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2017–18 UEFA Europa League

The Parc Olympique Lyonnais in Décines-Charpieu hosted the final
Tournament details
Dates	Qualifying: 29 June – 24 August 2017 Competition proper: 14 September 2017 – 16 May 2018
Teams	Competition proper: 48+8 Total: 157+33 (from 55 associations)
Final positions
Champions	Atlético Madrid (3rd title)
Runners-up	Marseille
Tournament statistics
Matches played	205
Goals scored	556 (2.71 per match)
Attendance	4,545,716 (22,174 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Aritz Aduriz Ciro Immobile (8 goals each)
Best player(s)	Antoine Griezmann[1]
← 2016–17 2018–19 →

The 2017–18 UEFA Europa League was the 47th season of Europe's secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 9th season since it was renamed from the UEFA Cup to the UEFA Europa League.

The final was played at the Parc Olympique Lyonnais in Décines-Charpieu, France.^[2]Atlético Madrid defeated Marseille to win their third Europa League title.

As winners, Atlético Madrid earned the right to play against the winners of the 2017–18 UEFA Champions League, Real Madrid, in the 2018 UEFA Super Cup. Moreover, they would also have been automatically qualified for the 2018–19 UEFA Champions League group stage,^[3] but since they had already qualified through their league performance, the berth reserved was given to the third-placed team of the 2017–18 Ligue 1, the fifth-ranked association according to next season's access list.^[4]

Manchester United qualified for the 2017–18 UEFA Champions League as the title holders of Europa League.^[5] They were unable to defend their title as they qualified for the Champions League knockout phase.

Association team allocation

A total of 190 teams from all 55 UEFA member associations participate in the 2017–18 UEFA Europa League.^[6] The association ranking based on the UEFA country coefficients is used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:^[7]

• Associations 1–51 (except Liechtenstein) each have three teams qualify.
  
  • As the winners of the 2016–17 UEFA Europa League, Manchester United qualified for the 2017–18 UEFA Champions League; the 2017–18 UEFA Europa League berth they would otherwise have earned for finishing 6th in the 2016–17 Premier League was vacated and not passed to another English team.
  
  


• Associations 52–54 each have two teams qualify.


• 
  Liechtenstein and Kosovo (association 55) each have one team qualify (Liechtenstein organises only a domestic cup and no domestic league; Kosovo as per decision by the UEFA Executive Committee).^[8]
  


• Moreover, 33 teams eliminated from the 2017–18 UEFA Champions League are transferred to the Europa League.

Starting from this season, Gibraltar are granted two spots instead of one in the Europa League.^[9]Kosovo, who became a UEFA member on 3 May 2016, made their debut in the UEFA Europa League.^[8][10]

Association ranking

For the 2017–18 UEFA Europa League, the associations are allocated places according to their 2016 UEFA country coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 2011–12 to 2015–16.^[11][12]

Apart from the allocation based on the country coefficients, associations may have additional teams participating in the Europa League, as noted below:

• 
  (UCL) – Additional teams transferred from the UEFA Champions League


• 
  (UEL) – Vacated berth due to UEFA Europa League title holders playing in UEFA Champions League

Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes 1 Spain 105.713 3 +1 (UCL) 2 Germany 80.177 +3 (UCL) 3 England 76.284 −1 (UEL) 4 Italy 70.439 +1 (UCL) 5 Portugal 53.082 +1 (UCL) 6 France 52.749 +1 (UCL) 7 Russia 51.082 +2 (UCL) 8 Ukraine 44.883 +1 (UCL) 9 Belgium 40.000 +1 (UCL) 10 Netherlands 35.563 +1 (UCL) 11 Turkey 34.600 +1 (UCL) 12 Switzerland 33.775 +1 (UCL) 13 Czech Republic 32.925 +2 (UCL) 14 Greece 29.700 +1 (UCL) 15 Romania 25.383 +2 (UCL) 16 Austria 25.100 +1 (UCL) 17 Croatia 23.875 +1 (UCL) 18 Poland 22.500 +1 (UCL) 19 Cyprus 22.175

Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes 20 Belarus 20.000 3 +1 (UCL) 21 Sweden 19.875 22 Norway 19.250 +1 (UCL) 23 Israel 18.625 +1 (UCL) 24 Denmark 18.600 +1 (UCL) 25 Scotland 17.300 +1 (UCL) 26 Azerbaijan 14.875 27 Serbia 14.625 +1 (UCL) 28 Kazakhstan 14.125 +1 (UCL) 29 Bulgaria 13.125 +1 (UCL) 30 Slovenia 13.125 31 Slovakia 12.000 32 Liechtenstein 10.500 1 33 Hungary 9.875 3 34 Moldova 9.125 +1 (UCL) 35 Iceland 8.750 +1 (UCL) 36 Georgia 8.125 37 Finland 7.400

Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes 38 Bosnia and Herzegovina 7.125 3 39 Albania 6.625 40 Macedonia 6.000 +1 (UCL) 41 Republic of Ireland 5.450 42 Latvia 5.375 43 Luxembourg 5.250 44 Montenegro 4.875 45 Lithuania 4.625 46 Northern Ireland 4.500 47 Estonia 4.250 48 Armenia 4.125 49 Faroe Islands 3.625 50 Malta 3.583 51 Wales 3.500 52 Gibraltar 1.000 2 53 Andorra 0.999 54 San Marino 0.333 55 Kosovo 0.000 1

Distribution

In the default access list, Manchester United enter the group stage (as the sixth-placed team of the 2016–17 Premier League).^[10] However, since they qualified for the Champions League as the Europa League title holders, the spot which they qualified for in the Europa League group stage is vacated, and the following changes to the default allocation system are made:^{[13][14][15][16]}

• The domestic cup winners of association 13 (Czech Republic) are promoted from the third qualifying round to the group stage.


• The domestic cup winners of association 18 (Poland) are promoted from the second qualifying round to the third qualifying round.


• The domestic cup winners of associations 25 and 26 (Scotland and Azerbaijan) 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 (100 teams)	29 domestic cup winners from associations 27–55 36 domestic league runners-up from associations 18–54 (except Liechtenstein) 35 domestic league third-placed teams from associations 16–51 (except Liechtenstein)
Second qualifying round (66 teams)	8 domestic cup winners from associations 19–26 2 domestic league runners-up from associations 16–17 6 domestic league fourth-placed teams from associations 10–15	50 winners from first qualifying round
Third qualifying round (58 teams)	5 domestic cup winners from associations 14–18 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)	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)	13 domestic cup winners from associations 1–13 1 domestic league fourth-placed team from association 4 3 domestic league fifth-placed teams from associations 1–3 −1 Europa League title holders	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

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. When a place is vacated, it is redistributed within the national association by the following rules (regulations Articles 3.03 and 3.04):^[7]

• 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 either the League Cup or end-of-season European competition play-offs 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

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:^[17][18]

• 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


• UCL: Transferred from the Champions League
  
  
  
  • GS: Third-placed teams from the group stage
  
  
  • PO: Losers from the play-off round
  
  
  • Q3: Losers from the third qualifying round
  
  
  
  

Round of 32
CSKA Moscow (UCL GS)	Atlético Madrid (UCL GS)	Spartak Moscow (UCL GS)	RB Leipzig (UCL GS)
Celtic (UCL GS)	Sporting CP (UCL GS)	Napoli (UCL GS)	Borussia Dortmund (UCL GS)
Group stage
Villarreal (5th)	Vitória de Guimarães (4th)	Lugano (3rd)	İstanbul Başakşehir (UCL PO)
Real Sociedad (6th)	Lyon (4th)	Fastav Zlín (CW)	Young Boys (UCL PO)
1. FC Köln (5th)	Lokomotiv Moscow (CW)	Copenhagen (UCL PO)	Nice (UCL PO)
Hertha BSC (6th)	Zorya Luhansk (3rd)	Slavia Prague (UCL PO)	1899 Hoffenheim (UCL PO)
Arsenal (CW)	Zulte Waregem (CW)	Rijeka (UCL PO)	FCSB (UCL PO)
Atalanta (4th)	Vitesse (CW)	Astana (UCL PO)
Lazio (5th)	Konyaspor (CW)	Hapoel Be'er Sheva (UCL PO)
Play-off round
BATE Borisov (UCL Q3)	Rosenborg (UCL Q3)	Sheriff Tiraspol (UCL Q3)	Dynamo Kyiv (UCL Q3)
Legia Warsaw (UCL Q3)	Ludogorets Razgrad (UCL Q3)	Partizan (UCL Q3)	AEK Athens (UCL Q3)
FH (UCL Q3)	Viitorul Constanța (UCL Q3)	Viktoria Plzeň (UCL Q3)	Club Brugge (UCL Q3)
Vardar (UCL Q3)	Red Bull Salzburg (UCL Q3)	Ajax (UCL Q3)
Third qualifying round
Athletic Bilbao (7th)	Bordeaux (6th)	PSV Eindhoven (3rd)	Universitatea Craiova (5th)[Note ROU]
SC Freiburg (7th)	Zenit Saint Petersburg (3rd)	Fenerbahçe (3rd)	Austria Wien (2nd)
Everton (7th)	Krasnodar (4th)	Sion (4th)	Dinamo Zagreb (2nd)
Milan (6th)	Olimpik Donetsk (4th)	Sparta Prague (3rd)	Arka Gdynia (CW)
Braga (5th)	Oleksandriya (5th)	PAOK (CW)
Marítimo (6th)	Gent (3rd)	Panathinaikos (3rd)
Marseille (5th)	Oostende (PW)	Dinamo București (3rd)
Second qualifying round
Utrecht (PW)	Panionios (5th)	Apollon Limassol (CW)	Bnei Yehuda (CW)
Galatasaray (4th)	Astra Giurgiu (6th)[Note ROU]	Dinamo Brest (CW)	Brøndby (2nd)
Luzern (5th)	Sturm Graz (3rd)	Östersund (CW)	Aberdeen (2nd)
Mladá Boleslav (4th)	Hajduk Split (3rd)	Brann (2nd)	Gabala (2nd)
First qualifying round
Rheindorf Altach (4th)	Ordabasy (4th)	VPS (4th)	Crusaders (2nd)
Osijek (4th)	Botev Plovdiv (CW)	Široki Brijeg (CW)	Coleraine (3rd)
Jagiellonia Białystok (2nd)	Levski Sofia (3rd)	Željezničar Sarajevo (2nd)	Ballymena United (PW)
Lech Poznań (3rd)	Dunav Ruse (4th)[Note BUL]	Sarajevo (3rd)	Levadia Tallinn (2nd)
AEK Larnaca (2nd)	Domžale (CW)	Tirana (CW)	Nõmme Kalju (3rd)
AEL Limassol (4th)	Gorica (2nd)	Partizani (2nd)	Flora Tallinn (4th)
Shakhtyor Soligorsk (2nd)	Olimpija Ljubljana (3rd)	Skënderbeu (3rd)	Shirak (CW)
Dinamo Minsk (3rd)	Slovan Bratislava (CW)	Pelister (CW)	Gandzasar Kapan (2nd)
AIK (2nd)	Ružomberok (3rd)	Shkëndija (2nd)	Pyunik (4th)
IFK Norrköping (3rd)	Trenčín (4th)	Rabotnički (3rd)	KÍ (CW)
Odd (3rd)	Vaduz (CW)	Cork City (CW)	NSÍ Runavík (3rd)
Haugesund (4th)	Ferencváros (CW)	Derry City (3rd)[Note IRL]	B36 Tórshavn (4th)
Maccabi Tel Aviv (2nd)	Videoton (2nd)	Shamrock Rovers (4th)	Floriana (CW)
Beitar Jerusalem (3rd)	Vasas (3rd)	Ventspils (CW)	Balzan (2nd)
Lyngby (3rd)	Dacia Chișinău (2nd)	Jelgava (2nd)	Valletta (4th)[Note MLT]
Midtjylland (PW)	Milsami Orhei (3rd)	Liepāja (4th)	Bala Town (CW)
Rangers (3rd)	Zaria Bălți (4th)	Differdange 03 (2nd)	Connah's Quay Nomads (2nd)
St Johnstone (4th)	Valur (CW)	Fola Esch (3rd)	Bangor City (PW)
Inter Baku (3rd)	Stjarnan (2nd)	Progrès Niederkorn (4th)	Lincoln Red Imps (2nd)
Zira (4th)	KR (3rd)	Sutjeska Nikšić (CW)	St Joseph's (3rd)
Red Star Belgrade (2nd)	Torpedo Kutaisi (CW)	Zeta (2nd)	UE Santa Coloma (CW)
Vojvodina (3rd)	Chikhura Sachkhere (2nd)	Mladost Podgorica (3rd)	Sant Julià (2nd)
Mladost Lučani (4th)	Dinamo Batumi (3rd)	Trakai (2nd)	Tre Penne (CW)
Kairat (2nd)	SJK (CW)	Sūduva Marijampolė (3rd)	Folgore (3rd)
Irtysh Pavlodar (3rd)	HJK (2nd)	Atlantas (4th)	Prishtina (2nd)[Note KOS]

Notably two teams take part in the competition that are not playing in their national top division, Tirana (2nd tier) and Vaduz (representing Liechtenstein, playing in Swiss 2nd tier).

Notes

Round and draw dates

The schedule of the competition is as follows (all draws are held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, unless stated otherwise).^[10][27][28]

Phase	Round	Draw date	First leg	Second leg
Qualifying	First qualifying round	19 June 2017	29 June 2017	6 July 2017
	Second qualifying round		13 July 2017	20 July 2017
	Third qualifying round	14 July 2017	27 July 2017	3 August 2017
Play-off	Play-off round	4 August 2017	17 August 2017	24 August 2017
Group stage	Matchday 1	25 August 2017 (Monaco)	14 September 2017
	Matchday 2		28 September 2017
	Matchday 3		19 October 2017
	Matchday 4		2 November 2017
	Matchday 5		23 November 2017
	Matchday 6		7 December 2017
Knockout phase	Round of 32	11 December 2017	15 February 2018	22 February 2018
	Round of 16	23 February 2018	8 March 2018	15 March 2018
	Quarter-finals	16 March 2018	5 April 2018	12 April 2018
	Semi-finals	13 April 2018	26 April 2018	3 May 2018
	Final		16 May 2018 at Parc Olympique Lyonnais, Décines-Charpieu

Matches in the qualifying, play-off, and knockout rounds may also be played on Tuesdays or Wednesdays instead of the regular Thursdays due to scheduling conflicts.

Qualifying rounds

In the qualifying rounds and the play-off round, teams are divided into seeded and unseeded teams based on their 2017 UEFA club coefficients,^[29][30][31] and then drawn into two-legged home-and-away ties. Teams from the same association cannot be drawn against each other.

First qualifying round

The draw for the first qualifying round was held on 19 June 2017, 13:00 CEST.^[32]
The first legs were played on 29 June, and the second legs were played on 4 and 6 July 2017.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Maccabi Tel Aviv	5–0	Tirana	2–0	3–0
Mladost Lučani	0–5	Inter Baku	0–3	0–2
Shirak	2–4	Gorica	0–2	2–2
Shkëndija	7–0[A]	Dacia Chișinău	3–0	4–0
Trenčín	8–1	Torpedo Kutaisi	5–1	3–0
Kairat	8–1	Atlantas	6–0	2–1
Chikhura Sachkhere	1–2	Rheindorf Altach	0–1	1–1
Zira	4–1	Differdange 03	2–0	2–1
Levski Sofia	3–1	Sutjeska Nikšić	3–1	0–0
Lech Poznań	7–0	Pelister	4–0	3–0
Beitar Jerusalem	7–3	Vasas	4–3	3–0
Fola Esch	3–2	Milsami Orhei	2–1	1–1
Vojvodina	2–3	Ružomberok	2–1	0–2
Irtysh Pavlodar	3–0	Dunav Ruse	1–0	2–0
Mladost Podgorica	4–0	Gandzasar Kapan	1–0	3–0
Široki Brijeg	2–0[A]	Ordabasy	2–0	0–0
Partizani	1–4	Botev Plovdiv	1–3	0–1
Pyunik	1–9[A]	Slovan Bratislava	1–4	0–5
Dinamo Batumi	0–5[A]	Jagiellonia Białystok	0–1	0–4
Videoton	5–3	Balzan	2–0	3–3
Red Star Belgrade	6–3	Floriana	3–0	3–3
UE Santa Coloma	0–6	Osijek	0–2	0–4
Tre Penne	0–7[A]	Rabotnički	0–1	0–6
Željezničar Sarajevo	3–2	Zeta	1–0	2–2
St Joseph's	0–10[A]	AEL Limassol	0–4	0–6
Valletta	3–0	Folgore	2–0	1–0
Zaria Bălți	3–3 (6–5 p)	Sarajevo	2–1	1–2 (a.e.t.)
Rangers	1–2	Progrès Niederkorn	1–0	0–2
AEK Larnaca	6–1	Lincoln Red Imps	5–0	1–1
Skënderbeu	6–0	Sant Julià	1–0	5–0
Ventspils	0–1	Valur	0–0	0–1
Bala Town	1–5	Vaduz	1–2	0–3
Domžale	5–2	Flora Tallinn	2–0	3–2
Midtjylland	10–2	Derry City	6–1	4–1
Haugesund	7–0	Coleraine	7–0	0–0
St Johnstone	1–3	Trakai	1–2	0–1
VPS	2–0	Olimpija Ljubljana	1–0	1–0
Crusaders	3–3 (a)	Liepāja	3–1	0–2
Dinamo Minsk	4–1	NSÍ Runavík	2–1	2–0
Stjarnan	0–2	Shamrock Rovers	0–1	0–1
Odd	5–0	Ballymena United	3–0	2–0
Connah's Quay Nomads	1–3	HJK	1–0	0–3
Nõmme Kalju	4–2	B36 Tórshavn	2–1	2–1
Ferencváros	3–0	Jelgava	2–0	1–0
IFK Norrköping	6–0	Prishtina	5–0	1–0
Shakhtyor Soligorsk	1–2	Sūduva Marijampolė	0–0	1–2
KR	2–0[A]	SJK	0–0	2–0
Levadia Tallinn	2–6	Cork City	0–2	2–4
Lyngby	4–0	Bangor City	1–0	3–0
KÍ	0–5[A]	AIK	0–0	0–5

Notes

Second qualifying round

The draw for the second qualifying round was held on 19 June 2017, 14:30 CEST (after the completion of the first qualifying round draw).^[32]
The first legs were played on 12 and 13 July, and the second legs were played on 20 July 2017.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Beitar Jerusalem	1–5[B]	Botev Plovdiv	1–1	0–4
Apollon Limassol	5–1	Zaria Bălți	3–0	2–1
Rabotnički	1–4	Dinamo Minsk	1–1	0–3
Slovan Bratislava	1–3	Lyngby	0–1	1–2
Shamrock Rovers	2–5	Mladá Boleslav	2–3	0–2
Željezničar Sarajevo	0–2	AIK	0–0	0–2
Cork City	0–2[B]	AEK Larnaca	0–1	0–1
Kairat	1–3	Skënderbeu	1–1	0–2
Panionios	5–2	Gorica	2–0	3–2
Astra Giurgiu	3–1[B]	Zira	3–1	0–0
Haugesund	3–4	Lech Poznań	3–2	0–2
Brøndby	3–2	VPS	2–0	1–2
IFK Norrköping	3–3 (3–5 p)	Trakai	2–1	1–2 (a.e.t.)
Hajduk Split	3–1	Levski Sofia	1–0	2–1
Nõmme Kalju	1–4	Videoton	0–3	1–1
Maccabi Tel Aviv	5–1	KR	3–1	2–0
Valletta	1–3	Utrecht	0–0	1–3
Ružomberok	2–1	Brann	0–1	2–0
Liepāja	1–2	Sūduva Marijampolė	0–2	1–0
Gabala	3–1	Jagiellonia Białystok	1–1	2–0
Progrès Niederkorn	1–3	AEL Limassol	0–1	1–2
Rheindorf Altach	4–1	Dinamo Brest	1–1	3–0
Östersund	3–1	Galatasaray	2–0	1–1
Inter Baku	2–4	Fola Esch	1–0	1–4
Vaduz	0–2	Odd	0–1	0–1
Valur	3–5	Domžale	1–2	2–3
Irtysh Pavlodar	1–3	Red Star Belgrade	1–1	0–2
Aberdeen	3–1	Široki Brijeg	1–1	2–0
Ferencváros	3–7	Midtjylland	2–4	1–3
Sturm Graz	3–1	Mladost Podgorica	0–1	3–0
Shkëndija	4–2	HJK	3–1	1–1
Trenčín	1–3	Bnei Yehuda	1–1	0–2
Osijek	3–2	Luzern	2–0	1–2

Notes

Third qualifying round

The draw for the third qualifying round was held on 14 July 2017, 13:00 CEST.^[33]
The first legs were played on 27 July, and the second legs were played on 2 and 3 August 2017.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
PSV Eindhoven	0–2	Osijek	0–1	0–1
Trakai	2–4	Shkëndija	2–1	0–3
Krasnodar	5–2	Lyngby	2–1	3–1
Sturm Graz	2–3	Fenerbahçe	1–2	1–1
Panathinaikos	3–1	Gabala	1–0	2–1
Mladá Boleslav	3–3 (2–4 p)	Skënderbeu Korçë	2–1	1–2 (a.e.t.)
Austria Wien	2–1	AEL Limassol	0–0	2–1
Dinamo Zagreb	2–1	Odd	2–1	0–0
Dinamo București	1–4	Athletic Bilbao	1–1	0–3
Olimpik Donetsk	1–3	PAOK	1–1	0–2
Arka Gdynia	4–4 (a)	Midtjylland	3–2	1–2
Östersund	3–1	Fola Esch	1–0	2–1
Bordeaux	2–2 (a)	Videoton	2–1	0–1
Maccabi Tel Aviv	2–0	Panionios	1–0	1–0
Utrecht	2–2 (a)	Lech Poznań	0–0	2–2
Universitatea Craiova	0–3	Milan	0–1	0–2
Brøndby	0–2	Hajduk Split	0–0	0–2
Gent	2–4	Rheindorf Altach	1–1	1–3
Astra Giurgiu	0–1	Oleksandriya	0–0	0–1
Everton	2–0	Ružomberok	1–0	1–0
Aberdeen	2–3	Apollon Limassol	2–1	0–2
Red Star Belgrade	3–0	Sparta Prague	2–0	1–0
Botev Plovdiv	0–2	Marítimo	0–0	0–2
Bnei Yehuda	1–2[C]	Zenit Saint Petersburg	0–2	1–0
Marseille	4–2	Oostende	4–2	0–0
SC Freiburg	1–2	Domžale	1–0	0–2
AEK Larnaca	3–1	Dinamo Minsk	2–0	1–1
AIK	2–3	Braga	1–1	1–2 (a.e.t.)
Sūduva Marijampolė	4–1	Sion	3–0	1–1

Notes

Play-off round

The draw for the play-off round was held on 4 August 2017, 13:00 CEST.^[34]
The first legs were played on 16 and 17 August, and the second legs were played on 24 August 2017.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Milan	7–0[D]	Shkëndija	6–0	1–0
Osijek	2–2 (a)	Austria Wien	1–2	1–0
Krasnodar	4–4 (a)[D]	Red Star Belgrade	3–2	1–2
Club Brugge	0–3	AEK Athens	0–0	0–3
Marítimo	1–3	Dynamo Kyiv	0–0	1–3
Panathinaikos	2–4	Athletic Bilbao	2–3	0–1
Apollon Limassol	4–3	Midtjylland	3–2	1–1
FH	3–5	Braga	1–2	2–3
Everton	3–1	Hajduk Split	2–0	1–1
Viitorul Constanța	1–7	Red Bull Salzburg	1–3	0–4
Vardar	4–1	Fenerbahçe	2–0	2–1
Ajax	2–4	Rosenborg	0–1	2–3
Rheindorf Altach	2–3	Maccabi Tel Aviv	0–1	2–2
BATE Borisov	3–2	Oleksandriya	1–1	2–1
Dinamo Zagreb	1–1 (a)	Skënderbeu Korçë	1–1	0–0
Ludogorets Razgrad	2–0	Sūduva Marijampolė	2–0	0–0
Domžale	1–4	Marseille	1–1	0–3
Partizan	4–0	Videoton	0–0	4–0
Utrecht	1–2	Zenit Saint Petersburg	1–0	0–2 (a.e.t.)
Legia Warsaw	1–1 (a)	Sheriff Tiraspol	1–1	0–0
Viktoria Plzeň	3–1	AEK Larnaca	3–1	0–0
PAOK	3–3 (a)	Östersund	3–1	0–2

Notes

Group stage

The draw for the group stage was held on 25 August 2017, 13:00 CEST, at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco.^[35] The 48 teams were drawn into twelve groups of four, with the restriction that teams from the same association cannot be drawn against each other. For the draw, the teams were seeded into four pots based on their 2017 UEFA club coefficients.^[29][30][31]

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, where they were joined by the eight third-placed teams of the 2017–18 UEFA Champions League group stage. The matchdays were 14 September, 28 September, 19 October, 2 November, 23 November, and 7 December 2017.

A total of 29 national associations were represented in the group stage. Arsenal, Atalanta, Fastav Zlín, 1899 Hoffenheim, İstanbul Başakşehir, 1. FC Köln, Lugano, Milan, Östersund, Real Sociedad, Red Star Belgrade, Vardar and Vitesse made their debut appearances in the UEFA Europa League group stage (although Milan and Red Star Belgrade had appeared in the UEFA Cup group stage). Vardar were the first team from Macedonia to play in either the Champions League or Europa League group stage.^[36]

Tiebreakers

Teams were ranked according to points (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):[7] Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams; Goal difference 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 are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are 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); UEFA club coefficient.

Group A

Pos	Team [ v t e ]	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		VIL	AST	SLP	MTA
1	Villarreal	6	3	2	1	10	6	+4	11	Advance to knockout phase		—	3–1	2–2	0–1
2	Astana	6	3	1	2	10	7	+3	10			2–3	—	1–1	4–0
3	Slavia Prague	6	2	2	2	6	6	0	8			0–2	0–1	—	1–0
4	Maccabi Tel Aviv	6	1	1	4	1	8	−7	4			0–0	0–1	0–2	—

Group B

Pos	Team [ v t e ]	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		DKV	PAR	YB	SKE
1	Dynamo Kyiv	6	4	1	1	15	9	+6	13	Advance to knockout phase		—	4–1	2–2	3–1
2	Partizan	6	2	2	2	8	9	−1	8			2–3	—	2–1	2–0
3	Young Boys	6	1	3	2	7	8	−1	6			0–1	1–1	—	2–1
4	Skënderbeu Korçë	6	1	2	3	6	10	−4	5			3–2	0–0	1–1	—

Group C

Pos	Team [ v t e ]	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		BRA	LUD	IBS	HOF
1	Braga	6	3	1	2	9	8	+1	10	Advance to knockout phase		—	0–2	2–1	3–1
2	Ludogorets Razgrad	6	2	3	1	7	5	+2	9			1–1	—	1–2	2–1
3	İstanbul Başakşehir	6	2	2	2	7	8	−1	8			2–1	0–0	—	1–1
4	1899 Hoffenheim	6	1	2	3	8	10	−2	5			1–2	1–1	3–1	—

Group D

Pos	Team [ v t e ]	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		MIL	AEK	RJK	AW
1	Milan	6	3	2	1	13	6	+7	11	Advance to knockout phase		—	0–0	3–2	5–1
2	AEK Athens	6	1	5	0	6	5	+1	8			0–0	—	2–2	2–2
3	Rijeka	6	2	1	3	11	12	−1	7			2–0	1–2	—	1–4
4	Austria Wien	6	1	2	3	9	16	−7	5			1–5	0–0	1–3	—

Group E

Pos	Team [ v t e ]	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		ATA	LYO	EVE	APL
1	Atalanta	6	4	2	0	14	4	+10	14	Advance to knockout phase		—	1–0	3–0	3–1
2	Lyon	6	3	2	1	11	4	+7	11			1–1	—	3–0	4–0
3	Everton	6	1	1	4	7	15	−8	4			1–5	1–2	—	2–2
4	Apollon Limassol	6	0	3	3	5	14	−9	3			1–1	1–1	0–3	—

Group F

Pos	Team [ v t e ]	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		LOM	KOB	SHE	ZLI
1	Lokomotiv Moscow	6	3	2	1	9	4	+5	11	Advance to knockout phase		—	2–1	1–2	3–0
2	Copenhagen	6	2	3	1	7	3	+4	9[a]			0–0	—	2–0	3–0
3	Sheriff Tiraspol	6	2	3	1	4	4	0	9[a]			1–1	0–0	—	1–0
4	Fastav Zlín	6	0	2	4	1	10	−9	2			0–2	1–1	0–0	—

Group G

Pos	Team [ v t e ]	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		PLZ	FCSB	LUG	HBS
1	Viktoria Plzeň	6	4	0	2	13	8	+5	12	Advance to knockout phase		—	2–0	4–1	3–1
2	FCSB	6	3	1	2	9	7	+2	10			3–0	—	1–2	1–1
3	Lugano	6	3	0	3	9	11	−2	9			3–2	1–2	—	1–0
4	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	6	1	1	4	5	10	−5	4			0–2	1–2	2–1	—

Group H

Pos	Team [ v t e ]	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		ARS	ZVE	KLN	BATE
1	Arsenal	6	4	1	1	14	4	+10	13	Advance to knockout phase		—	0–0	3–1	6–0
2	Red Star Belgrade	6	2	3	1	3	2	+1	9			0–1	—	1–0	1–1
3	1. FC Köln	6	2	0	4	7	8	−1	6			1–0	0–1	—	5–2
4	BATE Borisov	6	1	2	3	6	16	−10	5			2–4	0–0	1–0	—

Group I

Pos	Team [ v t e ]	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		SAL	MAR	KON	VSC
1	Red Bull Salzburg	6	3	3	0	7	1	+6	12	Advance to knockout phase		—	1–0	0–0	3–0
2	Marseille	6	2	2	2	4	4	0	8			0–0	—	1–0	2–1
3	Konyaspor	6	1	3	2	4	6	−2	6			0–2	1–1	—	2–1
4	Vitória de Guimarães	6	1	2	3	5	9	−4	5			1–1	1–0	1–1	—

Group J

Pos	Team [ v t e ]	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		ATH	OST	ZOR	HRT
1	Athletic Bilbao	6	3	2	1	8	5	+3	11[a]	Advance to knockout phase		—	1–0	0–1	3–2
2	Östersund	6	3	2	1	8	4	+4	11[a]			2–2	—	2–0	1–0
3	Zorya Luhansk	6	2	0	4	3	9	−6	6			0–2	0–2	—	2–1
4	Hertha BSC	6	1	2	3	6	7	−1	5			0–0	1–1	2–0	—

Group K

Pos	Team [ v t e ]	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		LAZ	NCE	ZUL	VIT
1	Lazio	6	4	1	1	12	7	+5	13	Advance to knockout phase		—	1–0	2–0	1–1
2	Nice	6	3	0	3	12	7	+5	9			1–3	—	3–1	3–0
3	Zulte Waregem	6	2	1	3	8	13	−5	7			3–2	1–5	—	1–1
4	Vitesse	6	1	2	3	5	10	−5	5			2–3	1–0	0–2	—

Group L

Pos	Team [ v t e ]	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		ZEN	RS	ROS	VRD
1	Zenit Saint Petersburg	6	5	1	0	17	5	+12	16	Advance to knockout phase		—	3–1	3–1	2–1
2	Real Sociedad	6	4	0	2	16	6	+10	12			1–3	—	4–0	3–0
3	Rosenborg	6	1	2	3	6	11	−5	5			1–1	0–1	—	3–1
4	Vardar	6	0	1	5	3	20	−17	1			0–5	0–6	1–1	—

Knockout phase

In the knockout phase, teams played against each other over two legs on a home-and-away basis, except for the one-match final. The mechanism of the draws for each round was 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 were seeded, and the twelve group runners-up and the other four third-placed teams from the Champions League group stage were unseeded. The seeded teams were drawn against the unseeded teams, with the seeded teams hosting the second leg. Teams from the same group or the same association could not be drawn against each other.


• In the draws for the round of 16 onwards, there were no seedings, and teams from the same group or the same association could be drawn against each other.

Bracket

Round of 32						Round of 16						Quarter-finals						Semi-finals
Napoli	1	2	3
RB Leipzig (a)	3	0	3			RB Leipzig	2	1	3
Celtic	1	0	1			Zenit Saint Petersburg	1	1	2
Zenit Saint Petersburg	0	3	3									RB Leipzig	1	2	3
Marseille	3	0	3									Marseille	0	5	5
Braga	0	1	1			Marseille	3	2	5
Spartak Moscow	1	2	3			Athletic Bilbao	1	1	2
Athletic Bilbao	3	1	4															Marseille (a.e.t.)	2	1	3
FCSB	1	1	2															Red Bull Salzburg	0	2	2
Lazio	0	5	5			Lazio	2	2	4
AEK Athens	1	0	1			Dynamo Kyiv	2	0	2
Dynamo Kyiv (a)	1	0	1									Lazio	4	1	5
Borussia Dortmund	3	1	4									Red Bull Salzburg	2	4	6			Final (16 May – Lyon)
Atalanta	2	1	3			Borussia Dortmund	1	0	1
Real Sociedad	2	1	3			Red Bull Salzburg	2	0	2
Red Bull Salzburg	2	2	4															Marseille			0
Ludogorets Razgrad	0	0	0															Atlético Madrid			3
Milan	3	1	4			Milan	0	1	1
Östersund	0	2	2			Arsenal	2	3	5
Arsenal	3	1	4									Arsenal	4	2	6
Red Star Belgrade	0	0	0									CSKA Moscow	1	2	3
CSKA Moscow	0	1	1			CSKA Moscow (a)	0	3	3
Lyon	3	1	4			Lyon	1	2	3
Villarreal	1	0	1															Arsenal	1	0	1
Copenhagen	1	0	1															Atlético Madrid	1	1	2
Atlético Madrid	4	1	5			Atlético Madrid	3	5	8
Nice	2	0	2			Lokomotiv Moscow	0	1	1
Lokomotiv Moscow	3	1	4									Atlético Madrid	2	0	2
Astana	1	3	4									Sporting CP	0	1	1
Sporting CP	3	3	6			Sporting CP (a.e.t.)	2	1	3
Partizan	1	0	1			Viktoria Plzeň	0	2	2
Viktoria Plzeň	1	2	3

Round of 32

The draw for the round of 32 was held on 11 December 2017, 13:00 CET.^[37]
The first legs were played on 13 and 15 February, and the second legs were played on 21 and 22 February 2018.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Borussia Dortmund	4–3	Atalanta	3–2	1–1
Nice	2–4	Lokomotiv Moscow	2–3	0–1
Copenhagen	1–5	Atlético Madrid	1–4	0–1
Spartak Moscow	3–4	Athletic Bilbao	1–3	2–1
AEK Athens	1–1 (a)	Dynamo Kyiv	1–1	0–0
Celtic	1–3	Zenit Saint Petersburg	1–0	0–3
Napoli	3–3 (a)	RB Leipzig	1–3	2–0
Red Star Belgrade	0–1	CSKA Moscow	0–0	0–1
Lyon	4–1	Villarreal	3–1	1–0
Real Sociedad	3–4	Red Bull Salzburg	2–2	1–2
Partizan	1–3	Viktoria Plzeň	1–1	0–2
FCSB	2–5	Lazio	1–0	1–5
Ludogorets Razgrad	0–4	Milan	0–3	0–1
Astana	4–6	Sporting CP	1–3	3–3
Östersund	2–4	Arsenal	0–3	2–1
Marseille	3–1	Braga	3–0	0–1

Round of 16

The draw for the round of 16 was held on 23 February 2018, 13:00 CET.^[38]
The first legs were played on 8 March, and the second legs were played on 15 March 2018.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Lazio	4–2	Dynamo Kyiv	2–2	2–0
RB Leipzig	3–2	Zenit Saint Petersburg	2–1	1–1
Atlético Madrid	8–1	Lokomotiv Moscow	3–0	5–1
CSKA Moscow	3–3 (a)	Lyon	0–1	3–2
Marseille	5–2	Athletic Bilbao	3–1	2–1
Sporting CP	3–2	Viktoria Plzeň	2–0	1–2 (a.e.t.)
Borussia Dortmund	1–2	Red Bull Salzburg	1–2	0–0
Milan	1–5	Arsenal	0–2	1–3

Quarter-finals

The draw for the quarter-finals was held on 16 March 2018, 13:00 CET.^[39]
The first legs were played on 5 April, and the second legs were played on 12 April 2018.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
RB Leipzig	3–5	Marseille	1–0	2–5
Arsenal	6–3	CSKA Moscow	4–1	2–2
Atlético Madrid	2–1	Sporting CP	2–0	0–1
Lazio	5–6	Red Bull Salzburg	4–2	1–4

Semi-finals

The draw for the semi-finals was held on 13 April 2018, 12:00 CEST.^[40]
The first legs were played on 26 April, and the second legs were played on 3 May 2018.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Marseille	3–2	Red Bull Salzburg	2–0	1–2 (a.e.t.)
Arsenal	1–2	Atlético Madrid	1–1	0–1

Final

The final was played at the Parc Olympique Lyonnais in Décines-Charpieu on 16 May 2018. The "home" team (for administrative purposes) was determined by an additional draw held after the semi-final draw.^[40]

Statistics

Statistics exclude qualifying rounds and play-off round.

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Team	Goals	Minutes played
1	Ciro Immobile	Lazio	8	582
	Aritz Aduriz	Athletic Bilbao		801
3	Júnior Moraes	Dynamo Kyiv	7	742
4	Mario Balotelli	Nice	6	528
	Antoine Griezmann	Atlético Madrid		631
	Aleksandr Kokorin	Zenit Saint Petersburg		698
	André Silva	Milan		722
	Emiliano Rigoni	Zenit Saint Petersburg		775
	Manuel Fernandes	Lokomotiv Moscow		900
10	Harlem Gnohéré	FCSB	5	344
	Willian José	Real Sociedad		384
	Patrick Twumasi	Astana		717
	Valon Berisha	Red Bull Salzburg		1138
	Moanes Dabour	Red Bull Salzburg		1286

Source:^[42]

Top assists

Rank	Player	Team	Assists	Minutes played
1	Dimitri Payet	Marseille	7	811
2	Sergio Canales	Real Sociedad	6	557
3	Luis Alberto	Lazio	5	644
	Stefan Lainer	Red Bull Salzburg		1290
5	Theo Walcott	Arsenal	4	424
	Xabi Prieto	Real Sociedad		483
	Raphael Holzhauser	Austria Wien		536
	Bruno Fernandes	Sporting CP		567
	Mesut Özil	Arsenal		609
	Hakan Çalhanoğlu	Milan		613
	Aleksei Miranchuk	Lokomotiv Moscow		784

Source:^[43]

Squad of the Season

The UEFA technical study group selected the following 18 players as the squad of the tournament.^[44]

Pos.	Player	Team
GK	Jan Oblak	Atlético Madrid
	Rui Patrício	Sporting CP
DF	Leonardo Bonucci	Milan
	Diego Godín	Atlético Madrid
	Stefan Lainer	Red Bull Salzburg
	Luiz Gustavo	Marseille
	Bouna Sarr	Marseille
MF	Bruno Fernandes	Sporting CP
	Naby Keïta	RB Leipzig
	Koke	Atlético Madrid
	Saúl Ñíguez	Atlético Madrid
	Gabi	Atlético Madrid
	Diadie Samassékou	Red Bull Salzburg
FW	Gelson Martins	Sporting CP
	Antoine Griezmann	Atlético Madrid
	Ciro Immobile	Lazio
	Dimitri Payet	Marseille
	Timo Werner	RB Leipzig

Player of the Season

Votes were cast by coaches of the 48 teams in the group stage, together 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 receiving five points, the second three and the third one. The shortlist of the top three players was announced on 9 August 2018.^[45] The award winner was announced during the 2018–19 UEFA Europa League group stage draw in Monaco on 31 August 2018.

Rank	Player	Team	Points
Shortlist of top three
1	Antoine Griezmann[1]	Atlético Madrid	388
2	Dimitri Payet	Marseille	103
3	Diego Godín	Atlético Madrid	84
Players ranked 4–10
4	Jan Oblak	Atlético Madrid	43
5	Ciro Immobile	Lazio	26
6	Aritz Aduriz	Athletic Bilbao	16
	Koke	Atlético Madrid
8	Luiz Gustavo	Marseille	10
	Florian Thauvin	Marseille
10	Sergej Milinković-Savić	Lazio	8

See also

• 2017–18 UEFA Champions League


• 2018 UEFA Super Cup

References

External links

• 
  UEFA Europa League (official website)
  
  • UEFA Europa League history: 2017/18