UEFA Cup and Europa League records and statistics

Ajax will start its Champions League campaign against unbeaten Greek league winner PAOK Thessaloniki in the third qualifying round drawn Monday.
Last season, four-time European champion Ajax reached the semifinals in May having entered the competition in the second preliminary round in July.

Turkey's Fenerbahçe beat Russia's Zenit 1-0 in the first leg game of the round of 32 in UEFA Europa League on Feb. 12.

Istanbul's Galatasaray transferred to UEFA Europa League round of 32 despite losing against Portugal's Porto 2-3 on Dec. 11 in UEFA Champions League.

Turkey's Fenerbahçe drew with Croatia's Dinamo Zagreb 0-0 in the UEFA Europa League on Nov. 29 and both teams qualified for the last 32 round.

Russia beat Turkey 2-1 Friday in their first UEFA Nations League game.

Three Turkish teams are set to play in the group stages of the 2018-19 UEFA Europa League.

By the end of the group stage of the Europa League there is another round, but several teams already guaranteed entry in the tournament in the spring

Here are the teams ranked for 1/16-finals after last night's matches:

Beaten by Sevilla in the UEFA Champions League play-offs, Turkey's Başakşehir will make its UEFA Europa League group stage debut this season against Bulgaria's Ludogorets as Konyaspor visits Marseille. 

Başakşehir, the runner-up in last season's domestic title race, is highly motivated after it won 3-2 against city rival Fenerbahçe away, a first in its short history. 

Fenerbahçe, whose new coach won the UEFAEurope League with Zenit in 2008, will kick off its campaign with a Group A encounter with Ukraine's Zorya, while Osmanlıspor, the other Turkish team in the competition, will take on Steaua Bucureşti. 

Zorya Luhansk will face a stern test in their debut match in a UEFA group stage when it plays host to European regular Fenerbahçe.

Beşiktaş is ready to host Nov. 6 Belgrade’s FK Partizan on match day four of the UEFA Europa League Group C, as the Serbian side hopes to forget the revenge game of a 4-0 defeat on Oct. 23, its worst European home loss to date.