Similar to the UEFA Champions League, the Europa League is one of the highest-level competition between the teams that could not make it to the Champions League group stages eve by hook or by crook.
Sometimes also called the EUFA Cup, the Europa League is a gateway to the EUFA Super Cup for the best team in the format. The UEFA Europa League’s winner ensures its confirmed spot in the next season’s Champions League.
Europa League is a second-tier football competition in the current footballing world. However, the competition started as a third-tier competition and therefore is sometimes still referred to as ‘C3’.
The organizing body UEFA recently presented us with the group stage draws for the upcoming Europa League. The draws look pretty balanced and are bound to give us some great action this season.
The Europa League is going to go almost parallel with the Champions League schedule starting from 8th September 2022 and marking the end of group stages on 3rd November 2022.
Since the Europa League is just around the week let us reminiscence its past and take a look at the teams that have been part of this competition and answer the question: Which is the most successful Europa League team of the 21st century?
Most successful Europa League team of the 21st century
According to the statistics and data of the competition, it has been mostly dominated by the Spanish football clubs. The most dominant club of them is Sevilla which has won the competition a record number of 6 times.
The scenario remains stagnant even when we limit the sample dataset to the last two decades and compare it to the most successful club in the 21st Century. Because all the six wins of the club Sevilla come after we entered into the 21st century.
The club has won the EUFA Europa League title in the following years: 2006, 2007, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2020. Out of these 6 wins the club managed to beat the other team from the Champions League side in the EUFA Super Cup in the year 2006 to declare themselves the best in the continent.
Seeing Sevilla on the top doesn’t come as a surprise even though they have won not a single title since 1945 in their domestic league La Liga. Their potential is shadowed by other great teams in their region like Real Madrid and Barcelona. Hence they perform well in the Europa League.
List of the most successful Europa League teams of the 21st century
| Rank | Club | Wins |
| 1. | Sevilla | 6 |
| 2. | Atletico Madrid | 3 |
| 3. | Porto | 2 |
| 4. | Chelsea | 2 |
| 5. | Manchester United | 1 |
| 6. | Feyenoord | 1 |
| 7. | Eintracht Frankfurt | 1 |
| 8. | Galatasaray | 1 |
| 9. | Valencia | 1 |
| 10. | CSKA Moscow | 1 |
| 11. | Zenit Saint Petersburg | 1 |
| 12. | Shakhtar Donetsk | 1 |
| 13. | Villarreal | 1 |
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