Europa League draw LIVE: Liverpool, Brighton, West Ham and Rangers discover fate
The group stage draw took place in Monaco ahead of next year’s final at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin
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Your support makes all the difference.The Europa League group stage draw has been completed with Liverpool, Brighton, West Ham, who won the Europa Conference League last year, and Rangers discovering their opponents.
Liverpool are the bookies' favourites, but Brighton are next up alongside Jose Mourinho's Roma, who recently bought Romelu Lukaku to boost their chances. Atalanta, Marseille and Villarreal are also contenders.
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Europa League draw
And here is former midfielder Stephane Mbia, a two-time winner with Sevilla, safely planting the Europa League trophy on the podium and engaging in the customary walk down memory lane with our two hosts.
Europa League draw
Jesus Navas is named Europa League player of the season, with the veteran Spaniard having been a key part of Sevilla’s triumph.
Bayer Leverkusen’s Florian Wirtz is the young player of the season.
Europa League draw
Plenty of the great and the good of football in the room - including West Ham’s sporting director, with Mark Noble waiting to find out the Europa Conference League winners’ fate...
Europa League draw
Right, we are just about ready to go in Monaco, Alex Scott and Matt Smith welcoming everyone to the group stage draw, and sending us into a rather neatly edited video package recapping last year’s competition.
Europa League 2023/24: English, French and Greek clubs best represented
There are three clubs in today’s draw from England, France and Greece, the three nations with best representation in this season’s competition. Remember, clubs from the same association cannot be drawn in the same group.
ENG: Brighton, Liverpool, West Ham
FRA: Marseille, Rennes, Toulouse
GRE: AEK Athens, Olympiacos, Panathinaikos
Europa League draw
That said, a deep tournament run for Roma may see Romelu Lukaku climbing up that list - Richard Jolly explains why the Belgian became Jose Mourinho’s ideal signing...
How Lukaku, football’s nearly man, became Mourinho’s ideal signing
The Belgian is poised to join Rome, two years on from his £97m move to Stamford Bridge
Europa League top scorers
And Falcao remains the top scorer in competition history, with the Colombian’s tally of 30 unlikely to come under threat this season.
30 Radamel Falcao (Porto, Atlético de Madrid)
26 Aritz Aduriz (Athletic Club)
24 Munas Dabbur (Maccabi Tel-Aviv, Salzburg, Sevilla, Hoffenheim)
24 Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (LOSC, Dortmund, Arsenal, Barcelona)
22 Kevin Gameiro (Sevilla, Atlético de Madrid, Valencia)
22 Alexandre Lacazette (Lyon, Arsenal)
21 Edin Džeko (Wolfsburg, Manchester City, Roma)
20 Óscar Cardozo (Benfica, Olympiacos)
20 Bruno Fernandes (Sporting CP, Man United)
20 Romelu Lukaku (Anderlecht, Everton, Inter)
19 Carlos Bacca (Club Brugge, Sevilla, Villarreal)
Europa League 2023/24 draw
This season’s Europa League will conclude in Dublin on 22 May, with the final returning to the Aviva Stadium for the first time since 2011. It was an all-Portuguese final then, with Porto pipping Braga thanks to a Radamel Falcao goal - could that bode well for Sporting, with the Lisbon club the sole Primeira Liga representative in today’s draw?
Sevilla extend Spanish dominance in Europa League
Sevilla added a seventh Europa League crown to their glittering history in European competitions last season.
It means there have been 12 Spanish winners in the last 20 editions of the competition.
Can an English team win the Europa League for the first time since Chelsea in 2019?
Europa League 2023/24 odds
7/2 Liverpool
12/1 Brighton
12/1 Roma
14/1 Atalanta
14/1 Marseille
14/1 Villarreal
16/1 Bayer Leverkusen
16/1 Sporting Lisbon
20/1 Betis
20/1 West Ham
Odds via Betfair
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