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The 2024–25 UEFA Conference League is the fourth season of the UEFA Conference League, Europe's tertiary club football tournament organised by UEFA. This is first UEFA Conference League played under a new format involving a 36-team league phase. [1] This will increase the total number of matches played in the competition proper from 141 to 153.
The 2024–25 UEFA Conference League league phase began on 2 October and ended on 19 December 2024. A total of 36 teams competed in the league phase to decide the 24 places in the knockout phase of the 2024–25 UEFA Conference League. Borac Banja Luka, Celje, Cercle Brugge, 1.
This page summarises the Main Path matches of the 2024–25 UEFA Conference League qualifying phase and play-off round. Times are CEST ( UTC+2 ), as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).
The 2024–25 UEFA Conference League qualifying phase and play-off round began on 10 July and ended on 29 August 2024. [1]A total of 152 teams competed in the qualifying system, which included the qualifying phase and the play-off round, with 20 teams in the Champions Path and 132 teams in the Main Path.
A knockout round play-off will take place before the last-16 begins
As a result, certain sets of teams, such as the top two from the league phase, cannot meet until the final. The structure of each side of the bracket can be summarised as follows, with the exact pairings of the play-offs and round of 16 determined by a draw: [note 2] Knockout phase play-offs Pairing I: 9/10 vs 23/24; Pairing II: 11/12 vs 21/22
If the Conference League title holders qualify for the league phase via their domestic league's standard berth allocation, the best-ranked club in the qualifying rounds enter the league phase, without leapfrogging, then clubs of associations in the UEFA coefficient ranking are promoted to later qualifying rounds, and teams of the highest-ranked ...
The new format also does not allow teams to transfer from the Europa League league or knockout phase to the Conference League knockout phase, and thus Conference League winners can no longer defend their title as the winner of the Conference League automatically qualifies for the Europa League league phase. [2] The final will be played at the ...