2021–22 UEFA Europa Conference League qualifying was the preliminary phase of the 2021–22 UEFA Europa Conference League, prior to the competition proper. Qualification consisted of the qualifying phase (first to third rounds) and the play-off round. It began on 6 July and ended on 26 August 2021.

A total of 163 teams competed in the qualifying system, with 24 teams in Champions Path and 139 teams in Main Path. The 22 winners in the play-off round advanced to the group stage, to join the 10 losers of the Europa League play-off round.

Times are CEST (UTC+2), as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Teams

Champions Path The Champions Path included league champions which were eliminated from the Champions Path qualifying phase of the Champions League and the Champions Path qualifying phase of the Europa League, and consisted of the following rounds: Second qualifying round (18 teams): 18 teams which entered this round (including 15 losers of the Champions League first qualifying round and 3 losers of the Champions League preliminary qualifying round). Third qualifying round (10 teams): 9 winners of the second qualifying round and 1 loser of the Champions League first qualifying round. Play-off round (10 teams): 5 teams which entered this round (including 5 losers of the Europa League Champions Path third qualifying round), and 5 winners of the third qualifying round.

Below are the participating teams of the Champions Path (with their 2021 UEFA club coefficients, not to be used as seeding for the Champions Path, however), grouped by their starting rounds.

Key to coloursWinners of play-off round advance to group stage +Play-off roundTeam Žalgiris6.500 Flora6.250 Kairat6.000 Lincoln Red Imps5.750 Neftçi5.000+Third qualifying roundTeam Shamrock Rovers4.750+Second qualifying roundTeam Shkëndija9.000 Dinamo Tbilisi6.500 Budućnost Podgorica6.000 Riga5.500 Linfield5.250 Fola Esch5.250 Shakhtyor Soligorsk5.250 Maccabi Haifa4.875 Connah's Quay Nomads4.750 Valur4.250 Bodø/Glimt4.200 Hibernians3.750 Teuta2.750 HB2.250 Prishtina2.250 Borac Banja Luka1.6001.500 Folgore1.000 Notes

Main Path The Main Path included league non-champions, and consisted of the following rounds: First qualifying round (66 teams): 66 teams which entered in this round. Second qualifying round (90 teams): 57 teams which entered in this round, and 33 winners of the first qualifying round. Third qualifying round (54 teams): 9 teams which entered in this round, and 45 winners of the second qualifying round. Play-off round (34 teams): 7 teams which entered this round (including 3 losers of the Europa League Main Path third qualifying round), and 27 winners of the third qualifying round.

Below are the participating teams of the League Path (with their 2021 UEFA club coefficients), grouped by their starting rounds.

Key to coloursWinners of play-off round advance to group stage +Play-off roundTeam Roma90.000 Tottenham Hotspur88.000 Rennes19.000 Union Berlin14.714 Jablonec7.000 St Johnstone6.675 Anorthosis Famagusta5.550 +Third qualifying roundTeam Anderlecht25.000 LASK21.000 PAOK20.000 Paços de Ferreira9.709 Vitesse7.840 Rubin Kazan7.676 Kolos Kovalivka6.620 Trabzonspor6.020 Luzern5.500+Second qualifying roundTeam Basel49.000 Copenhagen43.500 Viktoria Plzeň33.500 Gent26.500 Astana22.500 Feyenoord21.000 Qarabağ21.000 FCSB21.000 Maccabi Tel Aviv20.500 AEK Athens19.500 Partizan18.000 BATE Borisov17.500 Hapoel Be'er Sheva17.500 Molde17.000 Rosenborg14.000 Rijeka13.500 Apollon Limassol13.500 Austria Wien10.000 Santa Clara9.709 CSKA Sofia8.000 Hajduk Split8.000 F91 Dudelange8.000 Sochi7.676 Aberdeen7.500 Olimpija Ljubljana6.750 Hibernian6.675 Vorskla Poltava6.620 Sivasspor6.020 Osijek6.000 Universitatea Craiova6.000 AGF5.575 AEL Limassol5.550 Vaduz5.500 Vojvodina5.350 Čukarički5.350 Slovácko5.320 Servette5.245 Aris5.200 Dynamo Brest5.000 DAC Dunajská Streda5.000 Ashdod4.875 Vålerenga4.200 Hammarby IF4.100 BK Häcken4.100 IF Elfsborg4.100 Lokomotiv Plovdiv4.075 Arda4.075 Sepsi OSK3.640 Keşla3.375 Sumgayit3.375 Tobol3.125 Shakhter Karagandy3.125 Újpest3.100 Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino3.050 Raków Częstochowa3.025 Pogoń Szczecin3.025 Panevėžys1.750+First qualifying roundTeam Maribor14.000 MOL Fehérvár11.500 Dundalk10.500 Sūduva8.750 The New Saints7.500 Spartak Trnava7.500 Sarajevo6.250 Domžale5.500 KÍ5.250 KuPS5.000 FH5.000 Sutjeska4.750 FC Santa Coloma4.500 Partizani4.250 Laçi4.000 Europa4.000 Liepāja4.000 FCI Levadia3.750 Drita3.500 La Fiorita3.250 Stjarnan3.250 Puskás Akadémia3.100 Śląsk Wrocław 3.025 Shkupi3.000 Petrocub Hîncești3.000 NSÍ3.000 Coleraine2.750 Tre Penne2.750 Široki Brijeg2.750 Žilina2.725 Bala Town2.500 Gżira United2.500 Breiðablik2.250 St Joseph's2.250 Milsami Orhei2.250 Urartu2.250 Kauno Žalgiris2.000 RFS2.000 Inter Turku2.000 Sileks1.750 Racing Union1.650 Swift Hesperange1.650 Velež Mostar1.600 Bohemians1.575 Sligo Rovers1.575 Struga1.525 Sfîntul Gheorghe1.500 Birkirkara1.500 Noah1.475 Valmiera1.475 Ararat Yerevan1.475 Vllaznia1.450 Glentoran1.391 Larne1.391 Dinamo Batumi1.375 Honka1.375 Dila Gori1.375 Gagra1.375 Mosta1.275 Sant Julià1.250 Llapi1.166 Mons Calpe1.133 Paide Linnameeskond1.000 Dečić1.000 Podgorica1.000 Newtown1.000 Notes

Format Each tie is played over two legs, with each team playing one leg at home. The team that scores more goals on aggregate over the two legs advance to the next round. If the aggregate score is level at the end of normal time of the second leg, the away goals rule is no longer applied starting from this season. To decide the winner of the tie, extra time is played, and if the same number of goals are scored by both teams during extra time, the tie is decided by a penalty shoot-out.

Schedule The schedule of the competition was as follows (all draws were held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland).

+Schedule for the qualifying phase of the 2021–22 UEFA Europa Conference LeagueRoundDraw dateFirst legSecond legFirst qualifying round15 June 20218 July 202115 July 2021Second qualifying round16 June 202122 July 202129 July 2021Third qualifying round19 July 20215 August 202112 August 2021Play-offs2 August 202119 August 202126 August 2021

First qualifying round

The draw for the first qualifying round was held on 15 June 2021, 13:30 CEST.

Seeding A total of 66 teams played in the first qualifying round. Seeding of teams was based on their 2021 UEFA club coefficients. Teams from the same association could not be drawn against each other. Prior to the draw, UEFA formed eight groups, seven of four seeded teams and four unseeded teams, and one of five seeded teams and five unseeded teams, in accordance with the principles set by the Club Competitions Committee. Numbers were pre-assigned for each team by UEFA, with the draw held in two runs, one for Groups 1–7 with eight teams and one for Group 8 with ten teams. The first team drawn in each tie would be the home team of the first leg.

Group 1Group 2Group 3Group 4SeededUnseededSeededUnseededSeededUnseededSeededUnseededGroup 5Group 6Group 7Group 8SeededUnseededSeededUnseededSeededUnseededSeededUnseeded

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Second qualifying round

The draw for the second qualifying round was held on 16 June 2021, 13:30 CEST.

Seeding A total of 108 teams played in the second qualifying round. They were divided into two paths: Champions Path (18 teams): The teams, whose identity was not known at the time of draw, were seeded as following: Seeded: 15 of the 16 losers of the 2021–22 UEFA Champions League first qualifying round (1 of the teams received a bye to the third qualifying round). Unseeded: 3 losers of the 2021–22 UEFA Champions League preliminary round. Main Path (90 teams): 57 teams which entered in this round, and 33 winners of the first qualifying round. Seeding of teams was based on their 2021 UEFA club coefficients. For the winner of the first qualifying round, whose identity was not known at the time of draw, the club coefficient of the highest-ranked remaining team in each tie was used. Teams from the same association could not be drawn against each other. Prior to the draw, UEFA formed three groups in the Champions Path of five seeded teams and one unseeded team, and nine groups in the Main Path of five seeded teams and five unseeded teams, in accordance with the principles set by the Club Competitions Committee. In each group of the Champions Path, firstly, a seeded team was drawn against the only unseeded team, and then, the remaining four seeded teams were drawn against each other. In the Main Path, numbers were pre-assigned for each team by UEFA, with the draw held in one run for Groups 1–9 with ten teams. The first team drawn in each tie would be the home team of the first leg.

+Champions PathGroup 1Group 2Group 3SeededUnseededSeededUnseededSeededUnseeded

+Main PathGroup 1Group 2Group 3SeededUnseededSeededUnseededSeededUnseededGroup 4Group 5Group 6SeededUnseededSeededUnseededSeededUnseededGroup 7Group 8Group 9SeededUnseededSeededUnseededSeededUnseeded

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Third qualifying round

The draw for the third qualifying round was held on 19 July 2021, 14:00 CEST.

Seeding A total of 64 teams played in the third qualifying round. They were divided into two paths: Champions Path (10 teams): 9 winners of the second qualifying round (Champions Path), whose identity was not known at the time of draw, and 1 loser from the first qualifying round of the Champions League which received a bye to this round (Shamrock Rovers). There was no seeding. Due to political reasons, teams from Bosnia Herzegovina and Kosovo could not be drawn against each other, thus the winners of the ties between Borac Banja Luka/Linfield and Prishtina/Connah's Quay Nomads could not be drawn against each other. Main Path (54 teams): 9 teams which entered in this round, and 45 winners of the second qualifying round (Main Path). Seeding of teams was based on their 2021 UEFA club coefficients. For the winners of the second qualifying round, whose identity was not known at the time of draw, the club coefficient of the highest-ranked remaining team in each tie was used. Teams from the same association could not be drawn against each other. Prior to the draw, UEFA formed seven groups in the Main Path, six of four seeded teams and four unseeded teams, and one of three seeded teams and three unseeded teams, in accordance with the principles set by the Club Competitions Committee. In the Main Path, numbers were pre-assigned for each team by UEFA, with the draw held in two runs, one for Groups 1–6 with eight teams and one for Group 7 with six teams. The first team drawn in each tie would be the home team of the first leg.

+Champions Path

+Main PathGroup 1Group 2Group 3Group 4SeededUnseededSeededUnseededSeededUnseededSeededUnseededGroup 5Group 6Group 7SeededUnseededSeededUnseededSeededUnseeded Notes

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Play-off round

The draw for the play-off round was held on 2 August 2021, 14:00 CEST.

Seeding A total of 44 teams played in the play-off round. They were divided into two paths: Champions Path (10 teams): The teams, whose identity was not known at the time of draw, were seeded as following: Seeded: 5 losers of the 2021–22 UEFA Europa League third qualifying round (Champions Path). Unseeded: 5 winners of the third qualifying round (Champions Path). Main Path (34 teams): 4 teams which entered in this round, 27 winners of the third qualifying round (Main Path), and 3 losers of the 2021–22 UEFA Europa League third qualifying round (Main Path). Seeding of teams was based on their 2021 UEFA club coefficients. For the winners of the third qualifying round and losers of the Europa League third qualifying round, whose identity was not known at the time of draw, the club coefficient of the highest-ranked remaining team in each tie was used. Teams from the same association could not be drawn against each other.