2016 UEFA Europa League Final

2016 UEFA Europa League Final
Event 2015–16 UEFA Europa League
Liverpool Sevilla
England Spain
Date 18 May 2016
Venue St. Jakob-Park, Basel

The 2016 UEFA Europa League Final, the final match of the 2015–16 UEFA Europa League, is a football match that will be played at St. Jakob-Park in Basel, Switzerland on 18 May 2016.[1] It will be contested by three-time champions Liverpool, and four-time champions Sevilla, the latter having won the previous two finals.

The winners will qualify for the 2016 UEFA Super Cup, where they will play the winners of the 2015–16 UEFA Champions League. They will also qualify for the group stage of the 2016–17 UEFA Champions League as the winner of the 2015–16 UEFA Champions League also qualify for the group stage of the 2016–17 UEFA Champions League through domestic performance, that means the berth reserved for the Champions League title holders is not used.

Venue

The St. Jakob-Park in Basel was selected to host the final in September 2014.

The St. Jakob-Park was announced as the venue of the final at the UEFA Executive Committee meeting in Nyon, Switzerland, on 18 September 2014.[1] This will be the first European club final hosted at the stadium, although the previous stadium of the same name, the St. Jakob Stadium, which opened in 1954 for the 1954 FIFA World Cup and closed in 1998, hosted four European Cup Winners' Cup finals in 1969, 1975, 1979 and 1984.

The current St. Jakob-Park, nicknamed "Joggeli" by fans, was built in 1998 and opened in 2001, and is the home stadium of Basel. It hosted six matches at UEFA Euro 2008, including the opening match and a semi-final. Its current capacity is 38,512, but is reduced to nearly 36,000 seats for UEFA competitions.[1]

After Basel got transferred to the Europa League after conceding to Maccabi Tel Aviv by away goals, Basel had the chance to become the first team to win the competition in home ground since Feyenoord in 2002, and the first to win it under the Europa League banner. This possibility ended after Basel was eliminated in the round of 16 by Sevilla.[2]

Road to the final

For more details on this topic, see 2015–16 UEFA Europa League.

Note: In the table, the score of the finalist is given first (H = home; A = away).

England Liverpool Round Spain Sevilla
Europa League Champions League
Opponent Result Group stage Opponent Result
France Bordeaux 1–1 (A) Matchday 1 Germany Borussia Mönchengladbach 3–0 (H)
Switzerland Sion 1–1 (H) Matchday 2 Italy Juventus 0–2 (A)
Russia Rubin Kazan 1–1 (H) Matchday 3 England Manchester City 1–2 (A)
Russia Rubin Kazan 1–0 (A) Matchday 4 England Manchester City 1–3 (H)
France Bordeaux 2–1 (H) Matchday 5 Germany Borussia Mönchengladbach 2–4 (A)
Switzerland Sion 0–0 (A) Matchday 6 Italy Juventus 1–0 (H)
Group B winner
Pos Team Pld Pts
1 England Liverpool 6 10
2 Switzerland Sion 6 9
3 Russia Rubin Kazan 6 6
4 France Bordeaux 6 4
Source: UEFA
 Final standings Group D third place
Pos Team Pld Pts
1 England Manchester City 6 12
2 Italy Juventus 6 11
3 Spain Sevilla 6 6
4 Germany Borussia Mönchengladbach 6 5
Source: UEFA
Europa League
Opponent Agg. 1st leg 2nd leg Knockout phase Opponent Agg. 1st leg 2nd leg
Germany Augsburg 1–0 0–0 (A) 1–0 (H) Round of 32 Norway Molde 3–1 3–0 (H) 0–1 (A)
England Manchester United 3–1 2–0 (H) 1–1 (A) Round of 16 Switzerland Basel 3–0 0–0 (A) 3–0 (H)
Germany Borussia Dortmund 5–4 1–1 (A) 4–3 (H) Quarter-finals Spain Athletic Bilbao 3–3 (5–4 p) 2–1 (A) 1–2 (a.e.t.) (H)
Spain Villarreal 3–1 0–1 (A) 3–0 (H) Semi-finals Ukraine Shakhtar Donetsk 5–3 2–2 (A) 3–1 (H)

Pre-match

Ambassador

Former Switzerland and Basel striker Alexander Frei was named the ambassador for the final.

Logo

UEFA unveiled the brand identity of the final on 28 August 2015 in Monaco ahead of the group stage draw. The logo features the Basel landmark Marktplatz.[3]

Match

Note: The "home" team (for administrative purposes) was determined by an additional draw held after the semi-final draw, which was held on 15 April 2016 at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.[4]

18 May 2016 (2016-05-18)
20:45 CEST
Liverpool England v Spain Sevilla
Report

Match rules[5]

  • 90 minutes.
  • 30 minutes of extra time if necessary.
  • Penalty shoot-out if scores still level.
  • Seven named substitutes, of which up to three may be used.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Basel awarded 2016 UEFA Europa League final". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 18 September 2014. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
  2. ↑ http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/season=2016/matches/round=2000660/match=2017207/index.html
  3. ↑ "New UEFA Europa League brand identity revealed". UEFA.org. 28 August 2015.
  4. ↑ "Draws — Semi-finals". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
  5. ↑ "Regulations of the UEFA Europa League 2015/16 Season" (PDF). UEFA.com. 1 May 2015.

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