2021–22 UEFA Europa League

2021–22 UEFA Europa League
	The Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán Stadium in Seville hosted the final
Tournament details
Dates	Qualifying:; 3–26 August 2021; Competition proper:; 15 September 2021 – 18 May 2022
Teams	Competition proper: 32+8; Total: 21+37 (from 33 associations)
Final positions
Champions	Eintracht Frankfurt (2nd title)
Runners-up	Rangers
Tournament statistics
Matches played	139
Goals scored	367 (2.64 per match)
Attendance	3,435,542 (24,716 per match)
Top scorer(s)	James Tavernier (Rangers); 7 goals
Best player(s)	Filip Kostić (Eintracht Frankfurt)
Best young player	Ansgar Knauff (Eintracht Frankfurt)
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The 2021–22 UEFA Europa League was the 51st season of Europe's secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 13th season since it was renamed from the UEFA Cup to the UEFA Europa League.

Eintracht Frankfurt defeated Rangers 5–4 on penalties following a 1–1 draw after extra time in the final played at the Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán Stadium in Seville, Spain, winning the competition for the second time in club history, and the first since 1980.^[3] The final was originally scheduled to be played at the Puskás Aréna in Budapest, Hungary.^[4] However, due to the postponement and relocation of the 2020 final, the final hosts were shifted back a year, with Budapest instead hosting the 2023 final.^[5] As winners, Eintracht Frankfurt automatically qualified for the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League group stage, and also earned the right to play against the winners of the 2021–22 UEFA Champions League, Real Madrid, in the 2022 UEFA Super Cup.

This season was the first since 1999–2000 (the first season after the dissolution of the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup) where three major European club competitions (UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, and the newly created UEFA Europa Conference League) take place, and the first outright where the Europa League (then the UEFA Cup) is the secondary competition of the three. As a result, major changes to the format of the Europa League were made. The number of teams in the group stage was reduced from 48 to 32 teams, and the number of teams participating in qualifying was also reduced significantly. The first round of the knockout phase also now involved only the group stage runners-up and the Champions League third-placed teams, with the group winners directly advancing to the round of 16.^[6]

As the title holders Villarreal qualified for the 2021–22 UEFA Champions League, they were unable to defend their title as they advanced to the Champions League knockout stage, and were eliminated by Liverpool in the semi-finals.

On 24 June 2021, UEFA approved the proposal to abolish the away goals rule in all UEFA club competitions, which had been used since 1965. Therefore, if in a two-legged tie, two teams scored the same number of aggregate goals, the winner of tie was not decided by the number of away goals scored by each team, but always by 30 minutes of extra time, and if the two teams scored the same number of goals in extra time, the winner was decided by a penalty shoot-out.^[7]

Association team allocation

A total of 58 teams from 33 of the 55 UEFA member associations participated in the 2021–22 UEFA Europa League. Among them, 16 associations had teams directly qualifying for the Europa League, while for the other 39 associations that did not have any teams directly qualifying, 17 of them had teams playing after being transferred from the Champions League (the only member association which could not have a participant was Liechtenstein, which did not organise a domestic league, and could only enter their cup winner into the Europa Conference League given their association ranking). The association ranking based on the UEFA country coefficients was used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:^[8]

Associations 1–5 each had two teams qualify.
Associations 6–15 each had one team qualify.
- As the UEFA Europa Conference League title holders' berth was not used this season, association 16 had one of their teams promoted from the Europa Conference League to the Europa League, so they also had one team qualify.
Moreover, 37 teams eliminated from the 2021–22 UEFA Champions League were transferred to the Europa League.
In future seasons, the title holders of the UEFA Europa Conference League would be given an additional entry in the Europa League. However, this berth was not used for this season as the first edition of the UEFA Europa Conference League had not been held.

Association ranking

For the 2021–22 UEFA Europa League, the associations were allocated places according to their 2020 UEFA country coefficients, which took into account their performance in European competitions from 2015–16 to 2019–20.^[9]

Apart from the allocation based on the country coefficients, associations could have additional teams participating in the Europa League, as noted below:

(UCL) – Additional teams transferred from the UEFA Champions League

Association ranking for 2021–22 UEFA Europa League

Rank	Association	Coeff.	Teams	Notes
1	Spain	102.283	2	+2 (UCL)
2	England	90.462
3	Germany	74.784		+2 (UCL)
4	Italy	70.653		+1 (UCL)
5	France	59.248		+1 (UCL)
6	Portugal	49.449	1	+1 (UCL)
7	Russia	45.549		+2 (UCL)
8	Belgium	37.900		+1 (UCL)
9	Ukraine	36.100
10	Netherlands	35.750		+1 (UCL)
11	Turkey	33.600		+1 (UCL)
12	Austria	32.925		+1 (UCL)
13	Denmark	29.250		+2 (UCL)
14	Scotland	27.875		+2 (UCL)
15	Czech Republic	27.300		+2 (UCL)
16	Cyprus	26.750		+1 (UCL)
17	Switzerland	26.400	0
18	Greece	26.300		+1 (UCL)
19	Serbia	25.500		+1 (UCL)

Rank	Association	Coeff.	Teams	Notes
20	Croatia	24.875	0	+1 (UCL)
21	Sweden	22.750
22	Norway	21.750
23	Israel	19.625
24	Kazakhstan	19.250		+1 (UCL)
25	Belarus	18.875
26	Azerbaijan	18.750		+1 (UCL)
27	Bulgaria	17.375		+1 (UCL)
28	Romania	16.700		+1 (UCL)
29	Poland	16.625		+1 (UCL)
30	Slovakia	15.875		+1 (UCL)
31	Liechtenstein	13.500
32	Slovenia	13.000		+1 (UCL)
33	Hungary	12.875		+1 (UCL)
34	Luxembourg	8.000
35	Lithuania	7.875		+1 (UCL)
36	Armenia	7.625		+1 (UCL)
37	Latvia	7.625

Rank	Association	Coeff.	Teams	Notes
38	Albania	7.375	0
39	North Macedonia	7.375
40	Bosnia and Herzegovina	6.875
41	Moldova	6.750		+1 (UCL)
42	Republic of Ireland	6.700
43	Finland	6.500		+1 (UCL)
44	Georgia	5.750
45	Malta	5.750
46	Iceland	5.375
47	Wales	5.000
48	Northern Ireland	4.875
49	Gibraltar	4.750		+1 (UCL)
50	Montenegro	4.375
51	Estonia	4.375		+1 (UCL)
52	Kosovo	4.000
53	Faroe Islands	3.750
54	Andorra	2.831
55	San Marino	0.666

Distribution

The following is the access list for this season.^[10] In the default access list, the title holders of the Europa Conference League qualified for the group stage. However, since this berth was not used for this season, the following changes to the access list were made:

The cup winners of association 7 (Russia) enter the group stage instead of the play-off round.
The cup winners of association 13 (Denmark) enter the play-off round instead of the third qualifying round.
The cup winners of association 16 (Cyprus) enter the third qualifying round instead of the Europa Conference League second qualifying round.

Access list for 2021–22 UEFA Europa League
		Teams entering in this round	Teams advancing from previous round	Teams transferred from Champions League
Third qualifying round (16 teams)	Champions Path (10 teams)			10 teams eliminated from Champions League second qualifying round (Champions Path)
Third qualifying round (16 teams)	Main Path (6 teams)	3 domestic cup winners from association 14–16		3 teams eliminated from Champions League second qualifying round (League Path)
Play-off round (20 teams)		6 domestic cup winners from associations 8–13	5 winners from the third qualifying round (Champions Path) 3 winners from the third qualifying round (Main Path)	6 teams eliminated from Champions League third qualifying round (Champions Path)
Group stage (32 teams)		7 domestic cup winners from associations 1–7 1 domestic league fourth-placed team from association 5 4 domestic league fifth-placed teams from associations 1–4	10 winners from the play-off round	4 teams eliminated from Champions League play-off round (Champions Path) 2 teams eliminated from Champions League play-off round (League Path) 4 teams eliminated from Champions League third qualifying round (League Path)
Preliminary knockout round (16 teams)			8 group runners-up from the group stage	8 group third-placed teams from Champions League group stage
Knockout phase (16 teams)			8 group winners from the group stage 8 winners from the preliminary knockout round

Teams

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:

CW: Cup winners
4th, 5th, etc.: League position of the previous season
UCL: Transferred from the Champions League
- GS: Third-placed teams from the group stage
- CH/LP PO: Losers from the play-off round (Champions/League Path)
- CH/LP Q3: Losers from the third qualifying round (Champions/League Path)
- CH/LP Q2: Losers from the second qualifying round (Champions/League Path)

The third qualifying round was divided into Champions Path (CH) and Main Path (MP).

Qualified teams for 2021–22 UEFA Europa League
Entry round		Teams
Knockout round play-offs		RB Leipzig (UCL GS)	Porto (UCL GS)	Borussia Dortmund (UCL GS)	Sheriff Tiraspol (UCL GS)
Knockout round play-offs		Barcelona (UCL GS)	Atalanta (UCL GS)	Sevilla (UCL GS)	Zenit Saint Petersburg (UCL GS)

Group stage		Real Sociedad (5th)	Real Betis (6th)	Leicester City (CW)	West Ham United (6th)
		Eintracht Frankfurt (5th)	Bayer Leverkusen (6th)	Napoli (5th)	Lazio (6th)
		Lyon (4th)	Marseille (5th)	Braga (CW)	Lokomotiv Moscow (CW)
		Brøndby (UCL CH PO)	Dinamo Zagreb (UCL CH PO)	Ludogorets Razgrad (UCL CH PO)	Ferencváros (UCL CH PO)
		Monaco (UCL LP PO)	PSV Eindhoven (UCL LP PO)	Spartak Moscow (UCL LP Q3)	Genk (UCL LP Q3)
		Midtjylland (UCL LP Q3)	Sparta Prague (UCL LP Q3)

Play-off round		Antwerp (3rd)	Zorya Luhansk (3rd)	AZ (3rd)	Fenerbahçe (3rd)
		Sturm Graz (3rd)	Randers (CW)	Rangers (UCL CH Q3)	Slavia Prague (UCL CH Q3)
		Olympiacos (UCL CH Q3)	Red Star Belgrade (UCL CH Q3)	CFR Cluj (UCL CH Q3)	Legia Warsaw (UCL CH Q3)

Third qualifying round	CH	Omonia (UCL CH Q2)	Kairat (UCL CH Q2)	Neftçi Baku (UCL CH Q2)	Slovan Bratislava (UCL CH Q2)
		Mura (UCL CH Q2)	Žalgiris (UCL CH Q2)	Alashkert (UCL CH Q2)	HJK (UCL CH Q2)
		Lincoln Red Imps (UCL CH Q2)	Flora (UCL CH Q2)
	MP	St Johnstone (CW)	Jablonec (3rd)	Anorthosis Famagusta (CW)	Galatasaray (UCL LP Q2)
	MP	Rapid Wien (UCL LP Q2)	Celtic (UCL LP Q2)

Schedule

The schedule of the competition was as follows.^[11] Matches were scheduled for Thursdays apart from the final, which took place on a Wednesday, though exceptionally could take place on Tuesdays or Wednesdays due to scheduling conflicts. Scheduled kick-off times starting from the group stage were 18:45 (instead of 18:55 previously) and 21:00 CEST/CET, though exceptionally could take place at 16:30 due to geographical reasons.^[12]

All draws started at 13:00 or 13:30 CEST/CET and were held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. On 16 July 2021, UEFA announced that the group stage draw would be held in Istanbul, Turkey.^[13]

Schedule for 2021–22 UEFA Europa League
Phase	Round	Draw date	First leg	Second leg
Qualifying	Third qualifying round	19 July 2021	5 August 2021	12 August 2021
Play-offs	Play-off round	2 August 2021	19 August 2021	26 August 2021
Group stage	Matchday 1	27 August 2021	16 September 2021
	Matchday 2		30 September 2021
	Matchday 3		21 October 2021
	Matchday 4		4 November 2021
	Matchday 5		25 November 2021
	Matchday 6		9 December 2021
Knockout phase	Knockout round play-offs	13 December 2021	17 February 2022	24 February 2022
	Round of 16	25 February 2022	10 March 2022	17 March 2022
	Quarter-finals	18 March 2022	7 April 2022	14 April 2022
	Semi-finals		28 April 2022	5 May 2022
	Final		18 May 2022 at Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán Stadium, Seville

Third qualifying round

The draw for the third qualifying round was held on 19 July 2021, 13:00 CEST.^[14] The first legs were played on 3 and 5 August, and the second legs were played on 10 and 12 August 2021.

The winners of the ties advanced to the play-off round. The losers were transferred to the Europa Conference League play-off round of their respective path.

Champions Path
Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Omonia	2–2 (5–4 p)	Flora	1–0	1–2 (a.e.t.)
Mura	1–0	Žalgiris	0–0	1–0
Kairat	2–3	Alashkert	0–0	2–3 (a.e.t.)
Lincoln Red Imps	2–4	Slovan Bratislava	1–3	1–1
Neftçi Baku	2–5	HJK	2–2	0–3

Main Path
Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Jablonec	2–7	Celtic	2–4	0–3
Rapid Wien	4–2	Anorthosis Famagusta	3–0	1–2
Galatasaray	5–3	St Johnstone	1–1	4–2

Play-off round

The draw for the play-off round was held on 2 August 2021, 13:00 CEST.^[15] The first legs were played on 17, 18 and 19 August, and the second legs were played on 26 August 2021.

The winners of the ties advanced to the group stage. The losers were transferred to the Europa Conference League group stage.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Randers	2–3	Galatasaray	1–1	1–2
Rapid Wien	6–2	Zorya Luhansk	3–0	3–2
Celtic	3–2	AZ	2–0	1–2
Fenerbahçe	6–2	HJK	1–0	5–2
Mura	1–5	Sturm Graz	1–3	0–2
Omonia	4–4 (2–3 p)	Antwerp	4–2	0–2 (a.e.t.)
Olympiacos	5–2	Slovan Bratislava	3–0	2–2
Rangers	1–0	Alashkert	1–0	0–0
Slavia Prague	3–4	Legia Warsaw	2–2	1–2
Red Star Belgrade	6–1	CFR Cluj	4–0	2–1

Group stage

Moscow

Istanbul

Glasgow

Glasgow teams

Celtic

Rangers

Istanbul teams

Fenerbahçe

Galatasaray

Moscow teams

Lokomotiv Moscow

Spartak Moscow

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Location of teams of the 2021–22 UEFA Europa League group stage.

Brown: Group A;

Red: Group B;

Orange: Group C;

Yellow: Group D;

Green: Group E;

Blue: Group F;

Purple: Group G;

Pink: Group H.

The draw for the group stage was held on 27 August 2021, 12:00 CEST (13:00 TRT), in Istanbul, Turkey.^[13]^[16] The 32 teams were drawn into eight groups of four. For the draw, the teams were seeded into four pots, each of eight teams, based on their 2021 UEFA club coefficients.^[17] Teams from the same association could not be drawn into the same group. Prior to the draw, UEFA formed pairings of teams from the same association, including those playing in the Europa Conference League group stage (one pairing for associations with two or three teams, two pairings for associations with four or five teams), based on television audiences, where one team was drawn into Groups A–D and another team was drawn into Groups E–H, so that the two teams would have different kick-off times.^[18]

The matches were played on 15–16 September, 30 September, 19–21 October, 4 November, 24–25 November, and 9 December 2021. The winners of each group advanced to the round of 16, while the runners-up advanced to the knockout round play-offs. The third-placed teams were transferred to the Europa Conference League knockout round play-offs, while the fourth-placed teams were eliminated from European competitions for the season.

Brøndby and West Ham United made their debut appearances in the Europa League group stage (although Brøndby had previously appeared in the UEFA Cup group stage).

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	LYO	RAN	SPP	BRO
1	Lyon	6	5	1	0	16	5	+11	16	Advance to round of 16	—	1–1	3–0	3–0
2	Rangers	6	2	2	2	6	5	+1	8	Advance to knockout round play-offs	0–2	—	2–0	2–0
3	Sparta Prague	6	2	1	3	6	9	−3	7	Transfer to Europa Conference League	3–4	1–0	—	2–0
4	Brøndby	6	0	2	4	2	11	−9	2		1–3	1–1	0–0	—

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	MON	RSO	PSV	STU
1	Monaco	6	3	3	0	7	4	+3	12	Advance to round of 16	—	2–1	0–0	1–0
2	Real Sociedad	6	2	3	1	9	6	+3	9	Advance to knockout round play-offs	1–1	—	3–0	1–1
3	PSV Eindhoven	6	2	2	2	9	8	+1	8	Transfer to Europa Conference League	1–2	2–2	—	2–0
4	Sturm Graz	6	0	2	4	3	10	−7	2		1–1	0–1	1–4	—

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Group C

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	SPM	NAP	LEI	LEG
1	Spartak Moscow	6	3	1	2	10	9	+1	10^[a]	Advance to round of 16	—	2–1	3–4	0–1
2	Napoli	6	3	1	2	15	10	+5	10^[a]	Advance to knockout round play-offs	2–3	—	3–2	3–0
3	Leicester City	6	2	2	2	12	11	+1	8	Transfer to Europa Conference League	1–1	2–2	—	3–1
4	Legia Warsaw	6	2	0	4	4	11	−7	6		0–1	1–4	1–0	—

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Notes:

^ ^a ^b Head–to–head points: Spartak Moscow 6, Napoli 0.

Group D

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	FRA	OLY	FEN	ANT
1	Eintracht Frankfurt	6	3	3	0	10	6	+4	12	Advance to round of 16	—	3–1	1–1	2–2
2	Olympiacos	6	3	0	3	8	7	+1	9	Advance to knockout round play-offs	1–2	—	1–0	2–1
3	Fenerbahçe	6	1	3	2	7	8	−1	6	Transfer to Europa Conference League	1–1	0–3	—	2–2
4	Antwerp	6	1	2	3	6	10	−4	5		0–1	1–0	0–3	—

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Group E

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	GAL	LAZ	MAR	LOK
1	Galatasaray	6	3	3	0	7	3	+4	12	Advance to round of 16	—	1–0	4–2	1–1
2	Lazio	6	2	3	1	7	3	+4	9	Advance to knockout round play-offs	0–0	—	0–0	2–0
3	Marseille	6	1	4	1	6	7	−1	7	Transfer to Europa Conference League	0–0	2–2	—	1–0
4	Lokomotiv Moscow	6	0	2	4	2	9	−7	2		0–1	0–3	1–1	—

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Group F

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	RSB	BRA	MID	LUD
1	Red Star Belgrade	6	3	2	1	6	4	+2	11	Advance to round of 16	—	2–1	0–1	1–0
2	Braga	6	3	1	2	12	9	+3	10	Advance to knockout round play-offs	1–1	—	3–1	4–2
3	Midtjylland	6	2	3	1	7	7	0	9	Transfer to Europa Conference League	1–1	3–2	—	1–1
4	Ludogorets Razgrad	6	0	2	4	3	8	−5	2		0–1	0–1	0–0	—

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Group G

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	LEV	BET	CEL	FER
1	Bayer Leverkusen	6	4	1	1	14	5	+9	13	Advance to round of 16	—	4–0	3–2	2–1
2	Real Betis	6	3	1	2	12	12	0	10	Advance to knockout round play-offs	1–1	—	4–3	2–0
3	Celtic	6	3	0	3	13	15	−2	9	Transfer to Europa Conference League	0–4	3–2	—	2–0
4	Ferencváros	6	1	0	5	5	12	−7	3		1–0	1–3	2–3	—

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Group H

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	WHU	DZA	RWI	GNK
1	West Ham United	6	4	1	1	11	3	+8	13	Advance to round of 16	—	0–1	2–0	3–0
2	Dinamo Zagreb	6	3	1	2	9	6	+3	10	Advance to knockout round play-offs	0–2	—	3–1	1–1
3	Rapid Wien	6	2	0	4	4	9	−5	6	Transfer to Europa Conference League	0–2	2–1	—	0–1
4	Genk	6	1	2	3	4	10	−6	5		2–2	0–3	0–1	—

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Knockout phase

In the knockout phase, teams played against each other over two legs on a home-and-away basis, except for the one-match final. The mechanism of the draws for each round was as follows:

In the draw for the knockout round play-offs, the eight group runners-up were seeded, and the eight Champions League group third-placed teams were unseeded. The seeded teams were drawn against the unseeded teams, with the seeded teams hosting the second leg. Teams from the same association could not be drawn against each other.
In the draw for the round of 16, the eight group winners were seeded, and the eight winners of the knockout round play-offs were unseeded. Again, the seeded teams were drawn against the unseeded teams, with the seeded teams hosting the second leg. Once again, teams from the same association could not be drawn against each other.
In the draws for the quarter-finals onwards, there were no seedings, and teams from the same association could be drawn against each other. As the draws for the quarter-finals and semi-finals were held together before the quarter-finals were played, the identity of the quarter-final winners was not known at the time of the semi-final draw. A draw was also held to determine which semi-final winner was designated as the "home" team for the final (for administrative purposes as it was played at a neutral venue).

Bracket


Knockout round play-offs				Round of 16				Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final



Sevilla	3	0	3

Dinamo Zagreb	1	1	2	Sevilla	1	0	1

				West Ham United (a.e.t.)	0	2	2
								West Ham United	1	3	4
Porto	2	2	4
								Lyon	1	0	1
Lazio	1	2	3	Porto	0	1	1

				Lyon	1	1	2
												West Ham United	1	0	1
Zenit Saint Petersburg	2	0	2
												Eintracht Frankfurt	2	1	3
Real Betis	3	0	3	Real Betis	1	1	2

				Eintracht Frankfurt (a.e.t.)	2	1	3
								Eintracht Frankfurt	1	3	4
Barcelona	1	4	5
								Barcelona	1	2	3
Napoli	1	2	3	Barcelona	0	2	2
																18 May – Seville
				Galatasaray	0	1	1
																Eintracht Frankfurt (p)	1 (5)
RB Leipzig	2	3	5
																Rangers	1 (4)
Real Sociedad	2	1	3	RB Leipzig (w/o)	—	—	—

				Spartak Moscow	—	—	—
								RB Leipzig	1	2	3
Atalanta	2	3	5
								Atalanta	1	0	1
Olympiacos	1	0	1	Atalanta	3	1	4

				Bayer Leverkusen	2	0	2
												RB Leipzig	1	1	2
Sheriff Tiraspol	2	0	2 (2)
												Rangers	0	3	3
Braga (p)	0	2	2 (3)	Braga	2	1	3

				Monaco	0	1	1
								Braga	1	1	2
Borussia Dortmund	2	2	4
								Rangers (a.e.t.)	0	3	3
Rangers	4	2	6	Rangers	3	1	4

				Red Star Belgrade	0	2	2

Knockout round play-offs

The draw for the knockout round play-offs was held on 13 December 2021, 13:00 CET.^[19] The first legs were played on 17 February, and the second legs were played on 24 February 2022.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Sevilla	3–2	Dinamo Zagreb	3–1	0–1
Atalanta	5–1	Olympiacos	2–1	3–0
RB Leipzig	5–3	Real Sociedad	2–2	3–1
Barcelona	5–3	Napoli	1–1	4–2
Zenit Saint Petersburg	2–3	Real Betis	2–3	0–0
Borussia Dortmund	4–6	Rangers	2–4	2–2
Sheriff Tiraspol	2–2 (2–3 p)	Braga	2–0	0–2 (a.e.t.)
Porto	4–3	Lazio	2–1	2–2

Round of 16

The draw for the round of 16 was held on 25 February 2022, 12:00 CET.^[20] The first legs were played on 9 and 10 March, and the second legs were played on 17 March 2022.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Rangers	4–2	Red Star Belgrade	3–0	1–2
Braga	3–1	Monaco	2–0	1–1
Porto	1–2	Lyon	0–1	1–1
Atalanta	4–2	Bayer Leverkusen	3–2	1–0
Sevilla	1–2	West Ham United	1–0	0–2 (a.e.t.)
Barcelona	2–1	Galatasaray	0–0	2–1
RB Leipzig	w/o^[A]	Spartak Moscow	Canc.	Canc.
Real Betis	2–3	Eintracht Frankfurt	1–2	1–1 (a.e.t.)

Notes

^ RB Leipzig won on walkover as UEFA suspended Spartak Moscow due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.^[21]^[22]^[23]

Quarter-finals

The draw for the quarter-finals was held on 18 March 2022, 13:30 CET.^[24] The first legs were played on 7 April, and the second legs were played on 14 April 2022.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
RB Leipzig	3–1	Atalanta	1–1	2–0
Eintracht Frankfurt	4–3	Barcelona	1–1	3–2
West Ham United	4–1	Lyon	1–1	3–0
Braga	2–3	Rangers	1–0	1–3 (a.e.t.)

Semi-finals

The draw for the semi-finals was held on 18 March 2022, 13:30 CET, after the quarter-final draw.^[24] The first legs were played on 28 April, and the second legs were played on 5 May 2022.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
RB Leipzig	2–3	Rangers	1–0	1–3
West Ham United	1–3	Eintracht Frankfurt	1–2	0–1

Final

The final was played on 18 May 2022 at the Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán Stadium in Seville. A draw was held on 18 March 2022, after the quarter-final and semi-final draws, to determine the "home" team for administrative purposes.^[24]

18 May 2022

21:00 CEST

Eintracht Frankfurt	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Rangers
Borré 69'	Report	Aribo 57'
Penalties
Lenz Hrustic Kamada Kostić Borré	5–4	Tavernier Davis Arfield Ramsey Roofe

Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán Stadium, Seville

Attendance: 38,842^[25]

Referee: Slavko Vinčić (Slovenia)

Statistics

Statistics exclude qualifying round and play-off round.

Top goalscorers

Rank^[26]	Player	Team(s)	Goals	Minutes played
1	James Tavernier	Rangers	7	1320
2	Karl Toko Ekambi	Lyon	6	583
2	Galeno^[A]	Braga Porto	6	657
4	Patson Daka	Leicester City	5	416
4	Daichi Kamada	Eintracht Frankfurt	5	1108
6	Aleksandr Sobolev	Spartak Moscow	4	311
	Victor Osimhen	Napoli		321
	Arkadiusz Milik	Marseille		351
	Ciro Immobile	Lazio		524
	Christopher Nkunku	RB Leipzig		526
	Borja Iglesias	Real Betis		556
	Eljif Elmas	Napoli		617
	Moussa Diaby	Bayer Leverkusen		623
	Mislav Oršić	Dinamo Zagreb		672
	Alfredo Morelos	Rangers		680
	Rafael Santos Borré	Eintracht Frankfurt		1093
	Ricardo Horta	Braga		1119

Notes

^ Galeno played for Braga in the group stage and for Porto in the knockout stage, after his transfer during the January transfer window.

Top assists

Rank^[27]	Player	Team	Assists	Minutes played
1	Filip Kostić	Eintracht Frankfurt	6	1140
2	Florian Wirtz	Bayer Leverkusen	4	437
	Iuri Medeiros	Braga		674
	Ricardo Horta	Braga		1119
5	Kelechi Iheanacho	Leicester City	3	273
	Aleksandr Golovin	Monaco		331
	Andrea Petagna	Napoli		340
	Mario Götze	PSV Eindhoven		421
	Angeliño	RB Leipzig		467
	Sergio Canales	Real Betis		495
	Victor Moses	Spartak Moscow		525
	Nabil Fekir	Real Betis		596
	Moussa Diaby	Bayer Leverkusen		623
	Pablo Fornals	West Ham United		714
	Joe Aribo	Rangers		1111
	Ryan Kent	Rangers		1143

Team of the season

The UEFA technical study group selected the following players as the team of the tournament.^[28]

Pos.	Player	Team
GK	Kevin Trapp	Eintracht Frankfurt
DF	Craig Dawson	West Ham United
	Martin Hinteregger	Eintracht Frankfurt
	Calvin Bassey	Rangers
MF	James Tavernier	Rangers
	Konrad Laimer	RB Leipzig
	Declan Rice	West Ham United
	Filip Kostić	Eintracht Frankfurt
FW	Christopher Nkunku	RB Leipzig
	Rafael Santos Borré	Eintracht Frankfurt
	Ryan Kent	Rangers

Player of the Season

Filip Kostić ( Eintracht Frankfurt)^[1]

Young Player of the Season

Ansgar Knauff ( Eintracht Frankfurt)^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b "Filip Kostić named 2021/22 UEFA Europa League Player of the Season". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 20 May 2022. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
^ ^a ^b "Ansgar Knauff named 2021/22 UEFA Europa League Young Player of the Season". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 20 May 2022. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
^ Mullen, Scott (18 May 2022). "Eintracht Frankfurt 1–1 Rangers (5–4 on pens)". BBC Sport. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
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^ "UEFA Executive Committee approves new club competition". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 2 December 2018. Archived from the original on 13 May 2019. Retrieved 2 December 2018.
^ "Abolition of the away goals rule in all UEFA club competitions". UEFA.com. 24 June 2021.
^ "Regulations of the UEFA Europa League, 2021/22 Season" (PDF). UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 2021. Retrieved 30 April 2021.
^ "Country coefficients 2019/20". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 2020. Archived from the original on 4 December 2019. Retrieved 16 February 2020.
^ "Access list 2021–24" (PDF). UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 December 2018. Retrieved 16 February 2020.
^ "2021/22 UEFA Europa League: all you need to know". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 19 January 2021. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
^ "Format change for 2020/21 UEFA Nations League". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 24 September 2019. Archived from the original on 26 September 2019. Retrieved 17 February 2020.
^ ^a ^b "Venues appointed for club competition finals". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 16 July 2021. Retrieved 16 July 2021.
^ "UEFA Europa League third qualifying round draw". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 19 July 2021.
^ "UEFA Europa League play-off round draw". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 2 August 2021.
^ "UEFA Europa League group stage draw". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 27 August 2021.
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^ "UEFA Europa League round of 16 draw". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
^ "FIFA/UEFA suspend Russian clubs and national teams from all competitions". FIFA. 28 February 2022. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
^ "FIFA/UEFA suspend Russian clubs and national teams from all competitions". UEFA. 28 February 2022. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
^ "Decision of the UEFA Executive Committee related to Russia" (PDF). UEFA.com (Press release). Union of European Football Associations. 28 February 2022. p. 2. Retrieved 2 March 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c "UEFA Europa League quarter-final & semi-final draws". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 18 March 2022.
^ "Full Time Summary Final – Eintracht Frankfurt v Rangers" (PDF). UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 18 May 2022. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
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^ "UEFA Europa League – Top Assists". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
^ "2021/22 UEFA Europa League Team of the Season". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 20 May 2022. Retrieved 20 May 2022.

External links

Official website

[table_hth_SPM0.82218447179635-19] Head–to–head points: Spartak Moscow 6, Napoli 0.

[RB_Leipzig-25] RB Leipzig won on walkover as UEFA suspended Spartak Moscow due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.^[21]^[22]^[23]

[29] Galeno played for Braga in the group stage and for Porto in the knockout stage, after his transfer during the January transfer window.

[UEL_Player-1] "Filip Kostić named 2021/22 UEFA Europa League Player of the Season". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 20 May 2022. Retrieved 20 May 2022.

[UEL_Young_Player-2] "Ansgar Knauff named 2021/22 UEFA Europa League Young Player of the Season". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 20 May 2022. Retrieved 20 May 2022.

[3] Mullen, Scott (18 May 2022). "Eintracht Frankfurt 1–1 Rangers (5–4 on pens)". BBC Sport. Retrieved 18 May 2022.

[4] "UEFA competitions to resume in August". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 17 June 2020. Archived from the original on 25 August 2020. Retrieved 17 June 2020.

[5] "Budapest to host 2022 UEFA Europa League Final". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 2 March 2020. Archived from the original on 25 August 2020. Retrieved 2 March 2020.

[6] "UEFA Executive Committee approves new club competition". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 2 December 2018. Archived from the original on 13 May 2019. Retrieved 2 December 2018.

[7] "Abolition of the away goals rule in all UEFA club competitions". UEFA.com. 24 June 2021.

[regulations-8] "Regulations of the UEFA Europa League, 2021/22 Season" (PDF). UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 2021. Retrieved 30 April 2021.

[country_coefficients-9] "Country coefficients 2019/20". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 2020. Archived from the original on 4 December 2019. Retrieved 16 February 2020.

[10] "Access list 2021–24" (PDF). UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 December 2018. Retrieved 16 February 2020.

[schedule-11] "2021/22 UEFA Europa League: all you need to know". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 19 January 2021. Retrieved 19 January 2021.

[12] "Format change for 2020/21 UEFA Nations League". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 24 September 2019. Archived from the original on 26 September 2019. Retrieved 17 February 2020.

[ExCo-13] "Venues appointed for club competition finals". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 16 July 2021. Retrieved 16 July 2021.

[draw_Q3-14] "UEFA Europa League third qualifying round draw". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 19 July 2021.

[draw_PO-15] "UEFA Europa League play-off round draw". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 2 August 2021.

[draw_GS-16] "UEFA Europa League group stage draw". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 27 August 2021.

[club_coefficients-17] "Club coefficients 2020/21". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations.

[18] "Europa League group stage draw pots confirmed". UEFA.com. 27 August 2021.

[KRP_draw-20] "UEFA Europa League knockout round play-off draw". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 13 December 2021.

[R16_draw-21] "UEFA Europa League round of 16 draw". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 25 February 2022.

[Russia_suspended-22] "FIFA/UEFA suspend Russian clubs and national teams from all competitions". FIFA. 28 February 2022. Retrieved 28 February 2022.

[23] "FIFA/UEFA suspend Russian clubs and national teams from all competitions". UEFA. 28 February 2022. Retrieved 28 February 2022.

[24] "Decision of the UEFA Executive Committee related to Russia" (PDF). UEFA.com (Press release). Union of European Football Associations. 28 February 2022. p. 2. Retrieved 2 March 2022.

[QF_SF_F_draw-26] "UEFA Europa League quarter-final & semi-final draws". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 18 March 2022.

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v t e 2021–22 in European men's football (UEFA)
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International competitions	2022 FIFA World Cup qualification 2020–21 UEFA Nations League League C relegation play-outs Finals Final 2022–23 UEFA Nations League League A League B League C League D Finalissima 2023 Euro Under-21 qualification 2022 Euro Under-19 qualification 2022 Euro Under-17 qualification

v t e 2021–22 European club competitions
Football	Men Champions League Europa League Europa Conference League Super Cup Youth League Women Champions League
Football variants	Futsal Champions League Women's European Champions Beach soccer Euro Winners Cup Women's Euro Winners Cup
Basketball	Men EuroLeague EuroCup Champions League FIBA Europe Cup Women EuroLeague EuroCup SuperCup
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Handball	Men Champions League European League European Cup Women Champions League European League European Cup
Water polo	Men Champions League Euro Cup Super Cup Women Euro League LEN Trophy Super Cup
Rugby union	Men Champions Cup Challenge Cup Super Cup
Ice hockey	Men Champions Hockey League Continental Cup
Indoor hockey	Men EuroHockey Indoor Club Cup Women EuroHockey Indoor Club Cup
Field hockey	Men Euro Hockey League Ranking Cup Trophy I Trophy II Women Euro Hockey League Trophy
Roller hockey	Men Euroleague World Skate Europe Cup Continental Cup Women European League
Lacrosse	Men Ken Galluccio Cup

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Statistics

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Team of the season

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See also

References

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