Europa league opponents

DiscoStu

DiscoStu

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Apologies if this has already been covered which I guess it has.

Can anyone give an insight into potential opponents for each of the Europa qualifying rounds?

Counting down the days to the draw.

Cheers.
 
Reading the list of potential opponents shows just how hard it will be just to make the group stage.
1st Ql round, fair enough I think we'll win whoever we draw.
2nd Ql round I fancy our chances against about 2/3 of likely opponents
3rd Ql round I fancy our chances against about 1/3 of likely opponents
Play offs I reckon we have a 50/50 chance against half of the seeded teams

So purely on arithmetic 2/3 x 1/3 x 1/2 x 1/2 gives us a 1 in 36 chance or about 3%. Of course, once we see the manager's team forming I'll become much more optimistic. And a favourable draw makes things much better. All pointless speculation but like everyone else, I'm desperate for a return of those European nights
 
Kingging said:
Reading the list of potential opponents shows just how hard it will be just to make the group stage.
1st Ql round, fair enough I think we'll win whoever we draw.
2nd Ql round I fancy our chances against about 2/3 of likely opponents
3rd Ql round I fancy our chances against about 1/3 of likely opponents
Play offs I reckon we have a 50/50 chance against half of the seeded teams

So purely on arithmetic 2/3 x 1/3 x 1/2 x 1/2 gives us a 1 in 36 chance or about 3%. Of course, once we see the manager's team forming I'll become much more optimistic. And a favourable draw makes things much better. All pointless speculation but like everyone else, I'm desperate for a return of those European nights
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There's always alot of luck needed in these competitions mate. We'll be back there soon enough, fingers crossed we give it a go this season!
 
Prestwick Bear said:
Progres Niederkorn please.

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This one?

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I think the stats are something like only 3 clubs having started at the first qualifier and actually making the group stage.

I think we will make the second at least.
Probably go out in the third
 
Kingging said:
Reading the list of potential opponents shows just how hard it will be just to make the group stage.
1st Ql round, fair enough I think we'll win whoever we draw.
2nd Ql round I fancy our chances against about 2/3 of likely opponents
3rd Ql round I fancy our chances against about 1/3 of likely opponents
Play offs I reckon we have a 50/50 chance against half of the seeded teams

So purely on arithmetic 2/3 x 1/3 x 1/2 x 1/2 gives us a 1 in 36 chance or about 3%. Of course, once we see the manager's team forming I'll become much more optimistic. And a favourable draw makes things much better. All pointless speculation but like everyone else, I'm desperate for a return of those European nights
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One game at a time
 
Is it known yet whether we'll be home or away for the first leg, or is it just the way they're pulled out of the hat?
 
Cliffger said:
Is it known yet whether we'll be home or away for the first leg, or is it just the way they're pulled out of the hat?
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It just the way it comes out however games are subject to reversal

For these draws they use groups and numbers

example

9 groups of 10 teams

5 seeded 5 unseeded

given a number i.e 1 then if ball 1 comes 1st then we will home 1st or vice versa if 2nd out we will be away 1st

1 v 7 or 7 v 1 in each group
 
Fancy Progres again - make up for last year's fiasco
Failing that would like a trip to Wales not somewhere like Kazakhstan
Wherever we go 1st - 2nd round could be difficult let alone 3rd and group stages
But I'm more than pleased SG has targeted that high ambition & if he pulls it off we'll financially benefit the transfer funds kitty at the earliest point
Bring it on
Let's go
 
We really cannot afford to let the humiliating shame of Pedro's Progres to be repeated this year.

Without doubt the most embarrassing european result ever for any Rangers team. Shameful.

It doesn't bear thinking about that we should let Gerrard's reign start in this manner. I don't believe it will.
 
What I would say is we need a full house no matter who we play. Don't take anything for granted and get the place bouncing
 
Ilves Tampere please.

With the famous Davie Cooper magic on repeat on the screens before kick off.
 
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I've sat and quickly researched every team which is sad I know but I was bored.

Vaduz - Vaduz, Liechtenstein, 4th Swiss Challenge League - Unique as play in Lichtenstein cup and qualify for Europe that way, 5873 Capacity - Closest major airport is Zurich 134km

FCI Levadia - Tallin, Estonia - Qualified as Estonia Cup winners - Midseason currently 2nd - capacity 4880 - Closest major airport Tallin

Milsami Orhei - Orhei, Moldova - Qualified as Cup Winners - 9 games into season currently 2nd - Capacity 3023 - Closest major airport Chisinau 63km

Stjarnan - Garðabær, Iceland - Qualified as 2nd in Icelandic league - 6 games into new season currently 9th - Capacity 2300 - Closest major airport Reykjavík 40km

Birkirkara* - Birkirkara, Malta - Qualified as 4th In Maltese Premier League - Capacity 17500 - Closest major airport Malta International 8km

Ferencvaros - Budapest, Hungary - Qualified as 2nd in Hungarian League - Capacity 23698 - Closest major airport Budapest

Cliftonville - Everyone knows. Capacity 8000 (3000 seated)

DAC Dunajska Streda - Dunajska Streda, Slovakia - Qualifed as 3rd in Slovak league - Capacity 12700 - Closest major airport Bratislava 50km

Buducnost Podgorica - Podgorica, Montenegro - qualified as 2nd in Montenegro - Capacity 15230 - Closest Major Airport Podgorica

Siroki Brijeg - Široki Brijeg, Bosnia - Qualified as 4th in Bosnia - Capacity 5628 - Closest major airport Dubrovnik, Croatia 156km (I think)

Pyunik Yerevan - Yerevan, Armenia - Qualified as 5th in Armenia (4th were disqualified) - Capacity 2000 - Closest major airport well there's an airport in the city closest one I've heard of is Tbilisi, Georgia 291km

Partizani Tirana - Tirana, Albania - Qualfied 5th in Albania League - Capacity 12724 - Closest major airport Tirana (can fly direct from London)

Chikhura Sachkhere - Sachkhere, Georgia - Qualified as Georgian cup winners, Currently 13 games into season sitting 4th - Capacity 2000 - Closest Airport Tbilisi 148km

Petrocub Hincesti - Hincesti, Moldova - Qualified as 3rd in Moldova - Currently 9 games into new season sitting 3rd - Capacity 2672 - Closest Airport Chisinau 28km

Zaria Balti - Balti, Moldova, Qualified as 5th in Moldova (as the 4th team went bust) 9 games into new season sitting bottom (8th) - Capacity 5953 - Closest Airport Iasi, Romania 93km (163km from Chisnau)

FK Trakai* - Vilnius, Lithuania - Qualified as 3rd in Lithuania - 17 games into new season sitting 3rd - Capacity 5422 - Closest Airport Vilnius

Luftetari Gjirkokaster - Gjirokastër, Albania - Qualified as 3rd in Albania - Capacity 8400 - Closest airport Tirana 222km

Laci - Laci, Albania, - Qualified as 4th in Albania - Capacity 5000 - Closest Airport Probably Tirana no idea how far.

IBV- Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland - Qualified as Icelandic cup winners - 6 games into new season sitting 11th Capacity 3034 - Closest Airport well its close to Reykjavik on a map but it's an island so %^*& no idea how we'd get there I assume they would move it

Ujpest - Budapest, Hungary - Qualified as Hungarian cup winners - Capacity 13500 - Closest major airport Budapest

Liepaja - Liepaja, Latvia - Qualified as Latvian Cup Winners 10 games into new season sitting 4th - Capacity 5000 - Closest airport Riga 209km

Europa FC* - Gibraltar - Cup winners - Capacity 2500 - Closest major airport Malaga 136km

B36 Torshavn* - Torshavn, Faroe Islands - Finished 3rd in League - Capacity 5000 - Closest major airport no idea would likely be a chartered flight.

Shkupi - Skopje, Macedonia - 4th in Macedonia - Capacity 5000 - Closest major airport Skopje

KuPS Kuopio - Kuopio, Finland - 2nd in Finnish League - currently 13 games into new season sitting 2nd - Capacity 4700 - Nearest major airport Helsinki 380km

Ilves Tampere - Tampere, Finland - qualified as 3rd in Finland - Currently 12 games into new season sitting 5th - capacity 5000 - 172km from Helsinki

Lahti - Lahti, Finland - qualified as 4th in Finland - Currently 11 games into new season sitting 4th - Capacity 4847 - nearest major airport Helsinki 98km

Shamrock Rovers - Everyone knows - 6000 capacity

Derry City - Londonderry, NI - Everyone knows - Capacity 7,700 (2,900 seated)

Samtredia - Samtredia Georgia - 3rd in Georgia - Capacity 5000 - nearest major airport Tiblisi 278km

Folgore* - Falciano San Marino - 2nd in San Marino - Capacity 500 - nearest major airport Bologna

Riga FC - Riga, Latvia, Qualified as 3rd in Latvia, the new season started currently 5th - Capacity 1000 - nearest major airport Riga.

Narva Trans - Narva, Estonia - Qualified as 5th (4th team merged with another team) - Capacity 2200 - nearest major airport St Petersburg, Russia 148km, Tallin is 212km

Stumbras Kaunas - Kaunas, Lithuania - Qualifed as Cup Winners - Capacity 9180 - Nearest major airport is Kaunas

Bala Town* - Bala, Wales - Qualified as 4th in Welsh League (2nd didn't get a license) - Capacity 3000

Gandzasar Kapan - Yerevan, Armenia, Qualified as cup winners - Capacity 14500 - Closest airport Tibilsi 291km

Banants Yerevan - Yervan, Armenia - Qualifed as 2nd in Armenia - Capacity 6000 - Closest airport Tiblisi 291km

Balzan FC - Malta - Qualifed as 2nd in Malta - Capacity 6000 - Closest Airport Malta International

Gzira United* - Malta - Qualifed as 3rd - Capacity 2000 - Closest airport Malta International

Racing Union - Luxembourg - Qualified as cup winners - Capacity 7000 (assuming national stadium) - Closest Airport - Accessible via Luxembourg City airport and France, Belgium, Germany.

Progres Niederkorn - Qualified as 2nd - Capacity 7000 (assuming national stadium) - Closest Airport - Accessible via Luxembourg City airport and France, Belgium, Germany.

Coleraine - Everyone knows - Capacity 4500

Glenavon - Everyone knows - Capacity 4000

Connah’s Quay Nomads - Qualified as Welsh Cup winners - Capacity 1200

Runavik* - Faroe Islands - Capacity 2000 - Closest airport again no idea how we're getting there.

*Assuming the top seed qualifies from preliminary.

NOTE: This is information I researched myself and the capacity is for their home stadium. It's likely some of the games will be switched to different venues. Please let me know of any errors.

I think I'm also missing a few teams. Possible trips to all the above and maybe Andorra and Kosovo depending if they beat a bigger seed in 1st round.
 
sportssocks said:
A couple of them I thought I'd ordered takeaway from. Our coefficient really has to start improving soon
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Absolutely, and I've taken pelters on here for saying it, but until we are back in a position to regularly qualify for Europe, I will be absolutely wanting all scottish teams bar the scum, obviously, to win as many games as possible in Europe. Yes, that includes wanting the sheep to win. We NEED to improve our coefficient for our own sake.
 
sportssocks said:
A couple of them I thought I'd ordered takeaway from. Our coefficient really has to start improving soon
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Despite all the crap we got from Scottish football a few years back, fines, transfer bans , demotions, etc, the damage to our coefficient is the single biggest loss to us imo. It , by far, has the biggest potential impact to revenue to the club both short and longer term.
 
In term of the three Irish League teams above the capacities at Cliftonville and Coleraine look a bit high. Cliftonville’s ground is all seater now though they only use three sides and it holds around 3,000. Coleraine’s problem is they’ve only have seats on one side of the ground and maybe about 1,000 of them. If we draw them I think they’d need to switch, most likely to Windsor, Park despite the additional 110 mile round trip.
 
Texas ranger said:
Despite all the crap we got from Scottish football a few years back, fines, transfer bans , demotions, etc, the damage to our coefficient is the single biggest loss to us imo. It , by far, has the biggest potential impact to revenue to the club both short and longer term.
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Absolutely. Our co-efficient this season is 3.725, i.e. the general Scittish club co-efficient. Our pure club co-efficient, after one season back, is just 0.25. This will go up each season as we win/draw games in Europe, but until it exceeds the general Scottish club co-efficient then we’ll be stuck with that.

It will likely take at least three, if not more, seasons to achieve that and it’s s vicious circle. Without increasing it, we’ll keep getting harder draws, which make if harder to increase it.

And for perspective, if we had achieved 55 last season and made the Champions League, then we would be UNseedcd in the first qualifying round.
 
Our best chance is drawing a lowish seeded team in R2 so were seeded in R3
 
aldojack said:
Our best chance is drawing a lowish seeded team in R2 so were seeded in R3
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True but they still need to be seeded high enough to also be seeded in the 3rd qualifying round. Because some (higher seeded) teams enter at that stage, not every seeded team in the 2nd round will be seeded in the 3rd.
 
antrimbear said:
In term of the three Irish League teams above the capacities at Cliftonville and Coleraine look a bit high. Cliftonville’s ground is all seater now though they only use three sides and it holds around 3,000. Coleraine’s problem is they’ve only have seats on one side of the ground and maybe about 1,000 of them. If we draw them I think they’d need to switch, most likely to Windsor, Park despite the additional 110 mile round trip.
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Yeah I just went with the information online and I’m sure you need to be seated at a European fixture so I’d imagine some of the capacity’s are not a true reflection.

Personally a trip to DAC Dunajska Streda, Slovakia 12700 or Ujpest in Budapest 13500 would be better for travelling fans as larger capacity and easier to get to.

I’ve heard of Ferencvaros - From Budapest and have a 23600 capacity. I’m not sure if I’ve heard of them because they are decent though but they will certainly be better than some of the other teams there so lets avoid.
 
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Aside from exceptional draws like against teams from top-5 leagues, we should be capable of beating the other teams in the competition's prelim. round.
 
Woeful reading. Highlights how far we've fallen in European terms. I think getting to the group will be a big ask, but SG is absolutely bang on to be aiming for that. Getting through the prelims and then hitting the group would easily bring in another £10M gross income too.

That said, I wish it had remained an internal target for now. Puts a lot of pressure on himself and the team, at a time of the season where they'll still be finding their feet (assuming an influx of new players).
 
TimzRFudz said:
Woeful reading. Highlights how far we've fallen in European terms. I think getting to the group will be a big ask, but SG is absolutely bang on to be aiming for that. Getting through the prelims and then hitting the group would easily bring in another £10M gross income too.

That said, I wish it had remained an internal target for now. Puts a lot of pressure on himself and the team, at a time of the season where they'll still be finding their feet (assuming an influx of new players).
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I suppose I realised that last night just how far we’ve fallen when you can potentially play 4th (5th this season) from Moldova.
 
DeeGer10 said:
I suppose I realised that last night just how far we’ve fallen when you can potentially play 4th (5th this season) from Moldova.
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I guess when we're at a low ebb it gives us a lot of room for improvement and potential for SG to make a significant impact.

(Had an acquaintance who flew fast jets in the RAF and he said they wouldn't talk about being outnumbered, but rather that they were in a target rich environment.... glass half full!)

Thanks for doing all that digging of the info, interesting reading.
 
TimzRFudz said:
I guess when we're at a low ebb it gives us a lot of room for improvement and potential for SG to make a significant impact.

(Had an acquaintance who flew fast jets in the RAF and he said they wouldn't talk about being outnumbered, but rather that they were in a target rich environment.... glass half full!)

Thanks for doing all that digging of the info, interesting reading.
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It’s certianly an attitude we as fans could adopt more more often.

We don’t seem to be as optimistic as we should when it comes to trying to qualify aswell as on other issues like signings.
 
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