Sporting Fingal FC Supporters' Thread - IMPORTANT: Read Post #1

dsmythy wrote: »

Well before our next home game there will be a little distraction on the 21st of June when the draw for the 2nd qualifying round of the Europa League will take place. Olympiacos, Besiktas, Maritimo, Brondby and Motherwell are some of the more recognisable names we could face.

1st leg is on 15th July and the 2nd leg will be on 22nd July.

Should we manage to progress then Liverpool and Juventus are two of the teams that could be awaiting us in the next round!

ill post this again,
this is in order of seeding;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%E2%80%9311_UEFA_Europa_League#Second_qualifying_round


Olympiacos
Beşiktaş
Dinamo Bucureşti or Rapid Bucureşti (depends on TAS's decision concerning the match Rapid-FC Timisoara: 1-0 on the court but 0-3 because Rapid used 2 players illegally)

Levski Sofia
Austria Wien
Winners of match involving Anorthosis
Brøndby (denmark)
Rapid Wien
APOEL
Wisła Kraków
Karpaty Lviv (ukraine)
Marítimo (portugal, nice island place)
Baník Ostrava (czech republic)
IF Elfsborg
Utrecht
Winners of match involving Randers (denmark)
Motherwell
Winners of match involving Kalmar FF (sweeden)
Lausanne-Sport (switzerland)
Cercle Brugge
Winners of match involving Bnei Yehuda (israel now wudnt that b fun)
Stabæk (norway)
Ventspils (latvia)
Molde (norway)
Maccabi Tel Aviv
Dukla Banská Bystrica (slovakia)
Winners of match involving Nitra (slovakia)
Winners of match involving Rabotnički (macedonia)
Honka (finland)
Winners of match involving MYPA (finland)
Maribor (slovenia)
Winners of match involving Gefle ç (sweeden)
Dinamo Minsk
OFK Beograd
Spartak Zlatibor Voda (serbia)
Winners of match involving Zrinjski (bosnia)
Baku (azerbajan)
Winners of match involving Qarabağ (azerbajan)
Winners of match involving Ruch Chorzów (poland)
Cibalia (croatia)

all of these teams are a good bit above us as an irish team in terms of ranking, realistically we wouldnt be favourites even at home except for the bottom teams (or if a flukey team gets through from the previous round). Some of them might be quite hard to get to and others will obviously be quite tough especially away from home.

That said on top form, with a bit of luck we could/should probably take any of them (motherwell anybody...?). note that near the top in terms of seedings is an austrian team, bohs were unlucky to lose to salzburg who again were champions and did very well last year in tthe europa league. Derry only lost by a goal on aggregate to sofia last year and look at the situation they wre in. st pats also beat elfsborg 2 years ago (elfsborg last year beat the portugese team). the top 3 there tho would probably be nightmares.

Ive been looking forward to an away trip for months, rounding up my brothers to come is harder than expected though....was at the bohs salzburg game in salzburg last year and it was brilliant atmosphere....
So hope its an easy enough to get to kind of place.

Great result, Finn and Williams on the score sheet, nice. And as Viper posted, 2nd from top half way through with a game in hand sweet. I know it's gonna get tougher from here on in with the games coming thick and fast, but going into the break in this position was not what i expected at the beginning of the season so happy days.

Just got confirmation from the FAI that our scheduled match against Sligo Rovers is being switched from Tuesday 6th July to Monday 5th.