{"id":78747,"date":"2026-04-03T22:39:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T19:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tiktik-online.co.il\/?p=78747"},"modified":"2026-09-28T13:35:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T10:35:37","slug":"europa-league-2026-quarter-finals-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tiktik-online.co.il\/en\/europa-league-2026-quarter-finals-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Europa League 2026: the quarterfinals \u2014 Porto, Aston Villa, Freiburg and Braga battle for the cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2025\/26 Europa League reaches the decisive stage with four quarterfinal pairings. The first legs take place on 8-9 April, with the big final on 27 May at the San Mam\u00e9s stadium in Bilbao, Spain.<\/p>\n<h2>\u26bd The quarterfinals \u2014 the pairings<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Braga vs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktik-online.co.il\/en\/product_teams\/%d7%a8%d7%99%d7%90%d7%9c-%d7%91%d7%98%d7%99%d7%a1\/\">Real Betis<\/a><\/strong> \u2014 8 April (first leg), 16 April (return leg)<\/li>\n<li><strong>SC Freiburg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktik-online.co.il\/en\/product_teams\/%d7%a1%d7%9c%d7%98%d7%94-%d7%95%d7%99%d7%92%d7%95\/\">Celta Vigo<\/a><\/strong> \u2014 9 April (first leg), 16 April (return leg)<\/li>\n<li><strong>FC Porto <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktik-online.co.il\/en\/product_teams\/%d7%a0%d7%95%d7%98%d7%99%d7%a0%d7%92%d7%94%d7%90%d7%9d-%d7%a4%d7%95%d7%a8%d7%a1%d7%98\/\">Nottingham Forest<\/a><\/strong> \u2014 9 April (first leg), 16 April (return leg)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bologna <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktik-online.co.il\/en\/product_teams\/%d7%90%d7%a1%d7%98%d7%95%d7%9f-%d7%95%d7%99%d7%9c%d7%94\/\">Aston Villa<\/a><\/strong> \u2014 9 April (first leg), 16 April (return leg)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>\ud83c\udff4\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc62\udb40\udc65\udb40\udc6e\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc7f Nottingham Forest and Aston Villa \u2014 England represented<\/h2>\n<p>Two English clubs reached the quarterfinals. Nottingham Forest, which only returned to the top flight in 2022, faces Porto. Aston Villa wants to go as far as possible in the Europa League.<\/p>\n<h2>\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddf8 The Spanish representatives \u2014 Betis and Celta Vigo<\/h2>\n<p>Spain is sending two surprising clubs. Real Betis from Seville and Celta Vigo from Galicia.<\/p>\n<h2>\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf9 Porto \u2014 experience wins<\/h2>\n<p>Porto is the main favorite to win the Europa League, with 2 Champions League titles and 2 Europa League\/UEFA Cup titles.<\/p>\n<h2>\ud83c\udfc6 The final \u2014 San Mam\u00e9s, Bilbao<\/h2>\n<p>The 2026 Europa League final will take place on <strong>27 May<\/strong> at the San Mam\u00e9s stadium of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktik-online.co.il\/en\/product_teams\/%d7%90%d7%aa%d7%9c%d7%98%d7%99%d7%a7-%d7%91%d7%99%d7%9c%d7%91%d7%90%d7%95\/\">Athletic Club<\/a> (53,289 seats).<\/p>\n<h2>\ud83d\udcc5 Important dates<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Quarterfinal first leg:<\/strong> 8-9 April 2026<\/li>\n<li><strong>Quarterfinal return leg:<\/strong> 16 April 2026<\/li>\n<li><strong>Semifinal first leg:<\/strong> 30 April 2026<\/li>\n<li><strong>Semifinal return leg:<\/strong> 7 May 2026<\/li>\n<li><strong>Final:<\/strong> 27 May, San Mam\u00e9s, Bilbao<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tickets available on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktik-online.co.il\/en\/uel\/\">TikTik \u2014 Europa League tickets<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktik-online.co.il\/en\/sportpackages\/\">Full sports packages<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u05d9\u05d5\u05e8\u05d5\u05e4\u05d4 \u05dc\u05d9\u05d2 2025\/26 \u05de\u05d2\u05d9\u05e2\u05d4 \u05dc\u05e9\u05dc\u05d1 \u05d4\u05d4\u05db\u05e8\u05e2\u05d4 \u05e2\u05dd \u05d0\u05e8\u05d1\u05e2\u05d4 \u05d6\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5\u05ea \u05d1\u05e8\u05d1\u05e2\u05d9 \u05d4\u05d2\u05de\u05e8. \u05d4\u05de\u05e9\u05d7\u05e7\u05d9\u05dd \u05d4\u05e8\u05d0\u05e9\u05d5\u05e0\u05d9\u05dd \u05de\u05ea\u05e7\u05d9\u05d9\u05de\u05d9\u05dd \u05d1-8-9 \u05d1\u05d0\u05e4\u05e8\u05d9\u05dc, \u05e2\u05dd \u05d4\u05d2\u05de\u05e8 \u05d4\u05d2\u05d3\u05d5\u05dc \u05d1-27 \u05d1\u05de\u05d0\u05d9 \u05d1\u05d0\u05e6\u05d8\u05d3\u05d9\u05d5\u05df \u05e1\u05df \u05de\u05d0\u05de\u05e1 \u05d1\u05d1\u05d9\u05dc\u05d1\u05d0\u05d5, \u05e1\u05e4\u05e8\u05d3. \u26bd \u05e8\u05d1\u05e2\u05d9 \u05d4\u05d2\u05de\u05e8 \u2014 \u05d4\u05d6\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5\u05ea \u05d1\u05e8\u05d0\u05d2\u05d4 vs \u05e8\u05d9\u05d0\u05dc \u05d1\u05d8\u05d9\u05e1 \u2014 8 \u05d1\u05d0\u05e4\u05e8\u05d9\u05dc (\u05e8\u05d0\u05e9\u05d5\u05df), 16 \u05d1\u05d0\u05e4\u05e8\u05d9\u05dc (\u05d7\u05d6\u05e8\u05d4) \u05e4\u05e8\u05d9\u05d9\u05d1\u05d5\u05e8\u05d2 vs \u05e1\u05dc\u05d8\u05d4 \u05d5\u05d9\u05d2\u05d5 \u2014 9 \u05d1\u05d0\u05e4\u05e8\u05d9\u05dc (\u05e8\u05d0\u05e9\u05d5\u05df), 16 \u05d1\u05d0\u05e4\u05e8\u05d9\u05dc (\u05d7\u05d6\u05e8\u05d4) \u05e4\u05d5\u05e8\u05d8\u05d5 vs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":78755,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[30311],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tiktik-online.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tiktik-online.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tiktik-online.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tiktik-online.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tiktik-online.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tiktik-online.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78756,"href":"https:\/\/www.tiktik-online.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78747\/revisions\/78756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tiktik-online.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tiktik-online.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tiktik-online.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tiktik-online.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}