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
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

The draw for the first and second qualifying rounds was held on Monday, 22 June 2009 in Nyon, Switzerland. The first leg matches were held on 1 July and 2 July, while the second legs were played on 9 July 2009.

The only seeded teams to be eliminated were Keflavík and Sligo Rovers.

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Sutjeska Nikšić	2–3	MTZ-RIPO	1–1	1–2 (aet)
Lahti	4–3	Dinamo Tirana	4–1	0–2
Grevenmacher	0–6	Vėtra	0–31	0–3
NSÍ Runavík	1–6	Rosenborg	0–32	1–3
Haladás	(a)2–2	Irtysh	1–0	1–29
Sligo Rovers	2–3	Vllaznia	1–2	1–1
Olimpi Rustavi	4–0	B36 Tórshavn	2–0	2–0
Anorthosis	7–1	Käerjéng	5–0	2–110
Slaven Belupo	1–0	Birkirkara	1–0	0–011
Zimbru Chişinău	3–2	Okzhetpes	1–2	2–0
Lisburn Distillery	1–11	Zestaponi	1–53	0–6
Helsingborg	4–2	MIKA	3–1	1–1
Valletta	5–2	Keflavík	3–04	2–2
Dinaburg	2–1	Nõmme Kalju	2–1	0–012
Budućnost	1–2	Polonia Warsaw	0–2	1–0
Narva Trans	1–6	Rudar Velenje	0–35	1–3
Motherwell	3–1	Llanelli	0–16	3–0
Banants	1–2	Široki Brijeg	0–27	1–0
Spartak Trnava	5–2	Inter Baku	2–1	3–113
Dinamo Minsk	3–2	Renova	2–1	1–114
Randers	7–0	Linfield	4–0	3–015
Simurq Zaqatala	0–4	Bnei Yehuda	0–18	0–3
Fram	4–2	The New Saints	2–1	2–1

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.

Notes

• Note 1: Played in Luxembourg at Stade Josy Barthel as Grevenmacher's Op Flohr Stadion did not meet UEFA criteria.
• Note 2: Played in Tórshavn at Gundadalur as NSÍ Runavík's Runavík Stadium did not meet UEFA criteria.
• Note 3: Played in Lurgan at Mourneview Park as Lisburn Distillery's New Grosvenor Stadium is undergoing renovative work.
• Note 4: Played in Ta' Qali at Ta' Qali National Stadium.
• Note 5: Played in Tallinn at A. Le Coq Arena as Narva Trans's Kreenholmi Staadion did not meet UEFA criteria.
• Note 6: Played in Airdrie at Excelsior Stadium as Motherwell's Fir Park is undergoing extensive renovative work.
• Note 7: Played in Yerevan at Hanrapetakan Stadium as Banants's Banants Stadium did not meet UEFA criteria.
• Note 8: Played in Baku at Tofik Bakhramov Stadium as Simurq Zaqatala's Zaqatala City Stadium did not meet UEFA criteria.
• Note 9: Played in Karagandy at Shakhtyor Stadium as Irtysh's Pavlodar Central Stadium did not meet UEFA criteria.
• Note 10: Played in Luxembourg at Stade Josy Barthel as Käerjéng's Stade um Bëchel did not meet UEFA criteria.
• Note 11: Played in Ta' Qali at Ta' Qali National Stadium.
• Note 12: Played in Tallinn at A. Le Coq Arena as Nõmme Kalju's Hiiu Stadium did not meet UEFA criteria.
• Note 13: Played in Baku at Tofik Bakhramov Stadium as Inter Baku's Shafa Stadium did not meet UEFA criteria.
• Note 14: Played in Skopje at Gradski Stadion as Renova's City Stadium Tetovo did not meet UEFA criteria.
• Note 15: Played in Lurgan at Mourneview Park as Linfield's Windsor Park did not meet UEFA criteria.

[edit] Second qualifying round

For the draw clubs were separated into seeded and unseeded teams based on their club coefficient, and because the draw for this round took place before the first qualifying round matches were played, the teams were seeded as if the higher-ranked side in the previous round will be victorious. The first leg matches will be played on 14 July and 16 July, while the second legs will be played on 23 July 2009.

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Rosenborg	1	Karabakh	16 July	23 July
Zimbru Chişinău	2	Paços de Ferreira	16 July	23 July
Polonia Warsaw	3	Juvenes/Dogana	16 July	23 July
Sturm Graz	4	Široki Brijeg	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
Anorthosis	8	Petrovac	16 July	23 July
St Patrick's Athletic	9	Valletta	16 July	23 July
Omonia	10	HB	16 July	23 July
Gorica	11	Lahti	16 July	23 July
Sigma Olomouc	12	Fram	16 July	23 July
Legia Warsaw	13	Olimpi Rustavi	16 July	23 July
Falkirk	14	Vaduz	16 July	23 July
Elfsborg	15	Haladás	16 July	23 July
Rapid Wien	16	Vllaznia	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	Randers	16 July	23 July
Vėtra	21	HJK Helsinki	16 July	23 July
Milano	22	Slaven Belupo	16 July	23 July
Dinamo Minsk	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	MTZ-RIPO	16 July	23 July
Crusaders	29	Rabotnički	14 July	23 July
Bnei Yehuda	30	Dinaburg	16 July	23 July
NAC Breda	31	Gandzasar	16 July	23 July
Cherno More	32	Iskra-Stal	16 July	23 July
Sevojno	33	FBK Kaunas	16 July	23 July
Flamurtari Vlorë	34	Motherwell	16 July	23 July
Zestaponi	35	Helsingborg	16 July	23 July
Skonto	36	Derry City	16 July	23 July
Sliema Wanderers	37	Maccabi Netanya	14 July	23 July
Tobol	38	Galatasaray	16 July	23 July
Rudar Velenje	39	Red Star Belgrade	16 July	23 July
Sarajevo	40	Spartak Trnava	16 July	23 July

Rabotnički was originally drawn to play the first leg at home, but his tie was reversed so that Crusaders would host the first leg.

[edit] Third qualifying round

Because the draw for this round will take place before the second qualifying round matches are played, the teams will be ranked as if the seeded side in the previous round was victorious. As a result, seedings of the third qualifying round are as follows:

[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)