While the Champions League played 76 qualifying matches and the Europa League 44, the Conference League played 185. This is where most of European football's summer actually happens - 135 clubs, from Faroese islands to the Caucasus, in five weeks.
The second round is the monster
Clubs in each round. The second round swells with clubs dropping out of the Champions League and Europa League paths - 98 clubs, 305 goals, eight shoot-outs.
Total goals and the average per match. The 305 goals of the second round are more than the Champions League and Europa League qualifying scored together.
Thirteen comebacks, one of them absurd
Zalgiris Vilnius7-2Dinamo TbilisiBeaten 3-0 in Tbilisi, Zalgiris Vilnius scored seven at home - the biggest scoreline of the entire European summer.
Hibernian4-1KF MalishevaTwo goals down from Kosovo, Hibernian needed 90 minutes at Easter Road to turn it around.
FC Nordsjælland6-0GAIS GöteborgA 1-0 defeat in Sweden answered with six at home - the joint-heaviest win of the round.
Apollon Limassol2-4SK Brann Bergen
Brann lost the first leg at home and still won the tie away in Cyprus.Also among the thirteen: FK Jablonec, GKS Katowice, Shkendija Tetovo, Ilves Tampere and Dinamo Minsk, the last two on penalties.
The calendar from here
- 09.07First qualifying round52 clubs, 129 goals, three shoot-outs.
- 23.07Second qualifying round98 clubs and 305 goals in a single round.
- 06.08Third qualifying round60 clubs, two ties decided in extra time.
- 21.08Play-off roundThe last round before the league phase - the ties reach the calendar once the draw is complete.
This is the competition where a country coefficient is built one summer win at a time - most of the federations ranked outside the top 20 earn the bulk of their points right here. Click any club name above to see its own page: matches, half-time scores and goal-timing charts.