UEFA Europa League diversifications, standings, time table, eventualities: List of teams qualified for knockout stage

The Europa League reached the cease of its community stage campaign on Thursday in thrilling style as European giants a lot like Napoli joined engaging aspects a lot like Wolfsberg within the round of 32.

Be taught on for every thing you need to always take hold of relating to the leisure round of fixtures:

Key Matchday 6 rankings, storylines

Neighborhood A

• CSKA Sofia 3, Roma 1
• Young Boys 2, CFR Cluj 1
• Roma purchase community; Young Boys reach

CSKA Sofia’s purchase over Roma would possibly well were drama ample for Neighborhood A. Even if head coach Paulo Fonseca had rested loads of key names for the day out to Bulgaria, his side having already won the community, he absolutely have not got anticipated his side to crumple to a 3-1 defeat, in particular after 18-300 and sixty five days-broken-down Tomasso Milanese’s first senior purpose cancelled out Tiago Rodrigues’ early opener. Then all as soon as more a brace from Ali Sowe ensured that CSKA bowed out of Europe well-liked.

The drama in Bulgaria changed into as soon as nothing when put next to the closing minutes within the match between Young Boys and CFR Cluj with the obsolete desiring appropriate a inform get 2d dilemma within the again of Roma. For 84 minutes that’s what they looked as if it’d be heading for till change Gabriel Debeljuh pounced on a rebound to living up an exhilarating finale.

Cluj goalkeeper Cristian Balgradean saw crimson and conceded a penalty for a defective on Cedric Zesiger, and Jean-Pierre Nsame remodeled the resulting penalty. The drama did now not cease there, Nsame changed into as soon as despatched off for a detestable tackle and Young Boys netted a winner when Gianluca Gaudino done a counter as CFR chased the target they obligatory. Even if that ended the qualification topic it changed into as soon as now now not the cease of a excellent final 12 minutes as Damjan Dokovic changed into as soon as disregarded for a defective.

Neighborhood F

• Napoli 1, Real Sociedad 1 
• Rijeka 2, AZ Alkmaar 1
• Napoli purchase community; Sociedad reach

The community of dying lived up to its billing. The table toppers in Spain, a Napoli side stocked with attacking weapons and an AZ Alkmaar side that would possibly well hold won the Dutch title closing season had been locked in a war for 2 qualifying spots that changed into as soon as now now not decided till the leisure minutes of added time in both games.

A purchase would screech Napoli the cease dilemma and obtain rid of Real Sociedad, and for a spread of the match at a sodden Stadio San Paolo that looked basically the likely consequence after Piotr Zielinski netted a purpose for Napoli appropriate before half-time. Then all as soon as more Sociedad created the bulk of the possibilities right thru the match and had been rewarded for his or her endeavor when the ball dropped to Willian Jose within the sphere, the Brazilian rifling dwelling an equalizer within the 92nd minute.

A purpose for AZ Alkmaar, drawing 1-1 away to Rijeka, would hold taken the Dutch side thru nonetheless the Croatian side stunned Neighborhood F within the dying minutes as Ivan Tomecak netted to originate them their first purchase of the competition.

How Matchday 6 performed out

Neighborhood A:

• Roma had already qualified as community winners before their 3-1 loss at eliminated CSKA Sofia. Young Boys joined them within the closing 32 with a dramatic slack purchase over CFR Cluj.

Neighborhood B:

• Arsenal are thru as community winners and beat Dundalk 3-1 in Dublin to be clear they remain basically the most effective membership in European competition with a 100% story.
• Molde secured 2d assign before Swiftly Vienna with a 2-2 design in Austria.

Neighborhood C:

• Slavia Prague and Bayer Leverkusen had both qualified before meeting tonight — a brace from Leon Bailey surroundings the stage for a joyful purchase for the latter side, who topped the community.

Neighborhood D:

• Rangers had already qualified and assured themselves of high dilemma with a 2-0 purchase away to Lech Poznan. That consequence intended Benfica, who drew with Standard Liege, had no chance of finishing first.

Neighborhood E

• Granada had been held to a 0-0 design by PAOK in Greece.
• That opened a gap for PSV Eindhoven, who obligatory to beat Omonia and hope Granada dropped ingredients. They saved up their cease of the carve brand with a 4-0 purchase in Cyprus.

Neighborhood F:

• Napoli and Real Sociedad both qualified after a 1-1 design in Naples, Willian Jose scoring for the traffic within the 92nd minute. Meanwhile AZ Alkmaar conceded within the 93rd minute to crimson meat up Sociedad’s hand, Ivan Tomecak incomes a 2-1 purchase for already eliminated Rijeka. 

Neighborhood G:

• Leicester City and Braga had already qualified for the knockout stages. A purchase at dwelling to AEK Athens would hold assured the Foxes high dilemma within the neighborhood and so they with ease claimed that victory with Cengiz Below and Harvey Barnes striking early.

Neighborhood H:

• Lille, obligatory to beat Celtic in Glasgow to screech themselves high dilemma with AC Milan winning 1-0 over Sparta Prague. Timothy Weah scored for the French side at Celtic Park as Christophe Galtier’s side twice came from within the again of most effective for David Turnbull to originate the Scottish champions their first purchase of the community stages.

Neighborhood I:

• Villarreal had already qualified as community winners sooner than their match in opposition to Qarabagh. This changed into as soon as suspended after an endemic of COVID-19 within the Azeri squad.
• Maccabi Tel-Aviv will be half of them within the knockout stages after they beat Sivasspor 1-0 in Israel.

Neighborhood J:

• Antwerp and Tottenham Hotspur had qualified before tonight’s game with their meeting in London a conflict for high dilemma. Spurs obligatory to purchase and that is exactly what they did, Carlos Vinicius and Giovanni Lo Celso netting within the 2d half.

Neighborhood Okay:

• Dinamo Zagreb had already qualified as community winners.
• Wolfsberg joined them within the knockout stages with a 1-0 purchase over Feyenoord.

Neighborhood L:

• Hoffenheim hold won the community with Red Extensive establish assured of 2d assign within the again of them.
• Hoffenheim wrapped up their campaign well-liked, beating Gent 4-1.

Champions League additions

Eight third-assign teams within the Champions League community stage be half of the Europa League round of 32 design. 

The four teams with basically the most effective story – Manchester United, Shakhtar Donetsk, Club Brugge and Ajax — will be seeded for the design on Dec. 14. Krasnodar, Red Bull Salzburg, Olympiacos and Dinamo Kiev will now now not.

Licensed teams

When is the round of 32 design?

The design for the round of 16 will happen on Dec. 14, 2020 at 8 a.m. ET. This would possibly per chance happen at the Dwelling of European Football in Nyon, Switzerland.

When does the round of 32 starting up?

The round of 32 begins Feb. 18. The 2d legs happen on February 25. For the elephantine Europa League time table click right here.