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Takes place this Friday at 12.30pm UK time.

I'm getting excited now!

King Kev wrote:Takes place this Friday at 12.30pm UK time.

I'm getting excited now!

Two questions

Are we seeded?

and

Who are the big guns we need to look out for?

IanBishopsHaircut wrote:

King Kev wrote:Takes place this Friday at 12.30pm UK time.

I'm getting excited now!

Two questions

Are we seeded?

and

Who are the big guns we need to look out for?

Liverpool, Juventus, Stuttgart, Olympiakos, are the teams that could present us with problems. I believe we can not be drawn against another seeded team.

i dont fear anyone, we have best squad in it so bring anyone on!

Wake me up in February when it gets to the knockout stages.

We are favourites to win this competition at 6/1 btw.

Is there a rule in place at this stage to prevent us from drawing a team from the same country or is it just a free for all?

Check this LINK to see the seeding for Europa League play-off round. We are seeded, there shouldn't be any problem in reaching the group stage.

Clubs from the same association cannot meat earlier than the quarter finals

Hope we get a home draw first on 19th.

I booked to go away to Spain for a few days on Tuesday 24th after the Liverpool game after arguing balack and blue with the wife that we were not going away before the game. Clean forgot we'll have a Europa League game 26th!! Mind you Getafe is only 4 hours drive from where we're going...............

tchumatu wrote:Check this LINK to see the seeding for Europa League play-off round. We are seeded, there shouldn't be any problem in reaching the group stage.

Didn't see this before my post - we won't be playing Getafe then!

I was looking yesterday for a list of teams, seedings and what pots (if there are any) for the draw, and I drew a mahoosive blank.... has anyone else had better luck?

It'd be nice to see who we could face so that I can look at flights hotels etc for the away leg before the prices of flights go up which they inevitably will do within hours of the draw being made.

It'd be interesting to know who we won't get drawn against also..... any help is appreciated, ta in advance :-)

EDIT: The above looks to answer my question.... but how does the draw work for the play-off, do we get drawn against an un-seeded team? And I presume for the group stages, we'd be drawn against 1 team from each of the other 3 pots?

Niall Quinns Discopants wrote:

IanBishopsHaircut wrote:

King Kev wrote:Takes place this Friday at 12.30pm UK time.

I'm getting excited now!

Two questions

Are we seeded?

and

Who are the big guns we need to look out for?

Liverpool, Juventus, Stuttgart, Olympiakos, are the teams that could present us with problems. I believe we can not be drawn against another seeded team.

I wouldn`t under estimate CSKA Moscow especially away NQDP.

tchumatu wrote:Check this LINK to see the seeding for Europa League play-off round. We are seeded, there shouldn't be any problem in reaching the group stage.

Group Stage (48 teams)

unknown (depending on whether Villarreal or Real Mallorca qualifies):

pot 1/2: Steaua Bucuresti *4 Rom 47.898
pot 2/3: Manchester City *4 Eng 33.371
pot 3/4: Unirea Urziceni @3 Rom 18.898


Pot 1 coef. Pot 2 coef.
------------------------ --- ---------------- ------------------------ --- ----------------
Atlético Madrid (TH) Esp 63.951 . Lille OSC *4 Fra 46.748
Liverpool *3 Eng 115.371 . Galatasaray *3 Tur 43.890
FC Porto *4 Por 76.659 . Dinamo Kiev @4 Ukr 42.910
CSKA Moscow *4 Rus 66.758 Bayer Leverkusen *4 Ger 40.841
PSV Eindhoven *4 Ned 66.309 . Paris Saint-Germain *4 Fra 39.748
Juventus *3 Ita 59.867 Sporting Braga @4 Por 39.659
Sporting CP Lisbon *3 Por 57.659 Celtic @3 Sco 38.158
Olympiakos Piraeus ** Gre 54.979 Club Brugge *4 Bel 36.580
Fenerbahçe @4 Tur 54.890 Palermo *4 Ita 35.867
VfB Stuttgart *3 Ger 52.841 Getafe *4 Esp 33.894
AZ Alkmaar *3 Ned 48.309 Besiktas ** Tur 33.890
. .

Pot 3 coef. Pot 4 coef.
------------------------ --- ---------------- ------------------------ --- ----------------
Sampdoria @4 Ita 30.867 Austria Wien ** Aut 16.915
Dinamo Bucuresti ** Rom 28.898 Feyenoord *4 Ned 16.309
AEK Athens *4 Gre 25.979 .
Aston Villa *4 Eng 25.871 Litex Lovech @4 Bul 15.900
Lokomotiv Moscow *4 Rus 25.758 CSKA Sofia *3 Bul 15.400
Metalist Kharkiv *4 Ukr 25.410 OB Odense *3 Den 14.970
Levski Sofia ** Bul 25.400 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk *3 Ukr 14.910
Rosenborg BK @4 Nor 23.980 Napoli *4 Ita 14.867
FC Salzburg @4 Aut 19.915 Borussia Dortmund *4 Ger 14.841
Maccabi Haifa *3 Isr 19.775 Dinamo Zagreb @4 Cro 14.466
AJ Auxerre @4 Fra 19.748 Partizan Belgrade @4 Srb 13.800
. BATE Borisov @3 Bls 13.308

pepsi_dave wrote:how does the draw work for the play-off, do we get drawn against an un-seeded team? And I presume for the group stages, we'd be drawn against 1 team from each of the other 3 pots?

For the play-off round it'll be quite simple: seeded vs unseeded

For the group stage, UEFA says
The 37 play-off winners are joined by holders Club Atlético de Madrid and the ten losing teams from the UEFA Champions League play-offs to make up the 48 clubs that go into the group-stage draw at the Grimaldi Forum.

The 48 sides are split into four seeding pots based on UEFA's coefficient system, with one from each drawn into the 12 groups. No team can meet another from the same association. Once the draw has been completed a computer draw will determine the final position of the sides within their group and therefore the order of the home and away matches.

tchumatu wrote:

pepsi_dave wrote:how does the draw work for the play-off, do we get drawn against an un-seeded team? And I presume for the group stages, we'd be drawn against 1 team from each of the other 3 pots?

For the play-off round it'll be quite simple: seeded vs unseeded

For the group stage, UEFA says
The 37 play-off winners are joined by holders Club Atlético de Madrid and the ten losing teams from the UEFA Champions League play-offs to make up the 48 clubs that go into the group-stage draw at the Grimaldi Forum.

The 48 sides are split into four seeding pots based on UEFA's coefficient system, with one from each drawn into the 12 groups. No team can meet another from the same association. Once the draw has been completed a computer draw will determine the final position of the sides within their group and therefore the order of the home and away matches.

Winner.... Cheers for that mate..... still about as clear as mud, and slightly confusing, but I get the jist.....

in the co-efficient list not all those teams have yet qualified.. Galatasaray for instance play on thursday and have only a 2-1 lead from their home game.

check the wikipedia.. has a clear view of stages, but no seeding info
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%E2%80%9311_UEFA_Europa_League

simon12 wrote:

Niall Quinns Discopants wrote:

IanBishopsHaircut wrote:

King Kev wrote:Takes place this Friday at 12.30pm UK time.

I'm getting excited now!

Two questions

Are we seeded?

and

Who are the big guns we need to look out for?

Liverpool, Juventus, Stuttgart, Olympiakos, are the teams that could present us with problems. I believe we can not be drawn against another seeded team.

I wouldn`t under estimate CSKA Moscow especially away NQDP.

Missed them. Although that away trip is doable in august. In winter it's extremely tough trip for anyone.

Svensational wrote:Isnt there 3 qualifying stages and we are in the last one?

Isnt it Villa that go into the next qualifying stage?

This is fourth and final qualifying stage. Why would Villa go anywhere before us? They finished below us.

Why can't i get excited about this cup competition? It just seems a load of shit teams from far flung places around Eastern Europe fuck about for a few months until the shit teams from the CL drop into it. I'll start going when we get to the quarter finals, like a proper 'jonny'!

I think it's piss funny that Liverpool have to qualify! How the mighty have fallen eh!