UEFA Europa Conference League

UEFA Europa Conference League

Organising body	UEFA
Founded	2021; 3 years ago (2021)
Region	Europe
Number of teams	40 (main phase total)[a] 32 (group stage) 184 (total)
Qualifier for	UEFA Europa League
Related competitions	UEFA Champions League (1st tier) UEFA Europa League (2nd tier)
Current champions	West Ham United (1st title)
Most successful club(s)	Roma West Ham United (1 title each)
Television broadcasters	List of broadcasters
Website	uefa.com/uefaeuropaconferenceleague
2023–24 UEFA Europa Conference League

The UEFA Europa Conference League (abbreviated as UECL or sometimes, UEFA ECL), which will be renamed the UEFA Conference League prior to the 2024–25 season, is an annual football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) for eligible European football clubs. It is the third tier of continental club football in Europe, behind the second-tier Europa League, and the first-tier Champions League.

First contested in the 2021–22 season, the competition serves as the bottom level of the Europa League, which was reduced from 48 to 32 teams in the group stage. The competition is primarily contested by teams from lower-ranked UEFA member associations.^[1] No teams qualify directly to the group stage, with 10 teams eliminated in the Europa League play-offs and the rest coming from the Europa Conference League qualifiers. The winners of the competition are awarded a position in the Europa League the following season, unless they qualify for the Champions League.^[2] Roma were the inaugural winners of the competition, having beaten Feyenoord 1–0 in the 2022 final. West Ham United are the current champions, having beaten Fiorentina 2–1 in the 2023 final.

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