Republic of Ireland, North Macedonia and Armenia) enter the second qualifying round instead of the first qualifying round. Since some changes have been made in the Europa League access list following the qualification of the Europa Conference League title holders to the Europa League group stage, the following changes to the access list have been made: The cup winners of association 17 (Czech Republic) enter the Europa League instead of the second qualifying round. The cup winners of association 20 (Greece) enter the third qualifying round instead of the second qualifying round. The cup winners of associations 40 (Latvia) and 41 (Albania) enter the second qualifying round instead of the first qualifying round. Moreover: As only 18 out of the planned 20 clubs arrived from the Champions League first qualifying round, two of these teams received a bye to the UECL third qualifying round. Teams The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round: CW: Domestic cup winners 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, etc.: League position of the previous season Abd-: League positions of abandoned season as determined by the national association; all teams are subject to approval by UEFA LC: League cup winners RW: Regular season winners PW: End-of-season Europa Conference League play-offs winners UCL: Transferred from the Champions League Q1: Losers from the first qualifying round PR: Losers from the preliminary round (F: final; SF: semi-finals) UEL: Transferred from the Europa League GS: Third-placed teams from the group stage PO: Losers from the play-off round CH/MP Q3: Losers from the third qualifying round (Champions/Main Path) The second qualifying round, third qualifying round and play-off round are divided into Champions Path (CH) and Main Path (MP). CC: 2022 UEFA club coefficients. One team not playing in a national top division will take part in the competition: Vaduz (2nd tier). Notes Schedule The schedule of the competition is as follows. Matches are scheduled for Thursdays apart from the final, which takes place on a Wednesday, though exceptionally can take place on Tuesdays or Wednesdays due to scheduling conflicts (especially featuring teams from associations where there are few approved stadiums, such as Gibraltar and Wales). Scheduled kick-off times starting from the group stage are 18:45 and 21:00 CEST/CET, though exceptionally can take place at 16:30 due to geographical reasons. As the 2022 FIFA World Cup takes place in Qatar between 20 November and