Europa League qualifying round.

The UEFA Europa League is an annual competition that was founded in 1971. Then the tournament was called the UEFA Cup, the current name was assigned from the 2009/10 season. The first winner of the competition is London's Tottenham, who defeated another English team, Wolverhampton, in the final of the tournament in 1972. For all the time, 26 clubs became the winners of the tournament. The most titled team is the Spanish Sevilla, which has won the Europa League five times. Sevilla, along with Real Madrid, are the only teams to have managed to defend the title. On this moment Spain has ten wins in the tournament, which is an absolute record. The winner of the trophy receives a direct ticket to the Champions League for next season.

As in the Champions League, the Europa League starts with qualifying rounds. After that, 48 teams will play in the group stage of the Europa League. Two strongest teams from each group advance to the playoffs of the tournament, where they are joined by eight participants who finished third in the Champions League groups. If teams from the same UEFA association cannot meet in the group stage, then everything is possible at the playoff stage, including a derby! The final consists of one duel, which takes place in a neutral stadium. Also this year, if the Russian and Ukrainian teams are separated from each other, they will not be able to play each other until the final.

Text translations of the Europa League matches on the website will allow you to receive the most prompt and reliable information from the main battles in European football. Comfortable tournament tables and the Europa League match calendar will help you most accurately predict the outcome of matches and give high-quality predictions for upcoming matches. Live broadcasts of the Europa League matches will not leave anyone indifferent. Directly on the site you can bet on Europa League matches, which is a very convenient tool! Follow the table of scorers of the Europa League! Join the fan club of your favorite team and support it until the Europa League final!

In the 2016/17 Europa League season group stage were able to get two Russian teams. "Zenith" starts the tournament immediately from the group stage, and "Krasnodar" deserved this right by qualifying. The only loss was “Spartacus”, unable to pass the sieve. The St. Petersburg team has quite passable rivals - AZ Alkmaar, Maccabi Tel Aviv and Dundalk. “Krasnodar” was not in the easiest group, to challenge tickets to the 1/16 finals of Krasnodar will be with “Schalke 04”, “Salzburg” and “Nice”.

Apart from Russian clubs there will be a lot of people to cheer for teams from the post-Soviet space. Ukraine will be represented by Shakhtar Donetsk and Zorya Luhansk, Azerbaijan - by Karabakh and Gabala, Kazakhstan - by Astana. The heaviest group went to “Dawn”, she will have to challenge the ticket with “Manchester United”, “Fenerbahce” and “Feyenoord”. Quite a strong representation in the tournament are the Italians - "Roma", "Fiorentina" and Milan "Inter".

The favorites for the 2016/17 Europa League are Manchester United, led by José Mourinho.