Kicks off the ninth season’s Europa League

From August 14 to may 16 of 48 European clubs (+8 participants of the Champions League) will compete for the victory in the second most prestigious European Cup tournament.

Europa League this year have collected a representative list: Arsenal, AC Milan, Villarreal, Everton, Marseille, Lyon, Hoffenheim, Lazio and “nice” and other clubs will provide competition appropriate status.

Ukraine in the Europa League will represent Dynamo Kyiv and Zorya. Dynamo is considered the absolute favorite to top the group, where the team of Alexander Khatskevich will play “young boys”, “Skenderbeu” and “Partisan”, and “dawn” in his second season in the group stage of the Europa League will compete with Atletico, “Hertha” and “Ostersundom”.

The participants of the group stage of the Europa League:

Group A: “Villarreal”, “Maccabi” Tel Aviv, “Astana”, “Slavia” Prague
Group B: “Dynamo Kiev”, “Young Boys”, “Guerilla”, “Skenderbeu”
Group: “Braga”, “Ludogorets”, “Hoffenheim”, “Istanbul”
Group D: “Milan”, “Austria”, “Rijeka”, AEK
Group E: Lyon, Everton, Atalanta, Apollo
Group F: “Copenhagen”, “Locomotive”, “Sheriff”, “Fastav Zlín”
Group G: FC Viktoria Plzeň, Steaua, Hapoel Be’er Sheva, “Lugano”
Group H: Arsenal, BATE, “Cologne”, “Crvena Zvezda”
Group I: “RB Salzburg”, “Marseille”, “Vitoria Guimaraes”, “Konyaspor”
Group J: “Athletic”, “Geert”, “Dawn”, “Ostersund”
Group K: “Lazio”, “Nice”, “Zulte Waregem”, “Vitesse”
Group L: “Zenith”, “Real Sociedad”, “Rosenborg”, “Vardar”

The bookies favorites for the Europa League I think Arsenal, AC Milan, Lazio and Lyon. However, the contenders for the title too early to tell. The Europa League has always been distinguished by unpredictability, also in December, the tournament will join the eight teams, who took third place in the group stage of the Champions League.

The group stage of the Europa League will take place from 14 September to 7 December. The playoffs will start on February 15 and will end may 16 final match in Lyon.

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