It was a busy day in the UEFA Europa League has the last spots in the knockout stage were up for grabs. Half of the matches were played today (Wednesday, December 16, 2009) with the other half to be played tomorrow (Thursday, December 17, 2009). Groups D, E, F, J, K, and L played on Wednesday while Groups A, B, C, G, H, and I played on Thursday.

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The UEFA Europa League is down to its last day of group stage matches including 12 on Tuesday, December 15, 2009. There are several spots in the knockout stage left as the there are twelve group stage winners, twelve group runner-ups along with eight teams from the UEFA Champions League. Some of the teams already qualified include Everton, Benfica, Fenerbahce, AS Roma, and Hamburg.

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The UEFA Europa League continued on Thursday, November 5, 2009 with 16 group stage matches. A few teams struggled including Celtic who have only 2 points in the group stage. Roma defeated Fulham in one of the other matches and is now in good position to advance to the knockout stage. Overall, there are two matches left with the top two from each group advancing.

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The UEFA Europa League Group Stage draw was released on Friday August 28, 2009. There are 12 groups of 4 teams that will play in the group stage starting on September 17th running till December 17th. Some of the interesting matchups include Celtic and Hamburg in Group C, Villareal and Lazio in Group G, and Sporting, Heerenveen, and Hertha Berlin in Group D.

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The UEFA Europa League finished its Play-Off round to determine the teams for the group stage. Notable teams that advanced were Everton, Fulham, Villareal, Shakhtar, Ajax, Roma, and Hamburg SV. Here's a full listing of the matches along with video highlights.

Play-Offs Agg First leg Second leg Sivasspor 0-5 FC Shakhtar Donetsk 0-3 More » 0-2 Report » MFK Košice 4-10 AS Roma 3-3 More » 1-7 More » FK Bakı 2-8 FC Basel 1893 1-3 More » 1-5 More » FK Teplice 2-3 Hapoel Tel-Aviv FC 1-2 More » 1-1 More » FC BATE Borisov (aet) 4-1 PFC Litex Lovech 0-1 More » 4-0 More » Bnei Yehuda Tel-Aviv FC 0-2 PSV Eindhoven 0-1 More » 0-1 More » EA Guingamp 2-8 Hamburger SV 1-5 More » 1-3 More » Trabzonspor 2-3 Toulouse FC 1-3 More » 1-0 More » PFC CSKA Sofia 2-1 FC Dinamo Moskva 0-0 More » 2-1 More » PAOK FC 1-1 SC Heerenveen (ag) 1-1 More » 0-0 More » NAC Breda 2-9 Villarreal CF 1-3 More » 1-6 More » FC Metallurh Donetsk 4-5 FK Austria Wien (aet) 2-2 More » 2-3 More » SK Sturm Graz 2-1 FC Metalist Kharkiv 1-1 More » 1-0 More » SK Rapid Wien (ag) 2-2 Aston Villa FC 1-0 More » 1-2 More » FC Dinamo 1948 Bucureşti (9-8p) 3-3 FC Slovan Liberec 0-3 More » 3-0 More » FC Steaua Bucureşti 5-1 Saint Patrick's Athletic FC 3-0 More » 2-1 More » FC Twente 3-1 FK Qarabağ 3-1 More » 0-0 More » SC Vaslui 2-4 AEK Athens FC 2-1 More » 0-3 More » SK Slavia Praha 4-2 FK Crvena Zvezda 3-0 More » 1-2 More » FK Sarajevo 2-3 CFR 1907 Cluj 1-1 More » 1-2 More » FK Partizan 3-1 MŠK Žilina 1-1 More » 2-0 More » Brøndby IF 3-4 Hertha BSC Berlin 2-1 More » 1-3 More » FC Sion 2-4 Fenerbahçe SK 0-2 More » 2-2 More » KKS Lech Poznań 1-1 Club Brugge KV (3-4p) 1-0 More » 0-1 More » AFC Ajax 7-1 ŠK Slovan Bratislava 5-0 More » 2-1 More » KRC Genk 3-6 LOSC Lille Métropole 1-2 More » 2-4 More » S. Click to continue reading...

The UEFA Europa League Play-Off round began with the first legs on Thursday August 20, 2009. The second legs will be on Thursday August 27, 2009. Here's a list of all the matches from the first legs along with video highlights.

Thursday August 20, 2009 Recap

English clubs Everton and Fulham started off strong in the first legs as both won.

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The draw for the play-off round of the Europa League was released on Friday as teams will be looking to advance to the group stage. All three English clubs are still live (Fulham, Aston Villa, and Everton) as well as last season's winner's Shakhtar Donetsk. German Bundesliga side Hamburg faces French Cup winners Guingamp, who are actually a Ligue 2 side while Zenit St Petersburg (2008 Champions) CD Nacional of Portugal.

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The UEFA Champions League third round of qualifying finished on Wednesday with many teams advancing to the next round and hoping to make the Group Stage. Here's a recap of a few of the matches along with video highlights.

PFC Levski Sofia advances past FK Baki 2-0 on aggregate Video Highlights

Levski Sofia was able to score 2 goals in the second leg at home as they advance to the next round of qualifying.

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Today, the second qualifying round of the 2009-2010 UEFA Champions League begins, with all of the participating clubs playing the first leg of the two-leg round on either Tuesday or Wednesday. This is where it starts getting important, sort of, because at least two clubs playing in this round are guaranteed to advance to the group stage under the new qualifying system. Click to continue reading...

Soccerphile Exclusive:
Manchester United & Serbia's Zoran Tosic

Manchester United's Serbian u21 star Zoran Tosic has said he will leap at the chance of replacing Cristiano Ronaldo at Old Trafford next season if given the opportunity.

The skilful winger, signed by United from FK Partizan in January's transfer window, has been wowing the crowds in this summer's UEFA u21 tournament in Sweden, leading to talk that he might be about to step into Ronaldo's shoes now the Portuguese star has left for Real Madrid.

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UEFA u21 Championship: Serbia 0:o Belarus
Malmo- The two East European nations in the finals battled to a scoreless draw in Malmo, leaving all four teams in Group A with a chance of making the semi-finals in the final round of first-games on Tuesday.
The Serbs could yet be the dark horses of the UEFA U21 tournament. Click to continue reading...

It was ten years ago to the day that AEK travelled to Serbia, which was then being bombed by NATO, as a friendly symbol to the Serbs, and as a protest against the bombings.

This is a page in AEK's history which will never be forgotten by us AEK fans and supporters.

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