Can't be a good thing when you start playing competitive football just over 2 weeks after the World Cup ends but we'll find out who we get in the 3rd qualifying round at about 12:30pm tomorrow. List of potential opponents: Kalmar/Dacia Luzern Lausanne/Borac Banja Luka Cercle Brugge v TPS Nordsjaelland Bnei Yehuda/Shamrock Rovers Stabaek/Dnepr Mogilev Slovan Bratislava Ventsplils/Tateks Molde/Jelgava Beroe Stara Zagora Viktoria Plzen Jablonec IFK Goteborg Maccabi Tel Aviv/Mogren Apollon Aalesund Hajduk Split Dukla Banksa Bystrica/Zestaponi Robotnicki/Mika Inter Turku Honka/Bangor City MYPA/UE Sant Julia Maribor/Videoton Gelfe/Dinamo Tblisi Minsk/Sillamae Kalev OFK Beograd/Torpedo Zhodino Spartak Zlatibor Voda/Differdange Zrijinski/Tre Penne Baku/Podogorica Jagellonia Bialystok Ruch Chorzow/Valetta Cibalia/Cliftonville Gyori/Atyrau
Bit of thread duplication as well - http://www.irishkop.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14393. Think it should all be merged into one thread called something like 'Europa League 2010/11'?
Whats the UEFA Cup - well thats the trophy that the great men that were Shanks and Paisley won when in charge of us for starters. I was of course referring to the trophy we'd actually win next May if we went all the way instead of referring to the name of a competiton that UEFA will probably change the name of again in the next few months If it bothers people maybe some mod will show mercy and change the thread title!
Do you know - I actually think it's a beautiful looking trophy - simple clean look to it and the base is really nice. And this is one of my favourite images...
True.Well they did need some way to separate the crap from the well bigger crap and then there's us and Juve in the middle through no fault of our own. Seriously though have nothing against the tournament whether it's called the UEFA or Europa League.Just think there's way too many teams and it seems to drag on forever.Sadly I think we better get used to it as it's where we are at unfortunately until new owners come calling.
From my looking at the draw as it is laid out with the groupings of the seeds on the UEFA site I think that Liverpool can only meet 5 different teams Stabaek/Dnepr Beroe Rabotnicki/Mika Honka/Bangor City Zrinjski/Tre Penne http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/draws/index.html The reason I say this is if you look down the left side of the draw amoung the seeded teams. Liverpool are at the top the 6th in the draw are Juventus then 11th are Sporting
so that would make it away trips to either Stabaek/Dnepr Norway/Croatia Beroe Bulgaria Rabotnicki/Mika Macedonia/Armenia Honka/Bangor City Finland/Wales Zrinjski/Tre Penne Bosnia/San Marino (Italy)
Would love a trip to Zrinjski.They play in Mostar which is well worth visiting.Not sure about flights though.
Thats a great spot Lionel. Nothing confirmed by UEFA yet but they do state that there will be 7 groups of 10 teams (half seed, half unseeded) and they way there are laid out on that draw list you could very well be spot on.
All three Irish teams have the exacts same coefficient and are all unseeded but should they progress to the 3rd round they take over the coefficent of the teams that they would have beaten. Dundalk are been beaten 0-4 at the moment 64 mins gone
it would be a great away draw for our cash strapped club. They might even go on the train from Runcorn again