The Draw

[Cortez91]

So the draw is live on uefa.com tomorrow at noon.

Our Facebook page has said we will be a seeded team in that draw.

Who do you want to face?





As a side-note. I reckon they should give priority for tickets to all those who bought tickets for tonight (show ticket as proof or whatever).

 

[Quill]

I'm very happy that we are seeded, as if we weren't I do believe we'd be likely going out. Our list of potential opponents could've included Lyon, Inter, PSV, Villarreal, Twente, Celtic, Sociedad, Gladbach and Feyenoord among others.

 

[captain caveman]

http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/season=2015/draws/index.html

Seedings to be confirmed by UEFA on friday.

 

[Cortez91]

All seedings will be confirmed tomorrow on that website ^

 

[captain caveman]

Oops, double post.

 

[Quill]

The seedings are easy to work out, just look at the coefficients.

It will be these (Coefficients included)

Seeded:
Lyon 97.300
Internazionale 95.387
Tottenham Hotspur 75.949
PSV Eindhoven 64.862
Villarreal 53.542
FC Twente 50.862
Metalist Kharkiv 45.693
PAOK 37.720
Celtic 36.813
Club Brugge 32.260
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 32.193
Trabzonspor 31.340
Panathinaikos 30.220
Sparta Prague 28.870
Borussia Mönchengladbach 25.328
Real Sociedad 24.542
Young Boys 24.145
Dinamo Zagreb 23.925
Lokomotiv Moscow 20.899
Rapid Wien 19.185
Zürich 18.645
Nacional 17.959
Maccabi Tel Aviv 17.875
Sheriff Tiraspol 17.075
Hull City 16.949
Partizan 14.825
Torino 13.387
Feyenoord 13.362
Saint-Étienne 12.800
Rio Ave 12.459
Dynamo Moscow 12.399

Unseeded:
Elfsborg 11.265
Debrecen 10.325
Omonia 10.150
Hajduk Split 9.925
Grasshoppers 9.645
Krasnodar 9.399
Rostov 9.399
Rijeka 8.925
PEC Zwolle 8.862
Lokeren 8.760
Asteras Tripoli 8.720
Apollon Limassol 8.650
Zorya Luhansk 8.193
Aktobe 8.150
AEL Limassol 7.650
Qarabağ 7.575
HJK 7.435
Neftchi Baku 7.075
Astra Giurgiu 6.951
Petrolul Ploiești 6.951
Karabükspor 6.840
Midtjylland 6.760
Dinamo Minsk 6.725
Ruch Chorzów 5.775
Sarajevo 5.500
Shakhtyor Salihorsk 5.225
Spartak Trnava 5.200
RNK Split 4.925
Zimbru Chișinău 3.075
Astana 1.900
Stjarnan 1.350

 

[gilberdyketigers]

So based on the Coefficients the lower the rating ****ter the team, hope we draw Stjarnan then

 

[Quill]

So based on the Coefficients the lower the rating ****ter the team, hope we draw Stjarnan then

Not really, I would say that Torino, Feyenoord and Saint-Étienne might be better than us.

 

[ImperialTiger]

Can we draw any of the unseeded teams or is there another criteria?

 

[Ullofaman]

Who fancies going to:

Omonia - Cyprus (Nicosia)
Rijeke - Croatia
Elfsborg - Sweden (founded 1904 and play in yellow and black)
Asteras - Greece
Spartak Trnava - Slovakia again
Neftci - Azerbaijan ( in Baku, the capital)
Karabukspor - Turkey
Stjarnan - Iceland
Astana - Kazakhstan (capital city, very modern centre).
Astra - Romania
Zorya - Ukraine (ehm, no thanks just right now)
Krasnodar (Russia - deep south).

Who says the Europa league ain't a hoot?

 

[Quill]

Can we draw any of the unseeded teams or is there another criteria?

Erm... we can only play unseeded teams.

 

[Amin Arrears]

Lockeren. Easiest and cheapest trip.

 

[ImperialTiger]

Erm... we can only play unseeded teams.

So there are 32 potential opponents then? Why do people keep posting lists with about 10 on?

 

[Quill]

So there are 32 potential opponents then? Why do people keep posting lists with about 10 on?

Read the link posted.

 

[Cortez91]

So based on the Coefficients the lower the rating ****ter the team, hope we draw Stjarnan then

Not entirely. I'm pretty sure how all the clubs in your league do in Europe plus how your country is doing can affect your coefficient.

 

[Oregon Tiger]

Europa League Playoff Round

According to this, we are seeded and we can draw one of these 5 teams:

RNK Split (Croatia)
AC Omonia (Cyprus)
KSC Lokeren OV (Belgium)
FC Aktobe (Kazakhstan)
FC Astra (Romania)

Belgium will be the easiest to get to. I quite fancy Croatia. The Dalmatian coast is a beautiful part of the world.

 

[Oregon Tiger]

So there are 32 potential opponents then? Why do people keep posting lists with about 10 on?

because its divided into 6 groups. 5 groups of 10, one of 12. Half the teams are seeded in each group. That includes us. We can only get drawn against an unseeded team in the same group. The other seeded teams in our group are Dynamo Moscow, Lyon, Celtic and Torino. The unseeded teams are

RNK Split (Croatia)
AC Omonia (Cyprus)
KSC Lokeren OV (Belgium)
FC Aktobe (Kazakhstan)
FC Astra (Romania)

 

[Idi Amin]

RNK Split (Croatia) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNK_Split
AC Omonia (Cyprus) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC_Omonia
KSC Lokeren OV (Belgium) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K.S.C._Lokeren_Oost-Vlaanderen
FC Aktobe (Kazakhstan) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC_Aktobe
FC Astra (Romania) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC_Astra_Giurgiu

 

[bum_chinned_crab]

Not really, I would say that Torino, Feyenoord and Saint-Étienne might be better than us.

I was just going to post that I cannot believe we are rated above Torino. 7 Serie A titles, countless european campaigns and runners up in the Uefa cupjust over 20 years ago. I know it's worked out on the representative league as a whole but still seems weird.

Surely Limassol is the prime choice there.

Europa League Playoff Round

According to this, we are seeded and we can draw one of these 5 teams:

RNK Split (Croatia)
AC Omonia (Cyprus)
KSC Lokeren OV (Belgium)
FC Aktobe (Kazakhstan)
FC Astra (Romania).

Edit - just saw this, if that's the case then I'll plump for Omonia instead We'll defo draw Aktobe though...In fact there's only them or Vauxhall Astra that I would have doubts about, the other 3 and I'm defo there.

 

[renegadetiger]

This being City, you just know we're off to Kazakhstan.