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·1 September 2023
Europa Conference League group stage draw 2023/24 – Aston Villa land interesting group

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·1 September 2023
The draw for the group stage of the 2023/24 Europa Conference League has been completed in Monaco.
It consisted of 32 teams, comprising 22 Europa Conference League play-off winners and ten teams from the Europa League play-offs.
The teams were seeded into four pots of eight teams each, based on the UEFA club coefficient rankings.
The pots were as follows:
Villa have been handed an interesting group stage draw where they will face Eredivisie side AZ Alkmaar alongside Legia Warszawa and HSK Zrinjski.
The Premier League club will be competing in the European group stage for the first time since the 2010/11 campaign but will fancy their chances of making it to the knockout phase from Group E.
Fiorentina, who made it to the Conference League final last season, will face Ferencvaros, Genk and Cukaricki in Group F.
Scottish Premiership club Aberdeen also have some intriguing Europa Conference League fixtures lined up in Group G against Eintracht Frankfurt, PAOK and Helsinki.
Here is the full draw for the group stage in this season’s Europa Conference League.
The dates for the opening stage of the 2023/24 Europa Conference League are as follows: