When the draw is announced on Friday, Liverpool will learn who they will play in their first Europa League campaign since reaching the 2016 final. This is who they could run into.
The Reds, who were used to feasting at the top table of European football, missed out on the Champions League spots last season for the first time in seven years.
Between 2018 and 2022, Jurgen Klopp led his team to three Champions League finals, but he will now coach Thursday night football in the upcoming European season.
Liverpool might still run into a number of illustrious clubs as they attempt to advance to the competition’s final stages despite going down a tier for 2023–24.
Liverpool won’t be able to play another English team until later rounds; the groups will consist of one team from each of the four pots.
Here is a list of potential opponents for the Reds in this season’s Europa League group stages. As the highest-seeded team in the competition, the Reds are in pot one.
The Europa League’s 32 teams are listed below. Liverpool will be assigned one team from each of pots 2, 3, and 4. They cannot be paired with Brighton, so the Friday draw has 23 possible opponents.
Pot 1: Atalanta, Ajax, Rangers, Bayer Leverkusen, Roma, West Ham, and Villarreal
Sporting CP, Slavia Prague, Rennes, Olympiakos, Real Betis, Marseille, Qarabag, and LASK are all included in Pot 2.
Pot 3: Sparta Prague, Maccabi Haifa, Sturm Graz, Brighton, Sheriff Tiraspol, Union Saint-Gilloise, SC Freiburg, and Molde
Pot 4: Rakow Czestochowa, Limassol, BK Hacken, Panathinaikos, AEK Athens, TSC, Servette, and Toulouse
