Who Can United Face In Europe?

Jose Mourinho will discover who his Manchester United team will face in the Europa League group stage this season when the draw commences in Monaco at 12:00 BST on Friday.

The Reds have been named in pot one among the top seeds in the competition after finishing fifth in the Premier League last campaign and due to the club’s high UEFA club coefficient rating.

The total of 48 teams will be split into 12 groups of four on Friday afternoon with one team taken from each pot of seeds. Teams from the same country cannot meet until the round of 16, which means United will not be drawn against English rivals and recent opponents Southampton.

United’s first Europa League group match of the season will be played on Thursday 15 September, which is three days before Mourinho’s men travel to Watford's Vicarage Road.

POT ONE
Schalke, Zenit St. Petersburg, Manchester United, Shakhtar Donetsk, Athletic Club, Olympiacos, Villarreal, Ajax, Internazionale, Fiorentina, Anderlecht, Viktoria Plzen.

POT TWO
AZ Alkmaar, Braga, Salzburg, Roma, Fenerbahce, Sparta Prague, PAOK, Steaua Bucharest, Genk, APOEL, Standard Liege, Saint-Etienne.

POT THREE
Gent, Young Boys, Krasnodar, Rapid Vienna, Slovan Liberec, Celta Vigo, Maccabi Tel-Aviv, Feyenoord, Austria Vienna, Mainz, FC Zurich, Southampton.

POT FOUR
Panathinaikos, Sassuolo, Qarabag, Astana, Nice, Zorya Luhansk, Astra Giurgiu, Konyaspor, Osmanlispor, Qabala, Hapoel Beer-Sheva, Dundalk.