There are a total of five British teams in Europa League action on Thursday evening, with Tottenham Hotspur, Fulham, Stoke City, Birmingham City and Celtic all facing matches that will be vital if they hope to progress to the second stage of the competition.
Spurs host Rubin Kazan at White Hart Lane in arguably the biggest game of the evening, although there are also two eye catching matches in Group I, where Udinese hosts Atletico Madrid and Celtic travel to Rennes.
Stoke City will look to continue their excellent Europa League form when they host Maccabi Tel Aviv in the Britannia Stadium, while Fulham will take their own unbeaten record to Poland, where they will face Wisla Krakow. Birmingham City are also away, in Belgium, at Club Bruges.
There are a total of 24 Europa League matches taking place across Europe on Thursday evening, with the likes of Lazio, Paris Saint-Germain, Athletic Bilbao and PSV Eindhoven just some of the big names involved in the competition.
Lokomotiv Moscow vs AEK Athens AEK Larnaca vs Schalke 04 AZ Alkmaar vs Austria Vienna Club Bruges vs Birmingham City Maccabi Haifa vs Steaua Bucharest Malmo FF vs FC Metalist Kharkiv NK Maribor vs Braga Odense BK vs FC Twente Stade Rennes vs Glasgow Celtic SK Sturm Graz vs Anderlecht Udinese vs Atletico Madrid Wisla Krakow vs Fulham Athletic Bilbao vs Red Bull Salzburg Dynamo Kiev vs Besiktas FC Zurich vs Lazio Hannover 96 vs FC Copenhagen Hapoel Tel-Aviv vs PSV Eindhoven PAOK Salonika vs Shamrock Rovers Rapid Bucharest vs Legia Warsaw Slovan Bratislava vs Paris Saint-Germain Sporting vs FC Vaslui Standard Liege vs Vorskla Poltava Stoke City vs Macc Tel-Aviv Tottenham Hotspur vs Rubin Kazan
