2013–14 UEFA Europa League
The 2013–14 UEFA Europa League was the 43rd season of Europe's secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the fifth season under its current title.
The 2014 UEFA Europa League Final was played between Sevilla and Benfica at the Juventus Stadium in Turin, Italy, which was won by Sevilla on penalties, giving them a record-equalling third UEFA Cup/Europa League title. Chelsea were the title holders, but did not defend their title because they qualified for the 2013–14 UEFA Champions League and reached the knockout stage.
Association team allocation
A total of 194 teams from 53 of the 54 UEFA member associations participated in the 2013–14 UEFA Europa League. The association ranking based on the UEFA country coefficients is used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:- Associations 1–6 each have three teams qualify.
- Associations 7–9 each have four teams qualify.
- Associations 10–51 each have three teams qualify.
- Associations 52–53 each have two teams qualify.
- Liechtenstein has one team qualify.
- The top three associations of the 2012–13 UEFA Respect Fair Play ranking each gain an additional berth.
- Moreover, 33 teams eliminated from the 2013–14 UEFA Champions League are transferred to the Europa League.
Association ranking
For the 2013–14 UEFA Europa League, the associations were allocated places according to their 2012 UEFA country coefficients, which took into account their performance in European competitions from 2007–08 to 2011–12.Apart from the allocation based on the country coefficients, associations may have additional teams participating in the Europa League, as noted below:
- – Additional berth via Fair Play ranking
- – Additional teams transferred from the Champions League
| Rank | Association | Coeff. | Teams | Notes |
| 1 |  England | 84.410 | 3 | |
| 2 |  Spain | 84.186 | 3 | |
| 3 |  Germany | 75.186 | 3 | |
| 4 |  Italy | 59.981 | 3 | +2 |
| 5 |  Portugal | 55.346 | 3 | +3 |
| 6 |  France | 54.178 | 3 | +1 |
| 7 |  Russia | 47.832 | 4 | |
| 8 |  Netherlands | 45.515 | 4 | +2 |
| 9 |  Ukraine | 45.133 | 4 | +1 |
| 10 |  Greece | 37.100 | 3 | +1 |
| 11 |  Turkey | 34.050 | 3 | |
| 12 |  Belgium | 32.400 | 3 | +1 |
| 13 |  Denmark | 27.525 | 3 | +1 |
| 14 |  Switzerland | 26.800 | 3 | +2 |
| 15 |  Austria | 26.325 | 3 | +1 |
| 16 |  Cyprus | 25.499 | 3 | +1 |
| 17 |  Israel | 22.000 | 3 | +1 |
| 18 |  Scotland | 21.141 | 3 |
| Rank | Association | Coeff. | Teams | Notes |
| 19 |  Czech Republic | 20.350 | 3 | +1 |
| 20 |  Poland | 19.916 | 3 | +1 |
| 21 |  Croatia | 18.874 | 3 | +1 |
| 22 |  Romania | 18.824 | 3 | |
| 23 |  Belarus | 18.208 | 3 | |
| 24 |  Sweden | 15.900 | 3 | +1 +1 |
| 25 |  Slovakia | 14.874 | 3 | |
| 26 |  Norway | 14.675 | 3 | +1 +1 |
| 27 |  Serbia | 14.250 | 3 | +1 |
| 28 |  Bulgaria | 14.250 | 3 | +1 |
| 29 |  Hungary | 9.750 | 3 | |
| 30 |  Finland | 9.133 | 3 | +1 |
| 31 |  Georgia | 8.666 | 3 | +1 |
| 32 |  Bosnia and Herzegovina | 8.416 | 3 | |
| 33 |  Republic of Ireland | 7.375 | 3 | |
| 34 |  Slovenia | 7.124 | 3 | +1 |
| 35 |  Lithuania | 6.875 | 3 | |
| 36 |  Moldova | 6.749 | 3 | +1 |
| Rank | Association | Coeff. | Teams | Notes |
| 37 |  Azerbaijan | 6.207 | 3 | |
| 38 |  Latvia | 5.874 | 3 | |
| 39 |  Macedonia | 5.666 | 3 | |
| 40 |  Kazakhstan | 5.333 | 3 | +1 |
| 41 |  Iceland | 5.332 | 3 | +1 |
| 42 |  Montenegro | 4.375 | 3 | |
| 43 |  Liechtenstein | 4.000 | 1 | |
| 44 |  Albania | 3.916 | 3 | +1 |
| 45 |  Malta | 3.083 | 3 | |
| 46 |  Wales | 2.749 | 3 | |
| 47 |  Estonia | 2.666 | 3 | +1 |
| 48 |  Northern Ireland | 2.583 | 3 | |
| 49 |  Luxembourg | 2.333 | 3 | |
| 50 |  Armenia | 2.208 | 3 | |
| 51 |  Faroe Islands | 1.416 | 3 | |
| 52 |  Andorra | 1.000 | 2 | |
| 53 |  San Marino | 0.916 | 2 | |
| 54 |  Gibraltar | 0.000 | 0 |
Distribution
Since the title holders qualified for the Champions League through their domestic performance, the group stage spot reserved for the title holders is vacated, and the following changes to the default allocation system are made:- The domestic cup winners of association 7 are promoted from the play-off round to the group stage.
- The domestic cup winners of association 16 are promoted from the third qualifying round to the play-off round.
- The domestic cup winners of association 19 are promoted from the second qualifying round to the third qualifying round.
- The domestic cup winners of associations 33 and 34 are promoted from the first qualifying round to the second qualifying round.
| Teams entering in this round | Teams advancing from previous round | Teams transferred from Champions League | |
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| Second qualifying round |
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| Third qualifying round |
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| Play-off round |
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| Group stage |
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| Knockout phase |
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Redistribution rules
A Europa League place is vacated when a team qualifies for both the Champions League and the Europa League, or qualifies for the Europa League by more than one method. When a place is vacated, it is redistributed within the national association by the following rules:- When the domestic cup winners also qualify for the Champions League, their Europa League place is vacated. As a result, either of the following teams qualify for the Europa League:
- *The domestic cup runners-up, provided they have not yet qualified for European competitions, qualify for the Europa League as the "lowest-placed" qualifier, with the other Europa League qualifiers moved up one "place".
- *Otherwise, the highest-placed team in the league which have not yet qualified for European competitions qualify for the Europa League, with the Europa League qualifiers which finish above them in the league moved up one "place".
- When the domestic cup winners also qualify for the Europa League through league position, their place through the league position is vacated. As a result, the highest-placed team in the league which have not yet qualified for European competitions qualify for the Europa League, with the Europa League qualifiers which finish above them in the league moved up one "place" if possible.
- For associations where a Europa League place is reserved for the League Cup winners, they always qualify for the Europa League as the "lowest-placed" qualifier. If the League Cup winners have already qualified for European competitions through other methods, this reserved Europa League place is taken by the highest-placed league team in the league which have not yet qualified for European competitions.
- A Fair Play place is taken by the highest-ranked team in the domestic Fair Play table which have not yet qualified for European competitions.
Teams
- TH: Title holders
- CW: Cup winners
- CR: Cup runners-up
- LC: League Cup winners
- 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, etc.: League position
- P-W: End-of-season European competition play-offs winners
- FP: Fair Play
- UCL: Transferred from the Champions League
- *GS: Third-placed teams from the group stage
- *PO: Losers from the play-off round
- *Q3: Losers from the third qualifying round
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Round and draw dates
The schedule of the competition was as follows.Matches in the qualifying, play-off, and knockout rounds may also be played on Tuesdays or Wednesdays instead of the regular Thursdays due to scheduling conflicts.
Qualifying rounds
In the qualifying rounds and the play-off round, teams were divided into seeded and unseeded teams based on their 2013 UEFA club coefficients, and then drawn into two-legged home-and-away ties. Teams from the same association could not be drawn against each other.First qualifying round
The draws for the first and second qualifying rounds were held on 24 June 2013. The first legs were played on 2, 3 and 4 July, and the second legs were played on 9, 10 and 11 July 2013.Inter Turku lodged a protest after losing the second leg to Víkingur Gøta, and two match officials were later banned for life by UEFA for attempted match-fixing.
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Second qualifying round
The first legs were played on 16 and 18 July, and the second legs were played on 25 July 2013.;Notes
Third qualifying round
The draw for the third qualifying round was held on 19 July 2013. The first legs were played on 1 August, and the second legs were played on 8 August 2013.Play-off round
The draw for the play-off round was held on 9 August 2013. The first legs were played on 22 August, and the second legs were played on 29 August 2013.;Notes
Group stage
The draw for the group stage was held in Monaco on 30 August 2013. Prior to the draw, the Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld UEFA's ban on Fenerbahce and Beşiktaş, meaning the two clubs were banned from the 2013–14 UEFA Europa League. UEFA decided to replace Beşiktaş in the Europa League group stage with Tromsø, who were eliminated by Beşiktaş in the play-off round, while a draw was held to select a team to replace Fenerbahçe among the teams eliminated in the play-off round, and was won by APOEL.The 48 teams were allocated into four pots based on their 2013 UEFA club coefficients. They were drawn into twelve groups of four, with the restriction that teams from the same association could not be drawn against each other.
In each group, teams played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The matchdays were 19 September, 3 October, 24 October, 7 November, 28 November, and 12 December 2013. The group winners and runners-up advanced to the [|round of 32], where they were joined by the 8 third-placed teams from the 2013–14 UEFA Champions League group stage.
- For tiebreakers if two or more teams are equal on points, see 2013–14 UEFA Europa League group stage#Tiebreakers
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Group E
Group F
Group G
Group H
Group I
Group J
Group K
Group L
Knockout phase
In the knockout phase, teams played against each other over two legs on a home-and-away basis, except for the one-match final. The mechanism of the draws for each round was as follows:- In the draw for the round of 32, the twelve group winners and the four third-placed teams from the Champions League group stage with the better group records were seeded, and the twelve group runners-up and the other four third-placed teams from the Champions League group stage were unseeded. The seeded teams were drawn against the unseeded teams, with the seeded teams hosting the second leg. Teams from the same group or the same association could not be drawn against each other.
- In the draws for the round of 16 onwards, there were no seedings, and teams from the same group or the same association could be drawn against each other.
Bracket
Round of 32
The draw for the round of 32 and round of 16 was held on 16 December 2013. The first legs were played on 20 February, and the second legs were played on 27 February 2014.Round of 16
The first legs were played on 13 March, and the second legs were played on 20 March 2014.Quarter-finals
The draw for the quarter-finals was held on 21 March 2014. The first legs were played on 3 April, and the second legs were played on 10 April 2014.Semi-finals
The draw for the semi-finals and final was held on 11 April 2014. The first legs were played on 24 April, and the second legs were played on 1 May 2014.Final
Statistics
Statistics exclude qualifying rounds and play-off round.Top goalscorers
Top assists
Squad of the Season
The UEFA technical study group selected the following 18 players as the squad of the tournament:| Player | Team | |
| Beto | Sevilla | |
| Gianluigi Buffon | Juventus | |
| Eliaquim Mangala | Porto | |
 Ezequiel Garay | Benfica | |
| Leonardo Bonucci | Juventus | |
| Nicolás Pareja | Sevilla | |
| Gonzalo Rodríguez | Fiorentina | |
| Andrea Pirlo | Juventus | |
| Borja Valero | Fiorentina | |
| Ivan Rakitić | Sevilla | |
 Stéphane Mbia | Sevilla | |
| Nicolás Gaitán | Benfica | |
| André Gomes | Benfica | |
| Carlos Tevez | Juventus | |
| Gonzalo Higuaín | Napoli | |
| Jonathan Soriano | Red Bull Salzburg | |
| Rodrigo | Benfica | |
| Lazar Marković | Benfica |