Europa League draw date, time, when matches start: Leicester

Foxes of Leicester provides all the necessary Europa League draw information for Leicester City. Including the time and date and when matches will start.

Whereas the Champions League draw takes place today, Thursday, Leicester City fans will have to wait another 24 hours to see who they’ll be meeting in their Europa League group.

Obviously the Foxes were tantalisingly close to securing UCL qualification. Some believe it was a failure by Brendan Rodgers’ team not to do so; but that is a naive, harsh and unfair opinion: the King Power side has in fact improved so much, that onlookers are now concerned with them not making the Champions League.

Excitement is certainly building for the Blue Army. In this article, Foxes of Leicester will explain rule changes before discussing all other aspects of this season’s competition.

Sevilla were once again triumphant in 2019/20’s Europa. Incredibly, last campaign’s win was the Spanish club’s fourth in six years; beating them at any stage of the tournament would be a huge confidence boost for Rodgers’ outfit. Of course, that is if they meet.

Rule changes in UEL

Now to the regulation changes: first of all the five substitution rule will remain for the entirety of the cup and VAR will only be used in the later knockout stages.

Draw date, time and group stage kick-off for Leicester City

There is not long for the East Midlanders‘ faithful to wait, with the draw scheduled for 12pm BST on Friday October 2 in Nyon, Switzerland. The group matches start on October 22.

In other features of the Foxes‘ world presently, Academy wunderkind Will Alves has taken part in BBC’s Wonderkid Challenge. Alves is a star youth player for Leicester; he’s been showing off his “quick feet” in a competition for the broadcaster.