EUROPA LEAGUE 2019/20 MANAGERS DURING THEIR PLAYING DAYS

49th season of UEFA secondary club competition. 48th teams are drawn into 12 groups. Final winner of the UEFA Europa League automatically qualify for the next season UEFA Champions League group stage.

After CL here are Europa League club managers during their playing days. Some of them never played football or I couldn't find photo.

GROUP A

Julen Lopetegui (Las Palmas / Sevilla)

Thomas Doll (HSV / Apoel)

Gurban Gurbanov (Azerbaijan / Qarabag)

Emilio Ferrera (Beveren / F91 Dudelange): Here as a Beveren coach in 2000/01

GROUP B

Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko (Sampdoria / Dynamo Kyiv)

Stale Solbakken (Norway / Copenhagen)

Uwe Rosler (Manchester City / Malmo)

Fabio Celestini (Troyes / Lugano)

GROUP C

Marcel Koller (Grasshoppers / Basel)

Murad Musayev (Krasnodar): He never played football professionally

Jose Bordalas (Elche / Getafe)

Unal Karaman (Trabzonspor)

GROUP D

Leonel Pontes (Maritimo / Sporting CP): Pontes never played football

Mark van Bommel (PSV)

Eirik Horneland (Haugesund / Rosenborg)

Valerien Ismael (LASK)

GROUP E

Simone Inzaghi (Lazio)

Neil Lennon (Leicester / Celtic)

Julien Stephan (Stade Briochin / Rennes)

Dan Petrescu (Chelsea / CFR Cluj)

GROUP F

Unai Emery (Toledo / Arsenal)

Adi Hutter (Casino Salzburg / Eintracht Frankfurt)

Michel Preud'homme (Standard Liege)

Ivo Vieira (Nacional / Vitoria Guimaraes)

GROUP G

Sergio Conceicao (Standard Liege / Porto)

Gerardo Seoane (La Coruna / Young Boys)

Jaap Stam (Zwolle / Feyenoord)

Steven Gerrard (Liverpool / Rangers FC)

GROUP H

Viktor Goncharenko (Bate Borisov / CSKA Moscow)

Stanislav Genchev (Slavia Sofia / Ludogorets)

David Gallego (Huelva / Espanyol)

Serhiy Rebrov (Rubin Kazan / Ferencvaros)

GROUP I

Oliver Glasner (SV Reid / Wolfsburg)

Jess Thorup (KFC Uerdingen 05 / Gent)

Ghislain Printat (Bastia / Etienne)

Volodymyr Sharan (Dynamo Kyiv / Oleksandriya)

GROUP J

Paulo Fonseca (Estrela Da Amadora / Roma)

Marco Rose (Mainz / Borussia Monchengladbach)

Okan Buruk (Galatasaray / Istanbul)

Gerhard Struber (Casino Salzburg / Wolfsberger)

GROUP K

Abdullah Avci (Istanbulspor / Besiktas)

Ricardo Sa Pinto (Real Sociedad / Braga)

Nuno Espirito Santo (Porto / Wolves)

Jan Kozak (Artmedia Petržalka / Slovan Bratislava)

GROUP L

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer (Manchester United)

Roman Hryhorchuk (? / Astana)

Savo Milošević (Partizan Beograd)

Arne Slot (NAC Breda / AZ Alkmaar)

MANAGERIAL CHANGES:

Silas (Uniao Leiria / Sporting CP): Former Portuguese national team player is a new manager of Sporting. There he replaces Leonel Pontes who was in charge for only four matches.