Europa League - Shamrock Rovers draw Spurs

ROVERS DRAW SPURS!

The draw for the Group stage of the Europa League takes place this morning in Monaco and we’ll be keeping you up to date with everything that happens, as it happens.

-- Draw takes place at 12.00 Irish time --

Of course the big news is that last night Shamrock Rovers beat Partizan Belgrade 2-1 after extra time to book their passage to this stage of the competition, the first time ever that an Irish side have done so.

There are 48 teams in the draw with 12 groups of four set to be drawn. Those teams have been divided into four seeding pots with Shamrock Rovers placed by coefficient seeding into pot four. This means they cannot be drawn against Vorskla Poltava, the conquerers of Sligo Rovers in the third qualifying round.

Bizarrely, Rovers could be drawn with FC Copenhagen, the side that knocked them out of the Champions League qualifiers. Having beaten the Hoops over two legs in the third qualifying round of the CL, Copenhagen went on to be beaten in the CL play-off by Viktoria Plzen. As a result, they too have dropped into the group stage of the Europa League.

The teams in Pot 1
Tottenham Hotspur - PSV Eindhoven - Atlético Madrid - Sporting Lisbon - SC Braga - Schalke 04 - Dynamo Kyiv - Paris Saint-Germain - FC København - AZ Alkmaar - Anderlecht - FC Twente

The teams in Pot 2
Fulham - Besiktas - Hapoel Tel-Aviv - Metalist Kharkiv - Standard Liège - Rubin Kazan - Club Brugge - AEK Athens - Steaua Bucuresti - Udinese Calcio - Athletic Bilbao - Lazio

The teams in Pot 3
FC Salzburg - Maccabi Haifa - FC Zürich - Odense BK - Lokomotiv Moscow - PAOK - Birmingham City - Stoke City - Stade Rennes - Austria Wien - Rapid Bucuresti - Hannover 96

The teams in Pot 4
Vorskla Poltava - Wisla Kraków - FC Vaslui - FC Sion - Sturm Graz - Maccabi Tel-Aviv - Slovan Bratislava - Legia Warsaw - NK Maribor - AEK Larnaca - Malmö - Shamrock Rovers



Okay, the draw is about to start. We will be adding the drawn teams to their groups as they come out of the pots.
We are currently being treated to a reprise of last seasons competition so nothing is happening draw-wise for the moment.
Here we go... the trophy has been brought out... and the draw is about to begin...
False alarm! there's a lot of guff being spoken... No, here we really go!
The first Pot is being drawn first and Spurs are in Group A
POT 1 is done and we are onto POT 2...
Spurs have drawn Rubin Kazan in Group A
Fulham are in Group K with Dutch side FC Twente
FC Copenhagen have Standard Liege
The top two seeding pots have been drawn - we are about to start Pot 3 - Shamrock Rovers will come out of Pot 4 and so, will know exactly the make-up of their group when they get drawn!
Group D looks like one to avoid - Sporting Lisbon and Lazio. If Rovers want an English team then thery are looking for Group A (Spurs) or Group K (Fulham).
Stoke and Birmingham will come out of Pot 3.
Here come Stoke City... and they get Group E with Kiev and Besiktas.
Still no sign of Rovers as Pot 4 is being drawn!!!
Legia Warsaw are next... they get Group C
HERE ARE ROVERS..... They get... Group A... SPURS


EUROPA LEAGUE GROUP STAGE

Group A
Tottenham Hotspur
Rubin Kazan
PAOK
Shamrock Rovers

Group B
FC Copenhagen
Standard Liège
Hannover 96
Vorskla Poltava

Group C
PSV Eindhoven
Hapoel Tel-Aviv
Rapid Bucuresti
Legia Warsaw

Group D
Sporting Lisbon
Lazio
FC Zürich
FC Vaslui

Group E
Dynamo Kyiv
Besiktas
Stoke City
Maccabi Tel-Aviv

Group F
Paris Saint-Germain
Athletic Bilbao
FC Salzburg
Slovan Bratislava

Group G
AZ Alkmaar
Metalist Kharkiv
Austria Wien
Malmö

Group H
SC Braga
Club Brugge
Birmingham City
NK Maribor

Group I
Atletico Madrid
Udinese Calcio
Stade Rennes
FC Sion

Group J
Schalke 04
Steaua Bucuresti
Maccabi Haifa
AEK Larnaca

Group K
FC Twente
Fulham
Odense BK
Wisla Kraków

Group L
Anderlecht
AEK Athens
Lokomotiv Moscow
Sturm Graz