page_title: Burnley F.C. in European football
section_title: 2018–19 UEFA Europa League
hierarchical_section_title: Burnley F.C. in European football / History / 2018–19 UEFA Europa League
caption_attribution_description: Sean Dyche during post-match press conference as manager of Burnley.
context_page_description: Burnley Football Club is an English professional association football club who has made two appearances in Union of European Football Associations competitions, one in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup and seven in other European competitions since 1960. The first competitive venture in Europe came about as a result of Burnley's 1959–60 First Division title win under their manager Harry Potts. The team qualified for the 1960–61 European Cup where they faced French champions Stade de Reims in the first round before being sent out of the contest by West German champions Hamburger SV in the quarter-final. The club's following European campaign came six years later, in the 1966–67 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, where it was again knocked out by a West German side, this time by Eintracht Frankfurt. Burnley had to wait 51 years for their third appearance in a European football competition, when the team qualified for the 2018–19 UEFA Europa League, in which they were eliminated in the play-off round by Greek club Olympiacos.
  The team have also competed in other competitive European football tournaments. They participated in the Texaco Cup for two seasons and reached the final in 1974.
context_section_description: Burnley had to wait 51 years for their third appearance in a European football competition. In those years, the club played in all four professional divisions and only escaped relegation to the fifth-tier Football Conference on the last matchday in 1987. Burnley climbed back up the divisions and were promoted to the first tier again in 2009 after a 33-year absence. Relegation followed after one season but Burnley were promoted to the Premier League again in 2014; they went down after one season, only to make an instant return. The team finished in seventh position in the 2017–18 Premier League, which ensured qualification for the 2018–19 UEFA Europa League second qualifying round.
  Burnley were drawn against Scottish side Aberdeen to set up an all-British tie. The first leg at Aberdeen's Pittodrie Stadium ended in a 1–1 draw: Sam Vokes cancelled out Aberdeen's Gary Mackay-Steven's converted penalty kick. The second leg saw the club's striker Chris Wood open the score, before Lewis Ferguson equalised with a bicycle kick. The game went into extra time, with Jack Cork and an Ashley Barnes penalty sealing the tie for Burnley. They were drawn against Turkish club İstanbul Başakşehir in the third qualifying round, with the first match being held in Istanbul, which resulted in a 0–0 draw. Başakşehir decided to not sell tickets to their fans for the return leg at Turf Moor and left the away end empty. After another goalless 90 minutes, the second leg went again into extra time. Jack Cork scored the only goal in the 97th minute to set up a tie with Greek club Olympiacos in the play-off round, the last round before the group stage.
  Before the first leg started in Piraeus, five Burnley supporters were injured in incidents of football hooliganism. The team wore black armbands in memory of Jimmy McIlroy, who died three days earlier. Kostas Fortounis put the home side in front, before Wood scored a penalty kick to level the score, although Andreas Bouchalakis restored their lead in the 48th minute. Ten minutes later, Burnley defender Ben Gibson was sent off after he collected his second yellow card for handball and Fortounis scored his second from the resulting penalty. Olympiacos owner Evangelos Marinakis had reportedly entered the referee's room at half-time to vent his frustration at his performance; Burnley manager Sean Dyche later accused their staff of intimidating the officials. In the return leg, the team missed multiple chances to score, before Daniel Podence put the away side ahead in the 83rd minute, although substitute Matěj Vydra equalised on his debut three minutes later.
caption: Manager Sean Dyche (2013 photograph) accused Olympiacos' staff of intimidating the officials during the first leg of the play-off round
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