Draw is about to begin at 12pm…
updates here
predictions
Linfield v Cork City
Rovers v Fola Esch
Beitar v Chikhura Sachkhere
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The list of clubs is provisional and is subject to pending legal and CAS proceedings and final confirmation from UEFA.
FIRST QUALIFYING ROUND (matches 30 June & 7 July)
Entries
96 clubs enter in the first qualifying round.
Seedings
Teams ranked according to their coefficient and further split into seeding groups prior to the draw.
The groupings for the second qualifying round are made after the first qualifying round draw. The balls representing the winners of each first qualifying round tie took the coefficient of the seeded club in each tie.
Group 1
Seeded: 1 Stabæk (NOR), 2 Hearts (SCO), 3 Linfield (NIR), 4 Ventspils (LVA), 5 Midtjylland (DEN)
Unseeded: 6 Víkingur (FRO), 7 Sūduva (LTU), 8 Cork City (IRL), 9 Infonet (EST), 10 Connah’s Quay Nomads (WAL)
Group 2
Seeded: 1 IFK Göteborg (SWE), 2 HJK Helsinki (FIN), 3 KR Reykjavík (ISL), 4 Saint Patrick’s (IRL), 5 Levadia Tallinn (EST)
Unseeded: 6 Jeunesse Esch (LUX), 7 HB Tórshavn (FRO), 8 Glenavon (NIR), 9 Atlantas (LTU), 10 Llandudno (WAL)
Group 3
Seeded: 1 Aberdeen (SCO), 2 Brøndby (DEN), 3 Dinamo Minsk (BLR), 4 Nõmme Kalju (EST), 5 Shamrock Rovers (IRL)
Unseeded: 6 Trakai (LTU), 7 RoPS Rovaniemi (FIN), 8 Spartaks Jūrmala (LVA), 9 Valur Reykjavík (ISL), 10 Fola Esch (LUX)
Group 4
Seeded: 1 AIK Solna (SWE), 2 Shakhtyor Soligorsk (BLR), 3 Odds (NOR), 4 Differdange (LUX), 5 Breidablik (ISL)
Unseeded: 6 Cliftonville (NIR), 7 Jelgava (LVA), 8 Mariehamn (FIN), 9 NSÍ Runavík (FRO), 10 Bala Town (WAL)
Group 5
Seeded: 1 AEK Larnaca (CYP), 2 Vojvodina (SRB), 3 Široki Brijeg (BIH), 4 Dila Gori (GEO), 5 Domžale (SVN)
Unseeded: 6 Shirak (ARM), 7 Lusitans (AND), 8 Birkirkara (MLT), 9 Bokelj (MNE), 10 Folgore (SMR)
Group 6
Seeded: 1 Pyunik (ARM), 2 Lokomotiva Zagreb (CRO), 3 Rabotnicki (MKD), 4 Čukarički (SRB), 5 Videoton (HUN)
Unseeded: 1 Ordabasy Shymkent (KAZ), 2 Zaria Balti (MDA), 3 Budućnost Podgorica (MNE), 4 UE Santa Coloma (AND), 5 Europa (GIB)
Group 7
Seeded: 1 Kukës (ALB), 2 Beitar Jerusalem (ISR), 3 Admira Wacker Mödling (AUT), 4 Neftçi (AZE), 5 Zimbru Chisinau (MDA)
Unseeded: 6 Balzan (MLT), 7 Chikhura Sachkhere (GEO), 8 Spartak Myjava (SVK), 9 Sloboda Tuzla (BIH), 10 Rudar Pljevlja (MNE)
Group 8
Seeded: 1 Vaduz (LIE), 2 Debrecen (HUN), 3 Qäbälä (AZE), 4 Maccabi Tel-Aviv (ISR), 5 Beroe Stara Zagora (BUL)
Unseeded: 6 Gorica (SVN), 7 Radnik Bijeljina (BIH), 8 Samtredia (GEO), 9 La Fiorita (SMR), 10 Sileks (MKD)
Group 9
Seeded: 1 Cracovia (POL), 2 Spartak Trnava (SVK), 3 Kairat Almaty (KAZ), 4 Omonia (CYP)
Unseeded: 5 Shkëndija (MKD), 6 Teuta (ALB), 7 Hibernians (MLT), 8 Banants (ARM)
Group 10
Seeded: 1 Dacia Chisinau (MDA), 2 Aktobe (KAZ), 3 Zagłębie Lubin (POL), 4 Slovan Bratislava (SVK)
Unseeded: 5 Käpäz (AZE), 6 Slavia Sofia (BUL), 7 Budapest (HUN), 8 Partizani (ALB)
Draw procedure
Each side in each seeding group is allocated a number. Balls containing the seeded numbers are placed in one bowl, with balls for the unseeded numbers in the same group positioned in another.
A ball is taken from each bowl and put into a large empty bowl in the middle, where they are shuffled.
The clubs whose numbers correspond to the first ball drawn play their first game at home, against the teams whose numbers match the next ball drawn.
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SECOND QUALIFYING ROUND (matches 14 & 21 July)
Entries
18 clubs enter in the second qualifying round, joined by 48 winners from the first qualifying round.
Seedings
Teams are ranked according to their coefficient and further split into seeding groups prior to the draw.
The groupings for the second qualifying round is made after the first qualifying round draw. The balls representing the winners of each first qualifying round tie take the coefficient of the seeded club in each tie.
Draw procedure
Each side in each seeding group are allocated a number. Balls containing the seeded numbers are placed in one bowl, with balls for the unseeded numbers in the same group positioned in another.
A ball is taken from each bowl and put into a large empty bowl in the middle, where they are shuffled.
The clubs whose numbers correspond to the first ball drawn play their first game at home, against the teams whose numbers match the next ball drawn.
why do they have to group teams?
how does this even work?
i get the seeded/unseeded bit but surely they can just have 2 groups based on that and not fking 10…
Oooft what a shout!!
St Pats v Jeunesse Esch (LUX),
Linfield v Cork CityFC
Shamrock Rovers v RoPS Rovaniemi (FIN)
scenes !!
memories of the 2007 setanta cup semi final come flooding back
“molested football”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6ffOQyk7gY
Good luck to Linfield.
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First qualifying round draw (matches 30 June & 7 July)
Second qualifying round draw (matches 14 & 21 July)
MORE TO FOLLOW…
Shota Averladze has just taken over as manager of Maccabi Tel Aviv after leaving Trabzonspor.
i was reading there they signed Egor Filipenko from Malaga just there also
This club is bizarre, Martin Bain, the Fingers Fingleton of Rangers during the glory days left the club last year and went to Sunderland.
Jordi Cruyff is running the place again as far as i know
Both competitions are grouped geographically in first rounds to reduce travel costs etc.
kicks of in earnest tonight with Pats at home to Fola Esch
i must say the Luxembourgians to me look value at 5/4 to win the tie
Pats are awful at the moment
Dundalk did beat these guys i remember 5-1 on agg maybe 2 years ago and i dont think they are as good as Dudelange or Jeunesse Esch.
@Piles_Hussain will be on later to fill us in
Pats sneak over the line 1-0
id imagine that 5/4 is gone now,
Tremendous result for Cork up in Wndsor Park tonight, 1-0 victors over Linfield. The Shams are being humiliated 2-0 at home at the moment by some Finnish mob.
That fish monger cunt will have his Union Jack umbrella out next week to welcome the travelling Linfield faithful.
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Sack nuttsy now
It’s a long long way from spurs to here…
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Pats lost 2-1 in Luxembourg but go through on away goals.
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Yeah good result for Pats allright there
Aberdeen beat the other Esch side Fola 3-1 at the pile of dung last Thursday night, Adam Rooney scored a peno and Neill Macginn also scored, I know Macginn only played 20 mins v Ukraine but he lined up for Aberdeen 4 days after NI left France, the man literally has had no break at all , Aberdeen are a perennial fixture in the first round of this competition due to Scotlands very low coefficient ranking as @Rocko is no doubt aware and they always play a full strength side notwithstanding the opposition but this does seem excessive for a player…
Roy Carroll was also straight back at it for Linfield v Cork.
Hearts beat some crowd from Talinn also, result of the night Europa FC of Gibralter’s 2-0 win over Piyuunik of Armenia, I remember Pyuunik hammering Derry in 2007 after they were put in the CL once the walls came crashing down around Olly and Shels and they were stripped of title, I did allure to the Armenian club game been at a low ebb when one of their sides was beaten at home by an Andorran outfit last year but this is a new low , loosing to a team who play in a league comprising of 12 teams where all the games are played in the 1 stadium
Glenavon and Cliftonville are also very much alive v Differdange and KR Rekyavik repectivly
Looking back it was a disastrous result for Rovers, Alan Cawley really hit the nail on the head last Monday when he said they are in dramatic regression since Mick O Neill left in 2011 to greater things…
Sacking managers every 9 – 10 months is a bad way to go… LOI sides I think Dan MacDonnell was saying earn 400k for getting thru the first hurdle of this competition, this is a financial mess now for Rovers who are paying the likes of Stephen Macpahil a fortune ( hard to believe it was 16 years ago he made his UEFA cup debut with Leeds)… gates are down now, crowds of less than 1500 thru the gates on a weekly basis… Good to see Damien Duff coaching the U15s, good things can only come of that and fantastic to see a man giving something back.
Whilst I do love the early round of this tournament , the fact that a team like Maccabi Tel Aviv are playing competitive football in June in 38 C heat at 10pm whilst their domestic season does not start till 25th august is a bit too much… these qualifiers are getting earlier and earlier each season, so much so that it feels like we haven’t stopped at all… Roll on Thursday tho
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