2022–23 UEFA Europa League group stage

The 2022–23 UEFA Europa 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 16 of the 24 places in the knockout phase of the 2022–23 UEFA Europa League.

Bodø/Glimt, Nantes, Union Berlin and Union Saint-Gilloise made their debut appearances in the Europa League group stage. Union Saint-Gilloise made their debut appearance in a UEFA competition group stage.

A total of 23 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 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 Conference 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 UECL played in the Europa Conference 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:

• 12 teams which entered in this stage
• 10 winners of the play-off round
• 6 losers of the Champions League play-off round (4 from Champions Path, 2 from League Path)
• 4 League Path losers of the third qualifying round

Key to colours
Group winners advance directly to round of 16
Group runners-up advance to knockout round play-offs
Third-placed teams enter Europa Conference League knockout round play-offs

Pot 1 Team Notes Coeff.[1] Roma 100.000 Manchester United 105.000 Arsenal 80.000 Lazio 53.000 Braga 46.000 Red Star Belgrade [CL-CP] 46.000 Dynamo Kyiv [CL-LP] 44.000 Olympiacos [EL-PO] 41.000

Pot 2 Team Notes Coeff.[1] Feyenoord 40.000 Rennes 33.000 PSV Eindhoven [CL-LP] 33.000 Monaco [CL-LQ] 26.000 Real Sociedad 26.000 Qarabağ [CL-CP] 25.000 Malmö FF [EL-PO] 23.500 Ludogorets Razgrad [EL-PO] 23.000

Pot 3 Team Notes Coeff.[1] Sheriff Tiraspol [EL-PO] 22.500 Real Betis 21.000 Midtjylland [CL-LQ] 19.000 Bodø/Glimt [CL-CP] 17.000 Ferencváros [EL-PO] 15.500 Union Berlin 15.042 SC Freiburg 15.042 Fenerbahçe [EL-PO] 14.500

Pot 4 Team Notes Coeff.[1] Nantes 12.016 HJK [EL-PO] 8.500 Sturm Graz [CL-LQ] 7.770 AEK Larnaca [EL-PO] 7.500 Omonia [EL-PO] 7.000 Zürich [EL-PO] 7.000 Union Saint-Gilloise [CL-LQ] 6.120 Trabzonspor [CL-CP] 5.500

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 teams were transferred to the Europa Conference League knockout round play-offs, while the 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 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 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		ARS	PSV	BOD	ZUR
1	Arsenal	6	5	0	1	8	3	+5	15	Advance to round of 16		—	1–0	3–0	1–0
2	PSV Eindhoven	6	4	1	1	15	4	+11	13	Advance to knockout round play-offs		2–0	—	1–1	5–0
3	Bodø/Glimt	6	1	1	4	5	10	−5	4	Transfer to Europa Conference League		0–1	1–2	—	2–1
4	Zürich	6	1	0	5	5	16	−11	3			1–2	1–5	2–1	—

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Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		FEN	REN	AEK	DKV
1	Fenerbahçe	6	4	2	0	13	7	+6	14	Advance to round of 16		—	3–3	2–0	2–1
2	Rennes	6	3	3	0	11	8	+3	12	Advance to knockout round play-offs		2–2	—	1–1	2–1
3	AEK Larnaca	6	1	2	3	7	10	−3	5	Transfer to Europa Conference League		1–2	1–2	—	3–3
4	Dynamo Kyiv	6	0	1	5	5	11	−6	1			0–2	0–1	0–1	—

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Group C

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		BET	ROM	LUD	HJK
1	Real Betis	6	5	1	0	12	4	+8	16	Advance to round of 16		—	1–1	3–2	3–0
2	Roma	6	3	1	2	11	7	+4	10	Advance to knockout round play-offs		1–2	—	3–1	3–0
3	Ludogorets Razgrad	6	2	1	3	8	9	−1	7	Transfer to Europa Conference League		0–1	2–1	—	2–0
4	HJK	6	0	1	5	2	13	−11	1			0–2	1–2	1–1	—

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Group D

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		USG	UBE	BRA	MAL
1	Union Saint-Gilloise	6	4	1	1	11	7	+4	13	Advance to round of 16		—	0–1	3–3	3–2
2	Union Berlin	6	4	0	2	4	2	+2	12	Advance to knockout round play-offs		0–1	—	1–0	1–0
3	Braga	6	3	1	2	9	7	+2	10	Transfer to Europa Conference League		1–2	1–0	—	2–1
4	Malmö FF	6	0	0	6	3	11	−8	0			0–2	0–1	0–2	—

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Group E

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		RSO	MUN	SHE	OMO
1	Real Sociedad	6	5	0	1	10	2	+8	15[a]	Advance to round of 16		—	0–1	3–0	2–1
2	Manchester United	6	5	0	1	10	3	+7	15[a]	Advance to knockout round play-offs		0–1	—	3–0	1–0
3	Sheriff Tiraspol	6	2	0	4	4	10	−6	6	Transfer to Europa Conference League		0–2	0–2	—	1–0
4	Omonia	6	0	0	6	3	12	−9	0			0–2	2–3	0–3	—

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Group F

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		FEY	MID	LAZ	STU
1	Feyenoord	6	2	2	2	13	9	+4	8[a]	Advance to round of 16		—	2–2	1–0	6–0
2	Midtjylland	6	2	2	2	12	8	+4	8[a]	Advance to knockout round play-offs		2–2	—	5–1	2–0
3	Lazio	6	2	2	2	9	11	−2	8[a]	Transfer to Europa Conference League		4–2	2–1	—	2–2
4	Sturm Graz	6	2	2	2	4	10	−6	8[a]			1–0	1–0	0–0	—

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Group G

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		FRE	NAN	QRB	OLY
1	SC Freiburg	6	4	2	0	13	3	+10	14	Advance to round of 16		—	2–0	2–1	1–1
2	Nantes	6	3	0	3	6	11	−5	9	Advance to knockout round play-offs		0–4	—	2–1	2–1
3	Qarabağ	6	2	2	2	9	5	+4	8	Transfer to Europa Conference League		1–1	3–0	—	0–0
4	Olympiacos	6	0	2	4	2	11	−9	2			0–3	0–2	0–3	—

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Group H

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		FER	MON	TRA	ZVE
1	Ferencváros	6	3	1	2	8	9	−1	10[a]	Advance to round of 16		—	1–1	3–2	2–1
2	Monaco	6	3	1	2	9	8	+1	10[a]	Advance to knockout round play-offs		0–1	—	3–1	4–1
3	Trabzonspor	6	3	0	3	11	9	+2	9	Transfer to Europa Conference League		1–0	4–0	—	2–1
4	Red Star Belgrade	6	2	0	4	9	11	−2	6			4–1	0–1	2–1	—

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Notes

References

External links

• Official website