The 2019–20 UEFA Europa League group stage began on 19 September and ended on 12 December 2019. A total of 48 teams competed in the group stage to decide 24 of the 32 places in the knockout phase of the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League.

Draw The draw for the group stage was held on 30 August 2019, 13:00 CEST, at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco.

The 48 teams were drawn into twelve groups of four, with the restriction that teams from the same association could not be drawn against each other. For the draw, the teams were seeded into four pots based on their 2019 UEFA club coefficients.

On 17 July 2014, the UEFA emergency panel ruled that Ukrainian and Russian clubs would not be drawn against each other "until further notice" due to the political unrest between the countries.

Moreover, for associations with two or more teams, teams were paired in order to split them into two sets of six groups (A–F, G–L) for maximum television coverage. The following pairings were announced by UEFA after the group stage teams were confirmed:

Sevilla and Espanyol Arsenal and Manchester United Roma and Lazio Borussia Mönchengladbach and Eintracht Frankfurt Saint-Étienne and Rennes CSKA Moscow and Krasnodar Porto and Sporting CP Braga and Vitória de Guimarães Dynamo Kyiv and Oleksandriya Gent and Standard Liège Beşiktaş and Trabzonspor PSV Eindhoven and Feyenoord LASK and Wolfsberger AC Basel and Young Boys Celtic and Rangers

On each matchday, one set of six groups play their matches at 18:55 CET/CEST, while the other set of six groups play their matches at 21:00 CET/CEST, with the two sets of groups alternating between each matchday. The fixtures were decided after the draw, using a computer draw not shown to public, with the following match sequence (Regulations Article 15.02):

+Group stage scheduleMatchdayDateMatchesMatchday 119 September 20192 v 3, 4 v 1Matchday 23 October 20191 v 2, 3 v 4Matchday 324 October 20193 v 1, 2 v 4Matchday 46–7 November 20191 v 3, 4 v 2Matchday 528 November 20193 v 2, 1 v 4Matchday 612 December 20192 v 1, 4 v 3

There were scheduling restrictions: for example, teams from the same city (e.g. Lazio and Roma) in general were not scheduled to play at home on the same matchday (to avoid them playing at home on the same day, due to logistics and crowd control), and teams from "winter countries" (e.g. Russia) were not scheduled to play at home on the last matchday (due to cold weather).

Teams Below were the participating teams (with their 2019 UEFA club coefficients), grouped by their seeding pot. They included: 17 teams which entered in the group stage 21 winners of the play-off round (8 from Champions Path, 13 from Main Path) 6 losers of the Champions League play-off round (4 from Champions Path, 2 from League Path) 4 League Path losers of the Champions League third qualifying round

Key to coloursGroup winners and runners-up advanced to round of 32

+Pot 1TeamNotes Sevilla104.000 Arsenal101.000 Porto93.000 Roma81.000 Manchester United78.000 Dynamo Kyiv65.000 Beşiktaş62.000 Basel54.500 Sporting CP50.000 CSKA Moscow48.000 VfL Wolfsburg40.000 Lazio37.000+Pot 2TeamNotes PSV Eindhoven37.000 Krasnodar34.500 Celtic31.000 Copenhagen31.000 Braga31.000 Gent29.500 Borussia Mönchengladbach29.000 Young Boys27.500 Astana27.500 Ludogorets Razgrad27.000 APOEL25.500 Eintracht Frankfurt24.000+Pot 3TeamNotes Saint-Étienne23.000 Qarabağ22.000 Feyenoord22.000 Getafe20.713 Espanyol20.713 Malmö FF20.000 Partizan18.000 Standard Liège17.500 Wolverhampton Wanderers17.092 Rennes11.699 Rosenborg11.500 İstanbul Başakşehir10.500+Pot 4TeamNotes AZ10.500 Vitória de Guimarães9.646 Trabzonspor8.000 Oleksandriya7.780 F91 Dudelange6.250 LASK6.250 Wolfsberger AC6.250 Slovan Bratislava6.000 Lugano6.000 Rangers5.250 CFR Cluj3.500 Ferencváros3.500 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 of the Champions League group stage.

Tiebreakers Teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 16.01): Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams; Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams; Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams; Away goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams; If more than two teams were tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams were still tied, all head-to-head criteria above were reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams; Goal difference in all group matches; Goals scored in all group matches; Away goals scored in all group matches; Wins in all group matches; Away wins in all group matches; Disciplinary points (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points); UEFA club coefficient.

Groups The matchdays were 19 September, 3 October, 24 October, 7 November, 28 November, and 12 December 2019. The scheduled kickoff times were 18:55 and 21:00 CET/CEST, with possible exceptions at 16:50 CET/CEST due to geographical reasons.

Times are CET/CEST, as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Group E

Group F

Group G

Group H

Group I

Group J

Group K

Group L

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