UEFA Europa League

annual association football competition in Europe
(Redirected from UEFA Cup)

The UEFA Europa League is a football tournament for teams that did not make the UEFA Champions League. They qualify by being not the best in the country and not making the best competition. For example in England, teams that finish after the first four teams can go to the Europa League. There is another option, which if you finish 3rd in the UEFA Champions League Group Stage, you will qualify for the last 32 in the Europa League, and the 3rd option is when a club which being eliminated from the UEFA Champions League 3rd round (Into the UEFA Europa League Playoff Round). In 2009, it was rebranded as the UEFA Europa League. It was previously known as the UEFA Cup. The winner of the UEFA Europa League plays the winner of the UEFA Champions League in the UEFA Super Cup.

UEFA Europa League
Founded1971; 53 years ago (1971)
(rebranded in 2009)
RegionEurope (UEFA)
Number of teams32 (group stage)
58 (total)
Qualifier forUEFA Super Cup
UEFA Champions League
Related competitionsInter-Cities Fairs Cup (precessor)
UEFA Champions League (1st tier)
UEFA Europa Conference League (planned 3rd tier)
Current championsSpain Villarreal (1st title)
Most successful club(s)Spain Sevilla (6 titles)
WebsiteOfficial website

The Competition Winners

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Performance in the UEFA Cup and UEFA Europa League by club
Club Winners Runners-up Years won Years runner-up
  Sevilla 6 0 2006, 2007, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2020
  Inter Milan 3 2 1991, 1994, 1998 1997, 2020
  Liverpool 3 1 1973, 1976, 2001 2016
  Juventus 3 1 1977, 1990, 1993 1995
  Atlético Madrid 3 0 2010, 2012, 2018
  Borussia Mönchengladbach 2 2 1975, 1979 1973, 1980
  Tottenham Hotspur 2 1 1972, 1984 1974
  Feyenoord 2 0 1974, 2002
  IFK Göteborg 2 0 1982, 1987
  Real Madrid 2 0 1985, 1986
  Parma 2 0 1995, 1999
  Porto 2 0 2003, 2011
  Chelsea 2 0 2013, 2019
  Anderlecht 1 1 1983 1984
  Ajax 1 1 1992 2017
  Manchester United 1 0 2017 2021
  PSV Eindhoven 1 0 1978
  Eintracht Frankfurt 1 0 1980
  Ipswich Town 1 0 1981
  Bayer Leverkusen 1 0 1988
  Napoli 1 0 1989
  Bayern Munich 1 0 1996
  Schalke 04 1 0 1997
  Galatasaray 1 0 2000
  Valencia 1 0 2004
  CSKA Moscow 1 0 2005
  Zenit Saint Petersburg 1 0 2008
  Shakhtar Donetsk 1 0 2009
  Villarreal 1 0 2021
  Benfica 0 3 1983, 2013, 2014
  Marseille 0 3 1999, 2004, 2018
  Athletic Bilbao 0 2 1977, 2012
  Espanyol 0 2 1988, 2007
  Borussia Dortmund 0 2 1993, 2002
  Arsenal 0 2 2000, 2019
  Wolverhampton Wanderers 0 1 1972
  Twente 0 1 1975
  Club Brugge 0 1 1976
  Bastia 0 1 1978
  Red Star Belgrade 0 1 1979
  AZ 0 1 1981
  Hamburg 0 1 1982
  Fehérvár 0 1 1985
  Köln 0 1 1986
  Dundee United 0 1 1987
  Stuttgart 0 1 1989
  Fiorentina 0 1 1990
  Roma 0 1 1991
  Torino 0 1 1992
  Red Bull Salzburg 0 1 1994
  Bordeaux 0 1 1996
  Lazio 0 1 1998
  Alavés 0 1 2001
  Celtic 0 1 2003
  Sporting CP 0 1 2005
  Middlesbrough 0 1 2006
  Rangers 0 1 2008
  Werder Bremen 0 1 2009
  Fulham 0 1 2010
  Braga 0 1 2011
  Dnipro 0 1 2015

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