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I think this is the right place for this thread. And believe it or not but the comp has already started with the qualifiers.

Thurs 8th Jul

Banants Yerevan 0 - 1 Anorthosis Famagusta
FC Tauras 3 - 2 Llanelli
Metalurg 1 - 1 FK Qarabag
Mogren 2 - 0 Santa Coloma
Sliema Wanderers 0 - 3 HNK Sibenik
Flora Tallinn 0 - 0 Dinamo Tbilisi
MyPa 5 - 0 Trans Narva
Khazar Lenkoran 1 - 1 FC Olimpia FC Olimpia win on away goals rule.
Dnepr-Transmash 7 - 1 Laci
Bnei Yehuda 1 - 0 Uliss Yerevan
Skonto FC 0 - 1 Portadown
F91 Dudelange 2 - 1 Randers FC
Gyor 3 - 1 Nitra
FC Dacia 0 - 0 Zeta
Gefle IF 2 - 1 NSI Runavik
Zalaegerszeg 0 - 1 SK Tirana After Extra time
Lusitanos 0 - 6 Rabotnicki Kometal
Port Talbot 0 - 4 TPS
Zrinjski Mostar 2 - 1 Tobol
Dundalk 2 - 1 CS Grevenmacher
EB Streymur 0 - 3 Kalmar FF
Glentoran 2 - 2 KR Reykjavik
Siroki Brijeg 3 - 0 Olimpija Ljubljana
Faetano 0 - 0 FC Zestafoni
Ruch Chorzow 1 - 0 Shakhtyor Karaganda
Fylkir 1 - 3 Torpedo Zhodino

Some giants of European football in that list there JTC

Anorthosis Famagusta

"You're just a small team from Turkey"

Thurs 15th Jul

WIT Georgia Tbilisi 0 - 6 Banik Ostrava
FK Atyrau 0 - 2 Gyor
Valletta 1 - 1 Ruch Chorzow
Rabotnicki Kometal 1 - 0 Mika Ashtarak
FC Tauras 0 - 3 Apoel Nicosia
OFK Belgrade 2 - 2 Torpedo Zhodino
IF Elfsborg 2 - 1 FC Iskra-Stal
MyPa 3 - 0 UE Sant Julia
FK Austria Vienna 2 - 2 Siroki Brijeg
HiT Gorica 0 - 3 Randers FC
FK Baku 2 - 1 Buducnost Podgorica
Dinamo Minsk 5 - 1 Kalev Sillamae
FC Olimpia 0 - 2 Dinamo Bucuresti
FC Honka 1 - 1 Bangor City
FC Zestafoni 3 - 0 Dukla Banska Bistryka
FK Ventspils 0 - 0 Teteks
Anorthosis Famagusta 0 - 2 HNK Sibenik
Molde 1 - 0 FK Jelgava
Gefle IF 1 - 2 Dinamo Tbilisi
Stabaek 2 - 2 Dnepr-Transmash
Lausanne Sports 1 - 0 Borac
FC 03 Differdange 3 - 3 Spartak
Kalmar FF 0 - 0 FC Dacia
Levski Sofia 6 - 0 Dundalk
Cercle Brugge 0 - 1 TPS
FC Utrecht 4 - 0 SK Tirana
Brondby 3 - 0 FC Vaduz
Maccabi Tel-Aviv 2 - 0 Mogren
Besiktas 3 - 0 Vikingur
FK Siauliai 0 - 2 Wisla Krakow
Zrinjski Mostar 4 - 1 Tre Penne
FK Suduva 0 - 2 Rapid Vienna
Videoton FC 1 - 1 Maribor
Besa 0 - 5 Olympiacos
Motherwell 1 - 0 Breidablik Report
Maritimo 3 - 2 Sporting Fingal
Portadown 1 - 2 FK Qarabag
Cliftonville 1 - 0 HNK Cibalia
Shamrock Rovers 1 - 1 Bnei Yehuda
KR Reykjavik 0 - 3 Karpaty Lviv

One more leg before the "big" boys come in. So here is an update of who will / might be playing who.

Liverpool have been handed a trip into the unknown in the third qualifying round of the Europa League.
The Reds will face either Macedonian side Rabotnicki or Armenian outfit Mika following the draw in Nyon.
Rabotnicki are currently in pole position to face Liverpool after winning the first leg of their second qualifying round 1-0 at home.
The two-legged encounter will take place on 29th July and 5th August with the first leg at Anfield representing new boss Roy Hodgson's first competitive game in charge.

Scottish side Hibernian have been drawn against Hungarians Videoton or Slovenian side Maribor in the third qualifying round of the Europa League and will be away from home in the first leg.
The tie between Videoton and Maribor is delicately poised after a 1-1 draw in the first leg.

The other Scottish side in the draw, Motherwell, will face Norwegian outfit Aalesund if they get past Icelandic league leaders Breidablik.
Craig Brown's men claimed the upper hand in their tie with a 1-0 win on Thursday night.

Irish outfit Shamrock Rovers were handed a potential dream tie against Italian giants Juventus if they can see off Bnei Yehuda of Tel Aviv.
Rovers will travel to Israel with spirits high after securing a 1-1 draw in the first leg of their second-round qualifier with a late equaliser.

Welsh side Bangor City, who drew 1-1 with Honka Espoo this week, will face Maritimo or Sporting Fingal if they can overcome the Finns.

Cliftonville, leading 1-0 against Cibalia, will face CSKA Sofia if they get through and Portadown will tackle Siquliai or Wisla Krakov if they overturn a 2-1 deficit against Qarabag.

mickey wrote:Some giants of European football in that list there JTC

And why wouldn't there be.
It's the biggest club trophy in world football.

johntheclaret wrote:Liverpool have been handed a trip into the unknown in the third qualifying round of the Europa League.

This may come back and bite me firmly on the ass in three weeks, but that sentences makes me feel all warm inside.

Thurs 22nd July

Europa League Qualifying
Mika Ashtarak 0 - 0 Rabotnicki Kometal
Teteks 3 - 1 FK Ventspils
Dukla Banska Bistryka 1 - 0 FC Zestafoni
Torpedo Zhodino 0 - 1 OFK Belgrade
Mogren 2 - 1 Maccabi Tel-Aviv
Spartak 2 - 0 FC 03 Differdange
Banik Ostrava 0 - 0 WIT Georgia Tbilisi
TPS 1 - 2 Cercle Brugge Cercle Brugge win on away goals rule
Dnepr-Transmash 1 - 1 Stabaek
FK Jelgava 2 - 1 Molde Molde win on away goals rule
Kalev Sillamae 0 - 5 Dinamo Minsk
FK Qarabag 1 - 1 Portadown
Siroki Brijeg 0 - 1 FK Austria Vienna
Karpaty Lviv 3 - 2 KR Reykjavik
FC Dacia 0 - 2 Kalmar FF
Dinamo Tbilisi 2 - 1 Gefle IF
Randers FC 1 - 1 HiT Gorica
FC Iskra-Stal 0 - 1 IF Elfsborg
Apoel Nicosia 3 - 1 FC Tauras
SK Tirana 1 - 1 FC Utrecht
Bnei Yehuda 0 - 1 Shamrock Rovers
Dinamo Bucuresti 5 - 1 FC Olimpia
HNK Sibenik 0 - 3 Anorthosis Famagusta DA
FC Vaduz 0 - 0 Brondby
Vikingur 0 - 4 Besiktas
Ruch Chorzow 0 - 0 Valletta
Wisla Krakow 5 - 0 FK Siauliai
Dundalk 0 - 2 Levski Sofia
Maribor 2 - 0 Videoton FC
Tre Penne 2 - 9 Zrinjski Mostar
Olympiacos 6 - 1 Besa
Rapid Vienna 4 - 2 FK Suduva
Gyor 2 - 0 FK Atyrau
Bangor City 2 - 1 FC Honka
Sporting Fingal 2 - 3 Maritimo
HNK Cibalia 0 - 0 Cliftonville
Borac 1 - 1 Lausanne Sports
Buducnost Podgorica 1 - 2 FK Baku
Breidablik 0 - 1 Motherwell

I've highlighted the clubs who have been around the European circuit. some you might recognise?

Murphy strike melts Icemen

Motherwell progressed through to the third qualifying round of the Europa League after a 1-0 win over Breidablik.
Jamie Murphy scored the only goal of the game to give Craig Brown's side a 2-0 aggregate success.
Motherwell will face Norwegian side Aalesunds in the next round with an away game on 29th July and the return at Fir Park seven days later.

Fri 23rd July
Europa League Qualifying
UE Sant Julia 0 - 5 MyPa

Rovers aim to play Juventus in Tallaght

SHAMROCK ROVERS will resist calls to move next week’s high-profile Europa League qualifier with Juventus to the RDS, preferring to back themselves in front of their passionate home support at the Tallaght Stadium.

As the scramble for tickets started yesterday – the Rovers website went down for a number of hours as it struggled to cope with the volume of traffic – chairman Jonathan Roche confirmed the match will remain in Tallaght, but he has requested a special dispensation from Uefa to erect 3,000 temporary seats at the venue and bring the capacity to 9,000.

Roche is “confident” the request will be granted but as it stands, Juventus are entitled to 300 tickets (five per cent of capacity), with the remainder likely to be snapped up quickly, soon after sales details are released this morning.

Rovers have 3,500 members and season ticket holders who are entitled to at least a ticket each for next Thursday’s game. For the return leg in Modena on August 5th, they will receive an allocation of 1,000. That number would have been greater had the Stadio Olimpico not already been booked out by U2.

The match will instead take place 300kms down the autostrada at the Stadio Alberto Braglia, the home venue of Serie B side Modena, with a capacity of just 19,000.

Rovers already stand to make in excess of €400,000 over the two legs, from gate receipts and television rights, and that figure will rise should they succeed in increasing capacity at Tallaght Stadium.

Third qualifying round 29/07/2010
Sibir 1 - 0 Apollon
Spartak Zlatibor 2 - 1 Dnipro
Beroe 1 - 1 Rapid Wien
MYPA 1 - 2 Timişoara
Dnepr 1 - 0 Baník
Ruch Chorzów 1 - 3 Austria Wien
Inter Turku 1 - 5 Genk
Karpaty 1 - 0 Zestafoni
Molde 2 - 3 Stuttgart
Elfsborg 5 - 0 Teteks
Utrecht 1 - 0 Luzern
Randers 2 - 3 Lausanne
Aalesund 1 - 1 Motherwell
APOEL 1 - 0 Jablonec
Odense 5 - 3 Zrinjski
Kalmar 1 - 1 Levski
M. Haifa 1 - 0 Dinamo Minsk
Dinamo Bucureşti 3 - 1 Hajduk Split
Galatasaray 2 - 2 OFK
Wisła Kraków 0 - 1 Qarabağ
Cercle Brugge 1 - 0 Anorthosis
Nordsjælland 0 - 1 Sporting
Maribor 3 - 0 Hibernian
Crvena Zvezda 1 - 2 Slovan Bratislava
Sturm 2 - 0 Dinamo Tbilisi
Plzeň 1 - 1 Beşiktaş
Olympiacos 2 - 1 M. Tel-Aviv
Győr 0 - 1 Montpellier
AZ 2 - 0 Göteborg
Jagiellonia Białystok 1 - 2 Aris
Rabotnicki 0 - 2 Liverpool
Marítimo 8 - 2 Bangor City
Shamrock Rovers 0 - 2 Juventus
Budućnost Podgorica 1 - 2 Brøndby

Tue 2th Jul

CSKA Sofia 3 - 0 Cliftonville

Europa league draw to make in into the group stage

Matches to be played August 19 & 26

Paris Saint-Germain (FRA), v Maccabi Tel-Aviv (ISR)

Bayer Leverkusen (GER) v Tavriya Simferopol (UKR)

CSKA Moscow (RUS) v Anorthosis Famagusta (CYP)

Hajduk Split (CRO) v Unirea Urziceni (ROU)

Feyenoord (NED) v Gent (BEL)

Genk (BEL) v FC Porto (POR)

Debreceni (HUN) v Litex Lovech (BUL)

Aris Thessaloniki (GRE) v Austria Vienna (AUT)

Galatasaray (TUR) v Karpaty Lviv (UKR)

Palermo (ITA) v NK Maribor (SVN)

Club Brugge (BEL) v Dinamo Minsk (BLR)

Omonia (CYP) v Metalist Kharkiv (UKR)

Vaslui (ROU) v Lille (FRA)

Napoli (ITA) v Elfsborg (SWE) very happy with this draw

Sporting Lisbon (POR) v Brondby IF (DEN)

Grasshoppers (SUI) v Steaua Bucharest (ROU)

Liverpool (ENG) v Trabzonspor (TUR)

Celtic (SCO) v FC Utrecht (NED)

Borussia Dortmund (GER) v FK Qarabag (AZE)

AIK (SWE) v Levski Sofia (BUL)

Sturm Graz (AUT) v Juventus (ITA)

Getafe (ESP) v APOEL (CYP)

Dundee United (SCO) v AEK Athens (GRE)

AZ Alkmaar (NED) v Aktobe (KAZ)

Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (UKR) v Lech Poznan (POL)

Rapid Vienna (AUT) v Aston Villa (ENG)

CSKA Sofia (BUL) v The New Saints FC (WAL)

Besiktas (TUR) v HJK Helsinki (FIN)

Slovan Bratislava (SVK) v VfB Stuttgart (GER)

Sibir Novosibirsk (RUS) v PSV Eindhoven (NED)

BATE Borisov (BLR) v Maritimo (POR)

Lausanne-Sport (SUI) v Lokomotiv Moscow (RUS)

Gyor (HUN) v Dinamo Zagreb (CRO)

Odense (DEN) v Motherwell (SCO)

PAOK (GRE) v Fenerbahce SK (TUR)

Villarreal (ESP) v Dnepr Mogilev (BLR)

Timisoara (ROU) v Manchester City (ENG)

lol Napoli have the same team Lazio had to play last seaon to qualify we won the tie 4-1. surely you guys can do better and you should win.

I'll be happy getting through to the next round whatever the result.
They are halfway into their season in Sweeden so they are match harden, where Napoli are just starting their season but we should be too strong.

Tues 24th Aug

Europa League Qualifying

Anorthosis Famagusta 1 - 2 CSKA Moscow

Most of the big teams got through the knockout stage except for
Galatasaray,Celtic & Aston Villa.
Draw is on later tonight, will post the group stage teams when available

Europa league group stage draw

Group A - Juventus, Manchester City, Salzburg, Lech Poznan

Group B - Atletico Madrid, Bayer Leverkusen, Rosenborg, Aris Thessaloniki

Group C - Sporting, Lille, Levski Sofia, Gent

Group D - Villarreal, Club Brugge, Dinamo Zagreb, PAOK

Group E - AZ Alkmaar, Dynamo Kiev, BATE Borisov, FC Sheriff

Group F - CSKA Moscow, Palermo, Sparta, Lausanne Sports

Group G - Zenit St Petersburg, Anderlecht, AEK Athens, Hadjuk Split

Group H - Stuttgart, Getafe, Odense, Young Boys

Group I - PSV Eindhoven, Sampdoria, Metalist Kharkiv, Debreceni

Group J - Sevilla, Paris Saint Germain, Borussia Dortmund, Karpaty

Group K - Liverpool, Steaua Bucharest, Napoli, Utrecht

Group L – Porto, Besiktas, CSKA Sofia, Rapid Vienna

Tough draw for Napoli but no better team to play against in Europe than Liverpool.
Would love to be at that the Liverpool V Napoli game

Groups A,D,J & K seem the toughest

Top 2 in each group go through to the next round

Great to see man shitty imploding. Millions well spent by the looks

Piss poor effort by City. Scabby 2nd goal to Poznan but the third was a terrific shot. City need 4 points from 2 games to qualify for the ko stages.

Also heard last night that Tevez has done a runner and gone AWOL

The implosion has begun and I would be suprised to see Mancini still in charge come Christmas if results don't take a dramatic up turn. Should never have sacked Hughes IMHO