Is Dawson Devoy the truth? @mickee321
1pm guys - details below
Dundalk are seeded in group 9
SRFC and Bohs are not
I added some detail below about the physical aspects of the draw and how the balls will be drawn from the bowls
Champions path
• Shamrock Rovers and the nine champions path second qualifying round winners (matches played on 22 and 29 July) will be drawn into ties without seeding. The first ball drawn designates the home team for the first leg.
• As decided by the UEFA Executive Committee, clubs from Bosnia & Herzegovina and Kosovo cannot be drawn against each other.
• The winners of the matches on 5 and 12 August will advance to the champions path play-offs.
Shamrock Rovers (IRL)
Teuta (ALB) / Inter Club d’Escaldes (AND)
Riga FC (LVA) / Shkëndija (MKD)
Dinamo Tbilisi (GEO) / Maccabi Haifa (ISR)
HB Tórshavn (FRO) / Budućnost Podgorica (MNE)
Linfield (NIR) / Borac Banja Luka (BIH)
Shakhtyor Soligorsk (BLR) / Fola Esch (LUX)
Folgore (SMR) / Hibernians (MLT)
Prishtina (KOS) / Connah’s Quay Nomads (WAL)
Valur (ISL) / Bodø/Glimt (NOR)
Main path
• The nine teams entering at this stage will be joined by the 45 second qualifying round winners.
• The clubs are divided into six groups of eight teams (Groups 1 to 6) and one group of six teams (Group 7). Within each group, the teams are divided into an equal number of seeded and unseeded teams, in accordance with the club coefficient rankings established at the beginning of the season.
• As the second qualifying round matches are not played until 22 and 29 July, the coefficient of the club with the higher coefficient of the two clubs involved in an undecided tie will be used for the purposes of the draw.
• For Groups 1 to 6, each of the teams are randomly assigned a number: 1 to 4 for the seeded teams and 5 to 8 for the unseeded teams. Two bowls are prepared, one for the seeded teams and the other for unseeded teams.
• A ball is taken from each bowl and placed in an empty bowl, where they are shuffled. One of the two balls is drawn at random, and a second ball is drawn to complete the pairing. The result applies to all six groups, and the same procedure is carried out with the remaining balls to complete the pairings.
• The procedure is then repeated for Group 7, where the clubs are randomly assigned a number from 1 to 3 for the seeded teams and 4 to 6 for the unseeded teams. In all seven groups, the first ball drawn designates the home team for the first leg.
• Teams from the same association cannot be drawn against each other.
• The winners of the matches on 5 and 12 August will advance to the main path play-offs.
Group 1:
Seeded
Arda Kardzhali (BUL) / Hapoel Beer-Sheva (ISR)
Dinamo Batumi (GEO) / BATE Borisov (BLR)
Partizan (SRB) / Dunajská Streda (SVK)
Astana (KAZ) / Aris Thessaloniki (GRE)
Unseeded
Sochi (RUS) / Keşla (AZE)
KuPS Kuopio (FIN) / Vorskla Poltava (UKR)
Petrocub-Hincesti (MDA) / Sivasspor (TUR)
Ararat Yerevan (ARM) / Śląsk Wrocław (POL)
Group 2:
Seeded
FCSB (ROU) / Shakhter Karagandy (KAZ)
Shkupi (MKD) / Santa Clara (POR)
Velež (BIH) / AEK Athens (GRE)
Basel (SUI) / Partizani (ALB)
Unseeded
Elfsborg (SWE) / Milsami Orhei (MDA)
Újpest (HUN) / Vaduz (LIE)
Olimpija Ljubljana (SVN) / Birkirkara (MLT)
Kolos Kovalivka (UKR)
Group 3:
Seeded
Gżira United (MLT) / Rijeka (CRO)
Paços de Ferreira (POR)
Gent (BEL) / Vålerenga (NOR)
Drita (KOS) / Feyenoord (NED)
Unseeded
RFS (LVA) / Puskás Akadémia (HUN)
FC Luzern (SUI)
Larne (NIR) / AGF Aarhus (DEN)
Hibernian (SCO) / Santa Coloma (AND)
Group 4:
Seeded
Viktoria Plzeň (CZE) / Dynamo Brest (BLR)
Austria Wien (AUT) / Breidablik (ISL)
PAOK (GRE)
Molde (NOR) / Servette (SUI)
Unseeded
Dudelange (LUX) / Bohemians (IRL)
Trabzonspor (TUR)
Aberdeen (SCO) / BK Häcken (SWE)
Kauno Žalgiris (LTU) / The New Saints (WAL)
Group 5:
Seeded
Apollon Limassol (CYP) / Žilina (SVK)
Sūduva (LTU) / Raków Czestochowa (POL)
Hammarby (SWE) / Maribor (SVN)
Copenhagen (DEN) / Torpedo-Belaz Zhodino (BLR)
Unseeded
Čukarički (SRB) / Sumgait (AZE)
Lokomotiv Plovdiv (BUL) / Slovácko (CZE)
Rubin (RUS)
Hajduk Split (CRO) / Tobol Kostanay (KAZ)
Group 6:
Seeded
Sutjeska (MNE) / Maccabi Tel-Aviv (ISR)
CSKA-Sofia (BUL) / Liepāja (LVA)
Qarabağ (AZE) / Ashdod (ISR)
LASK (AUT)
Unseeded
Limassol (CYP) / Vllaznia (ALB)
Panevezys (LTU) / Vojvodina (SRB)
Pogoń Szczecin (POL) / Osijek (CRO)
Spartak Trnava (SVK) / Sepsi OSK Sfantu Gheorghe (ROU)
Group 7:
Seeded
Dundalk (IRL) / Levadia Tallinn (EST)
Hafnarfjördur (ISL) / Rosenborg (NOR)
Anderlecht (BEL)
Unseeded
Vitesse (NED)
Domžale (SVN) / Honka Espoo (FIN)
Universitatea Craiova (ROU) / Laç (ALB)
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absolute scenes
PAOK (powk) vs bohs or
dudelange
rovers v teuta or inter club descaldes
teuta are Albanian champions and were hammered by sheriff tirasspol over 2 legs in the first round of the CL qualifiers, inter club are Andorran champions and were beaten by Kosovan opposition last week. I think it was NK Drita who cane thru the 4 team preliminary round
dundalk beat both sheriff tirasspol and inter club last season
dundalk have been screwed
if they beat Levadia they play Vitesse Arnhem
full draw to follow
that’s very positive
how many rounds after this?
get thru this one and its a playoff then for group stages
A trip to Greece for Bohs would be bloody roasting
away fans are not allowed at Greek domestic football, im not sure what the position is for European games, there can be some ferocious violence at games in Greece, not the sky sports nonsense the EPL heads were crying about at the Euros but proper stuff altogether
The president of PAOK carried a gun onto the pitch one time…
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Great draw, we should be getting through the final two rounds easily enough if we play like the second leg v Slovan, all positive
KOH
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some great action this evening
Pristina 4 Connah’s Quay 1
FK Kauno Zalgiris 0 TNS ( Total Network Solutions 5 (FIVE)
Domzale (svn) 1 Honka (fin) 1
big game of the night at 8pm is Folgore from San Marino fresh from their champions league preliminary round stage defeat take on Hibernians from Malta fresh from a 5-0 aggregate defeat to Flora Talinn in the first qualifying round
1-1 after 15 minutes
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BSC 1 up after 11 minutes
Ross Tierney
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Bohs are going to benefit a lot from Brexit
Is the resident Luxemburgonian at the game I wonder? The Right Honory Gentleman @Piles_Hussain
Bohs seem to have a Buff Egan type streaming it live.