Wolverhampton Wanderers's return to the Premier League resulted in a seventh-place finish in their first season back, their highest placing in the top division since finishing sixth in 1979–80. This position also earned them a place in the Europa League and their first European campaign since 1980–81. They won 5–3 on aggregate against Torino in the play-off round in August 2019 and advanced to the Group Stage, where they played Slovan Bratislava, Braga and Beşiktaş home and away between September and December 2019. Having finished as runners-up in the group stage, and defeating Espanyol in the Round of 32 (6–3 aggregate), Wolves beat Olympiacos of Greece in the Round of 16 over two legs (12 March 2020, and 6 August 2020), thereby reaching the quarter final stage. In the quarter finals, played as a single tie in a neutral venue in Germany, Wolves lost to Sevilla 0–1 on 11 August 2020. Wolves replicated their seventh-place finish in the Premier League in 2018–19 with the same placing in the 2019–20 Premier League, albeit that they recorded two more points in 2019–20 than the previous season and only missed out on sixth place on goal difference on this latter occasion.