Wien won 8–2 on aggregate.----Cercle Brugge won 2–1 on aggregate.----Molde won 5–4 on aggregate.----Rijeka won 1–0 on aggregate.----Braga won 7–0 on aggregate.----Panathinaikos won 6–1 on aggregate.----Elfsborg won 3–0 on aggregate.
The draw for the third qualifying round was held on 22 July 2024.
A total of 26 teams played in the third qualifying round – 12 in the Champions Path and 14 in the Main Path. Seeding of the teams was based on their 2024 UEFA club coefficients. For the winners of the second qualifying round, whose identity was not known at the time of the draw, the club coefficient of the highest-ranked remaining team in each tie was used. For the losers of the Champions League second qualifying round, the club coefficient of the lower-ranked team in each tie was used. Prior to the draw, UEFA formed groups of seeded and unseeded teams per the principles set by the Club Competitions Committee. The first team drawn in each tie was the home team for the first leg.
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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.
Borac Banja Luka won 4–3 on aggregate.----RFS won 9–0 on aggregate.----Shamrock Rovers won 3–2 on aggregate.----Maccabi Tel Aviv won 5–1 on aggregate.----Petrocub Hîncești won 1–0 on aggregate.----Dinamo Minsk won 3–2 on aggregate.
Lugano won 3–2 on aggregate.----Molde won 3–1 on aggregate.----1–1 on aggregate. Ajax won 13–12 on penalties.----Rapid Wien won 3–0 on aggregate.----Braga won 2–1 on aggregate.----Elfsborg won 3–1 on aggregate.----Viktoria Plzeň won 3–1 on aggregate.
The draw for the play-off round was held on 5 August 2024.
A total of 24 teams play in the play-off round. Seeding of the teams was based on their 2024 UEFA club coefficients.[4] For the winners of the third qualifying round, whose identity was not known at the time of the draw, the club coefficient of the highest-ranked remaining team in each tie was used. For the losers of the Champions League third qualifying round, the club coefficient of the lower-ranked team in each tie was used. Before the draw, UEFA formed groups of seeded and unseeded teams per the principles set by the Club Competitions Committee. The first team drawn in each tie would be the home team for the first leg.
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The first legs will be played on 22 August, and the second legs will be played on 29 August 2024.
The winners of the ties will advance to the league phase. The losers will be transferred to the Conference League league phase.
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