Steaua a debutat cu o infrangere in noul sezon al Europa League, fiind invinsa de Osmanlispor, echipa debutanta in cupele europene, scor 2-0. Enache a fost eliminat in finalul primei reprize, iar turcii s-au distrat cu echipa lui Laurentiu Reghecampf in a doua parte a meciului. Primul gol al partidei de la Ankara a fost semnat de Diabate (65'), dupa ce a transformat o lovitura de la 11 metri. Umar a stabilit scorul final in minutul 74.
In celalalt meci al grupei, Villarreal s-a impus in fata celor de la Zurich, scor 2-1.
Clasament Grupa L:
1. Osmanlispor (2-0) 3 puncte
2. Villarreal (2-1) 3 puncte
3. FC Zurich (1-2) 0 puncte
4. Steaua (0-2) 0 puncte
Rezultatele serii:
Grupa A
Feyenoord Rotterdam - Manchester United 1-0 (Tonny Vilhena 79).
Zaria Lugansk - Fenerbahce Istanbul 1-1 (Dmitro Greciskin 42/ Simon Kjaer 90+5).
Grupa B
APOEL Nicosia - FC Astana 2-1 (Vinicius 74, Igor de Camargo 87/ Nemanja Maksimovic 45.
Young Boys Berna - Olympiakos Pireu 0-1 (Esteban Cambiasso 42).
Grupa C
Anderlecht Bruxelles - FK Qabala 3-1 (Lukasz Teodorczyk 14, Rafael Santos 41 (autogol), Diego Capel 78/ Bagaly Dabo 20).
Mainz 05 - AS Saint-Etienne 1-1 (Niko Bungert 57/ Robert Beric 88).
Grupa D
AZ Alkmaar - Dundalk 1-1 (Stijn Wuytens 60/ Ciaran Kilduff 89).
Cartonas rosu: Stephen O'Donnell (Dundalk) 71.
Maccabi Tel Aviv - Zenit St. Petersburg 3-4 (Haris Medunjanin 26, 70, Vidar Oern Kjartansson 50/ Aleksandr Kokorin 76, Robert Mak 84, Giuliano 86, Luka Djordjevic 90+2).
Cartonas rosu: Eliazer Dasa (Maccabi, 81).
Grupa E
Astra Giurgiu - Austria Viena 2-3 (Denis Alibec 18, Cristian Sapunaru 74/ Raphael Holzhauser 16 - penalty, Kevin Friesenbichler 33, Alexander Grunwald 58).
Cartonas rosu: Lukas Rotpuller (Austria, 79).
Viktoria Plzen - AS Roma 1-1 (Marek Bakos 11/ Diego Perotti 4).
Grupa F
Rapid Viena - Racing Genk 3-2 (Stefan Schwab 51, Joelinton 59, Omar Colley 60- autogol/Leon Bailey 29, 90 - penalty).
Sassuolo - Athletic Bilbao 3-0 (Pol Lirola 60, Gregoire Defrel 75, Matteo Politano 82).
Grupa G
Panathinaikos Atena - Ajax Amsterdam 1-2 (Marcus Berg 6/ Bertrand Traore 34, Jairo Riedewald 67).
Cartonase rosii: Ivan Ivanov (Panathinaikos, 69), Hakim Ziyech (Ajax, 79), Wakaso Mubarak (Panathinaikos, 90+2).
Standard Liege - Celta Vigo 1-1 (Mathieu Dossevi 4/ Giuseppe Rossi 13).
Grupa H
Sporting Braga - KAA Gent 1-1 ( Andre Pinto 24/ Danijel Milicevic 6).
Konyaspor - Sahtior Donetk 0-1 (Facundo Ferreyra 76.)
Grupa I
OGC Nice - Schalke 0-1 (Abdul Rahman Baba 75).
Red Bull Salzburg - FC Krasnodar 0-1 (Joaozinho 37).
Cartonas rosu: Serghei Petrov (Krasnodar, 71).
Grupa J
Qarabag FK - Slovan Liberec 2-2 (Michel 7, Rasad Farhad Sadigov 90+4/ Jan Sykora 1, Milan Baros 68.
PAOK Salonic - Fiorentina 0-0
Grupa K
Inter Milano - Hapoel Beer Sheva 0-2 (Miguel Vitor 54, Maor Bar Buzaglo 69).
Southampton - Sparta Praga 3-0 (Charlie Austin 6 - penalty, 27, Jay Rodriguez 90+2).
Grupa L
Osmanlispor FK - Steaua Bucuresti 2-0 (Cheick Diabate 64 - penalty, Aminu Umar 74).
Cartonas rosu: Gabriel Enache (Steaua, 45).
Villarreal - FC Zurich 2-1 (Alexandre Pato 28, Jonathan dos Santos 45/ Armando Sadiku 2).
