The 2024–25 UEFA Europa League was 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 was the first season played under a new format, which replaced the 32-team group stage with a 36-team league phase. This increased the total number of matches played in the competition (excluding qualifying rounds) from 141 to 189. The new format also did not allow teams to transfer from the Champions League league or knockout phase to the Europa League knockout phase; as the winner of the Europa League automatically qualifies for the Champions League league phase, the Europa League winners (Atalanta in the 2023–24 edition) could no longer defend their title.
The final was played at San Mamés Stadium in Bilbao, Spain, between English clubs Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United. Tottenham won 1–0, with Brennan Johnson scoring the only goal of the game shortly before half-time, to win their third UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League title and their first major trophy in 17 years. As the winners of the tournament, Tottenham Hotspur automatically qualified for the 2025–26 UEFA Champions League league phase and earned the right to play against 2024–25 UEFA Champions League winners Paris Saint-Germain in the 2025 UEFA Super Cup.
Association team allocation A total of 76 teams from 41 of the 55 UEFA member associations participated 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 had two teams. Associations 13–33 (except Russia) each had 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: – Additional teams transferred from the UEFA Champions League – Additional berth for 2023–24 UEFA Europa Conference League title holders
+Association ranking for 2024–25 UEFA Europa LeagueRankAssociationCoeff.TeamsNotes1109.5702292.998382.481481.926561.164659.900756.216842.200936.4001034.0001132.3751232.1001331.67511429.5001529.0501629.0001727.8251826.21501925.4001RankAssociationCoeff.TeamsNotes2025.2251 2125.0002224.4752323.7502420.7502520.6252620.5002720.0002819.7502916.6253012.6253112.5003212.2503311.0413411.00003510.6253610.3753710.200RankAssociationCoeff.TeamsNotes3810.0000399.875409.875419.750429.000438.750448.583458.250468.000477.582487.250496.250506.166515.791525.500535.165544.750551.999
Distribution
Teams entering in this roundTeams advancing from the previous roundTeams transferred from Champions LeagueFirst qualifying round (12 teams) 12 domestic cup winners from associations 22–33Second qualifying round (18 teams) 5 domestic cup winners from association 16–21 (except Russia) 6 domestic league third-placed teams from associations 7–12 1 domestic league fourth-placed team from association 6 6 winners from the first qualifying roundThird qualifying round (26 teams)Champions Path (12 teams) 12 losers from Champions League second qualifying round (Champions Path)League Path (14 teams) 3 domestic cup winners from associations 13–15 9 winners from second qualifying round 2 losers from Champions League second qualifying round (League Path)Play-off round(24 teams) 5 domestic cup winners from associations 8–12 13 winners from third qualifying round 6 losers from Champions League third qualifying round (Champions Path)League phase (36 teams) Europa Conference League title holders 7 domestic cup winners from associations 1–7 5 domestic league fifth-placed teams from associations 1–5 12 winners from play-off round 5 losers from Champions League play-off round (Champions Path) 4 losers from Champions League third qualifying round (League Path) 2 losers from Champions League play-off round (League Path)Knockout phase play-offs(16 teams) 16 teams ranked 9–24 from the league phaseRound of 16(16 teams) 8 teams ranked 1–8 from the league phase 8 winners from the knockout phase play-offs
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) will enter the second qualifying round instead of the first qualifying round.
As the Europa League title holders (Atalanta) qualified 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) will enter 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 LeagueEntry roundTeamsLeague phase Olympiacos Manchester United Tottenham Hotspur Athletic Bilbao Real Sociedad Eintracht Frankfurt TSG Hoffenheim Roma Lazio Nice Lyon AZ Porto Galatasaray Bodø/Glimt Midtjylland Malmö FF Qarabağ Dynamo Kyiv Slavia Prague Twente Union Saint-Gilloise Rangers Fenerbahçe Play-off round Anderlecht Heart of Midlothian LASK TSC Beşiktaş PAOK APOEL Jagiellonia Białystok Ferencváros FCSB Ludogorets Razgrad Third qualifying round Maccabi Tel Aviv Celje Petrocub Hîncești RFS Shamrock Rovers Panevėžys Dinamo Minsk Borac Banja Luka KÍ The New Saints Lincoln Red Imps UE Santa Coloma Servette Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih Viktoria Plzeň Partizan Lugano Second qualifying round Ajax Braga Cercle Brugge Kilmarnock Rapid Wien Vojvodina Trabzonspor Molde Silkeborg Rijeka Panathinaikos Maccabi Petah Tikva First qualifying round Pafos IF Elfsborg Wisła Kraków Paks Corvinul Hunedoara Botev Plovdiv Ružomberok Zira Tobol Maribor Sheriff Tiraspol Llapi Two teams not playing in a national top division took part in the competition: Corvinul Hunedoara (2nd tier) and Wisła Kraków (2nd tier).
Notes
Schedule The schedule of the competition was as follows. Matches were scheduled for Thursdays, apart from the final, which took place on a Wednesday, though exceptionally could take place on Tuesdays or Wednesdays due to scheduling conflicts. Compared to past seasons, one exclusive week was introduced where both Wednesday and Thursdays were matchdays, held on 25 and 26 September.
+Schedule for 2024–25 UEFA Europa LeaguePhaseRoundDraw dateFirst legSecond legQualifyingFirst qualifying round18 June 202411 July 202418 July 2024Second qualifying round19 June 202425 July 20241 August 2024Third qualifying round22 July 20248 August 202415 August 2024Play-offsPlay-off round5 August 202422 August 202429 August 2024League phaseMatchday 130 August 202425–26 September 2024Matchday 23 October 2024Matchday 324 October 2024Matchday 47 November 2024Matchday 528 November 2024Matchday 612 December 2024Matchday 723 January 2025Matchday 830 January 2025Knockout phaseKnockout phase play-offs31 January 202513 February 202520 February 2025Round of 1621 February 20256 March 202513 March 2025Quarter-finals10 April 202517 April 2025Semi-finals1 May 20258 May 2025Final21 May 2025 at San Mamés Stadium, Bilbao
Qualifying rounds
First qualifying round
Second qualifying round
Third qualifying round
Play-off round
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 faced 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 22 national associations were represented in the league phase.
Table
Results
Knockout phase
In the knockout phase, teams played 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 was partially fixed in advance using seeding, with teams' positions in the bracket determined by the final standings in the league phase.
Bracket
Knockout phase play-offs
Round of 16
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Final
Statistics Statistics exclude qualifying rounds and play-off round.
Top goalscorers RankPlayerTeamGoalsMinutes played1 Ayoub El Kaabi Olympiacos7701 Kasper Høgh Bodø/Glimt1032 Bruno Fernandes Manchester United12814 Malick Fofana Lyon6514 Victor Osimhen Galatasaray594 Barnabás Varga Ferencváros686 Samu Aghehowa Porto767 Youssef En-Nesyri Fenerbahçe865 Václav Černý Rangers932 Rasmus Højlund Manchester United997
Team of the Season The UEFA technical study group selected the following players as the team of the tournament.
PlayerTeam Guglielmo Vicario Tottenham Hotspur Pedro Porro Tottenham Hotspur Cristian Romero Tottenham Hotspur Robin Koch Eintracht Frankfurt Fredrik André Bjørkan Bodø/Glimt Patrick Berg Bodø/Glimt Bruno Fernandes Manchester United Casemiro Manchester United Rayan Cherki Lyon Dominic Solanke Tottenham Hotspur Nico Williams Athletic Bilbao
Player of the Season Cristian Romero ( Tottenham Hotspur)
Young Player of the Season Rayan Cherki ( Lyon)
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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