UEFA Europa League Betting Tips

About UEFA Europa League

The UEFA Europa League is an annual international football tournament among clubs, founded in 1971 under the name of the UEFA Cup. It is considered the second most important tournament for football clubs belonging to UEFA, after the Champions League. Clubs that take certain places in the standings at the end of the national championship season, depending on the UEFA rating, as well as the winners of national cups, if they have not won the right to participate in the Champions League following the results of the national championship, take part in the Europa League draw.

From the first draw of the 1971/72 season until the 2008/09 season, it was known as the UEFA Cup. Until the 1998/99 season, national cup-winning clubs did not take part in this tournament, as there was a UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, which at that time was considered the second most important after the UEFA Champions League, but as a result of the merger of the UEFA Cup and the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, a single tournament with the old name - the UEFA Cup.

Since the 2009/10 season, it has been called the UEFA Europa League with a change in the format of the tournament by analogy with the Champions League.

Since the 2004/05 season, a group stage has been added to the tournament, before the play-off stage. Since 2009, as a result of the rebranding of European cups, the UEFA Cup has been merged with the Intertoto Cup, the format of the competition has been expanded, as a result of the addition of teams from the Intertoto Cup, which start the draw from four qualifying rounds. The winner of the Europa League has the right to participate in the UEFA Super Cup and Champions League next season.

The first winner of the tournament is London's Tottenham Hotspur, who beat the other English club Wolverhampton Wanderers in two matches with a total score of 3:2 in 1972. In total, 26 different clubs have won the title of winner of this tournament, 11 of which have won it more than once. The Spanish "Sevilla" holds the record for the number of victories in the tournament, having won it 6 times (while not losing a single final in which it participated): in 2006, 2007 and 2014, 2015, 2016, 2020. Spanish clubs hold the record for the most wins in the tournament - 13 times. The Spanish football club "Atletico Madrid", the English "Liverpool", as well as the Italian clubs "Juventus" and "Internationale" won this tournament 3 times.

The current winner of the tournament is the Spanish club Sevilla.