Europa League: Arsenal drawn against Sporting while Chelsea meet PAOK

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Arsenal will play Sporting Lisbon in the group stage of the Europa League.

Unai Emery's side have been drawn in Group E of this season's competition with the Portuguese club, Qarabag of Azerbaijan and Ukrainian side Vorskla.

Chelsea, who won the competition in 2012-13, are in Group L with Greek side PAOK Salonika, BATE Borisov of Belarus and Hungarian outfit Vidi.

Celtic meet Salzburg, RB Leipzig and Rosenborg while Rangers face Rapid Vienna, Villarreal and Spartak Moscow.

The final of this season's Europa League takes place in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, on 29 May.

Spanish clubs have won the competition for five of the last seven seasons and Sevilla - who triumphed under Emery in 2014, 2015 and 2016 - have been drawn to face Russian side Krasnodar, Standard Liege of Belgium and Turkey's Akhisar.

Europa League 2018-19 groups

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
Bayer Leverkusen	Red Bull Salzburg	Zenit	Anderlecht
Ludogorets	Celtic	FC Copenhagen	Fenerbahce
FC Zurich	RB Leipzig	Bordeaux	Dinamo Zagreb
AEK Larnaca	Rosenborg	Slavia Prague	Spartak Trnava

Group E	Group F	Group G	Group H
Arsenal	Olympiakos	Villarreal	Lazio
Sporting	AC Milan	Rapid Vienna	Marseille
Qarabag	Real Betis	Spartak Moscow	Eintracht Frankfurt
Vorksla	Dudelange	Rangers	Apollon

Group I	Group J	Group K	Group L
Besiktas	Sevilla	Dynamo Kiev	Chelsea
Genk	Krasnodar	Astana	PAOK
Malmo	Standard Liege	Rennes	BATE
Sarpsborg	Akhisar	Jablonec	Vidi

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