Europa League

Thirty-six clubs make up the Europa League, and this page collects the previews written for selected matches from the competition, alongside the standings and fixture list. A preview here sets out a full prediction: a scoreline, a headline tip and the reasoning behind it.

The Europa League is Europe's cup competition, played out across a league phase and knockout rounds. Positions, points and fixtures move every round, so rather than list them here it's worth following the Europa League table and the Europa League fixtures directly, both of which update as results come in.

Each preview is prepared roughly 22 hours before kick-off and updated if team news changes before the match. It sets out a predicted scoreline, a headline tip, five further picks across other markets, a three-leg bet builder, team news, a predicted line-up for both sides and where to watch. Every fixture keeps a single page from that first preview through to full time, at which point the same page shows how the tips fared. Each one carries a writer's byline, and the full list of contributors sits on the authors page.

Every tip is graded a hit or a miss, and misses stay on the record rather than being quietly dropped. Results are worked out on a flat £10 stake per tip at the odds printed when the preview went up, not whatever price is available later, with voided bets excluded and bet builders counted as a single wager at the combined price. The running figures live on the tip record page, and the full grading process is explained on the methodology page.