The UEFA Europa League (abbreviated UEL, or occasionally UEFA EL), formerly the UEFA Cup, is an annual competition among football clubs organized since 1971 by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) to obtain the appropriate European football golf equipment. It is the second-tier competition of European club football, ranked below the UEFA Champions League and above the UEFA Conference of Europe League. The UEFA Cup turned into a third-tier competition from 1971 to 1999 before the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup was discontinued, and in this regard, it is still regularly known as “C3”. Clubs claim to participate in the confrontation primarily on the basis of their performances in national leagues and cup competitions.
Introduced in 1971 because of the UEFA Cup, it replaced the Inter-City Fairs Cup. In 1999, the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup was merged with the UEFA Cup and discontinued as a separate competition. Since the 2004/05 season, a collection level has been introduced before the playoff section. The competition became known as the Europa League from the 2009-10 season, after the format change. The rebranding of 2009 protected the merger with the UEFA Intertoto Cup, creating an expanded scheme of confrontation, with an increased level of groups and a change in qualification criteria. The winner of the UEFA Europa League gets the right to the UEFA Super Cup and, due to the 2014/15 season, the right to participate in the UEFA Champions League next season, speaking at the level of the organization.
Spanish golf equipment has the highest winning range (thirteen wins), followed by teams from England and Italy (9 wins each). The title was obtained with the help of 29 clubs, 14 of which won it more than once. The most popular player in the opponent's squad is Sevilla with six titles. Eintracht Frankfurt is the defending champions, having beaten Rangers 5-4 in a draw in the 2022 final.
History
The UEFA Cup was preceded by the Fairs Cup between cities, which turned into a European football competition held from 1955 to 1971. The confrontation grew from eleven teams at some stage in the primary edition (1955 – fifty-eight) to 64 teams in the final edition, which began to be held in 1970 – seventy-one. This has turned into a change using the UEFA Cup, a new seasonal confederation competition that has a special regulation, format, and disciplinary committee.
The UEFA Cup was first played in the 1971/702 season and ended with an all-English final between Wolverhampton Wanderers and Tottenham Hotspur, in which Spurs won the first awards. Because the competition has gained more prestige and interest from the media than the Fairs Cup. The name was retained by all other English members of the club, Liverpool, in 1973, who defeated Borussia Monchengladbach in the final. Gladbach won in 1975 and 1979 and reached the final in 1980. Feyenoord won the cup in 1974 after defeating Tottenham Hotspur 4-2 on aggregate (2-2 in London, 2-0 in Rotterdam). Liverpool faced an opponent for the second time in 1976 after defeating Club Brugge in the final.
In the eighties, "Gothenburg" (1982 and 1987) and Real Madrid (1985 and 1986) took part in the competition twice each, with Anderlecht consistently reaching the final, winning in 1983 and losing to Tottenham Hotspur in 1984. 1989 was marked by the end of the dominance of Italian golf equipment, while Diego Maradona's Napoli defeated Stuttgart. The 1990s began with the All-Italian finals, and in 1992, Torino lost to Ajax in the final according to the rule of "Dreams on the road". Juventus won the tournament for the third time in 1993. Internazionale retained the Italian Cup in 1994.
The year 1995 was marked by the third All-Italian final, in which Parma proved its worth after consecutive Cup Winners' Cup finals. The most convenient recent time when there were no Italians in the 1990s was 1996. Internazionale reached the very last place in the next two years, losing in 1997 to Schalke 04 in terms of consequences, and winning all the other All-Italian finals in 1998, winning the national cup in 1/3 finals in the most convenient 8 years.[31] Parma won the cup in 1999, the last victory of the era of Italian domination. This was the last version of the UEFA Cup/Europa League final for any Italian club until Internazionale reached the 2020 final.
The match between Lech Poznan and Deportivo La Coruna in the 2008/09 season.
The era of the 2000s began with the victory of Galatasaray, the first Turkish team to win the trophy. In 2001, Liverpool lost to the opponent in the 1/3 finals. In 2002, Feyenoord won for the second time, beating Borussia Dortmund. Porto triumphed in the tournaments of 2003 and 2011, with the last victory being won in a confrontation with Portuguese Braga.
Trophy
The UEFA Cup, also called the UEFA Coupe, is a trophy awarded annually by UEFA to the football club that has won the UEFA Europa League. Prior to the 2009-10 season, both the competition and the trophy were known as the "UEFA Cup".
Before the confrontation turned into the UEFA Europa League in the 2009-10 season, UEFA regulations stated that a participant must own a real trophy for a year before returning it to UEFA. After his return, the club must have a duplicate of a unique trophy on a scale of 4-fifths. After winning 1/3 finals in a row or the 5th ordinary victory, the club may want to take full possession of the trophy.
According to the completely new rules, the trophy is always at the disposal of UEFA. Each winner of the competition is awarded a large duplicate of the trophy. A club that wins three times in a row or 5 times universally will receive the badge of more than one winner. As of 2016-17, the "Most Skillful Seville" has earned the honor of wearing the "Pair of Winners" badge by completing all the required feats in 2016.
The trophy was designed by Silvio Gazzaniga, who also designed the FIFA World Cup trophy, working for Bertoni, for the 1972 UEFA Cup final. It weighs 15 kg (33 lb) and is silvered on a yellow marble pedestal. the cup is 67 centimeters (26 inches) high and is made using a base with onyx discs, into which a ribbon with the flags of the UEFA member countries is inserted. The lower part of the sculpture symbolizes stylized football players and is topped with a hand-embossed plate.
Anthem
The musical theme of the competition, the Anthem, is performed before each sport of the Europa League at the stadium hosting such an event, and before each television broadcast of the sport of the Europa League as a musical element of the sequence of the start of the competition.
The first anthem of the competition was written with the help of Johann Zweig and recorded using the Paris Opera in early 2009. The topic of the UEFA Cup rebranding was first officially announced at the Grimaldi Forum on August 28, 2009, before the draw for the 2009-10 European Championship. The new anthem, changed to composed by Michael Kadelbach and recorded in Berlin, was released as part of the rebranding of the competition at the beginning of the 2015-16 season.
The new anthem, created with the help of Massive Music, was changed to one composed by the beginning of the 2018-19 season. It can also be heard at the start of the UEFA Europa League matches.
Distribution (from 2021–22 to 2023–24)
The announcement of the UEFA Europa Conference League, a tertiary competition that could serve to cut off low-ranked teams in the Europa League in order to give them more opportunities to participate in competitions, concerned a UEFA document listing their intentions regarding qualification for the Europa League from 2021 onwards. At the same time, most of the previous participants of the Europa League now participate exclusively in the UECL, the Europa League itself will have a significantly reduced structure, so it will often take place at its organizational level. Additionally, an additional playoff round may be held earlier than the playoff section on the right, which will allow the teams that took 0.33 places in the Champions League group stage to get into the Europa League, while nevertheless maintaining the very degree of knockout in the best case in sixteen groups as a whole.
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| Third qualifying round | Champions (10 teams) |
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| Group stage (32 teams) |
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| Preliminary knockout round (16 teams) |
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| Knockout phase (16 teams) |
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Distribution (from 2024–25)
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| Third qualifying round (26 teams) | Champions (12 teams) |
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| Group stage (36 teams) |
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