Yesterday the group stage of the Europa League was concluded which among other things meant that Inter’s crosstown rivals AC Milan were knocked out after losing 3-1 away against Olympiacos.
The draw will be made on Monday 17th of December at 13.00 CET and Inter are among the seeded teams as can be seen below which mean that they will start the first leg away to conclude the tie at home at the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza in Milano’s San Siro district.
The Nerazzurri are eligible to play all the teams in the unseeded pot except Lazio as UEFA has a restriction that no two teams from the same national association can face off at this stage.
Seeded teams: Bayer Leverkusen, Salzburg, Zenit St Petersburg, Arsenal, Dynamo Zagreb, Real Betis, Eintracht Frankfurt, Dinamo Kiev, Chelsea, Napoli, Inter, Valencia, Benfica, Villarreal, Genk, Sevilla.
Unseeded teams: Zurich, Celtic, Slavia Prague, Fenerbahçe, Sporting Lisbon, Olympiacos, Lazio, Viktoria Plzen, Galatasaray, Club Brugge, Shakhtar Donetsk, Rapid Vienna, Malmö FF, Krasnodar, Rennes, Bate Borisov.
