Arsenal One Of The Europa League Special 16

                    AUG 18, 2017

With 44 teams still battling it out for this year's Europa League campaign, and clubs from the Champions League still to drop in, 16 clubs are already confirmed for the 2017/18 tournament.

With the qualification process for this year beginning last June, yesterday evening saw a number of sides in action - including Everton and AC Milan - as they kicked off the first leg Qualifying Play Off battles.

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16 sides from around Europe are already guaranteed for the Europa League this year though, and Arsenal are obviously one of them.

ESP: Villarreal, Real Sociedad
GER: Koln, Hertha Berlin
ENG: Arsenal
ITA: Lazio, Atalanta
POR: Guimaraes
FRA: Lyon
RUS: Lokomotiv Moskva
UKR: Zorya Luhansk
BEL: Zulte Waregem
NED: Vitesse
TUR: Konyaspor
SUI: Lugano
CZE: Zlin*

* The Cup winner of the association ranked 13th in the 2017/18 list gets an automatic group entry owing to Manchester United winning the Europa League last season and gaining entry into the Champions League.

For legal speak, that list is tagged by UEFA.com as being 'provisional and subject to pending legal proceedings and final confirmation from UEFA.'

The full list of sides through for this year's competition will soon be known as the qualifiers play themselves out and then we see who we draw from the 22 that progress and the 10 that slip down from the Champions League.

The group stage draw is set for August 25.