Thirty-six clubs, eight opponents each, two from every pot, four at home and four away. The Europa League league phase now has its 144 matches, and unlike the Champions League it is full of clubs who were somewhere else a week ago. Seven of them lost a Champions League play-off; Beşiktaş won a Europa League one. Below is the whole draw, sorted by pot — use the tabs to move between them.
How to read this
Each club appears once, under its own pot, with its eight opponents beneath it. H means home, A means away. Every fixture involves two clubs, so each match appears twice below — once under each side. That is 288 lines for 144 matches.
Bayer Leverkusen
Benfica
Juventus
Milan
Lyon
AZ
Olympiacos
Real Sociedad
Pot 1 against Pot 1
Nine of the 144 matches are between two Pot 1 clubs — Milan against Benfica, Juventus against Real Sociedad, Marseille against Olympiacos, Lyon against Bayer Leverkusen. In a single table of 36 where only the top eight go straight to the round of 16, these are the games where a direct rival loses ground.
The nine all-Pot-1 fixtures. The home club is listed first.
Seven of these were in the Champions League last week
Celtic, Lyon, Dinamo Zagreb, NEC, Celje, Hapoel Be’er Sheva and Levski Sofia all played a Champions League play-off tie on 25 or 26 August and lost it. Losing there is a demotion, not an exit: they drop straight into this league phase, keep eight matches, and every point they take still counts towards their country’s coefficient. Celtic and Lyon in particular arrive as Pot 2 and Pot 1 clubs respectively — the fall costs them the competition, not the seeding.
Pairings and pot allocations as published after the Europa League league phase draw on 28 August 2026. Every line below was generated from that dataset rather than transcribed by hand, and checked for symmetry: if a club is listed at home to an opponent, that opponent is listed away to them.