2017–18 UEFA Europa League group stage

The 2017–18 UEFA Europa League group stage began on 14 September and ended on 7 December 2017. A total of 48 teams competed in the group stage to decide 24 of the 32 places in the knockout stage of the 2017–18 UEFA Europa League.

Teams
Below are the teams that were participating in the tournament (with their 2017 UEFA club coefficients), grouped by their seeding pot. They included 16 teams which entered in this stage, the 22 winners of the play-off round, and the 10 losers of the Champions League play-off round (5 in Champions Route, 5 in League Route).

Key to coloursGroup winners and runners-up advance to the round of 32

+Pot 1Team  Arsenal105.192 Zenit Saint Petersburg87.106 Lyon68.833 Dynamo Kyiv67.526 Villarreal64.999 Athletic Bilbao60.999 Lazio56.666 Milan47.666 Viktoria Plzeň40.635 Red Bull Salzburg40.570 Copenhagen37.800 Braga37.366+Pot 2Team FCSB35.370 Ludogorets Razgrad34.175 BATE Borisov29.475 Everton29.192 Young Boys28.915 Marseille28.333 Real Sociedad27.499 Maccabi Tel Aviv23.375 Lokomotiv Moscow20.606 Austria Wien17.070 Hertha BSC16.899 Nice16.833+Pot 3Team Astana16.800 Partizan16.075 1899 Hoffenheim15.899 1. FC Köln15.899 Rijeka15.550 Vitória de Guimarães14.866 Atalanta14.666 Zulte Waregem14.480 Zorya Luhansk13.526 Rosenborg12.665 FC Sheriff Tiraspol11.150 Hapoel Be'er Sheva10.875+Pot 4Team Apollon Limassol10.710 İstanbul Başakşehir10.340 Konyaspor9.840 Vitesse9.212 Slavia Prague8.135 Red Star Belgrade7.325 Skënderbeu Korçë6.825 Fastav Zlín6.635 AEK Athens6.580 Lugano6.415 Vardar5.125 Östersund3.945

Notes

Format
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

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):

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

Groups

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Group E

Group F

Group G

Group H

Group I

Group J

Group K

Group L

Notes

References

Other websites
UEFA Europa League (official website)

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