2021–22 UEFA Europa League

A total of 58 teams from between 31 and 36 of the 55 UEFA member associations are expected to participate in the 2021–22 UEFA Europa League. Among them, 16 associations have teams directly qualifying for the Europa League, while for the other 39 associations that do not have any teams directly qualifying, between 15 and 20 of them may have teams playing after being transferred from the Champions League (the only member association which cannot have a participant is Liechtenstein, which does not organise a domestic league, and can only enter their cup winner into the Europa Conference League given their association ranking). The association ranking based on the UEFA country coefficients is used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:[5]

• Associations 1–5 each have two teams qualify.
• Associations 6–15 each have one team qualify.
  • As the UEFA Europa Conference League title holders' berth is not used this season, association 16 have one of their teams promoted from the Europa Conference League to the Europa League, so they also have one team qualify.
• Moreover, 37 teams eliminated from the 2021–22 UEFA Champions League are transferred to the Europa League.
• In future seasons, the title holders of the UEFA Europa Conference League will be given an additional entry in the Europa League. However, this berth is not used for this season as the first edition of the UEFA Europa Conference League has not been held.

Association ranking

For the 2021–22 UEFA Europa League, the associations are allocated places according to their 2020 UEFA country coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 2015–16 to 2019–20.[6]

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

Association ranking for 2021–22 UEFA Europa League

Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes 1  Spain 102.283 2 +2 (UCL) 2  England 90.462 3  Germany 74.784 +2 (UCL) 4  Italy 70.653 +1 (UCL) 5  France 59.248 +1 (UCL) 6  Portugal 49.449 1 +1 (UCL) 7  Russia 45.549 +2 (UCL) 8  Belgium 37.900 +1 (UCL) 9  Ukraine 36.100 10  Netherlands 35.750 +1 (UCL) 11  Turkey 33.600 +1 (UCL) 12  Austria 32.925 +1 (UCL) 13  Denmark 29.250 +2 (UCL) 14  Scotland 27.875 +2 (UCL) 15  Czech Republic 27.300 +2 (UCL) 16  Cyprus 26.750 +1 (UCL) 17   Switzerland 26.400 0 18  Greece 26.300 +1 (UCL) 19  Serbia 25.500 +1 (UCL)

Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes 20  Croatia 24.875 0 +1 (UCL) 21  Sweden 22.750 22  Norway 21.750 23  Israel 19.625 24  Kazakhstan 19.250 +1 (UCL) 25  Belarus 18.875 26  Azerbaijan 18.750 +1 (UCL) 27  Bulgaria 17.375 +1 (UCL) 28  Romania 16.700 +1 (UCL) 29  Poland 16.625 +1 (UCL) 30  Slovakia 15.875 +1 (UCL) 31  Liechtenstein 13.500 32  Slovenia 13.000 +1 (UCL) 33  Hungary 12.875 +1 (UCL) 34  Luxembourg 8.000 35  Lithuania 7.875 +1 (UCL) 36  Armenia 7.625 +1 (UCL) 37  Latvia 7.625

Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes 38  Albania 7.375 0 39  North Macedonia 7.375 40  Bosnia and Herzegovina 6.875 41  Moldova 6.750 +1 (UCL) 42  Republic of Ireland 6.700 43  Finland 6.500 +1 (UCL) 44  Georgia 5.750 45  Malta 5.750 46  Iceland 5.375 47  Wales 5.000 48  Northern Ireland 4.875 49  Gibraltar 4.750 +1 (UCL) 50  Montenegro 4.375 51  Estonia 4.375 +1 (UCL) 52  Kosovo 4.000 53  Faroe Islands 3.750 54  Andorra 2.831 55  San Marino 0.666

Teams

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:

• CW: Cup winners
• 4th, 5th, etc.: League position of the previous season
• UCL: Transferred from the Champions League
  • GS: Third-placed teams from the group stage
  • CH/LP PO: Losers from the play-off round (Champions/League Path)
  • CH/LP Q3: Losers from the third qualifying round (Champions/League Path)
  • CH/LP Q2: Losers from the second qualifying round (Champions/League Path)

The third qualifying round is divided into Champions Path (CH) and Main Path (MP).

CC: 2021 UEFA club coefficients.[8]

Qualified teams for 2021–22 UEFA Europa League

Entry round		Teams
Knockout round play-offs		RB Leipzig (UCL GS)	Porto (UCL GS)	Borussia Dortmund (UCL GS)	Sheriff Tiraspol (UCL GS)
		Barcelona (UCL GS)	Atalanta (UCL GS)	Sevilla (UCL GS)	Zenit Saint Petersburg (UCL GS)
Group stage		Real Sociedad (5th)	Real Betis (6th)	Leicester City (CW)	West Ham United (6th)
		Eintracht Frankfurt (5th)	Bayer Leverkusen (6th)	Napoli (5th)	Lazio (6th)
		Lyon (4th)	Marseille (5th)	Braga (CW)	Lokomotiv Moscow (CW)
		Brøndby (UCL CH PO)	Dinamo Zagreb (UCL CH PO)	Ludogorets Razgrad (UCL CH PO)	Ferencváros (UCL CH PO)
		Monaco (UCL LP PO)	PSV Eindhoven (UCL LP PO)	Spartak Moscow (UCL LP Q3)	Genk (UCL LP Q3)
		Midtjylland (UCL LP Q3)	Sparta Prague (UCL LP Q3)
Play-off round		Antwerp (3rd)	Zorya Luhansk (3rd)	AZ (3rd)	Fenerbahçe (3rd)
		Sturm Graz (3rd)	Randers (CW)	Rangers (UCL CH Q3)	Slavia Prague (UCL CH Q3)
		Olympiacos (UCL CH Q3)	Red Star Belgrade (UCL CH Q3)	CFR Cluj (UCL CH Q3)	Legia Warsaw (UCL CH Q3)
Third qualifying round	CH	Omonia (UCL CH Q2)	Kairat (UCL CH Q2)	Neftçi Baku (UCL CH Q2)	Slovan Bratislava (UCL CH Q2)
		Mura (UCL CH Q2)	Žalgiris (UCL CH Q2)	Alashkert (UCL CH Q2)	HJK (UCL CH Q2)
		Lincoln Red Imps (UCL CH Q2)	Flora (UCL CH Q2)
	MP	St Johnstone (CW)	Jablonec (3rd)	Anorthosis Famagusta (CW)	Galatasaray (UCL LP Q2)
		Rapid Wien (UCL LP Q2)	Celtic (UCL LP Q2)

The schedule of the competition is as follows.[9] Matches are scheduled for Thursdays apart from the final, which takes place on a Wednesday, though exceptionally can take place on Tuesdays or Wednesdays due to scheduling conflicts. Scheduled kick-off times starting from the group stage are 18:45 (instead of 18:55 previously) and 21:00 CEST/CET, though exceptionally can take place at 16:30 due to geographical reasons.[10]

All draws start at 13:00 or 13:30 CEST/CET and are held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. On 16 July 2021, UEFA announced that the group stage draw will be held in Istanbul, Turkey.[11]

Sociedad

Betis

Leicester

West Ham

Eintracht

Leverkusen

Napoli

Lazio

Monaco

Lyon

Marseille

Braga

Moscow

Genk

Antwerp

PSV

Istanbul

Rapid

Sturm

Brøndby

Midtjylland

Glasgow

Sparta

Olympiacos

Red Star

Dinamo

Ludogorets

Legia

Ferencváros

Glasgow teams
Celtic
Rangers

Istanbul teams
Fenerbahçe
Galatasaray

Moscow teams
Lokomotiv Moscow
Spartak Moscow

Location of teams of the 2021–22 UEFA Europa League group stage.
Brown: Group A; Red: Group B; Orange: Group C; Yellow: Group D;
Green: Group E; Blue: Group F; Purple: Group G; Pink: Group H.

The draw for the group stage was held on 27 August 2021, 12:00 CEST (13:00 TRT), in Istanbul, Turkey.[11][14] The 32 teams were drawn into eight groups of four. For the draw, the teams were seeded into four pots, each of eight teams, based on their 2021 UEFA club coefficients.[8] Teams from the same association could not be drawn into the same group. Prior to the draw, UEFA formed pairings of teams from the same association, including those playing in the Europa Conference League group stage (one pairing for associations with two or three teams, two pairings for associations with four or five teams), based on television audiences, where one team was drawn into Groups A–D and another team was drawn into Groups E–H, so that the two teams would have different kick-off times.[15]

The matches were played on 15–16 September, 30 September, 19–21 October, 4 November, 24–25 November, and 9 December 2021. The winners of each group advanced to the round of 16, while the runners-up advanced to the knockout round play-offs. The third-placed teams were transferred to the Europa Conference League knockout round play-offs, while the fourth-placed teams were eliminated from European competitions for the season.

Brøndby and West Ham United made their debut appearances in the Europa League group stage (although Brøndby had previously appeared in the UEFA Cup group stage).

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		LYO	RAN	SPP	BRO
1	Lyon	6	5	1	0	16	5	+11	16	Advance to round of 16		—	1–1	3–0	3–0
2	Rangers	6	2	2	2	6	5	+1	8	Advance to knockout round play-offs		0–2	—	2–0	2–0
3	Sparta Prague	6	2	1	3	6	9	−3	7	Transfer to Europa Conference League		3–4	1–0	—	2–0
4	Brøndby	6	0	2	4	2	11	−9	2			1–3	1–1	0–0	—

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		MON	RSO	PSV	STU
1	Monaco	6	3	3	0	7	4	+3	12	Advance to round of 16		—	2–1	0–0	1–0
2	Real Sociedad	6	2	3	1	9	6	+3	9	Advance to knockout round play-offs		1–1	—	3–0	1–1
3	PSV Eindhoven	6	2	2	2	9	8	+1	8	Transfer to Europa Conference League		1–2	2–2	—	2–0
4	Sturm Graz	6	0	2	4	3	10	−7	2			1–1	0–1	1–4	—

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		SPM	NAP	LEI	LEG
1	Spartak Moscow	6	3	1	2	10	9	+1	10[lower-alpha 1]	Advance to round of 16		—	2–1	3–4	0–1
2	Napoli	6	3	1	2	15	10	+5	10[lower-alpha 1]	Advance to knockout round play-offs		2–3	—	3–2	3–0
3	Leicester City	6	2	2	2	12	11	+1	8	Transfer to Europa Conference League		1–1	2–2	—	3–1
4	Legia Warsaw	6	2	0	4	4	11	−7	6			0–1	1–4	1–0	—

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Notes:

1. Head–to–head points: Spartak Moscow 6, Napoli 0.

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		FRA	OLY	FEN	ANT
1	Eintracht Frankfurt	6	3	3	0	10	6	+4	12	Advance to round of 16		—	3–1	1–1	2–2
2	Olympiacos	6	3	0	3	8	7	+1	9	Advance to knockout round play-offs		1–2	—	1–0	2–1
3	Fenerbahçe	6	1	3	2	7	8	−1	6	Transfer to Europa Conference League		1–1	0–3	—	2–2
4	Antwerp	6	1	2	3	6	10	−4	5			0–1	1–0	0–3	—

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Group E

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		GAL	LAZ	MAR	LOK
1	Galatasaray	6	3	3	0	7	3	+4	12	Advance to round of 16		—	1–0	4–2	1–1
2	Lazio	6	2	3	1	7	3	+4	9	Advance to knockout round play-offs		0–0	—	0–0	2–0
3	Marseille	6	1	4	1	6	7	−1	7	Transfer to Europa Conference League		0–0	2–2	—	1–0
4	Lokomotiv Moscow	6	0	2	4	2	9	−7	2			0–1	0–3	1–1	—

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Group F

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		RSB	BRA	MID	LUD
1	Red Star Belgrade	6	3	2	1	6	4	+2	11	Advance to round of 16		—	2–1	0–1	1–0
2	Braga	6	3	1	2	12	9	+3	10	Advance to knockout round play-offs		1–1	—	3–1	4–2
3	Midtjylland	6	2	3	1	7	7	0	9	Transfer to Europa Conference League		1–1	3–2	—	1–1
4	Ludogorets Razgrad	6	0	2	4	3	8	−5	2			0–1	0–1	0–0	—

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Group G

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		LEV	BET	CEL	FER
1	Bayer Leverkusen	6	4	1	1	14	5	+9	13	Advance to round of 16		—	4–0	3–2	2–1
2	Real Betis	6	3	1	2	12	12	0	10	Advance to knockout round play-offs		1–1	—	4–3	2–0
3	Celtic	6	3	0	3	13	15	−2	9	Transfer to Europa Conference League		0–4	3–2	—	2–0
4	Ferencváros	6	1	0	5	5	12	−7	3			1–0	1–3	2–3	—

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Group H

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		WHU	DZA	RWI	GNK
1	West Ham United	6	4	1	1	11	3	+8	13	Advance to round of 16		—	0–1	2–0	3–0
2	Dinamo Zagreb	6	3	1	2	9	6	+3	10	Advance to knockout round play-offs		0–2	—	3–1	1–1
3	Rapid Wien	6	2	0	4	4	9	−5	6	Transfer to Europa Conference League		0–2	2–1	—	0–1
4	Genk	6	1	2	3	4	10	−6	5			2–2	0–3	0–1	—

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

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 knockout round play-offs, the eight group runners-up were seeded, and the eight Champions League group third-placed teams were unseeded. The seeded teams were drawn against the unseeded teams, with the seeded teams hosting the second leg. Teams from the same association could not be drawn against each other.
• In the draw for the round of 16, the eight group winners are seeded, and the eight winners of the knockout round play-offs are unseeded. The seeded teams are drawn against the unseeded teams, with the seeded teams hosting the second leg. Teams from the same association cannot be drawn against each other.
• In the draws for the quarter-finals and semi-finals, there were no seedings, and teams from the same association could be drawn against each other. As the draws for the quarter-finals and semi-finals were held together before the quarter-finals were played, the identity of the quarter-final winners was not known at the time of the semi-final draw. A draw was also held to determine which semi-final winner was designated as the "home" team for the final (for administrative purposes as it is played at a neutral venue).

Bracket

	Knockout round play-offs						Round of 16						Quarter-finals						Semi-finals						Final
	Sevilla	3	0	3
	Dinamo Zagreb	1	1	2
							Sevilla	1	0	1
							West Ham United (a.e.t.)	0	2	2
													West Ham United	1	3	4
													Lyon	1	0	1
	Porto	2	2	4
	Lazio	1	2	3
							Porto	0	1	1
							Lyon	1	1	2
																			West Ham United	1
																			Eintracht Frankfurt	2
	Zenit Saint Petersburg	2	0	2
	Real Betis	3	0	3
							Real Betis	1	1	2
							Eintracht Frankfurt (a.e.t.)	2	1	3
													Eintracht Frankfurt	1	3	4
													Barcelona	1	2	3
	Barcelona	1	4	5
	Napoli	1	2	3
							Barcelona	0	2	2
							Galatasaray	0	1	1
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																									Winners of semi-final 2
																									Winners of semi-final 1
	RB Leipzig	2	3	5
	Real Sociedad	2	1	3
							RB Leipzig[upper-alpha 1]	—	—	w/o
							Spartak Moscow	—	—
													RB Leipzig	1	2	3
													Atalanta	1	0	1
	Atalanta	2	3	5
	Olympiacos	1	0	1
							Atalanta	3	1	4
							Bayer Leverkusen	2	0	2
																			RB Leipzig	1
																			Rangers	0
	Sheriff Tiraspol	2	0	2 (2)
	Braga (p)	0	2	2 (3)
							Braga	2	1	3
							Monaco	0	1	1
													Braga	1	1	2
													Rangers (a.e.t.)	0	3	3
	Borussia Dortmund	2	2	4
	Rangers	4	2	6
							Rangers	3	1	4
							Red Star Belgrade	0	2	2

Knockout round play-offs

The draw for the knockout round play-offs was held on 13 December 2021, 13:00 CET.[16] The first legs were played on 17 February, and the second legs were played on 24 February 2022.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Sevilla	3–2	Dinamo Zagreb	3–1	0–1
Atalanta	5–1	Olympiacos	2–1	3–0
RB Leipzig	5–3	Real Sociedad	2–2	3–1
Barcelona	5–3	Napoli	1–1	4–2
Zenit Saint Petersburg	2–3	Real Betis	2–3	0–0
Borussia Dortmund	4–6	Rangers	2–4	2–2
Sheriff Tiraspol	2–2 (2–3 p)	Braga	2–0	0–2 (a.e.t.)
Porto	4–3	Lazio	2–1	2–2

Round of 16

The draw for the round of 16 was held on 25 February 2022, 12:00 CET.[17] The first legs were played on 9 and 10 March, and the second legs were played on 17 March 2022.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Rangers	4–2	Red Star Belgrade	3–0	1–2
Braga	3–1	Monaco	2–0	1–1
Porto	1–2	Lyon	0–1	1–1
Atalanta	4–2	Bayer Leverkusen	3–2	1–0
Sevilla	1–2	West Ham United	1–0	0–2 (a.e.t.)
Barcelona	2–1	Galatasaray	0–0	2–1
RB Leipzig	w/o[upper-alpha 1]	Spartak Moscow	Canc.	Canc.
Real Betis	2–3	Eintracht Frankfurt	1–2	1–1 (a.e.t.)

Notes

1. RB Leipzig won on walkover as UEFA suspended Spartak Moscow due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[18]

Quarter-finals

The draw for the quarter-finals was held on 18 March 2022, 13:30 CET.[19] The first legs were played on 7 April, and the second legs were played on 14 April 2022.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
RB Leipzig	3–1	Atalanta	1–1	2–0
Eintracht Frankfurt	4–3	Barcelona	1–1	3–2
West Ham United	4–1	Lyon	1–1	3–0
Braga	2–3	Rangers	1–0	1–3 (a.e.t.)

Semi-finals

The draw for the semi-finals was held on 18 March 2022, 13:30 CET, after the quarter-final draw.[19] The first legs were played on 28 April, and the second legs will be played on 5 May 2022.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
RB Leipzig	1	Rangers	1–0	5 May
West Ham United	2	Eintracht Frankfurt	1–2	5 May

Final

Main article: 2022 UEFA Europa League Final

The final will be played on 18 May 2022 at the Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán in Seville. A draw was held on 18 March 2022, after the quarter-final and semi-final draws, to determine the "home" team for administrative purposes.[19]

18 May 2022 (2022-05-18)

21:00 CEST

Winners of semi-final 2	v	Winners of semi-final 1
	Report

Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán, Seville

Statistics exclude qualifying rounds and play-off round.

Top goalscorers

Rank[20]	Player	Team(s)	Goals	Minutes played
1	Karl Toko Ekambi	Lyon	6	583
	Galeno[upper-alpha 1]	Braga Porto		657
	James Tavernier	Rangers		1110
4	Patson Daka	Leicester City	5	416
	Daichi Kamada	Eintracht Frankfurt		898
6	Aleksandr Sobolev	Spartak Moscow	4	311
	Victor Osimhen	Napoli		321
	Arkadiusz Milik	Marseille		351
	Ciro Immobile	Lazio		524
	Borja Iglesias	Real Betis		556
	Elif Elmas	Napoli		617
	Moussa Diaby	Bayer Leverkusen		623
	Mislav Oršić	Dinamo Zagreb		672
	Alfredo Morelos	Rangers		680
	Ricardo Horta	Braga		1119

Notes

1. Galeno played for Braga in the group stage and for Porto in the knockout stage, after his transfer during the January transfer window.

Top assists

Rank[21]	Player	Team	Assists	Minutes played
1	Filip Kostić	Eintracht Frankfurt	5	930
2	Florian Wirtz	Bayer Leverkusen	4	437
	Iuri Medeiros	Braga		674
	Ricardo Horta	Braga		1119
5	Kelechi Iheanacho	Leicester City	3	273
	Aleksandr Golovin	Monaco		331
	Andrea Petagna	Napoli		340
	Mario Götze	PSV Eindhoven		421
	Sergio Canales	Real Betis		495
	Victor Moses	Spartak Moscow		525
	Nabil Fekir	Real Betis		596
	Moussa Diaby	Bayer Leverkusen		623
	Pablo Fornals	West Ham United		640
	Joe Aribo	Rangers		966

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