UEFA Europa League 2011/12

frantic190

The road to Stadionul Naţional, Romania starts on Monday with the draw for the first and second qualifying rounds commences at 12:00 Irish time.

http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/news/newsid=1644020.html

Teams of interest in the first round would include Fulham and St. Patricks Athletic.

In the second round Red Bull Salzburg, Dundee United and Bohemians join the winners from the first round.

It wont be until the third qualifying round that the last Irish representative Sligo Rovers enter the draw, however this draw is on July 15th. They could face the likes of Stoke, Atletico Madrid and Palermo.

Details on the seeded and unseeded teams:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011%E2%80%9312_UEFA_Europa_League#Qualifying_rounds

Looking forward to seeing my favourite bald Italian man in football
http://weplayonfridays.com/cup-draws-and-bald-italians/

losthorizon

There is only one great bald italian and hes a ref!:P

Paully D

losthorizon wrote: »

There is only one great bald italian and hes a ref!:P

Richie Winter is Italian? :pac:

antomorro-sei

Seriously feels like Xmas Eve today.

Hoping the draw is somewhere close too!

frantic190

They are dividing up the 2nd Qual round into groups. Anyone know if it is regional or on seeding?

After a quick look at the seedings, I think we could end up with some nightmare trips including Azerbaijan if its divided up by seeding.

Don't fancy a trip to Lankaran - zoom out to see how far away it is, 20 miles from the Iranian border.

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.753611,48.851111&spn=0.1,0.1&t=m&q=38.753611,48.851111

The Champions League draw seemed to have been a mixture of seeding and trying to match local teams together aswell, fingers crossed anyway.

antomorro-sei

frantic190 wrote: »

They are dividing up the 2nd Qual round into groups. Anyone know if it is regional or on seeding?

After a quick look at the seedings, I think we could end up with some nightmare trips including Azerbaijan if its divided up by seeding.

Don't fancy a trip to Lankaran - zoom out to see how far away it is, 20 miles from the Iranian border.

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.753611,48.851111&spn=0.1,0.1&t=m&q=38.753611,48.851111

The Champions League draw seemed to have been a mixture of seeding and trying to match local teams together aswell, fingers crossed anyway.

Is the first round being divided too? They usually just divide the teams up into random groups of 5 seeded and 5 unseeded for the draw I think.

frantic190

antomorro-sei wrote: »

Is the first round being divided too? They usually just divide the teams up into random groups of 5 seeded and 5 unseeded for the draw I think.

For the first qualifying round equal numbers of seeded and unseeded teams will be allocated to five groups of ten in accordance with rankings established at the beginning of the season. For each group, balls containing seeded teams will be placed in one bowl and unseeded teams in another. A ball from each will be placed in a large empty bowl in the middle, and the first team drawn will play its first match at home. Clubs from the same association cannot be drawn against each other.

The 80 teams involved in the second qualifying round are divided into eight groups of ten, each containing five seeded and five unseeded teams. The draw follows the same procedure as the first qualifying round, with the groupings to be confirmed after the draw for the first qualifying round.

So yeah, by the looks of it the First Round is based off European ranking, while the second one is just random? Or perhaps the same as the first one. Will find out tomorrow anyway.

antomorro-sei

frantic190 wrote: »

So yeah, by the looks of it the First Round is based off European ranking, while the second one is just random? Or perhaps the same as the first one. Will find out tomorrow anyway.

That we will.

I'll be gutted if both the trips are to dodgy places. Need one European Trip!

dsmythy

Groups and seedings for the draw.

First qualifying round


Group 1

Seeded
IL Elfsborg (SWE)
Tromsø IL (NOR)
FC Honka Espoo (FIN)
KR Reykjavík (ISL)
The New Saints FC (WAL)

Unseeded
FC Daugava Daugavpils (LVA)
Cliftonville FC (NIR)
JK Nõmme Kalju (EST)
ÍF Fuglafjørdur (FRO)
CS Fola Esch (LUX)



Group 2

Seeded
Fulham FC (ENG)
Saint Patrick's Athletic FC (IRL)
Aalesunds FK (NOR)
BK Häcken (SWE)
FK Renova (MKD)

Unseeded
Glentoran FC (NIR)
ÍBV Vestmannaeyjar (ISL)
NSÍ Runavík (FRO)
Neath FC (WAL)
UN Käerjéng 97 (LUX)



Group 3

Seeded
Qarabağ FK (AZE)
FK Rabotnicki (MKD)
FK Rad (SRB)
FC Koper (SVN)
Paksi SE (HUN)

Unseeded
FK Banga (LTU)
JK Trans Narva (EST)
FC Shakhter Karagandy (KAZ)
SP Tre Penne (SMR)
UE Santa Coloma (AND)



Group 4

Seeded
Jagiellonia Białystok (POL)
FC Dinamo Tbilisi (GEO)
FC Minsk (BLR)
FK Budućnost Podgorica (MNE)
Ferencvárosi TC (HUN)

Unseeded
FC Milsami Orhei (MDA)
KS Flamurtari (ALB)
Olimpik-Şüvälan PFK (AZE)
FC Irtysh Pavlodar (KAZ)
Ulisses FC (ARM)



Group 5

Seeded
FC Spartak Trnava (SVK)
NK Varaždin (CRO)
Metalurgi Rustavi (GEO)
NK Široki Brijeg (BIH)
Birkirkara FC (MLT)

Unseeded
NK Olimpija Ljubljana (SVN)
KS Vllaznia (ALB)
FK Zeta (MNE)
FC Banants (AND)
FC Lusitans (AND)

frantic190

Pats have some nice trips in there I have to say.

dreamers75

Cmon the ****, taking their bleeding time with this.

frantic190

Íþróttabandalag Vestmannaeyja for Pats, anyone know how to pronounce it?

This is their ground

dsmythy

frantic190 wrote: »

Íþróttabandalag Vestmannaeyja for Pats, anyone know how to pronounce it?

From now on referred to as the Iceland team

Guy:Incognito

If the volcano erupts again, do Pats get a bye?

GLaDOS

Just realised I'll be away on the 21st for the 2nd leg, bah.

frantic190

Pats fans, according to their site the game is being played in Vodafonevellinum.

http://ibvsport.is/frettir/2011/06/20/ibv_drost_gegn_st_patrick%E2%80%99s_athletic_football_club

I can't find a venue with that name, but this seems to be the closest:
http://women.soccerway.com/teams/iceland/valur-reykjavik/venue/

antomorro-sei

Ugh. Please god let the next round be better. Need to go to a Euro Trip this year!

GLaDOS

Bohs play the winner of NK Olympia and NK Siroki Brijeg

citytillidie

Fulham could be coming to NI

dsmythy

ScienceNerd wrote: »

Bohs play the winner of NK Olympia and NK Siroki Brijeg

Oddly enough they played each other last year in the Europa League qualifiers. Siroki Brijeg won 5-0 on aggregate.

frantic190

Nightmare draw for us, going to cost the club a fortune to get out there. The Bosnians look a decent team and only narrowly lost to Austria Wien last season. And their fans are mental!

Steodonn

Bohs pretty much certain to get the Bosnian team. Going to be a hard match and hard to get to.

dreamers75

Poxy draw No holliers for me this year

frantic190

Steodonn wrote: »

Bohs pretty much certain to get the Bosnian team. Going to be a hard match and hard to get to.

That Olimpija fan and the Serbian Bohs fan both said the Slovenians had a better team this year than the Bosnians. We will see anyway.

dfx-

antomorro-sei wrote: »

Ugh. Please god let the next round be better. Need to go to a Euro Trip this year!

Kazakhstan:cool:

antomorro-sei

dfx- wrote: »

Kazakhstan:cool:

Poxy fcuking draw.

I'll go to Slovenia if they get through. Looks like a cracking spot!

patmac

antomorro-sei wrote: »

Poxy fcuking draw.

I'll go to Slovenia if they get through. Looks like a cracking spot!

Slovenia is a nice country stay in Lake Bled, lovely spot and check out the George Best bar.

antomorro-sei

That Lake Bled place looks class, although, we'd be playing miles away down in Koper!

losthorizon

RE Pats: I would say that the game will be played in Reykjavik. ÍBV Vestmannaeyjar are actually situated on islands off the coast of Iceland.
The islands are named are Irish people because they were kidnapped by
the Scots and brought to Iceland. The name means Westman islands in English.
I went for a cork City match a few years ago and I had a great time.
Iceland is incredible. If you can see a bit more of the country make time and hire a car..

The following year I came back for two weeks. Best trip I ever had.

With Regards to Bohs its easy to get to Slovenia and fairly easy to get to Bosnia
Bosnia - (just fly to Dubrovnik in Croatia and get the bus to Bosnia).

antomorro-sei

Yeah man, the game has been moved to Reykjavik already!

I won't be going though, flights cost too much for me anyway!

Jelle1880

Would it be possible to get a ticket for the Pats game on thursday ?

Lucan Bohs

Jelle1880 wrote: »

Would it be possible to get a ticket for the Pats game on thursday ?

I'd say so, there selling quite well I heard

dreamers75

Jelle1880 wrote: »

Would it be possible to get a ticket for the Pats game on thursday ?

800 left , limited to 2500ish for Uefa games.

legendary.xix

It was a pity to see Pat's lose away last Thursday, hopefully they will be able to bounce back in the return leg this week.

frantic190

Pats just kicked off in their second leg.

Commentary:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/st-pats-live-commentary#utm_campaign=unknown&utm_source=694517&utm_medium=social

Text Updates:
http://www.extratime.ie/fixtures/detail/17451/1/

Bohemians potential opponents Olimpija Ljubljana are 2 nil up against Široki Brijeg.
http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/season=2012/matches/live/day=-7/session=1/match=2007046/matchcenterlight/index.html

Raskolnikov

frantic190 wrote: »

Pats just kicked off in their second leg.

Commentary:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/st-pats-live-commentary#utm_campaign=unknown&utm_source=694517&utm_medium=social

Text Updates:
http://www.extratime.ie/fixtures/detail/17451/1/

Bohemians potential opponents Olimpija Ljubljana are 2 nil up against Široki Brijeg.
http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/season=2012/matches/live/day=-7/session=1/match=2007046/matchcenterlight/index.html

That commentary link is entertaining for all the wrong reasons.

Raskolnikov

1-0 Pat's, lolerskatz at commentary.

Oat23

Pats 1 up. G'wan boys!

dan1895

Olimpija 3 up now

Mr.Crinklewood

IBV Fans

Raskolnikov

2-0

Oat23

2-0 Pats

Derek Doyle.

Raskolnikov

Sounds like it's all action.

GLaDOS

Hopefully they stick another one in because one goal and IBV are ahead

3-0!

Good stuff so far

Oat23

Deleted User wrote: »

3-0!

Good stuff so far

2-0

frantic190

Bohs are off to Slovenia, Olimpija Ljubljana win 3 nil.

legendary.xix

frantic190 wrote: »

Pats just kicked off in their second leg.

Commentary:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/st-pats-live-commentary#utm_campaign=unknown&utm_source=694517&utm_medium=social

Text Updates:
http://www.extratime.ie/fixtures/detail/17451/1/

Bohemians potential opponents Olimpija Ljubljana are 2 nil up against Široki Brijeg.
http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/season=2012/matches/live/day=-7/session=1/match=2007046/matchcenterlight/index.html

The commentary is hilarious! "Are they actually taking off someone who's name we can pronounce"

NUTZZ

Update for anyone who cares!

St. Pats 2 v IBV Vestmannaey 0 (2-1 agg)

Daly and Doyle on the score sheet

Leejo

It's 2-0...

http://www.extratime.ie/fixtures/detail/17451/1/

NUTZZ

Leejo wrote: »

It's 2-0...

http://www.extratime.ie/fixtures/detail/17451/1/

Last time I listen to Sky!