Europa League draw LIVE: Liverpool, Brighton, West Ham and Rangers discover fate

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 Group Stage Draw Live

• Europa League group stage draw

• Europa League group stage 2023/24 fixture dates

• Liverpool drawn in Group E

• Brighton make European debut in tough group

• Europa Conference League winners West Ham return to second tier competition

Europa League 2023/24 draw: Groups, fixtures and match dates

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So that’s the draw sorted - fixtures commence on Thursday 21 September and the groups will conclude with matchday six in the middle of December.

Europa League 2023/24 groups, fixtures and match dates

Europa Conference League draw in full

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Group A: Lille, Slovan Bratislava, Olimpija Ljubljana, Ki Klaksvik

Group B: Gent, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Zorya Luhansk, Breioablik

Group C: Dinamo Zagreb, Viktoria Plzen, Astana, Ballkani

Group D: Club Brugge, Bode/Glimt, Besiktas, Lugano

Group E: AZ Alkmaar, Aston Villa, Legia Warsaw, Zrinjski Mostar

Group F: Ferencvaros, Fiorentina, Genk, Cukaricki

Group G: Eintracht Frankfurt, PAOK Thessaloniki, HJK Helsinki, Aberdeen

Group H: Fenerbahce, Ludogorets Razgrad, Spartak Trnava, Nordsjalland

Europa League 2023/24 group stage: Liverpool draw LASK, Union SG and Toulouse

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Liverpool will like the look of their group, with manageable trips to Austria, Belgium and France on the itinerary. I’m looking forward to seeing how Union Saint-Gilloise go against Jurgen Klopp’s men after narrowly missing out on the Pro League title in each of the last two seasons.

Europa League 2023/24 group stage draw

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And here’s the draw in slightly more glitzy graphical form. Group B looks like a lot of fun.

Europa League 2023/24 group stage draw

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Group A: West Ham, Olympiacos, Freiburg, TSC

Group B: Ajax, Marseille, Brighton, AEK Athens

Group C: Rangers, Real Betis, Sparta Prague, Aris Limassol

Group D: Atalanta, Sporting CP, Sturm Graz, Rakow

Group E: Liverpool, LASK, Union SG, Toulouse

Group F: Villarreal, Rennes, Maccabi Haifa, Panathinaikos

Group G: Roma, Slavia Prague, Sheriff, Servette

Group H: Bayer Leverkusen, Qarabag, Molde, Hacken

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Group H: Bayer Leverkusen, Qarabag, Molde, Hacken

The conquerors of Aberdeen, Hacken complete the group stage draw.

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Group G: Roma, Slavia Prague, Sheriff, Servette

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Group F: Villarreal, Rennes, Maccabi Haifa, Panathinaikos.

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Group E: Liverpool, LASK, Union SG, Toulouse

A trip to the south of France for the rest of the Group E sides to enjoy as Toulouse return to the competition.

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Group D: Atalanta, Sporting CP, Sturm Graz, Rakow

Another Europa League debut - Rakow of Poland.

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Group C: Rangers, Real Betis, Sparta Prague, Aris Limassol

The Cypriot club will compete in Group C

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Group B: Ajax, Marseille, Brighton, AEK Athens

AEK Athens complete a strong group.

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Group A: West Ham, Olympiacos, Freiburg, TSC

Serbian side TSC make their competition debut.

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Group H: Leverkusen, Qarabag, Molde

A fascinating spread of teams in Group H.

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Group G: Roma, Slavia Prague, Sheriff

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Group F: Villarreal, Rennes, Maccabi Haifa

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Group D: Atalanta, Sporting CP, Sturm Graz

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Group E: Liverpool, LASK, Union Saint-Gilloise

One of the great stories in European football recently, Union Saint-Gilloise join Liverpool’s group.

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Group C: Rangers, Real Betis, Sparta Prague

Rangers and Sparta Prague have a bit of history.

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Group B: Ajax, Marseille, Brighton

Ooh - that’s a fun, tough draw for Brighton in what is evolving into a group of death.

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Group A: West Ham, Olympiacos, Freiburg

German opposition for West Ham.

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Group H: Bayer Leverkusen, Qarabag

A long trip to Azerbaijan for Bayer Leverkusen to negotiate.

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Group G: Roma, Slavia Prague

It should be a good atmosphere at the two group fixtures between Roma and Slavia Prague.

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Group F: Villarreal, Rennes

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Group E: Liverpool, LASK

Austrian club LASK join Liverpool in Group E. A third group stage appearance.

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Group D: Atalanta, Sporting CP

Atalanta and Sporting in Group D, which is building nicely.

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Group C: Rangers, Real Betis

Spanish opposition for Rangers in Group C.

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Group B: Ajax, Marseille

Two heavyweight names of European football - Ajax and Marseille in Group B so far.

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Group A: West Ham, Olympiacos

The Greek side go into Group A, with a trip to Athens on the agenda for West Ham fans.

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Group H: Bayer Leverkusen

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Group G: Roma

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Group D: Atalanta

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Group F: Villarreal

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Group E: Liverpool

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Group C: Rangers

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Group B: Ajax

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Group A: West Ham

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It’s draw time. 32 teams from 21 nations - eight groups of four to be drawn.

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Here is John O’Shea, fittingly attired in an emerald tie, to offer an Irish perspective on this year’s final venue.

“It’s very unique,” O’Shea describes of the Aviva Stadium. “There’ll be almost 50,000 screaming fans packed into Dublin. It’s an amazing stadium and it will be a special occasion.

O’Shea, reluctantly, tips Liverpool as “one of the favourites”, and Brighton to “surprise a few teams.”

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Captain of Sevilla then was the much missed Jose Antonio Reyes, who passed away in a car crash in 2019 at the age of 35. “Jose was a leader, and sharing the same dressing room was unbelievable,” Mbia remembers of Reyes. “He was humble and he was crazy - it’s difficult to have lost him.”

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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.

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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

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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...

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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

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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

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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

Europa League top scorers

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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

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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

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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

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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

Transfer deadline day LIVE: Chelsea sign Cole Palmer as Ryan Gravenberch on brink of Liverpool move

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While the balls are being stirred in Monaco today, transfer business will be frantically finalised in the background ahead of the deadline tonight.

Cole Palmer has already joined Chelsea for £42.5m, and plenty more is expected to take place at Manchester United, Liverpool and more.

You can keep up to date with everything transfer deadline day here:

Deadline day latest LIVE: Premier League transfers as the window prepares to shut

Unai Emery keen to extend European run with Aston Villa

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Aston Villa boss Unai Emery said it was mission accomplished after his side cruised into the European Conference League group stage with an 8-0 aggregate win against Hibernian.

Villa were 5-0 up from a resounding win in Edinburgh last week and completed formalities in the second leg as first-half goals from Jhon Duran and Leon Bailey put them out of sight. Substitute Matty Cash sealed a 3-0 win on the night as Villa hosted European football for the first time since 2010 and they now await Friday’s group-stage draw in Monaco to learn who they will face.

Four-time Europa League winner Emery said: “Yes of course (I’m happy). We finished it tonight.

“We needed to be in the group stage and we have to be happy and enjoy it with our supporters.

“Today it was a full stadium and to finish and qualify was fantastic. I’m really happy because I really enjoy it in Europe and I want to enjoy it now with Aston Villa.”

What time is the Europa Conference League group stage draw today?

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And don’t forget the Europa Conference League, the draw for the group stages for Uefa’s third club competition in the men’s game is later this afternoon too.

What time is the Europa Conference League group stage draw today?

Champions League 2023/24 draw: Groups, fixtures and match dates

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The Champions League group stage draw was yesterday, relive all the action and analyse all the groups below.

Manchester City will hope to defend their title after clinching their first European crown.

While Arsenal, Manchester United and Newcastle will also have aspirations of going far.

Champions League 2023/24 groups, fixtures and match dates

Is Europa League group stage draw on TV today? Channel, start time and how to watch online

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The Europa League is nearly upon us for the new 2023/24 season, with the group stage draw taking place today in Monaco.

Three English clubs and one Scottish team will be in the draw: Liverpool and Brighton finished fifth and sixth respectively in the Premier League to qualify for the Europa League, while West Ham won the Europa Conference League to book their spot. Rangers finished runners-up in the Scottish Premiership to reach the Champions League play-offs, but they lost to PSV Eindhoven.

For the final time before the competition takes on the new Swiss-system format next season, 32 teams will be split into eight groups of four. Each group will contain one team from each of the four seeded pots, and clubs from the same national league will not be drawn together in the same group.

How to watch the Europa League group stage draw on TV and online

Europa League 2023/24 draw pots

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Pot 1

West Ham (ENG)

Liverpool (ENG)

Roma (ITA)

Ajax (NED)

Villarreal (ESP)

Leverkusen (GER)

Atalanta (ITA)

Rangers (SCO)

Pot 2

Sporting CP

Slavia Praha (CZE)

Rennes (FRA)

Olympiacos (GRE)

Real Betis (ESP)

LASK (AUT)

Marseille (FRA)

Qarabağ (AZE)

Pot 3

Molde (NOR)

Brighton (ENG)

Sheriff Tiraspol (MDA)

Union SG (BEL)

Freiburg (GER)

Sparta Praha (CZE)

Maccabi Haifa (ISR)

Sturm Graz (AUT)

Pot 4

Toulouse (FRA)

AEK Athens (GRE)

TSC Bačka Topola (SRB)

Servette (SUI)

Panathinaikos (GRE)

Raków Czestochowa (POL)

Aris Limassol (CYP)

Häcken (SWE)

Europa League 2023/24 group stage fixtures

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21 September 2023: Matchday 1

5 October 2023: Matchday 2

26 October 2023: Matchday 3

9 November 2023: Matchday 4

30 November 2023: Matchday 5

14 December 2023: Matchday 6