The 2024/2025 Europa League 1/8 final draws were drawn today, February 23, in Nyon, Switzerland.
In the next round, Sporting will play with Atalanta, Milan will play with Slavia, Freiburg will play with West Ham United, Benfica will play with Rangers, Roma will play with Brighton, Marseille will play with Villarreal, Sparta Prague will play with Liverpool, and Karabağ will play with Bayer Leverkusen.
The first matches of this stage will be played on March 7, and the return matches will be played on March 14.
Russian football will be represented by two football players. Atalanta midfielder Alexey Miranchuk played four games in the Europa League this season and made one assist.
Goalkeeper Andrey Lunev continues to play for Karabakh. He will play against his former team in the last 16 rounds. Lunev was among the top 3 goalkeepers of the group stage in this Europa League and also got into the symbolic team according to the results of the first matches of the 1/16 finals. The goalkeeper had been playing for Bayer Leverkusen since the summer of 2021 before moving to Qarabag.
The current champion of the Europa League is Sevilla.
Smirnov, formerly Luneva’s agent in the name Goalkeeper haters should shut up.