After the return play-off matches of the Europa League qualification round took place last Thursday, not only the list of participants of the main stage of the tournament became known, but also the composition of the baskets in the draw for this stage.
Recall, from this season in the Europa League will no longer be a group stage of 32 teams: now the main stage of the tournament will be a single league of 36 teams, each of which will play 8 matches against different teams: 4 at home and 4 away.
The draw for the main stage of the Europa League will determine the eight opponents for each of the 36 teams. For this purpose, before the draw procedure, the participants will be distributed into 4 baskets with 9 teams in each. During the draw each team will get two opponents from each basket, with one of which will play at home and with the other away (with whom exactly at home and with whom away will also be determined by the draw).
The UEFA club coefficients will be traditionally used to form the baskets.
The composition of the baskets in the draw for the main stage of the Europa League draw
Basket 1
"Roma" (Rome, Italy) - 101.000
"Manchester United" (Manchester, England) - 92.000
"Porto" ( Portugal) - 77.000
"Ajax" (Amsterdam, Netherlands) - 67.000
"Rangers" (Glasgow, Scotland) - 63.000
"Eintracht" (Frankfurt, Germany) - 60.000
"Lazio" (Rome, Italy) - 54.000
"Tottenham" (London, England) - 54.000
"Slavia" (Czech Republic, Prague) - 53.000
Basket 2
"Real Sociedad" (San Sebastian, Spain) - 51.000
AZ (Alkmaar, Netherlands) - 50.000
"Braga" ( Portugal) - 49.000
"Olympiacos" (Piraeus, Greece) - 48.000
"Lyon" ( France) - 44.000
PAOK (Thessaloniki, Greece) - 37.000
Fenerbahce (Istanbul, Turkey) - 36.000
Maccabi (Tel Aviv, Israel) - 35.500
Ferencvaros (Budapest, Hungary) - 35.000
Basket 3
"Karabakh" (Agdam, Azerbaijan) - 33.000
"Galatasaray" (Istanbul, Turkey) - 31.500
"Viktoria" (Plzeň, Czech Republic) - 28.000
"Bude-Glimt" (Bude, Norway) - 28.000
Union St. Gillois (Brussels, Belgium) - 27.000
DYNAMO (Kyiv, Ukraine) - 26.500
Ludogorets (Razgrad, Bulgaria) - 26.000
Middtjylland (Herning, Denmark) - 25.500
Malmo ( Sweden ) - 18.500
Basket 4
"Athletic" (Bilbao, Spain) - 17.897
"Hoffenheim" (Sinsheim, Germany) - 17.324
"Nice" ( France) - 17.000
"Anderlecht" (Brussels, Belgium) - 14.500
"Twente" (Enschede, Netherlands) - 12.260
"Besiktas" (Istanbul, Turkey) - 12.000
"Steaua" (Bucharest, Romania) - 12.260
RFU (Riga, Latvia) - 8.000
"Elfsborg" (Buros, Sweden) - 4.300.
Opposite the teams are their UEFA club coefficients.
We would like to add that the draw for the main stage of the Europa League will be held today, August 30 (starting at 14:00 Kyiv time). The tournament itself will start on September 25.
