UEFA Europa League 2009–10

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This article documents a current UEFA Europa League season. Information may change as the event progresses.

2009–10 UEFA Europa League

Tournament details
Dates	2 July 2009 – 12 May 2010
Teams	48+8 (competition proper) 159 (qualifying)

The 2009–10 UEFA Europa League will be the first season of the UEFA Europa League, the competition previously known as UEFA Cup, which has been in existence for 39 years.^[1]

The final will be played at the HSH Nordbank Arena, home ground of Hamburger SV, in Hamburg, Germany.^[2]

[edit] Team allocation

A total of 193 teams from 53 UEFA associations are expected to participate in the 2009–10 UEFA Europa League. Countries are allocated places according to their UEFA league co-efficient.

The previous season's winners, Shakhtar Donetsk, would have been guaranteed a place in the group stage even if they did not obtain a qualifying place through their domestic league. However, as Shakhtar qualified for the UEFA Champions League, the original allocation places will be altered to compensate for the vacant title holder spot in the group stage. As this is the first edition of the Europa League, it was initially unknown whether UEFA would simply disregard the vacant Title Holder spot and rearrange entries so that one more team qualifies from the Play-off Round, or replace the Title Holders group stage place with that of the top ranked association's cup winner and move teams from lower rounds appropriately, as the regulations are unclear on this matter.^[3] The former setup was confirmed by the UEFA official list of participants, published on 16 June 2009.^[4]

Below is the qualification scheme as the Title Holder spot is not replaced:

• Associations 1-6 each enter three teams
• Associations 7-9 each enter four teams
• Associations 10-53 each enter three teams, except Liechtenstein, Andorra and San Marino, who enter one team each

[edit] Distribution

First qualifying round (46 teams)

• 14 domestic league runners-up from associations 37-51 (except Liechtenstein)
• 29 domestic league 3rd place teams from associations 22-51 (except Liechtenstein)
• 3 teams from the Fair Play initiative

Second qualifying round (80 teams)

• 23 winners from the first qualifying round
• 24 domestic cup winners from associations 30-53
• 18 domestic league runners-up from associations 19-36
• 6 domestic league 3rd place teams from associations 16-21
• 6 domestic league 4th place teams from associations 10-15
• 3 domestic league 5th place teams from associations 7-9

Third qualifying round (70 teams)

• 40 winners from the second qualifying round
• 12 domestic cup winners from associations 18-29
• 3 domestic league runners-up from associations 16-18
• 6 domestic league 3rd place teams from associations 10-15
• 3 domestic league 4th place teams from associations 7-9
• 3 5th place teams from associations 4-6 (inc. French League Cup winners)
• 3 6th place teams from associations 1-3

Play-off round (76 teams)

• 35 winners from the third qualifying round
• 17 domestic cup winners from associations 1-17
• 3 domestic league 3rd place teams from associations 7-9
• 3 domestic league 4th place teams from associations 4-6
• 3 domestic league 5th place teams from associations 1-3
• 15 losers from the UEFA Champions League 2009–10 third qualifying round

Group stage (48 teams)

• 38 winners from the play-off round
• 10 losers from the UEFA Champions League 2009–10 play-off round

Final phase (32 teams)

• 12 group winners from the group stage
• 12 group runners-up from the group stage
• 8 third-placed teams from the UEFA Champions League 2009–10 group stage

[edit] Teams

As the title holder, Shakhtar Donetsk, qualified for the UEFA Champions League, the original allocation places were altered to compensate for the vacant title holder spot in the group stage. No club will replace the Title Holder spot. As a result, the Swiss Cup winner and Bulgarian Cup winner (Sion and Litex Lovech, respectively), were moved from the third qualifying round to the Play-off round; the Cypriot Cup winner and Slovenian Cup winner (APOP and Interblock Ljubljana) were moved from the second qualifying round to the third, and the Andorran Cup winner, San Marino Cup winner, Irish league third-placed team and Macedonian league runner-up, (Santa Coloma, Juvenes/Dogana, Derry City and Milano) were moved from the first qualifying round to the second.^[4]

Round of 32
Group stage
Play-off round
Everton	Zenit St. Petersburg	Racing Genk
Aston Villa	CFR Cluj	AEK Athens
Villarreal	Dinamo Bucureşti	Teplice
Valencia	Benfica	Sion
Lazio	Nacional	Litex Lovech
Genoa	Heerenveen
Guingamp	Ajax
Toulouse	Heart of Midlothian
Werder Bremen	Trabzonspor
Hertha BSC	Vorskla Poltava
Amkar Perm
Third qualifying round
Fulham	PSV	CSKA Sofia	IFK Göteborg
Athletic Bilbao	Aberdeen	Vålerenga	Košice
Roma	Fenerbahçe	Fredrikstad	Lech Poznań
Lille	Metalist Kharkiv	Odense	Budapest Honvéd
Hamburg	Club Brugge	Austria Wien	Hajduk Split
Krylia Sovetov	PAOK	Vojvodina	APOP
Vaslui	Slovan Liberec	Hapoel Tel Aviv[5]	Interblock Ljubljana
Braga	Young Boys
Second qualifying round
Steaua Bucureşti	Sturm Graz	Skonto[6]	Naftan Novopolotsk
Paços de Ferreira	Red Star Belgrade	Slavija	Flora
NAC Breda	Sevojno	Sarajevo	Karabakh
Falkirk	Maccabi Netanya[5]	Sūduva	Flamurtari Vlorë
Galatasaray	Elfsborg	Kaunas	Gandzasar Kapan
Metalurh Donetsk	Žilina	Iskra-Stal	Tobol
Gent	Legia Warsaw	Dacia Chişinău	Crusaders
Larissa	Újpest	St. Patrick's Athletic	Bangor City
Sigma Olomouc	Rijeka	Derry City	HB
Basel	Omonia	Rabotnički	Differdange
Cherno More	Gorica	Milano	Sliema Wanderers
Tromsø	HJK Helsinki	KR	Petrovac
AaB	Honka	Dinamo Tbilisi	Santa Coloma
Brøndby	Liepājas Metalurgs[6]	Vaduz	Juvenes/Dogana
Rapid Wien
First qualifying round
Bnei Yehuda[5]	Zimbru Chişinău	Simurq Zaqatala	B36
Helsingborg	Sligo Rovers	Vllaznia	NSÍ
Spartak Trnava	Renova	Dinamo Tirana	Käerjéng
Polonia Warsaw	Keflavík	MIKA[7]	Grevenmacher
Haladás	Fram	Banants	Birkirkara
Slaven Belupo	Olimpi Rustavi	Irtysh	Valletta
Anorthosis	Zestaponi	Okzhetpes[8]	Budućnost
Rudar Velenje	Dinamo Minsk	Linfield	Sutjeska Nikšić
Lahti	MTZ-RIPO	Lisburn Distillery	Rosenborg[9]
Dinaburg[6]	Narva Trans	Llanelli	Randers[9]
Široki Brijeg[10]	Nõmme Kalju	The New Saints	Motherwell[9][11]
Vėtra	Inter Baku

[edit] Round dates

[edit] Qualifying rounds

[edit] First qualifying round

46 teams were eligible to participate in the first qualifying round. Teams with a coefficient of at least 1.200 were seeded: that is, all the teams from countries ranked 13-38.

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Group 1
Sutjeska Nikšić	1	MTZ-RIPO	1–1	9 July
Lahti	2	Dinamo Tirana	4–1	9 July
Grevenmacher	3	Vėtra	0–3	9 July
NSÍ Runavík	4	Rosenborg	0–3	9 July
Szombathelyi Haladás	5	Irtysh	1–0	9 July
Group 2
Sligo Rovers	6	Vllaznia	1–2	9 July
Olimpi Rustavi	7	B36 Tórshavn	2–0	9 July
Anorthosis	8	Käerjéng	5–0	9 July
Slaven Belupo	9	Birkirkara	1–0	9 July
Zimbru Chişinău	10	Okzhetpes	1–2	9 July
Group 3
Lisburn Distillery	11	Zestaponi	1–5	9 July
Helsingborg	12	MIKA	3–1	9 July
Valletta	13	Keflavík	3–0	9 July
Dinaburg	14	Nõmme Kalju	2–1	9 July
Budućnost	15	Polonia Warsaw	0–2	9 July
Group 4
Narva Trans	16	Rudar Velenje	0–3	9 July
Motherwell	17	Llanelli	0–1	9 July
Banants	18	Široki Brijeg	0–2	9 July
Spartak Trnava	19	Inter Baku	2–1	9 July
Group 5
Dinamo Minsk	20	Renova	2–1	9 July
Randers	21	Linfield	4–0	9 July
Simurq Zaqatala	22	Bnei Yehuda	0–1	9 July
Fram	23	The New Saints	2–1	9 July

MTZ-RIPO, Vėtra, Rosenborg, Rudar Velenje, Široki Brijeg and The New Saints were originally drawn to play the first leg at home, but their ties were reversed so that their opponents would host the first legs.

[edit] Second qualifying round

80 teams – consisting of 23 winners from the previous round and 57 directly qualified teams – are eligible to participate in the second qualifying round. The draw for the second qualifying round was made before the first qualifying round will be played, so the seeding used in the draw assumes that all the higher ranked sides from the first qualifying round are victorious. On this assumption, teams with a coefficient of at least 2.000 were seeded: these were the teams from countries ranked 7-27, and any teams with rankings of their own. Unranked teams from countries ranked 29-53 were not seeded. Two of the three teams from Finland (ranked 28) were seeded, but a third, Lahti, were not.

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Winners of Match 4	1	Karabakh	16 July	23 July
Paços de Ferreira	2	Winners of Match 10	16 July	23 July
Winners of Match 15	3	Juvenes/Dogana	16 July	23 July
Sturm Graz	4	Winners of Match 18	16 July	23 July
Basel	5	Santa Coloma	16 July	23 July
Honka	6	Bangor City	16 July	23 July
MŠK Žilina	7	Dacia Chişinău	16 July	23 July
Winners of Match 8	8	Petrovac	16 July	23 July
St Patrick's Athletic	9	Winners of Match 13	16 July	23 July
Omonia	10	HB	16 July	23 July
Gorica	11	Winners of Match 2	16 July	23 July
Sigma Olomouc	12	Winners of Match 23	16 July	23 July
Legia Warsaw	13	Winners of Match 7	16 July	23 July
Falkirk	14	Vaduz	16 July	23 July
Elfsborg	15	Winners of Match 5	16 July	23 July
Rapid Wien	16	Winners of Match 6	16 July	23 July
Naftan	17	Gent	16 July	23 July
Liepājas Metalurgs	18	Dinamo Tbilisi	16 July	23 July
Differdange	19	Rijeka	16 July	23 July
Sūduva	20	Winners of Match 21	16 July	23 July
Winners of Match 3	21	HJK Helsinki	16 July	23 July
Milano	22	Winners of Match 9	16 July	23 July
Winners of Match 20	23	Tromsø	16 July	23 July
KR	24	Larissa	16 July	23 July
Brøndby	25	Flora	16 July	23 July
Aalborg BK	26	Slavija	16 July	23 July
Steaua Bucureşti	27	Újpest	16 July	23 July
Metalurh Donetsk	28	Winners of Match 1	16 July	23 July
Rabotnički	29	Crusaders	16 July	23 July
Winners of Match 22	30	Winners of Match 14	16 July	23 July
NAC Breda	31	Gandzasar Kapan	16 July	23 July
Cherno More	32	Iskra-Stal	16 July	23 July
FBK Kaunas	33	Sevojno	16 July	23 July
Flamurtari Vlorë	34	Winners of Match 17	16 July	23 July
Winners of Match 11	35	Winners of Match 12	16 July	23 July
Skonto	36	Derry City	16 July	23 July
Sliema Wanderers	37	Maccabi Netanya	16 July	23 July
Tobol	38	Galatasaray	16 July	23 July
Winners of Match 16	39	Red Star Belgrade	16 July	23 July
Sarajevo	40	Winners of Match 19	16 July	23 July

[edit] Third qualifying round

The following 30 teams are eligible to participate in the third qualifying round. Also entering are the 40 winners from the previous round.

[edit] Play-off round

The following 26 teams are eligible to participate in the Play-off round. Also entering are the 35 winners from the previous round along with the 15 losers from the UEFA Champions League 2009–10 third qualifying round (10 champions and 5 non-champions)

[edit] Group stage

The following teams are eligible to participate in the group stage:

• 10 losers from the UEFA Champions League 2009–10 play-off round
• 38 winners from the play-off round

The group stage of the competition will consist of 12 groups of four teams.

During this stage of the tournament, matches will feature five on-field officials - with two additional officials monitoring play around the penalty box as part of a FIFA-sanctioned experiment.^[12]

[edit] Knockout phase

The following teams are expected to participate in the knockout phase:

• 12 group winners from the group stage
• 12 group runners-up from the group stage
• 8 third-placed teams from the UEFA Champions League 2009–10 group stage

The group winners, along with the four better third-ranked teams from the Champions League, will be drawn against the group runners-up and the other four third-ranked teams.

[edit] Final

The final of the 2009–10 UEFA Europa League will be held at the HSH Nordbank Arena in Hamburg, Germany, on 12 May 2010.

[edit] See also

• UEFA Champions League 2009–10
• UEFA Europa League

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• 2009/10 Competition format (UEFA.com)