Europa League Draw 2026/27: Full Fixtures, Pots and Biggest Matchups
Every fixture from the 2026/27 Europa League league phase draw in Monaco: all four pots, all 36 clubs, and the biggest matchups to watch.
No club has ever dominated the Europa League quite like Sevilla, winners a record seven times without ever losing a final. Aston Villa are the reigning champions after beating Freiburg 3-0 in Istanbul in May 2026, their first European trophy in 44 years. Below is the complete list of champions going back to the competition's first edition in 1971/72 as the UEFA Cup, plus the clubs who have won it more than once and the stories behind the biggest upsets.
Every Europa League and UEFA Cup winner
The competition has run continuously since 1971/72, first as the UEFA Cup, then as the UEFA Europa League from 2009/10 onward. Here is every champion.
| Season | Winner |
|---|---|
| 1971/72 | Tottenham Hotspur |
| 1972/73 | Liverpool |
| 1973/74 | Feyenoord |
| 1974/75 | Borussia Mönchengladbach |
| 1975/76 | Liverpool |
| 1976/77 | Juventus |
| 1977/78 | PSV Eindhoven |
| 1978/79 | Borussia Mönchengladbach |
| 1979/80 | Eintracht Frankfurt |
| 1980/81 | Ipswich Town |
| 1981/82 | IFK Göteborg |
| 1982/83 | Anderlecht |
| 1983/84 | Tottenham Hotspur |
| 1984/85 | Real Madrid |
| 1985/86 | Real Madrid |
| 1986/87 | IFK Göteborg |
| 1987/88 | Bayer Leverkusen |
| 1988/89 | Napoli |
| 1989/90 | Juventus |
| 1990/91 | Inter Milan |
| 1991/92 | Ajax |
| 1992/93 | Juventus |
| 1993/94 | Inter Milan |
| 1994/95 | Parma |
| 1995/96 | Bayern Munich |
| 1996/97 | Schalke 04 |
| 1997/98 | Inter Milan |
| 1998/99 | Parma |
| 1999/2000 | Galatasaray |
| 2000/01 | Liverpool |
| 2001/02 | Feyenoord |
| 2002/03 | Porto |
| 2003/04 | Valencia |
| 2004/05 | CSKA Moscow |
| 2005/06 | Sevilla |
| 2006/07 | Sevilla |
| 2007/08 | Zenit Saint Petersburg |
| 2008/09 | Shakhtar Donetsk |
| 2009/10 | Atlético Madrid |
| 2010/11 | Porto |
| 2011/12 | Atlético Madrid |
| 2012/13 | Chelsea |
| 2013/14 | Sevilla |
| 2014/15 | Sevilla |
| 2015/16 | Sevilla |
| 2016/17 | Manchester United |
| 2017/18 | Atlético Madrid |
| 2018/19 | Chelsea |
| 2019/20 | Sevilla |
| 2020/21 | Villarreal |
| 2021/22 | Eintracht Frankfurt |
| 2022/23 | Sevilla |
| 2023/24 | Atalanta |
| 2024/25 | Tottenham Hotspur |
| 2025/26 | Aston Villa |
Sevilla's dynasty: seven titles, seven finals, zero defeats
Sevilla are, by a wide margin, the most successful club in the history of this competition. They have reached seven Europa League finals and won all seven, a perfect record that no other club has come close to matching. Their run started in 2006 with a 4-0 win over Middlesbrough, and it picked up serious momentum between 2014 and 2016, when they won three straight titles, a feat unmatched by any other club in the competition's history. Their most recent triumph came in 2023, beating Jose Mourinho's Roma 4-1 on penalties after a tense 1-1 draw at the Puskás Aréna in Budapest.
What makes Sevilla's record so unusual is how it has survived constant turnover. Players, coaches and sporting directors have all come and gone across nearly two decades, while the club's league form in La Liga has fluctuated between solid mid-table finishes and occasional relegation battles. Somehow none of that has ever affected their level in this specific competition. Sevilla have essentially built an entire modern institutional identity around treating a competition many bigger clubs see as a consolation prize as their primary source of silverware and continental prestige.
The other multiple winners
Behind Sevilla, five clubs share the next tier with three titles apiece: Inter Milan, Tottenham Hotspur, Liverpool, Juventus and Atlético Madrid.
- Inter Milan won in 1991, 1994 and 1998, all during the UEFA Cup era, when the competition briefly rivaled the European Cup in prestige for a run of big Italian and German clubs.
- Tottenham Hotspur won the competition's very first edition in 1972, added a second in 1984, and then waited 41 years for a third, beating Manchester United 1-0 in Bilbao in 2025.
- Liverpool won in 1973 and 1976 before their period of English and European dominance shifted almost entirely toward the European Cup, then added a third UEFA Cup title in 2001 as part of a remarkable treble season that also included the FA Cup and League Cup.
- Juventus won three times across the late 1970s to early 1990s (1977, 1990 and 1993), a period when Italian clubs were arguably the dominant force in the competition.
- Atlético Madrid won three times in the modern Europa League era alone (2010, 2012 and 2018), turning the competition into a genuine platform for the club's rise back to the top of European football under Diego Simeone.
One name that surprises a lot of casual fans: Real Madrid, a club almost synonymous with the European Cup and Champions League, actually won this competition back to back in 1985 and 1986, in an era before their modern European Cup dominance really took hold.
By the numbers: how spread out the trophy really is
Across the 55 finals played since 1971/72, 31 different clubs have had their name engraved on the trophy. Only 13 of those clubs have ever managed to win it more than once. That leaves 18 clubs, including Ipswich Town, Galatasaray, Valencia, Villarreal and Atalanta, with exactly one triumph each, a single standalone European trophy that has never been repeated. It is a genuinely open competition by the standards of continental football, far more so than the Champions League, where a much smaller group of clubs has monopolized the trophy for most of its history.
Parma are one of the more surprising names to show up twice on the winners list, having won in both 1995 and 1999. Those titles came during the club's remarkable financial peak in the 1990s, a period when a provincial Italian club with no historic pedigree briefly operated as one of the biggest spenders in European football and reached multiple European finals across several competitions. Parma's Europa League record is a reminder of how quickly a club's European fortunes can rise, and, in Parma's case, how far they can eventually fall: the club went through bankruptcy and a rebuild from Italy's lower divisions within about two decades of their second UEFA Cup win.
From the UEFA Cup to the Europa League
The competition launched in 1971/72 as the UEFA Cup, originally designed for clubs that had just missed out on qualifying for the European Cup or the old Cup Winners' Cup. When the Cup Winners' Cup was scrapped in 1999, its remaining places were folded into the UEFA Cup, and in 2009 UEFA rebranded the whole thing as the Europa League and introduced a group stage for the first time, giving it a format closer to the Champions League's. The names on the trophy did not change, only the branding around them, which is why this list treats both eras as one continuous history rather than splitting it in two.
The last two finals
Aston Villa's 2025/26 title, sealed with a 3-0 win over Freiburg at Istanbul's Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium, was the club's first European trophy since they won the old European Cup back in 1981/82, a gap of 44 years. It capped a remarkable rebuild that took Villa from England's second tier as recently as 2019 to genuine European contenders under Unai Emery.
The final before that, in 2024/25, saw Tottenham beat Manchester United 1-0 in Bilbao. It was notable for two reasons at once: it was Spurs' first major trophy of any kind in 17 years, and it doubled as their route back into the following season's Champions League after they had finished a disappointing 17th in the Premier League that year. For United, the defeat capped one of the worst Premier League campaigns in the club's history, making the final loss sting even more than it otherwise would have.
The biggest surprise champions
Not every name on this list is a European giant. Ipswich Town won the competition in 1981, a genuine shock even by the standards of an era when English clubs were regularly among Europe's best. IFK Göteborg won it twice, in 1982 and 1987, remarkable achievements for a Swedish club operating with none of the financial advantages of the competition's bigger names. Galatasaray's win in 2000 remains Turkish football's only European trophy at club level. CSKA Moscow in 2005 and Zenit Saint Petersburg in 2008 both brought the trophy to Russia during a period when Russian clubs were investing heavily in European competition, and Shakhtar Donetsk's win in 2009 stands as one of Ukrainian football's proudest continental achievements. More recently, Villarreal's win in 2021, on penalties against Manchester United in Gdańsk, showed that a mid-sized Spanish club could still go all the way even in the competition's modern, more standardized format.
More Europa League reading
For a full breakdown of how the competition works today, including the league phase and knockout format shared with the Champions League and Conference League, read our Europa League format explained guide. For the individual scoring record rather than the club history, see our Europa League all-time top scorers list, led by Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. And for this season's action, visit our Europa League highlights hub.
FAQ
Which club has won the most Europa League titles?
Sevilla, with seven titles: 2006, 2007, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2020 and 2023. They have reached seven finals and won every single one.
Who won the Europa League in 2025/26?
Aston Villa, beating Freiburg 3-0 in the final in Istanbul on May 20, 2026, their first European trophy since 1981.
Who won the very first UEFA Cup in 1972?
Tottenham Hotspur won the competition's first edition in 1971/72, the first of their three titles in the competition's history.
Has Real Madrid ever won the Europa League?
Yes, twice, back to back in 1985 and 1986, despite the club being far more strongly associated with the European Cup and Champions League.
Which clubs have won the Europa League or UEFA Cup three times?
Inter Milan, Tottenham Hotspur, Liverpool, Juventus and Atlético Madrid have all won it three times each, behind only Sevilla's seven.
Is the UEFA Cup the same competition as the Europa League?
Yes. UEFA rebranded the UEFA Cup as the Europa League ahead of the 2009/10 season and added a group stage, but it is the same continuous competition, which is why winners from both eras appear on the same all-time list.
