Based on the results of the playoff round of the Champions League qualification, the return matches of which took place yesterday and the day before yesterday, the position of Dynamo Kyiv in the draw for the Europa League group stage became clear.
Recall that 32 teams will play in the group stage of the Europa League. Most of the participants in this stage are already known - this is the winner of the last season's Conference League in the face of Roma, 11 teams from countries with the highest positions in the UEFA coefficients table, 4 losers of the 3rd qualifying round of the Champions League, who played along the "path of non-champions" ( "Storm", "Monaco", "Midtjylland", "Union Saint-Gilloise"), as well as 6 losers of the playoffs of the Champions League qualifying round - Dynamo Kiev, Serbian "Crvena Zvezda", Azerbaijan's Qarabag, Dutch PSV , Norwegian "Bode-Glimt" and Turkish "Trabzonspor".
The remaining 10 berths to the Europa League group stage will be given to the winning teams of the playoff round of this tournament.
During the Europa League group stage draw, the 32 participants in this stage of the tournament will be divided into 4 pots of 8 teams each according to their UEFA club coefficients
Dynamo Kyiv, taking into account its current UEFA club coefficient, will be placed in the 1st pot during the draw, which means it will avoid meeting with the strongest opponents.
If we assume that the teams with the highest UEFA club coefficient in the pair will win the play-off match of the Europa League qualification round, then the composition of the pots during the draw of the Europa League group stage will take on the following form.
Europa League group stage draw. Preliminary composition of the baskets
(club coefficients are indicated opposite)
Basket 1
"Roma" (Rome, Italy) — 100.000
"Manchester United" (England) — 105.000
"Arsenal" (London, England) — 80.000
"Lazio" (Rome, Italy) — 53.000
"Braga" (Portugal) — 46.000
"Red Star" (Belgrade, Serbia) — 46.000
"DYNAMO" (Kyiv, Ukraine) — 44.000
* Olympiacos (Piraeus, Greece) — 41.000
Basket 2
Feyenoord (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) — 40.000
"Rennes" (France) — 33.000
PSV (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) — 33.000
* "Ghent" (Belgium) — 27.500
"Monaco" (France) — 26.000
"Real Sociedad" (Spain) — 26.000
"Karabakh" (Aghdam, Azerbaijan) — 25.000
* "Malmo" (Sweden) — 23.500
Basket 3
* Ludogorets (Razgrad, Bulgaria) — 23.000
* "Sheriff" (Tiraspol, Moldova) — 22.500
"Betis" (Seville, Spain) — 21.000
Midtjylland (Herning, Denmark) — 19.000
"Bude-Glimt" (Bode, Norway) — 17.000
* "Ferencvaros" (Budapest, Hungary) — 15.500
Freiburg (Germany) — 15.042
"Union" (Berlin, Germany) — 15.042
Basket 4
* Fenerbahce (Istanbul, Turkey) — 14.500
"Nantes" (France) — 12.016
* HIK (Helsinki, Finland) — 8.500
"Storm" (Graz, Austria) — 7.700
* AEK (Larnaca, Cyprus) — 7.500
* "Hearts" (Edinburgh, Scotland) — 7.380
"Union St. Gilloise" (Brussels, Belgium) — 6.120
Trabzonspor (Trabzon, Turkey) — 5.500
* - teams that compete in the play-off round of the Europa League qualification.
We add that the draw for the group stage of the Europa League will take place next Friday, August 26.
