2023-09-01 11:33:12
The draw for the group stage of the Europa League 2023-2024 (to follow on RMC Sport) took place this Friday in Monaco. Olympique de Marseille, returned to C3 following their defeat in the 3rd preliminary round of the Champions League, now knows their opponents.
An autumn that promises to be warm. Released by Panathinaikos in the 3rd preliminary round of the Champions League (1-0, 1-2, 3-5 on tab) and returned to C3, Olympique de Marseille will have to work to pass the group stage of this League Europe 2023-2024. Placed in pot 2, OM inherited a complicated draw and will faceajax Amsterdam, Brighton and theAEK Athens within group B.
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First game on September 21
The group stage of the Europa League 2023-2024 will be held from September 21 to December 14, 2023. The clubs that finish first in each of the eight groups will be directly qualified for the round of 16 which will be played on March 7 and 14, 2024. They will face the clubs which will have been able to extract themselves from the play-offs, which will be held on February 15 and 22, 2024, and which will oppose the clubs which will have finished 2nd in their group as well as those which will have finished 3rd in their Champions League group and which will therefore be donated to the Europa League.
The quarter-finals will take place on April 11 and 18 and the semi-finals on May 2 and 9. For the two finalists, go to the Dublin Arena in Ireland, May 22, 2024. The winner will be directly qualified for the group stage of the Champions League 2024-2025.
“Being competitive in the Europa League”
If Olympique de Marseille imagined more of a future in the Champions League than in the Europa League, it remains no less ambitious when it comes to tackling this new European campaign.
“The goal is to be competitive in the Europa League,” insisted OM president Pablo Longoria on Thursday.
“It’s a European competition, we must always respect it. It’s a responsibility for the club, for our supporters but also for French football”, he continued, while France is neck and neck with the Netherlands in the ranking of the UEFA index which determines the number of qualifying places per country for the various European competitions.
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