Europa League Draw Simulator 2026/27
Pick your club and simulate the UEFA Europa League league-phase draw exactly the way UEFA's draw software does it. Every simulated draw respects the official draw rules, you can flip the play-off ties that are still open, watch the opponents come out one by one, see how likely each opponent is, get a verdict on how hard your draw is, and share it as an image or a link. Free - no account needed.
How the Europa League draw works
- 36 clubs, seeded into 4 pots by UEFA club coefficient;
- each club is drawn against two opponents from every pot - one at home, one away (8 matches in total);
- never an opponent from your own association;
- at most two opponents from any single association;
- pairings UEFA keeps apart are excluded (Armenia-Azerbaijan, Kosovo-Serbia, Kosovo-Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ukraine-Belarus, Gibraltar-Spain);
- opponents are drawn club by club, pot by pot, only among options that keep the whole draw completable - the same principle UEFA's software uses.
Europa League draw pots 2026/27 (projected)
The 36 clubs in the UEFA Europa League league phase, seeded into 4 pots by UEFA club coefficient. Until the play-off round is finished this is our projection: qualified clubs plus, for every open play-off tie, the side our simulation favours.
Pot 1
- Bayer Leverkusen (Germany, coefficient 105.000)
- Benfica (Portugal, coefficient 90.000)
- Juventus (Italy, coefficient 72.250)
- AC Milan (Italy, coefficient 66.000)
- Olympique Lyon (France, coefficient 65.750)
- AZ Alkmaar (Netherlands, coefficient 62.875)
- Olympiakos Piraeus (Greece, coefficient 62.250)
- Real Sociedad (Spain, coefficient 57.000)
- Olympique Marseille (France, coefficient 54.000)
Pot 2
- Union Saint-Gilloise (Belgium, coefficient 48.000)
- Crvena zvezda (Serbia, coefficient 46.500)
- FC Salzburg (Austria, coefficient 45.000)
- Sparta Praha (Czech Republic, coefficient 38.250)
- Stade Rennais (France, coefficient 35.000)
- Anderlecht (Belgium, coefficient 30.750)
- Sturm Graz (Austria, coefficient 28.000)
- Lech Poznan (Poland, coefficient 27.250)
- Crystal Palace (England, coefficient 23.903)
Pot 3
- Bournemouth (England, coefficient 23.903)
- Sunderland AFC (England, coefficient 23.903)
- NK Celje (Slovenia, coefficient 23.000)
- Jagiellonia Bialystok (Poland, coefficient 22.000)
- Omonia Nicosia (Cyprus, coefficient 21.250)
- LASK (Austria, coefficient 21.000)
- Celta de Vigo (Spain, coefficient 19.409)
- 1899 Hoffenheim (Germany, coefficient 18.580)
- Besiktas (Turkey, coefficient 15.500)
Pot 4
- S.c.u. Torreense (Portugal, coefficient 14.633)
- Hapoel Beer-Sheva (Israel, coefficient 14.000)
- NEC Nijmegen (Netherlands, coefficient 13.585)
- Trabzonspor (Turkey, coefficient 11.000)
- Universitatea Craiova (Romania, coefficient 10.500)
- Viking (Norway, coefficient 8.247)
- Lillestrøm SK (Norway, coefficient 8.247)
- Levski Sofia (Bulgaria, coefficient 7.000)
- CSKA Sofia (Bulgaria, coefficient 6.500)
Play-off ties still open
These clubs are not yet certain of their league phase; the simulator lets you pick either side:
- Levski Sofia v AEK Athens (UCL play-off, loser drops into the Europa League)
- Celtic v LASK (UCL play-off, loser drops into the Europa League)
- Dinamo Zagreb v Viking (UCL play-off, loser drops into the Europa League)
- Slovan Bratislava v NK Celje (UCL play-off, loser drops into the Europa League)
- Hapoel Beer-Sheva v Sabah FK (UCL play-off, loser drops into the Europa League)
- Fenerbahçe v Olympique Lyon (UCL play-off, loser drops into the Europa League)
- NEC Nijmegen v Bodø/Glimt (UCL play-off, loser drops into the Europa League)
- Trabzonspor v Ferencváros (UEL play-off)
- St Truiden v Omonia Nicosia (UEL play-off)
- Egnatia Rrogozhinë v Lillestrøm SK (UEL play-off)
- Mjällby v FC Salzburg (UEL play-off)
- Lech Poznan v FC Thun (UEL play-off)
- Benfica v AGF Aarhus (UEL play-off)
- Universitatea Craiova v Ararat-Armenia (UEL play-off)
- Crvena zvezda v Viktoria Plzen (UEL play-off)
- Jagiellonia Bialystok v Iberia 1999 (UEL play-off)
- Kairat Almaty v Anderlecht (UEL play-off)
- Besiktas v Kauno Zalgiris (UEL play-off)
- OFI Crete v CSKA Sofia (UEL play-off)
How hard is your draw? Our verdict
For every draw we compute the average strength (Elo) of the opponents and rank it against thousands of simulated draws for the same lineup. The percentile tells you what share of possible draws are easier than yours, and the verdict follows from it:
- Dream draw - easier than 90% of possible draws
- Kind draw - 10-30%
- Balanced draw - 30-70%
- Tough draw - 70-90%
- Nightmare draw - harder than 90% of possible draws
Frequently asked questions
Is the Europa League draw simulator free?
Yes. Your first draw needs nothing at all; to keep drawing, see the opponent probabilities and download or share your draw we ask for an email address once.
Who can my club draw in the Europa League?
Any club from another association, two from every pot (one home, one away), with at most two opponents from the same country. The simulator shows the probability of facing each club, based on thousands of simulated draws of the exact lineup.
Are the probabilities exact?
No - they are simulated. Exact values under UEFA's procedure cannot be computed in closed form for a 36-club draw, so we run thousands of draws; each figure carries a small margin (about ±2 percentage points at 2,000 draws) and shifts slightly between runs.
What happens after the real draw?
Once UEFA has made the official draw the page shows the real fixtures next to the simulation, so you can see how your club's actual draw compares with what it could have been.
Also try: Champions League draw simulator · Conference League draw simulator · UEFA qualifier projections and seeding pots
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