2019–20 UEFA Europa League

2019–20 UEFA Europa League

The Stadion Energa Gdańsk in Gdańsk will host the final
Tournament details
Dates	Qualifying: 27 June – 29 August 2019 Competition proper: 19 September 2019 – TBD 2020
Teams	Competition proper: 48+8 Total: 158+55 (from 55 associations)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	182
Goals scored	509 (2.8 per match)
Attendance	4,069,102 (22,358 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Edin Višća Alfredo Morelos Daichi Kamada Bruno Fernandes Diogo Jota Andraž Šporar (6 goals each)
← 2018–19 2020–21 → All statistics correct as of 12 March 2020.

The 2019–20 UEFA Europa League is 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.

The final will be played at the Stadion Energa Gdańsk in Gdańsk, Poland.^[1] The winners of the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League will earn the right to play against the winners of the 2019–20 UEFA Champions League in the 2020 UEFA Super Cup. They will also automatically qualify for the 2020–21 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 2019–20 Ligue 1, the 5th-ranked association according to next season's access list.

The video assistant referee (VAR) system will be used in the competition from the knockout stage onwards.^[2]

As the title holders of the Europa League, Chelsea qualified for the 2019–20 UEFA Champions League, although they had already qualified before the final through their league performance. They are unable to defend their title as they advanced to the Champions League knockout stage.

Following the round of 16 first legs, the competition was postponed indefinitely due to the 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Europe.^[3][4] The final, originally scheduled to take place on 27 May 2020, was officially postponed on 23 March 2020.^[5] A working group was set up to decide the calendar of the remainder of the season.^[6]

Association team allocation

A total of 213 teams from all 55 UEFA member associations participate in the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League. 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.
• 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, 55 teams eliminated from the 2019–20 UEFA Champions League are transferred to the Europa League (default number is 57, but 2 fewer teams compete in the 2019–20 UEFA Champions League).

Association ranking

For the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League, the associations are allocated places according to their 2018 UEFA country coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 2013–14 to 2017–18.^[9]

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

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

Association ranking for 2019–20 UEFA Europa League

Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes 1  Spain 106.998 3 2  England 79.605 3  Italy 76.249 +1 (UCL) 4  Germany 71.427 +1 (UCL) 5  France 56.415 6  Russia 53.382 +1 (UCL) 7  Portugal 47.248 +2 (UCL) 8  Ukraine 41.133 +2 (UCL) 9  Belgium 38.500 +1 (UCL) 10  Turkey 35.800 +1 (UCL) 11  Austria 32.850 +2 (UCL) 12   Switzerland 30.200 +2 (UCL) 13  Czech Republic 30.175 +1 (UCL) 14  Netherlands 29.749 +2 (UCL) 15  Greece 28.600 +2 (UCL) 16  Croatia 26.000 17  Denmark 25.950 +1 (UCL) 18  Israel 21.750 +1 (UCL) 19  Cyprus 21.550 +1 (UCL)

Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes 20  Romania 20.450 3 +1 (UCL) 21  Poland 20.125 +1 (UCL) 22  Sweden 19.975 +1 (UCL) 23  Azerbaijan 19.125 +1 (UCL) 24  Bulgaria 19.125 +1 (UCL) 25  Serbia 18.750 26  Scotland 18.625 +1 (UCL) 27  Belarus 18.625 +1 (UCL) 28  Kazakhstan 18.125 +1 (UCL) 29  Norway 17.425 +1 (UCL) 30  Slovenia 14.500 +1 (UCL) 31  Liechtenstein 13.000 1 32  Slovakia 12.125 3 +1 (UCL) 33  Moldova 10.000 +1 (UCL) 34  Albania 8.500 +1 (UCL) 35  Iceland 8.250 +1 (UCL) 36  Hungary 8.125 +1 (UCL) 37  North Macedonia 7.500 +1 (UCL)

Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes 38  Finland 6.900 3 +1 (UCL) 39  Republic of Ireland 6.700 +1 (UCL) 40  Bosnia and Herzegovina 6.625 +1 (UCL) 41  Latvia 5.625 +1 (UCL) 42  Estonia 5.500 +1 (UCL) 43  Lithuania 5.375 +1 (UCL) 44  Montenegro 5.000 +1 (UCL) 45  Georgia 5.000 +1 (UCL) 46  Armenia 4.875 +1 (UCL) 47  Malta 4.500 +1 (UCL) 48  Luxembourg 4.375 +1 (UCL) 49  Northern Ireland 4.250 +1 (UCL) 50  Wales 3.875 +1 (UCL) 51  Faroe Islands 3.750 +1 (UCL) 52  Gibraltar 3.000 2 +1 (UCL) 53  Andorra 1.331 +1 (UCL) 54  San Marino 0.499 +1 (UCL) 55  Kosovo 0.000 1 +1 (UCL)

Distribution

The following is the access list for this season.^[10]

Changes are made to the default access list, if any of the teams that qualify for the Europa League via their domestic competitions also qualify for the Champions League as the Champions League or Europa League title holders, or if there are fewer teams transferred from the Champions League due to changes in the Champions League access list. In any case where a spot in the Europa League is vacated, cup winners of the highest-ranked associations in earlier rounds are promoted accordingly.

• In the default access list, originally 17 losers from the Champions League first qualifying round are transferred to the Europa League second qualifying round (Champions Path). However, since the Champions League title holders (Liverpool) qualified for the Champions League group stage via their domestic league, only 16 losers from the Champions League first qualifying round were transferred to the Europa League second qualifying round (Champions Path). As a result, only 19 teams entered the Champions Path second qualifying round (one of the losers from the Champions League first qualifying round would be drawn to receive a bye to the third qualifying round).
• In the default access list, originally three losers from the Champions League second qualifying round (League Path) are transferred to the Europa League third qualifying round (Main Path). However, since the Europa League title holders (Chelsea) qualified for the Champions League group stage via their domestic league, only two losers from the Champions League second qualifying round (League Path) were transferred to the Europa League third qualifying round (Main Path). As a result, the following changes to the access list were made:
  • The cup winners of association 18 (Israel) entered the third qualifying round instead of the second qualifying round.
  • The cup winners of association 25 (Serbia) entered the second qualifying round instead of the first qualifying round.
  • The cup winners of associations 50 and 51 (Wales and Faroe Islands) entered the first qualifying round instead of the preliminary round.

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:

• 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:^[10]

• CW: Cup winners
• 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, etc.: League position
• LC: League Cup winners
• RW: Regular season winners
• PW: End-of-season Europa League 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
  • Q2: Losers from the second qualifying round
  • Q1: Losers from the first qualifying round
  • PR: Losers from the preliminary round (F: final; SF: semi-finals)

Qualified teams for 2019–20 UEFA Europa League (by entry round)
Round of 32

Club Brugge (UCL GS)	Shakhtar Donetsk (UCL GS)	Red Bull Salzburg (UCL GS)	Benfica (UCL GS)
Olympiacos (UCL GS)	Bayer Leverkusen (UCL GS)	Inter Milan (UCL GS)	Ajax (UCL GS)

Group stage

Getafe (5th)	VfL Wolfsburg (6th)	Beşiktaş (3rd)	Krasnodar (UCL PO)
Sevilla (6th)	Rennes (CW)	Wolfsberg (3rd)	LASK (UCL PO)
Arsenal (5th)	Saint-Étienne (4th)	Lugano (3rd)	Porto (UCL Q3)
Manchester United (6th)	CSKA Moscow (4th)	Young Boys (UCL PO)	Dynamo Kyiv (UCL Q3)
Lazio (CW)	Sporting CP (CW)	APOEL (UCL PO)	İstanbul Başakşehir (UCL Q3)
Roma (6th)[Note ITA]	Oleksandriya (3rd)	CFR Cluj (UCL PO)	Basel (UCL Q3)
Borussia Mönchengladbach (5th)	Standard Liège (3rd)[Note BEL]	Rosenborg (UCL PO)

Play-off round

Champions Path		Main Path
PAOK (UCL Q3)	Celtic (UCL Q3)
Copenhagen (UCL Q3)	Maribor (UCL Q3)
Qarabağ (UCL Q3)	Ferencváros (UCL Q3)

Third qualifying round

Champions Path		Main Path
Maccabi Tel Aviv (UCL Q2)	Nõmme Kalju (UCL Q2)	Spartak Moscow (5th)	Feyenoord (3rd)
AIK (UCL Q2)	Sutjeska Nikšić (UCL Q2)	Braga (4th)	AEK Athens (3rd)
BATE Borisov (UCL Q2)	Saburtalo Tbilisi (UCL Q2)	Mariupol (4th)	Rijeka (CW)
HJK (UCL Q2)	Valletta (UCL Q2)	Antwerp (PW)[Note BEL]	Midtjylland (CW)
Dundalk (UCL Q2)	The New Saints (UCL Q2)	Trabzonspor (4th)	Bnei Yehuda (CW)
	Sarajevo (UCL Q1)[Note UCL Q1]	Austria Wien (4th)	Viktoria Plzeň (UCL Q2)
		Thun (4th)	PSV Eindhoven (UCL Q2)
		Sparta Prague (3rd)

Second qualifying round

Champions Path		Main Path
Piast Gliwice (UCL Q1)	Sūduva (UCL Q1)	Espanyol (7th)	AZ (4th)
Ludogorets Razgrad (UCL Q1)	Ararat-Armenia (UCL Q1)	Wolverhampton Wanderers (7th)	FC Utrecht (PW)
Astana (UCL Q1)	F91 Dudelange (UCL Q1)	Torino (7th)[Note ITA]	Atromitos (4th)
Slovan Bratislava (UCL Q1)	Linfield (UCL Q1)	Eintracht Frankfurt (7th)	Aris (5th)
Sheriff Tiraspol (UCL Q1)	HB Tórshavn (UCL Q1)	Strasbourg (LC)	Osijek (3rd)
Partizani (UCL Q1)	Feronikeli (UCL Q1)	Arsenal Tula (6th)	Esbjerg (3rd)
Valur (UCL Q1)	FC Santa Coloma (UCL PR F)	Vitória de Guimarães (5th)	AEL Limassol (CW)
Shkëndija (UCL Q1)	Lincoln Red Imps (UCL PR SF)	Zorya Luhansk (5th)	Viitorul Constanța (CW)
Riga (UCL Q1)	Tre Penne (UCL PR SF)	Gent (5th)[Note BEL]	Lechia Gdańsk (CW)
		Yeni Malatyaspor (5th)	BK Häcken (CW)
		Sturm Graz (PW)	Gabala (CW)
		Luzern (5th)	Lokomotiv Plovdiv (CW)
		Jablonec (4th)	Partizan (CW)
		Mladá Boleslav (PW)

First qualifying round

Hajduk Split (4th)	Dinamo Minsk (3rd)	Breiðablik (2nd)	Flora (3rd)
Brøndby (PW)	Vitebsk (4th)	KR (4th)	Žalgiris (CW)
Maccabi Haifa (2nd)	Kairat (CW)	Fehérvár (CW)	Riteriai (3rd)
Hapoel Be'er Sheva (3rd)	Tobol (3rd)	Debrecen (3rd)	Kauno Žalgiris (5th)[Note LTU]
AEK Larnaca (2nd)	Ordabasy (4th)	Honvéd (4th)	Budućnost Podgorica (CW)
Apollon Limassol (3rd)	Molde (2nd)	Akademija Pandev (CW)	Zeta (3rd)
FCSB (2nd)	Brann (3rd)	Shkupi (4th)	Titograd (4th)
Universitatea Craiova (4th)	Haugesund (4th)	Makedonija GP (5th)[Note MKD]	Torpedo Kutaisi (CW)
Legia Warsaw (2nd)	Olimpija Ljubljana (CW)	Inter Turku (CW)	Dinamo Tbilisi (2nd)
Cracovia (4th)	Domžale (3rd)	RoPS (2nd)	Chikhura Sachkhere (4th)
IFK Norrköping (2nd)	Mura (4th)	KuPS (3rd)	Alashkert (CW)
Malmö FF (3rd)	Vaduz (CW)	Cork City (2nd)	Pyunik (2nd)
Neftçi Baku (2nd)	Spartak Trnava (CW)	Shamrock Rovers (3rd)	Banants (3rd)
Sabail (3rd)	DAC Dunajská Streda (2nd)	St Patrick's Athletic (5th)[Note IRL]	Balzan (CW)
CSKA Sofia (2nd)	Ružomberok (3rd)	Zrinjski Mostar (2nd)	Hibernians (2nd)
Levski Sofia (PW)	Milsami Orhei (2nd)	Široki Brijeg (3rd)	Gżira United (3rd)
Radnički Niš (2nd)	Petrocub Hîncești (3rd)	Radnik Bijeljina (5th)[Note BIH]	Fola Esch (2nd)
Čukarički (4th)	Speranța Nisporeni (4th)	Ventspils (2nd)	Jeunesse Esch (3rd)
Rangers (2nd)	Kukësi (CW)	RFS (3rd)	Crusaders (CW)
Kilmarnock (3rd)	Teuta (3rd)	Liepāja (4th)	Connah's Quay Nomads (2nd)
Aberdeen (4th)	Laçi (6th)[Note ALB]	Narva Trans (CW)	B36 Tórshavn (CW)
Shakhtyor Soligorsk (CW)	Stjarnan (CW)	FCI Levadia (2nd)

Preliminary round

Progrès Niederkorn (4th)	Cardiff Metropolitan University (PW)	St Joseph's (3rd)	La Fiorita (2nd)
Ballymena United (2nd)	NSÍ Runavík (2nd)	Engordany (CW)	Prishtina (2nd)
Cliftonville (PW)	KÍ Klaksvík (4th)	Sant Julià (2nd)
Barry Town United (3rd)	Europa (CW)	Tre Fiori (CW)

One team not playing a national top division took part in the competition; Vaduz (representing Liechtenstein) played in 2018–19 Swiss Challenge League, which is Switzerland's 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).^[23] Matches may also be played on Tuesdays or Wednesdays instead of the regular Thursdays due to scheduling conflicts.

The competition was suspended on 17 March 2020 due to the 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Europe.^[4] A working group was set up by UEFA to decide the calendar of the remainder of the season.^[6]

Preliminary round

In the preliminary round, teams were divided into seeded and unseeded teams based on their 2019 UEFA club coefficients,^[24] and then drawn into two-legged home-and-away ties. Teams from the same association could not be drawn against each other.

The draw for the preliminary round was held on 11 June 2019, 13:00 CEST.^[25] The first legs were played on 27 June, and the second legs on 2 and 4 July 2019.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Progrès Niederkorn	2–2 (a)	Cardiff Metropolitan University	1–0	1–2
La Fiorita	1–3	Engordany	0–1	1–2
Sant Julià	3–6	Europa	3–2	0–4
Ballymena United	2–0	NSÍ Runavík	2–0	0–0
Prishtina	1–3	St Joseph's	1–1	0–2
KÍ Klaksvík	9–1[A]	Tre Fiori	5–1	4–0
Barry Town United	0–4	Cliftonville	0–0	0–4

Notes

Qualifying rounds

In the qualifying rounds and the play-off round, teams are divided into seeded and unseeded teams based on their 2019 UEFA club coefficients,^[24] 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 18 June 2019, 15:30 CEST.^[26] The first legs were played on 9, 10 and 11 July, and the second legs on 16, 17 and 18 July 2019.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Malmö FF	11–0	Ballymena United	7–0	4–0
Connah's Quay Nomads	3–2	Kilmarnock	1–2	2–0
KuPS	3–1[A]	Vitebsk	2–0	1–1
Breiðablik	1–2	Vaduz	0–0	1–2
Brann	3–4	Shamrock Rovers	2–2	1–2
Ordabasy	3–0	Torpedo Kutaisi	1–0	2–0
Europa	0–3	Legia Warsaw	0–0	0–3
CSKA Sofia	4–0	Titograd	4–0	0–0
Gżira United	3–3 (a)	Hajduk Split	0–2	3–1
Flora	4–2[A]	Radnički Niš	2–0	2–2
Maccabi Haifa	5–2	Mura	2–0	3–2
Debrecen	4–1	Kukësi	3–0	1–1
Čukarički	8–0	Banants	3–0	5–0
Jeunesse Esch	1–1 (a)	Tobol	0–0	1–1
FCSB	4–1	Milsami Orhei	2–0	2–1
Crusaders	5–2	B36 Tórshavn	2–0	3–2
Brøndby	4–3[A]	Inter Turku	4–1	0–2
Molde	7–1	KR	7–1	0–0
St Joseph's	0–10	Rangers	0–4	0–6
Cork City	2–3	Progrès Niederkorn	0–2	2–1
Ružomberok	0–4[A]	Levski Sofia	0–2	0–2
Akademija Pandev	0–6	Zrinjski Mostar	0–3	0–3
Speranța Nisporeni	0–9[A]	Neftçi Baku	0–3	0–6
Zeta	1–5	Fehérvár	1–5	0–0
Shakhtyor Soligorsk	2–0	Hibernians	1–0	1–0
Olimpija Ljubljana	4–3	RFS	2–3	2–0
Honvéd	4–2	Žalgiris	3–1	1–1
Alashkert	6–1	Makedonija GP	3–1	3–0
Radnik Bijeljina	2–2 (2–3 p)	Spartak Trnava	2–0	0–2 (a.e.t.)
Fola Esch	2–4	Chikhura Sachkhere	1–2	1–2
Dinamo Tbilisi	7–0	Engordany	6–0	1–0
Široki Brijeg	2–4	Kairat	1–2	1–2
DAC Dunajská Streda	3–3 (a)[A]	Cracovia	1–1	2–2 (a.e.t.)
Kauno Žalgiris	0–6	Apollon Limassol	0–2	0–4
Ventspils	3–1	Teuta	3–0	0–1
Stjarnan	4–4 (a)	FCI Levadia	2–1	2–3 (a.e.t.)
Cliftonville	1–6	Haugesund	0–1	1–5
Riteriai	1–1 (a)	KÍ Klaksvík	1–1	0–0
Liepāja	3–2[A]	Dinamo Minsk	1–1	2–1
St Patrick's Athletic	1–4[A]	IFK Norrköping	0–2	1–2
Aberdeen	4–2	RoPS	2–1	2–1
Balzan	3–5[A]	Domžale	3–4	0–1
Laçi	1–2	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	1–1	0–1
Narva Trans	1–6[A]	Budućnost Podgorica	0–2	1–4
Sabail	4–6	Universitatea Craiova	2–3	2–3
Pyunik	5–4	Shkupi	3–3	2–1
AEK Larnaca	2–0	Petrocub Hîncești	1–0	1–0

Notes

Second qualifying round

The second qualifying round was split into two separate sections: Champions Path (for league champions) and League Path (for cup winners and league non-champions).

The draw for the second qualifying round was held on 19 June 2019, 12:20 (Champions Path) and 14:00 (Main Path) CEST.^[27] The first legs were played on 23, 24 and 25 July, and the second legs on 30, 31 July and 1 August 2019.

Champions Path

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Sarajevo	Bye	N/A	N/A	N/A
Tre Penne	0–10	Sūduva	0–5	0–5
Piast Gliwice	4–4 (a)	Riga	3–2	1–2
Partizani	1–2	Sheriff Tiraspol	0–1	1–1
Ararat-Armenia	4–1	Lincoln Red Imps	2–0	2–1
Valur	1–5	Ludogorets Razgrad	1–1	0–4
Slovan Bratislava	4–1	Feronikeli	2–1	2–0
FC Santa Coloma	1–4	Astana	0–0	1–4
HB Tórshavn	2–3	Linfield	2–2	0–1
Shkëndija	2–3	F91 Dudelange	1–2	1–1

Main Path

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
IFK Norrköping	3–0	Liepāja	2–0	1–0
Hapoel Be'er Sheva	3–1	Kairat	2–0	1–1
Arsenal Tula	0–4	Neftçi Baku	0–1	0–3
Espanyol	7–1	Stjarnan	4–0	3–1
DAC Dunajská Streda	3–5	Atromitos	1–2	2–3
Haugesund	3–2	Sturm Graz	2–0	1–2
AEK Larnaca	7–0	Levski Sofia	3–0	4–0
Legia Warsaw	1–0	KuPS	1–0	0–0
FC Utrecht	2–3	Zrinjski Mostar	1–1	1–2 (a.e.t.)
Pyunik	2–1	Jablonec	2–1	0–0
Lechia Gdańsk	3–5	Brøndby	2–1	1–4 (a.e.t.)
Fehérvár	1–2	Vaduz	1–0	0–2 (a.e.t.)
Gabala	0–5	Dinamo Tbilisi	0–2	0–3
Yeni Malatyaspor	3–2	Olimpija Ljubljana	2–2	1–0
Flora	2–4	Eintracht Frankfurt	1–2	1–2
Domžale	4–5	Malmö FF	2–2	2–3
Molde	3–1	Čukarički	0–0	3–1
Chikhura Sachkhere	1–6[A]	Aberdeen	1–1	0–5
Gent	7–5	Viitorul Constanța	6–3	1–2
Budućnost Podgorica	1–4	Zorya Luhansk	1–3	0–1
CSKA Sofia	1–1 (4–3 p)	Osijek	1–0	0–1 (a.e.t.)
Torino	7–1	Debrecen	3–0	4–1
Luzern	2–0	KÍ Klaksvík	1–0	1–0
Rangers	2–0	Progrès Niederkorn	2–0	0–0
Ventspils	6–2	Gżira United	4–0	2–2
Strasbourg	4–3	Maccabi Haifa	3–1	1–2
Mladá Boleslav	4–3	Ordabasy	1–1	3–2
Shamrock Rovers	3–4	Apollon Limassol	2–1	1–3 (a.e.t.)
AZ	3–0	BK Häcken	0–0	3–0
Alashkert	3–5	FCSB	0–3	3–2
Lokomotiv Plovdiv	3–3 (a)	Spartak Trnava	2–0	1–3
Wolverhampton Wanderers	6–1	Crusaders	2–0	4–1
Aris	1–0	AEL Limassol	0–0	1–0
Jeunesse Esch	0–5	Vitória de Guimarães	0–1	0–4
Honvéd	0–0 (1–3 p)	Universitatea Craiova	0–0	0–0 (a.e.t.)
Shakhtyor Soligorsk	2–0	Esbjerg	2–0	0–0
Connah's Quay Nomads	0–4	Partizan	0–1	0–3

Notes

Third qualifying round

The third qualifying round was split into two separate sections: Champions Path (for league champions) and League Path (for cup winners and league non-champions).

The draw for the third qualifying round was held on 22 July 2019, 12:25 (Champions Path) and 14:00 (Main Path) CEST.^[28] The first legs were played on 6, 7 and 8 August, and the second legs on 13, 14 and 15 August 2019.

Champions Path

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Sutjeska Nikšić	3–5	Linfield	1–2	2–3
Maccabi Tel Aviv	2–4	Sūduva	1–2	1–2
Ararat-Armenia	3–2	Saburtalo Tbilisi	1–2	2–0
Riga	3–3 (a)	HJK	1–1	2–2
Ludogorets Razgrad	9–0	The New Saints	5–0	4–0
Sarajevo	1–2	BATE Borisov	1–2	0–0
F91 Dudelange	4–1	Nõmme Kalju	3–1	1–0
Astana	9–1	Valletta	5–1	4–0
Sheriff Tiraspol	2–3	AIK	1–2	1–1
Slovan Bratislava	4–1	Dundalk	1–0	3–1

Main Path

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
IFK Norrköping	2–4	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	1–1	1–3
Torino	6–1	Shakhtyor Soligorsk	5–0	1–1
Antwerp	2–2 (a)	Viktoria Plzeň	1–0	1–2 (a.e.t.)
Austria Wien	2–5	Apollon Limassol	1–2	1–3
Feyenoord	5–1	Dinamo Tbilisi	4–0	1–1
Brøndby	3–7	Braga	2–4	1–3
Molde	4–3	Aris	3–0	1–3 (a.e.t.)
Lokomotiv Plovdiv	0–2	Strasbourg	0–1	0–1
Thun	3–5	Spartak Moscow	2–3	1–2
FCSB	1–0	Mladá Boleslav	0–0	1–0
Pyunik	0–8	Wolverhampton Wanderers	0–4	0–4
Midtjylland	3–7	Rangers	2–4	1–3
Mariupol	0–4	AZ	0–0	0–4
AEK Larnaca	1–4	Gent	1–1	0–3
Legia Warsaw	2–0	Atromitos	0–0	2–0
Haugesund	0–1	PSV Eindhoven	0–1	0–0
Rijeka	4–0	Aberdeen	2–0	2–0
Ventspils	0–9	Vitória de Guimarães	0–3	0–6
Vaduz	0–6	Eintracht Frankfurt	0–5	0–1
Partizan	3–2	Yeni Malatyaspor	3–1	0–1
Malmö FF	3–1	Zrinjski Mostar	3–0	0–1
CSKA Sofia	1–2	Zorya Luhansk	1–1	0–1
Neftçi Baku	3–4	Bnei Yehuda	2–2	1–2
Luzern	0–6	Espanyol	0–3	0–3
Sparta Prague	3–4	Trabzonspor	2–2	1–2
Universitatea Craiova	1–3	AEK Athens	0–2	1–1

Play-off round

The play-off round was split into two separate sections: Champions Path (for league champions) and League Path (for cup winners and league non-champions).

The draw for the play-off round was held on 5 August 2019, 13:30 CEST.^[29] The first legs were played on 22 August, and the second legs will be played on 29 August 2019.

Champions Path

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Sūduva	2–4	Ferencváros	0–0	2–4
Copenhagen	3–2	Riga	3–1	0–1
Celtic	6–1	AIK	2–0	4–1
Ararat-Armenia	3–3 (4–5 p)	F91 Dudelange	2–1	1–2 (a.e.t.)
Ludogorets Razgrad	2–2 (a)	Maribor	0–0	2–2
Linfield	4–4 (a)	Qarabağ	3–2	1–2
Slovan Bratislava	3–3 (a)	PAOK	1–0	2–3
Astana	3–2	BATE Borisov	3–0	0–2

Main Path

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Torino	3–5	Wolverhampton Wanderers	2–3	1–2
Legia Warsaw	0–1	Rangers	0–0	0–1
FCSB	0–1	Vitória de Guimarães	0–0	0–1
PSV Eindhoven	7–0	Apollon Limassol	3–0	4–0
AEK Athens	3–3 (a)	Trabzonspor	1–3	2–0
Feyenoord	6–0	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	3–0	3–0
Gent	3–2	Rijeka	2–1	1–1
Espanyol	5–3	Zorya Luhansk	3–1	2–2
Partizan	3–2	Molde	2–1	1–1
Braga	3–1	Spartak Moscow	1–0	2–1
Malmö FF	4–0	Bnei Yehuda	3–0	1–0
Strasbourg	1–3	Eintracht Frankfurt	1–0	0–3
AZ	5–2	Antwerp	1–1	4–1 (a.e.t.)

Group stage

Wolfsberg

LASK

Qarabağ

Standard

Gent

Ludogorets

APOEL

Copenhagen

Arsenal

Man. United

Wolves

Rennes

St.-Étienne

M'gladbach

Wolfsburg

Eintracht

Ferencváros

Rome

Astana
(not on map)

Dudelange

PSV

Feyenoord

AZ

Rosenborg

Cluj

Porto

Sporting

Braga District

CSKA

Krasnodar

Glasgow

Partizan

Slovan

Getafe

Sevilla

Espanyol

Malmö

Lugano

Basel

Young Boys

Istanbul

Trabzonspor

Dyn. Kyiv

Oleksandriya

Braga District teams
Braga
Vitória de Guimarães

Glasgow teams
Celtic
Rangers

Istanbul teams
Beşiktaş
İstanbul Başakşehir

Rome teams
Lazio
Roma

Location of teams of the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League group stage.
Brown: Group A; Green: Group B; Deep Pink: Group C; Yellow: Group D;
Red: Group E; Cyan: Group F; Blue: Group G; Purple: Group H;
Pink: Group I; Turquoise: Group J; Spring Green: Group K; Orange: Group L.

The draw for the group stage was held on 30 August 2019, 13:00 CEST, at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco.^[30] 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.^[24]

In each group, teams play against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The group winners and runners-up advance to the round of 32, where they are joined by the eight third-placed teams of the 2019–20 UEFA Champions League group stage. The matchdays are 19 September, 3 October, 24 October, 7 November, 28 November, and 12 December 2019.

A total of 26 national associations are represented in the group stage. Espanyol, Ferencváros, LASK, Oleksandriya, Wolfsberg and Wolverhampton Wanderers made their debut appearances in the group stage (although Espanyol and Ferencváros had appeared in the UEFA Cup group stage).

Group A

Pos	Team [ v t e ]	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		SEV	APO	QRB	DUD
1	Sevilla	6	5	0	1	14	3	+11	15	Advance to knockout phase		—	1–0	2–0	3–0
2	APOEL	6	3	1	2	10	8	+2	10			1–0	—	2–1	3–4
3	Qarabağ	6	1	2	3	8	11	−3	5			0–3	2–2	—	1–1
4	F91 Dudelange	6	1	1	4	8	18	−10	4			2–5	0–2	1–4	—

Group B

Pos	Team [ v t e ]	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		MAL	KOB	DKV	LUG
1	Malmö FF	6	3	2	1	8	6	+2	11	Advance to knockout phase		—	1–1	4–3	2–1
2	Copenhagen	6	2	3	1	5	4	+1	9			0–1	—	1–1	1–0
3	Dynamo Kyiv	6	1	4	1	7	7	0	7			1–0	1–1	—	1–1
4	Lugano	6	0	3	3	2	5	−3	3			0–0	0–1	0–0	—

Group C

Pos	Team [ v t e ]	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		BSL	GET	KRA	TRA
1	Basel	6	4	1	1	12	4	+8	13	Advance to knockout phase		—	2–1	5–0	2–0
2	Getafe	6	4	0	2	8	4	+4	12			0–1	—	3–0	1–0
3	Krasnodar	6	3	0	3	7	11	−4	9			1–0	1–2	—	3–1
4	Trabzonspor	6	0	1	5	3	11	−8	1			2–2	0–1	0–2	—

Group D

Pos	Team [ v t e ]	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		LASK	SPO	PSV	ROS
1	LASK	6	4	1	1	11	4	+7	13	Advance to knockout phase		—	3–0	4–1	1–0
2	Sporting CP	6	4	0	2	11	7	+4	12			2–1	—	4–0	1–0
3	PSV Eindhoven	6	2	2	2	9	12	−3	8			0–0	3–2	—	1–1
4	Rosenborg	6	0	1	5	3	11	−8	1			1–2	0–2	1–4	—

Group E

Pos	Team [ v t e ]	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		CEL	CLJ	LAZ	REN
1	Celtic	6	4	1	1	10	6	+4	13	Advance to knockout phase		—	2–0	2–1	3–1
2	CFR Cluj	6	4	0	2	6	4	+2	12			2–0	—	2–1	1–0
3	Lazio	6	2	0	4	6	9	−3	6			1–2	1–0	—	2–1
4	Rennes	6	1	1	4	5	8	−3	4			1–1	0–1	2–0	—

Group F

Pos	Team [ v t e ]	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		ARS	FRA	STL	VSC
1	Arsenal	6	3	2	1	14	7	+7	11	Advance to knockout phase		—	1–2	4–0	3–2
2	Eintracht Frankfurt	6	3	0	3	8	10	−2	9			0–3	—	2–1	2–3
3	Standard Liège	6	2	2	2	8	10	−2	8			2–2	2–1	—	2–0
4	Vitória de Guimarães	6	1	2	3	7	10	−3	5			1–1	0–1	1–1	—

Group G

Pos	Team [ v t e ]	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		POR	RAN	YB	FEY
1	Porto	6	3	1	2	8	9	−1	10	Advance to knockout phase		—	1–1	2–1	3–2
2	Rangers	6	2	3	1	8	6	+2	9			2–0	—	1–1	1–0
3	Young Boys	6	2	2	2	8	7	+1	8			1–2	2–1	—	2–0
4	Feyenoord	6	1	2	3	7	9	−2	5			2–0	2–2	1–1	—

Group H

Pos	Team [ v t e ]	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		ESP	LUD	FER	CSKA
1	Espanyol	6	3	2	1	12	4	+8	11	Advance to knockout phase		—	6–0	1–1	0–1
2	Ludogorets Razgrad	6	2	2	2	10	10	0	8			0–1	—	1–1	5–1
3	Ferencváros	6	1	4	1	5	7	−2	7			2–2	0–3	—	0–0
4	CSKA Moscow	6	1	2	3	3	9	−6	5			0–2	1–1	0–1	—

Group I

Pos	Team [ v t e ]	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		GNT	WLF	STE	OLE
1	Gent	6	3	3	0	11	7	+4	12	Advance to knockout phase		—	2–2	3–2	2–1
2	VfL Wolfsburg	6	3	2	1	9	7	+2	11			1–3	—	1–0	3–1
3	Saint-Étienne	6	0	4	2	6	8	−2	4			0–0	1–1	—	1–1
4	Oleksandriya	6	0	3	3	6	10	−4	3			1–1	0–1	2–2	—

Group J

Pos	Team [ v t e ]	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		IBS	ROM	MGB	WLB
1	İstanbul Başakşehir	6	3	1	2	7	9	−2	10	Advance to knockout phase		—	0–3	1–1	1–0
2	Roma	6	2	3	1	12	6	+6	9			4–0	—	1–1	2–2
3	Borussia Mönchengladbach	6	2	2	2	6	9	−3	8			1–2	2–1	—	0–4
4	Wolfsberg	6	1	2	3	7	8	−1	5			0–3	1–1	0–1	—

Group K

Pos	Team [ v t e ]	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		BRA	WOL	SLO	BES
1	Braga	6	4	2	0	15	9	+6	14	Advance to knockout phase		—	3–3	2–2	3–1
2	Wolverhampton Wanderers	6	4	1	1	11	5	+6	13			0–1	—	1–0	4–0
3	Slovan Bratislava	6	1	1	4	10	13	−3	4			2–4	1–2	—	4–2
4	Beşiktaş	6	1	0	5	6	15	−9	3			1–2	0–1	2–1	—

Group L

Pos	Team [ v t e ]	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		MUN	AZ	PAR	AST
1	Manchester United	6	4	1	1	10	2	+8	13	Advance to knockout phase		—	4–0	3–0	1–0
2	AZ	6	2	3	1	15	8	+7	9			0–0	—	2–2	6–0
3	Partizan	6	2	2	2	10	10	0	8			0–1	2–2	—	4–1
4	Astana	6	1	0	5	4	19	−15	3			2–1	0–5	1–2	—

Knockout phase

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 draws for each round 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, quarter-finals and semi-finals, there are no seedings, and teams from the same group or the same association can be drawn against each other. As the draws for the quarter-finals and semi-finals are held together before the quarter-finals are played, the identity of the quarter-final winners is not known at the time of the semi-final draw. A draw is also held to determine which semi-final winner is designated as the "home" team for the final (for administrative purposes as it is played at a neutral venue).

Round of 32

The draw for the round of 32 was held on 16 December 2019, 13:00 CET.^[31] The first legs were played on 20 February, and the second legs were played on 26, 27 and 28 February 2020.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Wolverhampton Wanderers	6–3	Espanyol	4–0	2–3
Sporting CP	4–5	İstanbul Başakşehir	3–1	1–4 (a.e.t.)
Getafe	3–2	Ajax	2–0	1–2
Bayer Leverkusen	5–2	Porto	2–1	3–1
Copenhagen	4–2	Celtic	1–1	3–1
APOEL	0–4	Basel	0–3	0–1
CFR Cluj	1–1 (a)	Sevilla	1–1	0–0
Olympiacos	2–2 (a)	Arsenal	0–1	2–1 (a.e.t.)
AZ	1–3	LASK	1–1	0–2
Club Brugge	1–6	Manchester United	1–1	0–5
Ludogorets Razgrad	1–4	Inter Milan	0–2	1–2
Eintracht Frankfurt	6–3	Red Bull Salzburg	4–1	2–2
Shakhtar Donetsk	5–4	Benfica	2–1	3–3
VfL Wolfsburg	5–1	Malmö FF	2–1	3–0
Roma	2–1	Gent	1–0	1–1
Rangers	4–2	Braga	3–2	1–0