This is our 2026–27 UEFA Europa League roster
Traveling Around Europe with These Guys
In two weeks, we’ll kick off our UEFA Europa League group stage with an away game in Sofia. Our coaching staff will head into this fall’s international matches with the following 27-man roster:
Tor
#1 Christian Früchtl
#41 Nikola Sarcevic
#52 Christian Zawieschitzky
Defense
#4 John Mellberg
#13 Frans Krätzig
#18 Nikolas Veratschnig
#21 Tim Drexler
#22 Stefan Lainer
#31 Dominik Schmid
#39 Leandro Morgalla
#44 Kevin Boma
#47 Valentin Zabransky
Midfield
#5 Soumaila Diabate
#7 Umut Tohumcu
#8 Sota Kitano
#15 Bartosz Mazurek
#32 Abubakr Barry
#36 Justin Omoregie
Attack
#9 Haris Tabakovic
#11 Yorbe Vertessen
#19 Karim Konate
#20 Edmund Baidoo
#23 Damir Redzic
#30 Gaoussou Diakite
#33 Aboubacar Camara
#35 Jesper Lindstrom
#43 Enrique Aguilar
How the League Mode Works in the UEFA Europa League
In recent years, a league format has replaced the group stage in UEFA competitions. In the UEFA Europa League—just as in the Champions League—each team is randomly assigned eight different opponents, resulting in four home games and four away games.
At the end of the eight rounds, an overall standings table is compiled for all 36 participating teams. The top 8 then advance directly to the round of 16. Teams ranked 9th through 24th compete in an intermediate round consisting of home-and-away matches for the remaining spots in the knockout stage.
Other changes compared to previous years: After being eliminated, teams can no longer “drop down” to the UEFA Conference League, as was previously the case for third-place finishers in the group stage. In addition, the group stage schedule now runs through the end of January.
