Europa League draw: Watch full replay Uefa group stage 2019 draw as Man Utd and Arsenal learnt fate
Watch a full replay of the 2019/20 Uefa Europa League group stage draw
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Manchester United face a couple of long-distance midweek trips after being drawn in a Europa League group with Astana of Kazakhstan, Partizan Belgrade and AZ Alkmaar.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's team are set to play in Group L and their away clash with Astana will see United make a 6,000 mile round trip to Nur-Sultan.
Last season's finalists Arsenal have been drawn against Eintracht Frankfurt, Standard Liege and Vitoria Guimaraes. Frankfurt reached the semi-finals last term before being knocked out by Chelsea.
Wolves have been put in a group with Besiktas, Braga and Slovan Bratislava.
Scottish Champions Celtic will play Lazio, Rennes and Cluj - the Romanian club who knocked them out of Champions League qualifying.
Rangers, meanwhile, were placed with Porto, Young Boys and Feyenoord.
When do the games take place?
- Matchday one: 19 September
- Matchday two: 3 October
- Matchday three: 24 October
- Matchday four: 7 November
- Matchday five: 28 November
- Matchday six: 12 December
Latest updates:
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Our second special guest: it's Paulo Ferreira, who was on the bench in 2013, and also won the Europa League with Porto in 2003.
Another all too brief natter, and he's off to join Ashley Cole to get the drawing done.
Uefa Director of Competitions Giorgio Marchetti first offers warm words towards Luis Enrique and his family after the sad passing of the Spaniard's daughter this week.
Marchetti throws us across to a video package which takes us through everything you could possibly need to know about the draw.
Uefa's executive committee have decided that Ukrainian and Russian teams cannot be drawn together, which seems sensible.
The match calendar (with fixtures and timings and all that) will be released two hours after the draw concludes.
48 teams across four pots, and we'll begin with the big boys - Pot One...
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