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Europa League 2011-12
Topic Started: Jul 15 2011, 05:27 PM (1,875 Views)
Yogi
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Hard to believe but qualifying has already begun for the 2011-12 Europa League and today the draw was made for the third qualifying round when some "name" teams join the competition:

Draw for the third qualifying round of the 2011-12 Europa League (first legs to be played on July 28; second legs on August 4):

Atletico Madrid (ESP) v Stromsgodset (NOR)

Young Boys Berne (SUI) v TPS Turku (FIN)/KVC Westerlo (BEL)

Shaktyar Soligorsk (BLR)/FK Ventspils (LAT) v Red Star Belgrade (SRB)

Alania (RUS) v Kecskemeti TE (HUN)/Aktobe (KAZ)

Floriana (MLT)/AEK Larnaca (CYP) v Mlada Boleslav (CZE)

FK Zeljeznicar (BIH)/Sheriff Tiraspol (MDA) v Maccabi Tel-Aviv (ISR)/Xazar Lankaran (AZE)

AZ Alkmaar (NED) v KS Flamurtari (ALB)/Jablonec (CZE)

Olimpia Ljubljana (SLO)/Bohemians (IRL) v Rudar Pljevlja (MNE)/Austria Vienna (AUT)

Bursaspor (TUR) v Gomel (BLR)

Ferencvaros (HUN)/Aalesunds FK (NOR) v FK Suduva (LTU)/Elfsborg (SWE)

FC Minsk (BLR)/Gaziantepspor (TUR) v Legia Warsaw (POL)

Hapoel Tel-Aviv (ISR) v FC Vaduz (LIE)/FK Vojvodina Novi Sad (SRB)

Metalurgi Rustavi (GEO)/Irtysh (KAZ) v Rennes (FRA)

Levski Sofia (BUL) v KF Tirana (ALB)/Spartak Trnava (SVK)

The New Saints FC (WAL)/FC Midtjylland (DEN) v Vitoria (POR)

Dinamo Bucharest (ROM) v Iskra Stal (MDA)/Varazdin (CRO)

Karpaty Lviv (UKR) v Shaktar Karagandy (KAZ)/Saint Patrick's (IRL)

VK Vllaznia (ALB)/FC Thun (SUI) v Palermo (ITA)

KR Reykjavik (ISL)/MSK Zilina (SVK) v Llanelli (WAL)/Dinamo Tbilisi (GEO)

Omonia (CYP) v FK Tauras (LTU)/ADO Den Haag (NED)

SK Liepajas Metalurgs (LAT)/Salzburg (AUT) v Senica (SVK)

Club Brugge (BEL) v EB Streymur (FRO)/Qarabag FK (AZE)

Differdange (LUX)/Levadia Tallinn (EST) v FK Rad (SRB)/Olympiakos Volou (GRE)

Mainz 05 (GER) v KuPS Kuopio (FIN)/Gaz Metan Medias (ROM)

UE Sant Julia (AND)/Bnei Yehuda Tel-Aviv (ISR) v Helsingborg (SWE)

Stoke City (ENG) v Hajduk Split (CRO)

Anorthosis Famagusta (CYP)/Gagra (GEO) v Juvenese-Dogana (SMR)/Rabotnicki (MKD)

Orebro SK (SWE)/FK Sarajevo (BIH) v Sparta Prague (CZE)

Glentoran (NIR)/Vorskla Poltava (UKR) v Sligo (IRL)

Paksi SE (HUN)/Tromso IL (NOR) v Hearts (SCO)

Metalurg Skopje (MKD)/Lokomotiv Sofia (BUL) v Slask Wroclaw (POL)/Dundee United (SCO)

FH Hafnarfjordur (ISL)/CD Nacional (POR) v BK Hacken (SWE)/Honka Espoo (FIN)

Ried (AUT) v Brondby (DEN)

PAOK (GRE) v Mika (ARM)/Valerenga (NOR)

NK Domzale (SVN)/RNK Split (CRO) v Crusaders (NIR)/Fulham (ENG)

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Palermo have been eliminated on away goals by Switzerland's FC Thun!

Italian clubs sure have not been doing well in this competition. Of course the fact the Italian league is still almost 4 weeks from starting may also have had an effect on Palermo's play.
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Mainz also were eliminated by a modest club from Romania, Gaz Metan Metas.
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The final round of preliminary play:

Maccabi Tel Aviv (Israel) v Panathinaikos (Greece)

Atletico Madrid (Spain) v Vitoria Guimaraes (Portugal)

Shamrock Rovers (Ireland) v Partizan Belgrade (Serbia)

Metalist Kharkiv (Ukraine) v Sochaux (France)

Besiktas (Turkey) v Alania Vladikavkaz (Russia)

Rosenborg (Norway) v AEK Larnaca (Cyprus)

Vorskla Poltava (Ukraine) v Dinamo Bucharest (Romania)

Bursaspor (Turkey) v Anderlecht (Belgium)

AS Roma (Italy) v Slovan Bratislava (Slovakia)

Olimpiakos Ethnikos Volos (Greece) v Paris St Germain (France)

Legia Warsaw (Poland) v Spartak Moscow (Russia)

Ekranas (Lithuania) v Hapoel Tel Aviv (Israel)

PAOK Salonika (Greece) v Karpaty Lviv (Ukraine)

Trabzonspor (Turkey) v Athletic Bilbao (Spain)

Hearts (Scotland) v Tottenham Hotspur (England)

Maribor (Slovenia) v Rangers (Scotland)

Steaua Bucharest (Romania) v CSKA Sofia (Bulgaria)

Nordsjaelland (Denmark) v Sporting Lisbon (Portugal)

Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (Ukraine) v Fulham (England)

Lokomotiv Moscow (Russia) v Spartak Trnava (Slovakia)

Sion (Switzerland) v Celtic (Scotland)

Slask Wroclaw (Poland) v Rapid Bucharest (Romania)

Litex Lovech (Bulgaria) v Dynamo Kiev (Ukraine)

Lazio (Italy) v Rabotnicki (Macedonia)

Nacional Madeira (Portugal) v Birmingham City (England)

PSV Eindhoven (Netherlands) v Ried (Austria)

FC Thun (Switzerland) v Stoke City (England)

Aalesund (Norway) v AZ Alkmaar (Netherlands)

Vaslui (Romania) v Sparta Prague (Czech Republic)

Omonia (Cyprus) v Salzburg (Austria)

Zestafoni (Georgia) v Club Bruges (Belgium)

Hanover 96 (Germany) v Sevilla (Spain)

HJK Helsinki (Finland) v Schalke 04 (Germany)

Dinamo Tblisi (Georgia) v AEK Athens (Greece)

Stade Rennes (France) v Red Star Belgrade (Serbia)

Gaz Metan Medias (Romania) v Austria Vienna (Austria)

Braga (Portugal) v Young Boys (Switzerland)

Standard Liege (Belgium) v Helsingborgs (Sweden)

Matches to be played on Aug 18 and 25. First named teams to play first legs at home.


Hannover-Sevilla, Atletico Madrid-Vitoria Guimaraes, Trabzonspor-Athletic Bilbao and Hearts-Tottenham all look like pretty decent matchups.
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Hannover-Sevilla, Atletico Madrid-Vitoria Guimaraes, Trabzonspor-Athletic Bilbao and Hearts-Tottenham all look like pretty decent matchups.


Other than being a Scotland-England matchup I do not see too much with Hearts and I think Tottenham can get the better of them. But those three games for the Spanish clubs will each be difficult ones and marcelo Bielsa will not have an easy time of it in his first official game in charge of Athletic, a trip to the Black Sea city of Trabzon.

Hannover who start their league this weekend will have that going in their favour when playing Sevilla in what looks like a very good matchup.
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A roundup of some of the more notable games in the Europa League preliminary round:

http://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/news?slug=g...playoffroundupr

The big stories are Hannover eliminating Sevilla and Slovan Bratislava knocking Roma out of the competition!

Athletic Bilbao advanced without playing as their opponents Trabzonspor got move dinto the Champions League to take the place of Turkish champions fenerbahce who were kicke dout of the Champions League by their own federation for match fixing.

Tomorrow will be the Europa League group draw.
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Rangers, Celtic and Panathinaikos also were eliminated in the preliminary rounds.

Celtic, however, might be given a lifeline as the team which defeated them Sion of Switzerland may be banned by UEFA for using players signed in the offseason when the club were supposedly still under a ban from signing players after they illegally signed an Egyptian player several years ago. Sion claim the ban had already been served, UEFA says it was postponed while Sion appealed the original decision.
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A decision on whether Sion will remain, or not, in the Europa League will be made this coming week. For now Sion were included in the draw for the respective groups:

Group A

Tottenham Hotspur

Rubin Kazan

PAOK Salonika

Shamrock Rovers


Group B

FC Copenhagen

Standard Liege

Hannover 96

Vorskla Poltava


Group C

PSV Eindhoven

Hapoel Tel Aviv

Rapid Bucharest

Legia Warsaw


Group D

Sporting

Lazio

FC Zurich

FC Vaslui


Group E

Dynamo Kiev

Besiktas

Stoke City

Maccabi Tel Aviv


Group F

Paris St Germain

Athletic Bilbao

Salzburg

Slovan Bratislava


Group G

AZ Alkmaar

Metalist Kharkiv

Austria Vienna

Malmo


Group H

SC Braga

Club Bruges

Birmingham City

Maribor


Group I

Atletico Madrid

Udinese

Stade Rennes

FC Sion


Group J

Schalke 04

Steaua Bucharest

Maccabi Haifa

AEK Larnaca


Group K

Twente Enschede

Fulham

Odense

Wislaw Krakow


Group L

Anderlecht

AEK Athens

Lokomotiv Moscow

Sturm Graz
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Onslow,Aug 26 2011
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Rangers, Celtic and Panathinaikos also were eliminated in the preliminary rounds.

Celtic, however, might be given a lifeline as the team which defeated them Sion of Switzerland may be banned by UEFA for using players signed in the offseason when the club were supposedly still under a ban from signing players after they illegally signed an Egyptian player several years ago. Sion claim the ban had already been served, UEFA says it was postponed while Sion appealed the original decision.

UEFA have kicked Sion out of the tournament and have reinstated Celtic who now join what looks to be a pretty difficult Group I with Atletico Madrid, Udinese and Stade Rennes.
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There's the usual thing with people treating the Europa League as an inconvenience. Spurs and Liverpool were in a 'race' for the last EL place in the final couple of games of last season, but it was pretty apparent that neither team wanted it. In the end it was Spurs who got the spot, and this is their team tonight:

Cudicini; Walker, Bassong, Corluka, Townsend; Falque, Carroll, Livermore, Giovani; Kane, Pavlyuchenko

I've never even heard of some of those players. Redknapp said Spurs would do their best in the competition, hmm... I reckon some of the Spurs fans who've made the trip to Salonika will regret not taking their boots, they might have got a game!
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Not every club treats the Europa League with disdain, Atletico Madrid used it to give new signings Radamel Falcao and Diego a chance to start their first games for the club and each played well and scored in Atletico's 2-0 home win over Celtic.

A rundown of Thursday's opening set of group matches:

http://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/news?slug=reu-europa_wrapup_1

As the article states no real upsets but I was surprised it took Dynamo Kiev an injury time goal to draw at home with Stoke City.

By the way some Sion fans, took their protest about Sion getting banned from the Europa League to Madrid as it would have been Sion, not Celtic, playing Atletico Madrid if Sion had not been expelled.
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Javier Pastore seems to be settling in at PSG.
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Can anyone here explain, or point me to a link, why Sion are - apparently - going to be reinstated in the competition? The European Football Union don't normally go back on previous decisions, and don't look kindly on individual clubs going to the courts, so what happened here?
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Sporting,Oct 18 2011
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Can anyone here explain, or point me to a link, why Sion are - apparently - going to be reinstated in the competition? The European Football Union don't normally go back on previous decisions, and don't look kindly on individual clubs going to the courts, so what happened here?

I was wondeirng the same thing, all I can think of is that while they may not fear courts in other countries, as a Swiss based organization, UEFA do fear being in contempt of a Swiss court decision and thus they may be offering Sion a lifeline in this year's Europa league.
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Platini and another UEFA official were required to give testimony this week to the investigating Swiss judge in Sion's case so Merengue's theory of UEFA fearing being in contempt of a Swiss court order sounds realistic to me.
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