Next season’s UEFA Europa League group stage is beginning to take shape, with Arsenal, Lazio, Lyon and Villarreal among 13 of the eventual 16 automatic qualifiers now known.
Europa League Automatic Qualifiers
- Spain: Villarreal, Real Sociedad
- Germany: Köln, Hertha Berlin
- England: Arsenal
- Italy: Lazio, Atalanta
- Portugal: Guimarães
- France: Lyon
- Russia: Lokomotiv Moskva
- Ukraine: Zorya Luhansk
- Belgium: Zulte Waregem
- Holland: Vitesse
- Turkey: Konyaspor
- Switzerland: Lugano
These teams would, as it stands, are assured of a UEFA Europa League group place next season. The other twenty-two group stage places will be decided via qualifying in the summer while ten more teams transfer from the UEFA Champions League play-offs.