possible europa opponents

[Houdini]

Is the draw on the 20th December?

 

[thetallaghttiger]

Is the draw on the 20th December?

yeah same day as Champions League

 

[Houdini]

yeah same day as Champions League

 

[Spursidol]

Below are the teams qualified for round of 32 - we can face any of those not crossed out (I have worked out who I think will be seeded of the teams coming in from CL)

Group winners (seeded) :
Liverpool FC, FC Viktoria Plzeň, Fenerbahçe SK, FC Girondins de Bordeaux, FC Steaua Bucureşti, FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, KRC Genk, FC Rubin Kazan, Olympique Lyonnais, S.S. Lazio, FC Metalist Kharkiv, Hannover 96.

Runners-up (unseeded) :
FC Anji Makhachkala, Club Atlético de Madrid, VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach, Newcastle United FC, VfB Stuttgart, SSC Napoli, FC Basel 1893, FC Internazionale Milano, AC Sparta Praha, Tottenham Hotspur FC, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Levante UD.

Transferred from the UEFA Champions League :
Chelsea FC (120 - seeded) , SL Benfica (85 - seeded), FC Dynamo Kyiv (67 - seeded), FC Zenit St Petersburg (66 - seeded
CFR 1907 Cluj, Olympiacos FC (57) , , AFC Ajax, FC (62) BATE Borisov.
(seedings to be confirmed in due course)


Draw procedure :There will be two pots for the round of 32 draw: the 12 group winners and the four best third-ranked teams in the UEFA Champions League group stage will be drawn against the 12 group runners-up and the remaining third-placed UEFA Champions League sides.

In the games on 14 and 21 February, no team can play a club from their group or a side from the same association.

The draw for the round of 16 will take place on the same day

(NB I have taken the UEFA co-efficient to seed the teams coming from CL - depends) on UEFA defginition of 'the four best third-ranked teams in the UEFA Champions League group stage' as to whether this is correct)

 

[Gedson100]

Judging by Spursidol's good work there, there's a very high chance we might be off behind the Iron Curtain then? 6/13

And Genk is by far and away the best tie possible both for footballing and visiting reasons

 

[3Dnata]

Has anyone really got a Cluj as to who our next opponents will be?

 

[Spursidol]

Has anyone really got a Cluj as to who our next opponents will be?

No Cluj (as Manuel would say )

 

[chinaman]

We fear none of those.

 

[Davo99]

Any one of:

steaua bucureşti
fenerbahçe
bordeaux
lyon
genk

 

[whitelightwhiteheat]

I fancy we could take Rubin Kazan, they struggled to beat us with the second string we put out last season.

Would prefer to avoid Lyon and Fenerbache in particular.

Anyone else we'll have a good crack, I reckon.

 

[tototoner]

For the fans Hannover or Genk

None if them worry me as I expect us to win this tournament

 

[sweyid]

We have a good chance against all possible opponents if we field a strong XI. We shouldn't really be having much trouble getting through to the round of 16.

 

[Marty]

we'll probably get Dnipro and their 'World Class Manager.'

JUANDE RAMOS!!!

I don't know about the rest of you but I'd love to draw Dnipro and stuff ol' OneDay.

 

[Gilzeanking]

I don't know about the rest of you but I'd love to draw Dnipro and stuff ol' OneDay.

Obv as a 5 string bass player you have a certain status....but Ramos was sacked from Spurs after a year and has been regularly insulted on these boards ever since...hasn't he had enough punishment yet ?

 

[Marty]

Obv as a 5 string bass player you have a certain status....but Ramos was sacked from Spurs after a year and has been regularly insulted on these boards ever since...hasn't he had enough punishment yet ?

Thanks, but it's not over until we've faced him again and beaten him! Only then can we finally let it go.

 

[mark87]

Looking at who we could face im actually really glad we finished 2nd now.

 

[brasil_spur]

zenit
anzhi
bate
dynamo kyiv
ajax
atletico
levante
borussia monchengladbach
stuttgart
leverkusen
napoli
inter milan
basel
sparta prague

That's mad! Seriously there are some tough teams in there, glad we were runners up.

 

[Hoddle_Ledge]

That's mad! Seriously there are some tough teams in there, glad we were runners up.

That's what Andre played for all along

 

[Real_madyidd]

When is the draw?

 

[alamo]

When you look at the quality of some of the teams left in this tournament it is ridiculous that it is so undervalued. It would be fantastic to go to some of those match-ups both home and away.

UEFA really need to pull their fingers out of their collective arses and do something to raise it's profile.