Europa League group stage number crunching
Saturday, August 26, 2017
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The UEFA Europa League group stage draw takes place at 13:00CET and UEFA.com crunches the numbers: which teams and players are record-breakers?
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Key facts
- Record seventh UEFA Europa League group appearances for FCSB and Salzburg
- Salzburg are group stage's all-time highest goal and point scorers
- 13 group debutants take total entrant clubs to 198, 240 including UEFA Cup
- Vardar are first Macedonian team to reach a UEFA men's club group stage
- Also making debut in major group stage: Atalanta, Hoffenheim, Östersund, Köln, Lugano, Vitesse, Zlín
ALL STATISTICS ARE FOR GROUP GAMES ONLY. UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE IS 2009/10 ONWARD, UEFA CUP IS 2004/05 ONWARD
Most group appearances by club (UEFA Europa League only)
7: FCSB*, Salzburg*
6: Athletic Club*, Club Brugge, Lazio*, PSV Eindhoven, Rapid Wien, Sparta Praha, Villarreal*
5: Dynamo Kyiv*, København*, PAOK, Partizan*, Sporting CP, Tottenham, Young Boys*
Most group appearances by club (including UEFA Cup)
9: Club Brugge, FCSB*
8: AZ Alkmaar, Tottenham, Villarreal*
7: Athletic Club*, Basel, Beşiktaş, Dinamo Zagreb, Partizan, Salzburg*, Sevilla, Sparta Praha
Most points (UEFA Europa League only)
71: Salzburg
66: PSV Eindhoven
Most points (including UEFA Cup)
88: Tottenham
72: AZ Alkmaar, Villarreal
Most group stage goals (UEFA Europa League only)
63: Salzburg
59: Anderlecht
Most group stage goals (including UEFA Cup)
76: Tottenham Hotspur
68: AZ Alkmaar
Most qualifications from group stage (UEFA Europa League only)
5: Anderlecht, Villarreal
Most group stage first places (UEFA Europa League only)
3: Fiorentina, Genk, Liverpool, PSV Eindhoven, Salzburg, Sporting CP
Single season (UEFA Europa League only)
Most points
18: Salzburg (2009/10), Zenit (2010/11), Anderlecht (2011/12), Salzburg (2013/14), Tottenham Hotspur (2013/14), Dinamo Moskva (2014/15), Napoli (2015/16), Shakhtar Donetsk (2016/17)
Biggest group-winning margin
11: Zenit (2010/11), Napoli (2015/16)
Fewest points to qualify
7: Anderlecht (2010/11), Napoli (2010/11), Maribor (2013/14), Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (2014/15), Midtjylland (2015/16), Krasnodar (2016/17)
Most points without going through
10: Birmingham City (2011/12), Paris Saint-Germain (2011/12), Tottenham Hotspur (2011/12), Young Boys (2012/13), Lokeren (2014/15), Sparta Praha (2014/15)
Most goals scored in a group
22: Napoli (2015/16)
Fewest goals conceded in a group
1: Standard Liège (2011/12)
Teams progressing to group stage from first qualifying round (UEFA Europa League only)
Fulham (2011/12), Rosenborg (2012/13, 2015/16), Twente (2012/13), Tromsø (2013/14), Gabala (2015/16, 2016/17), Crvena Zevzda (2017/18), Maccabi Tel-Aviv (2016/17, 2017/18), Skënderbeu (2017/18)
Country stats:
Most campaigns by nations' clubs (UEFA Europa League only)
29: Italy*
25: Spain*
24: Germany*
23: Netherlands*
22: England*
21: France*, Portugal*
Most campaigns by nations' clubs (including UEFA Cup)
43: Spain*
41: Germany*, Italy*
40: Netherlands*
39: France*
Most different national representatives (UEFA Europa League only)
16: Germany*
14: Italy*
13: England,*
12: Portugal
11: France*
Most different national representatives (including UEFA Cup)
19: England*, Germany*
16: France*
15: Italy, Spain
Nations never represented (UEFA Europa League only)
Andorra, Armenia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Georgia, Gibraltar, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Montenegro, Northern Ireland, San Marino, Wales***
Nations never represented (including UEFA Cup)
Andorra, Armenia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Gibraltar, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Montenegro, Northern Ireland, San Marino, Wales***
Player stats:
Most group stage appearances (UEFA Europa League only)
31: Mario Sonnleitner
30: Jeremain Lens, Ondřej Mazuch
Most group stage appearances (including UEFA Cup)
38: Dimitris Salpingidis
35: Atiba Hutchinson
Most group stage goals (UEFA Europa League only)
14: Raul Rusescu
13: Aritz Aduriz, Guillaume Hoarau
Most group stage goals (including UEFA Cup)
15: Jermain Defoe
14: Raul Rusescu, Dimitris Salpingidis
*Includes 2017/18
**Appeared in UEFA Cup group stage
***Welsh-based Swansea represented England in 2013/14