Next season’s UEFA Europa League group stage is beginning to take shape, with seven of the 17 automatic qualifiers now known.*
NEXT SEASON’S CHANGES
ESP: Villarreal, Real Betis
GER: Leverkusen, Eintracht
ENG: Chelsea, Arsenal
FRA: Marseille, Rennes
RUS: Krasnodar
TUR: Akhisar
There will, once domestic seasons have concluded, be 17 teams assured of a UEFA Europa League place next term. A further 21 group stage berths will be decided via qualifying in the summer while ten more clubs transfe…