UEFA Europa League Draw - The Last 32

17 December 2018

Looking down the list of matches, the clash between Lazio and Sevilla leaps off the page, as does the clash between Celtic and Valencia.

Two teams who started the season in the Champions League will meet in the Last 32 as Turkish side Galatasaray face off against Portuguese giants Benfica.

And Premier League big guns Chelsea and Arsenal will be happy with their ties against Malmo and BATE Borisov respectively.

The draw produced a pair of tough-looking ties for the two Russian sides in the Europa League. Russian Premier League leaders Zenit St Petersburg will take on Turkish side Fenerbahce, while second-placed FC Krasnodar will face off against Bundesliga side Bayer Leverkusen.

The draw is now complete and the ties for the Last 32 of the UEFA Europa League are now set.

The ties will be played over two legs, with the seeded teams (the teams named second in each tie) set to play the second leg at home.

Here are the Last 32 ties in full:

Viktoria Plzen vs Dinamo Zagreb
Club Brugge vs FC Salzburg
Rapid Vienna vs Internazionale
Slavia Prague vs Genk
FC Krasnodar vs Bayer Leverkusen
FC Zurich vs Napoli
Malmo vs Chelsea
Shakhtar Donetsk vs Eintracht Frankfurt
Celtic vs Valencia
Rennes vs Real Betis
Olympiakos vs Dynamo Kiev
Lazio vs Sevilla
Fenerbahce vs Zenit St Petersburg
Sporting Lisbon vs Villarreal
BATE Borisov vs Arsenal
Galatasaray vs Benfica

First leg ties will be played on February 12/14, with the second legs contested on February 20/21.

The draw for the Last 16 will then take place on February 22.

Match 16

GALATASARAY vs BENFICA

Match 15

BATE BORISOV vs ARSENAL

Match 14

SPORTING LISBON vs VILLARREAL

Match 13

FENERBAHCE vs ZENIT ST PETERSBURG

Match 12

LAZIO vs SEVILLA

Match 11

OLYMPIAKOS vs DYNAMO KIEV

Match 10

RENNES vs REAL BETIS

Match 9

CELTIC vs VALENCIA

Match 8

SHAKHTAR DONETSK vs EINTRACHT FRANKFURT

Match 7
MALMO vs CHELSEA

Match 6

FC ZURICH vs NAPOLI

Match 5

FC KRASNODAR vs BAYER LEVERKUSEN

Match 4

SLAVIA PRAGUE vs GENK

Match 3

RAPID VIENNA vs INTERNAZIONALE

Match 2

CLUB BRUGGE vs FC SALZBURG

Match 1

VIKTORIA PLZEN vs DINAMO ZAGREB

Without any further ado, it's time to get things underway.

Here come the 16 match-ups for the Last 32 of the UEFA European Europa League as the knockout stage games are made official.

As with the Champions League draw earlier, the draw takes place at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, and will follow a similar format.

Teams will be drawn from the two pots, with unseeded teams drawn first, then their seeded opponents drawn thereafter.

As before, teams cannot face sides from the same country, and they can't be drawn to face teams they've already faced in the group stages.

It has also been decided by the UEFA Executive Committee that teams from Russia and Ukraine cannot be drawn together.

Here's the full list of teams set to learn their fate in the UEFA Europa League draw.

We've highlighted those teams joining the Europa League from the Champions League in italics.

SEEDED TEAMS

Arsenal
Bayer Leverkusen
Benfica
Chelsea
Dinamo Zagreb
Dynamo Kiev
Eintracht Frankfurt
Genk
Internazionale
Napoli
Real Betis
Salzburg
Sevilla
Valencia
Villarreal
Zenit St Petersburg

UNSEEDED TEAMS

BATE Borisov
Celtic
Club Brugge
Fenerbahce
Galatasaray
Krasnodar
Lazio
Malmo
Olympiacos
Rapid Vienna
Rennes
Sporting Lisbon
Shakhtar Donetsk
Slavia Praha
Viktoria Plzen
Zurich

Hot on the heels of the draw for the Last 16 of the UEFA Champions League, it's now time for UEFA Europa League to take center stage.

The competition is at the Last 32 stage, with the eight third-place teams from each of the UEFA Champions League group stages joining the lineup for the knockout stages in the Europa League.

As before, the field will be split into two pots, with seeded and unseeded teams drawn to face each other in the Last 32 of the competition.