Europa League matchday one: what to get vehement about!

No Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi, maybe, though a UEFA Europa League has courage and glorious aplenty, with 24 games each matchnight – and some large sides in a using for the heaviest of a UEFA bar foe trophies.

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Matchday one: 20 September

Steven Gerrard has taken Rangers into a #UEL©Getty Images

• BeÅŸiktaÅŸ acquire first-timers Sarpsborg, personification their initial organisation theatre fixture
• 2012/13 UEFA Europa League winners Chelsea flog off during PAOK
• Rangers returning to organisation theatre after an eight-year deficiency during Villarreal
• Arsenal enter post-Arsène Wenger European epoch during home to Ukraine’s Vorskla
• AC Milan revisit organisation theatre debutants Dudelange in Luxembourg
• Fenerbahçe, Sevilla, Celtic, Marseille and Leverkusen also primed for action

Early games (kick-off 18:55CET, click tie for compare centre)
Group G: Rapid Wien v Spartak Moskva, Villarreal v Rangers
Group H: Lazio v Apollon, Marseille v Frankfurt
Group I: Genk v Malmö, Beşiktaş v Sarpsborg
Group J: Akhisar v Krasnodar, Sevilla v Standard Liège
Group K: Dynamo Kyiv v Astana, Rennes v Jablonec
Group L: Vidi v BATE, PAOK v Chelsea

Unai Emery will lead Arsenal in a #UEL©Getty Images

Later games (kick-off 21:00CET, click tie for compare centre)
Group A: Ludogorets v Leverkusen, AEK Larnaca v Zürich
Group B: Celtic v Rosenborg, Leipzig v Salzburg
Group C: Slavia Praha v Bordeaux, København v Zenit
Group D: Dinamo Zagreb v Fenerbahçe, Spartak Trnava v Anderlecht
Group E: Arsenal v Vorskla, Sporting CP v QarabaÄŸ
Group F: Olympiacos v Betis, Dudelange v AC Milan

Matchday two: 4 October
Matchday three: 25 October
Matchday four: 8 November
Matchday five: 29 November
Matchday six: 13 December

Round of 32 draw: 17 December

Final: Baku Olympic Stadium, 29 May 2018

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