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Qualifying is already underway. Group stage draw is August 29th.

Play-off round starts on the 21st.

Maybe the best chance for teams like Everton and Spurs to qualify for the CL.

how does that work? would england send 5 teams or would that deem 4th place trophy worthless?

Draw for the group stage is just a couple days away.

El Turco wrote:how does that work? would england send 5 teams or would that deem 4th place trophy worthless?

Won't happen anyways.
Fiorentina has loaned out Marko Marin(EL winner 13/14 + 14/15) and therefore the winner of the upcoming EL trophy's settled already.

BTW: The draws will be on Friday and the teams already qualified are:

FC Seville
Dynamo Kiev
Napoli
Fiorentina
Salzburg
Lille
Kopenhagen
Standard Liege
Steaua Bucarest
Celtic
Besiktas
VFL Wolfsburg
FC Everton
Estoril
Guingamp
Slovan Bratislava
Aalborg

Gladbach's done it in great fashion, beating Sarajevo 7-0 at home.

The pots are also set now and the draw will be tomorrow at 1:00 p.m CET.

Here are the pots:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014%E2%80 ... opa_League

The groups have been drawn and there are some interesting matchups.

We've got a solid group were we've got a real good chance to be one of the top two teams.

Villareal, Gladbach, Zurich, Apollon Limassol

The toughest group is probably group H, which includes Lille, Wolfsburg, Everton and Krasnodar.

El Turco wrote:how does that work? would england send 5 teams or would that deem 4th place trophy worthless?

They would send 5.

Det the Threat wrote:

El Turco wrote:how does that work? would england send 5 teams or would that deem 4th place trophy worthless?

Won't happen anyways.

It would've already happened with Sevilla had the rule been in place last season.

Spurs get Besiktas and two teams I've never heard of, so we should be good. This tournament is a joke until the knockouts.

Ted Lasso wrote:
It would've already happened with Sevilla had the rule been in place last season.

You do know that my second sentence was part of the fun reason to say that, right?
It's pretty much a running gag in Germany that the team featuring Marko Marin will win the EL, given that he's won it two years in a row.

BUCKnation wrote:Spurs get Besiktas and two teams I've never heard of, so we should be good. This tournament is a joke unto the knockouts.

You've never heard of Partizan Belgrade?
Tripolis is also the team that eliminated Mainz from the EL in the third round of qualification.

BTW: That Everton group's no joke(even though everyone's probably goin to underestimate Krasnodar) and there are some other interesting groups as well.
In group D you've got Salzburg, Celtic, Zagreb and Giurgiu, who eliminated Lyon in the playoffs and group L has Kharkiv, Trabzon and Legia, who should've moved on in the CL against Celtic.

Where is Manchester United?

Det the Threat wrote:

Ted Lasso wrote:
It would've already happened with Sevilla had the rule been in place last season.

You do know that my second sentence was part of the fun reason to say that, right?
It's pretty much a running gag in Germany that the team featuring Marko Marin will win the EL, given that he's won it two years in a row.

Hahah sorry, i never got to Marko Marin. I saw Fiorentina and assumed divergence.

poeman wrote:Where is Manchester United?

In Milan's group.

Ted Lasso wrote:

poeman wrote:Where is Manchester United?

In Milan's group.

Together with Fenerbahce i suppose?

schnakenpopanz wrote:

Ted Lasso wrote:

poeman wrote:Where is Manchester United?

In Milan's group.

Together with Fenerbahce i suppose?

Real group of death

BUCKnation wrote:Spurs get Besiktas and two teams I've never heard of, so we should be good. This tournament is a joke until the knockouts.

Yeah, not a bad group I think, besides the massive amount of travelling we're gonna have to do. Everton definitely got it worse than us in terms of team difficulty. Don't underestimate Partizan though, they have a ferocious fanbase, our away fixture there will be difficult.

Just for the sake of it, Granit Xhaka's goal against Sarajevo, cause it's worth watching.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBtkeVD2CYE[/youtube]

BTW: Here are the highlights of the game and all seven goals.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDfVZvyRHLw

Group stage starts today.