2011/2012 Europa League Explained

would love to get stoke! would be an amazing away game!

 

I think any Swiss side apart from Basel would be a walk in the park for us.

 

i hope we'll draw some country in central europe... so i can go to game :icon_mrgreen:

p.s. third round is in mid july?

 

with you on that mate, i'd love to get drawn brum/stoke and * hammer them. Would be so sweet - another english team put to the sword by the mighty Celtic

 

id love a trip to the brittiania

 

I've been saying it all year if we buy Garra Dembele * score goals for fun in europe!. Really looking forward to this think we could to the last 16 if we get settled early

 

If we did get to the playoff by winning the cup we wouldn't be able to play spurs / liverpool as we will both be seeded, not sure about whether birmingham or stoke will be seeded since they haven't played in europe in donkeys years.

 

Thanks for this thread. Most devastating aspect of losing the league is no CL nights/money/ability to attract a higher caliber of player, but at least there's plenty of good teams in Europa.

 

u sure m8?

We've been pish since 2007 in Europe.

 

this. is there any mathematical or statistical way of telling who's seeded, or do they just...pick.?

 

It has nothing to do with the teams performances in europe it is all down to the league that they play in. England currently has the highest coefficient and so teams that qualify from the EPL will have the best seedings

 

Anyone know what French teams would be in the draw?

 

Its looking like 2 of either Lyon, PSG or Rennes will be in the playoff round

 

Thanks mate, do you know if Lyon or Rennes is in the Northwest of France?. I'm going on holiday to there in the summer and it would be good to go if we got them. I think Rennes is as I seem to remember passing it when I went a couple of years ago.

 

Course its got to do with the teams performance in Europe or there would be no point in getting co-efficient points when getting results in Europe.


The draws for the qualifying rounds, the play-off round and the group stage are all seeded based on the 2010 UEFA club coefficients. The coefficients are calculated on the basis of a combination of 20% of the value of the respective national association’s coefficient for the period from 2006–07 to 2010–11 inclusive and the clubs’ individual performances in the UEFA club competitions during the same period. Clubs are ordered by their coefficients and then divided into pots as required.

So although being from a bigger country helps - its only a small percent and its mainly on how well the individual teams done in Europe previously.

The likes of Stoke who havent been in Europe in centuries will not be seeded.

 

Rennes is, Lyon isnt, ive been to Lyon, nice place, but no way in * would a wanna draw them

 

Well the thing is our team will be better prepared for it this time round and im looking forward to seeing us in europe again,seems like we not been in it for years....

 

won't be able to tell until qualifications are played before the round we're in as those winning teams will make up our qualification round. we will probably be seeded. teams like Birmingham and Stoke won't be as they don't have a European record in the last 5 years.

 

hope all the scottish teams that are in the EL draw at least get to the group stages, would do wonders for the coefficient. We've got two CL spots next season again but * knows how many we've got for the season after that.

 

no not at all we need quailty in so we can beat rangers and play in europe next season

GK westwood

CB's dunne and yobo

RM seb larsson

Target man carew

and 5 players like i have said would do that us not having that bit extra quailty this season cost us and we can all see it