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2021–22 UEFA Europa Conference League group stage

Draw[edit]

The draw for the group stage was held on 27 August 2021, 13:30 CEST (14:30 TRT), in Istanbul, Turkey.^[3][4] The 32 teams were drawn into eight groups of four. For the draw, the teams were seeded into four pots, each of eight teams, based on their 2021 UEFA club coefficients.^[5] Teams from the same association, and due to political reasons, teams from Azerbaijan and Armenia, shall not be drawn into the same group.^[6] Prior to the draw, UEFA formed pairings of teams from the same association, including those playing in the Europa League group stage (one pairing for associations with two or three teams, two pairings for associations with four or five teams), based on television audiences, where one team was drawn into Groups A–D and another team was drawn into Groups E–H, so that the two teams would have different kick-off times. The following pairings were announced by UEFA after the group stage teams were confirmed (the second team in a pairing marked by UEL played in the Europa League group stage):^[7]

B Copenhagen and Randers

C AZ and Vitesse

D PAOK and Olympiacos (UEL)

E Rennes and Monaco (UEL)

F Maccabi Tel Aviv and Maccabi Haifa

G Partizan and Red Star Belgrade (UEL)

H Omonia and Anorthosis Famagusta

K Feyenoord and PSV Eindhoven (UEL)

L CSKA Sofia and Ludogorets Razgrad (UEL)

On each matchday, one set of four groups played their matches on 18:45 CET/CEST, while the other set of four groups played their matches on 21:00 CET/CEST, with the two sets of groups alternating between each matchday. The fixtures were decided after the draw, using a computer draw not shown to public. Each team did not play more than two home matches or two away matches in a row, and did play one home match and one away match on the first and last matchdays (Regulations Article 15.02).^[2]

Teams[edit]

Below were the participating teams (with their 2021 UEFA club coefficients),^[5] grouped by their seeding pot.^[7] They included:

• 22 winners of the play-off round (5 from Champions Path, 17 from Main Path)
• 10 losers of the Europa League play-off round

Pot 1 Team Notes Coeff. Roma [ECL-MP] 90.000 Tottenham Hotspur [ECL-MP] 88.000 Basel [ECL-MP] 49.000 Slavia Prague [EL-PO] 43.500 Copenhagen [ECL-MP] 43.500 Gent [ECL-MP] 26.500 AZ [EL-PO] 21.500 LASK [ECL-MP] 21.000

Pot 2 Team Notes Coeff. Feyenoord [ECL-MP] 21.000 Qarabağ [ECL-MP] 21.000 Maccabi Tel Aviv [ECL-MP] 20.500 PAOK [ECL-MP] 20.000 Rennes [ECL-MP] 19.000 Partizan [ECL-MP] 18.000 CFR Cluj [EL-PO] 16.500 Zorya Luhansk [EL-PO] 15.000

Pot 3 Team Notes Coeff. Union Berlin [ECL-MP] 14.714 CSKA Sofia [ECL-MP] 8.000 Vitesse [ECL-MP] 7.840 Slovan Bratislava [EL-PO] 7.500 Jablonec [ECL-MP] 7.000 Alashkert [EL-PO] 6.500 Flora [ECL-CP] 6.250 Kairat [ECL-CP] 6.000

Pot 4 Team Notes Coeff. Lincoln Red Imps [ECL-CP] 5.750 Randers [EL-PO] 5.575 Omonia [EL-PO] 5.550 Anorthosis Famagusta [ECL-MP] 5.550 HJK [EL-PO] 5.500 Maccabi Haifa [ECL-CP] 4.875 Bodø/Glimt [ECL-CP] 4.200 Mura [EL-PO] 3.000

Notes

Format[edit]

In each group, teams played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The winners of each group advanced to the round of 16, while the runners-up advanced to the knockout round play-offs. The third-placed and fourth-placed teams were eliminated from European competitions for the season.

Tiebreakers[edit]

Teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If two or more teams were tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (see Article 16 Equality of points – group stage, Regulations of the UEFA Europa Conference League):^[2]

1. Points in head-to-head matches among the tied teams;
2. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among the tied teams;
3. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among the tied teams;
4. If more than two teams were tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams were still tied, all head-to-head criteria above were reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
5. Goal difference in all group matches;
6. Goals scored in all group matches;
7. Away goals scored in all group matches;
8. Wins in all group matches;
9. Away wins in all group matches;
10. Disciplinary points (direct red card = 3 points; double yellow card = 3 points; single yellow card = 1 point);
11. UEFA club coefficient.

Due to the abolition of the away goals rule, head-to-head away goals were no longer applied as a tiebreaker starting from this season. However, total away goals were still applied as a tiebreaker.^[8]

Groups[edit]

The fixtures were announced on 28 August 2021, the day after the draw.^[9] The matches were played on 14 and 16 September, 30 September, 21 October, 4 November, 25 November, and 9 December 2021 (one home match of Maccabi Haifa and Maccabi Tel Aviv was played on a Tuesday, due to Yom Kippur, which lasted from sunset 15 September to nightfall 16 September). The scheduled kick-off times were 16:30, 18:45 and 21:00 CET/CEST (all three of Kairat's home matches were played at 16:30 CET/CEST due to the time difference of Kazakhstan, and the matches rescheduled for Tuesdays were also played at 16:30 CET/CEST to avoid conflicts with Champions League matches).

Times were CET/CEST,^{[note 1]} as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Group A[edit]

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		LASK	MTA	HJK	ALA
1	LASK	6	5	1	0	12	1	+11	16	Advance to round of 16		—	1–1	3–0	2–0
2	Maccabi Tel Aviv	6	3	2	1	14	4	+10	11	Advance to knockout round play-offs		0–1	—	3–0	4–1
3	HJK	6	2	0	4	5	15	−10	6			0–2	0–5	—	1–0
4	Alashkert	6	0	1	5	4	15	−11	1			0–3	1–1	2–4	—

Maccabi Tel Aviv	4–1	Alashkert
Perica 13' Kanichowsky 32' Biton 45+3' (pen.) Hozez 72'	Report	Embaló 17'

Attendance: 6,934^[10]

Referee: Espen Eskås (Norway)

HJK	0–2	LASK
	Report	Marešić 17' Monschein 89'

Attendance: 3,612^[11]

Referee: Kirill Levnikov (Russia)

LASK	1–1	Maccabi Tel Aviv
Horvath 10'	Report	Shamir 88'

Attendance: 1,000^[12]

Referee: Mykola Balakin (Ukraine)

Alashkert	2–4	HJK
Embaló 24' Glišić 90+3'	Report	Ri. Riski 8' Valenčič 57' Ro. Riski 63' Olusanya 90+4'

Attendance: 2,000^[13]

Referee: Horațiu Feșnic (Romania)

HJK	0–5	Maccabi Tel Aviv
	Report	Kanichowsky 28', 60' Perica 49' (pen.) Saborit 87' (pen.) Shamir 90+4'

Attendance: 4,883^[14]

Referee: Pavel Orel (Czech Republic)

Alashkert	0–3	LASK
	Report	Hong 35' Goiginger 68' Michorl 90+2'

Attendance: 1,500^[15]

Referee: Jens Maae (Denmark)

LASK	2–0	Alashkert
Nakamura 12', 87'	Report

Attendance: 400^[16]

Referee: Mohammed Al-Hakim (Sweden)

Maccabi Tel Aviv	3–0	HJK
Kuwas 22' Lingman 65' (o.g.) Hozez 90+3'	Report

Attendance: 8,029^[17]

Referee: Rade Obrenovič (Slovenia)

HJK	1–0	Alashkert
Tanaka 48'	Report

Attendance: 4,424^[18]

Referee: Bram Van Driessche (Belgium)

Maccabi Tel Aviv	0–1	LASK
	Report	Horvath 89'

Attendance: 12,203^[19]

Referee: Jérôme Brisard (France)

Alashkert	1–1	Maccabi Tel Aviv
Boljević 78'	Report	Almog 90'

Attendance: 700^[20]

Referee: Gergő Bogár (Hungary)

LASK	3–0	HJK
Balić 41' Nakamura 63' Gruber 81'	Report

Attendance: 0^{[21][note 5]}

Referee: Igor Pajač (Croatia)

Group B[edit]

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		GNT	PAR	ANO	FLO
1	Gent	6	4	1	1	6	2	+4	13	Advance to round of 16		—	1–1	2–0	1–0
2	Partizan	6	2	2	2	6	4	+2	8	Advance to knockout round play-offs		0–1	—	1–1	2–0
3	Anorthosis Famagusta	6	1	3	2	6	9	−3	6			1–0	0–2	—	2–2
4	Flora	6	1	2	3	5	8	−3	5			0–1	1–0	2–2	—

Flora	0–1	Gent
	Report	Lemajić 54'

Attendance: 2,666^[22]

Referee: Trustin Farrugia Cann (Malta)

Anorthosis Famagusta	0–2	Partizan
	Report	Menig 42' Gomes 68'

Attendance: 5,000^[23]

Referee: Peter Kjærsgaard-Andersen (Denmark)

Gent	2–0	Anorthosis Famagusta
Correa 28' (o.g.) Kums 81'	Report

Attendance: 10,209^[24]

Referee: Filip Glova (Slovakia)

Partizan	2–0	Flora
Marković 20', 42'	Report

Attendance: 4,845^[25]

Referee: Julian Weinberger (Austria)

Anorthosis Famagusta	2–2	Flora
Deletić 25' Popović 28'	Report	Sappinen 38', 80'

Attendance: 4,322^[26]

Referee: István Vad (Hungary)

Partizan	0–1	Gent
	Report	Kums 59'

Attendance: 8,943^[27]

Referee: Bobby Madden (Scotland)

Flora	2–2	Anorthosis Famagusta
Sappinen 55' Zenjov 58'	Report	Christofi 29' Popović 33'

Attendance: 2,023^[28]

Referee: Kári á Høvdanum (Faroe Islands)

Gent	1–1	Partizan
Tissoudali 80'	Report	Urošević 66'

Attendance: 10,595^[29]

Referee: Chris Kavanagh (England)

Flora	1–0	Partizan
Miller 44'	Report

Attendance: 1,503^[30]

Referee: Rob Harvey (Republic of Ireland)

Anorthosis Famagusta	1–0	Gent
Christodoulopoulos 27'	Report

Attendance: 2,573^[31]

Referee: Urs Schnyder (Switzerland)

Partizan	1–1	Anorthosis Famagusta
Milovanović 20'	Report	Christodoulopoulos 33' (pen.)

Attendance: 4,493^[32]

Referee: Giorgi Kruashvili (Georgia)

Gent	1–0	Flora
Bruno 51'	Report

Attendance: 7,421^[33]

Referee: Kaspar Sjöberg (Sweden)

Group C[edit]

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		ROM	BOD	ZOR	CSS
1	Roma	6	4	1	1	18	11	+7	13	Advance to round of 16		—	2–2	4–0	5–1
2	Bodø/Glimt	6	3	3	0	14	5	+9	12	Advance to knockout round play-offs		6–1	—	3–1	2–0
3	Zorya Luhansk	6	2	1	3	5	11	−6	7			0–3	1–1	—	2–0
4	CSKA Sofia	6	0	1	5	3	13	−10	1			2–3	0–0	0–1	—

Roma	5–1	CSKA Sofia
Pellegrini 25', 62' El Shaarawy 38' Mancini 82' Abraham 84'	Report	Carey 10'

Attendance: 29,876^[34]

Referee: Glenn Nyberg (Sweden)

Bodø/Glimt	3–1	Zorya Luhansk
Saltnes 48' Solbakken 49' Pellegrino 60'	Report	Hromov 90+1'

Attendance: 2,703^[35]

Referee: Dennis Higler (Netherlands)

Zorya Luhansk	0–3	Roma
	Report	El Shaarawy 7' Smalling 66' Abraham 68'

Attendance: 7,622^[36]

Referee: Luís Godinho (Portugal)

CSKA Sofia	0–0	Bodø/Glimt
	Report

Attendance: 7,291^[37]

Referee: Aleksandrs Anufrijevs (Latvia)

Bodø/Glimt	6–1	Roma
Botheim 8', 52' Berg 20' Solbakken 71', 80' Pellegrino 78'	Report	Pérez 28'

Attendance: 5,652^[38]

Referee: Ali Palabıyık (Turkey)

CSKA Sofia	0–1	Zorya Luhansk
	Report	Sayyadmanesh 65'

Attendance: 3,158^[39]

Referee: Manuel Schüttengruber (Austria)

Zorya Luhansk	2–0	CSKA Sofia
Zahedi 87' Sayyadmanesh 90+5'	Report

Attendance: 1,122^[40]

Referee: Petri Viljanen (Finland)

Roma	2–2	Bodø/Glimt
El Shaarawy 54' Ibañez 84'	Report	Solbakken 45+1' Botheim 65'

Attendance: 41,031^[41]

Referee: Anastasios Papapetrou (Greece)

Bodø/Glimt	2–0	CSKA Sofia
Brunstad Fet 25' Botheim 85'	Report

Attendance: 5,339^[42]

Referee: Yigal Frid (Israel)

Roma	4–0	Zorya Luhansk
Pérez 15' Zaniolo 33' Abraham 46', 75'	Report

Attendance: 24,000^[43]

Referee: István Kovács (Romania)

Zorya Luhansk	1–1	Bodø/Glimt
Nazaryna 18'	Report	Vernydub 68' (o.g.)

Attendance: 1,134^[44]

Referee: Krzysztof Jakubik (Poland)

CSKA Sofia	2–3	Roma
Čataković 75' Wildschut 90+3'	Report	Abraham 15', 53' Mayoral 34'

Attendance: 4,640^[45]

Referee: Nick Walsh (Scotland)

Group D[edit]

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		AZ	RAN	JAB	CLJ
1	AZ	6	4	2	0	8	3	+5	14	Advance to round of 16		—	1–0	1–0	2–0
2	Randers	6	1	4	1	9	9	0	7	Advance to knockout round play-offs		2–2	—	2–2	2–1
3	Jablonec	6	1	3	2	6	8	−2	6			1–1	2–2	—	1–0
4	CFR Cluj	6	1	1	4	4	7	−3	4			0–1	1–1	2–0	—

Jablonec	1–0	CFR Cluj
Pilař 51' (pen.)	Report

Attendance: 2,470^[46]

Referee: Enea Jorgji (Albania)

Randers	2–2	AZ
Piesinger 27' Graves 68'	Report	Clasie 24' Pavlidis 34'

Attendance: 3,365^[47]

Referee: Duje Strukan (Croatia)

AZ	1–0	Jablonec
Guðmundsson 53'	Report

Attendance: 9,071^[48]

Referee: Rade Obrenovič (Slovenia)

CFR Cluj	1–1	Randers
Petrila 68'	Report	Kamara 41'

Attendance: 3,825^[49]

Referee: Davide Massa (Italy)

Jablonec	2–2	Randers
Čvančara 35', 53'	Report	Odey 36', 90' (pen.)

Attendance: 3,678^[50]

Referee: Aliyar Aghayev (Azerbaijan)

CFR Cluj	0–1	AZ
	Report	Karlsson 18'

Attendance: 3,628^[51]

Referee: Halis Özkahya (Turkey)

AZ	2–0	CFR Cluj
Guðmundsson 5' Pavlidis 86'	Report

Attendance: 10,554^[52]

Referee: Alain Durieux (Luxembourg)

Randers	2–2	Jablonec
Hammershøy-Mistrati 46' Kubista 53' (o.g.)	Report	Čvančara 73' Kratochvíl 83'

Attendance: 4,071^[53]

Referee: Orel Grinfeld (Israel)

Jablonec	1–1	AZ
Kratochvíl 7'	Report	Evjen 44'

Attendance: 2,650^[54]

Referee: Manuel Schüttengruber (Austria)

Randers	2–1	CFR Cluj
Kamara 68' Piesinger 76'	Report	Deac 72'

Attendance: 4,309^[55]

Referee: Don Robertson (Scotland)

AZ	1–0	Randers
Oosting 87'	Report

Attendance: 0^{[56][note 5]}

Referee: Trustin Farrugia Cann (Malta)

CFR Cluj	2–0	Jablonec
Debeljuh 45', 82'	Report

Attendance: 2,400^[57]

Referee: Harm Osmers (Germany)

Group E[edit]

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		FEY	SLA	UNI	MHA
1	Feyenoord	6	4	2	0	11	6	+5	14	Advance to round of 16		—	2–1	3–1	2–1
2	Slavia Prague	6	2	2	2	8	7	+1	8	Advance to knockout round play-offs		2–2	—	3–1	1–0
3	Union Berlin	6	2	1	3	8	9	−1	7			1–2	1–1	—	3–0
4	Maccabi Haifa	6	1	1	4	2	7	−5	4			0–0	1–0	0–1	—

Maccabi Haifa	0–0	Feyenoord
	Report

Attendance: 15,850^[58]

Referee: Fabio Maresca (Italy)

Slavia Prague	3–1	Union Berlin
Bah 18' Kuchta 84' Schranz 88'	Report	Behrens 70'

Attendance: 15,286^[59]

Referee: Fábio Veríssimo (Portugal)

Feyenoord	2–1	Slavia Prague
Kökçü 14' Linssen 24'	Report	Holeš 63'

Attendance: 38,505^[60]

Referee: Radu Petrescu (Romania)

Union Berlin	3–0	Maccabi Haifa
Voglsammer 33' Behrens 48' Awoniyi 76'	Report

Attendance: 23,342^[61]

Referee: Nick Walsh (Scotland)

Maccabi Haifa	1–0	Slavia Prague
Donyoh 24'	Report

Attendance: 10,000^[62]

Referee: Ádám Farkas (Hungary)

Feyenoord	3–1	Union Berlin
Jahanbakhsh 11' Linssen 29' Sinisterra 76'	Report	Awoniyi 35'

Attendance: 36,100^[63]

Referee: Giorgi Kruashvili (Georgia)

Slavia Prague	1–0	Maccabi Haifa
Kuchta 49'	Report

Attendance: 13,646^[64]

Referee: Kai Erik Steen (Norway)

Union Berlin	1–2	Feyenoord
Trimmel 41'	Report	Sinisterra 15' Dessers 72'

Attendance: 30,000^[65]

Referee: Daniel Stefański (Poland)

Maccabi Haifa	0–1	Union Berlin
	Report	Ryerson 66'

Attendance: 22,150^[66]

Referee: Michal Ocenáš (Slovakia)

Slavia Prague	2–2	Feyenoord
Olayinka 12' Kuchta 66'	Report	Dessers 31', 90+3'

Attendance: 14,562^[67]

Referee: Mattias Gestranius (Finland)

Feyenoord	2–1	Maccabi Haifa
Dessers 38' Nelson 65'	Report	David 90+1'

Attendance: 0^{[68][note 5]}

Referee: Mykola Balakin (Ukraine)

Union Berlin	1–1	Slavia Prague
Kruse 64'	Report	Schranz 50'

Attendance: 4,380^[69]

Referee: Rade Obrenović (Slovenia)

Group F[edit]

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		COP	PAO	SLO	LIN
1	Copenhagen	6	5	0	1	15	5	+10	15	Advance to round of 16		—	1–2	2–0	3–1
2	PAOK	6	3	2	1	8	4	+4	11	Advance to knockout round play-offs		1–2	—	1–1	2–0
3	Slovan Bratislava	6	2	2	2	8	7	+1	8			1–3	0–0	—	2–0
4	Lincoln Red Imps	6	0	0	6	2	17	−15	0			0–4	0–2	1–4	—

Slovan Bratislava	1–3	Copenhagen
Henty 21'	Report	Wind 18', 68' (pen.) Stage 41'

Attendance: 9,833^[70]

Referee: Michael Fabbri (Italy)