Europa League Draw Live
Written by Dan on August 7, 2009
Aston Villa have been drawn against Rapid Vienna for the Fourth Round Europa League and will play the second leg at Villa Park.
Rapid entered the competition the Second Qualifying Round and have beaten Vllaznia from Albania 8-0 (agg.) & APOP of Cyprus 4-3 (agg. AET). They qualified for the tournament by finishing runner-up to Red Bull Salzburg in last year’s Austrian Bundesliga.
Before I list the draw in full, I should correct something I said in an earlier post. I had no information about any grouping of teams prior to the draw so assumed that Villa could have been drawn against any of the 38 unseeded teams I listed. As it happened, the teams were grouped before the draw and there were only 5 unseeded teams that Villa could have been drawn against. I presume that the teams needed to be organised into groups to prevent the chance of teams from the same association being drawn against each other, which makes sense. Apologies for the misinformation, I’ll know better next year.
The draw in full:-
| PAOK Thessaloniki (Gre) | Heerenveen (Ned) |
| Dinamo Zagreb (Cro) | Hearts FC (Sco) |
| Werder Bremen (Ger) | FK Aktobe (Kaz) |
| Everton (Eng) | Sigma Olomouc (Cze) |
| BATE Borisov (Bls) | Litex Lovech (Bul) |
| NAC Breda (Ned) | Villarreal (Esp) |
| Lech Poznan (Pol) | Club Brugge (Bel) |
| Fulham FC (Eng) | Amkar Perm (Rus) |
| Galatasaray (Tur) | Levadia Tallinn (Est) |
| FK Teplice (Cze) | Hapoel Tel-Aviv (Isr) |
| Metalurg Donetsk (Ukr) | Austria Wien (Aut) |
| FC Twente Enschede (Ned) | Garabag Agdam (Azb) |
| AS Roma (Ita) | MFK Kosice (Svk) |
| Dinamo Moscow (Rus) | CSKA Sofia (Bul) |
| Racing Genk (Bel) | Lille OSC (Fra) |
| PSV Eindhoven (Ned) | Bnei Yehuda (Isr) |
| Lazio Roma (Ita) | IF Elfsborg (Swe) |
| Trabzonspor (Tur) | Toulouse FC (Fra) |
| Partizan Belgrade (Srb) | MSK Zilina (Svk) |
| FK Baku (Azb) | FC Basel (Sui) |
| Ajax (Ned) | Slovan Bratislava (Svk) |
| Shakhtar Donetsk (Ukr) | Sivasspor (Tur) |
| Brøndby IF (Den) | Hertha BSC (Ger) |
| Athletic Bilbao (Esp) | Tromsø IL (Nor) |
| FK Sarajevo (Bos) | CFR Cluj (Rom) |
| Rapid Wien (Aut) | Aston Villa (Eng) |
| Steaua Bucuresti (Rom) | St. Patrick’s Athletic (Irl) |
| Sparta Praha (Cze) | NK Maribor (Slo) |
| Zenit St. Petersburg (Rus) | Nacional Funchal (Por) |
| Genoa (Ita) | OB Odense (Den) |
| Dinamo Bucuresti (Rom) | Slovan Liberec (Cze) |
| En Avant Guingamp (Fra) | Hamburger SV (Ger) |
| FC Sion (Sui) | Fenerbahçe (Tur) |
| Sturm Graz (Aut) | Metalist Kharkiv (Ukr) |
| FC Vaslui (Rom) | AEK Athens (Gre) |
| Stabæk IF (Nor) | Valencia (Esp) |