The 2014–15 UEFA Europa League is the 44th season of Europe's secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 6th season since it was renamed from the UEFA Cup to the UEFA Europa League.

Last year's winners: FC Sevilla (3rd UEFA Cup/EL title in 8 years!)



Runner-up: S.L. Benfica (back-to-back runner up, no international title since 1962, 8 lost finals since then)

So, who will win it this time?

DER MARKT has Tottenham/Everton/Inter/Sevilla/Fiorientina as first-tier favourites.

http://www.oddschecker.com/football/...-league/winner

lol spurs

Hope to see you all again after Xmas.

LolSpuds.

Will Wolfsburg be taking this seriously? I would have thought they'd be in that same tier as the teams mentioned as favs in the OP.

winner gets 2015-16 Champ League spot too

Looking back at the odds, they are in the same tier, yes.

Draw for the better of the two European competitions:

Kardemir Karabükspor - Rosenborg BK/Sligo Rovers FC
FK AS Trenčín/FK Vojvodina - Hull City AFC
FK Sarajevo/FK Haugesund - Atromitos FC
Ruch Chorzów/FC Vaduz - FC Kairat Almaty/Esbjerg fB
FC Chornomorets Odesa - RNK Split/Hapoel Beer Sheva FC
FK Budućnost Podgorica/AC Omonia - FK Metalurg Skopje/FK Željezničar
Real Sociedad - Aberdeen FC/FC Gronigen
FC Dinamo Moskva - Hapoel Kiryat Shmona FC
FC Luzern/Saint Johnstone FC - FC Zestafoni/FC Spartak Trnava
Torino FC - IF Brommapojkarna/Crusaders FC
FC Astana/Hapoel Tel-Aviv FC - Linfield FC/AIK Stockholm
BSC Young Boys - Ermis Aradippou FC
1. FSV Mainz 05 - RoPS Rovaniemi/Asteras Tripolis FC
PSV Eindhoven - PFC Botev Plovdiv/SKN St Pölten
SV Zulte Waregem/Zawisza Bydgoszcz - Derry City FC/FC Shakhtyor Soligorsk
IF Elfsborg/İnter Bakı PİK - Derry City FC/FC Shakhtyor Soligorsk
PFC Litex Lovech/Diósgyőri VTK - JK Sillamäe Kalev/FC Krasnodar
Motherwell FC/Stjarnan - JK Nõmme Kalju/KKS Lech Poznań
FC Petrolul Ploieşti/KS Flamurtari - PFC CSKA Sofia/FC Zimbru Chisinau
FK Mladá Boleslav/NK Široki Brijeg - Olympique Lyon
KF Laçi/FC Zorya Luhansk - Molde FK/ND Gorica
FC Astra - MFK Košice/FC Slovan Liberec
Víkingur/Tromsø IL - HNK Rijeka/Ferencvárosi TC
FC Dinamo Minsk/Myllykosken Pallo-47 - CFR 1907 Cluj/FK Jagodina
Neftçi PFK /FC Koper - Bursaspor/FC Chikhura Sachkhere
Győri ETO FC/IFK Göteborg - Rio Ave FC
Club Brugge KV - Brøndby IF
FK Atlantas/FC Shakhter Karagandy - Dundalk FC/HNK Hajduk Split

lol Brøndby, you're gonna get raped by Brugge

Will see if I can get tickets for the Brugge match - do you know when they open the sale?

All in all, definitely not an ideal draw (based on my very limited knowledge), but it should make for a couple of decent matches.

Love this.
We should see more top teams taking this competition seriously now.

Robertos blue army are shipping this

LOL Scotland

Winning goal Stjarnan vs Motherwell

that reaction tho

Lol Motherwell.

He's so awful.

Yes this is a male commentator

is who plays home/away in the last qualifying round rigged? curious as to how gladbach seem sure they're playing home first leg and have shifted their first league game to the sunday already

We've been allowed to switch around home/away ties for last two seasons in the CL qualifying rounds.

Supposed to play KR in Scotland first and I know we switched the Cliftonville game last year - both clubs got a big home crowd as the tie wasn't over yet and both got TV money (we let Cliftonville keep all tv money from the home leg, don't know if we did the same with KR).

So not rigged but left up to the clubs I think if they can justify it.

I know a few lads that booked for the Cliftonville home game on the original date in Glasgow, ****ing idiots were told to wait because it may be rearranged. Lol arseholes.

Hi Spuds.

In Sarajevo ahead of our wedding this weekend (fiancée is a Bosnian born Croat) so we managed to catch the FK Sarajevo v Atromitos first leg. First time at a game in Eastern Europe which was pretty cool. The ultras brought it pretty hard all match despite the crappy weather. Sarajevo definitely the better team for long stretches but gave up too much space while defending and it cost them twice. Left back scored a cracker right in front of us which was awesome. Really hoping they can pull it out in the second leg in Greece, going to be tough giving up the two away goals though.

As a side note does anyone have any idea why some of the players wear not traditional jersey numbers? It looked like an NHL legends game with #s 99, 88 and 77 running around out there.

Lloris (c); Naughton, Dier, Vertonghen, Davies; Bentaleb, Paulinho; Holtby, Townsend, Kane; Soldado.
Friedel, Dawson, Rose, Chadli, Dembele, Sandro, Lamela.

lol dawson. is this on any uk channel?

No. Dodgy streams only.

Surprised Dier is starting as he'll probably need to play RB this weekend.

PLEASE SCORE A COUPLE OF GOOD GOALS SOLDADO

Won 2-1.

Lamela came on in the '72 and had 2 assists (Soldado and Kane) and probably should have scored.

I hope to never watch a stream of that quality again.

Hopefully Soldado gets a bit of confidence from this: https://vine.co/v/MLOB5twO2zB

I just started focusing on naughton because at least then I couldn't tell when the stream was buffering. Paulinho, also bad. That said, I'm glad spurs are in europa this year, I get all the arguments against but for this team at this time it seems like an overall good thing.

LET'S GO MIDTJYLLAND! So annoyed I wasn't able to make the trip to Athens. The home match will be great though.

Time to make the group play for the first time.