UEFA watch 2022-23

A place to discuss the events in UEFA land during the 2022-23 season.
UEFA CL/EL games not involving Spurs, tournament draws, which UEFA
officials have been arrested etc.

Info on club rankings, tournament draw "pots" etc :

https://kassiesa.net/uefa

 

The Champions League Group Stage draw is on the 25th August.
The final is scheduled to be played on the 10th June at the Ataturk Stadium in Istanbul.

For anyone wondering, the Europa League final will be held in Hungary.
It's due for the 31st May, a year from today, at the Puskas Arena, Budapest.
That was the ground where we beat Wolfsberger 4-1 last year.

 

After the CL final, Ajax and the Poool have their draw pot groups resolved.
Spurs are in draw pot 2.

https://kassiesa.net/uefa/seedcl2022.html

 

The Champions League started today.
Inter D'Escaldes of Andorra won 2-1 at La Fiorita of San Marino in the preliminary round semi.
They will host the winner of the other semi-final on Friday to see who goes into the qualifying rounds.
Levadia of Tallinn, Estonia play Vikingur of Reykjavik at 8.30pm to see who joins them.

 

It's the history of...

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Good odds for Atletico. **** odds for City.

 

Spurs are currently #8 in the betting odds.
Will be interesting to see how that may change as the group stage progresses.

 

Especially after Los Ladrones and Inter dump Saltypool into the Europa...

 

The club points scoring regime for this season :

https://www.uefa.com/nationalassociations/uefarankings/club/about/


As I have long stated, once the "darlings" of UEFA land began
in numbers to fail to qualify for the CL, so UEFA would change
the points scoring regime to prevent said clubs for falling too
far down the rankings (at the minimum, to prevent such clubs
for being CL draw pot 3/4 fodder should they return to the CL) .

Today there is effectively no ranking advantage from being in
the CL - the benefit is solely financial piggy trough (completely
reflecting to perfection the senior personnel in UEFA) .

 

CL qualification round going on today.

Rangers with a hill to climb.

And PSV vs Monaco, a tie that a couple of years ago
you would expect as a group stage spectacle.

 

Rangers drew at home 2-2 to PSV in their CL qualifier tie,

 

Seems there is some chatter out there about UEFA
about to punish a number of clubs that have fallen
foul of the FFP.

As them lot have been mentioned, Swiss Ramble
decided to produce an analysis that might allay
the potential mass bed-wetting :

 

I've already seen Runners on Twitter try and spin this as UEFA being scared that Arsenal are back

Remind me, what have they achieved in European football at any point in the past 25 years to have UEFA running scared...?

 

Pots 1, 2 and 3 are set - in Portuguese...

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Friendly reminder that the CL/EL group stage draws
are on Aug 25/26 (tomorrow/friday) respectively.

 

Spoiler alert: we'll get Ajax, guaranteeing a Bergwijn worldie

 

Champions league draw probably the longest draw in the calendar and in the main incredibly tedious. Its always difficult at this stage to gauge what is a good draw and what is bad. The easiest draw on paper would see us get Eintract Frankfurt from P1, Salzburg from P3 and Copenhagen P4, and they would also involve relatively short journeys. Worse case scenario IMO would be Bayern, Inter and one of the Scottish teams.

From a personal perspective I would like PSG from POT1 just to see them in the flesh and we haven't played them recently (if ever). Somehow I just think that we will get Real, Dortmund (we always get Dortmund) and Maccabi just because its the longest trip.

 

Here are the draw "pots" for the CL group stage draw
(the clubs in each pot are ordered by their current
UEFA points tanking) :


Pot 1

Bayern München
Manchester City
Real Madrid
Paris Saint-Germain
Ajax
Porto
Eintracht Frankfurt
AC Milan


Pot 2

Liverpool
Chelsea
Barcelona
Juventus
Atlético Madrid
Sevilla
RB Leipzig
Tottenham Hotspur


Pot 3

Dortmund
Salzburg
Shakhtar Donetsk
Inter Milan
Napoli
Benfica
Sporting CP Lisbon
Bayer Leverkusen


Pot 4

Glasgow Rangers
Dinamo Zagreb
Olympique Marseille
FC Copenhagen
Club Brugge
Celtic
Viktoria Plzen
Maccabi Haifa

 

On ranking pts + travel distance/convenience, then :

Eintracht, Sporting CP, Celtic

would IMHO be the best scenario.