The 2022–23 UEFA Europa Conference League is the second season of the UEFA Europa Conference League, Europe's tertiary club football tournament organised by UEFA. The final will be played at Fortuna Arena in Prague, Czech Republic. The winners of the 2022–23 UEFA Europa Conference League will automatically qualify for the 2023–24 UEFA Europa League group stage, unless they manage to qualify for the 2023–24 UEFA Champions League group stage. As the title holders of the Europa Conference League, Roma, qualified for the 2022–23 UEFA Europa League and subsequently progressed to the knockout phase, they were therefore unable to defend their title. Association team allocation A total of 177 teams from 54 of the 55 UEFA member associations (excluding Russia) will participate in the 2022–23 UEFA Europa Conference League. The association ranking based on the UEFA country coefficients is used to determine the number of participating teams for each association: Associations 1–5 each have one team qualify. Associations 6–17 (except Russia) and 51–55 each have two teams qualify. Associations 18–50 (except Liechtenstein) each have three teams qualify. Liechtenstein have one team qualify as they organize only a domestic cup and no domestic league. Moreover, 18 teams eliminated from the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League and 25 teams eliminated from the 2022–23 UEFA Europa League are transferred to the Europa Conference League. Association ranking For the 2022–23 UEFA Europa Conference League, the associations are allocated places according to their 2021 UEFA country coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 2016–17 to 2020–21. Apart from the allocation based on the country coefficients, associations may have additional teams participating in the Europa Conference League, as noted below: – Additional teams transferred from the UEFA Champions League – Additional teams transferred from the UEFA Europa League Distribution The following is the access list for this season. In the default access list, the title holders of the Europa Conference League qualify for the Europa League group stage. Due to the suspension of Russia for the 2022–23 European season, the following changes to the access list have been made: The cup winners of association 16 (Serbia) enter the Europa League instead of the second qualifying round. The cup winners of associations 18 (Croatia) and 19 (Switzerland) enter the third qualifying round instead of the second qualifying round. The cup winners of associations 30 to 39 (Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Bosnia and Herzegovina,