Europa Group draw - the possibilities
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Following a 3-2 aggregate win over Partizan Belgrade in the playoff round of the Europa League qualifiers, Shamrock Rovers will be in the draw for the Europa League group stages. The draw takes place in Monaco on Friday August 26th.
Seeding does apply to these group matches, and due to the poor co-efficient ranking the Airtricity League has in comparison to the other sides in the hat, Rovers are to be bottom seeds, making a draw against the bigger sides far more likely.
The draw consists of forty eight teams. Thirty eight of the teams come through the Europa League playoff like Shamrock Rovers, and the ten losers of the UEFA Champions League playoff round will complete the entrants list.
Forty eight teams will split into four seeding pots; selecting one from each, for each individual group. There will be twelve groups. No team can meet another from the same association. Once the draw has been completed a computer draw will determine the final position of the sides within their group and therefore the order of the home and away matches.
To put things in perspective, Shamrock Rovers have a co-efficient of 2.741 while Tottenham have a co-efficient of 78.157.
A complete list of the teams that will make up tomorrow’s draw is as follows:
Pot One:
Tottenham Hotspur
PSV
Athletico Madrid
Sporting Lisbon
FC Braga
Schalke 04
Dynamo Kiev
PSG
FC Copenhagen
AZ Alkmaar
Anderlecht
FC Twente
Pot Two:
Fulham
Besiktas
Hapoel Tel Aviv
Metalist Kharkiv
Standard Liege
Rubin Kazan
Club Brugge
AEK Athens
Steaua Bucharest
Udinese
Athletic Bilbao
Lazio
Pot Three:
Red Bull Salzburg
Maccabi Haifa
FC Zurich
Odense
Lokomotiv Moscow
PAOK
Stoke City
Birmingham City
Rennes
Austria Vienna
Rapid Bucharest
Hannover 96
Pot Four:
Vorskla Poltava
Wisla Krakow
Vaslui
FC Sion
Sturm Graz
Maccabi Tel Aviva
Slovan Bratislava
Legia Warsaw
Maribor
AEK Lamaca
Malmo FF
Shamrock Rovers
In what is a really exciting time for Hoops fans, Extratime have put together a somewhat “Fantasy Group” to get people thinking. Rovers could potentially end up in a group with Tottenham Hotspur, S.S Lazio and Hannover of Germany.
Seeding does apply to these group matches, and due to the poor co-efficient ranking the Airtricity League has in comparison to the other sides in the hat, Rovers are to be bottom seeds, making a draw against the bigger sides far more likely.
The draw consists of forty eight teams. Thirty eight of the teams come through the Europa League playoff like Shamrock Rovers, and the ten losers of the UEFA Champions League playoff round will complete the entrants list.
Forty eight teams will split into four seeding pots; selecting one from each, for each individual group. There will be twelve groups. No team can meet another from the same association. Once the draw has been completed a computer draw will determine the final position of the sides within their group and therefore the order of the home and away matches.
To put things in perspective, Shamrock Rovers have a co-efficient of 2.741 while Tottenham have a co-efficient of 78.157.
A complete list of the teams that will make up tomorrow’s draw is as follows:
Pot One:
Tottenham Hotspur
PSV
Athletico Madrid
Sporting Lisbon
FC Braga
Schalke 04
Dynamo Kiev
PSG
FC Copenhagen
AZ Alkmaar
Anderlecht
FC Twente
Pot Two:
Fulham
Besiktas
Hapoel Tel Aviv
Metalist Kharkiv
Standard Liege
Rubin Kazan
Club Brugge
AEK Athens
Steaua Bucharest
Udinese
Athletic Bilbao
Lazio
Pot Three:
Red Bull Salzburg
Maccabi Haifa
FC Zurich
Odense
Lokomotiv Moscow
PAOK
Stoke City
Birmingham City
Rennes
Austria Vienna
Rapid Bucharest
Hannover 96
Pot Four:
Vorskla Poltava
Wisla Krakow
Vaslui
FC Sion
Sturm Graz
Maccabi Tel Aviva
Slovan Bratislava
Legia Warsaw
Maribor
AEK Lamaca
Malmo FF
Shamrock Rovers
In what is a really exciting time for Hoops fans, Extratime have put together a somewhat “Fantasy Group” to get people thinking. Rovers could potentially end up in a group with Tottenham Hotspur, S.S Lazio and Hannover of Germany.
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