Europa League Thread

**beavis** · 07-05-2016 00:54

Tremoulinas ruled out of Europa League Final

FC Sevilla defender Benoit Tremoulinas will miss the Europa League Final against Liverpool and could sit out EURO 2016 as a result of a knee injury.

The France international suffered a meniscus tear during the 3-1 win over Shakhtar Donetsk on Thursday and faces a month on the sidelines, meaning he will play no further part in Sevilla's season.

The 30-year-old, who has only recently recovered from a thigh problem, also faces a battle to be fully fit before Didier Deschamps names his final squad for the European Championship, although he had been left out of the friendlies in March.

**beavis** · 21-05-2016 13:36

Europa League - Team of the Season

Proto (Anderlecht)

Srna (Shakhtar) - Koulibaly (Napoli) - Brabec (Sparta Prague) - Mendy (Marseille)

Nkoudou (Marseille) - Mkhitaryan (Dortmund) - Benat (Athletic Bilbao) - Carlitos (FC Sion)

Gameiro (Sevilla) - Aduriz (Athletic Bilbao)

**beavis** · 21-05-2016 16:39

Aduriz finishes Europa League top scorer

Aritz Aduriz has capped the most productive campaign of his 19-year career by becoming the oldest ever top scorer of a single season in the UEFA Cup or UEFA Europa League.

The 35-year-old netted 10 goals in 11 appearances during Athletic Bilbao's run to the quarter-finals, sufficient to eclipse the likes of Cedric Bakambu, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Kevin Gameiro to take the top scorer prize.

He is the oldest ever recipient of the award, bettering Alan Shearer's 2004-2005 mark: the ex-England striker was nearing his 34th birthday by the end of Newcastle's campaign that term.

It caps an incredible season for the veteran, who has surpassed 30 club goals and 50 games for the first time in his career (his previous highs of 26/47 came last term).

Aduriz has also returned to the international fold and in March he collected his second cap more than 5 years after his first, marking the occasion with a goal.

2015-2016 top scorers
10 Aritz Aduriz (Athletic Bilbao)
9 Cedric Bakambu (Villarreal)
8 Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Borussia Dortmund)
8 Kevin Gameiro (FC Sevilla)

Previous Europa League season top scorers
2014/2015: 8 Alan (FC Salzburg), Romelu Lukaku (Everton)
2013/2014: 8 Jonathan Soriano (FC Salzburg)
2012/2013: 8 Libor Kozak (Lazio)
2011/2012: 12 Radamel Falcao (Atletico Madrid)
2010/2011: 17 Radamel Falcao (FC Porto)
2009/2010: 9 Oscar Cardozo (Benfica), Claudio Pizarro (Werder Bremen)

UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League all-time top scorers
31 Henrik Larsson (Feyenoord, Celtic, Helsingborg)
30 Radamel Falcao (FC Porto, Atletico Madrid)
29 Klaas-Jan Huntelaar (SC Heerenveen, Ajax, Schalke)
29 Dieter Muller (FC Koln, VfB Stuttgart, Girondins Bordeaux)

**beavis** · 21-05-2016 18:57

Top UEFA medal winners

Jose Antonio Reyes was already the only player to have earned 4 UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League winners' medals and has now extended his record to 5 following FC Sevilla's defeat of Liverpool in Basel, when he lifted the trophy despite not being part of the matchday squad.

Reyes, who played in Atletico Madrid's 2010 win and was also in the 2012 squad, moved one ahead of Ray Clemence, Guiseppe Bergomi and Nicola Berti (all from the UEFA Cup era) when FC Sevilla matched their 2014 victory by beating Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 12 months ago in Warsaw.

A UEFA Champions League finalist with Arsenal and a UEFA SuperCup winner at Atletico, Reyes has now joined a select group of players to have won a single UEFA club competition 5 times or more: Real Madrid's Paco Gento (6 times), Hector Rial, Juan Alonso, Juan Santisteban, Marquitos, Rafael Lesmes, Jose Maria Zarraga and Alfredo Di Stefano plus AC Milan duo Paolo Maldini and Alessandro Costacurta, all in the European Cup.

European Cup/UEFA Champions League
Most wins: 6 - Paco Gento (Real Madrid) 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1966
Leading active players: 4 - Andres Iniesta, Lionel Messi, Gerard Pique, (all FC Barcelona) 2006, 2009, 2011, 2015 (only Iniesta played in all 4 Finals)

UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League
Most wins: 5 - Jose Antonio Reyes (Atletico Madrid/FC Sevilla) 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016

UEFA SuperCup
Most wins: 4 - Daniel Alves (FC Sevilla/FC Barcelona) 2006, 2009, 2011, 2015; Paolo Maldini (AC Milan) 1989, 1990, 1994, 2003

Overall (Champions League/Europa League)
Paco Gento (Real Madrid) 6 - 6 Champions League
Ray Clemence (Liverpool/Tottenham Hotspur) 6 - 3 Champions League, 3 Europa League
Ray Kennedy (Arsenal/Liverpool) 5 - 3 Champions League, 2 Europa League
Clarence Seedorf (Ajax/AC Milan/Real Madrid) - 5 Champions League
Jose Antonio Reyes (Atletico Madrid/FC Sevilla) - 5 Europa League

**beavis** · 26-05-2016 21:41

2015/2016 Europa League by numbers

3 - FC Sevilla are the first team to win this competition 3 years in a row.

5 - FC Sevilla won the UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League for a fifth time having already set a new record of 5 Final appearances: Liverpool, like Juventus and Internazionale Milano, have the next highest tally of 3 victories.

7 - FC Midtjylland went through with 7 points; the fifth time that has been enough to qualify for the round of 32.

10 - Athletic Bilbao's Aritz Aduriz was competition proper top scorer with 10 goals.

11 - Seasons it has taken Sevilla to win 5 trophies; it was 49 years between their European debut and the first of those successes.

13 - FC Augsburg became the 13th German club to appear in the Europa League group stages - more than any other nation (FSV Mainz will be the 14th next season).

15 - Liverpool goalkeeper Simon Mignolet was the only player to appear in the maximum of 15 games in the competition proper.

17 - Seconds into the second half when Kevin Gameiro equalised in the Final.

18 - Napoli became the 6th team to manage a maximum 18 points in the group stages, scoring a record 22 goals and conceding only 3. They equalled the winning margin of 11 points set by Zenit in 2010/2011.

20 - This was the 20th consecutive season that FC Brugge have competed in the UEFA Cup or UEFA Europa League. The next highest figure is 9 (PAOK from 1997-1998 to 2005-2006).

38 - KF Skenderbeu were the first team to reach the Europa League group stages from Albania, the 38th nation to be represented there.

54 - Daniel Carrico of Sevilla became the first man to make 50 appearances in the Europa League proper in the second leg of the round of 32 at FK Molde. After the Final, he is now up to 54.

65,190 - Borussia Dortmund's third qualifying round second leg at home to Wolfsberger of Austria was watched by a new qualifying record crowd for this competition.

75,180 - The attendance for the second leg of Manchester United's round of 16 tie with Liverpool at Old Trafford - a new Europa League record.

6,500,000 - FC Sevilla will receive a €6,5 million bonus for winning the title in addition to previous bonuses from earlier in the competition and their market pool share, a new revenue distribution bringing a 65% increase in that prize money.

**beavis** · 15-07-2016 19:13

TURUL III PRELIMINAR

28 iulie turul - 4 august returul

**beavis** · 07-08-2016 23:32

PLAY-OFF

18 august turul - 25 august returul

**beavis** · 19-08-2016 18:22

**beavis** · 26-08-2016 18:38

**beavis** · 26-08-2016 21:08

15 septembrie: Astra - Austria Viena
29 septembrie: AS Roma - Astra
3 octombrie: Astra - Viktoria Plzen
20 octombrie: Viktoria Plzen - Astra
24 noiembrie: Austria Viena - Astra
8 decembrie: Astra - AS Roma

15 septembrie: Osmanlispor - Steaua
29 septembrie: Steaua - Villarreal
20 octombrie: Steaua - FC Zurich
3 noiembrie: FC Zurich - Steaua
24 noiembrie: Steaua - Osmanlispor
8 decembrie: Villarreal - Steaua

**beavis** · 04-09-2016 17:28

The 10 best signings

Gabriel Barbosa (Santos to Inter Milano)
A star of Brazil's Olympic football win, the left-footed Santos forward was snapped up by Inter on his 20th birthday; not for nothing is he dubbed "the new Neymar".

Coke (FC Sevilla to Schalke)
2-goal man of the match as Sevilla bagged a UEFA Europa League hat-trick in May, Coke accepted a new challenge with Schalke. However, a serious knee injury will postpone his Bundesliga debut.

Yevhen Konoplyanka (FC Sevilla to Schalke)
A runner-up and a winner in this competition in the last 2 seasons, Ukraine winger Konoplyanka joined Schalke on loan, 12 months after departing Dnipro for Sevilla.

Breel Embolo (FC Basel to Schalke)
A long-heralded talent, the 19-year-old Switzerland striker left Basel - where he once played UEFA Youth League and Champions League football in the same season - in a big-money move to Schalke.

Dante (VfL Wolfsburg to Nice)
The experienced Brazilian centre-back is reunited with his former Borussia Monchengladbach coach Lucien Favre in Nice, a year after swapping Bayern for Wolfsburg.

Martin Skrtel (Liverpool to Fenerbahce)
The imposing defender is back in the UEFA Europa League, after heading to Istanbul from 2016 runners-up Liverpool on the back of his EURO exploits with Slovakia.

Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg (Bayern Munchen to Southampton)
Still only 21-year-old but a seasoned Danish international, attacking midfielder Hojbjerg has gone from the Bayern fringes (and Schalke loanee) to full-time Southampton player.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Paris Saint-Germain to Manchester United)
The free transfer of the summer, with Ibrahimovic having already scored 4 goals in as many United appearances after linking up with his ex-Inter coach Jose Mourinho.

Paul Pogba (Juventus to Manchester United)
Following an exciting EURO with France, the midfielder returned to the club he left - in order to join Juventus - in 2012.

Alexandre Pato (Corinthians to Villarreal)
Following an ill-fated loan stint at Chelsea, Pato came to Villarreal in a permanent switch from Corinthians - and duly scored on his debut in the UEFA Champions League play-off.

**beavis** · 16-09-2016 18:59

Europa League - Team of the Week 1

Steele (Panathinaikos)

Rahman (Schalke) - Kongolo (Feyenoord) - Pinto (Osmanlispor) - Vitor (Hapoel Sheva)

Grunwald (Austria Vienna) - Medunjanin (Maccabi Tel Aviv) - Bailey (Genk)

Defrel (Sassuolo) - Austin (Southampton) - Giuliano (Zenit)

**beavis** · 17-09-2016 00:05

Sykora enters Europa League record books

Jan Sykora has scored the fastest ever goal in the UEFA Europa League, getting the group stages off to a sensational start.

The early Group J match in Baku was just 10,69 seconds old when Sykora struck for Czech visitors Liberec - incredibly, it was Azerbaijani hosts Qarabag who had kicked off.

The pass from the centre spot was short and the visitors surged forward, former Liverpool and Galatasaray forward Milan Baros diverting a clearance into Sykora's path. The 22-year-old midfielder, author of a play-off hat-trick, finished clinically.

It shaved over two and a half seconds off the record set by Vitolo for FC Sevilla against Villarreal last year but fell narrowly short of Roy Makaay's UEFA Champions League best. The Dutchman scored after 10,12 seconds for Bayern Munchen against Real Madrid in the 2006-2007 round of 16.

Fastest Europa League goals

10,69 Jan Sykora (Qarabag 2-2 Slovan Liberec) 15/09/2016
13,21 Vitolo (Villarreal 1-3 FC Sevilla) 12/03/2015
15,19 Ismael Blanco (AEK Athens 2-2 BATE Borisov) 05/11/2009
16,88 Keita Balde (Ludogorets 3-3 Lazio) 27/02/2014
18,18 Juan Mata (Valencia 3-0 Club Brugge) 25/02/2010
19,19 Sergio Aguero (Manchester City 4-0 FC Porto) 22/02/2012

**beavis** · 30-09-2016 21:53

Europa League - Team of the Week 2

Waterman (APOEL)

Criscito (Zenit) - Howedes (Schalke) - Martina (Southampton)

Schonbachler (FC Zurich) - Kadlec (Sparta Prague) - Diaz (Celta Vigo) - Bailey (Genk)

Kilduff (Dundalk) - Joaozinho (FC Krasnodar) - Totti (AS Roma)

**beavis** · 21-10-2016 20:00

Europa League - Team of the Week 3

Handanovic (Inter Milano)

Kongolo (Feyenoord) - Dante (Nice) - Brabec (Genk)

Konoplyanka (Schalke) - Giuliano (Zenit) - Pogba (Man United) - Marlos (Shakhtar)

Kalinic (Fiorentina) - Hoarau (Young Boys) - Rusescu (Osmanlispor)

**beavis** · 04-11-2016 20:29

Europa League - Team of the Week 4

Fahrmann (Schalke)

Van Dijk (Southampton) - Sadygov (Qarabag) - Curuksu (Osmanlispor)

Hwang (Salzburg) - Giuliano (Zenit) - Stanciu (Anderlecht) - Taison (Shakhtar)

Dzeko (AS Roma) - Aduriz (Athletic Bilbao) - Sow (Fenerbahce)

**beavis** · 04-11-2016 22:49

Aduriz nets 5 as Athletic Bilbao beat Genk

Aritz Aduriz became the first player since 1994 to score 5 times in a Europa League match as he netted all of Athletic Bilbao's goals in a thrilling 5-3 victory over Genk.

Fabrizio Ravanelli was the last man to achieve a 5-goal haul in Europe's second-tier competition and Spain striker Aduriz has now doubled his tally in all competitions for the campaign.

The 35-year-old opened the scoring early on at San Mames, before sealing a first half hat-trick with two well-taken penalties.

The victory lifts Athletic - currently 7th in La Liga - up to second place in Group F with 2 games remaining.