2009–10 Uefa Europa League

The competition was previously known as the UEFA Cup, which had been in existence for 38 years.

2009–10 UEFA Europa League

The Volksparkstadion in Hamburg hosted the final.
Tournament details
Dates	17 September 2009 – 12 May 2010 (competition proper) 2 July – 27 August 2009 (qualifying)
Teams	48+8 (competition proper) 159+33 (total) (from 53 associations)
Final positions
Champions	Atlético Madrid (1st title)
Runners-up	Fulham
Tournament statistics
Matches played	205
Goals scored	539 (2.63 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Claudio Pizarro (Werder Bremen) Óscar Cardozo (Benfica) 9 goals each
← 2008–09 (UEFA Cup) 2010–11 →

Spain's Atlético Madrid won the tournament for the first time, beating Fulham – who were playing in their first European final – at the Volksparkstadion, home ground of Hamburger SV, in Hamburg, Germany.

Shakhtar Donetsk were the defending champions, but were eliminated by eventual finalists Fulham in the round of 32.

A total of 192 teams from 53 UEFA associations participated in the 2009–10 UEFA Europa League. Associations were allocated places according to their 2008 UEFA country coefficient, which took into account their performance in European competitions from 2003–04 to 2007–08.

Below iss the qualification scheme for the 2009–10 UEFA Europa League:

• Associations 1–6 each entered three teams
• Associations 7–9 each entered four teams
• Associations 10–51 each entered three teams, except Liechtenstein (it organised only a domestic cup competition and no domestic league competition)
• Associations 52–53 plus Liechtenstein each entered one team
• The top three associations of the 2008–09 UEFA Fair Play ranking each gained an additional berth
• Moreover, 33 teams eliminated from the 2009–10 UEFA Champions League were transferred to the Europa League

Association ranking

Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes 1   England 75.749 3 +1(UCL) 2   Spain 75.266 +1(UCL) 3   Italy 60.410 +1(UCL) 4   France 52.668 +1(UCL) 5   Germany 48.722 +1(UCL) 6   Russia 43.750 +2(UCL) 7   Romania 40.599 4 +2(UCL) 8   Portugal 39.927 +1(UCL) 9   Netherlands 38.213 +1(UCL) 10   Scotland 33.375 3 +1(FP) +1(UCL) 11   Turkey 31.725 +1(UCL) 12   Ukraine 30.100 +1(UCL) 13   Belgium 26.700 +2(UCL) 14   Greece 25.831 +1(UCL) 15   Czech Republic 25.750 +2(UCL) 16   Switzerland 24.225 17   Bulgaria 23.166 +1(UCL) 18   Norway 22.425 +1(FP) +1(UCL)

Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes 19   Denmark 20.450 3 +1(FP) +1(UCL) 20   Austria 17.700 +1(UCL) 21   Serbia 16.750 +1(UCL) 22   Israel 15.750 23   Sweden 13.691 24   Slovakia 12.332 +1(UCL) 25   Poland 12.041 26   Hungary 11.999 27   Croatia 11.624 +1(UCL) 28   Cyprus 10.082 29   Slovenia 9.915 +1(UCL) 30   Finland 9.623 31   Latvia 8.831 +1(UCL) 32   Bosnia and Herzegovina 8.498 33   Lithuania 7.999 34   Moldova 7.499 +1(UCL) 35   Republic of Ireland 7.332 36   Macedonia 6.331

Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes 37   Iceland 5.999 3 38   Georgia 5.831 39   Liechtenstein 5.500 1 40   Belarus 5.332 3 +1(UCL) 41   Estonia 4.332 +1(UCL) 42   Azerbaijan 3.832 +1(UCL) 43   Albania 3.666 44   Armenia 3.665 45   Kazakhstan 2.582 +1(UCL) 46   Northern Ireland 2.332 47   Wales 2.331 48   Faroe Islands 1.832 49   Luxembourg 1.498 50   Malta 0.832 51   Montenegro 0.500 52   Andorra 0.500 1 53   San Marino 0.250

Notes

• (FP): Additional fair play berth (Norway, Denmark, Scotland)
• (UCL): Additional teams transferred from the UEFA Champions League

Distribution

Since the winners of the 2008–09 UEFA Cup, Shakhtar Donetsk, qualified for the 2009–10 UEFA Champions League through domestic performance, the title holder spot reserved for them in the group stage was vacated. As this was the first edition of the Europa League, it was initially unknown whether UEFA would simply disregard the vacant title holder spot and rearrange entries so that one more team would qualify from the play-off round, or replace the title holders' group stage place with that of the top-ranked association's cup winner and move teams from lower rounds appropriately, as the regulations were unclear on this matter. The former set-up was confirmed by UEFA's official list of participants, published on 16 June 2009. As a result, the following changes to the default allocation system were made to compensate for the vacant title holder spot in the group stage:

• The domestic cup winners of associations 16 and 17 (Switzerland and Bulgaria) were promoted from the third qualifying round to the play-off round.
• The domestic cup winners of associations 28 and 29 (Cyprus and Slovenia) were promoted from the second qualifying round to the third qualifying round.
• The domestic cup winners of associations 52 and 53 (Andorra and San Marino) and the domestic league runners-up of associations 35 and 36 (Republic of Ireland and Macedonia) were promoted from the first qualifying round to the second qualifying round.

Redistribution rules

A Europa League place was vacated when a team qualified for both the Champions League and the Europa League, or qualified for the Europa League by more than one method. When a place was vacated, it was redistributed within the national association by the following rules:

• When the domestic cup winners (considered as the "highest-placed" qualifier within the national association) also qualified for the Champions League, their Europa League place was vacated, and the remaining Europa League qualifiers were moved up one place, with the final place (with the earliest starting round) taken by the domestic cup runners-up, provided they did not already qualify for the Champions League or the Europa League. Otherwise, this place was taken by the highest-placed league finisher which did not qualify for the Europa League yet.
• When the domestic cup winners also qualified for the Europa League through league position, their place through the league position was vacated, and the Europa League qualifiers which finished lower in the league were moved up one place, with the final place taken by the highest-placed league finisher which did not qualify for the Europa League yet.
• A place vacated by the League Cup winners was taken by the highest-placed league finisher which did not qualify for the Europa League yet.
• A Fair Play place was taken by the highest-ranked team in the domestic Fair Play table which did not qualify for the Champions League or Europa League yet.

Teams

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

• CW: Cup winners
• CR: Cup runners-up
• LC: League Cup winners
• Nth: League position
• P-W: End-of-season European competition play-off winners
• FP: Fair play
• UCL: Relegated from the Champions League
  • GS: Third-placed teams from the group stage
  • PO: Losers from the play-off round
  • Q3: Losers from the third qualifying round

Round of 32
Juventus (UCL GS)	VfL Wolfsburg (UCL GS)	Marseille (UCL GS)	Atlético Madrid (UCL GS)
Liverpool (UCL GS)	Rubin Kazan (UCL GS)	Unirea Urziceni (UCL GS)	Standard Liège (UCL GS)
Group stage
Timișoara (UCL PO)	Sporting CP (UCL PO)	Celtic (UCL PO)	Anderlecht (UCL PO)
Panathinaikos (UCL PO)	Levski Sofia (UCL PO)	Copenhagen (UCL PO)	Red Bull Salzburg (UCL PO)
Ventspils (UCL PO)	Sheriff Tiraspol (UCL PO)
Play-off round
Everton (5th)	Zenit Saint Petersburg (5th)	Genk (CW)	Maribor (UCL Q3)
Aston Villa (6th)	CFR Cluj (CW)	AEK Athens (3rd)	BATE Borisov (UCL Q3)
Villarreal (5th)	Dinamo București (3rd)	Teplice (CW)	Levadia (UCL Q3)
Valencia (6th)	Benfica (3rd)	Sion (CW)	Baku (UCL Q3)
Lazio (CW)	Nacional (4th)	Litex Lovech (CW)	Aktobe (UCL Q3)
Genoa (5th)	Heerenveen (CW)	Slavia Prague (UCL Q3)	Dynamo Moscow (UCL Q3)
Guingamp (CW)	Ajax (3rd)	Stabæk (UCL Q3)	Twente (UCL Q3)
Toulouse (4th)	Hearts of Midlothian (3rd)	Partizan (UCL Q3)	Sivasspor (UCL Q3)
Werder Bremen (CW)	Trabzonspor (3rd)	Slovan Bratislava (UCL Q3)	Shakhtar DonetskTH (UCL Q3)
Hertha BSC (4th)	Vorskla Poltava (CW)	Dinamo Zagreb (UCL Q3)	Sparta Prague (UCL Q3)
Amkar Perm (4th)
Third qualifying round
Fulham (7th)	PSV Eindhoven (4th)	CSKA Sofia (2nd)	IFK Göteborg (CW)
Athletic Bilbao (CR)	Aberdeen (4th)	Vålerenga (CW)	Košice (CW)
Roma (6th)	Fenerbahçe (4th)	Fredrikstad (2nd)	Lech Poznań (CW)
Lille (5th)	Metalist Kharkiv (3rd)	Odense (2nd)	Budapest Honvéd (CW)
Hamburger SV (5th)	Club Brugge (3rd)	Austria Wien (CW)	Hajduk Split (2nd)
Krylia Sovetov Samara (6th)	PAOK (4th)	Vojvodina (2nd)	APOP Kinyras (CW)
Vaslui (5th)	Slovan Liberec (3rd)	Hapoel Tel Aviv (2nd)Note ISR	Interblock (CW)
Braga (5th)	Young Boys (2nd)
Second qualifying round
Steaua București (6th)	Sturm Graz (4th)	Skonto (3rd)Note LVA	Naftan Novopolotsk (CW)
Paços de Ferreira (CR)	Red Star Belgrade (3rd)	Slavija (CW)	Flora (CW)
NAC Breda (P-W)	Sevojno (CR)	Sarajevo (4th)Note BIH	Qarabağ (CW)
Falkirk (CR)	Maccabi Netanya (4th)Note ISR	Sūduva (CW)	Flamurtari (CW)
Galatasaray (5th)	IF Elfsborg (2nd)	Kaunas (2nd)	Gandzasar (3rd)Note ARM
Metalurh Donetsk (4th)	Žilina (2nd)	Dacia Chișinău (2nd)	Tobol (2nd)
Gent (4th)	Legia Warsaw (2nd)	Iskra-Stal (3rd)	Crusaders (CW)
AEL (5th)	Újpest (2nd)	St Patrick's Athletic (2nd)	Bangor City (CW)
Sigma Olomouc (4th)	Rijeka (3rd)	Derry City (3rd)	HB Tórshavn (2nd)
Basel (3rd)	Omonia (2nd)	Rabotnički (CW)	Differdange (2nd)
Cherno More Varna (3rd)	Gorica (2nd)	Milano Kumanovo (2nd)	Sliema Wanderers (CW)
Tromsø (3rd)	HJK (CW)	KR (CW)	Petrovac (CW)
Brøndby (3rd)	Honka (2nd)	Dinamo Tbilisi (CW)	FC Santa Coloma (CW)
AaB (CR)	Liepājas Metalurgs (2nd)	Vaduz (CW)	Juvenes/Dogana (CW)
Rapid Wien (2nd)
First qualifying round
Bnei Yehuda (5th)Note ISR	Zimbru Chișinău (4th)	Simurq (3rd)	B36 Tórshavn (3rd)
Helsingborg (4th)	Sligo Rovers (4th)	Vllaznia (2nd)	NSÍ Runavík (4th)
Spartak Trnava (3rd)	Renova (3rd)	Dinamo Tirana (3rd)	Grevenmacher (3rd)
Polonia Warsaw (4th)	Keflavík (2nd)	Mika (4th)Note ARM	Käerjéng 97 (CR)
Haladás (3rd)	Fram (3rd)	Banants (CR)	Birkirkara (2nd)
Slaven Belupo (4th)	Olimpi Rustavi (3rd)	Irtysh (3rd)	Valletta (3rd)
Anorthosis (3rd)	Zestaponi (4th)	Okzhetpes (9th)Note KAZ	Budućnost Podgorica (2nd)
Rudar Velenje (3rd)	Dinamo Minsk (2nd)	Linfield (2nd)	Sutjeska Nikšić (3rd)
Lahti (3rd)	MTZ-RIPO Minsk (3rd)	Lisburn Distillery (4th)	Rosenborg (FP)
Dinaburg (4th)Note LVA	Narva Trans (3rd)	Llanelli (2nd)	Randers (FP)
Široki Brijeg (6th)Note BIH	Nõmme Kalju (4th)	The New Saints (3rd)	Motherwell (FP)
Vėtra (3rd)	Inter Baku (2nd)

Notes

• ^TH Title Holder: Shakhtar Donetsk qualified for the UEFA Champions League as the runner-up of the 2008–09 Ukrainian Premier League. After losing in the Champions League third qualifying round, they entered the UEFA Europa League at the play-off round.
• Armenia (ARM): Ararat Yerevan, which finished second in the 2008 Armenian Premier League, did not obtain a UEFA license, so Gandzasar, which finished third, were moved up to the second qualifying round, while Mika, which finished fourth, took the first qualifying round spot.
• Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH): Sloboda Tuzla, which finished third in the 2008–09 Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina, did not obtain a UEFA license, so Sarajevo, which finished fourth, were moved up to the second qualifying round. Borac Banja Luka, which finished fifth, also did not obtain a UEFA license, so Široki Brijeg, which finished sixth, took the first qualifying round spot.
• Israel (ISR): 2008–09 Israel State Cup winners Beitar Jerusalem (which also finished third in the 2008–09 Israeli Premier League) did not obtain a UEFA license. Since Maccabi Haifa, the cup runners-up, qualified for the Champions League as the league champions, all three Israeli Europa League spots were redistributed based on league position, with second-placed Hapoel Tel Aviv moving up to the third qualifying round, fourth-placed Maccabi Netanya moving up to the second qualifying round, and fifth-placed Bnei Yehuda taking the first qualifying round spot.
• Kazakhstan (KAZ): Almaty, the 2008 Kazakhstan Cup runners-up, merged with Megasport to form Lokomotiv Astana. However, the new club did not obtain a UEFA license. Following the denied license and withdrawal of three higher-placed teams in the 2008 Kazakhstan Premier League, Okzhetpes, which finished ninth, took the first qualifying round spot.
• Latvia (LVA): Daugava Daugavpils, the 2008 Latvian Football Cup winners, merged with Dinaburg. Skonto, which finished third in the 2008 Latvian Higher League, were moved up to the second qualifying round, while Dinaburg, which finished fourth, took the first qualifying round spot.

All draws held at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland unless stated otherwise.

In the qualifying phase and the play-off round, teams played against each other over two legs on a home-and-away basis.

The draw for the first and second qualifying rounds, conducted by UEFA President Michel Platini and UEFA General Secretary David Taylor, was held on 22 June 2009, and the draw for the third qualifying round, conducted by UEFA Competitions Director Giorgio Marchetti and Head of Club Competitions Michael Heselschwerdt, was held on 17 July 2009. For the draws, clubs were separated into seeded and unseeded teams based on their club coefficient. Because the draws for the second and third qualifying rounds took place before the previous round was completed, the teams were seeded assuming the seeded side in the previous round would be victorious.

First qualifying round

The first legs were played on 2 July, and the second legs were played on 9 July 2009.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Sutjeska Nikšić	2–3†	MTZ-RIPO Minsk	1–1	1–2 (a.e.t.)
Lahti	4–3	Dinamo Tirana	4–1	0–2
Grevenmacher	0–6†	Vėtra	0–3	0–3
NSÍ Runavík	1–6†	Rosenborg	0–3	1–3
Haladás	2–2 (a)	Irtysh	1–0	1–2
Sligo Rovers	2–3	Vllaznia	1–2	1–1
Olimpi Rustavi	4–0	B36 Tórshavn	2–0	2–0
Anorthosis Famagusta	7–1	Käerjéng 97	5–0	2–1
Slaven Belupo	1–0	Birkirkara	1–0	0–0
Zimbru Chișinău	3–2	Okzhetpes	1–2	2–0
Lisburn Distillery	1–11	Zestaponi	1–5	0–6
Helsingborg	4–2	Mika	3–1	1–1
Valletta	5–2	Keflavík	3–0	2–2
Dinaburg	2–1	Nõmme Kalju	2–1	0–0
Budućnost Podgorica	1–2	Polonia Warsaw	0–2	1–0
Narva Trans	1–6†	Rudar Velenje	0–3	1–3
Motherwell	3–1	Llanelli	0–1	3–0
Banants	1–2†	Široki Brijeg	0–2	1–0
Spartak Trnava	5–2	Inter Baku	2–1	3–1
Dinamo Minsk	3–2	Renova	2–1	1–1
Randers	7–0	Linfield	4–0	3–0
Simurq	0–4	Bnei Yehuda	0–1	0–3
Fram	4–2†	The New Saints	2–1	2–1

^† Order of legs reversed after original draw

Second qualifying round

The first legs were played on 14 and 16 July, and the second legs were played on 23 July 2009.

Both the first and second legs between Bnei Yehuda and Dinaburg and between Rapid Wien and Vllaznia were under investigation by UEFA and German authorities for possible match-fixing.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Rosenborg	0–1	Qarabağ	0–0	0–1
Zimbru Chișinău	0–1†	Paços de Ferreira	0–0	0–1
Juvenes/Dogana	0–5†	Polonia Warsaw	0–1	0–4
Sturm Graz	3–2	Široki Brijeg	2–1	1–1
Basel	7–1	FC Santa Coloma	3–0	4–1
Honka	3–0	Bangor City	2–0	1–0
MŠK Žilina	3–0	Dacia Chișinău	2–0	1–0
Anorthosis	3–4	Petrovac	2–1	1–3 (a.e.t.)
St Patrick's Athletic	2–1	Valletta	1–1	1–0
Omonia	8–1	HB Tórshavn	4–0	4–1
Gorica	1–2	Lahti	1–0	0–2
Sigma Olomouc	3–1	Fram	1–1	2–0
Legia Warsaw	4–0	Olimpi Rustavi	3–0	1–0
Falkirk	1–2	Vaduz	1–0	0–2 (a.e.t.)
IF Elfsborg	3–0	Haladás	3–0	0–0
Rapid Wien	8–0	Vllaznia	5–0	3–0
Naftan Novopolotsk	2–2 (a)	Gent	2–1	0–1
Liepājas Metalurgs	3–4	Dinamo Tbilisi	2–1	1–3
Differdange	1–3	Rijeka	1–0	0–3
Sūduva	1–2	Randers	0–1	1–1
Vėtra	3–2	HJK	0–1	3–1
Milano	2–12	Slaven Belupo	0–4	2–8
Dinamo Minsk	1–4	Tromsø	0–0	1–4
KR	3–1	AEL	2–0	1–1
Brøndby	4–2	Flora Tallinn	0–1	4–1
AaB	1–3	Slavija	0–0	1–3
Steaua București	4–1	Újpest	2–0	2–1
Metalurh Donetsk	5–1	MTZ-RIPO Minsk	3–0	2–1
Crusaders	3–5†	Rabotnički	1–1	2–4
Bnei Yehuda	5–0	Dinaburg	4–0	1–0
NAC Breda	8–0	Gandzasar	6–0	2–0
Cherno More Varna	4–0	Iskra-Stal	1–0	3–0
Sevojno	1–1 (a)	Kaunas	0–0	1–1
Flamurtari	2–8	Motherwell	1–0	1–8
Zestaponi	3–4	Helsingborg	1–2	2–2 (a.e.t.)
Skonto	1–2	Derry City	1–1	0–1
Sliema Wanderers	0–3	Maccabi Netanya	0–0	0–3
Tobol	1–3	Galatasaray	1–1	0–2
Rudar Velenje	0–5	Red Star Belgrade	0–1	0–4
Sarajevo	2–1	Spartak Trnava	1–0	1–1

^† Order of legs reversed after original draw

Third qualifying round

The first legs were played on 28 and 30 July, and the second legs were played on 4 and 6 August 2009.

The first leg between Fenerbahçe and Budapest Honvéd and the second leg between Interblock Ljubljana and Metalurh Donetsk were under investigation by UEFA and German authorities for possible match-fixing.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Helsingborg	3–3 (4–5 p)†	Sarajevo	2–1	1–2 (a.e.t.)
Fredrikstad	3–7	Lech Poznań	1–6	2–1
Rijeka	1–4	Metalist Kharkiv	1–2	0–2
Roma	10–2†	Gent	3–1	7–1
Vaslui	3–1	Omonia	2–0	1–1
Slavija	1–5	Košice	0–2	1–3
IFK Göteborg	2–4	Hapoel Tel Aviv	1–3	1–1
PSV Eindhoven	2–0	Cherno More Varna	1–0	1–0
Metalurh Donetsk	5–0	Interblock	2–0	3–0
Vålerenga	2–2 (a)	PAOK	1–2	1–0
Rapid Wien	4–3†	APOP Kinyras	2–1	2–2 (a.e.t.)
Honka	1–3	Qarabağ	0–1	1–2
Vaduz	0–3	Slovan Liberec	0–1	0–2
St Patrick's Athletic	3–3 (a)	Krylia Sovetov	1–0	2–3
Randers	1–4	Hamburger SV	0–4	1–0
Tromsø	4–1	Slaven Belupo	2–1	2–0
Brøndby	3–3 (a)	Legia Warsaw	1–1	2–2
Vojvodina	3–5	Austria Wien	1–1	2–4
CSKA Sofia	2–1	Derry City	1–0	1–1
Steaua București	6–1	Motherwell	3–0	3–1
MŠK Žilina	2–1	Hajduk Split	1–1	1–0
Braga	1–4	IF Elfsborg	1–2	0–2
Aberdeen	1–8	Sigma Olomouc	1–5	0–3
Rabotnički	3–7	Odense	3–4	0–3
Sevojno	0–4	Lille	0–2	0–2
Petrovac	1–7	Sturm Graz	1–2	0–5
Fenerbahçe	6–2	Budapest Honvéd	5–1	1–1
Bnei Yehuda	2–0	Paços de Ferreira	1–0	1–0
Club Brugge	4–3	Lahti	3–2	1–1
Athletic Bilbao	2–2 (a)	Young Boys	0–1	2–1
KR	3–5	Basel	2–2	1–3
Maccabi Netanya	1–10†	Galatasaray	1–4	0–6
Dinamo Tbilisi	4–5	Red Star Belgrade	2–0	2–5
Polonia Warsaw	1–4	NAC Breda	0–1	1–3
Vėtra	0–6	Fulham	0–3	0–3

^† Order of legs reversed after original draw

The draw for the play-off round, conducted by UEFA General Secretary David Taylor and UEFA Competitions Director Giorgio Marchetti, was held on 7 August 2009. For the draw, clubs were separated into seeded and unseeded teams based on their club coefficient. The first legs were played on 20 August, and the second legs were played on 25 and 27 August 2009.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
PAOK	1–1 (a)	Heerenveen	1–1	0–0
Dinamo Zagreb	4–2	Hearts	4–0	0–2
Werder Bremen	8–3	Aktobe	6–3	2–0
Everton	5–1	Sigma Olomouc	4–0	1–1
BATE Borisov	4–1	Litex Lovech	0–1	4–0 (aet)
NAC Breda	2–9	Villarreal	1–3	1–6
Lech Poznań	1–1 (3–4 p)	Club Brugge	1–0	0–1 (aet)
Fulham	3–2	Amkar Perm	3–1	0–1
Galatasaray	6–1	Levadia	5–0	1–1
Teplice	2–3	Hapoel Tel Aviv	1–2	1–1
Metalurh Donetsk	4–5	Austria Wien	2–2	2–3 (aet)
Twente	3–1	Qarabağ	3–1	0–0
Košice	4–10†	Roma	3–3	1–7
CSKA Sofia	2–1†	Dynamo Moscow	0–0	2–1
Genk	3–6	Lille	1–2	2–4
Bnei Yehuda	0–2†	PSV Eindhoven	0–1	0–1
Lazio	3–1	Elfsborg	3–0	0–1
Trabzonspor	2–3	Toulouse	1–3	1–0
Partizan	3–1	MŠK Žilina	1–1	2–0
Baku	2–8	Basel	1–3	1–5
Ajax	7–1	Slovan Bratislava	5–0	2–1
Sivasspor	0–5†	Shakhtar Donetsk	0–3	0–2
Brøndby	3–4	Hertha BSC	2–1	1–3
Athletic Bilbao	4–3	Tromsø	3–2	1–1
Sarajevo	2–3	CFR Cluj	1–1	1–2
Rapid Wien	2–2 (a)	Aston Villa	1–0	1–2
Steaua București	5–1	St Patrick's Athletic	3–0	2–1
Maribor	0–3†	Sparta Prague	0–2	0–1
Nacional	5–4	Zenit St. Petersburg	4–3	1–1
Genoa	4–2	Odense	3–1	1–1
Dinamo București	3–3 (9–8 p)	Slovan Liberec	0–3 1	3–0 (aet)
Guingamp	2–8	Hamburg	1–5	1–3
Sion	2–4	Fenerbahçe	0–2	2–2
Sturm Graz	2–1	Metalist Kharkiv	1–1	1–0
Slavia Prague	4–2	Red Star Belgrade	3–0	1–2
Benfica	5–2	Vorskla Poltava	4–0	1–2
Vaslui	2–4	AEK Athens	2–1	0–3
Stabæk	1–7	Valencia	0–3	1–4

^† Order of legs reversed after original draw.

Note 1: The match was abandoned at 0–2 in the 88th minute after one Dinamo București fan entered the playing field and other fans invaded the running track around the pitch. The UEFA Control and Disciplinary Body awarded a default 0–3 defeat against Dinamo during an emergency meeting on 25 August. After advancing to the group stage, Dinamo were punished by having their first two home matches in the group stage played behind closed doors.

 

 

Salzburg

 

Sturm

 

Vienna

 

Brugge

 

Anderlecht

 

BATE

 

Sofia

 

Din. Zagreb

 

Prague

 

Copenhagen

 

Everton

 

Fulham

 

Athletic

 

Valencia

 

Villarreal

 

Toulouse

 

Lille

 

Bremen

 

Hamburg

 

Hertha

 

Athens

 

H. Tel Aviv

 

Genoa

 

Rome

 

Venstpils

 

Sheriff

 

Ajax

 

PSV

 

Heerenveen

 

Twente

 

Nacional
(not on map)

 

 

Lisbon

 

Timișoara

 

CFR

 

Bucharest

 

Celtic

 

Partizan

 

Basel

 

Istanbul

 

Shakhtar

 

Vienna teams
  Austria Wien
  Rapid Wien

Sofia teams
  CSKA Sofia
  Levski Sofia

Prague teams
  Slavia Prague
  Sparta Prague

Athens teams
  AEK Athens
  Panathinaikos

 

Rome teams
  Lazio
  Roma

Lisbon teams
  Benfica
  Sporting CP

Bucharest teams
  Dinamo București
  Steaua București

Istanbul teams
  Fenerbahçe
  Galatasaray

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Location of teams of the 2009–10 UEFA Europa League group stage.
  Red: Group A;   Yellow: Group B;   Green: Group C;   Dark green: Group D;
  Purple: Group E;   Pink: Group F;   Blue: Group G;   Orange: Group H;
  Brown: Group I;   Deep pink: Group J;   Cyan: Group K;   Spring green: Group L.

The draw for the group stage was held at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco on 28 August 2009. A total of 48 teams were drawn into twelve groups of four. Teams were divided into four pots, based on their club coefficient. Clubs from the same pot or the same association cannot be drawn into the same group.

A total of 24 associations were represented in the group stage. This was the first time teams from Latvia or Moldova qualified for the group stage of any European competition.

In each group, teams played against each other home-and-away. The matchdays were 17 September, 1 October, 22 October, 5 November, 2–3 December, and 16–17 December 2009. The top two in each group advanced to the knockout phase. If two or more teams are equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria are applied to determine the rankings:

1. higher number of points obtained in the group matches played among the teams in question;
2. superior goal difference from the group matches played among the teams in question;
3. higher number of goals scored away from home in the group matches played among the teams in question;
4. superior goal difference from all group matches played;
5. higher number of goals scored;
6. higher number of coefficient points accumulated by the club in question, as well as its association, over the previous five seasons.

During this stage of the tournament, matches featured five on-field officials – with two additional officials monitoring play around the penalty area as part of a FIFA-sanctioned experiment.

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		AND	AJX	DZ	TIM
1	Anderlecht	6	3	2	1	9	4	+5	11	Advance to knockout phase		—	1–1	0–1	3–1
2	Ajax	6	3	2	1	8	6	+2	11			1–3	—	2–1	0–0
3	Dinamo Zagreb	6	2	0	4	6	8	−2	6			0–2	0–2	—	1–2
4	Timișoara	6	1	2	3	4	9	−5	5			0–0	1–2	0–3	—