🔢 UEFA Europa League: 2021/22 season in numbers

The curtains got here down on the 2021/22 Europa League season on Wednesday night time with Eintracht Frankfurt beating Rangers on penalties to elevate the coveted crown. 

The Germans didn’t lose a single match by way of the season, turning into the third aspect to realize such feat, becoming a member of Sevilla and Chelsea. 

Listed below are a few of the high numbers from the just-concluded season. 

• 13 Eintracht Frankfurt completed unbeaten on this season’s competitors (W7 D6) and are solely the third aspect within the UEFA Europa League period to finish an unbeaten marketing campaign after Chelsea (2018/19) and Villarreal (2020/21)
• 7 All seven of Europa League high scorer James Tavernier’s objectives got here within the knockout levels, and he opened the scoring in all 4 of the Scottish aspect’s knockout residence video games. Reminder: he is a right-back
• 9:34 Patson Daka struck the quickest ever Europa League hat-trick as Leicester recovered from 2-0 down at Spartak Moskva on Matchday 3, the Zambian sealing the factors with a fourth 25 minutes later
• 22 Galatasaray went by way of an UEFA group stage unbeaten for the primary time, on the twenty second time of asking. Frankfurt, Monaco and Lyon have been additionally undefeated heading into the knockout levels
• 1 West Ham made their debut in a UEFA group stage as they returned to European competitors correct for the primary time since 2006/07

• 6 Filip Kostić offered a competition-high six assists on this season’s Europa League, for 5 totally different scorers – Sam Lammers, Gonçalo Paciência, Djibril Sow, Rafael Borré (2) and a Guido Rodríguez personal purpose
• 3 Braga beat Sheriff 3-2 on spot kicks within the knockout spherical play-offs, the one tie this season to go to a penalty shoot-out earlier than the ultimate
• 16 Braga’s Roger Fernandes grew to become the youngest ever Europa League participant, aged 16 years and 88 days when the Bissau-born winger got here on within the first leg at Sheriff
• 41 Legia goalkeeper Artur Boruc was the oldest participant to characteristic this season
• 6 Lyon prolonged their profitable run on their travels within the Europa League to 6 video games – matching a file shared by Atlético de Madrid (2011–12) and Porto (2010–11) – earlier than they have been held at West Ham within the quarter-finals
• 12.60 Eljif Elmas’s opener for Napoli towards Spartak Moskva on Matchday 2 was timed at 12.60 seconds, the second-fastest purpose in UEFA Europa League historical past after Jan Sýkora’s 10.69-second effort for Liberec at Qarabağ in 2016/17

• 23 Rangers have been the top-scoring group on this season’s competitors on 23 objectives, two greater than second-placed Frankfurt
• 7 For the seventh successive season, an English group made it to the semi-finals, however Spain’s file eight-year run within the final 4 got here to an finish
• 53 There have been 53 objectives throughout the eight ties within the new knockout spherical play-offs, a median of 6.6 per tie
• 2 Finalists Rangers and Frankfurt have been each seeded in Pot 2 for the group stage draw again in August
• 11 Daichi Kamada has 11 objectives in 23 outings within the Europa League correct, as many as he has scored in 95 Bundesliga video games
• 1 Frankfurt will play within the Champions League for the primary time subsequent season – their solely season in UEFA’s premier membership competitors earlier was in 1959/60, once they made it to the European Cup ultimate