Leicester City have been drawn to face Napoli in the Europa League group stage. The Foxes will also face Spartak Moscow and Legia Warsaw.
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After the UEFA Champions League draw was made on Thursday, now it was time to make sense of the 32 teams in the Europa League. There are many teams who will be favourites to win the Europa cup. Lyon, Monaco, Napoli, Lazio, Leicester and Rangers are a few of the notable names who were in the draw. While the top two in each group go through to the round of 16, the runners-up will go into knockout round playoffs. They will have to face the teams that finished third in the Champions League groups to fight for a place in the last-16. The third-placed teams in the Europa League groups will then go into the play-offs for the UEFA Conference League knockout rounds.
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Leicester City and West Ham are the only two Premier League teams this time. The Foxes missed out on Champions League qualification on the final day for a second season in row. They now feature in the Europa League for the second season running. They were knocked out by Slavia Prague in the last 32 in 2020-21.
Leicester have been drawn to face Napoli in the Europa League group stage. The Foxes will also face Spartak Moscow and Legia Warsaw.
West Ham will face Dinamo Zagreb, Genk and Rapid Vienna. They return to European competition for the first time since the 2006-07 season. West Ham finished sixth in the Premier League last season.
Rangers and Celtic are competing in the group stage of Europa for the fourth consecutive season. Both teams are coming through their play-off ties on Thursday.
Rangers are back in this competition after failing to make it through the Champions League qualifiers, they take on Lyon, Sparta Prague and Brondby in a tough Group A. However, Steven Gerrard’s side got controversially beaten by Slavia Prague last season.
Celtic are drawn alongside Bayer Leverkusen, Real Betis and Ferencvaros. Ferencvaros knocked Celtic out of Champions League qualifying last season.
The first matchday of the group stage begins on September 16.
Group A: Lyon, Rangers, Sparta Prague, Brondby
Group B: Monaco, PSV Eindhoven, Real Sociedad, Sturm Graz
Group C: Napoli, Leicester City, Spartak Moscow, Legia Warsaw
Group D: Olympiacos, Eintracht Frankfurt, Fenerbahce, Royal Antwerp
Group E: Lazio, Lokomotiv Moscow, Marseille, Galatasaray
Group F: Braga, Red Star Belgrade, Ludogorets, Midtjylland
Group G: Bayer Leverkusen, Celtic, Real Betis, Ferencvaros
Group H: Dinamo Zagreb, Genk, West Ham, Rapid Vienna
The final of this season’s Europa League is due to take place at Sevilla’s Ramon Sanchez-Pizjuan Stadium in Spain on Wednesday, May 18.
