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2024/2025 Europa League Draw Confirmed (Full Fixtures)

This season’s Europa League draw has been completed.

Fenerbahce manager, Jose Mourinho, will face his former club Manchester United.

Like the Champions League, UEFA has revamped this season’s competition, discarding the traditional group phase.

Instead, teams will play eight different opponents – four home and four away – in a league phase before the knockouts in early 2025.

Aside from a trip to face Mourinho’s new side, Fenerbahce, United and Spurs will both play Rangers.

The final of this season’s Europa League took place at San Mames, the home to Athletic Bilbao in Spain on Wednesday, May 21, 2025.

Full fixtures:

Manchester United: Rangers (h), Porto (a), PAOK (h), Fenerbahce (a), Bodo/Glimt (h), Victoria Plzen (a), Twente (h), FCSB (a)

Tottenham: Roma (h), Rangers (a), AZ Alkmaar (h), Ferencvaros (a), Qarabag (h), Galatasaray (a), Elfsborg (h), Hoffenheim (a)

Rangers: Tottenham (h), Manchester United (a), Lyon (h), Olympiacos (a), Union Saint-Gilloise (h), Malmo (a), FCSB (h), Nice (a)

Galatasaray: Tottenham (h), Ajax (a), PAOK (h), AZ Alkmaar (a), Kviv (h), Malmo (a), Elfsborg (h), RFS (a)

Athletic Club: Slavia Prague (h), Roma (a), AZ Alkmaar (h), Fenerbahce (a), Victoria Plzen (h), Elfsborg (h), Besiktas (a)

Fenerbahce – Manchester United (h), Slavia Prague (a), Lyon (h), AZ Alkmaar (a), Union SG (h), Midtjylland (a), Athletic Club (h), Twente (a)

Lyon: Lazio (h), Rangers (a), Olympiacos (h), Fenerbahce (a), Ludogorets (h), Qarabag (a), Besiktas (h), Hoffenheim (a)

Roma: Frankfurt (h), Tottenham (a), Braga (h), AZ Alkmaar (a), Kviv (h), Union Saint-Gilloise (a), Athletic Club (h), Elfsborg (a)

Frankfurt: Slavia Prague (h), Roma (a), Ferencvaros (h), Lyon (a), Victoria Plzen (h), Midtjylland (a), RFS (h), Besiktas

Porto: Manchester United (h), Lazio (a), Olympiacos (h), Macabi Tel-Aviv (a), Midtjylland (h), Bodo/Glimt (a), Hoffenheim (h), Anderlecht (a)

Ajax: Lazio (h), Slavia Prague (a), Macabi Tel-Aviv (h), Real Sociedad (a), Galatasaray (h), Qarabag (a), Besiktas (h), RFS (a)

Lazio: Porto (h), Ajax (a), Real Sociedad (h), Braga (a), Ludogorets (h), Kyiv (a), Nice (h), Twente (a)

Slavia Prague: Ajax (h), Frankfurt (a), Fenerbahce (h), PAOK (a), Malmo (h), Ludogorets (a), Anderlecht (h), Athletic Club (a)

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UEFA Takes Decision On Man Utd, Man City Playing Europa, UCL Next Season

Manchester City and Manchester United have been cleared by UEFA’s Club Financial Control Body, CFCB, to take part in European competition next season.

Both City and LaLiga side Girona qualified for the Champions League.

There were doubts over whether both teams will be allowed to play in the competition, as they are both part of the City Football Group.

United, meanwhile, earned a Europa League ticket by winning the FA Cup along with Nice. The Ligue 1 club is also under the control of Jim Ratcliffe’s INEOS group.

Two clubs under the same ownership being in one European competition creates a potential conflict with UEFA’s multi-club ownership rules, and changes had to be made at board level for all four clubs to be admitted.

UEFA confirmed on Friday that there had been “significant changes made to the ownership, governance, and financial support of the concerned clubs” which would “substantially restrict the investors’ influence and decision-making power”.

The shares held in Girona and Nice have been transferred to independent trustees “through a blind trust structure established under the supervision of the CFCB”.

The measure applies for the 2024/2025 season, after which the shares will transfer back to City Football Group and INEOS.

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UEL Last 8 draw: Man Utd vs Sevilla, Juventus v Sporting Lisbon

Manchester United will get a third trip to Spain in as many months, as they face perennial Europa League challengers Sevilla in the quarter-finals of the competition.

Sevilla will have the chance to avenge the eliminations of city rivals Real Betis and Barcelona in the quarter-finals, although Manchester United will be heavy favourites for the tie.

Los Nervionenses are currently more concerned about avoiding relegation, as they sit 13th, just two points above the drop zone. They beat Fenerbahce 2-1 on aggregate in a tense tie in the Round of 16, as United dismissed Betis 5-1 on aggregate live on Onpointy Blog.

The winners of that tie will face one of Juventus or Sporting CP in the semi-finals, as they lie on the same side of the draw. The teams competing on the other side are Roma, Bayer Leverkusen, Union St. Gilloise and Feyenoord. Sevilla will travel to Manchester in the first leg, while United will be back at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan for the second.

Draw Results:

  • Manchester United v Sevilla
  • Juventus v Sporting Lisbon
  • Bayer Leverkusen v Union Saint-Gilloise
  • Feyenoord v Roma