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),^[1] 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 colours
Group winners and runners-up advance to the round of 32

Pot 1 Team Coeff.[1] Arsenal 105.192 Zenit Saint Petersburg[†] 87.106 Lyon 68.833 Dynamo Kyiv[†] 67.526 Villarreal 64.999 Athletic Bilbao[†] 60.999 Lazio 56.666 Milan[†] 47.666 Viktoria Plzeň[†] 40.635 Red Bull Salzburg[†] 40.570 Copenhagen[CL-CR] 37.800 Braga[†] 37.366

Pot 2 Team Coeff.[1] FCSB[CL-LR] 35.370 Ludogorets Razgrad[†] 34.175 BATE Borisov[†] 29.475 Everton[†] 29.192 Young Boys[CL-LR] 28.915 Marseille[†] 28.333 Real Sociedad 27.499 Maccabi Tel Aviv[†] 23.375 Lokomotiv Moscow 20.606 Austria Wien[†] 17.070 Hertha BSC 16.899 Nice[CL-LR] 16.833

Pot 3 Team Coeff.[1] Astana[CL-CR] 16.800 Partizan[†] 16.075 1899 Hoffenheim[CL-LR] 15.899 1. FC Köln 15.899 Rijeka[CL-CR] 15.550 Vitória de Guimarães 14.866 Atalanta 14.666 Zulte Waregem 14.480 Zorya Luhansk 13.526 Rosenborg[†] 12.665 FC Sheriff Tiraspol[†] 11.150 Hapoel Be'er Sheva[CL-CR] 10.875

Pot 4 Team Coeff.[1] Apollon Limassol[†] 10.710 İstanbul Başakşehir[CL-LR] 10.340 Konyaspor 9.840 Vitesse 9.212 Slavia Prague[CL-CR] 8.135 Red Star Belgrade[†] 7.325 Skënderbeu Korçë[†] 6.825 Fastav Zlín 6.635 AEK Athens[†] 6.580 Lugano 6.415 Vardar[†] 5.125 Östersund[†] 3.945

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):^[2]

1. Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
2. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
3. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
4. Away goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
5. 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;
6. Goal difference in all group matches;
7. Goals scored in all group matches;
8. Away goals scored in all group matches;
9. Wins in all group matches;
10. Away wins in all group matches;
11. Disciplinary points (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
12. UEFA club coefficient.

Groups

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Villarreal	6	3	2	1	10	6	+4	11	Advance to knockout phase
2	Astana	6	3	1	2	10	7	+3	10
3	Slavia Prague	6	2	2	2	6	6	0	8
4	Maccabi Tel Aviv	6	1	1	4	1	8	−7	4

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Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Dynamo Kyiv	6	4	1	1	15	9	+6	13	Advance to knockout phase
2	Partizan	6	2	2	2	8	9	−1	8
3	Young Boys	6	1	3	2	7	8	−1	6
4	Skënderbeu	6	1	2	3	6	10	−4	5

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Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Braga	6	3	1	2	9	8	+1	10	Advance to knockout phase
2	Ludogorets Razgrad	6	2	3	1	7	5	+2	9
3	İstanbul Başakşehir	6	2	2	2	7	8	−1	8
4	1899 Hoffenheim	6	1	2	3	8	10	−2	5

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Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Milan	6	3	2	1	13	6	+7	11	Advance to knockout phase
2	AEK Athens	6	1	5	0	6	5	+1	8
3	Rijeka	6	2	1	3	11	12	−1	7
4	Austria Wien	6	1	2	3	9	16	−7	5

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Group E

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Atalanta	6	4	2	0	14	4	+10	14	Advance to knockout phase
2	Lyon	6	3	2	1	11	4	+7	11
3	Everton	6	1	1	4	7	15	−8	4
4	Apollon Limassol	6	0	3	3	5	14	−9	3

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Group F

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Lokomotiv Moscow	6	3	2	1	9	4	+5	11	Advance to knockout phase
2	Copenhagen	6	2	3	1	7	3	+4	9[a]
3	Sheriff Tiraspol	6	2	3	1	4	4	0	9[a]
4	Fastav Zlín	6	0	2	4	1	10	−9	2

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Group G

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Viktoria Plzeň	6	4	0	2	13	8	+5	12	Advance to knockout phase
2	FCSB	6	3	1	2	9	7	+2	10
3	Lugano	6	3	0	3	9	11	−2	9
4	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	6	1	1	4	5	10	−5	4

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Group H

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Arsenal	6	4	1	1	14	4	+10	13	Advance to knockout phase
2	Red Star Belgrade	6	2	3	1	3	2	+1	9
3	1. FC Köln	6	2	0	4	7	8	−1	6
4	BATE Borisov	6	1	2	3	6	16	−10	5

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Group I

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Red Bull Salzburg	6	3	3	0	7	1	+6	12	Advance to knockout phase
2	Marseille	6	2	2	2	4	4	0	8
3	Konyaspor	6	1	3	2	4	6	−2	6
4	Vitória de Guimarães	6	1	2	3	5	9	−4	5

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Group J

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Athletic Bilbao	6	3	2	1	8	5	+3	11[a]	Advance to knockout phase
2	Östersund	6	3	2	1	8	4	+4	11[a]
3	Zorya Luhansk	6	2	0	4	3	9	−6	6
4	Hertha BSC	6	1	2	3	6	7	−1	5

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Group K

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Lazio	6	4	1	1	12	7	+5	13	Advance to knockout phase
2	Nice	6	3	0	3	12	7	+5	9
3	Zulte Waregem	6	2	1	3	8	13	−5	7
4	Vitesse	6	1	2	3	5	10	−5	5

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Group L

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Zenit Saint Petersburg	6	5	1	0	17	5	+12	16	Advance to knockout phase
2	Real Sociedad	6	4	0	2	16	6	+10	12
3	Rosenborg	6	1	2	3	6	11	−5	5
4	Vardar	6	0	1	5	3	20	−17	1

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Notes

References

Other websites

• UEFA Europa League (official website)