EUROPA LEAGUE OPPONENT OVERVIEW | FREIBURG

Juventus face Freiburg over two legs in the round of 16 of the UEFA Europa League.

The first leg will be played on 9 March, while the second leg will take place a week later, on 16 March.

Let's find out more about our next opponents.

DOMESTIC FORM

• The team coached by Christian Streich have collected 40 points from 21 games and currently sit fourth place in the league, the last spot for qualification for the next UEFA Champions League.
• League leaders Bayern Munich are only three points ahead.
• Bayern will be the next opponent of Freiburg in the DFB Pokal, the German cup, in the quarter-finals. Last season Streich's team reached the final, losing on penalties to Leipzig.
• Returning to the Bundesliga, Freiburg finished the 2021/2022 season in sixth place, with 55 points in 34 games.
• Currently the team's top scorer in the league is the Italian Vincenzo Grifo with 11 goals scored, the last two coming in the penultimate match played, a 2-1 win against Stuttgart on 11 February.

EUROPEAN FORM

• Until now, the German team's form in Europe has been almost perfect. After finishing top of Group G, ahead of Nantes, Qarabag and Olympiacos, with 14 points from six games, the result of 4 wins and two draws .
• In the previous four seasons Freiburg did not qualify for Europe competition.
• They last participated in UEFA competition in season 2017/2018, in the Europa League preliminaries.
• In season 2013/2014, Freiburg participated in the Europa League, not going beyond the group stage.
• This year is the best result obtained by the German team in Europe, also improving on the third round - the equivalent of this year's Europa League play-off - reached in the 2001/2002 season in the UEFA Cup, when they were eliminated in the two-legged tie by Feyenoord.