2016 UEFA Europa League Final

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2016 UEFA Europa League Final
2016 UEFA Europa League Final logo.jpg
Event 2015–16 UEFA Europa League
Liverpool Sevilla
England Spain
1 3
Date 18 May 2016
Venue St. Jakob-Park, Basel
Man of the Match Coke (Sevilla)[1]
Referee Jonas Eriksson (Sweden)[2]
Attendance 34,429[3]
Weather Rain
18 °C (64 °F)
51% humidity[4]
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The 2016 UEFA Europa League Final was the final match of the 2015–16 UEFA Europa League, the 45th season of Europe's secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the seventh season since it was renamed from the UEFA Cup to the UEFA Europa League. It was played at the St. Jakob-Park in Basel, Switzerland on 18 May 2016,[5] between English team Liverpool and Spanish team and two-time defending champions Sevilla. Sevilla won the match 3–1 to become the first team to win the UEFA Cup/Europa League three times in a row; it was their record fifth title overall.

Sevilla earned the right to play against the winners of the 2015–16 UEFA Champions League, Real Madrid, in the 2016 UEFA Super Cup. They also qualified for the group stage of the 2016–17 UEFA Champions League, as Real Madrid also qualified for the group stage through domestic performance, that meant the berth reserved for the Champions League title holders was not used and passed to the Europa League title holders.[6]

Venue

The St. Jakob-Park in Basel was selected to host the final in September 2014.

The St. Jakob-Park was announced as the venue of the final at the UEFA Executive Committee meeting in Nyon, Switzerland, on 18 September 2014.[5] This was the first European club final hosted at the stadium, although the previous stadium of the same name, the St. Jakob Stadium, which opened in 1954 for the 1954 FIFA World Cup and closed in 1998, hosted four European Cup Winners' Cup finals in 1969, 1975, 1979 and 1984.

The current St. Jakob-Park, nicknamed "Joggeli" by fans, was built in 1998 and opened in 2001, and is the home stadium of Basel. It hosted six matches at UEFA Euro 2008, including the opening match and a semi-final. Its current capacity is 38,512, but is reduced to nearly 36,000 seats for UEFA competitions.[5]

After Basel got transferred to the Europa League after conceding to Maccabi Tel Aviv by away goals, Basel had the chance to become the first team to win the competition in home ground since Feyenoord in 2002, and the first to win it under the Europa League banner. This possibility ended after Basel was eliminated in the round of 16 by Sevilla.[7]

Background

Before the final, Sevilla were the most successful team in the history of the UEFA Cup/Europa League, with four titles, while Liverpool were joint second, tied with Internazionale and Juventus, with three titles. Neither side had lost in a UEFA Cup/Europa League final before. This was their first meeting in a European competition.[8]

Liverpool previously won finals in 1973, 1976, and 2001.[9] Overall, this was their 12th final in a European competition, with five wins in the European Cup (1977, 1978, 1981, 1984, and 2005) and two defeats in the European Cup (1985 and 2007) and one in the European Cup Winners' Cup (1966). This was the second European club final for their manager Jürgen Klopp, who lost in the 2013 UEFA Champions League Final with Borussia Dortmund, who were eliminated by Liverpool in this season's quarter-finals.[10]

Sevilla previously won finals in 2006, 2007, 2014, and 2015.[11] They were the first team to reach five overall finals and three consecutive finals, and had a chance to win an unprecedented five overall and three consecutive titles. Spain was aiming to become the most successful country in the competition's history, with them tied with Italy with nine wins apiece. Sevilla's manager Unai Emery, who led them to the previous two titles, had a chance to win his third title, to tie him with record holder Giovanni Trapattoni.[12] José Antonio Reyes, who was in the squad of four previous Europa League winners (although he only played in three finals), was aiming to collect a record fifth Europa League winner's medal.[13]

Road to the final

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England Liverpool Round Spain Sevilla
Europa League Champions League
Opponent Result Group stage Opponent Result
France Bordeaux 1–1 (A) Matchday 1 Germany Borussia Mönchengladbach 3–0 (H)
Switzerland Sion 1–1 (H) Matchday 2 Italy Juventus 0–2 (A)
Russia Rubin Kazan 1–1 (H) Matchday 3 England Manchester City 1–2 (A)
Russia Rubin Kazan 1–0 (A) Matchday 4 England Manchester City 1–3 (H)
France Bordeaux 2–1 (H) Matchday 5 Germany Borussia Mönchengladbach 2–4 (A)
Switzerland Sion 0–0 (A) Matchday 6 Italy Juventus 1–0 (H)
Group B winners

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 Final standings Group D third place

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Europa League
Opponent Agg. 1st leg 2nd leg Knockout phase Opponent Agg. 1st leg 2nd leg
Germany Augsburg 1–0 0–0 (A) 1–0 (H) Round of 32 Norway Molde 3–1 3–0 (H) 0–1 (A)
England Manchester United 3–1 2–0 (H) 1–1 (A) Round of 16 Switzerland Basel 3–0 0–0 (A) 3–0 (H)
Germany Borussia Dortmund 5–4 1–1 (A) 4–3 (H) Quarter-finals Spain Athletic Bilbao 3–3 (5–4 p) 2–1 (A) 1–2 (a.e.t.) (H)
Spain Villarreal 3–1 0–1 (A) 3–0 (H) Semi-finals Ukraine Shakhtar Donetsk 5–3 2–2 (A) 3–1 (H)

Pre-match

Ambassador

Alexander Frei

Former Switzerland and Basel striker Alexander Frei was named the ambassador for the final.[14]

UEFA unveiled the brand identity of the final on 28 August 2015 in Monaco ahead of the group stage draw. The logo features the Basel landmark Marktplatz.[15]

Ticketing

With a stadium capacity of 35,000, a total amount of 27,000 tickets were available to fans and the general public, with the two finalist teams receiving 9,000 tickets each and with 9,000 tickets being available for sale to fans worldwide via UEFA.com from 23 February to 21 March 2016 in four price categories: CHF 180, CHF 120, CHF 90, and CHF 50. The remaining tickets were allocated to the local organising committee, UEFA and national associations, commercial partners and broadcasters, and to serve the corporate hospitality programme.[16]

UEFA was forced to defend the choice of St. Jakob-Park, which is the second smallest venue to host the competition's final, as the final competition venue after Liverpool and Sevilla were confirmed as the finalists.[17] Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp, who initially told the supporters to travel to Basel even without a ticket, later backtracked from his suggestion.[18]

Match

Officials

Swedish referee Jonas Eriksson was announced as the final referee by UEFA on 10 May 2016.[2]

Goal-line technology

The goal-line technology system Hawk-Eye was used for the match. This was the first UEFA competition match to employ goal-line technology, following approval by the UEFA Executive Committee in January 2016.[19][20]

Details

The "home" team (for administrative purposes) was determined by an additional draw held after the semi-final draw, which was held on 15 April 2016 at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.[21]

18 May 2016 (2016-05-18)
20:45 CEST
Liverpool England 1–3 Spain Sevilla
Sturridge Goal 35' http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/season=2016/matches/round=2000663/match=2017222/index.html Gameiro Goal 46'
Coke Goal 64', 70'
St. Jakob-Park, Basel
Attendance: 34,429[3]
Referee: Jonas Eriksson (Sweden)
Liverpool
Sevilla
GK 22 Belgium Simon Mignolet
RB 2 England Nathaniel Clyne Booked 90+4'
CB 6 Croatia Dejan Lovren Booked 30'
CB 4 Ivory Coast Kolo Touré Substituted off 82'
LB 18 Spain Alberto Moreno
CM 7 England James Milner (c)
CM 23 Germany Emre Can
RW 20 England Adam Lallana Substituted off 73'
AM 11 Brazil Roberto Firmino Substituted off 69'
LW 10 Brazil Philippe Coutinho
CF 15 England Daniel Sturridge
Substitutes:
GK 52 Wales Danny Ward
DF 37 Slovakia Martin Škrtel
MF 14 England Jordan Henderson
MF 21 Brazil Lucas
MF 24 Wales Joe Allen Substituted in 73'
FW 9 Belgium Christian Benteke Substituted in 82'
FW 27 Belgium Divock Origi Booked 72' Substituted in 69'
Manager:
Germany Jürgen Klopp
Liverpool vs Sevilla 2016-05-18.svg
GK 31 Spain David Soria
RB 25 Brazil Mariano Booked 84'
CB 3 France Adil Rami Booked 77' Substituted off 78'
CB 6 Portugal Daniel Carriço
LB 18 Spain Sergio Escudero
CM 4 Poland Grzegorz Krychowiak
CM 15 France Steven N'Zonzi
RW 23 Spain Coke (c)
AM 19 Argentina Éver Banega Booked 57' Substituted off 90+3'
LW 20 Spain Vitolo Booked 56'
CF 9 France Kévin Gameiro Substituted off 89'
Substitutes:
GK 1 Spain Sergio Rico
DF 5 France Timothée Kolodziejczak Substituted in 78'
DF 21 Argentina Nicolás Pareja
MF 8 Spain Vicente Iborra Substituted in 89'
MF 14 Uruguay Sebastián Cristóforo Substituted in 90+3'
MF 22 Ukraine Yevhen Konoplyanka
FW 24 Spain Fernando Llorente
Manager:
Spain Unai Emery

Man of the Match:
Coke (Sevilla)[1]

Assistant referees:[2]
Mathias Klasenius (Sweden)
Daniel Wärnmark (Sweden)
Fourth official:[2]
Svein Oddvar Moen (Norway)
Additional assistant referees:[2]
Stefan Johannesson (Sweden)
Markus Strömbergsson (Sweden)
Reserve assistant referee:[2]
Mehmet Culum (Sweden)

Match rules[22]

  • 90 minutes.
  • 30 minutes of extra time if necessary.
  • Penalty shoot-out if scores still level.
  • Seven named substitutes, of which up to three may be used.

Statistics

See also

References

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External links

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