30 October 2026
Europa League matchday 4 in numbers: form, goals and margins match by match
Eighteen matches on 4 and 5 November: five sides on 9 points, Benfica on 10 goals, and operator margins that need to be read alongside coverage.
The Matchday · Previews
Europa League previews: every round in numbers
The Europa League uses the Champions League format: 36 teams in one table, eight matches each. The top eight go straight to the round of 16, 9th to 24th into the play-offs, and the bottom twelve are out. It is played on Thursdays, almost always the day after the Champions League.
We have published 4 previews of the Europa League so far, the first on 14 September 2026. The latest covers the round from 4 to 5 November 2026. Each one is written before the round from numbers we can source — the table, recent form, head-to-heads where our archive has them, and the odds read from the operators' own feeds with the time they were read — and none of them contains a prediction.
The latest preview
Earlier previews
- 19 October 2026Europa League matchday 3: what do form, goals and margins tell us?
The 18 matches on 22 October: Juventus and Besiktas on 7 goals, defences yet to concede and operator margins with different coverage. - 9 October 2026Europa League matchday 2: what do form, head-to-heads and margins show?
The 18 matches on 15 October: Juventus have 5 goals, form covers just one game, and margins are comparable across a shared sample of 13 fixtures. - 14 September 2026Europa League, the matchday in numbers: what we can measure and what we can't
Eighteen matches and no table, no form, no head-to-heads: on matchday one they don't exist. What does exist are the prices — and they show something you don't see in domestic leagues.
To read alongside
Europa League data
Europa League table Europa League fixtures Europa League top scorers Odds compared Margin index