The 2016 UEFA Europa League Final was played between Liverpool and Sevilla at the St. Jakob-Park in Basel, Switzerland,[1] and won by Sevilla, their fifth title (extending their own record) and third win in a row (also a tournament record).

[11][12] Apart from the allocation based on the country coefficients, associations may have additional teams participating in the Europa League, as noted below: In the default access list, Sevilla enter the group stage (as the fifth-placed team of the 2014–15 La Liga).

When a place is vacated, it is redistributed within the national association by the following rules (regulations Articles 3.03 and 3.04):[8] The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:[18][19] Notably two teams took part in the competition that were not playing in their national top-division.

The schedule of the competition is as follows (all draws are held at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, unless stated otherwise).

[14][37][38] Matches in the qualifying, play-off, and knockout rounds may also be played on Tuesdays or Wednesdays instead of the regular Thursdays due to scheduling conflicts.

For the draw, the teams were seeded into four pots based on their 2015 UEFA club coefficients.

FC Augsburg, Belenenses, Gabala, Groningen, Midtjylland, Monaco, Sion and Skënderbeu made their debut appearances in the group stage (although Monaco have appeared in the UEFA Cup group stage).

Skënderbeu Korçë were the first team from Albania to play in the group stage of any UEFA club competition.

In the knockout phase, teams played against each other over two legs on a home-and-away basis, except for the one-match final.