Europa League draw LIVE: West Ham, Rangers and Barcelona learn quarter-final fate

Follow as West Ham draw Lyon, Rangers take on Braga and Barcelona will play Frankfurt

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West Ham have made it to the quarter-final stage of the Europa League after knocking out six-time champions Sevilla in a pulsating second leg clash at the London Stadium on Thursday night.

The reward for the Hammers is a last-eight clash against French side Lyon, while Rangers face Braga, Barcelona drew Frankfurt and RB Leipzig will square off against Atalanta in the other fixtures.

Rangers reached the quarter-final stage of a European competition for the first time in 14 years despite a narrow 2-1 defeat at Red Star on Thursday night - Giovanni van Bronckhorst’s men doing the damage in the first leg with a 3-0 victory at Ibrox to win 4-2 on aggregate.

After being held to a goalless draw at Camp Nou, Barcelona came from behind to defeat Turkish side Galatasaray. The decisive goal came early in the second half as Frenkie de Jong headed across goal to leave Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang with an easy finish to secure the win for the Spanish giants.

RB Leipzig progressed automatically after their opponents, Russian club Spartak Moscow, were suspended from the competition due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The draw in Nyon, Switzerland, takes place at 12:30pm GMT, you can follow live build-up and the latest updates from both the quarter-final and semi-final draw below, following the conclusion of the Champions League draw:

Europa League draw

• Draw took place at in Nyon, Switzerland
• All quarter-final and semi-final fixtures were drawn
• West Ham vs Lyon
• Braga vs Rangers
• Frankfurt vs Barcelona
• RB Leipzig vs Atalanta

[18 March 2022 12:41 · Michael Jones]

Europa League draw

Another German club, Eintracht Frankfurt, is drawn at home for the first leg of the second quarter-final. They face Barcelona!

[18 March 2022 12:40 · Michael Jones]

Europa League draw

Okay, here we go.

RB Leipzig are first out of the pot. After Barcelona they are the second favourites to win this competition. The German side will play Atalanta in the first quarter-final.

[18 March 2022 12:36 · Michael Jones]

Europa League draw

Giorgio Marchetti is welcomed back on stage and makes a point of how diverse the last eight is this year with seven different nations represented across the clubs.

Three-time Europa League winner, Andres Palop, will be drawing out the teams.

[18 March 2022 12:33 · Michael Jones]

Europa League draw

We’ve got another simple draw with no seedings and no country restrictions.

The two-legged quarter-finals will take place on 7th and 14th April, the semi-finals are on 28th April and 5th May with the final in Sevilla’s Ramon Sanchez-Pizjuan Stadium coming on Wednesday 18th May.

[18 March 2022 12:30 · Michael Jones]

Europa League draw

Owen Hargreaves speaking about Rangers on BT Sport: “At Ibrox, anything is possible because that crowd is unlike almost any other crowd. No team’s going to want to go there. They’re well organised, got good attacking players.”

[18 March 2022 12:25 · Michael Jones]

Europa League draw

West Ham are ready from the quarter-final draw. They could come up against British opposition in the last eight as Rangers have exceeded expectations to reach this stage. How far can the Scottish side go?

[18 March 2022 12:20 · Michael Jones]

Moyes on knocking out Sevilla

David Moyes says he wasn’t surprised that his West Ham team defeated six-time Europa League winners, Sevilla, in the last-16 despite losing the first leg 1-0 away from home. He said:

I wasn’t surprised about us getting the result last night because I felt we could do it, against a really good, experienced team.

“We have to just take Sunday like any other game and the importance of it.”

[18 March 2022 12:15 · Michael Jones]

Who is in the Europa League draw?

Germany have the most teams in the Europa League last eight (two) but the rest of the teams come from all over Europe. Here are the teams remaining in the draw:

Atalanta (ITA) Barcelona (ESP) Braga (POR) Eintracht Frankfurt (GER) RB Leipzig (GER) Lyon (FRA) Rangers (SCO) West Ham (ENG)

[18 March 2022 12:10 · Michael Jones]

David Moyes on Europa League draw

Speaking ahead of West Ham’s Premier League trip to Tottenham on Sunday, manager David Moyes touched on today’s Europa League draw saying:

“They might all want to play West Ham because they see us as novices in this competition! I think if you’re going to play us, you know you’re in for a game.

“We always want to challenge the best teams and did so against Sevilla and over the two legs just about did it.

“Whoever we get, we’re looking forward to it. We’ll challenge anybody who comes along. After seeing London Stadium the way it was last night, it would be good to have the second leg at home.”

[18 March 2022 12:05 · Michael Jones]

David Moyes backs ‘massive’ West Ham to keep improving after Sevilla triumph

David Moyes saluted a “massive” performance from West Ham United after they stunned Sevilla to reach the quarter-finals of the Europa League.

Andriy Yarmolenko climbed off the bench to sink the LaLiga side as the Hammers prolonged their European adventure with a dramatic extra-time win.

West Ham, debutants in the knockout stage of the Europa League, became the first English team to beat the six-time winners in the tournament at a raucous London Stadium.

Trailing 1-0 from the first leg, Tomas Soucek headed West Ham level in the first half and, on a genuine European glory night reminiscent of Upton Park in its heyday, Yarmolenko fired the Hammers to a 2-1 aggregate victory and into a historic quarter-final.

Moyes, referencing the club’s new unofficial anthem, said: “Tonight we were massive, the way we played. We deserved it in the end. It was a really great night and one we really enjoyed. The story tonight was the team.