MANCHESTER UNITED and Tottenham fans will be glued to the screens for the upcoming Europa League draw – but the 2024/25 edition has a slight twist to it.
Ademola Lookman‘s sensational hat-trick fired Atalanta to their first-ever European title in the 2023/24 final against Bayer Leverkusen.
And as a result, the Italian outfit secured automatic qualification to this season’s Champions League.
This means that we are guaranteed to see new winners when the showpiece match comes around next summer.
But before we get there, teams have to find out who they will face in the new league phase draw, and SunSport have all the information on when it will take place.
Find out about the Europa League 2024/25 league phase draw below.
The 2024/25 Europa League draw will take place on Friday, August 30.
The draw will begin at 12pm BST at the Grimaldi Forum in Monte Carlo, Monaco.
Four pots of nine teams will be created before the draw, based on the UEFA coefficient ranking of the 36 qualified clubs.
Each team will be manually drawn using physical balls during the ceremony and as each team is picked out, a software program will randomly draw two opponents from each pot.
This is then revealed along with their home-away designations.
It is also part of the new Europa League format for the 2024/25 season.
This year’s Europa League will feature just one league table of all 36 qualified clubs, unlike previous years which saw eight groups of four.
Each team will only face eight clubs based on the pot they have been drawn out of.
The top eight will qualify directly to the last-16 while teams that finish 9th to 24th will contest in an additional play-off round and those who finish 25th to 36th are set to be eliminated from this season’s European competitions.
This is the same format which is being used for the Champions League and the Europa Conference League.
Clubs from the same association will not play each other and no team can face more than two opponents from the other country.
The 2024/25 Europa League draw will be broadcast LIVE on TNT Sports in the UK.
Subscription members of TNT can stream the entire action through Discovery+
Amazon have purchased UEFA rights in the UK for the first time so the draw will also be available on Amazon Prime Video.
Alternatively, fans can find out who their teams will be drawn with through our live blog.
The Europa League draw will be broadcast for FREE on UEFA.com
The competition will be completed by the addition of 12 Europa League play-off winners later this month, plus the seven Champions League play-off losers.
Pot 1: Manchester United, Tottenham, Roma, Rangers, Lazio, Porto, Eintracht Frankfurt
Pot 2: Olympiacos, Lyon
Pot TBD: Real Sociedad, AZ, USG, Nice, Twente, Athletic Club, Fenerbahce, Hoffenheim
