Zappa 0 Posted May 22, 2011 Share Posted May 22, 2011 Turns out that the CL Q3 draw is the 15th July this year. Someone on another forum posted this - "Assuming seeded teams beat unseeded teams in rounds 1 and 2 then our opponents for round 3 will be from 3rd Qualifying Racing Genk Bel 8.400 Slovan Bratislava ** Svk 5.899 Viktoria Plzen ** Cze 5.170 NK Maribor ** Slo 4.224 HJK Helsinki ** Fin 3.793 Ekranas Panevezys ** Lit 3.541 FC Zestafoni ** Geo 2.891 Malm�¶ FF ** Swe 2.825 4th Qualifiying Assuminng seeded teams win in 3rd qualifying round our 4th round teams will come from Rosenborg BK ** Nor 19.375 Partizan Belgrade ** Srb 15.850 APOEL Nicosia ** Cyp 13.124 Wisla Krak�³w ** Pol 10.183 Not 100% complete yet as Austrian league still to conclude". 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zappa 0 Posted May 22, 2011 Share Posted May 22, 2011 I thought the 3rd qualifying round was the final one. Nope, both UEFA comps have 4 qualifying rounds. The 4th gets called the 'Play-off round'. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ian1964 10,457 Posted May 23, 2011 Share Posted May 23, 2011 Scotland will have four clubs competing in European competition next season, with Rangers leading the way in the lucrative Champions League. The Ibrox side will be seeded for the third qualifying round, starting on 26 July, and will face a further play-off round to reach the group stages. Celtic enter the Europa League at the fourth and final qualifying round while Hearts drop in at the preceding round. Dundee United will face three Europa League qualifying rounds. The Tannadice side will discover their opponents when the draw for the first two qualifying rounds of the Europa League takes place on 20 June. Rangers will find out who they will play when the draw for the Champions League third qualifying round is held on 15 July, the same day as the draw for the Europa League third qualifying round. The Champions League and Europa League play-off draws are scheduled for 5 August. Rangers were automatically entered into the lucrative group stages of the Champions League for the season just ended, while Celtic stumbled at the third qualifying round against the eventual Europa League finalists Braga. Under Walter Smith, the Ibrox club finished third in a group that included Bursaspor, Valencia and finalists Manchester United before beating Sporting Lisbon in the Europa League round of 32, and eventually losing out to PSV Eindhoven in the last 16. Motherwell, Hibernian and Dundee United also competed in last season's Europa League qualifiers, with Hibs slipping up at the third round against Maribor. Celtic, United and Motherwell all failed to reach the group stages after defeats by Utrecht, AEK Athens and Odense respectively in the play-off round. Champions League qualifying will begin on the 26/27 July, while the second qualifying round of the Europa League will begin on 14 July. European qualifying schedule in full:RangersChampions League third round of qualifying on 26/27 July (second leg on 2/3 August) CelticEuropa League fourth and final round of qualifying on 18 August (second leg on 25 August) HeartsEuropa League third round of qualifying on 28 July (second leg on 4 August) Dundee UnitedEuropa League second round of qualifying on 14 July (second leg on 21 July) http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/13491741.stm 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gribz 743 Posted May 23, 2011 Share Posted May 23, 2011 Dundee United will face three Europa League qualifying rounds. Thats just getting silly. This is reason the UEFA cup has went backwards. 3 qualifying rounds then if they do make it in there is about 40 games to even win it. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dutchy Posted May 23, 2011 Share Posted May 23, 2011 There's so many 'new' countries with the break up of the CCCP and Yugoslavia and Czechoslavia that they all have rotten coeficents, and of course all the big nations have anythign from 2-4 teams going intot ths CL, they all have to play in the Europa. Scotland have not being doing well enough to escape this plethora of teams, and if we fall any further, we too could be playing 4 matches just to get into the league stages, so come on everyone, support all the Scottish teams in Europe so as we can get back to at least 2 teams in the CL. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zappa 0 Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 Time to bump this thread because the draw is on Friday! 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluedan 93 Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 Well we ain't nowhere near the group stages and should never believe we are. One word, Kaunus. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super_Ally 0 Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 Well we ain't nowhere near the group stages and should never believe we are. One word, Kaunus. We're a hell of a lot closer than Celtic. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tumshie RFC 0 Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 The one team we don't want in the 3rd qualifying round is Genk. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
54andcounting 0 Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 The one team we don't want in the 3rd qualifying round is Genk. I was looking at the Belgian league, what a complicated set-up they have. As in Scotland they have a top six split but, they call it a 'championship play-off' There are 16 teams who play each other home and away, after the split their points totals are HALVED, then 'rounded up', the top six again play each other TWICE. If there is a tie on points at the end, then the team who had their points 'rounded up' lose out. ....and thats exactly why GENK were champions. STANDARD finished level on points with a better goal diff, effectively losing by half a point. Told you it was complicated. Fcuked up if you ask me. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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