The Rangers are returning to Prague, this time on Sparta! Slavia has an unpleasant group
Sparta secured participation in the European League thanks to advancing through Rapid Vienna in the 2nd preliminary round of the Champions League, and subsequently was not enough for Monaco. Slavia did not succeed in the fight for the most prestigious competition either.
After falling out in the 3rd preliminary round of EL with Celtic, Jablonec subsequently adjusted his appetite for a lower competition through Žilina.
Sparta, as the only Czech participant in the second best European competition, was drawn from the third basket. Olympique Lyon, who finished fourth in the last war, finished first in the Champions League last year and reached the semifinals, where he fell with Real Madrid. Lyon’s recent addition is Xherdan Shaqiri of Liverpool. From the second basket, the Letensky lot was awarded to the Scottish Rangers. The team from Glasgow met Slavia last year, which they managed to eliminate. Steven Gerrard is the coach of the country’s reigning champions. The group was joined by the Danish Bröndby. He is the champion of the last season of the Danish league, which presented itself in the European League for the first time in a modern competition.
In the last year of the European League, the Letna team defeated another Glasgow team Celtic twice 4: 1 in the group. The reigning Scottish Rangers again lost to Slavia in the tough March of the same competition in March.
The groups will start on Thursday, September 16, and the last sixth round will take place on December 9. Only the winners will always go directly to the elimination phase. Teams from second places will face opponents from third places in the Champions League groups in a kind of draw for the elimination part of EL. Teams in third place are now waiting for the conference league playoffs. Progress to the main phase earned 3.63 million euros (over 92 million crowns).
The sutures, in a way, drank a cup of bitterness to the bottom. They pursued the Champions League, then did not even reach the European League. And now in the Conference they got a pretty tricky company. During the draw, the master Slavia was in the first basket thanks to the club coefficient and thus avoided the strongest rivals on paper. But she is not excited. In the strong paper group E, he will play with Feyenoord Rotterdam, Union Berlin and Maccabi Haifa.
Feyenoord has 15 championship titles and after two rounds now leads the Dutch league with six points and a score of 6: 0. In the past, Union Berlin surprised the whole of Germany, taking seventh place in the Bundesliga table. In the spring, the guest Slavist Musar Musa also helped him into the cups. Maccabi Haifa is one of the most successful clubs in Israel.
Jablonec, the second Czech representative in the main phase of the new cup competition, will face Alkmaar, Cluj and Randers in Group D. The North Bohemians and Alkmaar will repeat a ten-year-old duel from the 3rd preliminary round of the European League, in which they failed after losing 0: 2 outside and a 1: 1 draw at home. Pilsen was not enough for the third team last season in the Dutch league last year in the 2nd preliminary round of the Champions League, which lost 1: 3 outside in overtime in a duel played in one match. Liberec also dropped out with Alkmaar in the past. Slavia competed with Kluží last year in the playoffs for the Champions League group and celebrated the progress after two 1-0 wins. The winner of the last four seasons of the Romanian league in 2009 was also beaten twice by Sparta, on the contrary, Liberec failed in individual 2012/13. The Czech teams have not yet competed with the sixth team of last year’s Danish Randers League.
The group phase of the Conference League, which will be attended by 32 teams, will start on Thursday, September 16. Only the winning groups will advance directly to the round of 16, the second in the order will compete with the whole in third places in the European League. The final is scheduled for May 25 in Tirana.
For participating in the European League group, the clubs will receive approximately 92 million crowns, in the Conference League they will collect 17 million less.
Lottery of the basic groups of the European Football League: |
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Group A: |
Lyon, Glasgow Rangers, Sparta Prague, Bröndby Copenhagen |
Group B: |
Monaco, PSV Eindhoven, San Sebastian, Sturm Graz |
Group C: |
Naples, Leicester, Spartak Moscow (King), Legia Warsaw (Pekhart) |
Group D: |
Olympiakos Piraeus (Vaclík), Frankfurt, Fenerbahce Istanbul (Novák), Antwerp |
Group E: |
Lazio Rome, Lokomotiv Moscow, Marseille, Galatasaray Istanbul |
Group F: |
Braga, Red Star Belgrade, Ludogorec Razgrad, Central Jutland |
Group G: |
Leverkusen (Schick), Celtic Glasgow, Betis Sevilla, Ferencváros Budapest. |
Group H: |
Dinamo Zagreb, Genk, West Ham (Coufal, Souček), Rapid Vienna |
Lottery of the basic groups of the Football Conference League: |
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Group A: |
LASK Linz, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Alaškert, HJK Helsinki |
Group B: |
Ghent, Partizan Belgrade, Flora Tallinn, Anorthosis Famagusta |
Group C: |
AS Roma, Luhansk, CSKA Sofia, Bodö / Glimt |
Group D: |
Alkmaar, Cluj, Jablonec, Randers |
Group E: |
Slavia Prague, Feyenoord Rotterdam, Union Berlin, Maccabi Haifa |
Group F: |
FC Copenhagen, PAOK Thessaloniki, Slovan Bratislava, Lincoln |
Group G: |
Tottenham, Rennes, Vitesse Arnhem, Mura |
Group H: |
Basel, Karabakh, Kajrat Almaty, Omonia Nicosia |