The 2019–20 UEFA Europa League group stage began on 19 September and ended on 12 December 2019.
A total of 48 teams competed in the group stage to decide 24 of the 32 places in the
knockout phase of the
2019–20 UEFA Europa League
The 2019–20 UEFA Europa League was the 49th season of Europe's secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 11th season since it was renamed from the UEFA Cup to the UEFA Europa League.
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Draw
The draw for the group stage was held on 30 August 2019, 13:00
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, at the
Grimaldi Forum in Monaco.
The 48 teams were drawn into twelve groups of four, with the restriction that teams from the same association could not be drawn against each other. For the draw, the teams were seeded into four pots based on their 2019
UEFA club coefficients.
On 17 July 2014, the UEFA emergency panel ruled that Ukrainian and Russian clubs would not be drawn against each other "until further notice" due to the
political unrest
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between the countries.
Moreover, for associations with two or more teams, teams were paired in order to split them into two sets of six groups (A–F, G–L) for maximum television coverage. The following pairings were announced by UEFA after the group stage teams were confirmed:
*Spain: Sevilla and Espanyol
*England: Arsenal and Manchester United
*Italy: Roma and Lazio
*Germany: Borussia Mönchengladbach and Eintracht Frankfurt
*France: Saint-Étienne and Rennes
*Russia: CSKA Moscow and Krasnodar
*Portugal: Porto and Sporting CP; Braga and Vitória de Guimarães
*Ukraine: Dynamo Kyiv and Oleksandriya
*Belgium: KAA Gent and Standard Liège
*Turkey: Beşiktaş and Trabzonspor
*Netherlands: PSV Eindhoven and Feyenoord
*Austria: LASK and Wolfsberger AC
*Switzerland: Basel and Young Boys
*Scotland: Celtic and Rangers
On each matchday, one set of six groups play their matches at 18:55 CET/CEST, while the other set of six groups play their matches at 21:00 CET/CEST, with the two sets of groups alternating between each matchday. The fixtures were decided after the draw, using a computer draw not shown to public, with the following match sequence (Regulations Article 15.02):
''Note: Positions for scheduling do not use the seeding pots, e.g. Team 1 is not necessarily the team from Pot 1 in the draw.''
There were scheduling restrictions: for example, teams from the same city (e.g.
Lazio and
Roma
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) in general were not scheduled to play at home on the same matchday (to avoid them playing at home on the same day, due to logistics and crowd control), and teams from "winter countries" (e.g. Russia) were not scheduled to play at home on the last matchday (due to cold weather).
Teams
Below were the participating teams (with their 2019
UEFA club coefficients),
grouped by their seeding pot. They included:
*17 teams which entered in the group stage
*21 winners of the
play-off round (8 from
Champions Path, 13 from
Main Path)
*6 losers of the
Champions League play-off round (4 from
Champions Path, 2 from
League Path)
*4 League Path losers of the
Champions League third qualifying round
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Format
In each group, teams played against each other home-and-away in a
round-robin format. The group winners and runners-up advanced to the
round of 32
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, where they were joined by the eight third-placed teams of the
Champions League group stage.
Tiebreakers
Teams were ranked according to
points
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(3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 16.01):
#Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
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Goal difference
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in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
#Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
#
Away goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
#If more than two teams were tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams were still tied, all head-to-head criteria above were reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
#Goal difference in all group matches;
#Goals scored in all group matches;
#Away goals scored in all group matches;
#Wins in all group matches;
#Away wins in all group matches;
#Disciplinary points (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
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UEFA club coefficient
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Groups
The matchdays were 19 September, 3 October, 24 October, 7 November, 28 November, and 12 December 2019.
The scheduled kickoff times were 18:55 and 21:00 CET/CEST, with possible exceptions at 16:50 CET/CEST due to geographical reasons.
Times are
CET/
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, as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).
Group A
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Group B
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Group C
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Group D
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Group E
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Group F
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Group G
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Group H
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Group I
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Group J
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Group K
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Group L
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Notes
References
External links
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