2013–14 UEFA Europa League group stage

The group stage of the 2013–14 UEFA Europa League was played from 19 September to 12 December 2013. A total of 48 teams competed in the group stage.^[1]

Draw

The draw was held on 30 August 2013, 13:00 CEST (UTC+2), at the Grimaldi Forum, Monaco.^[2] The 48 teams were allocated into four pots based on their UEFA club coefficients at the beginning of the season. They were drawn into twelve groups of four containing one team from each of the four seeding pots, with the restriction that teams from the same national association could not be drawn against each other. Moreover, the draw was controlled for teams from the same association in order to split the teams evenly into the two sets of groups (A–F, G–L) for maximum television coverage.

The fixtures were decided after the draw. On each matchday, six groups played their matches at 19:00 CEST/CET, while the other six groups played their matches at 21:05 CEST/CET, with the two sets of groups (A–F, G–L) alternating between each matchday. There were other restrictions, e.g., teams from the same city (e.g., Sevilla and Real Betis) in general did not play at home on the same matchday (UEFA tried to avoid teams from the same city playing at home on the same day), and Russian and Kazakh teams did not play at home on the last matchday due to cold weather.

Teams

Below were the 48 teams which qualified for the group stage (with their 2013 UEFA club coefficients),^[3] grouped by their seeding pot.^[4][5] They included 7 teams which entered in this stage, the 29 winners of the play-off round, the 9 losers of the Champions League play-off round, and 3 teams which qualified due to disqualification of other teams:

• Maccabi Tel Aviv: On 14 August 2013, Metalist Kharkiv were disqualified from the 2013–14 UEFA club competitions because of previous match-fixing.^[6] UEFA decided to replace Metalist Kharkiv in the Champions League play-off round with PAOK, who were eliminated by Metalist Kharkiv in the third qualifying round.^[7] Thus, Maccabi Tel Aviv, the opponent of PAOK in the Europa League play-off round, qualified directly for the Europa League group stage.
• Tromsø: On 25 June 2013, Beşiktaş were banned by UEFA from the 2013–14 UEFA club competitions because of the 2011 Turkish sports corruption scandal.^[8][9] They appealed the ban to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, and on 18 July 2013 it was ruled that the ban should be temporarily lifted and they should be included in the qualifying round draws of the Europa League, until the final decision to be made before the end of August 2013.^[10] Beşiktaş competed in the Europa League play-off round and won. On 30 August 2013, the Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld UEFA's ban, meaning Beşiktaş were banned from the 2013–14 UEFA Europa League.^[11] UEFA decided to replace Beşiktaş in the Europa League group stage with Tromsø, who were eliminated by Beşiktaş in the play-off round.^[12]
• APOEL: On 25 June 2013, Fenerbahçe were banned by UEFA from the 2013–14 UEFA club competitions because of the 2011 Turkish sports corruption scandal.^[8][9] They appealed the ban to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, and on 18 July 2013 it was ruled that the ban should be temporarily lifted and they should be included in the qualifying round draws of the Champions League, until the final decision to be made before the end of August 2013.^[10][13][14] Fenerbahçe competed in the Champions League qualifying rounds and lost in the play-off round. On 28 August 2013, the Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld UEFA's ban, meaning Fenerbahçe were banned from the 2013–14 UEFA Europa League.^[15][16] A draw was held on 30 August 2013, 09:00, in Monaco, to select a team to replace Fenerbahçe in the Europa League group stage among the teams eliminated in the play-off round,^[17] and was won by APOEL.^[18]

Key to colours in group tables
Group winners and runners-up advanced to the round of 32

Pot 1 Team Coeff Valencia 102.605 Lyon[CL] 95.800 Tottenham Hotspur[Q] 69.592 Dynamo Kyiv[Q] 68.951 PSV Eindhoven[CL] 64.945 Bordeaux 59.800 Rubin Kazan[Q] 58.266 Sevilla[Q] 55.105 Standard Liège[Q] 45.880 Fiorentina[Q] 42.829 Lazio 41.829 AZ[Q] 39.445

Pot 2 Team Coeff APOEL[LL] 35.366 PAOK[CL] 28.800 Red Bull Salzburg[Q] 28.075 Genk[Q] 26.880 Dinamo Zagreb[CL] 25.916 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk[Q] 23.951 Trabzonspor[Q] 21.400 Anzhi Makhachkala 20.266 Real Betis[Q] 17.605 Wigan Athletic 16.592 Swansea City[Q] 16.592 Freiburg 15.922

Pot 3 Team Coeff Eintracht Frankfurt[Q] 15.922 Vitória de Guimarães 14.333 Legia Warsaw[CL] 13.650 Maccabi Haifa[Q] 13.575 Rapid Wien[Q] 13.075 Paços de Ferreira[CL] 12.833 Estoril[Q] 11.833 Sheriff Tiraspol[Q] 11.533 Chornomorets Odesa[Q] 9.951 Maribor[CL] 9.941 Kuban Krasnodar[Q] 9.266 Elfsborg[Q] 8.125

Pot 4 Team Coeff Maccabi Tel Aviv[Q] 8.075 Slovan Liberec[Q] 7.745 Thun[Q] 7.285 Zulte Waregem[Q] 6.880 Apollon Limassol[Q] 6.366 Tromsø[LL] 6.335 St. Gallen[Q] 5.785 Esbjerg[Q] 5.140 Rijeka[Q] 4.916 Pandurii Târgu Jiu[Q] 4.604 Ludogorets Razgrad[CL] 3.450 Shakhter Karagandy[CL] 2.941

Notes

Format

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 from the Champions League group stage.^[1]

Tiebreakers

The teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If two or more teams are equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria are applied to determine the rankings:^[1]

1. higher number of points obtained in the group matches played among the teams in question;
2. superior goal difference from the group matches played among the teams in question;
3. higher number of goals scored in the group matches played among the teams in question;
4. higher number of goals scored away from home in the group matches played among the teams in question;
5. If, after applying criteria 1 to 4 to several teams, two teams still have an equal ranking, criteria 1 to 4 are reapplied exclusively to the matches between the two teams in question to determine their final rankings. If this procedure does not lead to a decision, criteria 6 to 8 apply;
6. superior goal difference from all group matches played;
7. higher number of goals scored from all group matches played;
8. higher number of coefficient points accumulated by the club in question, as well as its association, over the previous five seasons.

Groups

The matchdays were 19 September, 3 October, 24 October, 7 November, 28 November, and 12 December 2013.^[19] The match kickoff times were 19:00 and 21:05 CEST/CET, except for matches in Russia which were 18:00 CEST/CET and in Kazakhstan which the first two were 18:00 CEST/CET and the last one was 16:00 CEST/CET.^[20] Times up to 26 October 2013 (matchdays 1–3) were CEST (UTC+2), thereafter (matchdays 4–6) times were CET (UTC+1).

Key to colours in group tables
Group winners and runners-up advanced to the round of 32

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Valencia	6	4	1	1	12	7	+5	13
Swansea City	6	2	2	2	6	4	+2	8
Kuban Krasnodar	6	1	3	2	7	7	0	6
St. Gallen	6	2	0	4	6	13	−7	6

Tiebreakers

• Kuban Krasnodar are ranked ahead of St. Gallen on head-to-head goal difference.

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Kuban Krasnodar	2	1	0	1	4	2	+2	3
St. Gallen	2	1	0	1	2	4	−2	3

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Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Ludogorets Razgrad	6	5	1	0	11	2	+9	16
Chornomorets Odesa	6	3	1	2	6	6	0	10
PSV Eindhoven	6	2	1	3	4	5	−1	7
Dinamo Zagreb	6	0	1	5	3	11	−8	1

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Group C

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Red Bull Salzburg	6	6	0	0	15	3	+12	18
Esbjerg	6	4	0	2	8	8	0	12
Elfsborg	6	1	1	4	5	10	−5	4
Standard Liège	6	0	1	5	6	13	−7	1

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Group D

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Rubin Kazan	6	4	2	0	14	4	+10	14
Maribor	6	2	1	3	9	12	−3	7
Zulte Waregem	6	2	1	3	4	10	−6	7
Wigan Athletic	6	1	2	3	6	7	−1	5

Tiebreakers

• Maribor are ranked ahead of Zulte Waregem on head-to-head goal difference.

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Maribor	2	1	0	1	3	2	+1	3
Zulte Waregem	2	1	0	1	2	3	−1	3

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Group E

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Fiorentina	6	5	1	0	12	3	+9	16
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	6	4	0	2	11	5	+6	12
Paços de Ferreira	6	0	3	3	1	8	−7	3
Pandurii Târgu Jiu	6	0	2	4	3	11	−8	2

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Group F

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Eintracht Frankfurt	6	5	0	1	13	4	+9	15
Maccabi Tel Aviv	6	3	2	1	7	5	+2	11
APOEL	6	1	2	3	3	8	−5	5
Bordeaux	6	1	0	5	4	10	−6	3

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Group G

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Genk	6	4	2	0	10	5	+5	14
Dynamo Kyiv	6	3	1	2	11	7	+4	10
Rapid Wien	6	1	3	2	8	10	−2	6
Thun	6	1	0	5	3	10	−7	3

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Group H

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Sevilla	6	3	3	0	9	4	+5	12
Slovan Liberec	6	2	3	1	9	8	+1	9
Freiburg	6	1	3	2	5	8	−3	6
Estoril	6	0	3	3	5	8	−3	3

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Group I

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Lyon	6	3	3	0	6	3	+3	12
Real Betis	6	2	3	1	3	2	+1	9
Vitória de Guimarães	6	1	2	3	6	5	+1	5
Rijeka	6	0	4	2	2	7	−5	4

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Group J

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Trabzonspor	6	4	2	0	13	6	+7	14
Lazio	6	3	3	0	8	4	+4	12
Apollon Limassol	6	1	1	4	5	10	−5	4
Legia Warsaw	6	1	0	5	2	8	−6	3

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Group K

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Tottenham Hotspur	6	6	0	0	15	2	+13	18
Anzhi Makhachkala	6	2	2	2	4	7	−3	8
Sheriff Tiraspol	6	1	3	2	5	6	−1	6
Tromsø	6	0	1	5	1	10	−9	1

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Group L

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
AZ	6	3	3	0	8	4	+4	12
PAOK	6	3	3	0	10	6	+4	12
Maccabi Haifa	6	1	2	3	6	9	−3	5
Shakhter Karagandy	6	0	2	4	5	10	−5	2

Tiebreakers

• AZ are ranked ahead of PAOK on head-to-head away goals.

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	AG	Pts
AZ	2	0	2	0	3	3	0	2	2
PAOK	2	0	2	0	3	3	0	1	2

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References

External links

• 2013–14 UEFA Europa League