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2009–10 UEFA Europa League group stage

The 2009–10 UEFA Europa League group stage matches took place between 17 September and 17 December 2009.

The group stage featured the 38 winners of the play-off round and the 10 losing sides of the Champions League play-off round.

Following the completion of the group stage, the top two teams in each group advanced to play in the round of 32, where they were joined by the eight third-placed teams from the Champions League group stage.

The draw for the group stage was held in Monaco on 28 August 2009.

Seeding was determined by the UEFA coefficients:^[1] Pot 1 held teams ranked 9–32, Pot 2 held teams ranked 35–74, Pot 3 held teams ranked 76–108, while Pot 4 held teams ranked 115–203 and unranked teams.^[2]

Clubs from the same association were paired up to split the matchdays between Thursday.

Pot 1 Team Coeff. Shakhtar Donetsk TH 74.370 Werder Bremen 91.339 Villarreal 80.853 Roma 78.582 PSV Eindhoven 75.826 Sporting CP CL-n 68.292 Hamburger SV 67.339 Benfica 64.292 Valencia 59.853 Panathinaikos CL-n 56.633 Ajax 54.826 Steaua București 53.781

Pot 2 Team Coeff. Fenerbahçe 52.445 Basel 51.050 Lille 47.033 Celtic CL-n 40.575 Everton 35.899 Club Brugge 34.065 Heerenveen 33.826 Galatasaray 33.445 Anderlecht CL-n 32.065 Austria Wien 31.565 Copenhagen CL-c 26.890 Lazio 26.582

Pot 3 Team Coeff. Hertha BSC 26.339 Sparta Prague 26.150 Dinamo București 25.781 AEK Athens 25.633 Slavia Prague 25.150 Levski Sofia CL-c 24.250 Athletic Bilbao 23.853 Partizan 23.050 Hapoel Tel Aviv 18.050 Twente 17.826 Dinamo Zagreb 16.466 Fulham 15.899

Pot 4 Team Coeff. CSKA Sofia 14.250 Toulouse 14.033 CFR Cluj 13.781 Genoa 12.582 Rapid Wien 8.565 Timișoara CL-n 7.781 BATE Borisov 7.733 Nacional 7.292 Red Bull Salzburg CL-c 6.565 Sturm Graz 3.565 Ventspils CL-c 2.832 Sheriff Tiraspol CL-c 1.333

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^CL-c Losing teams from the Champions League play-off round (Champions Path)

^CL-n Losing teams from the Champions League play-off round (Non-Champions Path)

Based on Article 7.05 in the UEFA regulations, if two or more teams were equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria were applied to determine the rankings:^[3]

1. higher number of points obtained in the group matches played among the teams in question;
2. superior goal difference from the group matches played among the teams in question;
3. higher number of goals scored away from home in the group matches played among the teams in question;
4. superior goal difference from all group matches played;
5. higher number of goals scored;
6. higher number of coefficient points accumulated by the club in question, as well as its association, over the previous five seasons.

All times CET/CEST.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Anderlecht	6	3	2	1	9	4	+5	11	Advance to knockout phase
2	Ajax	6	3	2	1	8	6	+2	11
3	Dinamo Zagreb[a]	6	2	0	4	6	8	−2	6
4	Timișoara	6	1	2	3	4	9	−5	5

Ajax	0–0	Timișoara
	Report

Attendance: 25,391

Referee: Alon Yefet (Israel)

Dinamo Zagreb	0–2	Anderlecht
	Report	Bernárdez 74' Legear 88'

Attendance: 13,844

Referee: Zsolt Szabó (Hungary)

Anderlecht	1–1	Ajax
Legear 85'	Report	Rommedahl 72'

Attendance: 17,026

Referee: Kristinn Jakobsson (Iceland)

Timișoara	0–3	Dinamo Zagreb
	Report	Badelj 8' Sammir 52' Morales 59'

Attendance: 5,736

Referee: Peter Rasmussen (Denmark)

Timișoara	0–0	Anderlecht
	Report

Attendance: 6,893

Referee: Claudio Circhetta (Switzerland)

Ajax	2–1	Dinamo Zagreb
Suárez 3' (pen.) Rommedahl 81'	Report	Tomečak 90+3'

Attendance: 30,700

Referee: Thomas Einwaller (Austria)

Anderlecht	3–1	Timișoara
Suárez 29' (pen.) Boussoufa 69' Legear 90+5'	Report	Parks 51'

Attendance: 15,991

Referee: Tony Chapron (France)

Dinamo Zagreb	0–2	Ajax
	Report	Pantelić 13' De Zeeuw 45+1'

Attendance: 0 ¹

Referee: Mike Dean (England)

Timișoara	1–2	Ajax
Goga 2'	Report	Suárez 8' Pantelić 46'

Attendance: 8,085

Referee: Paolo Tagliavento (Italy)

Anderlecht	0–1	Dinamo Zagreb
	Report	Slepička 57'

Attendance: 15,622

Referee: Dougie McDonald (Scotland)

Ajax	1–3	Anderlecht
Emanuelson 77'	Report	Lukaku 13', 22' Legear 43'

Attendance: 36,156

Referee: Cüneyt Çakır (Turkey)

Dinamo Zagreb	1–2	Timișoara
Scutaru 80' (o.g.)	Report	Bucur 67' Goga 84'

Attendance: 0 ¹

Referee: Carlos Velasco Carballo (Spain)

Notes

• Note 1: On 29 October 2009, UEFA's Control and Disciplinary Body ruled that Dinamo Zagreb would have to play their next two home matches in the UEFA Europa League behind closed doors due to the actions of their supporters in their match at Timișoara. They also deducted three points from the Croatian club's points tally in Group A.^[6] The club appealed, but the appeal was not heard until after the first closed-doors game against Ajax. After the appeal was heard, UEFA replaced the three-point deduction with a €75,000 fine, and a three-year suspended ban from European competition, while the two-match stadium ban remained unchanged.^[7]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Valencia	6	3	3	0	12	8	+4	12	Advance to knockout phase
2	Lille	6	3	1	2	15	9	+6	10
3	Genoa	6	2	1	3	8	10	−2	7
4	Slavia Prague	6	0	3	3	5	13	−8	3

Lille	1–1	Valencia
Gervinho 86'	Report	Mata 78'

Attendance: 14,676

Referee: Alexandru Tudor (Romania)

Genoa	2–0	Slavia Prague
Zapater 4' Sculli 39'	Report

Attendance: 17,356

Referee: Jorge Sousa (Portugal)

Slavia Prague	1–5	Lille
Belaid 6' (pen.)	Report	Suchý 47' (o.g.) Frau 71' Gervinho 85', 90+1' Souquet 88'

Attendance: 9,158

Referee: Robert Schörgenhofer (Austria)

Valencia	3–2	Genoa
Silva 52' Žigić 56' Villa 82' (pen.)	Report	Floccari 43' Kharja 64' (pen.)

Attendance: 21,333

Referee: Cüneyt Çakır (Turkey)

Valencia	1–1	Slavia Prague
Navarro 63'	Report	Naumov 28'

Attendance: 20,632

Referee: Serge Gumienny (Belgium)

Lille	3–0	Genoa
Obraniak 38' Vittek 63' Hazard 84'	Report

Attendance: 16,518

Referee: Darko Čeferin (Slovenia)

Slavia Prague	2–2	Valencia
Janda 79' Grajciar 82'	Report	Joaquín 22' (pen.) Maduro 47'

Attendance: 10,624

Referee: Svein Oddvar Moen (Norway)

Genoa	3–2	Lille
Palacio 14' Crespo 58' Sculli 90+2'	Report	Frau 76' Gervinho 84'

Attendance: 18,587

Referee: Bas Nijhuis (Netherlands)

Valencia	3–1	Lille
Joaquín 3', 32' Mata 53'	Report	Chedjou 90+1'

Attendance: 26,193

Referee: Mike Dean (England)

Slavia Prague	0–0	Genoa
	Report

Attendance: 11,799

Referee: Knut Kircher (Germany)

Lille	3–1	Slavia Prague
Cabaye 25' Gervinho 40' Obraniak 80'	Report	Vlček 56'

Attendance: 15,358

Referee: Hannes Kaasik (Estonia)

Genoa	1–2	Valencia
Crespo 51'	Report	Bruno 45+1' Villa 90+5'

Attendance: 23,480

Referee: Alan Kelly (Republic of Ireland)

Notes

• Note 2: Lille played their home group matches in Villeneuve d'AscqatStadium Lille-MetropoleasLille's Stade Grimonprez Jooris was left in 2004. In 2012, Stadium Grimonprez Jooris was replaced definitely by Stade Borne de l'Espoir.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Hapoel Tel Aviv	6	4	0	2	13	8	+5	12	Advance to knockout phase
2	Hamburger SV	6	3	1	2	7	6	+1	10
3	Celtic	6	1	3	2	7	7	0	6
4	Rapid Wien	6	1	2	3	8	14	−6	5

Hapoel Tel Aviv	2–1	Celtic
Vučićević 75' Lala 88'	Report	Samaras 25'

Attendance: 9,830

Referee: Paul Allaerts (Belgium)

Rapid Wien	3–0	Hamburger SV
Hofmann 35' Jelavić 44' Drazan 76'	Report

Attendance: 49,850

Referee: Ivan Bebek (Croatia)

Hamburger SV	4–2	Hapoel Tel Aviv
Berg 5', 12' Elia 41' Zé Roberto 77'	Report	Shechter 36' Yeboah 61'

Attendance: 29,976

Referee: István Vad (Hungary)

Celtic	1–1	Rapid Wien
McDonald 21'	Report	Jelavić 4'

Attendance: 42,013

Referee: Bruno Paixão (Portugal)

Celtic	0–1	Hamburger SV
	Report	Berg 63'

Attendance: 38,821

Referee: Gianluca Rocchi (Italy)

Hapoel Tel Aviv	5–1	Rapid Wien
Dober 30' (o.g.) Menteshashvili 54' Shechter 59' Vermuth 69' Lala 90'	Report	Hofmann 31'

Attendance: 11,305

Referee: Kristinn Jakobsson (Iceland)

Hamburger SV	0–0	Celtic
	Report

Attendance: 45,037

Referee: Carlos Velasco Carballo (Spain)

Rapid Wien	0–3	Hapoel Tel Aviv
	Report	Yadin 13' Vermuth 65' Natcho 70'

Attendance: 49,000

Referee: Tommy Skjerven (Norway)

Celtic	2–0	Hapoel Tel Aviv
Samaras 22' Robson 68'	Report

Attendance: 35,010

Referee: Tony Asumaa (Finland)

Hamburger SV	2–0	Rapid Wien
Jansen 47' Berg 53'	Report

Attendance: 45,737

Referee: Bas Nijhuis (Netherlands)

Hapoel Tel Aviv	1–0	Hamburger SV
Yeboah 23'	Report

Attendance: 15,164

Referee: Aleksei Nikolaev (Russia)

Rapid Wien	3–3	Celtic
Jelavić 1', 8' Salihi 19'	Report	Fortuné 24', 67' McGowan 90+1'

Attendance: 48,300

Referee: Robert Małek (Poland)

Notes

• Note 3: Rapid Wien played their home group matches at Ernst-Happel-Stadion as it had a greater capacity than their Gerhard Hanappi Stadium.^[8]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Sporting CP	6	3	2	1	8	6	+2	11	Advance to knockout phase
2	Hertha BSC	6	3	1	2	6	5	+1	10
3	Heerenveen	6	2	2	2	11	7	+4	8
4	Ventspils	6	0	3	3	3	10	−7	3

Hertha BSC	1–1	Ventspils
Piszczek 34'	Report	Gauračs 48'

Attendance: 13,454

Referee: Alan Kelly (Republic of Ireland)

Heerenveen	2–3	Sporting CP
Sibon 12' Dingsdag 77'	Report	Liédson 17', 40', 88'

Attendance: 13,000

Referee: Aleksei Nikolaev (Russia)

Sporting CP	1–0	Hertha BSC
Silva 18'	Report

Attendance: 16,197

Referee: Serge Gumienny (Belgium)

Ventspils	0–0	Heerenveen
	Report

Attendance: 3,500

Referee: Oleh Oriekhov (Ukraine)

Ventspils	1–2	Sporting CP
Laizāns 64' (pen.)	Report	Veloso 6' Moutinho 85'

Attendance: 4,500

Referee: Sascha Kever (Switzerland)

Hertha BSC	0–1	Heerenveen
	Report	Losada 36'

Attendance: 13,134

Referee: Costas Kapitanis (Cyprus)

Sporting CP	1–1	Ventspils
Saleiro 22'	Report	Zamperini 15'

Attendance: 18,103

Referee: Aleksandar Stavrev (Macedonia)

Heerenveen	2–3	Hertha BSC
Papadopulos 3', 36'	Report	Domovchiyski 21', 52' Wichniarek 90+1'

Attendance: 18,000

Referee: Cristian Balaj (Romania)

Ventspils	0–1	Hertha BSC
	Report	Raffael 12'

Attendance: 7,200

Referee: István Vad (Hungary)

Sporting CP	1–1	Heerenveen
Grimi 90+1'	Report	Assaidi 47'

Attendance: 12,204

Referee: Pavel Královec (Czech Republic)

Hertha BSC	1–0	Sporting CP
Kačar 70'	Report

Attendance: 14,417

Referee: Aleksei Kulbakov (Belarus)

Heerenveen	5–0	Ventspils
Väyrynen 55' Elm 58' Sibon 77', 78' Janmaat 88'	Report

Attendance: 16,000

Referee: Robert Schörgenhofer (Austria)

Notes

• Note 4: Ventspils played their home group matches in RigaatSkonto Stadium as their Ventspils Olimpiskais Stadions did not meet UEFA criteria.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Roma	6	4	1	1	10	5	+5	13	Advance to knockout phase
2	Fulham	6	3	2	1	8	6	+2	11
3	Basel	6	3	0	3	10	7	+3	9
4	CSKA Sofia	6	0	1	5	2	12	−10	1

CSKA Sofia	1–1	Fulham
Platini 62'	Report	Kamara 65'

Attendance: 28,000

Referee: Darko Čeferin (Slovenia)

Basel	2–0	Roma
Carlitos 11' Almerares 87'	Report

Attendance: 16,459

Referee: Carlos Velasco Carballo (Spain)

Roma	2–0	CSKA Sofia
Okaka 19' Perrotta 23'	Report

Attendance: 16,027

Referee: Vladimír Hriňák (Slovakia)

Fulham	1–0	Basel
Murphy 57'	Report

Attendance: 16,100

Referee: Michael Weiner (Germany)

Fulham	1–1	Roma
Hangeland 24'	Report	Andreolli 90+3'

Attendance: 23,561

Referee: Paul Allaerts (Belgium)

CSKA Sofia	0–2	Basel
	Report	Frei 20', 63'

Attendance: 17,664

Referee: Jorge Sousa (Portugal)

Roma	2–1	Fulham
Riise 69' Okaka 76'	Report	Kamara 19' (pen.)

Attendance: 14,457

Referee: Kevin Blom (Netherlands)

Basel	3–1	CSKA Sofia
Gelabert 35' Frei 41' (pen.), 67'	Report	Yanchev 61'

Attendance: 15,255

Referee: Oleh Oriekhov (Ukraine)

Fulham	1–0	CSKA Sofia
Gera 15'	Report

Attendance: 23,604

Referee: Cristian Balaj (Romania)

Roma	2–1	Basel
Totti 32' (pen.) Vučinić 59'	Report	Huggel 18'

Attendance: 17,332

Referee: Tony Chapron (France)

CSKA Sofia	0–3	Roma
	Report	Cerci 45+1', 52' Scardina 89'

Attendance: 9,700

Referee: Aleksandar Stavrev (Macedonia)

Basel	2–3	Fulham
Frei 64' (pen.) Streller 87'	Report	Zamora 41', 45' Gera 77'

Attendance: 20,063

Referee: Stefan Johannesson (Sweden)

Notes

• Note 5: CSKA Sofia played their home group matches at Vasil Levski National Stadium as their Balgarska Armiya Stadium did not meet UEFA criteria.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Galatasaray	6	4	1	1	12	4	+8	13	Advance to knockout phase
2	Panathinaikos	6	4	0	2	7	4	+3	12
3	Dinamo București	6	2	0	4	4	12	−8	6
4	Sturm Graz	6	1	1	4	3	6	−3	4

Panathinaikos	1–3	Galatasaray
Salpingidis 78'	Report	Elano 5' Baroš 48' Sarriegi 58' (o.g.)

Attendance: 46,791

Referee: Paolo Tagliavento (Italy)

Sturm Graz	0–1	Dinamo București
	Report	Tamaș 80'

Attendance: 15,323

Referee: Tony Asumaa (Finland)

Dinamo București	0–1	Panathinaikos
	Report	Karagounis 79'

Attendance: 100 ⁷

Referee: César Muñiz Fernández (Spain)

Galatasaray	1–1	Sturm Graz
Baroš 63'	Report	Beichler 45+1'

Attendance: 18,334

Referee: Bas Nijhuis (Netherlands)

Galatasaray	4–1	Dinamo București
Kewell 32' Nonda 42', 46' Elano 58' (pen.)	Report	Boștină 61'

Attendance: 18,902

Referee: Martin Ingvarsson (Sweden)

Panathinaikos	1–0	Sturm Graz
Salpingidis 60' (pen.)	Report

Attendance: 31,127

Referee: Peter Rasmussen (Denmark)

Dinamo București	0–3	Galatasaray
	Report	Kewell 22' Nonda 24' Mehmet 56'

Attendance: 0 ⁷

Referee: Michael Weiner (Germany)

Sturm Graz	0–1	Panathinaikos
	Report	Katsouranis 70'

Attendance: 15,322

Referee: Pavel Královec (Czech Republic)

Galatasaray	1–0	Panathinaikos
Gilberto 50' (o.g.)	Report

Attendance: 18,566

Referee: Ivan Bebek (Croatia)

Dinamo București	2–1	Sturm Graz
Niculae 41', 57'	Report	Sonnleitner 5'

Attendance: 1,821

Referee: Bruno Paixão (Portugal)

Panathinaikos	3–0	Dinamo București
Rukavina 54' Cissé 80', 85'	Report

Attendance: 19,617

Referee: Kevin Blom (Netherlands)

Sturm Graz	1–0	Galatasaray
Beichler 20'	Report

Attendance: 15,232

Referee: Darko Čeferin (Slovenia)

Notes

• Note 6: Panathinaikos played their group matches in AthensatOlympic StadiumasPanathinaikos' Leoforos Alexandras Stadium had been replaced temporarily by that stadium. In 2010, Leoforos Alexandras Stadium was replaced definitely by Marfin Stadium.
• Note 7: Two home matches which Dinamo București had to play behind closed doors because one fan entered the playing field and other fans invaded the running track around the pitch in the play-off round against Slovan Liberec.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Red Bull Salzburg	6	6	0	0	9	2	+7	18	Advance to knockout phase
2	Villarreal	6	3	0	3	8	6	+2	9
3	Lazio	6	2	0	4	9	10	−1	6
4	Levski Sofia	6	1	0	5	1	9	−8	3

Lazio	1–2	Red Bull Salzburg
Foggia 59'	Report	Schiemer 82' Janko 90+3'

Attendance: 12,600

Referee: Saïd Ennjimi (France)

Villarreal	1–0	Levski Sofia
Nilmar 72'	Report

Attendance: 5,244

Referee: Mike Dean (England)

Levski Sofia	0–4	Lazio
	Report	Matuzalém 22' Zárate 45+1' Meghni 67' Rocchi 74'

Attendance: 16,500

Referee: Nikolay Ivanov (Russia)

Red Bull Salzburg	2–0	Villarreal
Janko 21' Tchoyi 84'	Report

Attendance: 18,800

Referee: Costas Kapitanis (Cyprus)

Red Bull Salzburg	1–0	Levski Sofia
Švento 45+2'	Report

Attendance: 17,800

Referee: Hannes Kaasik (Estonia)

Lazio	2–1	Villarreal
Zárate 20' Rocchi 90+2'	Report	Eguren 40'

Attendance: 14,388

Referee: Ivan Bebek (Croatia)

Levski Sofia	0–1	Red Bull Salzburg
	Report	Schiemer 90+3'