The domestic cup winners of associations 17 (Switzerland) and 18 (Greece) entered the third qualifying round instead of the second qualifying round.The following changes were confirmed by UEFA: The cup winners of associations 30 (Slovakia) and 31 (Liechtenstein) entered the second qualifying round instead of the first qualifying round.Īs Villarreal, which otherwise would have qualified for the Europa Conference League play-off round via their domestic league, won the 2020–21 UEFA Europa League, thereby earning an automatic spot in the Champions League group stage as the Europa League title holders, thus vacating a berth in the play-off round.The cup winners of association 16 (Cyprus) entered the Europa League instead of the second qualifying round of the Europa Conference League.However, since this berth was vacant this season, the following changes to the access list were made: In the default access list, the title holders of the Europa Conference League qualify for the Europa League group stage. The following is the access list for this season. (UEL) – Additional teams transferred from the UEFA Europa LeagueĪssociation ranking for 2021–22 UEFA Europa Conference League Rank.(UCL) – Additional/vacated teams transferred from/to the UEFA Champions League.Īpart from the allocation based on the country coefficients, associations could have additional teams participating in the Europa Conference League, as noted below: For this season, only 19 teams eliminated from the 2021–22 UEFA Champions League were transferred, as there was one fewer team competing in the Champions Path qualifying of the 2021–22 UEFA Champions League.įor the 2021–22 UEFA Europa Conference League, the associations were allocated places according to their 2020 UEFA country coefficients, which took into account their performance in European competitions from 2015–16 to 2019–20.Moreover, 20 teams eliminated from the 2021–22 UEFA Champions League and 26 teams eliminated from the 2021–22 UEFA Europa League were transferred to the Europa Conference League.Liechtenstein had one team qualify (Liechtenstein organised only a domestic cup and no domestic league).As the UEFA Europa Conference League title holders' berth in the UEFA Europa League was vacant this season, association 16 (Cyprus) had their domestic cup winner promoted from the Europa Conference League to the Europa League, so they only had two teams qualify.Associations 16–50 (except Liechtenstein) each had three teams qualify.Associations 6–15 and 51–55 each had two teams qualify.Association 1 (Spain) did not have any team qualify for this season, as the team which would have participated, Villarreal, won the 2020–21 UEFA Europa League and earned a place in the 2021–22 UEFA Champions League.Associations 1–5 each had one team qualify.The association ranking based on the UEFA country coefficients was used to determine the number of participating teams for each association: Ī total of 181 teams from 54 of the 55 UEFA member associations participated in the 2021–22 UEFA Europa Conference League (the exception being Spain, as none of their teams finished third in the Europa League group stage). Therefore, if in a two-legged tie, two teams scored the same number of aggregate goals, the winner was not decided by the number of away goals scored by each team, but always by 30 minutes of extra time, and if the two teams scored the same amount of goals in extra time, the winner was decided by a penalty shoot-out. On 24 June 2021, UEFA approved the proposal to abolish the away goals rule in all UEFA club competitions, which had been used since 1965. This season was the first since 1999–2000 (the first season after the dissolution of the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup) where three major European club competitions ( UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, and UEFA Europa Conference League) took place. As winners, Roma automatically qualified for the 2022–23 UEFA Europa League group stage, although they had already done so through their league position.
The final was played at the Arena Kombëtare in Tirana, Albania, with Roma defeating Feyenoord 1–0. The 2021–22 UEFA Europa Conference League was the inaugural season of the UEFA Europa Conference League, Europe's tertiary club football tournament organised by UEFA.
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