UEFA Europa League Group Stage Comes To End
Date
1/30/2025 6:12:49 AM
(MENAFN- AzerNews)
Laman Ismayilova
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UEFA Europa League Group Stage will come to an end on January
30, Azernews reports.
All matches of the eighth round will start at the same time at
00:00:
The 2024–25 UEFA Europa League is the 54th season of Europe's
secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 16th
season since it was renamed from the UEFA Cup to the UEFA Europa
League.
This is the first season played under a new format, which
replaces the 32-team group stage with a 36-team league phase.
This increases the total number of matches played in the
competition (excluding qualifying rounds) from 141 to 189.
The new format also does not allow teams to transfer from the
Champions League league or knockout phase to the Europa League
knockout phase, and thus Europa League winners (Atalanta in the
2023–24 edition) can no longer defend their title as the winner of
the Europa League automatically qualifies for the Champions League
league phase.
The final will be played on May 21, 2025 at the San Mamés
Stadium in Bilbao, Spain. The winners of the 2024–25 UEFA Europa
League will automatically qualify for the 2025–26 UEFA Champions
League league phase and earn the right to play against the winners
of the 2024–25 UEFA Champions League in the 2025 UEFA Super
Cup.
The schedule for the UEFA Europa League, Group Stage,
Eighth Round, is as follows:
- Olympiacos (Greece) vs. Qarabağ (Azerbaijan)
- Ajax (Netherlands) vs. Galatasaray (Turkiye)
- Roma (Italy) vs. Eintracht Frankfurt (Germany)
- Twente (Netherlands) vs. Beşiktaş (Turkiye)
- Nice (France) vs. Bodø/Glimt (Norway)
- Braga (Portugal) vs. Lazio (Italy)
- Tottenham (England) vs. Elfsborg (Sweden)
- Midtjylland (Denmark) vs. Fenerbahçe (Turkiye)
- Slavia Prague (Czech Republic) vs. Malmö (Sweden)
- Rangers (Scotland) vs. Union (Belgium)
- Anderlecht (Belgium) vs. Hoffenheim (Germany)
- Athletic Bilbao (Spain) vs. Viktoria Plzeň (Czech
Republic)
- Dynamo Kyiv (Ukraine) vs. RFS (Latvia)
- FCSB (Romania) vs. Manchester United (England)
- Ferencváros (Hungary) vs. AZ Alkmaar (Netherlands)
- Lyon (France) vs. Ludogorets (Bulgaria)
- Maccabi Tel Aviv (Israel) vs. Porto (Portugal)
- Real Sociedad (Spain) vs. PAOK (Greece)
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