1st leg to start Thursday.
On Thursday, Juventus will face UEFA Europa League record holders Sevilla in the tournament’s semifinal.
Juventus is having a difficult season in the Italian Serie A, which was recently won by Napoli. The Turin club, which is currently second in the Italian league, has not won the Serie A title since 2020.
So Juve, who won three UEFA Cups in 1977, 1990, and 1993, is hoping for a successful European campaign.
The UEFA Cup, Europe’s second-tier competition, was renamed the Europa League in 2009.
Meanwhile, Sevilla from Spain has performed significantly better in the Europa League than in the Spanish La Liga.
Sevilla won their first and only La Liga title in 1946 and went on to win a record six UEFA Cups/UEFA Europa Leagues in 2006, 2007, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2020.
The Seville club also won the UEFA Super Cup in 2006.
The match between Juventus and Sevilla will kick off at 1900GMT at Turin’s Allianz Stadium.
In the other game of the night, Roma will host Bayer Leverkusen of Germany.
The match at Rome’s Olimpico will begin at 1900GMT as well.
Roma, who won the 2022 UEFA Europa Conference League title, has never won the Europa League but did reach the 1991 UEFA Cup final.
Leverkusen won the title once before, in 1988 when it was known as the UEFA Cup.
The second legs were scheduled to be held on May 18.
The winners of each tie in the semis will qualify for the 2023 Europa League final on May 31.
This season’s final will be played at Budapest’s Puskas Arena which was opened in 2019 after it was revamped.
The stadium was named after Ferenc Puskas, a well-known Hungarian football legend and Real Madrid great, and UEFA confirms that it can hold up to 63,000 people.
The Puskas Arena previously hosted several UEFA EURO 2020 matches and the 2020 UEFA Super Cup between Bayern Munich and Sevilla.
