2009–10 UEFA Europa League

2009–10 UEFA Europa League

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Tournament details
Dates	2 July 2009 – 12 May 2010
Teams	48+8 (competition proper) 159 (qualifying)

The 2009–10 UEFA Europa League is the first season of the UEFA Europa League, the competition previously known as UEFA Cup, which had been in existence for 39 years.

The final will be played at the HSH Nordbank Arena, home ground of Hamburger SV, in Hamburg, Germany.

Team allocation

A total of 192 teams from 53 UEFA associations are expected to participate in the 2009–10 UEFA Europa League. Countries are allocated places according to their UEFA league co-efficient.

The previous season's winners, Shakhtar Donetsk, would have been guaranteed a place in the group stage even if they did not obtain a qualifying place through their domestic league. However, as Shakhtar qualified for the UEFA Champions League, the original allocation places will be altered to compensate for the vacant title holder spot in the group stage. As this is the first edition of the Europa League, it was initially unknown whether UEFA would simply disregard the vacant Title Holder spot and rearrange entries so that one more team qualifies from the Play-off Round, or replace the Title Holders group stage place with that of the top ranked association's cup winner and move teams from lower rounds appropriately, as the regulations are unclear on this matter. The former setup was confirmed by the UEFA official list of participants, published on 16 June 2009.

Below is the qualification scheme as the Title Holder spot is not replaced:

• Associations 1-6 each enter three teams
• Associations 7-9 each enter four teams
• Associations 10-53 each enter three teams, except Liechtenstein, Andorra and San Marino, who enter one team each

Distribution

First qualifying round (46 teams)

• 14 domestic league runners-up from associations 37-51 (except Liechtenstein)
• 29 domestic league 3rd place teams from associations 22-51 (except Liechtenstein)
• 3 teams from the Fair Play initiative

Second qualifying round (80 teams)

• 23 winners from the first qualifying round
• 24 domestic cup winners from associations 30-53
• 18 domestic league runners-up from associations 19-36
• 6 domestic league 3rd place teams from associations 16-21
• 6 domestic league 4th place teams from associations 10-15
• 3 domestic league 5th place teams from associations 7-9

Third qualifying round (70 teams)

• 40 winners from the second qualifying round
• 12 domestic cup winners from associations 18-29
• 3 domestic league runners-up from associations 16-18
• 6 domestic league 3rd place teams from associations 10-15
• 3 domestic league 4th place teams from associations 7-9
• 3 5th place teams from associations 4-6 (inc. French League Cup winners)
• 3 6th place teams from associations 1-3

Play-off round (76 teams)

• 35 winners from the third qualifying round
• 17 domestic cup winners from associations 1-17
• 3 domestic league 3rd place teams from associations 7-9
• 3 domestic league 4th place teams from associations 4-6
• 3 domestic league 5th place teams from associations 1-3
• 15 losers from the 2009–10 UEFA Champions League third qualifying round

Group stage (48 teams)

• 38 winners from the play-off round
• 10 losers from the 2009–10 UEFA Champions League play-off round

Final phase (32 teams)

• 12 group winners from the group stage
• 12 group runners-up from the group stage
• 8 third-placed teams from the 2009–10 UEFA Champions League group stage

Teams

As the title holder, Shakhtar Donetsk, qualified for the UEFA Champions League, the original allocation places were altered to compensate for the vacant title holder spot in the group stage. No club will replace the Title Holder spot. As a result, the Swiss Cup winner and Bulgarian Cup winner (Sion and Litex Lovech, respectively), were moved from the third qualifying round to the Play-off round; the Cypriot Cup winner and Slovenian Cup winner (APOP and Interblock Ljubljana) were moved from the second qualifying round to the third, and the Andorran Cup winner, San Marino Cup winner, League of Ireland third-placed team and Macedonian league runner-up, (Santa Coloma, Juvenes/Dogana, Derry City and Milano) were moved from the first qualifying round to the second.

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Number of still active teams per country in 2009–10 UEFA Europa League.

Round of 32
Group stage
Panathinaikos1	Anderlecht1	Levski Sofia1	Red Bull Salzburg1
Ventspils1	Shakhtar Donetsk
Play-off round
Everton	Zenit St. Petersburg	Racing Genk	Maribor2
Aston Villa	CFR Cluj	AEK Athens	BATE2
Villarreal	Dinamo Bucureşti	Teplice	Levadia2
Valencia	Benfica	Sion	Baku2
Lazio	Nacional	Litex Lovech	Aktobe2
Genoa	Heerenveen	Slavia Prague1	Dynamo Moscow2
Guingamp	Ajax	Stabæk2	Twente2
Toulouse	Heart of Midlothian	Partizan2	Sivasspor2
Werder Bremen	Trabzonspor	Slovan Bratislava2	Shakhtar Donetsk3
Hertha BSC	Vorskla Poltava	Dinamo Zagreb2	Sparta Prague2
Amkar Perm
Third qualifying round
Fulham	PSV Eindhoven	CSKA Sofia	IFK Göteborg
Athletic Bilbao	Aberdeen	Vålerenga	Košice
Roma	Fenerbahçe	Fredrikstad	Lech Poznań
Lille	Metalist Kharkiv	Odense	Budapest Honvéd
Hamburg	Club Brugge	Austria Wien	Hajduk Split
Krylia Sovetov	PAOK	Vojvodina	APOP
Vaslui	Slovan Liberec	Hapoel Tel Aviv4	Interblock Ljubljana
Braga	Young Boys
Second qualifying round
Steaua Bucureşti	Sturm Graz	Skonto5	Naftan Novopolotsk
Paços de Ferreira	Red Star Belgrade	Slavija	Flora
NAC Breda	Sevojno	Sarajevo	Karabakh
Falkirk	Maccabi Netanya4	Sūduva	Flamurtari Vlorë
Galatasaray	Elfsborg	Kaunas	Gandzasar
Metalurh Donetsk	Žilina	Iskra-Stal	Tobol
AA Gent	Legia Warsaw	Dacia Chişinău	Crusaders
Larissa	Újpest	St. Patrick's Athletic	Bangor City
Sigma Olomouc	Rijeka	Derry City	HB
Basel	Omonia	Rabotnički	Differdange
Cherno More	Gorica	Milano	Sliema Wanderers
Tromsø	HJK Helsinki	KR	Petrovac
AaB	Honka	FC Dinamo Tbilisi	Santa Coloma
Brøndby	Liepājas Metalurgs5	Vaduz	Juvenes/Dogana
Rapid Wien
First qualifying round
Bnei Yehuda4	Zimbru Chişinău	Simurq Zaqatala	B36
Helsingborg	Sligo Rovers	Vllaznia	NSÍ
Spartak Trnava	Renova	Dinamo Tirana	Käerjéng
Polonia Warsaw	Keflavík	MIKA6	Grevenmacher
Haladás	Fram	Banants	Birkirkara
Slaven Belupo	Olimpi Rustavi	Irtysh	Valletta
Anorthosis	Zestaponi	Okzhetpes7	Budućnost
Rudar Velenje	Dinamo Minsk	Linfield	Sutjeska Nikšić
Lahti	MTZ-RIPO	Lisburn Distillery	Rosenborg
Dinaburg5	Narva Trans	Llanelli	Randers
Široki Brijeg8	Nõmme Kalju	The New Saints	Motherwell
Vėtra	Inter Baku

• Note 1: Losers of UEFA Champions League Play-off round
• Note 2: Losers of UEFA Champions League third qualifying round
• Note 3: Shakhtar Donetsk are the title holders of the competition, but qualified for play-off round only as they are the losers of UEFA Champions League third qualifying round.
• Note 4: Israel State Cup 2008–09 winner Beitar Jerusalem did not obtain a UEFA license. Since Maccabi Haifa, the State Cup losing finalist, have qualified for the Champions League, all three Israeli Europa League spots are distributed among the best teams of Israeli Premier League 2008–09.
• Note 5: Daugava Daugavpils, the Latvian Football Cup winners, merged with Dinaburg. Skonto, which finished third in the league, took the vacated second qualifying round spot, while Dinaburg, which finished fourth, took the first qualifying round spot.
• Note 6: The Armenian Premier League 2008 runner-up FC Ararat Yerevan did not obtain a UEFA license so they were replaced by MIKA.
• Note 7: Almaty, the losing cup finalists, merged with FC Megasport to form FC Lokomotiv Astana. However, the new club did not obtain a UEFA license. Following the denied license and withdrawal three higher-placed teams, Okzhetpes replaced the spot of FC Lokomotiv Astana.
• Note 8: Sloboda Tuzla did not obtain a UEFA license, so they were replaced by Široki Brijeg.

Round and draw dates

Phase	Round	Draw date	First leg	Second leg
Qualifying	First qualifying round	22 June 2009	2 July 2009	9 July 2009
	Second qualifying round		16 July 2009	23 July 2009
	Third qualifying round	17 July 2009	30 July 2009	6 August 2009
Play-off	Play-off round	7 August 2009	20 August 2009	27 August 2009
Group stage	Matchday 1	28 August 2009	17 September 2009
	Matchday 2		1 October 2009
	Matchday 3		22 October 2009
	Matchday 4		5 November 2009
	Matchday 5		2-3 December 2009
	Matchday 6		16-17 December 2009
Knock out phase	Round of 32	18 December 2009	18 February 2010	25 February 2010
	Round of 16		11 March 2010	18 March 2010
Final phase	Quarter-finals	19 March 2010	1 April 2010	8 April 2010
	Semi-finals		22 April 2010	29 April 2010
	Final		12 May 2010 at HSH Nordbank Arena, Hamburg

Qualifying phase

Main article: 2009–10 UEFA Europa League qualifying phase

First qualifying round

The draw, conducted by UEFA President Michel Platini and David Taylor, UEFA General Secretary, for the first and second qualifying rounds was held on Monday, 22 June 2009 in Nyon, Switzerland. The first leg matches were held on 1 July and 2 July, while the second legs were played on 9 July 2009.

The only seeded teams to be eliminated were Keflavík and Sligo Rovers.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Sutjeska Nikšić	2–3	MTZ-RIPO	1–1	1–2 (aet)
Lahti	4–3	Dinamo Tirana	4–1	0–2
Grevenmacher	0–6	Vėtra	0–3	0–3
NSÍ Runavík	1–68	Rosenborg	0–3	1–3
Haladás	2–2 (a)	Irtysh	1–0	1–2
Sligo Rovers	2–3	Vllaznia	1–2	1–1
Olimpi Rustavi	4–0	B36 Tórshavn	2–0	2–0
Anorthosis	7–1	Käerjéng	5–0	2–1
Slaven Belupo	1–0	Birkirkara	1–0	0–0
Zimbru Chişinău	3–2	Okzhetpes	1–2	2–0
Lisburn Distillery	1–11	Zestaponi	1–5	0–6
Helsingborg	4–2	MIKA	3–1	1–1
Valletta	5–2	Keflavík	3–0	2–2
Dinaburg	2–1	Nõmme Kalju	2–1	0–0
Budućnost	1–2	Polonia Warsaw	0–2	1–0
Narva Trans	1–68	Rudar Velenje	0–3	1–3
Motherwell	3–1	Llanelli	0–1	3–0
Banants	1–28	Široki Brijeg	0–2	1–0
Spartak Trnava	5–2	Inter Baku	2–1	3–1
Dinamo Minsk	3–2	Renova	2–1	1–1
Randers	7–0	Linfield	4–0	3–0
Simurq Zaqatala	0–4	Bnei Yehuda	0–1	0–3
Fram	4–28	The New Saints	2–1	2–1

Notes

• Note 8: MTZ-RIPO, Vėtra, Rosenborg, Rudar Velenje, Široki Brijeg and The New Saints were originally drawn to play the first leg at home, but their ties were reversed and they hosted the second leg instead.

Second qualifying round

For the draw clubs were separated into seeded and unseeded teams based on their club coefficient, and because the draw for this round took place before the first qualifying round matches were played, the teams were seeded as if the higher-ranked side in the previous round will be victorious. The first leg matches were played on 14 July and 16 July, while the second legs were played on 23 July 2009.

Eight of the seeded teams were eliminated: Rosenborg, Anorthosis, Gorica, Falkirk, HJK Helsinki, Larissa, Aalborg BK, and Spartak Trnava.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Rosenborg	0–1	Karabakh	0–0	0–1
Zimbru Chişinău	0–110	Paços de Ferreira	0–0	0–1
Juvenes/Dogana	0–510	Polonia Warsaw	0–1	0–4
Sturm Graz	3–2	Široki Brijeg	2–1	1–1
Basel	7–1	Santa Coloma	3–0	4–1
Honka	3–0	Bangor City	2–0	1–0
MŠK Žilina	3–0	Dacia Chişinău	2–0	1–0
Anorthosis	3–4	Petrovac	2–1	1–3 (aet)
St Patrick's Athletic	2–1	Valletta	1–1	1–0
Omonia	8–1	HB	4–0	4–1
Gorica	1–2	Lahti	1–0	0–2
Sigma Olomouc	3–1	Fram	1–1	2–0
Legia Warsaw	4–0	Olimpi Rustavi	3–0	1–0
Falkirk	1–2	Vaduz	1–0	0–2 (aet)
Elfsborg	3–0	Haladás	3–0	0–0
Rapid Wien	8–0	Vllaznia	5–0	3–0
Naftan	2–2 (a)	Gent	2–1	0–1
Liepājas Metalurgs	3–4	Dinamo Tbilisi	2–1	1–3
Differdange	1–3	Rijeka	1–0	0–3
Sūduva	1–2	Randers	0–1	1–1
Vėtra	3–2	HJK Helsinki	0–1	3–1
Milano	2–12	Slaven Belupo	0–4	2–8
Dinamo Minsk	1–4	Tromsø	0–0	1–4
KR	3–1	Larissa	2–0	1–1
Brøndby	4–2	Flora	0–1	4–1
Aalborg BK	1–3	Slavija	0–0	1–3
Steaua Bucureşti	4–1	Újpest	2–0	2–1
Metalurh Donetsk	5–1	MTZ-RIPO	3–0	2–1
Crusaders	3–510	Rabotnički	1–1	2–4
Bnei Yehuda	5–0	Dinaburg	4–0	1–0
NAC Breda	8–0	Gandzasar	6–0	2–0
Cherno More	4–0	Iskra-Stal	1–0	3–0
Sevojno	1–1 (a)	Kaunas	0–0	1–1
Flamurtari Vlorë	2–8	Motherwell	1–0	1–8
Zestaponi	3–4	Helsingborg	1–2	2–2 (aet)
Skonto	1–2	Derry City	1–1	0–1
Sliema Wanderers	0–3	Maccabi Netanya	0–0	0–3
Tobol	1–3	Galatasaray	1–1	0–2
Rudar Velenje	0–5	Red Star Belgrade	0–1	0–4
Sarajevo	2–1	Spartak Trnava	1–0	1–1

• Note 9: Paços de Ferreira, Polonia Warsaw and Rabotnički were originally drawn to play the first leg at home, but their ties were reversed and they hosted the second leg instead.

Third qualifying round

The draw for the third qualifying rounds, which was conducted by UEFA Competitions Director Giorgio Marchetti and Michael Heselschwerdt, Head of Club Competitions, was held on Friday, 17 July 2009 in Nyon, Switzerland. For the draw clubs were separated into seeded and unseeded teams based on their club coefficient, and because the draw for this round took place before the second qualifying round matches were played, the teams were seeded assuming the higher-ranked side in the previous round was victorious. The first leg matches were played on 30 July, while the second legs were played on 6 August 2009.

Seven of the seeded teams were eliminated: Helsingborg, Slavija, Krylia Sovetov, Braga, Petrovac, Paços de Ferreira, and Aberdeen.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Helsingborg	3–3 (4–5p)11	Sarajevo	2–1	1–2 (aet)
Fredrikstad	3–7	Lech Poznań	1–6	2–1
Rijeka	1–4	Metalist Kharkiv	1–2	0–2
Roma	10–211	Gent	3–1	7–1
Vaslui	3–1	Omonia	2–0	1–1
Slavija	1–5	Košice	0–2	1–3
IFK Göteborg	2–4	Hapoel Tel Aviv	1–3	1–1
PSV Eindhoven	2–0	Cherno More	1–0	1–0
Metalurh Donetsk	5–0	Interblock Ljubljana	2–0	3–0
Vålerenga	2–2 (a)	PAOK	1–2	1–0
Rapid Wien	4–311	APOP	2–1	2–2 (aet)
Honka	1–3	Karabakh	0–1	1–2
Vaduz	0–3	Slovan Liberec	0–1	0–2
St Patrick's Athletic	3–3 (a)	Krylia Sovetov	1–0	2–3
Randers	1–4	Hamburg	0–4	1–0
Tromsø	4–1	Slaven Belupo	2–1	2–0
Brøndby	3–3 (a)	Legia Warsaw	1–1	2–2
Vojvodina	3–5	Austria Wien	1–1	2–4
CSKA Sofia	2–1	Derry City	1–0	1–1
Steaua Bucureşti	6–1	Motherwell	3–0	3–1
MŠK Žilina	2–1	Hajduk Split	1–1	1–0
Braga	1–4	Elfsborg	1–2	0–2
Aberdeen	1–8	Sigma Olomouc	1–5	0–3
Rabotnički	3–7	Odense	3–4	0–3
Sevojno	0–4	Lille	0–2	0–2
Petrovac	1–7	Sturm Graz	1–2	0–5
Fenerbahçe	6–2	Budapest Honvéd	5–1	1–112
Bnei Yehuda	2–0	Paços de Ferreira	1–0	1–0
Club Brugge	4–3	Lahti	3–2	1–1
Athletic Bilbao	2–2 (a)	Young Boys	0–1	2–1
KR	3–5	Basel	2–2	1–3
Maccabi Netanya	1–1011	Galatasaray	1–4	0–6
Dinamo Tbilisi	4–5	Red Star Belgrade	2–0	2–5
Polonia Warsaw	1–4	NAC Breda	0–1	1–3
Vėtra	0–6	Fulham	0–3	0–3

Notes

• Note 10: Sarajevo, Gent, Galatasaray and APOP were originally drawn to play the first leg at home, but their ties were reversed and they hosted the second leg instead.
• Note 12: Budapest Honvéd had to play behind closed doors due to their fans having racist conduct and displaying an illicit banner during an Intertoto Cup match.

Play-off round

Main article: 2009–10 UEFA Europa League play-off round

The draw ceremony for the play-off round, conducted by UEFA General Secretary David Taylor and UEFA Competitions Director Giorgio Marchetti, was held on 7 August 2009 in Nyon, Switzerland. For the draw clubs were separated into seeded and unseeded teams based on their club coefficient. The first leg matches will be played on 20 August, while the second legs will be played on 27 August 2009, except for one.¹⁴

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
PAOK	v	Heerenveen	1–1	27 August
Dinamo Zagreb	v	Hearts	4–0	27 August
Werder Bremen	v	Aktobe	6–3	27 August
Everton	v	Sigma Olomouc	4–0	27 August
BATE	v	Litex Lovech	0–1	27 August
NAC Breda	v	Villarreal	1–3	27 August
Lech Poznań	v	Club Brugge	1–0	27 August
Fulham	v	Amkar Perm	3–1	27 August
Galatasaray	v	Levadia	5–0	27 August
Teplice	v	Hapoel Tel Aviv	1–2	27 August
Metalurh Donetsk	v	Austria Wien	2–2	27 August
Twente	v	Karabakh	3–1	27 August
Košice	v13	Roma	3–3	27 August
CSKA Sofia	v13	Dynamo Moscow	0–0	27 August
Racing Genk	v	Lille	1–2	27 August
Bnei Yehuda	v13	PSV Eindhoven	0–1	27 August
Lazio	v	Elfsborg	3–0	27 August
Trabzonspor	v	Toulouse	1–3	27 August
Partizan	v	MŠK Žilina	1–1	27 August
Baku	v	Basel	1–3	27 August
Ajax	v	Slovan Bratislava	5–0	27 August
Sivasspor	0–513	Shakhtar Donetsk	0–3	0–214
Brøndby	v	Hertha BSC	2–1	27 August
Athletic Bilbao	v	Tromsø	3–2	27 August
Sarajevo	v	CFR Cluj	1–1	27 August
Rapid Wien	v	Aston Villa	1–0	27 August
Steaua Bucureşti	v	St Patrick's Athletic	3–015	27 August
Maribor	v13	Sparta Prague	0–2	27 August
Nacional	v13	Zenit St. Petersburg	4–3	27 August
Genoa	v	Odense	3–1	27 August
Dinamo Bucureşti	v	Slovan Liberec	0–316	27 August
Guingamp	v	Hamburg	1–5	27 August
Sion	v	Fenerbahçe	0–2	27 August
Sturm Graz	v	Metalist Kharkiv	1–1	27 August
Slavia Prague	v	Red Star Belgrade	3–0	27 August
Benfica	v	Vorskla Poltava	4–0	27 August
Vaslui	v	AEK Athens	2–1	27 August
Stabæk	v	Valencia	0–3	27 August

Notes

• Note 13: Roma, PSV Eindhoven, Shakhtar Donetsk, Sparta Prague, Zenit St. Petersburg and Dynamo Moscow were originally drawn to play the first leg at home, but their ties were reversed and they will host the second leg instead.
• Note 14: Shakhtar Donetsk and Sivasspor were originally scheduled to play the second leg on 27 August, but the game was moved two days earlier due to Shakhtar's participation in the 2009 UEFA Super Cup.
• Note 15: The first of two home games which Steaua Bucureşti have to play behind closed doors because their fans had flown banners offensive to Újpest in the second qualifying round.
• Note 16: The match was abandoned at 0–2 in the 88th minute because Dinamo Bucureşti fans invaded the running track around the pitch. The UEFA Control and Displinary Body awarded a default 0–3 fortfeiture against Dinamo during an emergency meeting on 25 August.

Group stage

Main article: 2009–10 UEFA Europa League group stage

The group stage will feature the 38 winners of the play-off round, and the 10 loosing sides of the Champions League Play-off Round

Shakhtar DonetskTH Panathinaikos Anderlecht Levski Sofia Red Bull Salzburg Ventspils

The group stage of the competition will consist of 12 groups of four teams.

During this stage of the tournament, matches will feature five on-field officials - with two additional officials monitoring play around the penalty area as part of a FIFA-sanctioned experiment.

Knockout phase

Main article: 2009–10 UEFA Europa League knockout phase

The following teams are expected to participate in the final phase:

• 12 group winners from the group stage
• 12 group runners-up from the group stage
• 8 third-placed teams from the 2009–10 UEFA Champions League group stage

The group winners, along with the four better third-ranked teams from the Champions League, will be drawn against the group runners-up and the other four third-ranked teams.

Final

Main article: 2010 UEFA Europa League Final

The final of the 2009–10 UEFA Europa League will be held at the HSH Nordbank Arena in Hamburg, Germany, on 12 May 2010.

See also

• 2009–10 UEFA Champions League
• UEFA Europa League

External links

• 2009/10 Competition format (UEFA.com)