2016–17 UEFA Europa League

2016–17 UEFA Europa League

The Friends Arena in Solna hosted the final.
Tournament details
Dates	Qualifying: 28 June – 25 August 2016 Competition proper: 15 September 2016 – 24 May 2017
Teams	Competition proper: 48+8 Total: 155+33 (from 54 associations)
Final positions
Champions	Manchester United (1st title)
Runners-up	Ajax
Tournament statistics
Matches played	205
Goals scored	565 (2.76 per match)
Attendance	4,494,039 (21,922 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Edin Džeko (Roma) Giuliano (Zenit Saint Petersburg) 8 goals each
Best player(s)	Paul Pogba (Manchester United)
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The 2016–17 UEFA Europa League was the 46th season of Europe's secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the eighth season since it was renamed from the UEFA Cup to the UEFA Europa League. The final was played between Ajax and Manchester United at the Friends Arena in Solna, Sweden. Manchester United beat Ajax 2–0 to win their first title. With this victory, they became the fifth club – after Juventus, Ajax, Bayern Munich and Chelsea – to have won all three major European trophies (European Champion Clubs' Cup/UEFA Champions League, UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League, and the now-defunct Cup Winners' Cup). Manchester United qualified for the 2017–18 UEFA Champions League, and also earned the right to play against the winners of the 2016–17 UEFA Champions League, Real Madrid, in the 2017 UEFA Super Cup. As the title holders, Sevilla qualified for the 2016–17 UEFA Champions League. Having won the last three Europa League tournaments, Sevilla were unable to defend their titles as they reached the Champions League knockout stage, where they were eliminated by Leicester City in the round of 16.

Association team allocation

A total of 188 teams from 54 of the 55 UEFA member associations were expected to participate in the 2016–17 UEFA Europa League (the exception being Kosovo, whose participation was not accepted in their first attempt as UEFA members). The association ranking based on the UEFA country coefficients was used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:

• Associations 1–51 (except Liechtenstein) each had three teams qualify.
  • As the winners of the 2015–16 UEFA Europa League, Sevilla qualified for the 2016–17 UEFA Champions League; the 2016–17 UEFA Europa League berth they would otherwise have earned for finishing 7th in the 2015–16 La Liga was vacated and not passed to another Spanish team.
• Associations 52–53 each had two teams qualify.
• Liechtenstein and Gibraltar each had one team qualify (Liechtenstein organises only a domestic cup and no domestic league; Gibraltar as per decision by the UEFA Executive Committee).
• Moreover, 33 teams eliminated from the 2016–17 UEFA Champions League were transferred to the Europa League.

The UEFA Executive Committee approved in December 2014 changes to the rewards given according to the Respect Fair Play ranking, and starting from the 2016–17 season, the three Fair Play berths were no longer allocated to the Europa League.

Association ranking

For the 2016–17 UEFA Champions League, the associations were allocated places according to their 2015 UEFA country coefficients, which took into account their performance in European competitions from 2010–11 to 2014–15. Apart from the allocation based on the country coefficients, associations could have additional teams participating in the Europa League, as noted below:

• (CL) – Additional teams transferred from Champions League
• (EL) – Vacated berth due to Europa League title holders playing in Champions League

Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes 1 Spain 99.999 3 +1(CL) −1(EL) 2 England 80.391 +1(CL) 3 Germany 79.415 +1(CL) 4 Italy 70.510 +1(CL) 5 Portugal 61.382 6 France 52.416 +1(CL) 7 Russia 50.498 +1(CL) 8 Ukraine 45.166 +1(CL) 9 Netherlands 40.979 +1(CL) 10 Belgium 37.200 +1(CL) 11 Switzerland 34.375 +1(CL) 12 Turkey 32.600 +2(CL) 13 Greece 31.900 +2(CL) 14 Czech Republic 29.125 +2(CL) 15 Romania 26.299 +2(CL) 16 Austria 25.675 +1(CL) 17 Croatia 23.500 18 Cyprus 22.300 +1(CL) 19 Poland 21.500 +1(CL)

Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes 20 Israel 21.000 3 +1(CL) 21 Belarus 20.750 +1(CL) 22 Denmark 19.800 +1(CL) 23 Scotland 17.900 24 Sweden 17.725 25 Bulgaria 16.750 +1(CL) 26 Norway 14.375 +1(CL) 27 Serbia 13.875 +1(CL) 28 Slovenia 13.625 29 Azerbaijan 12.500 +1(CL) 30 Slovakia 11.250 +1(CL) 31 Hungary 11.000 32 Kazakhstan 10.375 +1(CL) 33 Moldova 10.000 34 Georgia 9.375 +1(CL) 35 Finland 8.200 36 Iceland 8.000 37 Bosnia and Herzegovina 7.500

Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes 38 Liechtenstein 6.000 1 39 Macedonia 5.875 3 40 Republic of Ireland 5.750 +1(CL) 41 Montenegro 5.625 42 Albania 5.375 +1(CL) 43 Luxembourg 5.125 44 Northern Ireland 4.875 45 Lithuania 4.500 46 Latvia 4.250 47 Malta 4.208 48 Estonia 3.500 49 Faroe Islands 3.500 50 Wales 2.875 51 Armenia 2.750 52 Andorra 0.833 2 53 San Marino 0.499 54 Gibraltar 0.250 1 55 Kosovo 0.000 0

Notes

Distribution

In the default access list, Sevilla enter the third qualifying round (as the seventh-placed team of the 2015–16 La Liga). However, since they qualified for the Champions League as the Europa League title holders, the spot which they qualified for in the Europa League third qualifying round is vacated, and the following changes to the default allocation system are made:

• The domestic cup winners of association 18 (Cyprus) are promoted from the second qualifying round to the third qualifying round.
• The domestic cup winners of associations 27 (Serbia) and 28 (Slovenia) are promoted from the first qualifying round to the second qualifying round.

	Teams entering in this round	Teams advancing from previous round	Teams transferred from Champions League
First qualifying round (96 teams)	26 domestic cup winners from associations 29–54 35 domestic league runners-up from associations 18–53 (except Liechtenstein) 35 domestic league third-placed teams from associations 16–51 (except Liechtenstein)
Second qualifying round (66 teams)	10 domestic cup winners from associations 19–28 2 domestic league runners-up from associations 16–17 6 domestic league fourth-placed teams from associations 10–15	48 winners from first qualifying round
Third qualifying round (58 teams)	6 domestic cup winners from associations 13–18 9 domestic league third-placed teams from associations 7–15 5 domestic league fourth-placed teams from associations 5–9 3 domestic league fifth-placed teams from associations 4–6 (League Cup winners for France) 2 domestic league sixth-placed teams from associations 1–3 (League Cup winners for England) (except Europa League title holders)	33 winners from second qualifying round
Play-off round (44 teams)		29 winners from third qualifying round	15 losers from Champions League third qualifying round
Group stage (48 teams)	12 domestic cup winners from associations 1–12 1 domestic league fourth-placed team from association 4 3 domestic league fifth-placed teams from associations 1–3	22 winners from play-off round	10 losers from Champions League play-off round
Knockout phase (32 teams)		12 group winners from group stage 12 group runners-up from group stage	8 third-placed teams from Champions League group stage

Redistribution rules

A Europa League place is vacated when a team qualifies for both the Champions League and the Europa League, or qualifies for the Europa League by more than one method. When a place is vacated, it is redistributed within the national association by the following rules (regulations Articles 3.03 and 3.04):

• When the domestic cup winners (considered as the "highest-placed" qualifier within the national association with the latest starting round) also qualify for the Champions League, their Europa League place is vacated. As a result, the highest-placed team in the league which have not yet qualified for European competitions qualify for the Europa League, with the Europa League qualifiers which finish above them in the league moved up one "place".
• When the domestic cup winners also qualify for the Europa League through league position, their place through the league position is vacated. As a result, the highest-placed team in the league which have not yet qualified for European competitions qualify for the Europa League, with the Europa League qualifiers which finish above them in the league moved up one "place" if possible.
• For associations where a Europa League place is reserved for the League Cup winners, they always qualify for the Europa League as the "lowest-placed" qualifier. If the League Cup winners have already qualified for European competitions through other methods, this reserved Europa League place is taken by the highest-placed team in the league which have not yet qualified for European competitions.

Teams

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

• CW: Cup winners
• 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, etc.: League position
• LC: League Cup winners
• RW: Regular season winners
• PW: End-of-season European competition play-offs winners
• CL: Transferred from Champions League
  • GS: Third-placed teams from group stage
  • PO: Losers from play-off round
  • Q3: Losers from third qualifying round

Round of 32
Ludogorets Razgrad (CL GS)	Borussia Mönchengladbach (CL GS)	Tottenham Hotspur (CL GS)	Copenhagen (CL GS)
Beşiktaş (CL GS)	Rostov (CL GS)	Legia Warsaw (CL GS)	Lyon (CL GS)
Group stage
Athletic Bilbao (5th)	Fiorentina (5th)	Zürich (CW)	Steaua București (CL PO)
Celta Vigo (6th)	Braga (CW)	Konyaspor (3rd)	Roma (CL PO)
Manchester United (CW)	Nice (4th)	Viktoria Plzeň (CL PO)	Ajax (CL PO)
Southampton (6th)	Zenit Saint Petersburg (CW)	Hapoel Be'er Sheva (CL PO)	Young Boys (CL PO)
Schalke 04 (5th)	Zorya Luhansk (4th)	APOEL (CL PO)	Villarreal (CL PO)
Mainz 05 (6th)	Feyenoord (CW)	Dundalk (CL PO)
Internazionale (4th)	Standard Liège (CW)	Red Bull Salzburg (CL PO)
Play-off round
Rosenborg (CL Q3)	Trenčín (CL Q3)	Red Star Belgrade (CL Q3)	Shakhtar Donetsk (CL Q3)
Dinamo Tbilisi (CL Q3)	Qarabağ (CL Q3)	Partizani (CL Q3)	Anderlecht (CL Q3)
Olympiacos (CL Q3)	Astra Giurgiu (CL Q3)	PAOK (CL Q3)	Fenerbahçe (CL Q3)
Astana (CL Q3)	BATE Borisov (CL Q3)	Sparta Prague (CL Q3)
Third qualifying round
West Ham United (7th)	Krasnodar (4th)	Luzern (3rd)	Viitorul Constanța (5th)
Hertha BSC (7th)	Spartak Moscow (5th)	İstanbul Başakşehir (4th)	Rapid Wien (2nd)
Sassuolo (6th)	Vorskla Poltava (5th)	AEK Athens (CW)	Rijeka (2nd)
Arouca (5th)	FC Oleksandriya (6th)	Panathinaikos (3rd)	Apollon Limassol (CW)
Rio Ave (6th)	AZ (4th)	Mladá Boleslav (CW)
Lille (5th)	Heracles Almelo (PW)	Slovan Liberec (3rd)
Saint-Étienne (6th)	Gent (3rd)	Pandurii Târgu Jiu (3rd)
Second qualifying round
Genk (PW)	CSM Politehnica Iași (7th)	Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino (CW)	Strømsgodset (2nd)
Grasshopper (4th)	Austria Wien (3rd)	SønderjyskE (2nd)	Partizan (CW)
Osmanlıspor (5th)	Hajduk Split (3rd)	Hibernian (CW)	Maribor (CW)
PAS Giannina (6th)	Piast Gliwice (2nd)	BK Häcken (CW)
Slavia Prague (5th)	Maccabi Haifa (CW)	Levski Sofia (2nd)
First qualifying round
Admira Wacker Mödling (4th)	Gabala (3rd)	Radnik Bijeljina (CW)	Sūduva Marijampolė (4th)
Lokomotiva (4th)	Kapaz (5th)	Sloboda Tuzla (2nd)	Jelgava (CW)
AEK Larnaca (2nd)	Neftçi Baku (6th)	Široki Brijeg (3rd)	Ventspils (3rd)
Omonia (4th)	Slovan Bratislava (2nd)	Vaduz (CW)	Spartaks Jūrmala (5th)
Zagłębie Lubin (3rd)	Spartak Myjava (3rd)	Shkëndija (CW)	Hibernians (2nd)
Cracovia (4th)	Spartak Trnava (4th)	Sileks (3rd)	Birkirkara (3rd)
Maccabi Tel Aviv (2nd)	Videoton (2nd)	Rabotnički (4th)	Balzan (4th)
Beitar Jerusalem (3rd)	Debrecen (3rd)	Cork City (2nd)	Levadia Tallinn (2nd)
Dinamo Minsk (2nd)	MTK Budapest (4th)	Shamrock Rovers (3rd)	Nõmme Kalju (3rd)
Shakhtyor Soligorsk (3rd)	Kairat (CW)	St Patrick's Athletic (4th)	Infonet Tallinn (4th)
Midtjylland (3rd)	Aktobe (3rd)	Rudar Pljevlja (CW)	Víkingur Gøta (CW)
Brøndby (4th)	Ordabasy (4th)	Budućnost Podgorica (2nd)	NSÍ Runavík (2nd)
Aberdeen (2nd)	Zaria Bălți (CW)	Bokelj (4th)	HB (4th)
Heart of Midlothian (3rd)	Dacia Chișinău (2nd)	Kukësi (CW)	Bala Town (2nd)
IFK Göteborg (2nd)	Zimbru Chișinău (3rd)	Partizani (2nd)	Llandudno (3rd)
AIK (3rd)	Samtredia (2nd)	Teuta (4th)	Connah's Quay Nomads (PW)
Beroe Stara Zagora (3rd)	Dila Gori (3rd)	Fola Esch (2nd)	Banants (CW)
Slavia Sofia (4th)	Chikhura Sachkhere (4th)	Differdange 03 (3rd)	Shirak (2nd)
Stabæk (3rd)	IFK Mariehamn (CW)	Jeunesse Esch (4th)	Pyunik (3rd)
Odd (4th)	RoPS (2nd)	Glenavon (CW)	UE Santa Coloma (CW)
Čukarički (3rd)	HJK (3rd)	Linfield (2nd)	Lusitanos (2nd)
Vojvodina (4th)	Valur (CW)	Cliftonville (PW)	La Fiorita (CW)
Domžale (3rd)	Breiðablik (2nd)	Trakai (2nd)	Folgore (3rd)
Gorica (4th)	KR (3rd)	Atlantas (3rd)	Europa (2nd)

Notably two teams took part in the competition that were not playing in their national top division, Zürich (2nd tier) and Hibernian (2nd tier).

Notes

Round and draw dates

The schedule of the competition was as follows (all draws were held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, unless stated otherwise).

Phase	Round	Draw date	First leg	Second leg
Qualifying	First qualifying round	20 June 2016	30 June 2016	7 July 2016
	Second qualifying round		14 July 2016	21 July 2016
	Third qualifying round	15 July 2016	28 July 2016	4 August 2016
Play-off	Play-off round	5 August 2016	18 August 2016	25 August 2016
Group stage	Matchday 1	26 August 2016 (Monaco)	15 September 2016
	Matchday 2		29 September 2016
	Matchday 3		20 October 2016
	Matchday 4		3 November 2016
	Matchday 5		24 November 2016
	Matchday 6		8 December 2016
Knockout phase	Round of 32	12 December 2016	16 February 2017	23 February 2017
	Round of 16	24 February 2017	9 March 2017	16 March 2017
	Quarter-finals	17 March 2017	13 April 2017	20 April 2017
	Semi-finals	21 April 2017	4 May 2017	11 May 2017
	Final		24 May 2017 at Friends Arena, Solna

Matches in the qualifying, play-off, and knockout rounds could also be played on Tuesdays or Wednesdays instead of the regular Thursdays due to scheduling conflicts.

Qualifying rounds

Main article: 2016–17 UEFA Europa League qualifying phase

In the qualifying rounds and the play-off round, teams were divided into seeded and unseeded teams based on their 2016 UEFA club coefficients, and then drawn into two-legged home-and-away ties. Teams from the same association could not be drawn against each other.

First qualifying round

The draws for the first and second qualifying round were held on 20 June 2016. The first legs were played on 28 and 30 June, and the second legs were played on 5, 6 and 7 July 2016. {{#lst:2016–17 UEFA Europa League qualifying phase|firstroundmatch}}

Second qualifying round

The first legs were played on 14 July, and the second legs were played on 20 and 21 July 2016. {{#lst:2016–17 UEFA Europa League qualifying phase|secondroundmatch}}

Third qualifying round

The draw for the third qualifying round was held on 15 July 2016. The first legs were played on 28 July, and the second legs were played on 3 and 4 August 2016. {{#lst:2016–17 UEFA Europa League qualifying phase|thirdroundmatch}}

Play-off round

Main article: 2016–17 UEFA Europa League play-off round

The draw for the play-off round was held on 5 August 2016. The first legs were played on 17 and 18 August, and the second legs were played on 25 August 2016. {{#lst:2016–17 UEFA Europa League play-off round|playoffmatch}}

Group stage

Main article: 2016–17 UEFA Europa League group stage

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Salzburg

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Vienna

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Qarabağ

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Gabala

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APOEL

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Plzeň

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Sparta

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Liberec

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Man. United

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Southampton

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Nice

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St-Étienne

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Schalke

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Mainz

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Athens urban area

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PAOK

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H. Be'er Sheva

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M. Tel Aviv

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Roma

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Inter

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Fiorentina

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Sassuolo

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Astana
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Braga

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Dundalk

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Astra

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Steaua

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Zenit

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Krasnodar

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Villarreal

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Athletic

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Celta

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Young Boys

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Zürich

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Fenerbahçe

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Konyaspor

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Osmanlıspor

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Shakhtar

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Zorya

Athens urban area teams
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Vienna teams
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Location of teams of the 2016–17 UEFA Europa League group stage.
File:Red pog.svg Red: Group A; File:Yellow pog.svg Yellow: Group B; File:Green pog.svg Green: Group C; File:Dark Green 004040 pog.svg Dark Green: Group D;
File:Purple pog.svg Purple: Group E; File:Pink pog.svg Pink: Group F; File:Blue pog.svg Blue: Group G; File:Orange pog.svg Orange: Group H;
File:Brown pog.svg Brown: Group I; File:DeepPink pog.svg Deep pink: Group J; File:Cyan pog.svg Cyan: Group K; File:SpringGreen pog.svg Spring green: Group L.

The draw for the group stage was held on 26 August 2016, at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco. The 48 teams were drawn into twelve groups of four, with the restriction that teams from the same association could not be drawn against each other. For the draw, the teams were seeded into four pots based on their 2016 UEFA club coefficients. In each group, teams play against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The group winners and runners-up advance to the round of 32, where they are joined by the eight third-placed teams of the 2016–17 UEFA Champions League group stage. The matchdays are 15 September, 29 September, 20 October, 3 November, 24 November, and 8 December 2016. A total of 21 national associations are represented in the group stage. Astana, Celta Vigo, Dundalk, Hapoel Be'er Sheva, Konyaspor, Mainz 05, Manchester United, Nice, Olympiacos, Osmanlıspor, Sassuolo, Southampton and Zorya Luhansk made their debut appearances in the UEFA Europa League group stage (although Celta Vigo and Olympiacos had appeared in the UEFA Cup group stage and Manchester United and Olympiacos had already competed in the UEFA Europa League knockout phase after a third place in the UEFA Champions League group stage).

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Anderlecht

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Gent

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Genk

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Ajax

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Feyenoord

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Location of Benelux teams of the 2016–17 UEFA Europa League group stage.
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Tiebreakers

The teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If two or more teams are equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria are applied in the order given to determine the rankings (regulations Article 16.01): higher number of points obtained in the group matches played among the teams in question; superior goal difference from the group matches played among the teams in question; higher number of goals scored in the group matches played among the teams in question; higher number of goals scored away from home in the group matches played among the teams in question; if, after having applied criteria 1 to 4, teams still have an equal ranking, criteria 1 to 4 are reapplied exclusively to the matches between the teams in question to determine their final rankings. If this procedure does not lead to a decision, criteria 6 to 12 apply; superior goal difference in all group matches; higher number of goals scored in all group matches; higher number of away goals scored in all group matches; higher number of wins in all group matches; higher number of away wins in all group matches; lower disciplinary points total based only on yellow and red cards received in all group matches (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points); higher club coefficient.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		FEN	MU	FEY	ZOR
1	Fenerbahçe	6	4	1	1	8	6	+2	13	Advance to knockout phase		—	2–1	1–0	2–0
2	Manchester United	6	4	0	2	12	4	+8	12			4–1	—	4–0	1–0
3	Feyenoord	6	2	1	3	3	7	−4	7			0–1	1–0	—	1–0
4	Zorya Luhansk	6	0	2	4	2	8	−6	2			1–1	0–2	1–1	—

Source: UEFA

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		APO	OLY	YB	AST
1	APOEL	6	4	0	2	8	6	+2	12	Advance to knockout phase		—	2–0	1–0	2–1
2	Olympiacos	6	2	2	2	7	6	+1	8			0–1	—	1–1	4–1
3	Young Boys	6	2	2	2	7	4	+3	8			3–1	0–1	—	3–0
4	Astana	6	1	2	3	5	11	−6	5			2–1	1–1	0–0	—

Source: UEFA

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		SET	AND	MNZ	QAB
1	Saint-Étienne	6	3	3	0	8	5	+3	12	Advance to knockout phase		—	1–1	0–0	1–0
2	Anderlecht	6	3	2	1	16	8	+8	11			2–3	—	6–1	3–1
3	Mainz 05	6	2	3	1	8	10	−2	9			1–1	1–1	—	2–0
4	Gabala	6	0	0	6	5	14	−9	0			1–2	1–3	2–3	—

Source: UEFA

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		ZEN	AZ	MTA	DUN
1	Zenit Saint Petersburg	6	5	0	1	17	8	+9	15	Advance to knockout phase		—	5–0	2–0	2–1
2	AZ	6	2	2	2	6	10	−4	8			3–2	—	1–2	1–1
3	Maccabi Tel Aviv	6	2	1	3	7	9	−2	7			3–4	0–0	—	2–1
4	Dundalk	6	1	1	4	5	8	−3	4			1–2	0–1	1–0	—

Source: UEFA

Group E

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		ROM	AG	PLZ	AW
1	Roma	6	3	3	0	16	7	+9	12	Advance to knockout phase		—	4–0	4–1	3–3
2	Astra Giurgiu	6	2	2	2	7	10	−3	8			0–0	—	1–1	2–3
3	Viktoria Plzeň	6	1	3	2	7	10	−3	6			1–1	1–2	—	3–2
4	Austria Wien	6	1	2	3	11	14	−3	5			2–4	1–2	0–0	—

Source: UEFA

Group F

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		GNK	ATH	RW	SAS
1	Genk	6	4	0	2	13	9	+4	12	Advance to knockout phase		—	2–0	1–0	3–1
2	Athletic Bilbao	6	3	1	2	10	11	−1	10			5–3	—	1–0	3–2
3	Rapid Wien	6	1	3	2	7	8	−1	6			3–2	1–1	—	1–1
4	Sassuolo	6	1	2	3	9	11	−2	5			0–2	3–0	2–2	—

Source: UEFA

Group G

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		AJX	CLT	STL	PAN
1	Ajax	6	4	2	0	11	6	+5	14	Advance to knockout phase		—	3–2	1–0	2–0
2	Celta Vigo	6	2	3	1	10	7	+3	9			2–2	—	1–1	2–0
3	Standard Liège	6	1	4	1	8	6	+2	7			1–1	1–1	—	2–2
4	Panathinaikos	6	0	1	5	3	13	−10	1			1–2	0–2	0–3	—

Source: UEFA

Group H

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		SHK	GNT	BRA	KON
1	Shakhtar Donetsk	6	6	0	0	21	5	+16	18	Advance to knockout phase		—	5–0	2–0	4–0
2	Gent	6	2	2	2	9	13	−4	8			3–5	—	2–2	2–0
3	Braga	6	1	3	2	9	11	−2	6			2–4	1–1	—	3–1
4	Konyaspor	6	0	1	5	2	12	−10	1			0–1	0–1	1–1	—

Source: UEFA

Group I

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		SCH	KRA	SAL	NCE
1	Schalke 04	6	5	0	1	9	3	+6	15	Advance to knockout phase		—	2–0	3–1	2–0
2	Krasnodar	6	2	1	3	8	8	0	7			0–1	—	1–1	5–2
3	Red Bull Salzburg	6	2	1	3	6	6	0	7			2–0	0–1	—	0–1
4	Nice	6	2	0	4	5	11	−6	6			0–1	2–1	0–2	—

Source: UEFA

Group J

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		FIO	PAOK	QRB	LIB
1	Fiorentina	6	4	1	1	15	6	+9	13	Advance to knockout phase		—	2–3	5–1	3–0
2	PAOK	6	3	1	2	7	6	+1	10			0–0	—	0–1	2–0
3	Qarabağ	6	2	1	3	7	12	−5	7			1–2	2–0	—	2–2
4	Slovan Liberec	6	1	1	4	7	12	−5	4			1–3	1–2	3–0	—

Source: UEFA

Group K

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		SPP	HBS	SOU	INT
1	Sparta Prague	6	4	0	2	8	6	+2	12	Advance to knockout phase		—	2–0	1–0	3–1
2	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	6	2	2	2	6	6	0	8			0–1	—	0–0	3–2
3	Southampton	6	2	2	2	6	4	+2	8			3–0	1–1	—	2–1
4	Internazionale	6	2	0	4	7	11	−4	6			2–1	0–2	1–0	—

Source: UEFA

Group L

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		OSM	VIL	ZUR	STE
1	Osmanlıspor	6	3	1	2	10	7	+3	10	Advance to knockout phase		—	2–2	2–0	2–0
2	Villarreal	6	2	3	1	9	8	+1	9			1–2	—	2–1	2–1
3	Zürich	6	1	3	2	5	7	−2	6			2–1	1–1	—	0–0
4	Steaua București	6	1	3	2	5	7	−2	6			2–1	1–1	1–1	—

Source: UEFA

Knockout phase

Main article: 2016–17 UEFA Europa League knockout phase

In the knockout phase, teams play 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 is as follows:

• In the draw for the round of 32, the twelve group winners and the four third-placed teams from the Champions League group stage with the better group records are seeded, and the twelve group runners-up and the other four third-placed teams from the Champions League group stage are unseeded. The seeded teams are drawn against the unseeded teams, with the seeded teams hosting the second leg. Teams from the same group or the same association cannot be drawn against each other.
• In the draws for the round of 16 onwards, there are no seedings, and teams from the same group or the same association can be drawn against each other.

Bracket

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Round of 32

The draw for the round of 32 was held on 12 December 2016. The first legs were played on 16 February, and the second legs were played on 22 and 23 February 2017. {{#lst:2016–17 UEFA Europa League knockout phase|Rof32}}

Round of 16

The draw for the round of 16 was held on 24 February 2017. The first legs were played on 9 March, and the second legs were played on 16 March 2017. {{#lst:2016–17 UEFA Europa League knockout phase|Rof16}}

Quarter-finals

The draw for the quarter-finals was held on 17 March 2017. The first legs were played on 13 April, and the second legs were played on 20 April 2017. {{#lst:2016–17 UEFA Europa League knockout phase|QF}}

Semi-finals

The draw for the semi-finals was held on 21 April 2017. The first legs were played on 3 and 4 May, and the second legs were played on 11 May 2017. {{#lst:2016–17 UEFA Europa League knockout phase|SF}}

Final

{{#lst:2016–17 UEFA Europa League knockout phase|F}}

Statistics

Statistics exclude qualifying rounds and play-off round.

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Team	Goals	Minutes played
1	Edin Džeko	Roma	8	524
	Giuliano	Zenit Saint Petersburg		710
3	Aritz Aduriz	Athletic Bilbao	7	484
4	Alexandre Lacazette	Lyon	6	537
	Henrikh Mkhitaryan	Manchester United		817
	Kasper Dolberg	Ajax		933
7	Guillaume Hoarau	Young Boys	5	342
	Nikola Kalinić	Fiorentina		496
	Łukasz Teodorczyk	Anderlecht		673
	Iago Aspas	Celta Vigo		865
	Zlatan Ibrahimović	Manchester United		897

Top assists

Rank	Player	Team	Assists	Minutes played
1	Bořek Dočkal	Sparta Prague	6	537
2	Francesco Totti	Roma	5	384
	Giuliano	Zenit Saint Petersburg		710
4	Nikola Kalinić	Fiorentina	4	496
	Talisca	Beşiktaş		496
	Nabil Fekir	Lyon		518
	Marlos	Shakhtar Donetsk		612
	Sofiane Hanni	Anderlecht		674
	Marcus Rashford	Manchester United		767
	Zlatan Ibrahimović	Manchester United		897
	Alejandro Pozuelo	Genk		928
	Hakim Ziyech	Ajax		998
	Bertrand Traoré	Ajax		1106

Squad of the season

The UEFA technical study group selected the following 18 players as the squad of the tournament.

Pos.	Player	Team
GK	Sergio Álvarez	Celta Vigo
	Sergio Romero	Manchester United
DF	Eric Bailly	Manchester United
	Gustavo Cabral	Celta Vigo
	Jérémy Morel	Lyon
	Matthijs de Ligt	Ajax
	Daley Blind	Manchester United
	Antonio Valencia	Manchester United
MF	Pablo Hernández	Celta Vigo
	Ander Herrera	Manchester United
	Paul Pogba	Manchester United
	Youri Tielemans	Anderlecht
	Corentin Tolisso	Lyon
	Henrikh Mkhitaryan	Manchester United
	Amin Younes	Ajax
FW	Zlatan Ibrahimović	Manchester United
	Alexandre Lacazette	Lyon
	Bertrand Traoré	Ajax

Player of the season

A new UEFA Europa League Player of the Season award was introduced for the 2016–17 season. Votes were cast by coaches of the 48 teams in the group stage, together with 55 journalists selected by the European Sports Media (ESM) group, representing each of UEFA's member associations. The coaches were not allowed to vote for players from their own teams. Jury members selected their top three players, with the first receiving five points, the second three and the third one. The shortlist of the top three players were announced on 4 August 2017. The award winner was announced and presented to during the 2017–18 UEFA Europa League group stage draw in Monaco on 25 August 2017.

Rank	Player	Team	Points
Shortlist of top three
1	Paul Pogba	Manchester United	140
2	Henrikh Mkhitaryan	Manchester United	129
3	Zlatan Ibrahimović	Manchester United	109
Players ranked 4–10
4	Alexandre Lacazette	Lyon	70
5	Kasper Dolberg	Ajax	40
6	Marcus Rashford	Manchester United	37
7	Ander Herrera	Manchester United	33
	Davy Klaassen	Ajax
9	Bertrand Traoré	Ajax	28
10	Edin Džeko	Roma	23

See also

• 2016–17 UEFA Champions League
• 2017 UEFA Super Cup

External links

• 2016–17 UEFA Europa League