Europa League Group-Stage Draw

The draw for the Europa League's group stage took place in Monaco on Friday.

GROUP A:

Villarreal (Spain)

Borussia Monchengladbach (Germany)

FC Zurich (Switzerland)

Apollon Limassol (Cyprus)



GROUP B:

FC Copenhagen (Denmark)

Club Brugge (Belgium)

Torino FC (Italy)

HJK Helsinki (Finland)



GROUP C:

Tottenham Hotspur (England)

Besiktas (Turkey)

Partizan Belgrade (Serbia)

Asteras Tripoli FC (Greece)



GROUP D:

FC Red Bull Salzburg (Austria)

Celtic FC (Scotland)

Dinamo Zagreb (Croatia)

FC Astra Giurgiu (Romania)



GROUP E:

PSV Eindhoven (Netherlands)

Panathinaikos (Greece)

Estoril (Portugal)

Dynamo Moscow (Russia)



GROUP F:

Inter Milan (Italy)

FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (Ukraine)

Saint-Etienne (France)

Qarabag FK (Azerbaijan)



GROUP G:

Sevilla (Spain; won tournament last season)

Standard Liege (Belgium)

Feyenoord Rotterdam (Netherlands)

HNK Rijeka (Croatia)



GROUP H:

LOSC Lille Metropole (France)

VfL Wolfsburg (Germany)

Everton (England)

FC Krasnodar (Russia)



GROUP I:

Napola (Italy)

Sparta Prague (Czech Republic)

BSC Young Boys (Switzerland)

FC Slovan Bratislava (Slovakia)



GROUP J:

Dynamo Kiev (Ukraine)

Steaua Bucharest (Romania)

Rio Ave (Portugal)

Aalborg BK (Denmark)



GROUP K:

Fiorentina (Italy)

PAOK FC (Greece)

Guingamp (France)

FC Dinamo Minsk (Belarus)



GROUP L:

FC Metalist Kharkiv (Ukraine)

Trabzonspor (Turkey)

Legia Warsaw (Poland)

Lokeren (Belgium)

The action gets under way on September 18.  Each team in each group plays two games against each of the other clubs in its' group.  The top two finishing teams in each group would advance to the knockout stage, where they would be joined by the third-placed club from each of the Champions League's eight groups.