Europa League 2018/19

Europa League draw in full

Group A: Bayer Leverkusen (Ger), Ludogorets Razgrad (Bul), FC Zurich (Swi), AEK Larnaca (Cyp)

Group B: Salzburg (Aut), CELTIC, RB Leipzig (Ger), Rosenborg (Nor)

Group C: Zenit St Petersburg (Rus), FC Copenhagen (Den), Bordeaux (Fra), Slavia Prague (Cze)

Group D: Anderlecht (Bel), Fenerbahce (Tur), Dinamo Zagreb (Cro), Spartak Trnava (Svk)

Group E: ARSENAL, Sporting Lisbon (Por), Qarabag (Aze), Vorskla Poltava (Ukr)

Group F: Olympiakos (Gre), AC Milan (Ita), Real Betis (Spa), Dudelange (Lux)

Group G: Villarreal (Spa), Rapid Vienna (Aut), Spartak Moscow (Rus), RANGERS

Group H: Lazio (Ita), Marseille (Fra), Eintracht Frankfurt (Ger), Apollon Limassol (Cyp)

Group I: Besiktas (Tur), KRC Genk (Bel), Malmo (Swe), Sarpsborg (Nor)

Group J: Sevilla (Spa), Krasnodar (Rus), Standard Liege (Bel), Akhisar Belediyespor (Tur)

Group K: Dynamo Kiev (Ukr), Astana (Kaz), Rennes (Fra), Jablonec (Cze)

Group L: CHELSEA, PAOK Saloniki (Gre), BATE Borisov (Blr), Vidi (Hun)

The 2018–19 UEFA Europa League is the 48th season of Europe's secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 10th season since it was renamed from the UEFA Cup to the UEFA Europa League.

The final will be played at the Olympic Stadium in Baku, Azerbaijan. The winners of the 2018–19 UEFA Europa League will earn the right to play against the winners of the 2018–19 UEFA Champions League in the 2019 UEFA Super Cup. They will also automatically qualify for the 2019–20 UEFA Champions League group stage, and if they have already qualified through their league performance, the berth reserved will be given to the third-placed team of the 2018–19 Ligue 1, the 5th-ranked association according to next season's access list.

Clubs would respect the competition more if UEFA gave it own competition a little more respect.  It took them decades to allocate 1 CL place and even that is halfheartedly.  There is a high chance that team that wins will get a place via its domestic league position.  But that 1 automatic place should remain with the competition given to the finalist or losing semi finalist.

Nice draw for the Rangers down in Spain. Going in without Morelas and Flanagan I'm happy to see them leave with a point.

Nice draw for the Rangers down in Spain. Going in without Morelas and Flanagan I'm happy to see them leave with a point.

Was a decent game tbf, although Villareal should of won it late on, blew two good chances to win the game.

Clubs would respect the competition more if UEFA gave it own competition a little more respect.  It took them decades to allocate 1 CL place and even that is halfheartedly.

To be fair up until the name change, the UEFA Cup was seen as a bigger trophy than it is now under the moniker of the Europa League.
Can tell you now the competition was well respected when we last won it in Dortmund in 2001.

Nice draw for the Rangers down in Spain. Going in without Morelas and Flanagan I'm happy to see them leave with a point.

Superb result that. Thought they'd tank.

Stevie has done well so far with not the best squad . Clearly the players he has got are responding to him and I thought they looked good tonight,

I thought Rangers looked decent through they gave up goals are very poor times in the match (first minute of the game and a minute right after leveling the game at 1-1) but they fought back  to get a good result on the road. Kent had a couple nice runs with the ball but wasn't very impressive. Never knew Kyle Lafferty was still playing, remember him in Italy getting sold because he was too much of womanizer

Never knew Kyle Lafferty was still playing, remember him in Italy getting sold because he was too much of womanizer

Yeah Steven brought him back to the club, I presume because Kenny Miller wasn't available!!

Celtic effectively out after the 1st leg.

Must be frustrating for the fans, too good for their own league yet always come up short against a half decent European team.

Celtic effectively out after the 1st leg.

Must be frustrating for the fans, too good for their own league yet always come up short against a half decent European team.

Much like Liverpool under Rodgers.

Haha never change Arsenal.

Hahaha F**k Arsenal, their fans are unbearable, haven't been good in forever yet they are still so arrogant and obnoxious.

After United, they're the team I love seeing lose the most (excluding this season as obviously City losing is no.1).

Bye bye Arsenal.

Chavs have got a decent draw although a trip to Prague before they play us can’t be too bad.

Arsenal win 4-2  Chelsea currently in extra time at 2-2 on aggregate . Watching these games we are absolutely light years ahead of both of them

Arsenal V Chelsea it is then some major football coming up bring it on.

Great 72 hours for English football. 

First time a country has had all 4 european finalists!

Looks like it will be Arsenal and us supporting each other next month.

Looks like it will be Arsenal and us supporting each other next month.

Hmmm, do I want to see 5 English teams in the CL and Arsenal to win it, or 4 English teams in the CL and Chelsea to win it?

Yeah but that happened last time we won Istanbul and suddenly we manage to school the rest of the top English teams to getting to finals and for a few years they got to semi's and finals.   We got to the final last season and first there this season and now we have 4 English teams.

Hmmm, do I want to see 5 English teams in the CL and Arsenal to win it, or 4 English teams in the CL and Chelsea to win it?

I always respected Arsenal more than plastic Chavs.  Imagine 5 English teams and no sight of Man United 

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Us v spurs in the cl final. Arse v chavs in the el final. Come on uefa let's have the brexit cup final between united and city

When the City of Manchester unite together to watch England's football teams battle it out for the Europa League and Champion's League Trophies... 

Bottlers.

Liverpool
Tottenham
Chelsea
Arsenal

All into the Final's. All top 6. Makes it look like a mighty fine Premier League this season.. but look at Liverpool the anomaly: some 20 points ahead of the other 3!!

Clearly superior.

WE ARE LIVERPOOL!! 

Arsenal through to the final quite easily but Chelsea really made hard work of doing the same.
Will be an interesting final, one team with a good attack but sh*t defence versus another with decent defence and midfield but sh*t attack.
Both are miles behind us and City.

Wow ,arsenal and chelsea fans getting well fu**ed over,6,000 tickets each,no direct flights, 4 day train to the arse end of europe.gotta love that football family.Oh yeah Mikhitaryan might not be allowed to go cos he's Armenian,https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/48222137.What a F***ing shitshow.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/48403312. I wonder if anyone can actually hold uefa to account for this or have the brown paper bags been passed out to all the "right"people.

Here they are selling tickets to this for as low as 13 pounds. 

Anyone watching the final then?

Weird atmosphere in the stadium. Playing thousands of miles away in a country that can't cope with the travel demands was a crazy decision from UEFA.

Sadly won't be the last one they make I'd imagine.

Weird atmosphere.

Definitely. Massive gaps round the pitch to the fans too.
Am sure the grass is nice, but don't think that'll be much consolation to people who tried to get to the game, and couldn't.
The EUFA guys with their brown envelopes tucked away don't care I'm sure.
Depressing how such terrible decisions can be made for such big games.

Definitely. Massive gaps round the pitch to the fans too.
Am sure the grass is nice, but don't think that'll be much consolation to people who tried to get to the game, and couldn't.
The EUFA guys with their brown envelopes tucked away don't care I'm sure.
Depressing how such terrible decisions can be made for such big games.

Yep corrupt as F**k.

In saying that though the Arsenal and Chelsea fans that have went don't seem that up for creating much noise either.

Strangest final I've seen in quite a while.

Anyone watching the final then?

Weird atmosphere in the stadium. Playing thousands of miles away in a country that can't cope with the travel demands was a crazy decision from UEFA.

Sadly won't be the last one they make I'd imagine.

Yes, watching it and agree the atmosphere is weird, more like a friendly than a Europa League Final! As a neutral I can’t say I’m enjoying it, bit bored to be honest! As for UEFA, I agree a crazy decision, but you have to ask, why! I think most of us know the answer to that one, time for big changes I think

Well that’s quite possibly the worst half to a final I can recall no atmosphere but that was to be expected cu*ts at UEFA should hold their heads in shame but they wont .Also camera looks like it’s filming from the moon piss poor camera work

F**k off Chelsea

This Arsenal team are absolute gash

Arsenal are F***ing awful!!!

Typical spineless Gunners.

Holy sh*t - this is the worst performance from arsenal I’ve ever seen.

Chelsea pen

Nice goal from the arse

Nice goal from the arse

And then they concede straight away

Wow, Arsenal have such a bad defence

4-1 now, Arsenal have been woeful, started the better team but couldn’t sustain it.

My brother and dad support arsenal - I just feel sorry for them having to watch this sh*te

Arsenal are about as useful as a chocolate teapot tonight, sad to see!

Probably for the bet Arsenal lost, if they’d won then they’d have been in the Champions League next season. For Arsenal, that’s exactly what they need for the extra money and appeal to top players. Can see them having another mediocre season again now they are still playing Thursdays.

Plus I can’t stand that clueless charlatan Emery. Amazed he didn’t do his usual half time subs.

Well that’s the joking cup out the way onto the main show now .

Easily the worst European Final I've watched in quite a while.

Easily the worst European Final I've watched in quite a while.

Quite simply because one team didn’t even turn up.

Easily the worst European Final I've watched in quite a while.

I hope that can be topped on Saturday where we destroy Spurs 5-0 and they having 0 shots!!!

Arsenal have so much to do in the summer

Funny how Arsenal fans think Sokratis is better than Matip 

This competition was so much better when it was proper knock out ties.

The UEFA Cup was more prestigious

It was like a pre season friendly awful bloody game. Just hope the lack of intensity wasn't because of the break.

It was like a pre season friendly awful bloody game. Just hope the lack of intensity wasn't because of the break.

I think we'll see a completely different quality on Saturday, but I think the scoreline might be similar, to us :-)