[Archived] Uefa Cup 2nd Qualifying Rd

[brfcs5359]

UEFA Cup 2nd Qualifying Rd 1st leg 16 Aug, 2nd leg 30th Aug.

It will be seeded according to UEFA and Rovers are seeded. Last year it was an open draw but this year in the Intertoto and UEFA Cup 1st Qualifying Rd they introduced Northern, Central and Souther regions. Will this continue?

More importantly will seeded teams play at home second and away first? Last year in this round that wasn't the case.

Any clues?

[SuperStella]

It looks like in the next round, Rovers will get one from : -

Unseeded teams

Helsingborg IF * Swe

Hammarby IF @ Swe

BK Häcken * Swe

MyPa-47 * Fin

Metalurgs Liepaja * Lat

Skonto Riga * Lat

Suduva Marijampole * Lit

Ekranas Panevezys * Lit

HJK Helsinki * Fin

Haka Valkeakoski * Fin

Drogheda United * Irl

[brfcs5359]

So your saying there will be a Northern Section and we're likely to end up in Scandanavia? Will it be the seeded team away first leg?

[brfcs5359]

Just checked last years and it WAS regional games but seeded teams were drawn both home and away first leg;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_Cup_2006-07

[brfcs5359]

Someone's just updated wikipedia for the 2007-08, wonders of the t'internet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_Cup_2007-08

[brfcs5359]

Is this corect then?

1. Ekranas / Northern Lithuania

2. Libertas OR Drogheda United 1-1 / San Marino or Dublin

3. Rhyl OR Haka 3-1 / Nth Wales or Valkeakoski 150 km north from Helsinki

4. MyPa EB OR Streymur 1-0 / Southern Finland or Eiði, larger village in the Faroe Islands

5. Dungannon Swifts OR S?duva 1-0 / County Tyrone in Northern Ireland OR Just over the Polish border in Lithuania!

6. Lillestrøm OR Käerjeng 97 2-1 / Lillestrom should be seeded if they go through OR Luxembourg

7. Liep?jas Metalurgs OR Dinamo Brest 1-1 / Riga and a drive to the coast OR just over the Polish Border in Belarus

8. Helsingborg / Near Malmo and **** Trelleborgs ***

9. Keflavík OR Midtjylland 3-2 / Reykjanes peninsula in Iceland OR Denmark, fly to Copenhagen & drive

10. Häcken OR KR Reykjavík 1-1 / Gothenberg OR Iceland

11. St Patrick's Athletic OR Odense Boldklub 0-0 / Dublin OR Denmark, fly to Copenhagen & drive

12. HJK Helsinki OR Etzella Ettelbrück 2-0 / Helsinki OR Luxembourg

SEEDED (11 teams in Northern Section)

Blackburn Rovers

Standard Liège

Dunfermline Athletic

AaB Aalborg

Fredrikstad

Hammarby

Dinamo Minsk

AIK Stockholm

Brann

Vålerenga

PLUS ONE MORE

[Daremz]

Dunnagon Swifts will do. We(my team in Holland, friendly match), played them last season and we only lost 2-0. Can't see why Rovers would lose to a team in that class-class. And then, in the first UEFA-cup round (before the group phase will start), give us Mlada Boleslav.

Europe here we come? A trip to Holland would be nice. Although...I'm coming England to finally watch us anyways!

[Lathund]

I really really hope for Häcken, and for two reasons: They got relegated last year, and are now a mid-table team in the second division. Very easy game for us (And yes, I know about Trelleborg ), and secondly because I live in Gothenburg.

[Drunx2002]

Hacken or OB Odense would do me too. Visited Gothenburg last summer - £10 flight from Stansted. Great city, lovely people, cool stadium, easy to get around. Odense is not that attractive but one of my mates lives there

[Hughesy]

I think an Ireland trip would be best for most rovers fans - a weekend in Dublin sounds good!!

[Ricky]

Jamie don't forget about the teams playing in the first qualifying round. Think you might have looked at the same list as me which assumes that the team with the higher coefficient will be in the 2nd round. Obviously this wont be the case. We wont actually know the full list until thursday when the second legs of the first qualifying round have been played.

[SuperStella]

Yep, cheers mate.

Anywhere on the Emerald Isle please!

[skiporovers]

would have loved to play Glentoran but it looks like AIK will walk past them but Drogheda would do nicely!

[rover_groo]

Dunnagon Swifts will do. We(my team in Holland, friendly match), played them last season and we only lost 2-0. Can't see why Rovers would lose to a team in that class-class. And then, in the first UEFA-cup round (before the group phase will start), give us Mlada Boleslav.

Europe here we come? A trip to Holland would be nice. Although...I'm coming England to finally watch us anyways!

Aye, and it's only about 40 mile away from me.

Wouldn't be a big allocation of tickets for that match and would certainly be a sell-out as would Drogheda or St. Pats. The Glens look as though they've run their course. Big Gary Hamilton plays up front for them and so far has managed about 8 or so goals in pre-season for them.

[SuperStella]

I've been to St Pats before, in a pre season friendly. Not a very big ground....

[Lee]

but there was the worlds largest bar next door, that place was like a tardis

[Finch]

Is this corect then?

1. Ekranas / Northern Lithuania

2. Libertas OR Drogheda United 1-1 / San Marino or Dublin

3. Rhyl OR Haka 3-1 / Nth Wales or Valkeakoski 150 km north from Helsinki

4. MyPa EB OR Streymur 1-0 / Southern Finland or Eiði, larger village in the Faroe Islands

5. Dungannon Swifts OR S?duva 1-0 / County Tyrone in Northern Ireland OR Just over the Polish border in Lithuania!

6. Lillestrøm OR Käerjeng 97 2-1 / Lillestrom should be seeded if they go through OR Luxembourg

7. Liep?jas Metalurgs OR Dinamo Brest 1-1 / Riga and a drive to the coast OR just over the Polish Border in Belarus

8. Helsingborg / Near Malmo and **** Trelleborgs ***

9. Keflavík OR Midtjylland 3-2 / Reykjanes peninsula in Iceland OR Denmark, fly to Copenhagen & drive

10. Häcken OR KR Reykjavík 1-1 / Gothenberg OR Iceland

11. St Patrick's Athletic OR Odense Boldklub 0-0 / Dublin OR Denmark, fly to Copenhagen & drive

12. HJK Helsinki OR Etzella Ettelbrück 2-0 / Helsinki OR Luxembourg

SEEDED (11 teams in Northern Section)

Blackburn Rovers

Standard Liège

Dunfermline Athletic

AaB Aalborg

Fredrikstad

Hammarby

Dinamo Minsk

AIK Stockholm

Brann

Vålerenga

PLUS ONE MORE

Are you saying we could get Trelleborgs? Because if so, I would like to get a draw against them and put the ghost of that tie to rest. The fact that we are still talking about it shows how it still haunts us.

It worked for Stuart Pearce in the Euro 96 penalty shoot out, it can work for us.

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

Agree that the ghost of Trelleborg needs to be battered once and for all......the dingles still go on about that defeat to this day accompanied with a grin like a chesire cat!

[McClarky]

No we can't draw Trelleborg. Helsingborg are 6-0 up after their first leg against someone else. I'd rather avoid them, expecially if Henrick Larrson is playing. Rhyl or Dungannon would be good, both look favourites to go through.

[brfcs5359]

UEFA CUP RANKINGS 07/08

Ctry Rd Club co-efficient

ESP 1st Villarreal CF 78.374

GER 1st FC Bayern München 73.64

NED 1st AZ Alkmaar 63.995

GRE 1st Panathinaikos FC 55.415

SUI Q2 FC Basel 1893 * 54.869

FRA Q2 Lens 51.706

FRA 1st FC Girondins de Bordeaux *** 49.706

GER 1st Bayer 04 Leverkusen 45.64

BEL 1st Club Brugge KV * 45.638

ITA 1st US Città di Palermo 42.808

ENG 1st Tottenham Hotspur FC 40.618

ESP 1st Real Zaragoza 40.374

ROU 1st AFC Rapid Bucuresti * 40.255

RUS 1st FC Lokomotiv Moskva * 38.92

RUS Q2 FC Zenit St. Petersburg 38.92

FRA 1st FC Sochaux-Montbéliard * 36.706

ENG Q2 Blackburn Rovers 36.618

NED 1st SC Heerenveen 35.995

GER Q2 Hamburger SV 34.64

ENG 1st Bolton Wanderers FC 32.618

SRB Q1 FK Partizan 31.256

AUT Q2 FK Austria Wien* 30.104

UKR Q2 FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 29.726

ITA Q2 Sampdoria 28.808

POR 1st SC Braga 27.107

TUR Q2 Galatasaray SK 26.791

ESP 1st Getafe CF ***** 25.374

SPA Q2 Atlético Madrid 25.374

ENG 1st Everton FC 24.618

ITA 1st ACF Fiorentina 21.808

ITA 1st Empoli FC 21.808

FRA 1st Stade Rennais FC 20.706

BUL Q2 PFC CSKA Sofia 20.112

ISR Q2 Hapoel Tel-Aviv FC * 19.338

BUL Q1 PFC Litex Lovech ** 19.112

GRE 1st Panionios NFC 16.415

POR Q2 União Leiria 16.107

DEN Q1 Odense BK * 15.129

NED 1st FC Groningen 14.995

GER 1st 1. FC Nürnberg * 14.64

BEL Q2 R. Standard de Liège 14.638

ISR Q1 Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC 14.338

POR 1st CF Os Belenenses 14.107

POR 1st FC Paços de Ferreira 14.107

CZE 1st FK Mladá Boleslav 13.851

SVK Q1 FC Artmedia Petralka 13.575

GRE 1st Aris Thessaloniki FC 13.415

ROU Q2 CFR Economax Cluj-Napoca 13.255

ROM Q2 Oelul Galai 13.255

NED 1st FC Twente 12.995

POL Q1 Groclin Grozisk Wielkopolski * 11.609

NOR Q1 Vålerenga IF 11.509

SCO 1st Aberdeen FC 11.064

BUL Q2 PFC Lokomotiv Sofia 10.112

AUS Q2 Rapid Vienna 10.104

SCO Q2 Dunfermline Athletic FC ** 10.064

UKR 1st FC Metalist Kharkiv 9.726

DEN Q1 FC Midtjylland 9.129

SUI Q2 FC Sion 8.869

CZE Q2 FK Jablonec 97 ** 8.851

TUR Q2 Kayseri Erciyesspor ** 8.791

GRE 1st Larissa FC * 8.415

SUI Q1 BSC Young Boys 7.869

CRO Q1 HNK Hajduk Split 7.533

DEN Q2 Aalborg BK 7.129

NOR Q2 Fredrikstad FK * 6.509

NOR Q1 Lillestrøm SK **** 6.509

NOR Q1 SK Brann 6.509

ISR Q2 Maccabi Netanya FC 6.338

SRB Q1 FK Vojvodina 6.256

SRB Q1 FK Bezanija 6.256

AUT Q1 SV Ried 6.104

AUT Q1 SV Mattersburg 6.104

HUN Q1 MTK Budapest 5.675

POL Q1 GKS Bechatów 5.609

CYP Q1 Anorthosis Famagusta FC * 5.492

HUN Q1 Budapest Honvéd FC * 4.675

SWE Q1 AIK Solna 4.478

SVN Q1 NK Gorica 4.272

GEO Q1 FC Dinamo Tbilisi 3.98

SVK Q1 FC Vion Zlaté Moravce * 3.575

CRO Q1 NK Slaven Koprivnica ** 3.533

CYP Q1 AC Omonia 3.492

SWE Q1 BK Hacken **** 3.478

SWE Q1 Helsingborgs IF * 3.478

SWE Q2 Hammarby 3.478

FIN Q1 Myllykosken Pallo-47 **** 3.42

MDA Q1 CSF Zimbru Chisinau * 3.365

SVN Q1 FC Koper * 3.272

BIH Q1 NK iroki Brijeg * 3.19

BIH Q1 NK Zrinjski 3.19

MKD Q1 FK Vardar * 2.925

LVA Q1 SK Liepájas Metalurgs * 2.86

LVA Q1 Skonto FC 2.86

FIN Q1 HJK Helsinki * 2.42

FIN Q1 FC Haka 2.42

LTU Q1 FK Sduva * 2.42

LTU Q1 FK Ekranas 2.42

MDA Q1 FC Nistru Otaci 2.365

IRL Q1 Drogheda United FC 2.145

IRL Q1 Saint Patrick’s Athletic FC ** 2.145

GEO Q1 FC Ameri Tbilisi * 1.98

LIE Q1 FC Vaduz * 1.98

MKD Q1 FK Rabotnicki 1.925

ISL Q1 Keflavík * 1.65

ISL Q1 KR Reykjavík 1.65

BLR Q1 FC Dinamo Brest * 1.54

BLR Q1 FC Dinamo Minsk 1.54

ALB Q1 KS Besa * 1.265

ALB Q1 KS Teuta 1.265

EST Q1 JK Trans Narva 1.21

EST Q1 FC Flora 1.21

ARM Q1 FC Banants * 1.155

ARM Q1 FC MIKA 1.155

AZE Q1 PFC Neftchi 1.045

AZE Q1 MKT Araz ** 1.045

KAZ Q1 FC Alma-Ata * 0.77

KAZ Q1 FK Aktobe 0.77

KAZ Q2 Tobol Kostanay 0.77

NIR Q1 Glentoran FC 0.715

NIR Q1 Dungannon Swifts ** 0.715

WAL Q1 Carmarthen Town AFC * 0.66

WAL Q1 Rhyl FC 0.66

MLT Q1 Hibernians FC * 0.55

MLT Q1 Sliema Wanderers FC 0.55

LUX Q1 FC Etzella Ettelbrück 0.55

LUX Q1 UN Kaerjeng 97 ** 0.55

FRO Q1 B36 Tórshavn * 0.55

FRO Q1 EB/Streymur 0.55

MNE Q1 FK Rudar Pljevlja * 0

MNE Q1 FK Buducnost Podgorica 0

AND Q1 FC Santa Coloma * 0

SMR Q1 SP Libertas ** 0

[Ste B]

Thats only correct up until press.

Theres also at least 2 teams who will be seeded above us after the teams from the 3rd Qualifying round of the Champions league (thats assuming that all the seeded teams win)

See http://www.xs4all.nl/~kassiesa/bert/uefa/seedcl2007.html

For the uefa cup, the seeding is explained http://www.xs4all.nl/~kassiesa/bert/uefa/seeduc2007.html

Assuming we qualify for the group stages, its highly likely we will end up in pot C, with as already mentioned a reasonable chance of ending up in pot B assuming 3 higher ranked clubs get beat We would need about 6 champs league seeds to be knocked out, and all the 1st round games to go to plan for us to end up in pot D,

[Lathund]

Are you saying we could get Trelleborgs?

No he's saying exactly what he wrote, that the city of Helsingborg is near Malmö and Trelleborg.

Oh btw, the s is only there when you use the full name - Trelleborgs FF, Helsingborgs IF etc. Otherwise just Trelleborg or Helsingborg.

[seahawkdad]

So here's a very selfish question. I'm coming over in August form the states and will be in Blackburn on the 15th. My hopes were to see the home opener.

But it looks like that will be postponed due to the UEFA Cup qualifying rounds.

First part of the question: is this true?

Second part: if so, what are the dates of the next home qualifier?

thanks mates.

[philipl]

Does the 2nd qualofying round generate points for UEFA seeding purposes?

Anyone know?

[philipl]

Looking further ahead, here is an article asking whether Rovers can win the UEFA Cup.