The fifth matchday of the Europa League group stage brought a dramatic finish, leaving a rare three-way tie at the top of the standings. Lyon, Midtjylland and Aston Villa all secured confident wins, preserving their joint leadership. Each side closed the round with an impressive 15 points.

2025-26, Europa League

Day : 2025-12-11

"Freiburg" - "Red Bull Salzburg" 1:0 (0:0)
Goals : Lienhart, 50 (1:0)
Yellow Cards : Kübler 80; Suzuki Yu. 89 - Lainer 45
Red cards : - Ratkov 38'

"Basel" - "Aston Villa" 1:2 (1:1)
Goals : Guessand, 12 (0:1); Daniliuc F., 34 (1:1); Tielemans, 53 (1:2)
Yellow Cards : Leroy L. 72; Otele 80 - Cash 17; Buendia 35; Konsa 84; McGinn J. 87

"Celta" - "Bologna" 1:2 (1:0)
Goals : Zaragoza Br., 17 (1:0); Bernardeschi, 66 (penalty) (1:1); Bernardeschi, 74 (1:2)
Yellow Cards : Radu A. 87; Rueda 90; Moriba 90 - Holm E. 84

"Celtic" - "AS Roma" 0:3 (0:3)
Goals : Scales, 6 (own goal) (0:1); Ferguson E., 36 (0:2); Ferguson E., 45 (0:3)
Yellow Cards : - Hermoso 45; El Shaarawy 45; Soule M. 45; Ndicka 78; Ziolkowski 88

"SK Brann" - "Fenerbahce" 0:4 (0:3)
Goals : Aktürkoglu, 5 (0:1); Talisca, 36 (0:2); Talisca, 44 (0:3); Talisca, 65 (0:4)
Yellow Cards : Helland 18 - Brown Ar. 14
Red cards : Helland 18' -

"Sturm" - "Crvena Zvezda" 0:1 (0:0)
Goals : Ivanic, 55 (0:1)
Yellow Cards : Malic 11 - Arnautovic 16; Krunić 69; Ivanic 69

"VfB Stuttgart" - "Maccabi Tel Aviv" 4:1 (2:0)
Goals : Assignon, 24 (1:0); Tomas T., 37 (2:0); Mittelstädt, 50 (penalty) (3:0); Revivo, 52 (3:1); Vagnoman, 90 (4:1)
Yellow Cards : Jovanovic L. 30; El Khannouss 65 - Aly Camara 54; Hamo 82

"Young Boys" - "Lille" 1:0 (0:0)
Goals : Males, 61 (1:0)
Yellow Cards : Zoukrou 90, 90 - Giroud 32
Red cards : Zoukrou 90' - Bouaddi 32'

"FC Midtjylland" - "Genk" 1:0 (1:0)
Goals : Cho Gue-sung, 17 (1:0)
Yellow Cards : Brumado 41; Cho Gue-sung 47 - Medina Y. 27

"Porto" - "Malmö" 2:1 (2:0)
Goals : Samu, 30 (1:0); Samu, 36 (2:0); Moura, 90 (own goal) (2:1)
Yellow Cards : - Busanello 64; Stryger Larsen J. 81

"FCSB" - "Feyenoord" 4:3 (1:2)
Goals : Ngezana, 11 (1:0); Tengstedt C., 41 (1:1); Timber Q., 44 (1:2); Sauer L., 51 (1:3); Toma M., 54 (2:3); Thiam M., 86 (3:3); Tănase F., 90 (4:3)
Yellow Cards : Lixandru 48; Tănase F. 73 - Ahmedhodžić 72

"Utrecht" - "Nottingham Forest" 1:2 (0:0)
Goals : Kalimuendo, 52 (0:1); van der Hoorn, 73 (1:1); Igor Jesus, 88 (1:2)
Yellow Cards : Rodríguez V.M. 47; Zechiël 90 - Anderson E. 65; Igor Jesus 89

"Ferencvaros" - "Rangers" 2:1 (1:1)
Goals : Miovski, 27 (0:1); Ötvös, 45 (1:1); Varga B., 72 (2:1)
Yellow Cards : Joseph Le. 77 - Aarons 43; Djiga 79

"Dinamo Zagreb" - "Real Betis" 1:3 (0:3)
Goals : Domínguez S., 31 (own goal) (0:1); Riquelme R., 34 (0:2); Antony M., 38 (0:3); Galešić, 89 (1:3)
Yellow Cards : Goda 73; Ljubicic D. 90 - Gomez Val. 33; Deossa 55; Bakambu 90

"Ludogorets" - "PAOK" 3:3 (1:1)
Goals : Stanic P., 33 (1:0); Despodov, 39 (1:1); Vogliacco, 48 (1:2); Verdon, 70 (2:2); Chochev, 77 (3:2); Mythou, 90 (3:3)
Yellow Cards : Verdon 47; Bile 53; Chochev 81 - Camara Mady 69

"Nice" - "Braga" 0:1 (0:1)
Goals : Pau Victor, 28 (0:1)
Yellow Cards : Oppong 37; Gouveia 45; Abdul Samed 79; Mendy An. 86 - Grillitsch 34; Navarro F. 86

"Lyon" - "Go Ahead Eagles" 2:1 (2:1)
Goals : Moreira, 3 (1:0); Smit M., 6 (1:1); Šulc P., 11 (2:1)
Yellow Cards : Mata C. 33 - Stokkers 85; Meulensteen 90

"Panathinaikos" - "Viktoria Plzen" 0:0
Yellow Cards : Touba 54; Djuricic F. 56; Zaroury 84 - Jemelka 11, 32; Wiegele 64; Dweh S. 79
Red cards : - Jemelka 32'