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Thursdays will never be the same! Some first leg results;
FC Xanthi 1-2 Standard Liege; Ronnie Stam has signed for Standard
Slask Wroclaw 1-0 Club BrugesSwansea 4-0 Malmo
Motherwell 0-2 Kuban Krasnodar
Minsk 0-1 St Johnstone (Perth)Second leg 8 August
Spurs (and Atromitos) enter Play Off round
Draw 9 August; First leg 22 August; Second leg 29 AugustValencia, Bordeaux, Lazio, Anzhi Makhachkala, Wigan Athletic, Freiburg and Vitória de Guimarães enter Group stage
Draw 30 August; Matchday 1 19 SeptemberHad a grinning moment this morning when our IT boff came in..
IT Boff: Are you excited?
Me: About what?
IT Boff: The Europa draw today?!?
Me: That’s only for the shit teams … We’re already in the group stages darling ;)
I was just going to post the same about Xanthi. Up in the very top corner of Greece near the Turkish border.Not Zante – or Zakynthos as it is properly called – where I went for my holiday last year :)
We went to Tsvili in Zante last year – Planet Studios. A great place to stay.They even stuck the home game against Stoke on the big screen for us !!!
Two weeks tody fellas……..We’ll be looking forward to some of this lot as away days. (Plus the few already in the groups) My thoughts on the winners of each in bold. Estoril (Lisbon seaside) v Little Pasching of Austria sees one of them in the next round which would be an ideal starting point for me.
Kuban Krasnodar
1
Feyenoord
22 Aug
29 Aug
Zulte Waregem
2
APOEL
22 Aug
29 Aug
Rapid Wien3
Dila Gori
22 Aug
29 Aug
Tromsø
4
Beşiktaş
22 Aug
29 Aug
Pandurii Târgu Jiu
5
Braga
22 Aug
29 Aug
Apollon Limassol
6
Nice
22 Aug
29 Aug
Aktobe
7
Dynamo Kyiv
22 Aug
29 Aug
Swansea City
8
Petrolul Ploiești
22 Aug
29 Aug
Atromitos
9
AZ
22 Aug
29 Aug
FH
10
Genk
22 Aug
29 Aug
Elfsborg
11
Nordsjælland
22 Aug
29 Aug
Sevilla
12[C]
Śląsk Wrocław
22 Aug
29 Aug
Red Bull Salzburg
13
Žalgiris Vilnius
22 Aug
29 Aug
Qarabağ
14
Eintracht Frankfurt
22 Aug
29 Aug
Minsk
15
Standard Liège
22 Aug
29 Aug
Jablonec
16
Real Betis
22 Aug
29 Aug
Rijeka
17
Stuttgart
22 Aug
29 Aug
Chornomorets Odesa
18
Skënderbeu Korçë
22 Aug
29 Aug
Maccabi Tel Aviv ???
n/a[E]
PAOK????
Cancelled????
Cancelled
St. Gallen
20
Spartak Moscow
22 Aug
29 Aug
Molde
21
Rubin Kazan22 Aug
29 Aug
Vojvodina
22
Sheriff Tiraspol
22 Aug
29 Aug
Kukësi
23[C]
Trabzonspor
22 Aug
29 Aug
Esbjerg
24
Saint-Étienne
22 Aug
29 Aug
Grasshopper
25
Fiorentina
22 Aug
29 Aug
Maccabi Haifa
26
Astra Giurgiu
22 Aug
29 Aug
Udinese
27
Slovan Liberec
22 Aug
29 Aug
Dinamo Tbilisi
28
Tottenham Hotspur
22 Aug
29 Aug
Estoril
29
Pasching
22 Aug
29 Aug
Nõmme Kalju
30
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
22 Aug
29 Aug
Partizan
31
Thun
The 10 LOSERS of the UEFA Champions League Qualifying Play-Off Round go into the Europa League draw too. Some more attractive teams here.
Shakhtyor Karaganda V Celtic
Lyon V Real Sociedad
Pacos Ferreira V Zenit St Petersburg
Plzen V NK Maribor
PSV Eindhoven V AC Milan
Dinamo Zagreb V Austria Vienna
Fenerbahce V Arsenal
Ludogorets Razgrad V FC Basel
Schalke 04 V Paok Salonika
Steaua Bucharest V Legia WarsawAlways fancied a trip to Vienna.
Probably end up going to Glasgow :dry:
Anyone been to Ludogorets Razgrad before?
Starting to get exciting though, planning how to get to wherever… :woohoo:
Judging by Neil Lennon’s comments, if we get Shakter Karagandy, might be ruddy impossible to get there, Celtic have had problems getting visas to get in to Kazakhstan and they’ve got to play there! If the club struggles to get visas, not sure us mere spectators stand much chance.
St Johnstone fans couldn’t get visas to go to Belarus. They had one supporter there – a Scot who lived there.
Best hope we avoid some of the farther reaches.
Just 30 Celtic fans have made the 3,100 mile trip to Kazakhstan for Tuesday afternoon’s Champions League qualifier at Shakhter Karagandy – who have slaughtered a sheep at their stadium for good luck.
Celtic kicked off at 4:00pm – and are losing 1-0 just now. The loser will go into the Europa League draw.
More Champions League matches tonight and tomorrow; Europa League matches on Thursday.
I know the draw is this Friday but does anyone know how soon thereafter the sequence of fixtures are announced?
The first game is September 19th and there’s a strong possibility that will be the week I start a new job, it would be nice to know sooner rather than later if I have to beg 2 days off in my first week to get to Freiburg and back (which would be ironic as I was there 2 weeks ago).People moan at me for posting the source documents, so that you can see and interpret for yourself, but para 7.04 explains the sequence – so it’ll be known straightaway once it’s decided who is in the group and which team number we are:
1st matchday: 2 v 3 4 v 1
2nd matchday: 1 v 2 3 v 4
3rd matchday: 3 v 1 2 v 4
4th matchday: 1 v 3 4 v 2
5th matchday: 3 v 2 1 v 4
6th matchday: 2 v 1 4 v 3You may also find other snippets about the competition in this – the official rules and regulations for the Europa League this season.
For example 19.14 shows that the competition badge is worn only on the right sleeve. I’ve seen quite a few people who have got badges on both sleeves on their replica shirts – the left sleeve should have the “Respect” badge.
Many thanks Garswood, you won’t find me moaning, well not about you posting source documents anyway :)
Champions League Play Off Round this week – including Arsenal v Fenerbahce tonight and Celtic v Shakhter – it means Colliery – Karagandy tomorrow.. Losers go into draw for Europa League.
Then on Thursday, Play Off Round for Europa League, including Spurs v Tbilisi.
The group stage draw will take place in Monaco on Friday 30 August from 12.45 CET – that should be 10.45 BST.
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