2022–23 UEFA Europa League Facts for Kids

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2022–23 UEFA Europa League
Tournament details
The Puskás Aréna in Budapest hosted the final
Dates	Qualifying: 4–25 August 2022 Competition proper: 8 September 2022 – 31 May 2023
Teams	Competition proper: 32+8 Total: 21+36 (from 33 associations)
Final positions
Champions	Sevilla (7th title)
Runners-up	Roma
Tournament statistics
Matches played	141
Goals scored	381 (2.7 per match)
Attendance	4,067,872 (28,850 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Victor Boniface (Union Saint-Gilloise) Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) 6 goals each
Best player	Jesús Navas (Sevilla)
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The 2022–23 UEFA Europa League was the 52nd season of Europe's secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 14th season since it was renamed from the UEFA Cup to the UEFA Europa League.

Sevilla defeated Roma in the final played at the Puskás Aréna in Budapest, Hungary, 4–1 on penalties following a 1–1 draw after extra time, winning the competition for a record-extending seventh time. Budapest was originally scheduled to host the final match for the 2021–22 UEFA Europa League, but several hosts were shifted because of the delay and ultimate relocation of the 2020 final due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

As winners of the tournament, Sevilla automatically qualified for the 2023–24 UEFA Champions League group stage and also earned the right to play against the winners of the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League in the 2023 UEFA Super Cup.

As the title holders, Eintracht Frankfurt qualified for the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League. They were unable to defend their title after advancing to the knockout phase.

Association team allocation
Statistics
See also

Association team allocation

A total of 57 teams from 33 of the 55 UEFA member associations participated in the 2022–23 UEFA Europa League. Among them, 15 associations had teams directly qualifying for the Europa League, while for the other 40 associations that did not have any teams directly qualifying, 18 of them had teams playing after being transferred from the Champions League (the only member associations which could not have a participant were Russia and Liechtenstein, which did not organise a domestic league, and could only enter their cup winner into the UEFA Europa Conference League given their association ranking). The association ranking based on the UEFA country coefficients was used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:

The title holders of the UEFA Europa Conference League were given an entry in the Europa League (if they did not qualify for the Champions League group stage).
Associations 1–5 each had two teams qualify.
Associations 6–7 and 9–15 each had one team qualify.
36 teams eliminated from the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League were transferred to the Europa League.

Statistics

Statistics exclude qualifying round and play-off round.

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Team	Goals	Minutes played
1	Marcus Rashford	Manchester United	6	560
1	Victor Boniface	Union Saint-Gilloise	6	777
3	Santiago Giménez	Feyenoord	5	432
3	Paulo Dybala	Roma	5	668
5	Vitinha	Braga	4	406
	Wissam Ben Yedder	Monaco		528
	Ángel Di María	Juventus		554
	Youssef En-Nesyri	Sevilla		720
	Robin Knoche	Union Berlin		892
	Lorenzo Pellegrini	Roma		1167

Top assists

Rank	Player	Team	Assists	Minutes played
1	Evander	Midtjylland	5	514
2	Tasos Bakasetas	Trabzonspor	4	463
	Loïc Lapoussin	Union Saint-Gilloise		740
	Bruno Fernandes	Manchester United		866
	Tammy Abraham	Roma		868
	Lorenzo Pellegrini	Roma		1167
7	Diego Rossi	Fenerbahçe	3	278
	Cody Gakpo	PSV Eindhoven		370
	Oussama Idrissi	Feyenoord		404
	Simon Adingra	Union Saint-Gilloise		410
	Amine Gouiri	Rennes		453
	Juan Miranda	Real Betis		540
	Ludovic Blas	Nantes		675
	Sebastian Szymański	Feyenoord		680
	Jesús Navas	Sevilla		690
	Teddy Teuma	Union Saint-Gilloise		776

Team of the season

The UEFA technical study group selected the following players as the team of the tournament.

Pos.	Player	Team
GK	Yassine Bounou	Sevilla
DF	Marcos Acuña	Sevilla
	Chris Smalling	Roma
	Jonathan Tah	Bayer Leverkusen
	Jesús Navas	Sevilla
MF	Lorenzo Pellegrini	Roma
	Nemanja Matić	Roma
	Ivan Rakitić	Sevilla
FW	Marcus Rashford	Manchester United
	Victor Boniface	Union Saint-Gilloise
	Paulo Dybala	Roma