2019–20 UEFA Europa League

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2019–20 UEFA Europa League

Tournament details
Dates	Qualifying: 27 June – 29 August 2019 Competition proper: 19 September 2019 – 27 May 2020
Teams	Competition proper: 48+8 Total (expected): 158+57
← 2018–19

The 2019–20 UEFA Europa League will be the 49th season of Europe's secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 11th season since it was renamed from the UEFA Cup to the UEFA Europa League.

The final will be played at the Stadion Energa Gdańsk in Gdańsk, Poland. The winners of the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League will earn the right to play against the winners of the 2019–20 UEFA Champions League in the 2020 UEFA Super Cup. They will also automatically qualify for the 2020–21 UEFA Champions League group stage, and if they have already qualified through their league performance, the berth reserved will be given to the third-placed team of the 5th-ranked association according to next season's access list.

Association team allocation

A total of 215 teams from all 55 UEFA member associations are expected to participate in the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League. The association ranking based on the UEFA country coefficients is used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:

• Associations 1–51 (except Liechtenstein) each have three teams qualify.
• Associations 52–54 each have two teams qualify.
• Liechtenstein and Kosovo (association 55) each have one team qualify (Liechtenstein organises only a domestic cup and no domestic league; Kosovo as per decision by the UEFA Executive Committee).
• Moreover, 57 teams eliminated from the 2019–20 UEFA Champions League are transferred to the Europa League.

Association ranking

For the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League, the associations are allocated places according to their 2018 UEFA country coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 2013–14 to 2017–18.

Apart from the allocation based on the country coefficients, associations may have additional teams participating in the Champions League, as noted below:

• (UCL) – Additional teams transferred from the UEFA Champions League

Association ranking for 2019–20 UEFA Europa League

Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes 1 Spain 106.998 3 2 England 79.605 3 Italy 76.249 4 Germany 71.427 5 France 56.415 6 Russia 53.382 7 Portugal 47.248 8 Ukraine 41.133 9 Belgium 38.500 10 Turkey 35.800 11 Austria 32.850 12 Switzerland 30.200 13 Czech Republic 30.175 14 Netherlands 29.749 15 Greece 28.600 16 Croatia 26.000 17 Denmark 25.950 18 Israel 21.750 19 Cyprus 21.550

Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes 20 Romania 20.450 3 21 Poland 20.125 22 Sweden 19.975 23 Azerbaijan 19.125 24 Bulgaria 19.125 25 Serbia 18.750 26 Scotland 18.625 27 Belarus 18.625 28 Kazakhstan 18.125 29 Norway 17.425 30 Slovenia 14.500 31 Liechtenstein 13.000 1 32 Slovakia 12.125 3 33 Moldova 10.000 34 Albania 8.500 35 Iceland 8.250 36 Hungary 8.125 37 North Macedonia 7.500

Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes 38 Finland 6.900 3 39 Republic of Ireland 6.700 40 Bosnia and Herzegovina 6.625 41 Latvia 5.625 42 Estonia 5.500 43 Lithuania 5.375 44 Montenegro 5.000 45 Georgia 5.000 46 Armenia 4.875 47 Malta 4.500 48 Luxembourg 4.375 49 Northern Ireland 4.250 50 Wales 3.875 51 Faroe Islands 3.750 52 Gibraltar 3.000 2 53 Andorra 1.331 54 San Marino 0.499 55 Kosovo 0.000 1

Group stage

The 48 teams are drawn into twelve groups of four, with the restriction that teams from the same association cannot be drawn against each other. For the draw, the teams are seeded into four pots based on their 2019 UEFA club coefficients.

In each group, teams play against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The group winners and runners-up advance to the round of 32, where they are joined by the eight third-placed teams of the 2019–20 UEFA Champions League group stage.

A total of 48 teams play in the group stage: 17 teams which enter in this stage, the 21 winners of the play-off round (eight from Champions Path, thirteen from League Path), the six losers of the 2019–20 UEFA Champions League play-off round (four from Champions Path, two from League Path), and the four League Path losers of the 2019–20 UEFA Champions League third qualifying round.

• Rennes CC: 11.699
• KV Mechelen CC: 7.980
• Winners of 2018–19 Copa del Rey
• Fifth-placed team of 2018–19 La Liga
• Winners of 2018–19 FA Cup
• Fifth-placed team of 2018–19 Premier League
• Winners of 2018–19 Coppa Italia
• Fifth-placed team of 2018–19 Serie A
• Fifth-placed team of 2018–19 Bundesliga
• Sixth-placed team of 2018–19 Bundesliga
• Fourth-placed team of 2018–19 Ligue 1
• Winners of 2018–19 Russian Cup
• Winners of 2018–19 Taça de Portugal
• Winners of 2018–19 Ukrainian Cup
• Winners of 2018–19 Turkish Cup
• Third-placed team of 2018–19 Austrian Football Bundesliga
• Winners of 2018–19 Swiss Cup

Knockout phase

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 round of 32, the twelve group winners and the four third-placed teams from the Champions League group stage with the better group records are seeded, and the twelve group runners-up and the other four third-placed teams from the Champions League group stage are unseeded. The seeded teams are drawn against the unseeded teams, with the seeded teams hosting the second leg. Teams from the same group or the same association cannot be drawn against each other.
• In the draws for the round of 16 onwards, there are no seedings, and teams from the same group or the same association can be drawn against each other.

See also

• 2019–20 UEFA Champions League
• 2020 UEFA Super Cup

External links

• UEFA Europa League (official website)