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2019–20 UEFA Europa League group stage

December 15, 2023

The 2019–20 UEFA Europa League group stage began on 19 September and ended on 12 December 2019.[1] A total of 48 teams competed in the group stage to decide 24 of the 32 places in the knockout phase of the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League.[2]

Draw edit

The draw for the group stage was held on 30 August 2019, 13:00 CEST, at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco.[3]

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

On 17 July 2014, the UEFA emergency panel ruled that Ukrainian and Russian clubs would not be drawn against each other "until further notice" due to the political unrest between the countries.[4]

Moreover, for associations with two or more teams, teams were paired in order to split them into two sets of six groups (A–F, G–L) for maximum television coverage. The following pairings were announced by UEFA after the group stage teams were confirmed:[5]

  • Spain: Sevilla and Espanyol
  • England: Arsenal and Manchester United
  • Italy: Roma and Lazio
  • Germany: Borussia Mönchengladbach and Eintracht Frankfurt
  • France: Saint-Étienne and Rennes
  • Russia: CSKA Moscow and Krasnodar
  • Portugal: Porto and Sporting CP; Braga and Vitória de Guimarães
  • Ukraine: Dynamo Kyiv and Oleksandriya
  • Belgium: KAA Gent and Standard Liège
  • Turkey: Beşiktaş and Trabzonspor
  • Netherlands: PSV Eindhoven and Feyenoord
  • Austria: LASK and Wolfsberger AC
  • Switzerland: Basel and Young Boys
  • Scotland: Celtic and Rangers

On each matchday, one set of six groups play their matches at 18:55 CET/CEST, while the other set of six groups play their matches at 21:00 CET/CEST, with the two sets of groups alternating between each matchday. The fixtures were decided after the draw, using a computer draw not shown to public, with the following match sequence (Regulations Article 15.02):[2]

Note: Positions for scheduling do not use the seeding pots, e.g. Team 1 is not necessarily the team from Pot 1 in the draw.

Group stage schedule
Matchday Date Matches
Matchday 1 19 September 2019 2 v 3, 4 v 1
Matchday 2 3 October 2019 1 v 2, 3 v 4
Matchday 3 24 October 2019 3 v 1, 2 v 4
Matchday 4 6–7 November 2019 1 v 3, 4 v 2
Matchday 5 28 November 2019 3 v 2, 1 v 4
Matchday 6 12 December 2019 2 v 1, 4 v 3

There were scheduling restrictions: for example, teams from the same city (e.g. Lazio and Roma) in general were not scheduled to play at home on the same matchday (to avoid them playing at home on the same day, due to logistics and crowd control), and teams from "winter countries" (e.g. Russia) were not scheduled to play at home on the last matchday (due to cold weather).

Teams edit

Below were the participating teams (with their 2019 UEFA club coefficients),[6] grouped by their seeding pot. They included:

Key to colours
Group winners and runners-up advance to round of 32
Pot 1
Team Notes Coeff.[6]
  Sevilla 104.000
  Arsenal 101.000
  Porto [CL-LQ] 93.000
  Roma 81.000
  Manchester United 78.000
  Dynamo Kyiv [CL-LQ] 65.000
  Beşiktaş 62.000
  Basel [CL-LQ] 54.500
  Sporting CP 50.000
  CSKA Moscow 48.000
  Wolfsburg 40.000
  Lazio 37.000
Notes
  1. EL-CP Winners of play-off round (Champions Path).
  2. EL-MP Winners of play-off round (Main Path).
  3. CL-CP Losers of Champions League play-off round (Champions Path).
  4. CL-LP Losers of Champions League play-off round (League Path).
  5. CL-LQ Losers of Champions League third qualifying round (League Path).

Format edit

In each group, teams played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The group winners and runners-up advanced to the round of 32, where they were joined by the eight third-placed teams of the Champions League group stage.

Tiebreakers edit

Teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 16.01):[2]

  1. Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  2. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  3. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  4. Away goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  5. If more than two teams were tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams were still tied, all head-to-head criteria above were reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
  6. Goal difference in all group matches;
  7. Goals scored in all group matches;
  8. Away goals scored in all group matches;
  9. Wins in all group matches;
  10. Away wins in all group matches;
  11. Disciplinary points (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
  12. UEFA club coefficient.

Groups edit

The matchdays were 19 September, 3 October, 24 October, 7 November, 28 November, and 12 December 2019.[1] The scheduled kickoff times were 18:55 and 21:00 CET/CEST, with possible exceptions at 16:50 CET/CEST due to geographical reasons.

Times are CET/CEST,[note 1] as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Group A edit

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification SEV APO QRB DUD
1   Sevilla 6 5 0 1 14 3 +11 15 Advance to knockout phase — 1–0 2–0 3–0
2   APOEL 6 3 1 2 10 8 +2 10 1–0 — 2–1 3–4
3   Qarabağ 6 1 2 3 8 11 −3 5 0–3 2–2 — 1–1
4   F91 Dudelange 6 1 1 4 8 18 −10 4 2–5 0–2 1–4 —
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Qarabağ  0–3  Sevilla
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  • Hernández   62'
  • Munir   78'
  • Torres   85'
Attendance: 30,826[7]
APOEL  3–4  F91 Dudelange
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Attendance: 9,313[8]
Referee: Dumitru Muntean (Moldova)
F91 Dudelange  1–4  Qarabağ
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Attendance: 3,005[9]
Sevilla  1–0  APOEL
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Attendance: 30,008[10]
Qarabağ  2–2  APOEL
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Attendance: 30,824[11]
Referee: Filip Glova (Slovakia)
Sevilla  3–0  F91 Dudelange
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Attendance: 26,165[12]
Referee: Anastasios Papapetrou (Greece)
F91 Dudelange  2–5  Sevilla
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Attendance: 2,848[13]
Referee: Vilhjálmur Thórarinsson (Iceland)
APOEL  2–1  Qarabağ
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Attendance: 9,432[14]
Sevilla  2–0  Qarabağ
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Attendance: 19,803[15]
F91 Dudelange  0–2  APOEL
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Attendance: 2,912[16]
Qarabağ  1–1  F91 Dudelange
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Attendance: 5,823[17]
APOEL  1–0  Sevilla
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Attendance: 5,608[18]

Group B edit

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification MAL KOB DKV LUG
1   Malmö FF 6 3 2 1 8 6 +2 11 Advance to knockout phase — 1–1 4–3 2–1
2   Copenhagen 6 2 3 1 5 4 +1 9 0–1 — 1–1 1–0
3   Dynamo Kyiv 6 1 4 1 7 7 0 7 1–0 1–1 — 1–1
4   Lugano 6 0 3 3 2 5 −3 3 0–0 0–1 0–0 —
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Dynamo Kyiv  1–0  Malmö FF
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Attendance: 17,159[19]
Copenhagen  1–0  Lugano
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Attendance: 18,240[20]
Referee: Fábio Veríssimo (Portugal)
Lugano  0–0  Dynamo Kyiv
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Attendance: 1,281[22]
Referee: Karim Abed (France)
Malmö FF  1–1  Copenhagen
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Attendance: 19,884[23]
Malmö FF  2–1  Lugano
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Attendance: 16,789[24]
Referee: Rob Harvey (Republic of Ireland)
Dynamo Kyiv  1–1  Copenhagen
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Attendance: 21,202[25]
Lugano  0–0  Malmö FF
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Attendance: 1,875[26]
Referee: Giorgi Kruashvili (Georgia)
Copenhagen  1–1  Dynamo Kyiv
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Attendance: 23,166[27]
Malmö FF  4–3  Dynamo Kyiv
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Attendance: 19,224[28]
Lugano  0–1  Copenhagen
Report
Attendance: 1,281[29]
Dynamo Kyiv  1–1  Lugano
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Attendance: 15,774[30]
Attendance: 32,941[31]
Referee: Davide Massa (Italy)

Group C edit

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification BSL GET KRA TRA
1   Basel 6 4 1 1 12 4 +8 13 Advance to knockout phase — 2–1 5–0 2–0
2   Getafe 6 4 0 2 8 4 +4 12 0–1 — 3–0 1–0
3   Krasnodar 6 3 0 3 7 11 −4 9 1–0 1–2 — 3–1
4   Trabzonspor 6 0 1 5 3 11 −8 1 2–2 0–1 0–2 —
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Getafe  1–0  Trabzonspor
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Attendance: 5,786[32]
Referee: Matej Jug (Slovenia)
Basel  5–0  Krasnodar
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Attendance: 14,127[33]
Krasnodar  1–2  Getafe
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Attendance: 20,035[34]
Referee: Ivan Bebek (Croatia)
Trabzonspor  2–2  Basel
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Attendance: 23,867[35]
Trabzonspor  0–2  Krasnodar
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Attendance: 26,405[36]
Getafe  0–1  Basel
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Attendance: 6,213[37]
Krasnodar  3–1  Trabzonspor
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Attendance: 21,669[38]
Basel  2–1  Getafe
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Attendance: 26,298[39]
Trabzonspor  0–1  Getafe
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Attendance: 11,465[40]
Krasnodar  1–0  Basel
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Attendance: 22,826[41]
Getafe  3–0  Krasnodar
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Attendance: 9,389[42]
Basel  2–0  Trabzonspor
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Attendance: 17,921[43]

Group D edit

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification LASK SPO PSV ROS
1   LASK 6 4 1 1 11 4 +7 13 Advance to knockout phase — 3–0 4–1 1–0
2   Sporting CP 6 4 0 2 11 7 +4 12 2–1 — 4–0 1–0
3   PSV Eindhoven 6 2 2 2 9 12 −3 8 0–0 3–2 — 1–1
4   Rosenborg 6 0 1 5 3 11 −8 1 1–2 0–2 1–4 —
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
PSV Eindhoven  3–2  Sporting CP
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Attendance: 30,000[44]
LASK  1–0  Rosenborg
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Attendance: 12,179[45]
Referee: Donatas Rumšas (Lithuania)
Rosenborg  1–4  PSV Eindhoven
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Attendance: 10,296[46]
Sporting CP  2–1  LASK
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Attendance: 31,225[47]
Referee: Alain Durieux (Luxembourg)
Sporting CP  1–0  Rosenborg
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Attendance: 27,671[48]
Referee: Lawrence Visser (Belgium)
PSV Eindhoven  0–0  LASK
Report
Attendance: 29,000[49]
Rosenborg  0–2  Sporting CP
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Attendance: 11,018[50]
LASK  4–1  PSV Eindhoven
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Attendance: 12,658[51]
Sporting CP  4–0  PSV Eindhoven
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Attendance: 30,146[52]
Rosenborg  1–2  LASK
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Attendance: 9,775[53]
Referee: Giorgi Kruashvili (Georgia)
PSV Eindhoven  1–1  Rosenborg
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Attendance: 24,000[54]
LASK  3–0  Sporting CP
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Attendance: 11,627[55]

Group E edit

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification CEL CLJ LAZ REN
1   Celtic 6 4 1 1 10 6 +4 13 Advance to knockout phase — 2–0 2–1 3–1
2   CFR Cluj 6 4 0 2 6 4 +2 12 2–0 — 2–1 1–0
3   Lazio 6 2 0 4 6 9 −3 6 1–2 1–0 — 2–1
4   Rennes 6 1 1 4 5 8 −3 4 1–1 0–1 2–0 —
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Rennes  1–1  Celtic
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Attendance: 27,026[56]
CFR Cluj  2–1  Lazio
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Attendance: 9,222[57]
Lazio  2–1  Rennes
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Attendance: 13,072[58]
Celtic  2–0  CFR Cluj
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Attendance: 56,172[59]
Celtic  2–1  Lazio
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Attendance: 56,172[60]
Referee: Ivan Bebek (Croatia)
Rennes  0–1  CFR Cluj
Report
Attendance: 27,330[61]
Lazio  1–2  Celtic
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Attendance: 26,155[62]
CFR Cluj  1–0  Rennes
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Attendance: 11,067[63]
Celtic  3–1  Rennes
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Attendance: 56,172[64]
Referee: Espen Eskås (Norway)
Lazio  1–0  CFR Cluj
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Attendance: 7,604[65]
Rennes  2–0  Lazio
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Attendance: 25,082[66]
CFR Cluj  2–0  Celtic
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Attendance: 12,890[67]

Group F edit

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification ARS FRA STL VSC
1   Arsenal 6 3 2 1 14 7 +7 11 Advance to knockout phase — 1–2 4–0 3–2
2   Eintracht Frankfurt 6 3 0 3 8 10 −2 9 0–3 — 2–1 2–3
3   Standard Liège 6 2 2 2 8 10 −2 8 2–2 2–1 — 2–0
4   Vitória de Guimarães 6 1 2 3 7 10 −3 5 1–1 0–1 1–1 —
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Eintracht Frankfurt  0–3  Arsenal
Report
Attendance: 47,000[68]
Referee: Davide Massa (Italy)
Attendance: 13,477[69]
Attendance: 15,187[72]
Arsenal  4–0  Standard Liège
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Attendance: 58,725[73]
Arsenal  3–2  Vitória de Guimarães
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Attendance: 60,195[74]
Attendance: 47,000[75]
Vitória de Guimarães  1–1  Arsenal
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Attendance: 17,822[76]
Attendance: 15,952[77]
Referee: Matej Jug (Slovenia)
Vitória de Guimarães  1–1