2022–23 UEFA Europa Conference League group stage

The 2022–23 UEFA Europa Conference League group stage began on 8 September 2022 and ended on 3 November 2022. A total of 32 teams competed in the group stage to decide 8 of the 16 places in the knockout phase of the 2022–23 UEFA Europa Conference League.

All teams besides AZ, Basel, CFR Cluj, Gent, Partizan, Slavia Prague and Slovan Bratislava, who competed in last season's group stage, made their debut appearances in the group stage. Ballkani, Djurgårdens IF, Dnipro-1, Pyunik, RFS, Silkeborg, Slovácko, Vaduz and Žalgiris made their debut appearances in a UEFA competition group stage. Ballkani, Vaduz and Žalgiris were the first teams from Kosovo, Liechtenstein and Lithuania, respectively, to play in a UEFA competition group stage.

A total of 28 national associations were represented in the group stage.

Draw

The draw for the group stage was held on 26 August 2022 in Istanbul, Turkey. 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 2022 UEFA club coefficients.^[1] Teams from the same association and, for political reasons, teams from Serbia and Kosovo 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 drawn 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):^[2]

Teams

Below were the participating teams (with their 2022 UEFA club coefficients),^[1] grouped by their seeding pot.^[2] 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. Villarreal [ECL-MP] 78.000 Basel [ECL-MP] 55.000 Slavia Prague [ECL-MP] 52.000 AZ [ECL-MP] 28.500 Gent [EL-PO] 27.500 İstanbul Başakşehir [ECL-MP] 25.000 Partizan [ECL-MP] 24.500 West Ham United [ECL-MP] 21.328

Pot 2 Team Notes Coeff. CFR Cluj [ECL-CP] 19.500 Molde [ECL-MP] 19.000 FCSB [ECL-MP] 17.500 Fiorentina [ECL-MP] 15.380 1. FC Köln [ECL-MP] 15.042 Hapoel Be'er Sheva [ECL-MP] 14.000 Apollon Limassol [EL-PO] 14.000 Slovan Bratislava [ECL-CP] 13.000

Pot 3 Team Notes Coeff. Nice [ECL-MP] 12.016 Anderlecht [ECL-MP] 11.500 Žalgiris [EL-PO] 8.000 Austria Wien [EL-PO] 7.770 Heart of Midlothian [EL-PO] 7.380 Shamrock Rovers [EL-PO] 7.000 Sivasspor [EL-PO] 6.500 Vaduz [ECL-MP] 6.500

Pot 4 Team Notes Coeff. Dnipro-1 [EL-PO] 6.360 Lech Poznań [ECL-CP] 6.000 Slovácko [ECL-MP] 5.560 Silkeborg [EL-PO] 5.435 Djurgårdens IF [ECL-MP] 4.575 Pyunik [EL-PO] 4.250 RFS [ECL-CP] 4.000 Ballkani [ECL-CP] 1.633

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.

Due to the abolition of the away goals rule, head-to-head away goals were no longer applied as a tiebreaker starting from last season. However, total away goals were still applied as a tiebreaker.^[4]

Groups

The fixtures were announced on 27 August 2022, the day after the draw.^[5] The matches were played on 8 September, 15 September, 6 October, 13 October, 27 October and 3 November 2022. The scheduled kick-off times were 16:30, 18:45 and 21:00 CET/CEST.

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		IBFK	FIO	HEA	RFS
1	İstanbul Başakşehir	6	4	1	1	14	3	+11	13[a]	Advance to round of 16		—	3–0	3–1	3–0
2	Fiorentina	6	4	1	1	14	6	+8	13[a]	Advance to knockout round play-offs		2–1	—	5–1	1–1
3	Heart of Midlothian	6	2	0	4	6	16	−10	6			0–4	0–3	—	2–1
4	RFS	6	0	2	4	2	11	−9	2			0–0	0–3	0–2	—

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Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		WHU	AND	SIL	FCSB
1	West Ham United	6	6	0	0	13	4	+9	18	Advance to round of 16		—	2–1	1–0	3–1
2	Anderlecht	6	2	2	2	6	5	+1	8	Advance to knockout round play-offs		0–1	—	1–0	2–2
3	Silkeborg	6	2	0	4	12	7	+5	6			2–3	0–2	—	5–0
4	FCSB	6	0	2	4	3	18	−15	2			0–3	0–0	0–5	—

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Group C

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		VIL	LCH	HBS	AW
1	Villarreal	6	4	1	1	14	9	+5	13	Advance to round of 16		—	4–3	2–2	5–0
2	Lech Poznań	6	2	3	1	12	7	+5	9	Advance to knockout round play-offs		3–0	—	0–0	4–1
3	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	6	1	4	1	8	5	+3	7			1–2	1–1	—	4–0
4	Austria Wien	6	0	2	4	2	15	−13	2			0–1	1–1	0–0	—

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Group D

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		NCE	PRT	KLN	SVK
1	Nice	6	2	3	1	8	7	+1	9[a]	Advance to round of 16		—	2–1	1–1	1–2
2	Partizan	6	2	3	1	9	7	+2	9[a]	Advance to knockout round play-offs		1–1	—	2–0	1–1
3	1. FC Köln	6	2	2	2	8	8	0	8			2–2	0–1	—	4–2
4	Slovácko	6	1	2	3	8	11	−3	5			0–1	3–3	0–1	—

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Group E

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		AZ	DNI	APL	VAD
1	AZ	6	5	0	1	12	6	+6	15	Advance to round of 16		—	2–1	3–2	4–1
2	Dnipro-1	6	3	1	2	9	7	+2	10	Advance to knockout round play-offs		0–1	—	1–0	2–2
3	Apollon Limassol	6	2	1	3	5	7	−2	7			1–0	1–3	—	1–0
4	Vaduz	6	0	2	4	5	11	−6	2			1–2	1–2	0–0	—

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Group F

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		DJU	GNT	MOL	SHR
1	Djurgårdens IF	6	5	1	0	12	6	+6	16	Advance to round of 16		—	4–2	3–2	1–0
2	Gent	6	2	2	2	10	6	+4	8	Advance to knockout round play-offs		0–1	—	4–0	3–0
3	Molde	6	2	1	3	9	10	−1	7			2–3	0–0	—	3–0
4	Shamrock Rovers	6	0	2	4	1	10	−9	2			0–0	1–1	0–2	—

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Group G

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		SIV	CLJ	SLP	BLK
1	Sivasspor	6	3	2	1	11	7	+4	11	Advance to round of 16		—	3–0	1–1	3–4
2	CFR Cluj	6	3	1	2	5	5	0	10	Advance to knockout round play-offs		0–1	—	2–0	1–0
3	Slavia Prague	6	2	2	2	6	7	−1	8			1–1	0–1	—	3–2
4	Ballkani	6	1	1	4	8	11	−3	4			1–2	1–1	0–1	—

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Group H

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		SLO	BSL	PYU	ZAL
1	Slovan Bratislava	6	3	2	1	9	7	+2	11[a]	Advance to round of 16		—	3–3	2–1	0–0
2	Basel	6	3	2	1	11	9	+2	11[a]	Advance to knockout round play-offs		0–2	—	3–1	2–2
3	Pyunik	6	2	0	4	8	9	−1	6			2–0	1–2	—	2–0
4	Žalgiris	6	1	2	3	5	8	−3	5			1–2	0–1	2–1	—

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Notes

References

External links

• Official website