Turkey's Konyaspor, Basaksehir in UEFA Europa draw

By Fatih Hafiz Mehmet

ANKARA (AA) - The draw for football's Europa League has seen Turkey’s Basaksehir and Konyaspor pitted against Hoffenheim and Marseille respectively.

In Group C, the Istanbul club face Germany’s Hoffenheim, who missed out on Champions League football when they were beaten by Liverpool.

Portuguese club Braga and Bulgaria’s Ludogorets make up the rest of the group.

Konyaspor, who are in Group I, will face 1993 Champions League winners Marseille, Salzburg of Austria and Portugal’s Vitoria Guimaraes.

The first matches played on Sept. 14.

The groups are as follows:

Group A: Villarreal, Maccabi Tel-Aviv, Astana, Slavia Prague

Group B: Dynamo Kiev, Young Boys, Partizan Belgrade, Skenderbeu

Group C: Braga, Ludogorets, Hoffenheim, Basaksehir

Group D: AC Milan, Austria Vienna, NK Rijeka, AEK Athens

Group E: Lyon, Everton, Atalanta, Apollon Limassol

Group F: FC Copenhagen, Lokomotiv Moscow, Sheriff Tiraspol, FC Zlin

Group G: Viktoria Plzen, Steaua Bucharest, Hapoel Beer-Sheva, FC Lugano

Group H: Arsenal, BATE Borisov, Cologne, Red Star Belgrade

Group I: Salzburg, Marseille, Vitoria Guimaraes, Konyaspor

Group J: Athletic Bilbao, Hertha Berlin, Zorya Luhansk, Ostersunds

Group K: Lazio, Nice, Zulte Waregem, Vitesse Arnhem

Group L: Zenit, Real Sociedad, Rosenborg, Vardar Skopje