Europa League Group Stage Draw Results

Here are the results from Friday's draw for the group stage of the 2009-10 UEFA Europa League (formerly the UEFA Cup) that took place in Monaco:

Group A:

Ajax Amsterdam
RSC Anderlecht
Dinamo Zagreb
FC Timisoara

Group B:

Valencia
LOSC Lille Metropole
Slavia Prague
Genoa

Group C:

Hamburg
Celtic
Hapoel Tel-Aviv FC
Rapid Vienna

Group D:

Sporting
SC Heerenveen
Hertha Berlin
FK Ventspils

Group E:

AS Roma
FC Basel 1893
Fulham
CSKA Sofia

Group F:

Panathinaikos
Galatasaray
Dinamo Bucharest
Sturm Graz

Group G:

Villarreal
Lazio
Levski Sofia
Red Bull Salzburg

Group H:

Steaua Bucharest
Fenerbahce
FC Twente
FC Sheriff

Group I:

SL Benfica
Everton
AEK Athens
BATE Borisov

Group J:

Shakhtar Donetsk
Club Brugge
Partizan Belgrade
Toulouse

Group K:

PSV Eindhoven
FC Copenhagen
Sparta Prague
CFR 1907 Cluj

Group L:

Werder Bremen
Austria Vienna
Athletic Bilbao
CD Nacional

The action begins on September 17. Each team will play two games against each of the other three clubs in its group (one home, one away). The top two teams in each group would advance to the knockout stage, beginning with the round of 32, where they would be joined by the third-place finishers from each of the eight groups in the UEFA Champions League.