Who says return from the Champions League, also says return from the Europa League on Thursday February 16 with three French clubs, Nantes, Rennes and Monaco.
Thursday February 16 will be the eight matches of the knockout stages of the Europa League. Many posters are already salivating. Among the clubs still in contention, four of them have already won the Champions League trophy. Two of these teams will also meet. La Liga leader FC Barcelona will host Manchester United.
Ajax Amsterdam, the third team to hold the prestigious Champions League, will host Union Berlin. In Germany, Red Bull Salzburg awaits José Mourinho’s AS Roma. Bayer Leverkussen will be against Monaco, recent winner in the league of PSG. The second French club to travel is Rennes who will face Shakhtar. The match will be played in Poland and not in Ukraine due to the conflict with Russia. When in Nantes, they will find 27 years after Juventus. In the semi-finals of the 1995-1996 Champions League, the FC Nantes was very close to beating the Old Lady…
The former Parisian, Xavi Simons will have a lot to do with his club PSV against Sevilla FC, a regular at the event and four times winner of the competition over the past ten years. Finally, Sporting, which beat Marseille in the Champions League and won its ticket to the Europa League, will face the Danish club Midtjylland.
The program :
- Barcelona – Manchester United
- Shaktar Donestk – Rennes
- Juventus – Nantes
- Bayer Leverkusen-Monaco
- Sporting Portugal – Mydjtylland
- Ajax Amsterdam – Union Berlin
- Sevilla – PSV
- Salzburg – AS Roma
The group stage of the Europa Football League is played from Thursday September 8, 2022 to Thursday November 3, 2022 while the knockout stage will be played from Thursday February 16, 2023 to Thursday May 18, 2023. As for the final, it is scheduled on May 31, 2023 at the Puskas Arena stadium in Budapest (Hungary). The calendar was then drawn up as follows by UEFA:
- Direct elimination
- Knockout stage play-offs: February 16 and 23, 2023
- Round of 16: March 9 and 16, 2023
- Quarter-finals: April 13 and 20, 2023
- Semi-finals: May 11 and 18, 2023
- Final: May 31, 2023 at the Puskas Arena stadium in Budapest (Hungary)
As last season, UEFA has awarded the 2022/2023 Europa League French TV rights to RMC Sport, M6 And Canal+ which will ensure the broadcast until the end of the 2023/2024 season. Canal + will co-broadcast with M6 the poster for each Thursday and RMC Sport offers all the remaining matches. M6 will broadcast the final scheduled for May 31, 2023.