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).
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.
http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/season=2015/draws/index.html Seedings to be confirmed by UEFA on friday.
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-Ãtienne 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
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?
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.
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.
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)
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
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. 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.
