The possible opponents for Olympiacos and PAOK in the Europa League – The day and time of the draw

This season’s Europa League will take place with two teams from Greece, as the Olympic qualified there as last year’s holder Conference League and PAOK reached the League Phase after comfortably eliminating Shamrock Rovers.

Now, both teams are anxiously waiting for her Friday’s draw (30/08, 14:00, COSMOTE SPORT 1) so that they learn them 8 groups that they will face in the event, which also, like the others two Europeanhas a new format.

With the new format, its 36 teams Europa League they will be in a single group and will play 8 matches in the league stage (former group stage). They will no longer face three opponents twice (home and away) but will face 8 different teams, playing four matches at home and four away. Possible opponents, therefore, are all the teams of the competition, with the asterisk that PAOK and Olympiacos they cannot play together in the first phase.

The first eight teams in the unified standings will qualify automatically in the round of 16while the teams that will finish from 9th to 24th place they will compete in double knockout play-off matches to secure their place in the round of 16 of the competition. Teams finishing from 25th to 36th place are eliminated, without moving to the Conference League.

In the knockout stage, teams between 9th and 16th place will face a team that finished between 17th and 24thwith the second match at home. The eight teams that win the knockout stage play-offs will advance to the round of 16, where they will each face one of the top eight teams, who will have already qualified for the round of 16.

From the phase of 16 and then, the organization will continue to follow it existing knockout formatleading to its neutral headquarters finalthe “San Mames” of Bilbao.

The 36 teams of the League Stage of the Europa League

1st capacity group (9 groups)

Roma

Manchester United

Porto

Ajax

Rangers

Eintracht Frankfurt

Lazio

Tottenham

Slavia Prague

2nd capacity group (9 groups)

Society

Alkmaar

Braga

Olympic

Lyon

PAOK

Fenerbahce

Maccabi Tel Aviv

Ferentsvaros

3rd capacity group (9 groups)

Karabagh

Galatasarai

Bodo/Glimt

Victoria Plzen

Union Saint-Jiloise

Dynamo Kyiv

Ludogorets

Midland

Malme

4th capacity group (9 groups)

Athletic Bilbao

Hoffenheim

Nis

Anderlecht

Twenty

Besiktas

Steaua

Stripe

Elfsborg