2017–18 UEFA Europa League group stage

The 2017–18 UEFA Europa League group stage began on 14 September and ended on 7 December 2017. A total of 48 teams competed in the group stage to decide 24 of the 32 places in the knockout stage of the 2017–18 UEFA Europa League.

Teams change

Below are the teams that were participating in the tournament (with their 2017 UEFA club coefficients),^[1] grouped by their seeding pot. They included 16 teams which entered in this stage, the 22 winners of the play-off round, and the 10 losers of the Champions League play-off round (5 in Champions Route, 5 in League Route).

Key to colours
Group winners and runners-up advance to the round of 32

Pot 1
Team	Coeff.^[1]
Arsenal	105.192
Zenit Saint Petersburg^[†]	87.106
Lyon	68.833
Dynamo Kyiv^[†]	67.526
Villarreal	64.999
Athletic Bilbao^[†]	60.999
Lazio	56.666
Milan^[†]	47.666
Viktoria Plzeň^[†]	40.635
Red Bull Salzburg^[†]	40.570
Copenhagen^[CL-CR]	37.800
Braga^[†]	37.366

Pot 2
Team	Coeff.^[1]
FCSB^[CL-LR]	35.370
Ludogorets Razgrad^[†]	34.175
BATE Borisov^[†]	29.475
Everton^[†]	29.192
Young Boys^[CL-LR]	28.915
Marseille^[†]	28.333
Real Sociedad	27.499
Maccabi Tel Aviv^[†]	23.375
Lokomotiv Moscow	20.606
Austria Wien^[†]	17.070
Hertha BSC	16.899
Nice^[CL-LR]	16.833

Pot 3
Team	Coeff.^[1]
Astana^[CL-CR]	16.800
Partizan^[†]	16.075
1899 Hoffenheim^[CL-LR]	15.899
1. FC Köln	15.899
Rijeka^[CL-CR]	15.550
Vitória de Guimarães	14.866
Atalanta	14.666
Zulte Waregem	14.480
Zorya Luhansk	13.526
Rosenborg^[†]	12.665
FC Sheriff Tiraspol^[†]	11.150
Hapoel Be'er Sheva^[CL-CR]	10.875

Pot 4
Team	Coeff.^[1]
Apollon Limassol^[†]	10.710
İstanbul Başakşehir^[CL-LR]	10.340
Konyaspor	9.840
Vitesse	9.212
Slavia Prague^[CL-CR]	8.135
Red Star Belgrade^[†]	7.325
Skënderbeu Korçë^[†]	6.825
Fastav Zlín	6.635
AEK Athens^[†]	6.580
Lugano	6.415
Vardar^[†]	5.125
Östersund^[†]	3.945

Notes

^† Winners of the play-off round.
^CL-CR Losers of the Champions League play-off round (Champions Route).
^CL-LR Losers of the Champions League play-off round (League Route).

Format change

In each group, teams played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The group winners and runners-up advanced to the round of 32, where they were joined by the eight third-placed teams of the Champions League group stage.

Tiebreakers change

Teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 16.01):^[2]

Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
Away goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
Goal difference in all group matches;
Goals scored in all group matches;
Away goals scored in all group matches;
Wins in all group matches;
Away wins in all group matches;
Disciplinary points (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
UEFA club coefficient.

Groups change

Group A change

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Villarreal	6	3	2	1	10	6	+4	11	Advance to knockout phase
2	Astana	6	3	1	2	10	7	+3	10	Advance to knockout phase
3	Slavia Prague	6	2	2	2	6	6	0	8
4	Maccabi Tel Aviv	6	1	1	4	1	8	−7	4

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

14 September 2017

19:00

Villarreal	3–1	Astana
Sansone 16' Bakambu 75' Cheryshev 77'	Report	Logvinenko 68'

Estadio de la Cerámica, Villarreal

Attendance: 14,670^[3]

Referee: Srđan Jovanović (Serbia)

14 September 2017