Aston Villa has been placed in Group E of the Europa Conference League with AZ Alkmaar, Legia Warsaw, and Zrinjski.

On Thursday night, the Premier League team hosted its first European match in 13 years after defeating Hibernian 8-0 on aggregate to secure a spot in the group stage draw.

The only other British team in the group stage of the third-tier competition in European football is Aberdeen, which was placed in Group G with Eintracht Frankfurt, PAOK Athens, and Helsinki.

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After losing to Swedish champions Hacken 5-3 on the road in their Europa League qualifying match, the Scottish Premiership team was relegated to the Europa Conference League.

Zrinjski, Villa’s opponents in Group E, are the first Bosnia and Herzegovina team to advance past the group stages in a UEFA club competition.

The 32 clubs that participated in the draw were made up of the 10 losers from the Europa League play-off round and the 22 winners from the ECL play-off round.

In four pots of eight teams each, the clubs were seeded based on UEFA’s club coefficient rankings. Aberdeen was in pot 4, whereas Villa was in pot 2.

Europa Conference League group-stage draw in full

Group A: LOSC Lille, Slovan Bratislava, Olimpija Ljubljana, KÍ Klaksvík

Group B: Gent, Maccabi Tel-Aviv, Zorya Luhansk, Breidablik

Group C: Dinamo Zagreb, Viktoria Plzen, Astana, Ballkani

Group D: Club Brugge, Bodø/Glimt, Beşiktas, Lugano

Group E: AZ Alkmaar, Aston Villa, Legia Warsaw, Zrinjski

Group F: Ferencváros, Fiorentina, Genk, Cukaricki

Group G: Frankfurt, PAOK, HJK Helsinki, Aberdeen

Group H: Fenerbahçe, Ludogorets, Spartak Trnava, Nordsjælland