International football competition
The 2021–22 UEFA Europa League is the 51st temper of Europe ‘s junior-grade club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 13th temper since it was renamed from the UEFA Cup to the UEFA Europa League.
The final will be played at the Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán in Seville, Spain. It was in the first place scheduled to be played at the Puskás Aréna in Budapest, Hungary. [ 1 ] however, ascribable to the delay and move of the 2020 final, the final hosts were shifted back a year, with Budapest rather hosting the 2023 concluding. [ 2 ] The winners of the tournament will automatically qualify for the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League group stage, and besides earn the right to play against the winners of the 2021–22 UEFA Champions League in the 2022 UEFA Super Cup. This temper is the beginning since 1999–2000 ( the foremost season after the dissolution of the UEFA Cup Winners ‘ Cup ) where three major european club competitions ( UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, and the newly-created UEFA Europa Conference League ) take station, and the first gear instantaneously where the Europa League ( then the UEFA Cup ) is the junior-grade rival of the three. As a consequence, major changes to the format of the Europa League were made. The number of teams in the group stage are reduced from 48 to 32 teams, and the issue of teams participating in qualifying are besides reduced significantly. The beginning round of the smasher phase besides now involves only the group stagecoach runner-up and the Champions League third-placed teams, with the group winners directly advancing to the round of golf of 16. [ 3 ] As the title holders of the Europa League, Villarreal qualified for the 2021–22 UEFA Champions League. They are unable to defend their championship as they advanced to the Champions League hard degree. On 24 June 2021, UEFA approved the proposal to abolish the away goals rule in all UEFA club competitions, which had been used since 1965. consequently, if in a two-legged tie, two teams score the lapp total of aggregate goals, the winner of tie will not be decided by the total of away goals scored by each team, but always by 30 minutes of extra time, and if the two teams score the like issue of goals in extra clock time, the achiever will be decided by a penalty shoot-out. [ 4 ]
Association team allotment [edit ]
A entire of 58 teams from between 31 and 36 of the 55 UEFA member associations are expected to participate in the 2021–22 UEFA Europa League. Among them, 16 associations have teams directly qualifying for the Europa League, while for the other 39 associations that do not have any teams directly qualifying, between 15 and 20 of them may have teams playing after being transferred from the Champions League ( the only member association which can not have a participant is Liechtenstein, which does not organise a domestic league, and can alone enter their cup winner into the Europa Conference League given their association ranking ). The association ranking based on the UEFA country coefficients is used to determine the number of participating teams for each association : [ 5 ]
- Associations 1–5 each have two teams qualify.
- Associations 6–15 each have one team qualify.
- As the UEFA Europa Conference League title holders’ berth is not used this season, association 16 have one of their teams promoted from the Europa Conference League to the Europa League, so they also have one team qualify.
- Moreover, 37 teams eliminated from the 2021–22 UEFA Champions League are transferred to the Europa League.
- In future seasons, the title holders of the UEFA Europa Conference League will be given an additional entry in the Europa League. However, this berth is not used for this season as the first edition of the UEFA Europa Conference League has not been held.
Association rank [edit ]
For the 2021–22 UEFA Europa League, the associations are allocated places according to their 2020 UEFA country coefficients, which takes into account their performance in european competitions from 2015–16 to 2019–20. [ 6 ] apart from the allotment based on the nation coefficients, associations may have extra teams participating in the Europa League, as noted below :
- ( UCL ) – Additional teams transferred from the UEFA Champions League
distribution [edit ]
The follow is the access number for this season. [ 7 ] In the default option access list, the title holders of the Europa Conference League qualify for the group stage. however, since this berth is not used for this temper, the surveil changes to the access list were made :
- The cup winners of association 7 (Russia) enter the group stage instead of the play-off round.
- The cup winners of association 13 (Denmark) enter the play-off round instead of the third qualifying round.
- The cup winners of association 16 (Cyprus) enter the third qualifying round instead of the second qualifying round of the Europa Conference League.
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| Play-off round (20 teams) |
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| Group stage (32 teams) |
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| Preliminary knockout round (16 teams) |
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| Knockout phase (16 teams) |
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Teams [edit ]
The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the position of its starting round :
- CW: Cup winners
- 4th, 5th, etc.: League position of the previous season
- UCL: Transferred from the Champions League
- GS: Third-placed teams from the group stage
- CH/LP PO: Losers from the play-off round (Champions/League Path)
- CH/LP Q3: Losers from the third qualifying round (Champions/League Path)
- CH/LP Q2: Losers from the second qualifying round (Champions/League Path)
The third qualify round is divided into Champions Path ( CH ) and Main Path ( MP ). CC: 2021 UEFA club coefficients. [ 8 ]
schedule [edit ]
The schedule of the competition is as follows. [ 9 ] Matches are scheduled for Thursdays apart from the final, which takes invest on a Wednesday, though exceptionally can take invest on Tuesdays or Wednesdays due to scheduling conflicts. Scheduled kick-off times starting from the group phase are 18:45 ( alternatively of 18:55 previously ) and 21:00 CEST/CET, though exceptionally can take place at 16:30 ascribable to geographic reasons. [ 10 ] All disembowel originate at 13:00 or 13:30 CEST/CET and are held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. On 16 July 2021, UEFA announced that the group stage draw will be held in Istanbul, Turkey. [ 11 ]
| Phase | Round | Draw date | First leg | Second leg |
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| Qualifying | Third qualifying round | 19 July 2021 | 5 August 2021 | 12 August 2021 |
| Play-offs | 2 August 2021 | 19 August 2021 | 26 August 2021 | |
| Group stage | Matchday 1 | 27 August 2021 | 16 September 2021 | |
| Matchday 2 | 30 September 2021 | |||
| Matchday 3 | 21 October 2021 | |||
| Matchday 4 | 4 November 2021 | |||
| Matchday 5 | 25 November 2021 | |||
| Matchday 6 | 9 December 2021 | |||
| Knockout phase | Knockout round play-offs | 13 December 2021 | 17 February 2022 | 24 February 2022 |
| Round of 16 | 25 February 2022 | 10 March 2022 | 17 March 2022 | |
| Quarter-finals | 18 March 2022 | 7 April 2022 | 14 April 2022 | |
| Semi-finals | 28 April 2022 | 5 May 2022 | ||
| Final | 18 May 2022 at Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán, Seville | |||
Qualifying rounds [edit ]
third base qualifying round [edit ]
The hook for the third base qualify round was held on 19 July 2021, 13:00 CEST. [ 12 ] The first legs were played on 3 and 5 August, and the second legs were played on 10 and 12 August 2021. The winners of the ties advanced to the play-off round. The losers were transferred to the Europa Conference League play-off round of their respective path .
Play-off round [edit ]
The draw for the play-off round was held on 2 August 2021, 13:00 CEST. [ 13 ] The first legs were played on 17, 18 and 19 August, and the irregular legs were played on 26 August 2021.
The winners of the ties advanced to the group stagecoach. The losers were transferred to the Europa Conference League group stage .
Group stage [edit ]
The draw for the group stage was held on 27 August 2021, 12:00 CEST ( 13:00 TRT ), in Istanbul, Turkey. [ 11 ] [ 14 ] The 32 teams were drawn into eight groups of four. For the withdraw, the teams were seeded into four pots, each of eight teams, based on their 2021 UEFA club coefficients. [ 8 ] Teams from the lapp affiliation could not be drawn into the like group. Prior to the draw, UEFA formed pairings of teams from the same association, including those play in the Europa Conference League group stage ( one pair for associations with two or three teams, two pairings for associations with four or five teams ), based on television receiver audiences, where one team was drawn into Groups A–D and another team was drawn into Groups E–H, so that the two teams would have different kick-off times. [ 15 ] The matches were played on 15–16 September, 30 September, 19–21 October, 4 November, 24–25 November, and 9 December 2021. The winners of each group advanced to the round of 16, while the runner-up advanced to the smasher round play-offs. The third-placed teams were transferred to the Europa Conference League hard round play-offs, while the fourth-placed teams were eliminated from european competitions for the temper. Brøndby and West Ham United made their debut appearances in the Europa League group stage ( although Brøndby had previously appeared in the UEFA Cup group stagecoach ) .
Group A [edit ]
Group B [edit ]
Group C [edit ]
- a b Head–to–head points : Spartak Moscow 6, Napoli 0 .
Group D [edit ]
Group E [edit ]
Group F [edit ]
Group G [edit ]
Group H [edit ]
Knockout phase [edit ]
In the smasher phase, teams play against each other over two legs on a home-and-away footing, except for the one-match final examination. The mechanism of the tie for each round is as follows :
- In the draw for the knockout round play-offs, the eight group runners-up were seeded, and the eight Champions League group third-placed teams were unseeded. The seeded teams were drawn against the unseeded teams, with the seeded teams hosting the second leg. Teams from the same association could not be drawn against each other.
- In the draw for the round of 16, the eight group winners are seeded, and the eight winners of the knockout round play-offs are unseeded. The seeded teams are drawn against the unseeded teams, with the seeded teams hosting the second leg. Teams from the same association cannot be drawn against each other.
- In the draws for the quarter-finals and semi-finals, there are no seedings, and teams from the same association can be drawn against each other. As the draws for the quarter-finals and semi-finals are held together before the quarter-finals are played, the identity of the quarter-final winners is not known at the time of the semi-final draw. A draw is also held to determine which semi-final winner is designated as the “home” team for the final (for administrative purposes as it is played at a neutral venue).
Knockout round play-offs [edit ]
The draw for the hard round play-offs was held on 13 December 2021, 13:00 CET. [ 16 ] The first leg will be played on 17 February, and the second legs will be played on 24 February 2022 .
Round of 16 [edit ]
The draw for the attack of 16 will be held on 25 February 2022, 13:00 CET. [ 17 ] The foremost leg will be played on 10 March, and the irregular leg will be played on 17 March 2022 .
The hook for the quarter-finals will be held on 18 March 2022, 13:30 CET. [ 18 ] The first branch will be played on 7 April, and the second branch will be played on 14 April 2022 .
The draw for the semi-finals will be held on 18 March 2022, 13:30 CET, after the quarter-final draw. [ 18 ] The first branch will be played on 28 April, and the second base leg will be played on 5 May 2022 .
final examination [edit ]
The final will be played on 18 May 2022 at the Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán in Seville. A draw will be held on 18 March 2022, after the quarter-final and semi-final draw, to determine the “ base ” team for administrative purposes. [ 18 ]
Statistics [edit ]
Statistics exclude qualifying rounds and play-off round .
top goalscorers [edit ]
top assists [edit ]
See besides [edit ]
References [edit ]
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