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2024 UEFA Europa Conference League final
Football match
The 2024 UEFA Europa Conference League final will be the final match of the 2023–24 UEFA Europa Conference League, the third season of Europe's tertiary club football tournament organised by UEFA. It will be held at the Agia Sophia Stadium in Athens, Greece, on 29 May 2024,[2][3] between Greek club Olympiacos and Italian club Fiorentina.
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| Event | 2023–24 UEFA Europa Conference League | ||||||
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| Date | 29 May 2024 (2024-05-29) | ||||||
| Venue | Agia Sophia Stadium, Athens | ||||||
| Referee | Artur Soares Dias (Portugal)[1] | ||||||
← 2023 2025 → | |||||||
The winners will qualify to enter the league phase of the 2024–25 UEFA Europa League, unless they have already qualified for the Champions League or Europa League through their league performance (in which case the access list will be rebalanced).
This is Olympiacos' first European final. For only the second time a Greek team will appear in a European final. The first was Panathinaikos, who lost the 1971 European Cup final. Fiorentina is the first club to play in two UEFA Europa Conference League finals and the first to contest them consecutively.
Previous finals
| Team | Previous final appearances (bold indicates winners) |
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 Olympiacos |
None |
 Fiorentina |
1 (2023) |
The Agia Sophia Stadium in Athens, known as the OPAP Arena for sponsorship reasons, is home of AEK Athens, one of Olympiacos' local rivals. The stadium opened in September 2022,[4] and has a capacity of 31,100.[5] The match will be the eighth single-leg UEFA club final to be played in Greece, having hosted three European Cup/Champions League finals (in 1983, 1994 and 2007), three Cup Winners' Cup finals (in 1971, 1973 and 1987).
Host selection
On 21 June 2022, UEFA opened the bidding process for the final, which was held in parallel with that of the 2025 final. Interested bidders could bid for either one or both of the finals. The proposed venues had to include natural grass and be ranked as a UEFA category four stadium, with a gross capacity of between 30,000 and 50,000 preferred. The bidding timeline was as follows:[2]
- 21 June 2022: Applications formally invited
- 31 August 2022: Closing date for registering intention to bid
- 7 September 2022: Bid requirements made available to bidders
- 3 November 2022: Submission of preliminary bid dossier
- 23 February 2023: Submission of final bid dossier
- 28 June 2023: Appointment of host
The UEFA Executive Committee appointed the Agia Sophia Stadium as the host during their meeting in Nyon, Switzerland, on 28 June 2023. As the stadium is new and has never been operated by the club for international competitions, the venue is subject to an observation period until November 2023 for matches played in UEFA club competitions and UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying. Should the venue meet the requirements, the appointment will be officially confirmed in December 2023.[6]
Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away).
| Olympiacos |
Round | Fiorentina | ||||||
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| Europa League | Europa Conference League | |||||||
| Opponent | Agg. | 1st leg | 2nd leg | Qualifying phase (EL, ECL) | Opponent | Agg. | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
 Genk |
2–1 | 1–0 (H) | 1–1 (A) | Third qualifying round | Bye | |||
 Čukarički |
6–1 | 3–1 (H) | 3–0 (A) | Play-off round |  Rapid Wien |
2–1 | 0–1 (A) | 2–0 (H) |
| Opponent | Result | Group stage (EL, ECL) | Opponent | Result | ||||
 SC Freiburg |
2–3 (H) | Matchday 1 | Genk |
2–2 (A) | ||||
| TSC |
2–2 (A) | Matchday 2 |  Ferencváros |
2–2 (H) | ||||
 West Ham United |
2–1 (H) | Matchday 3 | Čukarički |
6–0 (H) | ||||
| West Ham United |
0–1 (A) | Matchday 4 | Čukarički |
1–0 (A) | ||||
| SC Freiburg |
0–5 (A) | Matchday 5 | Genk |
2–1 (H) | ||||
| TSC |
5–2 (H) | Matchday 6 | Ferencváros |
1–1 (A) | ||||
| Group A third place | Final standings | Group F winners | ||||||
| Europa Conference League | ||||||||
| Opponent | Agg. | 1st leg | 2nd leg | Knockout phase | Opponent | Agg. | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Ferencváros |
2–0 | 1–0 (H) | 1–0 (A) | Knockout round play-offs | Bye | |||
 Maccabi Tel Aviv |
7–5 | 1–4 (H) | 6–1 (a.e.t.) (A) | Round of 16 | Maccabi Haifa |
5–4 | 4–3 (A) | 1–1 (H) |
 Fenerbahçe |
3–3 (3–2 p) | 3–2 (H) | 0–1 (a.e.t.) (A) | Quarter-finals |  Viktoria Plzeň |
2–0 | 0–0 (A) | 2–0 (a.e.t.) (H) |
| Aston Villa |
6–2 | 4–2 (A) | 2–0 (H) | Semi-finals | Club Brugge |
4–3 | 3–2 (H) | 1–1 (A) |
Identity
The original identity of the 2024 UEFA Europa Conference League final was unveiled at the group stage draw on 1 September 2023.[7]
Ticketing
The stadium has a capacity of 32,500 and 27,100 were made available of which 21,000 were on sale to the general public with each club in the final receiving an allocation of 9,000 tickets each.[8]
Details
The "home" team (for administrative purposes) was determined by an additional draw held after the quarter-final and semi-final draws.
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Assistant referees:[1]
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Match rules[9]
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- "OPAP Arena". AEK Athens F.C. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
- "Lisbon to host UEFA Women's Champions League final in 2025". Union of European Football Associations. 28 June 2023. Retrieved 28 June 2023.
- UEFA.com (1 September 2023). "2024 UEFA Europa League and UEFA Europa Conference League final identities revealed | Inside UEFA". UEFA.com. Retrieved 2 September 2023.
- Calcutt, Robert (9 April 2024). "12k fans for each side in Europa League final and 25k fans at 90k Wembley". talkSPORT. Retrieved 27 May 2024.
- "Regulations of the UEFA Europa Conference League, 2023/24 Season". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 1 May 2022. Retrieved 10 May 2022.