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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

1. Kosovo (KOS): Kosovo became a UEFA member on 3 May 2016. UEFA decided that their domestic cup winners could participate in the 2016–17 UEFA Europa League only if they could meet licensing criteria under article 15 of the UEFA Club Licensing & Financial Fair Play regulations, which would be confirmed following the assessment made by the UEFA administration within the deadline of 31 May 2016. However, Kosovo's entry, Prishtina (as the winners of the 2015–16 Kosovar Cup), was denied by UEFA in June due to the club failing licensing requirements, and also because the club could not provide a suitable stadium and UEFA did not allow them to play their home matches in a foreign country.

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.

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

1. Albania (ALB): Partizani were transferred to the 2016–17 UEFA Champions League second qualifying round following the exclusion of Skënderbeu by UEFA for match-fixing.
2. Azerbaijan (AZE): Zira and Inter Baku would have qualified for the Europa League first qualifying round as the runners-up and fourth-placed team of the 2015–16 Azerbaijan Premier League respectively, but Zira failed to obtain a UEFA licence as the club has existed professionally for fewer than three seasons, and Inter Baku were excluded from participating in the 2016–17 European competitions by the UEFA Club Financial Control Body. As a result, the berths were given to the fifth-placed team Kapaz and the sixth-placed team Neftçi Baku.
3. Bulgaria (BUL): CSKA Sofia would have qualified for the Europa League second qualifying round as the winners of the 2015–16 Bulgarian Cup, but were excluded from participating in the 2016–17 European competitions by the UEFA Club Financial Control Body. As a result, the runners-up of the 2015–16 A Group, Levski Sofia, entered the second qualifying round instead of the first qualifying round, and the first qualifying round berth was given to the fourth-placed team Slavia Sofia.
4. Greece (GRE): Panionios would have qualified for the Europa League second qualifying round as the fifth-placed team of the 2015–16 Superleague Greece, but were excluded from participating in the 2016–17 European competitions by UEFA for financial reasons. As a result, the berth was given to the sixth-placed team PAS Giannina.
5. Latvia (LVA): Skonto would have qualified for the Europa League first qualifying round as the runners-up of the 2015 Latvian Higher League, but failed to obtain a UEFA licence. As a result, the berth was given to the fifth-placed team Spartaks Jūrmala.
6. Malta (MLT): Sliema Wanderers would have qualified for the Europa League first qualifying round as the winners of the 2015–16 Maltese FA Trophy, but failed to obtain a UEFA licence. As a result, the berth was given to the fourth-placed team of the 2015–16 Maltese Premier League, Balzan.
7. Romania (ROU): CFR Cluj would have qualified for the Europa League third qualifying round as the winners of the 2015–16 Cupa României, but failed to obtain a UEFA licence after filing for insolvency in 2015. Dinamo București would have qualified for the Europa League second qualifying round as the fourth-placed team of the 2015–16 Liga I, but failed to obtain a UEFA licence after filing for insolvency in 2014. Dinamo București appealed to the Romanian Football Federation but the appeal was denied, and an appeal to Court of Arbitration for Sport was also rejected. As a result, the third qualifying round berth was given to the fifth-placed team Viitorul Constanța, and the second qualifying round berth was given to the seventh-placed team CSM Politehnica Iași, since the sixth-placed team Târgu Mureș were excluded from participating in the 2016–17 European competitions by the UEFA Club Financial Control Body.
8. Turkey (TUR): Galatasaray would have qualified for the Europa League group stage as the winners of the 2015–16 Turkish Cup, but were excluded from participating in the 2016–17 European competitions by the UEFA Club Financial Control Body. As a result, the third-placed team of the 2015–16 Süper Lig, Konyaspor, entered the group stage instead of the third qualifying round, the fourth-placed team İstanbul Başakşehir entered the third qualifying round instead of the second qualifying round, and the second qualifying round berth was given to the fifth-placed team Osmanlıspor. Galatasaray appealed the decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, but it was rejected.
9. Ukraine (UKR): Dnipro would have qualified for the Europa League group stage as the third-placed team of the 2015–16 Ukrainian Premier League, but were excluded from participating in the 2016–17 European competitions by the UEFA Club Financial Control Body. As a result, the fourth-placed team Zorya Luhansk entered the group stage instead of the third qualifying round, and the third qualifying round berth was given to the sixth-placed team FC Oleksandriya.

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).

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

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.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Midtjylland	2–0	Sūduva Marijampolė	1–0	1–0
Heart of Midlothian	6–3	Infonet Tallinn	2–1	4–2
Connah's Quay Nomads	1–0	Stabæk	0–0	1–0
Ventspils	4–0	Víkingur Gøta	2–0	2–0
Linfield	1–2	Cork City	0–1	1–1
Levadia Tallinn	3–1	HB	1–1	2–0
Atlantas	1–3	HJK	0–2	1–1
IFK Göteborg	7–1	Llandudno	5–0	2–1
St Patrick's Athletic	2–2 (a)	Jeunesse Esch	1–0	1–2
KR	8–1	Glenavon	2–1	6–0
Shamrock Rovers	1–3	RoPS	0–2	1–1
Valur	1–10	Brøndby	1–4	0–6
Aberdeen	3–2	Fola Esch	3–1	0–1
Trakai	3–5	Nõmme Kalju	2–1	1–4
Dinamo Minsk	4–1	Spartaks Jūrmala	2–1	2–0
Breiðablik	4–5	Jelgava	2–3	2–2
NSÍ Runavík	0–7	Shakhtyor Soligorsk	0–2	0–5
AIK	4–0	Bala Town	2–0	2–0
Differdange 03	1–3	Cliftonville	1–1	0–2
Odd	3–1	IFK Mariehamn	2–0	1–1
Domžale	5–2	Lusitanos	3–1	2–1
Bokelj	1–6	Vojvodina	1–1	0–5
AEK Larnaca	6–1	Folgore	3–0	3–1
Dila Gori	1–1 (1–4 p)	Shirak	1–0	0–1 (a.e.t.)
Široki Brijeg	1–3	Birkirkara	1–1	0–2
Videoton	3–2	Zaria Bălți	3–0	0–2
UE Santa Coloma	2–7	Lokomotiva	1–3	1–4
Europa	3–2	Pyunik	2–0	1–2
Čukarički	6–3	Ordabasy	3–0	3–3
Rabotnički	1–2	Budućnost Podgorica	1–1	0–1
Zimbru Chișinău	3–3 (a)	Chikhura Sachkhere	0–1	3–2
Sloboda Tuzla	0–1	Beitar Jerusalem	0–0	0–1
Kukësi	2–1	Rudar Pljevlja	1–1	1–0
Balzan	2–3	Neftçi Baku	0–2	2–1
Admira Wacker Mödling	4–3	Spartak Myjava	1–1	3–2
Beroe Stara Zagora	2–0	Radnik Bijeljina	0–0	2–0
La Fiorita	0–7	Debrecen	0–5	0–2
Vaduz	5–2	Sileks	3–1	2–1
Maccabi Tel Aviv	4–0	Gorica	3–0	1–0
Gabala	6–3	Samtredia	5–1	1–2
Teuta	0–6	Kairat	0–1	0–5
Spartak Trnava	6–0	Hibernians	3–0	3–0
Banants	1–5	Omonia	0–1	1–4 (a.e.t.)
Shkëndija	4–1	Cracovia	2–0	2–1
Slavia Sofia	1–3	Zagłębie Lubin	1–0	0–3
Aktobe	1–3	MTK Budapest	1–1	0–2
Partizani	w/o	Slovan Bratislava	0–0	Cancelled
Kapaz	1–0	Dacia Chișinău	0–0	1–0

Notes

1. ^ Order of legs reversed after original draw.
2. Partizani replaced Skënderbeu in the 2016–17 UEFA Champions League second qualifying round and Slovan Bratislava proceeded directly to the UEFA Europa League second qualifying round, after Skënderbeu was excluded by UEFA for match-fixing.

Second qualifying round

The first legs were played on 14 July, and the second legs were played on 20 and 21 July 2016.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Shirak	1–3	Spartak Trnava	1–1	0–2
Dinamo Minsk	2–1	St Patrick's Athletic	1–1	1–0
Partizan	0–0 (3–4 p)	Zagłębie Lubin	0–0	0–0 (a.e.t.)
Vojvodina	3–1	Connah's Quay Nomads	1–0	2–1
Maccabi Haifa	2–2 (3–5 p)	Nõmme Kalju	1–1	1–1 (a.e.t.)
Hibernian	1–1 (3–5 p)	Brøndby	0–1	1–0 (a.e.t.)
Shakhtyor Soligorsk	2–3	Domžale	1–1	1–2
Austria Wien	5–1	Kukësi	1–0	4–1
MTK Budapest	1–4	Gabala	1–2	0–2
Beroe Stara Zagora	1–2	HJK	1–1	0–1
RoPS	1–4	Lokomotiva	1–1	0–3
Neftçi Baku	0–1	Shkëndija	0–0	0–1
KR	4–5	Grasshopper	3–3	1–2
Midtjylland	5–2	Vaduz	3–0	2–2
Zimbru Chișinău	2–7	Osmanlıspor	2–2	0–5
PAS Giannina	4–3	Odd	3–0	1–3 (a.e.t.)
Birkirkara	2–1	Heart of Midlothian	0–0	2–1
Maribor	1–1 (a)	Levski Sofia	0–0	1–1
Piast Gliwice	0–3	IFK Göteborg	0–3	0–0
Slovan Bratislava	0–3	Jelgava	0–0	0–3
Beitar Jerusalem	3–3 (a)	Omonia	1–0	2–3
Admira Wacker Mödling	3–0	Kapaz	1–0	2–0
Aberdeen	4–0	Ventspils	3–0	1–0
BK Häcken	1–2	Cork City	1–1	0–1
Kairat	2–3	Maccabi Tel Aviv	1–1	1–2
Debrecen	1–3	Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino	1–2	0–1
CSM Politehnica Iași	3–4	Hajduk Split	2–2	1–2
Videoton	3–1	Čukarički	2–0	1–1
Cliftonville	2–5	AEK Larnaca	2–3	0–2
AIK	2–0	Europa	1–0	1–0
Levadia Tallinn	3–3 (a)	Slavia Prague	3–1	0–2
Genk	2–2 (4–2 p)	Budućnost Podgorica	2–0	0–2 (a.e.t.)
SønderjyskE	4–3	Strømsgodset	2–1	2–2 (a.e.t.)

Notes

3. ^ Order of legs reversed after original draw.

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.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Lokomotiva	3–2	Vorskla Poltava	0–0	3–2
Saint-Étienne	1–0	AEK Athens	0–0	1–0
AEK Larnaca	2–1	Spartak Moscow	1–1	1–0
Pandurii Târgu Jiu	2–5	Maccabi Tel Aviv	1–3	1–2
Vojvodina	3–1	Dinamo Minsk	1–1	2–0
Zagłębie Lubin	2–3	SønderjyskE	1–2	1–1
Luzern	1–4	Sassuolo	1–1	0–3
Slavia Prague	1–1 (a)	Rio Ave	0–0	1–1
Birkirkara	1–6	Krasnodar	0–3	1–3
AZ	3–1	PAS Giannina	1–0	2–1
Jelgava	1–4	Beitar Jerusalem	1–1	0–3
Austria Wien	1–1 (5–4 p)	Spartak Trnava	0–1	1–0 (a.e.t.)
Panathinaikos	3–0	AIK	1–0	2–0
Osmanlıspor	3–0	Nõmme Kalju	1–0	2–0
Aberdeen	1–2	Maribor	1–1	0–1
Lille	1–2	Gabala	1–1	0–1
Oleksandriya	1–6	Hajduk Split	0–3	1–3
Hertha BSC	2–3	Brøndby	1–0	1–3
İstanbul Başakşehir	2–2 (a)	Rijeka	0–0	2–2
Heracles Almelo	1–1 (a)	Arouca	1–1	0–0
Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino	0–3	Rapid Wien	0–0	0–3
Genk	3–1	Cork City	1–0	2–1
Shkëndija	2–1	Mladá Boleslav	2–0	0–1
Domžale	2–4	West Ham United	2–1	0–3
Videoton	1–2	Midtjylland	0–1	1–1 (a.e.t.)
IFK Göteborg	3–2	HJK	1–2	2–0
Admira Wacker Mödling	1–4	Slovan Liberec	1–2	0–2
Gent	5–0	Viitorul Constanța	5–0	0–0
Grasshopper	5–4	Apollon Limassol	2–1	3–3 (a.e.t.)

Notes

4. ^ Order of legs reversed after original draw.

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.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Astana	4–2	BATE Borisov	2–0	2–2
Arouca	1–3	Olympiacos	0–1	1–2 (a.e.t.)
Midtjylland	0–3	Osmanlıspor	0–1	0–2
Trenčín	2–4	Rapid Wien	0–4	2–0
Lokomotiva	2–4	Genk	2–2	0–2
AEK Larnaca	0–4	Slovan Liberec	0–1	0–3
Dinamo Tbilisi	0–5	PAOK	0–3	0–2
Austria Wien	4–2	Rosenborg	2–1	2–1
Beitar Jerusalem	1–2	Saint-Étienne	1–2	0–0
Vojvodina	0–3	AZ	0–3	0–0
Gabala	3–2	Maribor	3–1	0–1
Slavia Prague	0–6	Anderlecht	0–3	0–3
Astra Giurgiu	2–1	West Ham United	1–1	1–0
Fenerbahçe	5–0	Grasshopper	3–0	2–0
Panathinaikos	4–1	Brøndby	3–0	1–1
Krasnodar	4–0	Partizani	4–0	0–0
Gent	6–1	Shkëndija	2–1	4–0
İstanbul Başakşehir	1–4	Shakhtar Donetsk	1–2	0–2
SønderjyskE	2–3	Sparta Prague	0–0	2–3
Sassuolo	4–1	Red Star Belgrade	3–0	1–1
IFK Göteborg	1–3	Qarabağ	1–0	0–3
Maccabi Tel Aviv	3–3 (4–3 p)	Hajduk Split	2–1	1–2 (a.e.t.)

Notes

5. ^ Order of legs reversed after original draw.

Group stage

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).

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	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	—

Group B

Pos	Team v t e	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	—

Group C

Pos	Team v t e	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	—

Group D

Pos	Team v t e	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	—

Group E

Pos	Team v t e	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	—

Group F

Pos	Team v t e	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	—

Group G

Pos	Team v t e	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	—

Group H

Pos	Team v t e	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	—

Group I

Pos	Team v t e	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	—

Group J

Pos	Team v t e	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	—

Group K

Pos	Team v t e	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	—

Group L

Pos	Team v t e	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	—

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

	Round of 32							Round of 16							Quarter-finals							Semi-finals							Final
	Ludogorets Razgrad		1	0	1
	Copenhagen		2	0	2			Copenhagen		2	0	2
	Legia Warsaw		0	0	0			Ajax		1	2	3
	Ajax		0	1	1										Ajax (a.e.t.)		2	2	4
	PAOK		0	1	1										Schalke 04		0	3	3
	Schalke 04		3	1	4			Schalke 04 (a)		1	2	3
	Borussia Mönchengladbach		0	4	4			Borussia Mönchengladbach		1	2	3
	Fiorentina		1	2	3																	Ajax		4	1	5
	AZ		1	1	2																	Lyon		1	3	4
	Lyon		4	7	11			Lyon		4	1	5
	Villarreal		0	1	1			Roma		2	2	4
	Roma		4	0	4										Lyon (p)		2	1	3 (7)
	Olympiacos		0	3	3										Beşiktaş		0	3	3 (6)
	Osmanlıspor		0	0	0			Olympiacos		1	1	2
	Hapoel Be'er Sheva		1	1	2			Beşiktaş		1	4	5																	24 May – Solna
	Beşiktaş		3	2	5																								Ajax		0
	Celta Vigo (a.e.t.)		0	2	2																								Manchester United		2
	Shakhtar Donetsk		1	0	1			Celta Vigo		2	2	4
	Krasnodar		1	1	2			Krasnodar		1	0	1
	Fenerbahçe		0	1	1										Celta Vigo		3	1	4
	Gent		1	2	3										Genk		2	1	3
	Tottenham Hotspur		0	2	2			Gent		2	1	3
	Astra Giurgiu		2	0	2			Genk		5	1	6
	Genk		2	1	3																	Celta Vigo		0	1	1
	Athletic Bilbao		3	0	3																	Manchester United		1	1	2
	APOEL		2	2	4			APOEL		0	0	0
	Anderlecht (a)		2	1	3			Anderlecht		1	1	2
	Zenit Saint Petersburg		0	3	3										Anderlecht		1	1	2
	Rostov		4	1	5										Manchester United (a.e.t.)		1	2	3
	Sparta Prague		0	1	1			Rostov		1	0	1
	Manchester United		3	1	4			Manchester United		1	1	2
	Saint-Étienne		0	0	0

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.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Athletic Bilbao	3–4	APOEL	3–2	0–2
Legia Warsaw	0–1	Ajax	0–0	0–1
Anderlecht	3–3 (a)	Zenit Saint Petersburg	2–0	1–3
Astra Giurgiu	2–3	Genk	2–2	0–1
Manchester United	4–0	Saint-Étienne	3–0	1–0
Villarreal	1–4	Roma	0–4	1–0
Ludogorets Razgrad	1–2	Copenhagen	1–2	0–0
Celta Vigo	2–1	Shakhtar Donetsk	0–1	2–0 (a.e.t.)
Olympiacos	3–0	Osmanlıspor	0–0	3–0
Gent	3–2	Tottenham Hotspur	1–0	2–2
Rostov	5–1	Sparta Prague	4–0	1–1
Krasnodar	2–1	Fenerbahçe	1–0	1–1
Borussia Mönchengladbach	4–3	Fiorentina	0–1	4–2
AZ	2–11	Lyon	1–4	1–7
Hapoel Be'er Sheva	2–5	Beşiktaş	1–3	1–2
PAOK	1–4	Schalke 04	0–3	1–1

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.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Celta Vigo	4–1	Krasnodar	2–1	2–0
APOEL	0–2	Anderlecht	0–1	0–1
Schalke 04	3–3 (a)	Borussia Mönchengladbach	1–1	2–2
Lyon	5–4	Roma	4–2	1–2
Rostov	1–2	Manchester United	1–1	0–1
Olympiacos	2–5	Beşiktaş	1–1	1–4
Gent	3–6	Genk	2–5	1–1
Copenhagen	2–3	Ajax	2–1	0–2

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.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Anderlecht	2–3	Manchester United	1–1	1–2 (a.e.t.)
Celta Vigo	4–3	Genk	3–2	1–1
Ajax	4–3	Schalke 04	2–0	2–3 (a.e.t.)
Lyon	3–3 (7–6 p)	Beşiktaş	2–1	1–2 (a.e.t.)

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.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Ajax	5–4	Lyon	4–1	1–3
Celta Vigo	1–2	Manchester United	0–1	1–1

Final

The final was played on 24 May 2017 at Friends Arena in Solna, Sweden. The "home" team (for administrative purposes) was determined by an additional draw held after the semi-final draw.

Ajax	0–2	Manchester United
	Report	Pogba 18' Mkhitaryan 48'

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

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