AFFA Official Assigned To Qualifying Match Of UEFA Conference League
Date
7/22/2024 5:24:14 AM
(MENAFN- AzerNews)
UEFA has appointed head of AFFA's Match Operation Department
Emin Jafarov as the UEFA delegate of the Maribor
(Slovenia)-Universitatea Craiova (Romania) match,
Azernews reports.
The match will be played on July 25 at Ljudski stadium
(22:30,Baku time.) within the second qualifying round of the UEFA
Conference League. The main referee of the match will be Danish
Mads Kristoffersen.
The UEFA Conference League is an annual football competition
organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) for
eligible European football clubs. It is the third tier of
continental club football in Europe, behind the second-tier Europa
League, and the first-tier Champions League.
The competition is primarily contested by teams from
lower-ranked UEFA member associations. No teams qualify directly to
the group stage, with 10 teams eliminated in the Europa League
play-offs and the rest coming from the Conference League
qualifiers.
The winners of the competition are awarded a position in the
Europa League the following season, unless they qualify for the
Champions League.
The 2024–25 UEFA Conference League is the fourth season of the
UEFA Conference League, Europe's tertiary club football tournament
organised by UEFA.
This will be the first UEFA Conference League played under a new
format involving a 36-team league stage.
The new format also does not allow teams to transfer from the
Europa League to the Conference League knockout stage, and thus
Conference League winners (Olympiacos in the 2023–24 edition)
cannot defend their title. From this season, the competition is
renamed to UEFA Conference League from the UEFA Europa Conference
League.
The final will be played in Stadion Wrocław in Wroclaw, Poland.
The winners of the tournament will automatically qualify for the
2025–26 UEFA Europa League league stage, unless they qualify for
the 2025–26 UEFA Champions League through their league
performance.
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Laman Ismayilova is AzerNews' staff journalist, follow her on
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