2010–11 Uefa Europa League

It began on 1 July 2010, with the first qualifying round matches, and concluded on 18 May 2011, with the final at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin, Republic of Ireland, between Porto and first-time finalists Braga. This was the first all-Portuguese final of a European competition and only the third time that two Portuguese teams faced each other in Europe, following Braga's elimination of Benfica in the semi-finals. Porto defeated Braga 1–0, with a goal from the competition's top goalscorer Radamel Falcao, and won their second title in the competition, after victory in the 2002–03 UEFA Cup. Atletico Madrid were the defending champions but were eliminated in group stage.

2010–11 UEFA Europa League

Aviva Stadium in Dublin hosted the final.
Tournament details
Dates	16 September 2010 – 18 May 2011 (competition proper) 1 July – 26 August 2010 (qualifying)
Teams	48+8 (competition proper) 161+33 (total) (from 53 associations)
Final positions
Champions	Porto (2nd title)
Runners-up	Braga
Tournament statistics
Matches played	205
Goals scored	551 (2.69 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Radamel Falcao (Porto) 17 goals
← 2009–10 2011–12 →

A total of 194 teams from 53 UEFA associations participated in the 2010–11 UEFA Europa League. Associations were allocated places according to their 2009 UEFA country coefficient, which took into account their performance in European competitions from 2004–05 to 2008–09.

Below is the qualification scheme for the 2010–11 UEFA Europa League:

• Associations 1–6 each have three teams qualify
• Associations 7–9 each have four teams qualify
• Associations 10–51 each have three teams qualify, except Liechtenstein, which have one team qualify (as Liechtenstein only have a domestic cup and no domestic league)
• Associations 52–53 each have two teams qualify (an increase from only one team in the previous season)
• The top three associations of the 2009–10 UEFA Fair Play ranking each gain an additional berth
• Moreover, 33 teams eliminated from the 2010–11 UEFA Champions League are transferred to the Europa League.

Association ranking

Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes 1   England 79.499 3 2   Spain 74.266 +1(UCL) 3   Italy 62.910 +1(UCL) 4   Germany 56.695 5   France 50.168 6   Russia 47.625 +3(UCL) 7   Ukraine 41.850 4 +1(UCL) 8   Netherlands 39.130 +2(UCL) 9   Romania 38.908 +1(UCL) 10   Portugal 36.462 3 +2(UCL) 11   Turkey 32.225 +1(UCL) 12   Greece 28.165 +1(UCL) 13   Scotland 27.875 +2(UCL) 14   Belgium 25.325 +2(UCL) 15   Switzerland 25.250 +2(UCL) 16   Denmark 24.450 +1(FP) 17   Bulgaria 21.250 +1(UCL) 18   Czech Republic 20.750 +1(UCL)

Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes 19   Norway 18.800 3 +1(UCL) 20   Austria 17.825 +1(UCL) 21   Serbia 15.250 22   Israel 15.250 23   Cyprus 15.082 +1(UCL) 24   Sweden 14.691 +1(FP) +1(UCL) 25   Slovakia 14.665 26   Poland 12.916 +1(UCL) 27   Croatia 12.332 +1(UCL) 28   Finland 9.790 +1(FP) +1(UCL) 29   Lithuania 9.666 30   Republic of Ireland 9.499 31   Latvia 9.164 32   Slovenia 9.082 33   Belarus 8.666 +1(UCL) 34   Bosnia and Herzegovina 8.665 35   Hungary 8.166 +1(UCL) 36   Iceland 6.665

Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes 37   Moldova 6.665 3 +1(UCL) 38   Georgia 6.664 39   Liechtenstein 5.500 1 40   Macedonia 5.165 3 41   Azerbaijan 4.498 42   Estonia 4.332 43   Albania 3.999 44   Kazakhstan 3.249 +1(UCL) 45   Armenia 2.999 46   Wales 2.331 +1(UCL) 47   Northern Ireland 2.165 48   Faroe Islands 2.165 49   Luxembourg 1.332 50   Montenegro 1.000 51   Andorra 0.500 52   Malta 0.499 2 53   San Marino 0.250

Notes

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

Distribution

The winners of the 2009–10 UEFA Europa League, Atlético Madrid, were guaranteed a place in the group stage as the title holder, since they did not qualify for the 2010–11 UEFA Champions League. However, they also qualified for the Europa League third qualifying round through domestic performance, as they were the runners-up of the 2009–10 Copa del Rey to Champions League-qualified Sevilla. As a result, this place in the third qualifying round was vacated, which in turn led to the following changes to the default allocation system in order to compensate for this vacant spot:

• The domestic cup winners of association 28 (Finland) have been promoted from the second qualifying round to the third qualifying round.
• The domestic cup winners of associations 52 and 53 (Malta and San Marino) have been promoted from the first qualifying 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:

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

Teams

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

• TH: Title holders
• CW: Cup winners
• CR: Cup runners-up
• LC: League Cup winners
• Nth: League position
• P-W: End-of-season European competition play-offs 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
Twente (UCL GS)	Benfica (UCL GS)	Rangers (UCL GS)	Rubin Kazan (UCL GS)
Basel (UCL GS)	Spartak Moscow (UCL GS)	Ajax (UCL GS)	Braga (UCL GS)
Group stage
Atlético Madrid (TH)	Anderlecht (UCL PO)	Rosenborg (UCL PO)	Zenit St. Petersburg (UCL PO)
Red Bull Salzburg (UCL PO)	Sevilla (UCL PO)	Sparta Prague (UCL PO)	Dynamo Kyiv (UCL PO)
Sheriff Tiraspol (UCL PO)	Sampdoria (UCL PO)	Young Boys (UCL PO)
Play-off round
Manchester City (5th)	Lokomotiv Moscow (4th)	AEK Athens (3rd)	Unirea Urziceni (UCL Q3)
Aston Villa (6th)	CSKA Moscow (5th)	Dundee United (CW)	Dinamo Zagreb (UCL Q3)
Getafe (6th)	Tavriya Simferopol (CW)	Club Brugge (3rd)	AIK (UCL Q3)
Villarreal (7th)Note ESP	Metalist Kharkiv (3rd)	Grasshopper (3rd)	PAOK (UCL Q3)
Palermo (5th)	PSV Eindhoven (3rd)	Aktobe (UCL Q3)	Celtic (UCL Q3)
Napoli (6th)	Feyenoord (4th)	HJK (UCL Q3)	Fenerbahçe (UCL Q3)
Bayer Leverkusen (4th)	Vaslui (3rd)	The New Saints (UCL Q3)	Gent (UCL Q3)
Borussia Dortmund (5th)	Steaua București (4th)	Litex Lovech (UCL Q3)	Omonia (UCL Q3)
Paris Saint-Germain (CW)	Porto (CW)	BATE Borisov (UCL Q3)	Lech Poznań (UCL Q3)
Lille (4th)	Trabzonspor (CW)	Debrecen (UCL Q3)
Third qualifying round
Liverpool (7th)Note ENG	Sporting CP (4th)	Beroe Stara Zagora (CW)	Apollon (CW)
Juventus (7th)	Galatasaray (3rd)	CSKA Sofia (2nd)	IFK Göteborg (2nd)
Stuttgart (6th)	Aris (4th)	Viktoria Plzeň (CW)	Slovan Bratislava (CW)
Montpellier (5th)	Hibernian (4th)	Jablonec (2nd)	Jagiellonia Białystok (CW)
Sibir Novosibirsk (CR)	Genk (P-W)	Aalesund (CW)	Hajduk Split (CW)
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (4th)	Luzern (4th)	Sturm Graz (CW)	Inter Turku (CW)
AZ (5th)	Nordsjælland (CW)	Red Star Belgrade (CW)
Timișoara (5th)	Odense (2nd)	Maccabi Haifa (2nd)
Second qualifying round
Karpaty Lviv (5th)	Austria Wien (2nd)	Shamrock Rovers (2nd)	Sillamäe Kalev (2nd)
Utrecht (P-W)	Rapid Wien (3rd)	Jelgava (CW)	Besa (CW)
Dinamo București (6th)	OFK Beograd (3rd)	Ventspils (2nd)	Atyrau (CW)
Marítimo (5th)	Spartak Zlatibor Voda (4th)	Maribor (CW)	Mika (2nd)
Beşiktaş (4th)	Maccabi Tel Aviv (3rd)	Gorica (3rd)	Bangor City (CW)
Olympiacos (5th)	APOEL (2nd)	Dinamo Minsk (2nd)	Cliftonville (2nd)
Motherwell (5th)	Elfsborg (3rd)	Borac Banja Luka (CW)	Víkingur Gøta (CW)
Cercle Brugge (CR)	Dukla Banská Bystrica (3rd)	Videoton (2nd)	Differdange (CW)
Lausanne-Sport (CR)	Wisła Kraków (2nd)	Breiðablik (CW)	Budućnost Podgorica (2nd)
Brøndby (3rd)	Cibalia (3rd)	Iskra-Stal (2nd)	UE Sant Julià (CW)
Levski Sofia (3rd)	Honka (2nd)	WIT Georgia (CW)	Valletta (CW)
Baník Ostrava (3rd)	Sūduva Marijampolė (3rd)	Vaduz (CW)	Tre Penne (2nd)
Molde (2nd)	Šiauliai (4th)Note LTU	Teteks (CW)
Stabæk (3rd)	Sporting Fingal (CW)	Baku (CW)
First qualifying round
Bnei Yehuda (CR)	Široki Brijeg (2nd)	Khazar (4th)	EB/Streymur (2nd)
Anorthosis (3rd)	Zrinjski (4th)	Narva Trans (3rd)	NSÍ Runavík (4th)
Kalmar FF (4th)	Győri ETO (3rd)	Flora (CR)	F91 Dudelange (2nd)
Nitra (4th)	Zalaegerszeg (CR)	Tirana (3rd)	Grevenmacher (3rd)
Ruch Chorzów (3rd)	KR Reykjavík (2nd)	Laçi (4th)	Mogren (3rd)
Šibenik (4th)	Fylkir (3rd)	Shakhter Karagandy (3rd)	Zeta (4th)
TPS (3rd)	Olimpia (3rd)	Tobol Kostanay (4th)	UE Santa Coloma (2nd)
Tauras Tauragė (5th)Note LTU	Dacia (CR)	Ulisses (3rd)	Lusitanos (4th)
Dundalk (5th)Note IRL	Dinamo Tbilisi (2nd)	Banants (CR)	Sliema Wanderers (3rd)
Skonto (3rd)	Zestaponi (3rd)	Llanelli (2nd)	Faetano (3rd)
Olimpija (4th)	Rabotnički (2nd)	Port Talbot Town (3rd)	Gefle (FP)
Dnepr Mogilev (3rd)	Metalurg Skopje (3rd)	Glentoran (3rd)	Randers (FP)
Torpedo Zhodino (CR)	Qarabağ (3rd)	Portadown (CR)	MYPA (FP)

Notes

• England (ENG): Portsmouth, the runners-up of the 2009–10 FA Cup to Champions League-qualified Chelsea, did not obtain a UEFA licence, meaning they could not qualify for Europe. Portsmouth had appealed to UEFA, the Premier League and the English FA, but the latter two would not allow late applications for the licence. As a result, the seventh-placed team of the 2009–10 Premier League, Liverpool, claimed the Europa League spot in the third qualifying round.
• Republic of Ireland (IRL): Since the third- and fourth-placed teams of the 2009 League of Ireland, Cork City and Derry City, were dissolved and expelled from the league respectively after the season was completed, the fifth-placed team, Dundalk, claimed the Europa League spot in the first qualifying round.
• Lithuania (LTU): Vėtra, the runners-up of the 2009 A Lyga and also the runners-up of the 2009–10 Lithuanian Football Cup to Champions League-qualified Ekranas, were denied the UEFA license for the 2010–11 season and therefore could not represent Lithuania in the UEFA Europa League. As a result, all Europa League spots were awarded to teams based on their league positions. Therefore, the fourth-placed team, Šiauliai, were moved from the first qualifying round to the second qualifying round, while the fifth-placed team, Tauras Tauragė, claimed the Europa League spot in the first qualifying round.
• Spain (ESP): Mallorca, the fifth-placed team of the 2009–10 La Liga, were not admitted to the UEFA Europa League due to being immersed in a creditor contest (not by reason of having debt) a situation that does not meet the necessary admission criteria for participating in the UEFA competitions. As a result, the seventh-placed team, Villarreal, claimed the Europa League spot in the play-off round. On 30 July, UEFA's Appeals Body dismissed Mallorca's appeal against the infraction.

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

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

The draws for the qualifying rounds, the play-off round and the group stage are all seeded based on the 2010 UEFA club coefficients. The coefficients are calculated on the basis of a combination of 20% of the value of the respective national association's coefficient for the period from 2005–06 to 2009–10 inclusive and the clubs' individual performances in the UEFA club competitions during the same period. Clubs are ordered by their coefficients and then divided into pots as required.

In the draws for the qualifying rounds and the play-off round, the teams are divided evenly into one seeded and one unseeded pot, based on their club coefficients. A seeded team is drawn against an unseeded team, with the order of legs in each tie also being decided randomly. Due to the limited time between matches, the draws for the second and third qualifying rounds take place before the results of the previous round are known. The seeding in each draw is carried out under the assumption that all of the highest-ranked clubs of the previous round are victorious. If a lower-ranked club is victorious, it simply takes the place of its defeated opponent in the next round. Prior to these draws, UEFA may form "groups" in accordance with the principles set by the Club Competitions Committee, but they are purely for convenience of the draw and do not resemble any real groupings in the sense of the competition, while ensuring that teams from the same association not drawn against each other.

In the draw for the group stage, the 48 teams are split into four pots of twelve teams, based on their club coefficients, with the title holder (if participating) automatically placed into Pot 1. Each group contains one team from each pot, but teams from the same association cannot be drawn into the same group.

In the draw for the first knockout stage, the twelve group winners and the four better third-placed teams from the Champions League group stage (based on their match record in the group stage) are seeded, and the twelve group runners-up and the other four third-placed teams from the Champions League group stage are unseeded. A seeded team is drawn against an unseeded team, with the seeded team 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 may be drawn with each other.

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

The draw for the first two qualifying rounds was made on 21 June 2010, while the draw for the third qualifying round was made on 16 July 2010.

First qualifying round

The first legs were played on 1 July, and the second legs were played on 8 July 2010.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
UE Santa Coloma	0–5	Mogren	0–3	0–2
Olimpija	0–5	Široki Brijeg	0–2	0–3
Anorthosis	4–0	Banants	3–0	1–0
Olimpia	1–1 (a)1	Khazar	0–0	1–1
Šibenik	3–0	Sliema Wanderers	0–0	3–0
Tobol	2–4	Zrinjski	1–2	1–2
Ulisses	0–1	Bnei Yehuda	0–0	0–1
Rabotnički	11–01	Lusitanos	5–0	6–0
KF Tirana	1–0	Zalaegerszeg	0–0	1–0 (aet)
Zestaponi	5–0	Faetano	5–0	0–0
NSÍ Runavík	1–4	Gefle	0–2	1–2
Torpedo Zhodino	6–1	Fylkir	3–0	3–1
Randers	7–3	F91 Dudelange	6–1	1–2
Portadown	2–1	Skonto	1–1	1–0
TPS	7–1	Port Talbot Town	3–1	4–0
KR Reykjavík	5–2	Glentoran	3–0	2–2
Grevenmacher	4–51	Dundalk	3–3	1–2
Kalmar FF	4–0	EB/Streymur	1–0	3–0
Llanelli	4–5	Tauras Tauragė	2–2	2–3 (aet)
Narva Trans	0–7	MYPA	0–2	0–5
Zeta	1–1 (a)1	Dacia	1–1	0–0
Laçi	2–8	Dnepr Mogilev	1–1	1–7
Shakhter Karaganda	1–3	Ruch Chorzów	1–2	0–1
Dinamo Tbilisi	2–1	Flora	2–1	0–0
Nitra	3–5	Győri ETO	2–2	1–3
Qarabağ	5–2	Metalurg Skopje	4–1	1–1

• Note 1: Order of legs reversed after original draw.

Second qualifying round

The first legs were played on 15 July, and the second legs were played on 22 and 23 July 2010.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Cercle Brugge	2–2 (a)	TPS	0–1	2–1
Motherwell	2–0	Breiðablik	1–0	1–0
Anorthosis	3–22	Šibenik	0–2	3–0 (aet)
Lausanne-Sport	2–1	Borac Banja Luka	1–0	1–1
Šiauliai	0–7	Wisła Kraków	0–2	0–5
Kalmar FF	2–0	Dacia	0–0	2–0
Utrecht	5–1	KF Tirana	4–0	1–1
Gorica	1–4	Randers	0–3	1–1
Marítimo	6–4	Sporting Fingal	3–2	3–2
Sūduva Marijampolė	2–6	Rapid Wien	0–2	2–4
Ventspils	1–3	Teteks	0–0	1–3
OFK Beograd	3–2	Torpedo Zhodino	2–2	1–0
Olimpia	1–7	Dinamo București	0–2	1–5
MYPA	8–0	UE Sant Julià	3–0	5–03
Videoton	1–3	Maribor	1–1	0–2
Brøndby	3–0	Vaduz	3–0	0–0
Stabæk	3–3 (a)	Dnepr Mogilev	2–2	1–1
Shamrock Rovers	2–1	Bnei Yehuda	1–1	1–0
Elfsborg	3–1	Iskra-Stal	2–1	1–0
KR Reykjavík	2–6	Karpaty Lviv	0–3	2–3
Maccabi Tel Aviv	3–2	Mogren	2–0	1–2
Austria Wien	3–2	Široki Brijeg	2–2	1–0
Tauras Tauragė	1–6	APOEL	0–3	1–3
Molde	2–2 (a)	Jelgava	1–0	1–2
Zestaponi	3–1	Dukla Banská Bystrica	3–0	0–1
Honka	2–3	Bangor City	1–1	1–2
Levski Sofia	8–0	Dundalk	6–0	2–0
WIT Georgia	0–6	Baník Ostrava	0–6	0–0
Rabotnički	1–0	Mika	1–0	0–0
Atyrau	0–5	Győri ETO	0–34	0–2
Portadown	2–32	Qarabağ	1–2	1–1
Beşiktaş	7–0	Víkingur Gøta	3–0	4–0
Differdange	3–5	Spartak Zlatibor Voda	3–3	0–2
Dinamo Minsk	10–1	Sillamäe Kalev	5–1	5–0
Valletta	1–1 (a)	Ruch Chorzów	1–1	0–0
Baku	2–4	Budućnost Podgorica	0–35	2–1
Zrinjski	13–3	Tre Penne	4–1	9–2
Gefle	2–42	Dinamo Tbilisi	1–2	1–2
Cliftonville	1–02	Cibalia	1–0	0–0
Besa	1–11	Olympiacos	0–5	1–6

Notes

• Note 2: Order of legs reversed after original draw.
• Note 3: Original match abandoned in the 80th minute due to adverse weather conditions, with MYPA leading 1–0. The match was replayed on 23 July 2010 at 18:30 CEST from the beginning.
• Note 4: UEFA awarded Győri ETO a 3–0 win due to Atyrau fielding a suspended player in the first leg. The original match had ended in a 2–0 win for Győri ETO.
• Note 5: UEFA awarded Budućnost Podgorica a 3–0 win due to Baku fielding a suspended player in the first leg. The original match had ended in a 2–1 win for Baku.

Third qualifying round

The first legs were played on 27 and 29 July, and the second legs were played on 3 and 5 August 2010.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Odense	5–3	Zrinjski	5–3	0–0
Dnepr Mogilev	3–1	Baník Ostrava	1–0	2–1
Rabotnički	0–46	Liverpool	0–2	0–2
Marítimo	10–3	Bangor City	8–2	2–1
Beroe Stara Zagora	1–4	Rapid Wien	1–1	0–3
MYPA	4–56	Timișoara	1–2	3–3
CSKA Sofia	5–1	Cliftonville	3–0	2–1
Karpaty Lviv	2–0	Zestafoni	1–0	1–0
Shamrock Rovers	0–3	Juventus	0–2	0–1
Elfsborg	7–1	Teteks	5–0	2–1
Nordsjælland	1–3	Sporting CP	0–1	1–2
Maribor	6–2	Hibernian	3–0	3–2
Red Star Belgrade	2–3	Slovan Bratislava	1–2	1–1
Inter Turku	3–8	Genk	1–5	2–3
Ruch Chorzów	1–6	Austria Wien	1–3	0–3
Viktoria Plzeň	1–4	Beşiktaş	1–1	0–3
Olympiacos	2–2 (a)	Maccabi Tel Aviv	2–1	0–1
Wisła Kraków	2–4	Qarabağ	0–1	2–3
Sturm Graz	3–1	Dinamo Tbilisi	2–0	1–1
Cercle Brugge	2–36	Anorthosis	1–0	1–3
Budućnost Podgorica	1–3	Brøndby	1–2	0–1
Molde	4–5	Stuttgart	2–3	2–2
Maccabi Haifa	2–3	Dinamo Minsk	1–0	1–3
Utrecht	4–1	Luzern	1–0	3–1
Sibir Novosibirsk	2–2 (a)	Apollon	1–0	1–2
Randers	3–4	Lausanne-Sport	2–3	1–1
Dinamo București	3–4	Hajduk Split	3–1	0–3
AZ	2–1	IFK Göteborg	2–0	0–1
Spartak Zlatibor Voda	2–3	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	2–1	0–2
Győri ETO	1–1 (4–3 p)	Montpellier	0–1	1–0 (aet)
Aalesund	1–4	Motherwell	1–1	0–3
Kalmar FF	3–6	Levski Sofia	1–1	2–5
Galatasaray	7–3	OFK Beograd	2–2	5–1
Jagiellonia Białystok	3–4	Aris	1–2	2–2
APOEL	4–1	Jablonec	1–0	3–1

Notes

• Note 6: Order of legs reversed after original draw.

The draw for the play-off round was held on 6 August 2010. The first legs were played on 17 and 19 August, and the second legs were played on 24 and 26 August 2010.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Paris Saint-Germain	5–4	Maccabi Tel Aviv	2–0	3–4
Bayer Leverkusen	6–1	Tavriya Simferopol	3–0	3–1
CSKA Moscow	6–1	Anorthosis	4–0	2–1
Hajduk Split	5–2	Unirea Urziceni	4–1	1–1
Feyenoord	1–2	Gent	1–0	0–2
Genk	2–7	Porto	0–3	2–4
Debrecen	4–1	Litex Lovech	2–0	2–1
Aris	2–1	Austria Wien	1–0	1–1
Galatasaray	3–3 (a)	Karpaty Lviv	2–2	1–1
Palermo	5–3	Maribor	3–0	2–3
Club Brugge	5–3	Dinamo Minsk	2–1	3–2
Omonia	2–3	Metalist Kharkiv	0–1	2–2
Vaslui	0–2	Lille	0–0	0–2
Napoli	3–0	Elfsborg	1–0	2–0
Sporting CP	3–2	Brøndby	0–2	3–0
Steaua București	1–1 (4–3 p)7	Grasshopper	1–0	0–1 (aet)
Liverpool	3–1	Trabzonspor	1–0	2–1
Celtic	2–4	Utrecht	2–0	0–4
Borussia Dortmund	5–0	Qarabağ	4–0	1–0
AIK	1–2	Levski Sofia	0–0	1–2
Sturm Graz	1–3	Juventus	1–2	0–1
Getafe	2–1	APOEL	1–0	1–1 (aet)
Dundee United	1–2	AEK Athens	0–1	1–1
AZ	3–2	Aktobe	2–0	1–2
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	0–1	Lech Poznań	0–1	0–0
Rapid Wien	4–3	Aston Villa	1–1	3–2
CSKA Sofia	5–2	The New Saints	3–0	2–2
Beşiktaş	6–0	HJK	2–0	4–0
Slovan Bratislava	2–3	Stuttgart	0–1	2–2
Sibir Novosibirsk	1–5	PSV Eindhoven	1–0	0–5
BATE	5–1	Marítimo	3–0	2–1
Lausanne-Sport	2–2 (4–3 p)	Lokomotiv Moscow	1–1	1–1 (aet)
Győri ETO	1–4	Dinamo Zagreb	0–2	1–2
Odense	3–1	Motherwell	2–1	1–0
PAOK	2–1	Fenerbahçe	1–0	1–1 (aet)
Villarreal	7–1	Dnepr Mogilev	5–0	2–1
Timișoara	0–3	Manchester City	0–1	0–2

• Note 7: Order of legs reversed after original draw.

 

 

Salzburg

 

Rapid

 

Brugge

 

Gent

 

Anderlecht

 

BATE

 

Din. Zagreb

 

Hajduk

 

Sparta

 

Odense

 

Liverpool

 

Man. City

 

Sevilla

 

Villarreal

 

PSG

 

Lille

 

Leverkusen

 

Dortmund

 

Stuttgart

 

AEK

 

Debrecen

 

Juventus

 

Sampdoria

 

Palermo

 

Napoli

 

Sheriff

 

AZ

 

Utrecht

 

PSV

 

Rosenborg

 

Lech

 

Sporting

 

Porto

 

Steaua

 

Zenit

 

CSKA Moscow

 

Lausanne

 

Young Boys

 

Beşiktaş

 

Karpaty

 

Dyn. Kyiv

 

Metalist

 

Community of Madrid

 

Sofia

 

Thessaloniki

 

Community of Madrid teams:
  Atlético Madrid
  Getafe
Thessaloniki teams:
  Aris
  PAOK
Sofia teams
  CSKA Sofia
  Levski Sofia

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Location of teams of the 2010–11 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 48 clubs were drawn into twelve groups of four on 27 August 2010 in Monaco. In each group, teams play against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The matchdays are 16 September, 30 September, 21 October, 4 November, 1–2 December, and 15–16 December 2010. The group winners and runners-up advance to the round of 32, where they are joined by the eight third-placed teams from the group stage of the 2010–11 UEFA Champions League.

If two or more teams are equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria are applied to determine the rankings (in descending order):

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.

Following a trial at last year's UEFA Europa League, UEFA have announced that in both this year's and the 2011–12 competition, two extra officials would be used – with one on each goal line.

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		MC	LEC	JUV	SAL
1	Manchester City	6	3	2	1	11	6	+5	11	Advance to knockout phase		—	3–1	1–1	3–0
2	Lech Poznań	6	3	2	1	11	8	+3	11			3–1	—	1–1	2–0
3	Juventus	6	0	6	0	7	7	0	6			1–1	3–3	—	0–0
4	Red Bull Salzburg	6	0	2	4	1	9	−8	2			0–2	0–1	1–1	—

Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		LEV	ARI	ATL	RBK
1	Bayer Leverkusen	6	3	3	0	8	2	+6	12	Advance to knockout phase		—	1–0	1–1	4–0
2	Aris	6	3	1	2	7	5	+2	10			0–0	—	1–0	2–0
3	Atlético Madrid	6	2	2	2	9	7	+2	8			1–1	2–3	—	3–0
4	Rosenborg	6	1	0	5	3	13	−10	3			0–1	2–1	1–2	—

Group C

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		SCP	LIL	GNT	LS
1	Sporting CP	6	4	0	2	14	6	+8	12	Advance to knockout phase		—	1–0	5–1	5–0
2	Lille	6	2	2	2	8	6	+2	8			1–2	—	3–0	1–0
3	Gent	6	2	1	3	8	13	−5	7			3–1	1–1	—	1–0
4	Levski Sofia	6	2	1	3	6	11	−5	7			1–0	2–2	3–2	—

Group D

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		VLR	PAOK	DZ	BRG
1	Villarreal	6	4	0	2	8	5	+3	12	Advance to knockout phase		—	1–0	3–0	2–1
2	PAOK	6	3	2	1	5	3	+2	11			1–0	—	1–0	1–1
3	Dinamo Zagreb	6	2	1	3	4	5	−1	7			2–0	0–1	—	0–0
4	Club Brugge	6	0	3	3	4	8	−4	3			1–2	1–1	0–2	—

Group E

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		DK	BTE	AZ	SHF
1	Dynamo Kyiv	6	3	2	1	10	6	+4	11	Advance to knockout phase		—	2–2	2–0	0–0
2	BATE	6	3	1	2	11	11	0	10			1–4	—	4–1	3–1
3	AZ	6	2	1	3	8	10	−2	7			1–2	3–0	—	2–1
4	Sheriff Tiraspol	6	1	2	3	5	7	−2	5			2–0	0–1	1–1	—

Group F

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		CSM	SPP	PAL	LAU
1	CSKA Moscow	6	5	1	0	18	3	+15	16	Advance to knockout phase		—	3–0	3–1	5–1
2	Sparta Prague	6	2	3	1	12	12	0	9			1–1	—	3–2	3–3
3	Palermo	6	2	1	3	7	11	−4	7			0–3	2–2	—	1–0
4	Lausanne-Sport	6	0	1	5	5	16	−11	1			0–3	1–3	0–1	—

Group G

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		ZNT	AND	AEK	HAJ
1	Zenit Saint Petersburg	6	6	0	0	18	6	+12	18	Advance to knockout phase		—	3–1	4–2	2–0
2	Anderlecht	6	2	1	3	8	8	0	7			1–3	—	3–0	2–0
3	AEK Athens	6	2	1	3	9	13	−4	7			0–3	1–1	—	3–1
4	Hajduk Split	6	1	0	5	5	13	−8	3			2–3	1–0	1–3	—

Group H

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		STU	YB	GET	OB
1	VfB Stuttgart	6	5	0	1	16	6	+10	15	Advance to knockout phase		—	3–0	1–0	5–1
2	Young Boys	6	3	0	3	10	10	0	9			4–2	—	2–0	4–2
3	Getafe	6	2	1	3	4	8	−4	7			0–3	1–0	—	2–1
4	Odense	6	1	1	4	8	14	−6	4			1–2	2–0	1–1	—

Group I

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		PSV	MET	SAM	DEB
1	PSV Eindhoven	6	4	2	0	10	3	+7	14	Advance to knockout phase		—	0–0	1–1	3–0
2	Metalist Kharkiv	6	3	2	1	9	4	+5	11			0–2	—	2–1	2–1
3	Sampdoria	6	1	2	3	4	7	−3	5			1–2	0–0	—	1–0
4	Debrecen	6	1	0	5	4	13	−9	3			1–2	0–5	2–0	—

Group J

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		PSG	SEV	DOR	KAR
1	Paris Saint-Germain	6	3	3	0	9	4	+5	12	Advance to knockout phase		—	4–2	0–0	2–0
2	Sevilla	6	3	1	2	10	7	+3	10			0–1	—	2–2	4–0
3	Borussia Dortmund	6	2	3	1	10	7	+3	9			1–1	0–1	—	3–0
4	Karpaty Lviv	6	0	1	5	4	15	−11	1			1–1	0–1	3–4	—

Group K

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		LIV	NAP	STE	UTR
1	Liverpool	6	2	4	0	8	3	+5	10	Advance to knockout phase		—	3–1	4–1	0–0
2	Napoli	6	1	4	1	8	9	−1	7			0–0	—	1–0	0–0
3	Steaua București	6	1	3	2	9	11	−2	6			1–1	3–3	—	3–1
4	Utrecht	6	0	5	1	5	7	−2	5			0–0	3–3	1–1	—

Group L

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		POR	BJK	RPD	CSS
1	Porto	6	5	1	0	14	4	+10	16	Advance to knockout phase		—	1–1	3–0	3–1
2	Beşiktaş	6	4	1	1	9	6	+3	13			1–3	—	2–0	1–0
3	Rapid Wien	6	1	0	5	5	12	−7	3			1–3	1–2	—	1–2
4	CSKA Sofia	6	1	0	5	4	10	−6	3			0–1	1–2	0–2	—

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 draw for the round of 32 and round of 16 was held on 17 December 2010. The draws for the quarter-finals, semi-finals and final (to determine the "home" team) were held on 18 March 2011.

Bracket

	Round of 32						Round of 16						Quarter-finals						Semi-finals						Final
	PAOK	0	1	1
	CSKA Moscow	1	1	2
							CSKA Moscow	0	1	1
							Porto	1	2	3
	Sevilla	1	1	2
	Porto (a)	2	0	2
													Porto	5	5	10
													Spartak Moscow	1	2	3
	Anderlecht	0	0	0
	Ajax	2	3	5
							Ajax	0	0	0
							Spartak Moscow	1	3	4
	Basel	2	1	3
	Spartak Moscow	3	1	4
																			Porto	5	2	7
																			Villarreal	1	3	4
	Metalist Kharkiv	0	0	0
	Bayer Leverkusen	2	4	6
							Bayer Leverkusen	2	1	3
							Villarreal	3	2	5
	Napoli	0	1	1
	Villarreal	0	2	2
													Villarreal	5	3	8
													Twente	1	1	2
	Rubin Kazan	0	2	2
	Twente	2	2	4
							Twente	3	0	3
							Zenit Saint Petersburg	0	2	2
	Young Boys	2	1	3
	Zenit Saint Petersburg	1	3	4
																									Porto	1
																									Braga	0
	Benfica	2	2	4
	VfB Stuttgart	1	0	1
							Benfica	2	1	3
							Paris Saint-Germain	1	1	2
	BATE Borisov	2	0	2
	Paris Saint-Germain (a)	2	0	2
													Benfica	4	2	6
													PSV Eindhoven	1	2	3
	Lille	2	1	3
	PSV Eindhoven	2	3	5
							PSV Eindhoven	0	1	1
							Rangers	0	0	0
	Rangers (a)	1	2	3
	Sporting CP	1	2	3
																			Benfica	2	0	2
																			Braga (a)	1	1	2
	Beşiktaş	1	0	1
	Dynamo Kyiv	4	4	8
							Dynamo Kyiv	2	0	2
							Manchester City	0	1	1
	Aris	0	0	0
	Manchester City	0	3	3
													Dynamo Kyiv	1	0	1
													Braga (a)	1	0	1
	Lech Poznań	1	0	1
	Braga	0	2	2
							Braga	1	0	1
							Liverpool	0	0	0
	Sparta Prague	0	0	0
	Liverpool	0	1	1