When Is The 2023/24 Europa League Draw?
The 2023/24 UEFA Europa League group stage draw will take place at the Grimaldi Forum, Monaco on Friday 1 September at 8am UK time where it will be available to access through live streaming of the procedure.
Following its usual format, one team from each pot will be drawn into eight groups of four. The stages will see each team play each other at home and away with the top two teams in each group then progressing onto the knockout stage of the tournament.
While not all the participants are known, the pots for the competition are currently as follows:
Pot One: West Ham, Liverpool, Roma, Bayer Leverkusen, Villarreal and Atlanta
Pot One or Two: Rennes, Sporting Lisbon
Pot Two: Real Betis
Por Two or Three: Brighton, Marseille
Pot Two, Three or Four: Freiburg
Pot Four: FK TSC, Servette
The dates for this season’s Europa League group stage fixtures are:
- 21 September 2023
- 5 October 2023
- 26 October 2023
- 9 November 2023
- 30 November 2023
- 14 December 2023
The 2023/24 tournament is the last edition of the competition to feature 32 teams, with the format set to change next year in order to include a greater number of teams. Next year, 36 teams will qualify for the group stage, with a “Swiss-style” format to be used instead.
For the first time, this year’s competition will have three English teams in the group stage: Liverpool, Brighton and Hove Albion and West Ham. Liverpool are favourites to win the competition with internet bookies after finishing fifth in the Premier League last season. The Reds last competed in the tournament in 2015-16 in which they lost to Sevilla in the final. They were three times winners of the UEFA Cup, a previous incarnation of the event. This experience in the competition makes them the firm favourite for another victory, with 10bet having Liverpool at 5/2 to win the tournament.
Brighton have qualified for the Europa League for the first time in the club’s history. Roberto De Zerbi’s team finished the Premier League in sixth place last season which secured their spot in European football for the first time. Despite being novices, the club also has a great chance of going far in the tournament, 10Bet has the seagulls at 9/1 to become victorious which would be an amazing achievement for the club who were only relatively recently promoted to the Premier League in 2017.
West Ham are the final English team in this year’s tournament. They are fresh from their Europa Conference League trophy win last season when they defeated Fiorentina 2-1 in the tournament’s final in Prague. Looking for another win in Europe, 10Bet has the Hammers at 20/1 to win this year’s Europa League.
The 2024 final is set to be held at Dublin Arena, also known as the Aviva Stadium, in the Republic of Ireland on Wednesday 22 May. With The tournament fast approaching, it is set to be one full of excitement, with English chances increased by having three clubs competing for the first time.
