2018–19 UEFA Europa League

2018–19 UEFA Europa League
	The Olympic Stadium in Baku hosted the final
Tournament details
Dates	Qualifying:; 26 June – 30 August 2018; Competition proper:; 20 September 2018 – 29 May 2019
Teams	Competition proper: 48+8; Total: 158+55 (from 55 associations)
Final positions
Champions	Chelsea (2nd title)
Runners-up	Arsenal
Tournament statistics
Matches played	205
Goals scored	565 (2.76 per match)
Attendance	5,145,474 (25,100 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Olivier Giroud (11 goals)
	← 2017–18 2019–20 →

The 2018–19 UEFA Europa League will be the 48th season of Europe's secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 10th season since it was renamed from the UEFA Cup to the UEFA Europa League.

The final was played at the Olympic Stadium in Baku, Azerbaijan,^[1] between English sides Chelsea and Arsenal — which was the first Europa League final to feature two teams from one city. As winners, Chelsea will play against the winners of the 2018–19 UEFA Champions League in the 2019 UEFA Super Cup. And they would also have been qualified for the 2019–20 UEFA Champions League group stage, but since they had already qualified through their league performance, the berth reserved was given to the third-placed team of the 2018–19 Ligue 1, the 5th-ranked association according to next season's access list.^[2]

Format changes

On 9 December 2016, UEFA confirmed the changing of plans for the UEFA Champions League for the 2018–2021 cycle, which was announced on 26 August 2016.^[3]^[4] As per new rules, all teams that are eliminated in the UEFA Champions League qualifying rounds will get a second chance in the Europa League.

Round and draw dates

The schedule of the competition is as follows.^[5]

Phase	Round	Draw date	First leg	Second leg
Preliminary	Preliminary round	12 June 2018	28 June 2018	5 July 2018
Qualifying	First qualifying round	19 June 2018	12 July 2018	19 July 2018
	Second qualifying round	19 June 2018	26 July 2018	2 August 2018
	Third qualifying round	23 July 2018	9 August 2018	16 August 2018
Play-off	Play-off round	6 August 2018	23 August 2018	30 August 2018
Group stage	Matchday 1	31 August 2018 (Monaco)	20 September 2018
	Matchday 2		4 October 2018
	Matchday 3		25 October 2018
	Matchday 4		8 November 2018
	Matchday 5		29 November 2018
	Matchday 6		13 December 2018
Knockout phase	Round of 32	17 December 2018	14 February 2019	21 February 2019
	Round of 16	22 February 2019	7 March 2019	14 March 2019
	Quarter-finals	15 March 2019	11 April 2019	18 April 2019
	Semi-finals	19 April 2019	2 May 2019	9 May 2019
	Final	19 April 2019	29 May 2019 at Olympic Stadium, Baku

Matches in the qualifying (including preliminary and play-off) and knockout rounds may also be played on Tuesdays or Wednesdays instead of the regular Thursdays due to scheduling conflicts.

Group stage

London

Astana
(not on map)

Glasgow

Seville

Istanbul

Glasgow teams

Celtic

Rangers

Istanbul teams

Beşiktaş

Fenerbahçe

London teams

Arsenal

Chelsea

Seville teams

Real Betis

Sevilla

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Location of teams of the 2018–19 UEFA Europa League group stage.

Brown: Group A;

Green: Group B;

Deep Pink: Group C;

Yellow: Group D;.

Red: Group E;

Cyan: Group F;

Blue: Group G;

Purple: Group H;.

Pink: Group I;

Turquoise: Group J;

Spring Green: Group K;

Orange: Group L.

The draw for the group stage will be held on 31 August 2018 at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco. 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 2018 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 2018–19 UEFA Champions League group stage. The matchdays are 20 September, 4 October, 25 October, 8 November, 29 November, and 13 December 2018.

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 Main Path), the six losers of the 2018–19 UEFA Champions League play-off round (four from Champions Path, two from League Path), and the four League Path losers of the 2018–19 UEFA Champions League third qualifying round.

Arsenal CC: 93.000
Chelsea CC: 82.000
Bayer Leverkusen CC: 66.000
Villarreal CC: 52.000
Anderlecht CC: 48.000
Lazio CC: 41.000
Sporting CP CC: 40.000
Marseille CC: 32.000
Milan CC: 28.000
Krasnodar CC: 23.500
Real Betis CC: TBD (21.342)
Eintracht Frankfurt CC: 14.285
Rennes CC: 11.283
Vorskla Poltava CC: 8.226
Slavia Prague CC: 7.500 or third-placed team of 2017–18 Czech First League
Akhisar Belediyespor CC: 7.160
Winners of 2017–18 Swiss Cup

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	LEV	ZUR	AKL	LUD
1	Bayer Leverkusen	6	4	1	1	16	9	+7	13	Advance to knockout phase	—	1–0	4–2	1–1
2	Zürich	6	3	1	2	7	6	+1	10	Advance to knockout phase	3–2	—	1–2	1–0
3	AEK Larnaca	6	1	2	3	6	12	−6	5		1–5	0–1	—	1–1
4	Ludogorets Razgrad	6	0	4	2	5	7	−2	4		2–3	1–1	0–0	—

Source: UEFA

Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	SAL	CEL	RBL	ROS
1	Red Bull Salzburg	6	6	0	0	17	6	+11	18	Advance to knockout phase	—	3–1	1–0	3–0
2	Celtic	6	3	0	3	6	8	−2	9	Advance to knockout phase	1–2	—	2–1	1–0
3	RB Leipzig	6	2	1	3	9	8	+1	7		2–3	2–0	—	1–1
4	Rosenborg	6	0	1	5	4	14	−10	1		2–5	0–1	1–3	—

Source: UEFA

Group C

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	ZEN	SLP	BOR	KOB
1	Zenit Saint Petersburg	6	3	2	1	6	5	+1	11	Advance to knockout phase	—	1–0	2–1	1–0
2	Slavia Prague	6	3	1	2	4	3	+1	10	Advance to knockout phase	2–0	—	1–0	0–0
3	Bordeaux	6	2	1	3	6	6	0	7		1–1	2–0	—	1–2
4	Copenhagen	6	1	2	3	3	5	−2	5		1–1	0–1	0–1	—

Source: UEFA

Group D

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	DZG	FEN	SPT	AND
1	Dinamo Zagreb	6	4	2	0	11	3	+8	14	Advance to knockout phase	—	4–1	3–1	0–0
2	Fenerbahçe	6	2	2	2	7	7	0	8	Advance to knockout phase	0–0	—	2–0	2–0
3	Spartak Trnava	6	2	1	3	4	7	−3	7		1–2	1–0	—	1–0
4	Anderlecht	6	0	3	3	2	7	−5	3		0–2	2–2	0–0	—

Source: UEFA

Group E

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	ARS	SPO	VOR	QRB
1	Arsenal	6	5	1	0	12	2	+10	16	Advance to knockout phase	—	0–0	4–2	1–0
2	Sporting CP	6	4	1	1	13	3	+10	13	Advance to knockout phase	0–1	—	3–0	2–0
3	Vorskla Poltava	6	1	0	5	4	13	−9	3^[a]		0–3	1–2	—	0–1
4	Qarabağ	6	1	0	5	2	13	−11	3^[a]		0–3	1–6	0–1	—

Source: UEFA
Notes:

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Goal difference in all group matches: Vorskla Poltava –9, Qarabağ –11.

Group F

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	BET	OLY	MIL	DUD
1	Real Betis	6	3	3	0	7	2	+5	12	Advance to knockout phase	—	1–0	1–1	3–0
2	Olympiacos	6	3	1	2	11	6	+5	10^[a]	Advance to knockout phase	0–0	—	3–1	5–1
3	Milan	6	3	1	2	12	9	+3	10^[a]		1–2	3–1	—	5–2
4	F91 Dudelange	6	0	1	5	3	16	−13	1		0–0	0–2	0–1	—

Source: UEFA
Notes:

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Goal difference in all group matches: Olympiacos +5, Milan +3.

Group G

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	VIL	RW	RAN	SPM
1	Villarreal	6	2	4	0	12	5	+7	10^[a]	Advance to knockout phase	—	5–0	2–2	2–0
2	Rapid Wien	6	3	1	2	6	9	−3	10^[a]	Advance to knockout phase	0–0	—	1–0	2–0
3	Rangers	6	1	3	2	8	8	0	6		0–0	3–1	—	0–0
4	Spartak Moscow	6	1	2	3	8	12	−4	5		3–3	1–2	4–3	—

Source: UEFA
Notes:

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Head-to-head points: Villarreal 4, Rapid Wien 1.

Group H

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	FRA	LAZ	APL	MAR
1	Eintracht Frankfurt	6	6	0	0	17	5	+12	18	Advance to knockout phase	—	4–1	2–0	4–0
2	Lazio	6	3	0	3	9	11	−2	9	Advance to knockout phase	1–2	—	2–1	2–1
3	Apollon Limassol	6	2	1	3	10	10	0	7		2–3	2–0	—	2–2
4	Marseille	6	0	1	5	6	16	−10	1		1–2	1–3	1–3	—

Source: UEFA

Group I

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	GNK	MAL	BES	SRP
1	Genk	6	3	2	1	14	8	+6	11	Advance to knockout phase	—	2–0	1–1	4–0
2	Malmö FF	6	2	3	1	7	6	+1	9	Advance to knockout phase	2–2	—	2–0	1–1
3	Beşiktaş	6	2	1	3	9	11	−2	7		2–4	0–1	—	3–1
4	Sarpsborg 08	6	1	2	3	8	13	−5	5		3–1	1–1	2–3	—

Source: UEFA

Group J

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	SEV	KRA	STL	AKH
1	Sevilla	6	4	0	2	18	6	+12	12^[a]	Advance to knockout phase	—	3–0	5–1	6–0
2	Krasnodar	6	4	0	2	8	8	0	12^[a]	Advance to knockout phase	2–1	—	2–1	2–1
3	Standard Liège	6	3	1	2	7	9	−2	10		1–0	2–1	—	2–1
4	Akhisarspor	6	0	1	5	4	14	−10	1		2–3	0–1	0–0	—

Source: UEFA
Notes:

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Head-to-head goal difference: Sevilla +2, Krasnodar –2.

Group K

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	DKV	REN	AST	JAB
1	Dynamo Kyiv	6	3	2	1	10	7	+3	11	Advance to knockout phase	—	3–1	2–2	0–1
2	Rennes	6	3	0	3	7	8	−1	9	Advance to knockout phase	1–2	—	2–0	2–1
3	Astana	6	2	2	2	7	7	0	8		0–1	2–0	—	2–1
4	Jablonec	6	1	2	3	6	8	−2	5		2–2	0–1	1–1	—

Source: UEFA

Group L

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	CHL	BATE	VID	PAOK
1	Chelsea	6	5	1	0	12	3	+9	16	Advance to knockout phase	—	3–1	1–0	4–0
2	BATE Borisov	6	3	0	3	9	9	0	9	Advance to knockout phase	0–1	—	2–0	1–4
3	Vidi	6	2	1	3	5	7	−2	7		2–2	0–2	—	1–0
4	PAOK	6	1	0	5	5	12	−7	3		0–1	1–3	0–2	—

Source: UEFA

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.

Bracket

Round of 32				Round of 16				Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final (29 May – Baku)

Viktoria Plzeň	2	0	2
Dinamo Zagreb	1	3	4	Dinamo Zagreb	1	0	1
Galatasaray	1	0	1	Benfica (aet)	0	3	3
Benfica	2	0	2					Benfica	4	0	4
Shakhtar Donetsk	2	1	3					Eintracht Frankfurt (a)	2	2	4
Eintracht Frankfurt	2	4	6	Eintracht Frankfurt	0	1	1
Rapid Wien	0	0	0	Inter Milan	0	0	0
Inter Milan	1	4	5									Eintracht Frankfurt	1	1	2 (3)
Lazio	0	0	0									Chelsea (p)	1	1	2 (4)
Sevilla	1	2	3	Sevilla	2	3	5
Slavia Prague	0	4	4	Slavia Prague (aet)	2	4	6
Genk	0	1	1					Slavia Prague	0	3	3
Malmö FF	1	0	1					Chelsea	1	4	5
Chelsea	2	3	5	Chelsea	3	5	8
Olympiacos	2	0	2	Dynamo Kyiv	0	0	0
Dynamo Kyiv	2	1	3													Chelsea	4
Rennes	3	3	6													Arsenal	1
Real Betis	3	1	4	Rennes	3	0	3
BATE Borisov	1	0	1	Arsenal	1	3	4
Arsenal	0	3	3					Arsenal	2	1	3
Zürich	1	0	1					Napoli	0	0	0
Napoli	3	2	5	Napoli	3	1	4
Club Brugge	2	0	2	Red Bull Salzburg	0	3	3
Red Bull Salzburg	1	4	5									Arsenal	3	4	7
Fenerbahçe	1	1	2									Valencia	1	2	3
Zenit Saint Petersburg	0	3	3	Zenit Saint Petersburg	1	1	2
Sporting CP	0	1	1	Villarreal	3	2	5
Villarreal	1	1	2					Villarreal	1	0	1
Celtic	0	0	0					Valencia	3	2	5
Valencia	2	1	3	Valencia	2	1	3
Krasnodar (a)	0	1	1	Krasnodar	1	1	2
Bayer Leverkusen	0	1	1

Round of 32

The draw for the round of 32 was held on 17 December 2018.^[6] The first legs were played on 12 and 14 February, and the second legs were played on 20 and 21 February 2019.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	Viktoria Plzeň	2–4	Dinamo Zagreb	2–1	0–3
Club Brugge	2–5	Red Bull Salzburg	2–1	0–4
Rapid Wien	0–5	Inter Milan	0–1	0–4
Slavia Prague	4–1	Genk	0–0	4–1
Krasnodar	1–1 (a)	Bayer Leverkusen	0–0	1–1
Zürich	1–5	Napoli	1–3	0–2
Malmö FF	1–5	Chelsea	1–2	0–3
Shakhtar Donetsk	3–6	Eintracht Frankfurt	2–2	1–4
Celtic	0–3	Valencia	0–2	0–1
Rennes	6–4	Real Betis	3–3	3–1
Olympiacos	2–3	Dynamo Kyiv	2–2	0–1
Lazio	0–3	Sevilla	0–1	0–2
Fenerbahçe	2–3	Zenit Saint Petersburg	1–0	1–3
Sporting CP	1–2	Villarreal	0–1	1–1
BATE Borisov	1–3	Arsenal	1–0	0–3
Galatasaray	1–2	Benfica	1–2	0–0

Round of 16

The draw for the round of 16 was held on 22 February 2019.^[7] The first legs were played on 7 March, and the second legs were played on 14 March 2019.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	Chelsea	8–0	Dynamo Kyiv	3–0	5–0
Eintracht Frankfurt	1–0	Inter Milan	0–0	1–0
Dinamo Zagreb	1–3	Benfica	1–0	0–3 (aet)
Napoli	4–3	Red Bull Salzburg	3–0	1–3
Valencia	3–2	Krasnodar	2–1	1–1
Sevilla	5–6	Slavia Prague	2–2	3–4 (aet)
Rennes	3–4^[A]	Arsenal	3–1	0–3
Zenit Saint Petersburg	2–5	Villarreal	1–3	1–2

Notes

↑ Order of legs reversed after original draw, in order to avoid a scheduling conflict with the Chelsea v Dynamo Kyiv match in the same city.

Quarter-finals

The draw for the quarter-finals was held on 15 March 2019.^[8] The first legs were played on 11 April, the second legs were played on 18 April 2019.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	Arsenal	3–0^[A]	Napoli	2–0	1–0
Villarreal	1–5	Valencia	1–3	0–2
Benfica	4–4 (a)	Eintracht Frankfurt	4–2	0–2
Slavia Prague	3–5	Chelsea	0–1	3–4

Notes

↑ Order of legs reversed after original draw, in order to avoid a scheduling conflict with the Chelsea v Slavia Prague match in the same city.

Semi-finals

The draw for the semi-finals was held on 15 March 2019 (after the quarter-final draw).^[8] The first legs were played on 2 May, and the second legs were played on 9 May 2019.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	Arsenal	7–3	Valencia	3–1	4–2
Eintracht Frankfurt	2–2 (3–4 p)	Chelsea	1–1	1–1 (aet)

Final

The final was held on 29 May 2019 at the Olympic Stadium in Baku. The "home" team (for administrative purposes) was determined by an additional draw held after the quarter-final and semi-final draws.^[8]

29 May 2019

21:00 CEST

Chelsea	4–1	Arsenal
Giroud 49' Pedro 60' Hazard 65' (pen.), 72'	report	Iwobi 69'

Olympic Stadium, Baku

Attendance: 51,370^[9]

Referee: Gianluca Rocchi (Italy)

References

↑ "Baku to host 2019 UEFA Europa League final". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 20 September 2017. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
↑ "Real Madrid and Spain top UEFA rankings again". UEFA.com. 29 May 2018.
↑ "Evolution of UEFA club competitions for 2018–21 cycle". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 26 August 2016. Retrieved 3 November 2017.
↑ "Lyon to host 2018 UEFA Europa League final". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 9 December 2016. Retrieved 3 November 2017.
↑ "2018/19 Europa League match and draw calendar". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 9 January 2018. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
↑ "UEFA Europa League round of 32 draw". UEFA.com.
↑ "UEFA Europa League round of 16 draw". UEFA.com.
↑ ^8.0 ^8.1 ^8.2 "UEFA Europa League quarter-final, semi-final and final draws". UEFA.com.
↑ "Full Time Summary Final – Chelsea v Arsenal" (PDF). UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 29 May 2019. Retrieved 29 May 2019.

[table_hth_VOR0.36724046541715-6] 1.0 ^1.1 Goal difference in all group matches: Vorskla Poltava –9, Qarabağ –11.

[table_hth_OLY0.62220501463032-7] 1.0 ^1.1 Goal difference in all group matches: Olympiacos +5, Milan +3.

[table_hth_VIL0.77444493853228-8] 1.0 ^1.1 Head-to-head points: Villarreal 4, Rapid Wien 1.

[table_hth_SEV0.20246865144114-9] 1.0 ^1.1 Head-to-head goal difference: Sevilla +2, Krasnodar –2.

[12] Order of legs reversed after original draw, in order to avoid a scheduling conflict with the Chelsea v Dynamo Kyiv match in the same city.

[14] Order of legs reversed after original draw, in order to avoid a scheduling conflict with the Chelsea v Slavia Prague match in the same city.

[1] "Baku to host 2019 UEFA Europa League final". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 20 September 2017. Retrieved 28 February 2018.

[2] "Real Madrid and Spain top UEFA rankings again". UEFA.com. 29 May 2018.

[3] "Evolution of UEFA club competitions for 2018–21 cycle". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 26 August 2016. Retrieved 3 November 2017.

[4] "Lyon to host 2018 UEFA Europa League final". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 9 December 2016. Retrieved 3 November 2017.

[5] "2018/19 Europa League match and draw calendar". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 9 January 2018. Retrieved 9 January 2018.

[R32_draw-10] "UEFA Europa League round of 32 draw". UEFA.com.

[R16_draw-11] "UEFA Europa League round of 16 draw". UEFA.com.

[QF_SF_F_draw-13] 8.0 ^8.1 ^8.2 "UEFA Europa League quarter-final, semi-final and final draws". UEFA.com.

[attendance-15] "Full Time Summary Final – Chelsea v Arsenal" (PDF). UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 29 May 2019. Retrieved 29 May 2019.

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