Football: UEFA Europa League Fixtures Thursday 22/10/2009

Uefa-europa-league Tonight sees another fine selection of fixtures in the UEFA Europa League groupo phase.

Highlights are set to include Benfica hosting Everton, Celtic taking on Hamburg at Celtic Park, and Lazio against Villareal – a fixture which would not look out of place in the UEFA Champion’s League.

Below is the full fixture list for this evening’s UEFA Europa League:

UEFA Europa League 2009/2010 Fixtures – Thursday 22nd October 2009

Ajax v Dinamo Zagreb – Group A – Kick Off 20:05
Athletic Bilbao v Nacional – Group L – Kick Off 18:00
BATE v AEK Athens – Group I – Kick Off 18:00
Benfica v Everton – Group I – Kick Off 18:00
Celtic v Hamburg – Group C – Kick Off 20:05
Club Brugge v Partizan Belgrade – Group J – Kick Off 18:00
CSKA Sofia v Basle – Group E – Kick Off 20:05
FC Sheriff Tiraspol v FC Twente – Group H – Kick Off 18:00
FK Austria Vienna v Werder Bremen – Group L – Kick Off 18:00
FK Ventspils v Sporting – Group D – Kick Off 20:05
Fulham v Roma – Group E – Kick Off 20:05
Galatasaray v Dinamo Bucharest – Group F – Kick Off 20:05
Hapoel Tel-Aviv v Rapid Vienna – Group C – Kick Off 20:05
Hertha Berlin v Heerenveen – Group D – Kick Off 20:05
Lazio v Villarreal – Group G – Kick Off 18:00
Lille v Genoa – Group B – Kick Off 20:05
Panathinaikos v SK Sturm Graz – Group F – Kick Off 20:05
Politehnica Timisoara v Anderlecht – Group A – Kick Off 20:05
PSV v FC Copenhagen – Group K – Kick Off 18:00
Shakhtar Donetsk v Toulouse – Group J – Kick Off 18:00
Sparta Prague v CFR 1907 Cluj-Napoca – Group K – Kick Off 18:00
Steaua Bucharest v Fenerbahce – Group H – Kick Off 18:00
SV Red Bull Salzburg v Levski Sofia – Group G – Kick Off 18:00
Valencia v Slavia Prague – Group B – Kick Off 20:05

In This Story: Austria

Austria, officially the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked East Alpine country in the southern part of Central Europe. It is composed of nine federated states, one of which is Vienna, Austria’s capital and its largest city.

It is bordered by Germany to the northwest; the Czech Republic to the north; Slovakia to the northeast; Hungary to the east; Slovenia and Italy to the south; and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west.

Austria occupies an area of 83,879 km2 (32,386 sq mi) and has a population of nearly 9 million people. While German is the country’s official language, many Austrians communicate informally in a variety of Bavarian dialects.