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2016–17 UEFA Europa League
The 2016–17 UEFA Europa League was the 46th season of Europe's secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the eighth season since it was renamed from the UEFA Cup to the UEFA Europa League.
Friends Arena in Solna hosted the final | |
| Tournament details | |
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| Dates | Qualifying: 28 June – 25 August 2016 Competition proper: 15 September 2016 – 24 May 2017 |
| Teams | Competition proper: 48+8 Total: 155+33 (from 54 associations) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions | Manchester United (1st title) |
| Runners-up | Ajax |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 205 |
| Goals scored | 565 (2.76 per match) |
| Attendance | 4,494,039 (21,922 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) | Edin Džeko (Roma) Giuliano (Zenit Saint Petersburg) 8 goals each |
| Best player(s) | Paul Pogba (Manchester United)[1] |
← 2015–16 2017–18 → | |
The final was played between Ajax and Manchester United at the Friends Arena in Solna, Sweden.[2][3] Manchester United beat Ajax 2–0 to win their first title.[4] With this victory, they became the fifth club – after Juventus, Ajax, Bayern Munich and Chelsea – to have won all three major European trophies (European Champion Clubs' Cup/UEFA Champions League, UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League, and the now-defunct Cup Winners' Cup).[5]
Manchester United qualified for the 2017–18 UEFA Champions League, and also earned the right to play against the winners of the 2016–17 UEFA Champions League, Real Madrid, in the 2017 UEFA Super Cup.
As the title holders, Sevilla qualified for the 2016–17 UEFA Champions League. Having won the last three Europa League tournaments, Sevilla were unable to defend their titles as they reached the Champions League knockout stage, where they were eliminated by Leicester City in the round of 16.
Association team allocation
A total of 188 teams from 54 of the 55 UEFA member associations were expected to participate in the 2016–17 UEFA Europa League (the exception being Kosovo, whose participation was not accepted in their first attempt as UEFA members). The association ranking based on the UEFA country coefficients was used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:[6]
- Associations 1–51 (except Liechtenstein) each had three teams qualify.
- As the winners of the 2015–16 UEFA Europa League, Sevilla qualified for the 2016–17 UEFA Champions League; the 2016–17 UEFA Europa League berth they would otherwise have earned for finishing 7th in the 2015–16 La Liga was vacated and not passed to another Spanish team.
- Associations 52–53 each had two teams qualify.
- Liechtenstein and Gibraltar each had one team qualify (Liechtenstein organises only a domestic cup and no domestic league; Gibraltar as per decision by the UEFA Executive Committee).[7]
- Moreover, 33 teams eliminated from the 2016–17 UEFA Champions League were transferred to the Europa League.
The UEFA Executive Committee approved in December 2014 changes to the rewards given according to the Respect Fair Play ranking, and starting from the 2016–17 season, the three Fair Play berths were no longer allocated to the Europa League.[8]
Association ranking
For the 2016–17 UEFA Champions League, the associations were allocated places according to their 2015 UEFA country coefficients, which took into account their performance in European competitions from 2010–11 to 2014–15.[9][10]
Apart from the allocation based on the country coefficients, associations could have additional teams participating in the Europa League, as noted below:
- (CL) – Additional teams transferred from Champions League
- (EL) – Vacated berth due to Europa League title holders playing in Champions League
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- Notes
- ^ Kosovo (KOS): Kosovo became a UEFA member on 3 May 2016.[11] UEFA decided that their domestic cup winners could participate in the 2016–17 UEFA Europa League only if they could meet licensing criteria under article 15 of the UEFA Club Licensing & Financial Fair Play regulations, which would be confirmed following the assessment made by the UEFA administration within the deadline of 31 May 2016.[12] However, Kosovo's entry, Prishtina (as the winners of the 2015–16 Kosovar Cup), was denied by UEFA in June due to the club failing licensing requirements, and also because the club could not provide a suitable stadium and UEFA did not allow them to play their home matches in a foreign country.[13][14]
Distribution
In the default access list, Sevilla enter the third qualifying round (as the seventh-placed team of the 2015–16 La Liga).[6][15] However, since they qualified for the Champions League as the Europa League title holders, the spot which they qualified for in the Europa League third qualifying round is vacated, and the following changes to the default allocation system are made:[16][17]
- The domestic cup winners of association 18 (Cyprus) are promoted from the second qualifying round to the third qualifying round.
- The domestic cup winners of associations 27 and 28 (Serbia and Slovenia) are promoted from the first qualifying round to the second qualifying round.
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| First qualifying round (96 teams) |
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| Second qualifying round (66 teams) |
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| Third qualifying round (58 teams) |
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| Play-off round (44 teams) |
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| Group stage (48 teams) |
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| Knockout phase (32 teams) |
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Redistribution rules
A Europa League place is vacated when a team qualifies for both the Champions League and the Europa League, or qualifies for the Europa League by more than one method. When a place is vacated, it is redistributed within the national association by the following rules (regulations Articles 3.03 and 3.04):[6]
- When the domestic cup winners (considered as the "highest-placed" qualifier within the national association with the latest starting round) also qualify for the Champions League, their Europa League place is vacated. As a result, the highest-placed team in the league which have not yet qualified for European competitions qualify for the Europa League, with the Europa League qualifiers which finish above them in the league moved up one "place".
- When the domestic cup winners also qualify for the Europa League through league position, their place through the league position is vacated. As a result, the highest-placed team in the league which have not yet qualified for European competitions qualify for the Europa League, with the Europa League qualifiers which finish above them in the league moved up one "place" if possible.
- For associations where a Europa League place is reserved for the League Cup winners, they always qualify for the Europa League as the "lowest-placed" qualifier. If the League Cup winners have already qualified for European competitions through other methods, this reserved Europa League place is taken by the highest-placed team in the league which have not yet qualified for European competitions.
Teams
The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:[18][19][20]
- CW: Cup winners
- 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, etc.: League position
- LC: League Cup winners
- RW: Regular season winners
- PW: End-of-season European competition play-offs winners
- CL: Transferred from Champions League
- GS: Third-placed teams from group stage
- PO: Losers from play-off round
- Q3: Losers from third qualifying round
Notably two teams took part in the competition that were not playing in their national top division, Zürich (2nd tier) and Hibernian (2nd tier).
- Notes
- ^ Albania (ALB): Partizani were transferred to the 2016–17 UEFA Champions League second qualifying round following the exclusion of Skënderbeu by UEFA for match-fixing.[21]
- ^ Azerbaijan (AZE): Zira and Inter Baku would have qualified for the Europa League first qualifying round as the runners-up and fourth-placed team of the 2015–16 Azerbaijan Premier League respectively, but Zira failed to obtain a UEFA licence as the club has existed professionally for fewer than three seasons,[22][23] and Inter Baku were excluded from participating in the 2016–17 European competitions by the UEFA Club Financial Control Body.[24] As a result, the berths were given to the fifth-placed team Kapaz and the sixth-placed team Neftçi Baku.
- ^ Bulgaria (BUL): CSKA Sofia would have qualified for the Europa League second qualifying round as the winners of the 2015–16 Bulgarian Cup, but were excluded from participating in the 2016–17 European competitions by the UEFA Club Financial Control Body.[25] As a result, the runners-up of the 2015–16 A Group, Levski Sofia, entered the second qualifying round instead of the first qualifying round, and the first qualifying round berth was given to the fourth-placed team Slavia Sofia.
- ^ Greece (GRE): Panionios would have qualified for the Europa League second qualifying round as the fifth-placed team of the 2015–16 Superleague Greece, but were excluded from participating in the 2016–17 European competitions by UEFA for financial reasons.[26] As a result, the berth was given to the sixth-placed team PAS Giannina.
- ^ Latvia (LVA): Skonto would have qualified for the Europa League first qualifying round as the runners-up of the 2015 Latvian Higher League, but failed to obtain a UEFA licence.[27][28] As a result, the berth was given to the fifth-placed team Spartaks Jūrmala.
- ^ Malta (MLT): Sliema Wanderers would have qualified for the Europa League first qualifying round as the winners of the 2015–16 Maltese FA Trophy, but failed to obtain a UEFA licence.[29] As a result, the berth was given to the fourth-placed team of the 2015–16 Maltese Premier League, Balzan.
- ^ Romania (ROU): CFR Cluj would have qualified for the Europa League third qualifying round as the winners of the 2015–16 Cupa României, but failed to obtain a UEFA licence after filing for insolvency in 2015.[30][31] Dinamo București would have qualified for the Europa League second qualifying round as the fourth-placed team of the 2015–16 Liga I, but failed to obtain a UEFA licence after filing for insolvency in 2014.[32][33] Dinamo București appealed to the Romanian Football Federation but the appeal was denied,[34] and an appeal to Court of Arbitration for Sport[35] was also rejected.[36] As a result, the third qualifying round berth was given to the fifth-placed team Viitorul Constanța, and the second qualifying round berth was given to the seventh-placed team CSM Politehnica Iași, since the sixth-placed team Târgu Mureș were excluded from participating in the 2016–17 European competitions by the UEFA Club Financial Control Body.[24][31][37]
- ^ Turkey (TUR): Galatasaray would have qualified for the Europa League group stage as the winners of the 2015–16 Turkish Cup, but were excluded from participating in the 2016–17 European competitions by the UEFA Club Financial Control Body.[38] As a result, the third-placed team of the 2015–16 Süper Lig, Konyaspor, entered the group stage instead of the third qualifying round, the fourth-placed team İstanbul Başakşehir entered the third qualifying round instead of the second qualifying round, and the second qualifying round berth was given to the fifth-placed team Osmanlıspor. Galatasaray appealed the decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport,[39] but it was rejected.[40]
- ^ Ukraine (UKR): Dnipro would have qualified for the Europa League group stage as the third-placed team of the 2015–16 Ukrainian Premier League, but were excluded from participating in the 2016–17 European competitions by the UEFA Club Financial Control Body.[24] As a result, the fourth-placed team Zorya Luhansk entered the group stage instead of the third qualifying round, and the third qualifying round berth was given to the sixth-placed team FC Oleksandriya.
Round and draw dates
The schedule of the competition was as follows (all draws were held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, unless stated otherwise).[41][6][42]
| Phase | Round | Draw date | First leg | Second leg |
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| Qualifying | First qualifying round | 20 June 2016 | 30 June 2016 | 7 July 2016 |
| Second qualifying round | 14 July 2016 | 21 July 2016 | ||
| Third qualifying round | 15 July 2016 | 28 July 2016 | 4 August 2016 | |
| Play-off | Play-off round | 5 August 2016 | 18 August 2016 | 25 August 2016 |
| Group stage | Matchday 1 | 26 August 2016 (Monaco) | 15 September 2016 | |
| Matchday 2 | 29 September 2016 | |||
| Matchday 3 | 20 October 2016 | |||
| Matchday 4 | 3 November 2016 | |||
| Matchday 5 | 24 November 2016 | |||
| Matchday 6 | 8 December 2016 | |||
| Knockout phase | Round of 32 | 12 December 2016 | 16 February 2017 | 23 February 2017 |
| Round of 16 | 24 February 2017 | 9 March 2017 | 16 March 2017 | |
| Quarter-finals | 17 March 2017 | 13 April 2017 | 20 April 2017 | |
| Semi-finals | 21 April 2017 | 4 May 2017 | 11 May 2017 | |
| Final | 24 May 2017 at Friends Arena, Solna | |||
Matches in the qualifying, play-off, and knockout rounds could also be played on Tuesdays or Wednesdays instead of the regular Thursdays due to scheduling conflicts.
Qualifying rounds
In the qualifying rounds and the play-off round, teams were divided into seeded and unseeded teams based on their 2016 UEFA club coefficients,[43][44][45] and then drawn into two-legged home-and-away ties. Teams from the same association could not be drawn against each other.
First qualifying round
The draws for the first and second qualifying round were held on 20 June 2016.[46][47] The first legs were played on 28 and 30 June, and the second legs were played on 5, 6 and 7 July 2016.
- Notes
- ^ a b c d e Order of legs reversed after original draw.
- ^ Partizani replaced Skënderbeu in the 2016–17 UEFA Champions League second qualifying round and Slovan Bratislava proceeded directly to the UEFA Europa League second qualifying round, after Skënderbeu was excluded by UEFA for match-fixing.[48]
Second qualifying round
The first legs were played on 14 July, and the second legs were played on 20 and 21 July 2016.
- Notes
Third qualifying round
The draw for the third qualifying round was held on 15 July 2016.[49][50] The first legs were played on 28 July, and the second legs were played on 3 and 4 August 2016.
| Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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| Lokomotiva | 3–2 | Vorskla Poltava | 0–0 | 3–2 |
| Saint-Étienne | 1–0 | AEK Athens | 0–0 | 1–0 |
| AEK Larnaca | 2–1 | Spartak Moscow | 1–1 | 1–0 |
| Pandurii Târgu Jiu | 2–5 | Maccabi Tel Aviv | 1–3 | 1–2 |
| Vojvodina | 3–1 | Dinamo Minsk | 1–1 | 2–0 |
| Zagłębie Lubin | 2–3 | SønderjyskE | 1–2 | 1–1 |
| Luzern | 1–4 | Sassuolo | 1–1 | 0–3 |
| Slavia Prague | 1–1 (a) | Rio Ave | 0–0 | 1–1 |
| Birkirkara | 1–6 | Krasnodar | 0–3 | 1–3 |
| AZ | 3–1 | PAS Giannina | 1–0 | 2–1 |
| Jelgava | 1–4 | Beitar Jerusalem | 1–1 | 0–3 |
| Austria Wien | 1–1 (5–4 p) | Spartak Trnava | 0–1 | 1–0 (a.e.t.) |
| Panathinaikos | 3–0[D] | AIK | 1–0 | 2–0 |
| Osmanlıspor | 3–0 | Nõmme Kalju | 1–0 | 2–0 |
| Aberdeen | 1–2 | Maribor | 1–1 | 0–1 |
| Lille | 1–2 | Gabala | 1–1 | 0–1 |
| Oleksandriya | 1–6 | Hajduk Split | 0–3 | 1–3 |
| Hertha BSC | 2–3 | Brøndby | 1–0 | 1–3 |
| İstanbul Başakşehir | 2–2 (a) | Rijeka | 0–0 | 2–2 |
| Heracles Almelo | 1–1 (a) | Arouca | 1–1 | 0–0 |
| Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino | 0–3 | Rapid Wien | 0–0 | 0–3 |
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The 2016 17 UEFA Europa League was the 46th season of Europe s secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA and the eighth season since it was renamed from the UEFA Cup to the UEFA Europa League 2016 17 UEFA Europa LeagueFriends Arena in Solna hosted the finalTournament detailsDatesQualifying 28 June 25 August 2016Competition proper 15 September 2016 24 May 2017TeamsCompetition proper 48 8Total 155 33 from 54 associations Final positionsChampionsManchester United 1st title Runners upAjaxTournament statisticsMatches played205Goals scored565 2 76 per match Attendance4 494 039 21 922 per match Top scorer s Edin Dzeko Roma Giuliano Zenit Saint Petersburg 8 goals eachBest player s Paul Pogba Manchester United 1 2015 162017 18 The final was played between Ajax and Manchester United at the Friends Arena in Solna Sweden 2 3 Manchester United beat Ajax 2 0 to win their first title 4 With this victory they became the fifth club after Juventus Ajax Bayern Munich and Chelsea to have won all three major European trophies European Champion Clubs Cup UEFA Champions League UEFA Cup UEFA Europa League and the now defunct Cup Winners Cup 5 Manchester United qualified for the 2017 18 UEFA Champions League and also earned the right to play against the winners of the 2016 17 UEFA Champions League Real Madrid in the 2017 UEFA Super Cup As the title holders Sevilla qualified for the 2016 17 UEFA Champions League Having won the last three Europa League tournaments Sevilla were unable to defend their titles as they reached the Champions League knockout stage where they were eliminated by Leicester City in the round of 16 Contents 1 Association team allocation 1 1 Association ranking 1 2 Distribution 1 2 1 Redistribution rules 1 3 Teams 2 Round and draw dates 3 Qualifying rounds 3 1 First qualifying round 3 2 Second qualifying round 3 3 Third qualifying round 4 Play off round 5 Group stage 5 1 Group A 5 2 Group B 5 3 Group C 5 4 Group D 5 5 Group E 5 6 Group F 5 7 Group G 5 8 Group H 5 9 Group I 5 10 Group J 5 11 Group K 5 12 Group L 6 Knockout phase 6 1 Bracket 6 2 Round of 32 6 3 Round of 16 6 4 Quarter finals 6 5 Semi finals 6 6 Final 7 Statistics 7 1 Top goalscorers 7 2 Top assists 7 3 Squad of the season 7 4 Player of the season 8 See also 9 References 10 External linksAssociation team allocation EditA total of 188 teams from 54 of the 55 UEFA member associations were expected to participate in the 2016 17 UEFA Europa League the exception being Kosovo whose participation was not accepted in their first attempt as UEFA members The association ranking based on the UEFA country coefficients was used to determine the number of participating teams for each association 6 Associations 1 51 except Liechtenstein each had three teams qualify As the winners of the 2015 16 UEFA Europa League Sevilla qualified for the 2016 17 UEFA Champions League the 2016 17 UEFA Europa League berth they would otherwise have earned for finishing 7th in the 2015 16 La Liga was vacated and not passed to another Spanish team Associations 52 53 each had two teams qualify Liechtenstein and Gibraltar each had one team qualify Liechtenstein organises only a domestic cup and no domestic league Gibraltar as per decision by the UEFA Executive Committee 7 Moreover 33 teams eliminated from the 2016 17 UEFA Champions League were transferred to the Europa League The UEFA Executive Committee approved in December 2014 changes to the rewards given according to the Respect Fair Play ranking and starting from the 2016 17 season the three Fair Play berths were no longer allocated to the Europa League 8 Association ranking Edit For the 2016 17 UEFA Champions League the associations were allocated places according to their 2015 UEFA country coefficients which took into account their performance in European competitions from 2010 11 to 2014 15 9 10 Apart from the allocation based on the country coefficients associations could have additional teams participating in the Europa League as noted below CL Additional teams transferred from Champions League EL Vacated berth due to Europa League title holders playing in Champions LeagueRank Association Coeff Teams Notes1 Spain 99 999 3 1 CL 1 EL 2 England 80 391 1 CL 3 Germany 79 415 1 CL 4 Italy 70 510 1 CL 5 Portugal 61 3826 France 52 416 1 CL 7 Russia 50 498 1 CL 8 Ukraine 45 166 1 CL 9 Netherlands 40 979 1 CL 10 Belgium 37 200 1 CL 11 Switzerland 34 375 1 CL 12 Turkey 32 600 2 CL 13 Greece 31 900 2 CL 14 Czech Republic 29 125 2 CL 15 Romania 26 299 2 CL 16 Austria 25 675 1 CL 17 Croatia 23 50018 Cyprus 22 300 1 CL 19 Poland 21 500 1 CL Rank Association Coeff Teams Notes20 Israel 21 000 3 1 CL 21 Belarus 20 750 1 CL 22 Denmark 19 800 1 CL 23 Scotland 17 90024 Sweden 17 72525 Bulgaria 16 750 1 CL 26 Norway 14 375 1 CL 27 Serbia 13 875 1 CL 28 Slovenia 13 62529 Azerbaijan 12 500 1 CL 30 Slovakia 11 250 1 CL 31 Hungary 11 00032 Kazakhstan 10 375 1 CL 33 Moldova 10 00034 Georgia 9 375 1 CL 35 Finland 8 20036 Iceland 8 00037 Bosnia and Herzegovina 7 500 Rank Association Coeff Teams Notes38 Liechtenstein 6 000 139 Macedonia 5 875 340 Republic of Ireland 5 750 1 CL 41 Montenegro 5 62542 Albania 5 375 1 CL 43 Luxembourg 5 12544 Northern Ireland 4 87545 Lithuania 4 50046 Latvia 4 25047 Malta 4 20848 Estonia 3 50049 Faroe Islands 3 50050 Wales 2 87551 Armenia 2 75052 Andorra 0 833 253 San Marino 0 49954 Gibraltar 0 250 155 Kosovo Note KOS 0 000 0Notes Kosovo KOS Kosovo became a UEFA member on 3 May 2016 11 UEFA decided that their domestic cup winners could participate in the 2016 17 UEFA Europa League only if they could meet licensing criteria under article 15 of the UEFA Club Licensing amp Financial Fair Play regulations which would be confirmed following the assessment made by the UEFA administration within the deadline of 31 May 2016 12 However Kosovo s entry Prishtina as the winners of the 2015 16 Kosovar Cup was denied by UEFA in June due to the club failing licensing requirements and also because the club could not provide a suitable stadium and UEFA did not allow them to play their home matches in a foreign country 13 14 Distribution Edit In the default access list Sevilla enter the third qualifying round as the seventh placed team of the 2015 16 La Liga 6 15 However since they qualified for the Champions League as the Europa League title holders the spot which they qualified for in the Europa League third qualifying round is vacated and the following changes to the default allocation system are made 16 17 The domestic cup winners of association 18 Cyprus are promoted from the second qualifying round to the third qualifying round The domestic cup winners of associations 27 and 28 Serbia and Slovenia are promoted from the first qualifying round to the second qualifying round Teams entering in this round Teams advancing from previous round Teams transferred from Champions LeagueFirst qualifying round 96 teams 26 domestic cup winners from associations 29 54 35 domestic league runners up from associations 18 53 except Liechtenstein 35 domestic league third placed teams from associations 16 51 except Liechtenstein Second qualifying round 66 teams 10 domestic cup winners from associations 19 28 2 domestic league runners up from associations 16 17 6 domestic league fourth placed teams from associations 10 15 48 winners from first qualifying roundThird qualifying round 58 teams 6 domestic cup winners from associations 13 18 9 domestic league third placed teams from associations 7 15 5 domestic league fourth placed teams from associations 5 9 3 domestic league fifth placed teams from associations 4 6 League Cup winners for France 2 domestic league sixth placed teams from associations 1 3 League Cup winners for England except Europa League title holders 33 winners from second qualifying roundPlay off round 44 teams 29 winners from third qualifying round 15 losers from Champions League third qualifying roundGroup stage 48 teams 12 domestic cup winners from associations 1 12 1 domestic league fourth placed team from association 4 3 domestic league fifth placed teams from associations 1 3 22 winners from play off round 10 losers from Champions League play off roundKnockout phase 32 teams 12 group winners from group stage 12 group runners up from group stage 8 third placed teams from Champions League group stageRedistribution rules Edit A Europa League place is vacated when a team qualifies for both the Champions League and the Europa League or qualifies for the Europa League by more than one method When a place is vacated it is redistributed within the national association by the following rules regulations Articles 3 03 and 3 04 6 When the domestic cup winners considered as the highest placed qualifier within the national association with the latest starting round also qualify for the Champions League their Europa League place is vacated As a result the highest placed team in the league which have not yet qualified for European competitions qualify for the Europa League with the Europa League qualifiers which finish above them in the league moved up one place When the domestic cup winners also qualify for the Europa League through league position their place through the league position is vacated As a result the highest placed team in the league which have not yet qualified for European competitions qualify for the Europa League with the Europa League qualifiers which finish above them in the league moved up one place if possible For associations where a Europa League place is reserved for the League Cup winners they always qualify for the Europa League as the lowest placed qualifier If the League Cup winners have already qualified for European competitions through other methods this reserved Europa League place is taken by the highest placed team in the league which have not yet qualified for European competitions Teams Edit The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round 18 19 20 CW Cup winners 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th etc League position LC League Cup winners RW Regular season winners PW End of season European competition play offs winners CL Transferred from Champions League GS Third placed teams from group stage PO Losers from play off round Q3 Losers from third qualifying roundRound of 32 Ludogorets Razgrad CL GS Borussia Monchengladbach CL GS Tottenham Hotspur CL GS Copenhagen CL GS Besiktas CL GS Rostov CL GS Legia Warsaw CL GS Lyon CL GS Group stage Athletic Bilbao 5th Fiorentina 5th Zurich CW Steaua București CL PO Celta Vigo 6th Braga CW Konyaspor 3rd Note TUR Roma CL PO Manchester United CW Nice 4th Viktoria Plzen CL PO Ajax CL PO Southampton 6th Zenit Saint Petersburg CW Hapoel Be er Sheva CL PO Young Boys CL PO Schalke 04 5th Zorya Luhansk 4th Note UKR APOEL CL PO Villarreal CL PO Mainz 05 6th Feyenoord CW Dundalk CL PO Internazionale 4th Standard Liege CW Red Bull Salzburg CL PO Play off round Rosenborg CL Q3 Trencin CL Q3 Red Star Belgrade CL Q3 Shakhtar Donetsk CL Q3 Dinamo Tbilisi CL Q3 Qarabag CL Q3 Partizani CL Q3 Anderlecht CL Q3 Olympiacos CL Q3 Astra Giurgiu CL Q3 PAOK CL Q3 Fenerbahce CL Q3 Astana CL Q3 BATE Borisov CL Q3 Sparta Prague CL Q3 Third qualifying round West Ham United 7th Krasnodar 4th Luzern 3rd Viitorul Constanța 5th Note ROU Hertha BSC 7th Spartak Moscow 5th Istanbul Basaksehir 4th Note TUR Rapid Wien 2nd Sassuolo 6th Vorskla Poltava 5th AEK Athens CW Rijeka 2nd Arouca 5th FC Oleksandriya 6th Note UKR Panathinaikos 3rd Apollon Limassol CW Rio Ave 6th AZ 4th Mlada Boleslav CW Lille 5th Heracles Almelo PW Slovan Liberec 3rd Saint Etienne 6th Gent 3rd Pandurii Targu Jiu 3rd Second qualifying round Genk PW CSM Politehnica Iași 7th Note ROU Torpedo BelAZ Zhodino CW Stromsgodset 2nd Grasshopper 4th Austria Wien 3rd SonderjyskE 2nd Partizan CW Osmanlispor 5th Note TUR Hajduk Split 3rd Hibernian CW Maribor CW PAS Giannina 6th Note GRE Piast Gliwice 2nd BK Hacken CW Slavia Prague 5th Maccabi Haifa CW Levski Sofia 2nd Note BUL First qualifying round Admira Wacker Modling 4th Gabala 3rd Radnik Bijeljina CW Suduva Marijampole 4th Lokomotiva 4th Kapaz 5th Note AZE Sloboda Tuzla 2nd Jelgava CW AEK Larnaca 2nd Neftci Baku 6th Note AZE Siroki Brijeg 3rd Ventspils 3rd Omonia 4th Slovan Bratislava 2nd Vaduz CW Spartaks Jurmala 5th Note LVA Zaglebie Lubin 3rd Spartak Myjava 3rd Shkendija CW Hibernians 2nd Cracovia 4th Spartak Trnava 4th Sileks 3rd Birkirkara 3rd Maccabi Tel Aviv 2nd Videoton 2nd Rabotnicki 4th Balzan 4th Note MLT Beitar Jerusalem 3rd Debrecen 3rd Cork City 2nd Levadia Tallinn 2nd Dinamo Minsk 2nd MTK Budapest 4th Shamrock Rovers 3rd Nomme Kalju 3rd Shakhtyor Soligorsk 3rd Kairat CW St Patrick s Athletic 4th Infonet Tallinn 4th Midtjylland 3rd Aktobe 3rd Rudar Pljevlja CW Vikingur Gota CW Brondby 4th Ordabasy 4th Buducnost Podgorica 2nd NSI Runavik 2nd Aberdeen 2nd Zaria Bălți CW Bokelj 4th HB 4th Heart of Midlothian 3rd Dacia Chișinău 2nd Kukesi CW Bala Town 2nd IFK Goteborg 2nd Zimbru Chișinău 3rd Partizani 2nd Note ALB Llandudno 3rd AIK 3rd Samtredia 2nd Teuta 4th Connah s Quay Nomads PW Beroe Stara Zagora 3rd Dila Gori 3rd Fola Esch 2nd Banants CW Slavia Sofia 4th Note BUL Chikhura Sachkhere 4th Differdange 03 3rd Shirak 2nd Stabaek 3rd IFK Mariehamn CW Jeunesse Esch 4th Pyunik 3rd Odd 4th RoPS 2nd Glenavon CW UE Santa Coloma CW Cukaricki 3rd HJK 3rd Linfield 2nd Lusitanos 2nd Vojvodina 4th Valur CW Cliftonville PW La Fiorita CW Domzale 3rd Breidablik 2nd Trakai 2nd Folgore 3rd Gorica 4th KR 3rd Atlantas 3rd Europa 2nd Notably two teams took part in the competition that were not playing in their national top division Zurich 2nd tier and Hibernian 2nd tier Notes Albania ALB Partizani were transferred to the 2016 17 UEFA Champions League second qualifying round following the exclusion of Skenderbeu by UEFA for match fixing 21 Azerbaijan AZE Zira and Inter Baku would have qualified for the Europa League first qualifying round as the runners up and fourth placed team of the 2015 16 Azerbaijan Premier League respectively but Zira failed to obtain a UEFA licence as the club has existed professionally for fewer than three seasons 22 23 and Inter Baku were excluded from participating in the 2016 17 European competitions by the UEFA Club Financial Control Body 24 As a result the berths were given to the fifth placed team Kapaz and the sixth placed team Neftci Baku Bulgaria BUL CSKA Sofia would have qualified for the Europa League second qualifying round as the winners of the 2015 16 Bulgarian Cup but were excluded from participating in the 2016 17 European competitions by the UEFA Club Financial Control Body 25 As a result the runners up of the 2015 16 A Group Levski Sofia entered the second qualifying round instead of the first qualifying round and the first qualifying round berth was given to the fourth placed team Slavia Sofia Greece GRE Panionios would have qualified for the Europa League second qualifying round as the fifth placed team of the 2015 16 Superleague Greece but were excluded from participating in the 2016 17 European competitions by UEFA for financial reasons 26 As a result the berth was given to the sixth placed team PAS Giannina Latvia LVA Skonto would have qualified for the Europa League first qualifying round as the runners up of the 2015 Latvian Higher League but failed to obtain a UEFA licence 27 28 As a result the berth was given to the fifth placed team Spartaks Jurmala Malta MLT Sliema Wanderers would have qualified for the Europa League first qualifying round as the winners of the 2015 16 Maltese FA Trophy but failed to obtain a UEFA licence 29 As a result the berth was given to the fourth placed team of the 2015 16 Maltese Premier League Balzan Romania ROU CFR Cluj would have qualified for the Europa League third qualifying round as the winners of the 2015 16 Cupa Romaniei but failed to obtain a UEFA licence after filing for insolvency in 2015 30 31 Dinamo București would have qualified for the Europa League second qualifying round as the fourth placed team of the 2015 16 Liga I but failed to obtain a UEFA licence after filing for insolvency in 2014 32 33 Dinamo București appealed to the Romanian Football Federation but the appeal was denied 34 and an appeal to Court of Arbitration for Sport 35 was also rejected 36 As a result the third qualifying round berth was given to the fifth placed team Viitorul Constanța and the second qualifying round berth was given to the seventh placed team CSM Politehnica Iași since the sixth placed team Targu Mureș were excluded from participating in the 2016 17 European competitions by the UEFA Club Financial Control Body 24 31 37 Turkey TUR Galatasaray would have qualified for the Europa League group stage as the winners of the 2015 16 Turkish Cup but were excluded from participating in the 2016 17 European competitions by the UEFA Club Financial Control Body 38 As a result the third placed team of the 2015 16 Super Lig Konyaspor entered the group stage instead of the third qualifying round the fourth placed team Istanbul Basaksehir entered the third qualifying round instead of the second qualifying round and the second qualifying round berth was given to the fifth placed team Osmanlispor Galatasaray appealed the decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport 39 but it was rejected 40 Ukraine UKR Dnipro would have qualified for the Europa League group stage as the third placed team of the 2015 16 Ukrainian Premier League but were excluded from participating in the 2016 17 European competitions by the UEFA Club Financial Control Body 24 As a result the fourth placed team Zorya Luhansk entered the group stage instead of the third qualifying round and the third qualifying round berth was given to the sixth placed team FC Oleksandriya Round and draw dates EditThe schedule of the competition was as follows all draws were held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon Switzerland unless stated otherwise 41 6 42 Phase Round Draw date First leg Second legQualifying First qualifying round 20 June 2016 30 June 2016 7 July 2016Second qualifying round 14 July 2016 21 July 2016Third qualifying round 15 July 2016 28 July 2016 4 August 2016Play off Play off round 5 August 2016 18 August 2016 25 August 2016Group stage Matchday 1 26 August 2016 Monaco 15 September 2016Matchday 2 29 September 2016Matchday 3 20 October 2016Matchday 4 3 November 2016Matchday 5 24 November 2016Matchday 6 8 December 2016Knockout phase Round of 32 12 December 2016 16 February 2017 23 February 2017Round of 16 24 February 2017 9 March 2017 16 March 2017Quarter finals 17 March 2017 13 April 2017 20 April 2017Semi finals 21 April 2017 4 May 2017 11 May 2017Final 24 May 2017 at Friends Arena SolnaMatches in the qualifying play off and knockout rounds could also be played on Tuesdays or Wednesdays instead of the regular Thursdays due to scheduling conflicts Qualifying rounds EditMain article 2016 17 UEFA Europa League qualifying phase In the qualifying rounds and the play off round teams were divided into seeded and unseeded teams based on their 2016 UEFA club coefficients 43 44 45 and then drawn into two legged home and away ties Teams from the same association could not be drawn against each other First qualifying round Edit The draws for the first and second qualifying round were held on 20 June 2016 46 47 The first legs were played on 28 and 30 June and the second legs were played on 5 6 and 7 July 2016 Team 1 Agg Team 2 1st leg 2nd legMidtjylland 2 0 Suduva Marijampole 1 0 1 0Heart of Midlothian 6 3 A Infonet Tallinn 2 1 4 2Connah s Quay Nomads 1 0 A Stabaek 0 0 1 0Ventspils 4 0 Vikingur Gota 2 0 2 0Linfield 1 2 Cork City 0 1 1 1Levadia Tallinn 3 1 HB 1 1 2 0Atlantas 1 3 HJK 0 2 1 1IFK Goteborg 7 1 Llandudno 5 0 2 1St Patrick s Athletic 2 2 a Jeunesse Esch 1 0 1 2KR 8 1 Glenavon 2 1 6 0Shamrock Rovers 1 3 RoPS 0 2 1 1Valur 1 10 Brondby 1 4 0 6Aberdeen 3 2 Fola Esch 3 1 0 1Trakai 3 5 A Nomme Kalju 2 1 1 4Dinamo Minsk 4 1 Spartaks Jurmala 2 1 2 0Breidablik 4 5 Jelgava 2 3 2 2NSI Runavik 0 7 Shakhtyor Soligorsk 0 2 0 5AIK 4 0 Bala Town 2 0 2 0Differdange 03 1 3 Cliftonville 1 1 0 2Odd 3 1 IFK Mariehamn 2 0 1 1Domzale 5 2 Lusitanos 3 1 2 1Bokelj 1 6 Vojvodina 1 1 0 5AEK Larnaca 6 1 Folgore 3 0 3 1Dila Gori 1 1 1 4 p Shirak 1 0 0 1 a e t Siroki Brijeg 1 3 Birkirkara 1 1 0 2Videoton 3 2 Zaria Bălți 3 0 0 2UE Santa Coloma 2 7 Lokomotiva 1 3 1 4Europa 3 2 A Pyunik 2 0 1 2Cukaricki 6 3 Ordabasy 3 0 3 3Rabotnicki 1 2 Buducnost Podgorica 1 1 0 1Zimbru Chișinău 3 3 a Chikhura Sachkhere 0 1 3 2Sloboda Tuzla 0 1 Beitar Jerusalem 0 0 0 1Kukesi 2 1 Rudar Pljevlja 1 1 1 0Balzan 2 3 A Neftci Baku 0 2 2 1Admira Wacker Modling 4 3 Spartak Myjava 1 1 3 2Beroe Stara Zagora 2 0 Radnik Bijeljina 0 0 2 0La Fiorita 0 7 Debrecen 0 5 0 2Vaduz 5 2 Sileks 3 1 2 1Maccabi Tel Aviv 4 0 Gorica 3 0 1 0Gabala 6 3 Samtredia 5 1 1 2Teuta 0 6 Kairat 0 1 0 5Spartak Trnava 6 0 Hibernians 3 0 3 0Banants 1 5 Omonia 0 1 1 4 a e t Shkendija 4 1 Cracovia 2 0 2 1Slavia Sofia 1 3 Zaglebie Lubin 1 0 0 3Aktobe 1 3 MTK Budapest 1 1 0 2Partizani w o B Slovan Bratislava 0 0 CancelledKapaz 1 0 Dacia Chișinău 0 0 1 0Notes a b c d e Order of legs reversed after original draw Partizani replaced Skenderbeu in the 2016 17 UEFA Champions League second qualifying round and Slovan Bratislava proceeded directly to the UEFA Europa League second qualifying round after Skenderbeu was excluded by UEFA for match fixing 48 Second qualifying round Edit The first legs were played on 14 July and the second legs were played on 20 and 21 July 2016 Team 1 Agg Team 2 1st leg 2nd legShirak 1 3 Spartak Trnava 1 1 0 2Dinamo Minsk 2 1 St Patrick s Athletic 1 1 1 0Partizan 0 0 3 4 p Zaglebie Lubin 0 0 0 0 a e t Vojvodina 3 1 Connah s Quay Nomads 1 0 2 1Maccabi Haifa 2 2 3 5 p C Nomme Kalju 1 1 1 1 a e t Hibernian 1 1 3 5 p Brondby 0 1 1 0 a e t Shakhtyor Soligorsk 2 3 Domzale 1 1 1 2Austria Wien 5 1 Kukesi 1 0 4 1MTK Budapest 1 4 Gabala 1 2 0 2Beroe Stara Zagora 1 2 HJK 1 1 0 1RoPS 1 4 Lokomotiva 1 1 0 3Neftci Baku 0 1 Shkendija 0 0 0 1KR 4 5 C Grasshopper 3 3 1 2Midtjylland 5 2 Vaduz 3 0 2 2Zimbru Chișinău 2 7 Osmanlispor 2 2 0 5PAS Giannina 4 3 Odd 3 0 1 3 a e t Birkirkara 2 1 Heart of Midlothian 0 0 2 1Maribor 1 1 a Levski Sofia 0 0 1 1Piast Gliwice 0 3 IFK Goteborg 0 3 0 0Slovan Bratislava 0 3 Jelgava 0 0 0 3Beitar Jerusalem 3 3 a Omonia 1 0 2 3Admira Wacker Modling 3 0 Kapaz 1 0 2 0Aberdeen 4 0 Ventspils 3 0 1 0BK Hacken 1 2 Cork City 1 1 0 1Kairat 2 3 Maccabi Tel Aviv 1 1 1 2Debrecen 1 3 Torpedo BelAZ Zhodino 1 2 0 1CSM Politehnica Iași 3 4 Hajduk Split 2 2 1 2Videoton 3 1 Cukaricki 2 0 1 1Cliftonville 2 5 AEK Larnaca 2 3 0 2AIK 2 0 Europa 1 0 1 0Levadia Tallinn 3 3 a Slavia Prague 3 1 0 2Genk 2 2 4 2 p Buducnost Podgorica 2 0 0 2 a e t SonderjyskE 4 3 Stromsgodset 2 1 2 2 a e t Notes a b Order of legs reversed after original draw Third qualifying round Edit The draw for the third qualifying round was held on 15 July 2016 49 50 The first legs were played on 28 July and the second legs were played on 3 and 4 August 2016 Team 1 Agg Team 2 1st leg 2nd legLokomotiva 3 2 Vorskla Poltava 0 0 3 2Saint Etienne 1 0 AEK Athens 0 0 1 0AEK Larnaca 2 1 Spartak Moscow 1 1 1 0Pandurii Targu Jiu 2 5 Maccabi Tel Aviv 1 3 1 2Vojvodina 3 1 Dinamo Minsk 1 1 2 0Zaglebie Lubin 2 3 SonderjyskE 1 2 1 1Luzern 1 4 Sassuolo 1 1 0 3Slavia Prague 1 1 a Rio Ave 0 0 1 1Birkirkara 1 6 Krasnodar 0 3 1 3AZ 3 1 PAS Giannina 1 0 2 1Jelgava 1 4 Beitar Jerusalem 1 1 0 3Austria Wien 1 1 5 4 p Spartak Trnava 0 1 1 0 a e t Panathinaikos 3 0 D AIK 1 0 2 0Osmanlispor 3 0 Nomme Kalju 1 0 2 0Aberdeen 1 2 Maribor 1 1 0 1Lille 1 2 Gabala 1 1 0 1Oleksandriya 1 6 Hajduk Split 0 3 1 3Hertha BSC 2 3 Brondby 1 0 1 3Istanbul Basaksehir 2 2 a Rijeka 0 0 2 2Heracles Almelo 1 1 a Arouca 1 1 0 0Torpedo BelAZ Zhodino 0 3 Rapid Wien 0 0 0 3 a, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library, article, read, download, free, free download, mp3, video, mp4, 3gp, jpg, jpeg, gif, png, picture, music, song, 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