NOt sure if this was to be posted in bug section:

In europa league,
england, france, germany, netherlands, spain, italy, portugal, turkey have 3 teams competing for the title.

But four teams (france, netherlands, spain, and turkey) have both their teams in the same group whereas the other four have their teams in separate groups.

why is it so? does this not give some countries (with teams in separate groups) a higher chance to gain more points ? (obviously they have to win first)

Also similar situation in champions league for france, portugal and spain (two teams in same group). France and spain have 4 teams, so it is understandable that two of their teams are in same group, but portugal has (only) 3 teams.
And england with 4 teams has their teams spread around in 4 groups

(if this has been already discussed before, please let me know any links to the thread)

I think Gabriel said this would be fixed with the add of new countries and 8 group thing, seems not… It seems to continue random, the game draw the teams based on their quality and cares not from were they are.

it used to base its groupings on country a long time ago and people were complaining that it made for some really strong groups and some really weak groups.
so Gabriel reprogrammed it so it takes into consideration quality of teams to spread everything out equally. when he did that, it started putting teams from the same country together again.