Europa League draw: Leverkusen meets Dante Club - Hoffenheim with a difficult guest appearance at the Marakana

The group stage draw of the Europa League rose in Nyon.

Two German teams were also there - Bayer 04 Leverkusen and TSG 1899 Hoffenheim.

• The

  draw for 

  the 

  Europa League

  * group phase

   took place

  on Friday 

  .

• Bayer Leverkusen

  caught tough opponents,

  TSG Hoffenheim

  was lucky.

• Here you can find an overview of all groups.

1.45 p.m.:

The

the

have been determined.

As the head of Group C,

has drawn tough opponents and meets Slavia Prague, Hapoel Beer-Sheva and OGC Nice.

The other German representative,

,

had better luck

, as it has to deal with KAA Gent, Roter Stern Belgrad and Slovan Liberec.

Group H with Celtic Glasgow, Sparta Prague, AC Milan and LOSC Lille is certainly the most famous group on paper.

1:37 p.m.:

Leverkusen is dealing with Nice.

1.35 p.m.:

Hoffenheim is the last to be drawn from Pot 3 and ends up in Group L at KAA Gent and Red Star Belgrade.

Lucky draw for the Bayern winner.

1:32 p.m.:

Hapoel Beer-Sheva comes to the Leverkusen group.

1.30 p.m.:

Exciting groups are emerging.

In group F are Napoli and Real Sociedad.

Rapid Vienna is up against Arsenal.

1:26 p.m.:

Slavia Prague

Bayer 04 Leverkusen in Group C.

1:25 p.m.:

Now it will be exciting, which team will Leverkusen be drawn?

1:24 p.m.:

In pot 1 there are illustrious names: Rome, Naples, Arsenal, Tottenham ...

1:21 p.m.:

Leverkusen will be drawn third, so the Werkself will

Group C.

1:20 p.m.:

The preliminary skirmish is over.

Let's go to the first balls.

The Italian Ferrara pulls the Roma first.

1:18 p.m.:

Now the complicated mode is explained first, from which twelve groups emerge.

Probably the most important statement: Teams from the same national association will not be able to meet in the EL group stage.

1:16 p.m.:

With Granada, Sivasspor or Leicester City, a few newcomers are also represented in the competition.

1:14 p.m.:

Giorgio Marchetti, the UEFA competition director, is there.

That means: It starts right now!

1:12 p.m .:

The first “Losfee” takes the stage.

Juve legend

is about to pull the first balls.

Europa League: Draw in the live ticker - Lukaku is awarded as the best player

1:08 p.m.:

from Inter Milan is named

.

The Belgian was the tragic hero in the final when he slipped an own goal.

Lukaku thanks God and congratulates Seville for the title, and his family, coach and teammates also get words of thanks.

1:05 p.m.:

 Of course, 2020 has presented everyone with great challenges so far.

UEFA looks back on this Corona year in a video.

1:01 p.m.:

Pedro Pinto leads through the draw as a moderator.

The highlights of the past season, which was interrupted by the corona pandemic and ended at the final tournament in North Rhine-Westphalia, will be looked back again.

12.56 p.m.:

 In a few minutes, the balls will finally be up here.

We are excited to see what the 12th season of the 

 to offer.

12.47 p.m.:

As part of the ceremony in Nyon, the

2019/20

will also be honored today.

The choices are

for the winner Sevilla,

from Inter Milan and

from Manchester United.

Update from October 2, 12:37 p.m.:

How bitter was that yesterday for VfL Wolfsburg ?!

The Wolves lost a lead in the playoffs against AEK Athens and caught a counterattack to 1: 2 in stoppage time.

The European adventure for Wolfsburg is over before it has even started.

With Leverkusen and Hoffenheim, Germany still has two hot irons in the fire to finally win the first title of a German team in the Europa League.

The last winner was Schalke in 1997. The groups will be drawn in less than half an hour.

Nyon - The

ball will soon be rolling again

in the 

. Who will follow

and secure the

?

The

will take place on Friday in Nyon, Switzerland on Lake Geneva at

headquarters

.

After

had to bury their dream of Europe with a

goal in

stoppage time in the playoff game against AEK Athens,

and

two Bundesliga

clubs

in the Europa League.

Europa League: Draw in the live ticker - Who will make it to the final in Gdansk?

With England's top

and

and

from the Italian Serie A, prominent teams are at the start.

We are excited to see who will fight their way to the finals * at the end of the 2020/2021 season - this

will take place

on May 26th in the Gdańsk Arena in the Polish city of

.

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Europa League: Draw in the live ticker - Leverkusen and Hoffenheim there - Wolfsburg fails

What do you need to know before the Europa League group stage draw?

Of course, the pots and some rules - such as that two teams from the same country are not allowed to meet in the group stage.

From a German perspective,

and

in the second most important European club competition.

The

did not make it into the group stage.

The Wolves failed in qualification with a 1: 2 in stoppage time at AEK Athens.

While Bayer Leverkusen is in pot 1 in the draw due to its high UEFA coefficient, Hoffenheim will meet a top European team in 1899, the Kraichgauer are in pot 3. The pots in the overview:

Europa League: Draw in the live ticker - the lottery pots at a glance

POT 1: 

Arsenal FC, Tottenham Hotspur, AS Roma, SSC Napoli, Benfica Lisbon, 

, FC Villarreal, CSKA Moscow, FC Braga, KAA Gent, PSV Eindhoven, Celtic Glasgow

POT 2:

 Dinamo Zagreb, Sparta Prague, Slavia Prague, Ludogorez Rasgrad, YB Bern, Red Star Belgrade, Rapid Vienna, Leicester City, PAOK Saloniki, Qarabag Agdam, Standard Liège, Real Sociedad San Sebastian

POT 3:

 FC Granada, AZ Alkmaar, Feyenoord Rotterdam, AEK Athens, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Glasgow Rangers, Molde FK, 

, AC Milan, Linzer ASK, Hapoel Beer Sheva, Sorja Luhansk

POT 4:

 CFR Cluj, OSC Lille, OGC Nice, HNK Rijeka, FC Dundalk, Slovan Liberec, Royal Antwerp, Lech Posen, Sivasspor, Wolfsberger AC, Omonia Nicosia, CSKA-Sofia

Who will compete in the group stage?

We are excited and follow the draw on Friday here in the