2016–17 UEFA Europa League

46th season of Europe ‘s secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA
International football competition
The 2016–17 UEFA Europa League was the 46th season of Europe ‘s secondary cabaret football tournament organised by UEFA, and the eighth season since it was renamed from the UEFA Cup to the UEFA Europa League. The final was played between Ajax and Manchester United at the Friends Arena in Solna, Sweden. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Manchester United beat Ajax 2–0 to win their first championship. [ 4 ] With this victory, they became the one-fifth club – after Juventus, Ajax, Bayern Munich and Chelsea – to have won all three major european trophies ( european Champion Clubs ‘ Cup/UEFA Champions League, UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League, and the now-defunct Cup Winners ‘ Cup ). [ 5 ]

Reading: 2016–17 UEFA Europa League

Manchester United qualified for the 2017–18 UEFA Champions League, and besides earned the right to play against the winners of the 2016–17 UEFA Champions League, Real Madrid, in the 2017 UEFA Super Cup. As the title holders, Sevilla qualified for the 2016–17 UEFA Champions League. Winning the last three tournaments, Sevilla were ineffective to defend their titles after reaching the rival ‘s hard stage, and were eliminated by Leicester City in the round of 16 .

Association team allotment [edit ]

A sum of 188 teams from 54 of the 55 UEFA penis associations were expected to participate in the 2016–17 UEFA Europa League ( the exception being Kosovo, whose engagement was not accepted in their beginning attack as UEFA members ). The association ranking based on the UEFA country coefficients was used to determine the number of participating teams for each association : [ 6 ]
The UEFA Executive Committee approved in December 2014 changes to the rewards given according to the Respect Fair Play rank, and starting from the 2016–17 season, the three Fair Play berths were no longer allocated to the Europa League. [ 8 ]

Association rank [edit ]

For the 2016–17 UEFA Champions League, the associations were allocated places according to their 2015 UEFA area coefficients, which took into bill their performance in european competitions from 2010–11 to 2014–15. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] apart from the allocation based on the country coefficients, associations could have extra teams participating in the Europa League, as noted below :

( CL ) – Additional teams transferred from Champions League
( EL ) – Vacated berth due to Europa League title holders playing in Champions League

Notes

^Kosovo (KOS): [11] UEFA decided that their domestic cup winners could participate in the 2016–17 UEFA Europa League only if they could meet licensing criteria under article 15 of the UEFA Club Licensing & Financial Fair Play regulations, which would be confirmed following the assessment made by the UEFA administration within the deadline of 31 May 2016.[12] However, Kosovo’s entry, [13][14]Kosovo became a UEFA member on 3 May 2016.UEFA decided that their domestic cup winners could participate in the 2016–17 UEFA Europa League only if they could meet licensing criteria under article 15 of the UEFA Club Licensing & Financial Fair Play regulations, which would be confirmed following the assessment made by the UEFA administration within the deadline of 31 May 2016.However, Kosovo’s entry, Prishtina (as the winners of the 2015–16 Kosovar Cup ), was denied by UEFA in June due to the club failing licensing requirements, and also because the club could not provide a suitable stadium and UEFA did not allow them to play their home matches in a foreign country.

distribution [edit ]

In the default option access number, Sevilla enter the third base qualify round off ( as the seventh-placed team of the 2015–16 La Liga ). [ 6 ] [ 15 ] however, since they qualified for the Champions League as the Europa League title holders, the spot which they qualified for in the Europa League one-third qualifying cycle is vacated, and the follow changes to the default allocation system are made : [ 16 ] [ 17 ]

The domestic cup winners of association 18 (Cyprus) are promoted from the second qualifying round to the third qualifying round.
The domestic cup winners of associations 27 and 28 (Serbia and Slovenia) are promoted from the first qualifying round to the second qualifying round.

Teams entering in this round

Teams advancing from previous round

Teams transferred from Champions League

First qualifying round
(96 teams)

26 domestic cup winners from associations 29–54
35 domestic league runners-up from associations 18–53 (except Liechtenstein)
35 domestic league third-placed teams from associations 16–51 (except Liechtenstein)

Second qualifying round
(66 teams)

10 domestic cup winners from associations 19–28
2 domestic league runners-up from associations 16–17
6 domestic league fourth-placed teams from associations 10–15

48 winners from first qualifying round

Third qualifying round
(58 teams)

6 domestic cup winners from associations 13–18
9 domestic league third-placed teams from associations 7–15
5 domestic league fourth-placed teams from associations 5–9
3 domestic league fifth-placed teams from associations 4–6 (League Cup winners for France)
3 domestic league sixth-placed teams from associations 1–3 (League Cup winners for England)
−1 Europa League title holders

33 winners from second qualifying round

Play-off round
(44 teams)

29 winners from third qualifying round

15 losers from Champions League third qualifying round

Group stage
(48 teams)

12 domestic cup winners from associations 1–12
1 domestic league fourth-placed team from association 4
3 domestic league fifth-placed teams from associations 1–3

22 winners from play-off round

10 losers from Champions League play-off round

Knockout phase
(32 teams)

12 group winners from group stage
12 group runners-up from group stage

8 third-placed teams from Champions League group stage

redistribution rules [edit ]

A Europa League place is vacated when a team qualifies for both the Champions League and the Europa League, or qualifies for the Europa League by more than one method acting. When a place is vacated, it is redistributed within the national association by the take after rules ( regulations Articles 3.03 and 3.04 ) : [ 6 ]

When the domestic cup winners (considered as the “highest-placed” qualifier within the national association with the latest starting round) also qualify for the Champions League, their Europa League place is vacated. As a result, the highest-placed team in the league which have not yet qualified for European competitions qualify for the Europa League, with the Europa League qualifiers which finish above them in the league moved up one “place”.
When the domestic cup winners also qualify for the Europa League through league position, their place through the league position is vacated. As a result, the highest-placed team in the league which have not yet qualified for European competitions qualify for the Europa League, with the Europa League qualifiers which finish above them in the league moved up one “place” if possible.
For associations where a Europa League place is reserved for the League Cup winners, they always qualify for the Europa League as the “lowest-placed” qualifier. If the League Cup winners have already qualified for European competitions through other methods, this reserved Europa League place is taken by the highest-placed team in the league which have not yet qualified for European competitions.

Teams [edit ]

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round off : [ 18 ] [ 19 ] [ 20 ]

CW: Cup winners
2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, etc.: League position
LC: League Cup winners
RW: Regular season winners
PW: End-of-season European competition play-offs winners
CL: Transferred from Champions League
- GS: Third-placed teams from group stage
- PO: Losers from play-off round
- Q3: Losers from third qualifying round

notably two teams took character in the competition that were not playing in their national crown division, Zürich ( 2nd tier ) and Hibernian ( 2nd tier ) .

Notes

The schedule of the competition was as follows ( all draws were held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, unless stated otherwise ). [ 41 ] [ 6 ] [ 42 ]

Phase

Round

Draw date

First leg

Second leg

Qualifying

First qualifying round

20 June 2016

30 June 2016

7 July 2016

Second qualifying round

14 July 2016

21 July 2016

Third qualifying round

15 July 2016

28 July 2016

4 August 2016

Play-off

Play-off round

5 August 2016

18 August 2016

25 August 2016

Group stage

Matchday 1

26 August 2016
(Monaco)

15 September 2016

Matchday 2

29 September 2016

Matchday 3

20 October 2016

Matchday 4

3 November 2016

Matchday 5

24 November 2016

Matchday 6

8 December 2016

Knockout phase

Round of 32

12 December 2016

16 February 2017

23 February 2017

Round of 16

24 February 2017

9 March 2017

16 March 2017

Quarter-finals

17 March 2017

13 April 2017

20 April 2017

Semi-finals

21 April 2017

4 May 2017

11 May 2017

Final

24 May 2017 at Friends Arena, Solna
Matches in the passing, play-off, and knockout rounds could besides be played on Tuesdays or Wednesdays rather of the even Thursdays due to scheduling conflicts .

Qualifying rounds [edit ]

In the qualify rounds and the play-off round, teams were divided into seeded and unseeded teams based on their 2016 UEFA cabaret coefficients, [ 43 ] [ 44 ] [ 45 ] and then drawn into two-legged home-and-away ties. Teams from the same association could not be drawn against each other .

first qualifying round [edit ]

The trace for the inaugural and second qualify turn were held on 20 June 2016. [ 46 ] [ 47 ] The first legs were played on 28 and 30 June, and the moment legs were played on 5, 6 and 7 July 2016 .

Notes

moment modify round [edit ]

The first legs were played on 14 July, and the second gear legs were played on 20 and 21 July 2016 .

Notes

a b order of legs reversed after original draw .

third base qualifying polish [edit ]

The describe for the one-third passing round off was held on 15 July 2016. [ 49 ] [ 50 ] The first legs were played on 28 July, and the second gear legs were played on 3 and 4 August 2016.

Play-off rung [edit ]

The draw for the play-off turn was held on 5 August 2016. [ 51 ] [ 52 ] The first legs were played on 17 and 18 August, and the second legs were played on 25 August 2016 .

Notes

a b order of legs reversed after original draw .

Group stage [edit ]

The draw for the group stage was held on 26 August 2016, at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco. [ 53 ] The 48 teams were drawn into twelve groups of four, with the limitation that teams from the like association could not be drawn against each other. For the draw, the teams were seeded into four pots based on their 2016 UEFA club coefficients. [ 43 ] [ 44 ] [ 45 ] In each group, teams play against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The group winners and runner-up progress to the polish of 32, where they are joined by the eight third-placed teams of the 2016–17 UEFA Champions League group stage. The matchdays are 15 September, 29 September, 20 October, 3 November, 24 November, and 8 December 2016. A entire of 21 national associations are represented in the group stage. Astana, Celta Vigo, Dundalk, Hapoel Be’er Sheva, Konyaspor, Mainz 05, Manchester United, Nice, Olympiacos, Osmanlıspor, Sassuolo, Southampton and Zorya Luhansk made their debut appearances in the UEFA Europa League group stage ( although Celta Vigo and Olympiacos had appeared in the UEFA Cup group degree and Manchester United and Olympiacos had already competed in the UEFA Europa League smasher phase after a third gear set in the UEFA Champions League group phase ). [ 54 ]
AnderlechtStandardGentGenkAjaxFeyenoordAZ 2016–17 UEFA Europa League group stage.
Red: Group A; location of Benelux teams of thegroup stage. red : Group A ; Green : Group C ; Dark Green : Group D ; Pink : Group F ; Blue : Group G ; orange : Group H .

Tiebreakers

The teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If two or more teams are equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria are applied in the order given to determine the rankings (regulations Article 16.01):[6]

higher number of points obtained in the group matches played among the teams in question;
superior goal difference from the group matches played among the teams in question;
higher number of goals scored in the group matches played among the teams in question;
higher number of goals scored away from home in the group matches played among the teams in question;
if, after having applied criteria 1 to 4, teams still have an equal ranking, criteria 1 to 4 are reapplied exclusively to the matches between the teams in question to determine their final rankings. If this procedure does not lead to a decision, criteria 6 to 12 apply;
superior goal difference in all group matches;
higher number of goals scored in all group matches;
higher number of away goals scored in all group matches;
higher number of wins in all group matches;
higher number of away wins in all group matches;
lower disciplinary points total based only on yellow and red cards received in all group matches (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
higher club coefficient.

Group A [edit ]

Group B [edit ]

Group C [edit ]

Group D [edit ]

Group E [edit ]

Group F [edit ]

Group G [edit ]

Group H [edit ]

Group I [edit ]

Group J [edit ]

Group K [edit ]

Group L [edit ]

Knockout phase [edit ]

In the knockout phase, teams play against each other over two legs on a home-and-away basis, except for the one-match final. The mechanism of the draw for each turn is as follows :

In the draw for the round of 32, the twelve group winners and the four third-placed teams from the Champions League group stage with the better group records are seeded, and the twelve group runners-up and the other four third-placed teams from the Champions League group stage are unseeded. The seeded teams are drawn against the unseeded teams, with the seeded teams hosting the second leg. Teams from the same group or the same association cannot be drawn against each other.
In the draws for the round of 16 onwards, there are no seedings, and teams from the same group or the same association can be drawn against each other.

bracket [edit ]

Round of 32 [edit ]

The draw for the round of 32 was held on 12 December 2016. [ 55 ] The first gear legs were played on 16 February, and the second legs were played on 22 and 23 February 2017 .

Round of 16 [edit ]

The draw for the attack of 16 was held on 24 February 2017. [ 56 ] The first legs were played on 9 March, and the second legs were played on 16 March 2017 .
The puff for the quarter-finals was held on 17 March 2017. [ 57 ] The first legs were played on 13 April, and the second legs were played on 20 April 2017 .
The draw for the semi-finals was held on 21 April 2017. [ 58 ] The first legs were played on 3 and 4 May, and the second legs were played on 11 May 2017 .

final [edit ]

The final was played on 24 May 2017 at Friends Arena in Solna, Sweden. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 59 ] The “ dwelling ” team ( for administrative purposes ) was determined by an extra draw held after the semi-final tie .

Statistics [edit ]

Statistics exclude qualifying rounds and play-off circle .

clear goalscorers [edit ]

top assists [edit ]

Squad of the temper [edit ]

The UEFA technical survey group selected the come 18 players as the team of the tournament. [ 63 ]

musician of the season [edit ]

A new UEFA Europa League Player of the Season prize was introduced for the 2016–17 season. [ 64 ] Votes were cast by coaches of the 48 teams in the group stage, in concert with 55 journalists selected by the european Sports Media ( ESM ) group, representing each of UEFA ‘s member associations. The coaches were not allowed to vote for players from their own teams. Jury members selected their top three players, with the first gear receive five points, the second three and the third base one. The short list of the top three players were announced on 4 August 2017. [ 65 ] The award achiever was announced and presented to during the 2017–18 UEFA Europa League group stage draw in Monaco on 25 August 2017. [ 66 ]