Europa League draw LIVE: Man Utd and Tottenham learn league phase opponents

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And the second studio guest is none other than Athletic Bilbao legend Aritz Aduriz, who certainly loved this competition.

He scored 26 goals in 39 games for the Basque side, and is the official UEFA ambassador for the 2025 Europa League final in Bilbao.

How does the draw work?

If you didn't follow yesterday's Champions League draw, this will be something different to what you are used to.

Instead of the traditional group stage format, the 36 teams involved in this season's Europa League will play in a singular league.

Some aspects remain the same - teams cannot draw another team from the same league, for instance - but there are a number of changes.

Each team plays eight games instead of six, and will be drawn against two teams from each of the four pots. There will also be four home games and four away games for each team.

The teams from pot one will be drawn out manually, before an AI supercomputer takes over to assign them all seven opponents each. The process repeats itself for each of the four pots.

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