Celtic ,Champs League.

The schedule could leave Celtic with as little as five days to recover before the first leg of their Champions League qualifier.
The runners-up in the SPL enter the tournament at the third qualifying round and will face a third-placed team from Russia or a runner-up for Ukraine, Holland, Romania, Portugal, Turkey, Greece, Belgium or Switzerland.

Taken from:
Celtic facing busy build-up to Europe ties - Evening Times | Sport | Editor's Picks (ignore)

So it's looking like:
Turkey - Bursaspor - 5 points clear of Galatasaray with 3 to play
Switzerland - Basle - comfortably in second and 3 points behind Young Boys of Berne
Greece - Olympiakos
Belgium - Club Brugge
Portugal - Braga - 5 points clear of Porto with 2 to play
Holland - Ajax - 1 point behind FC Twente with 1 to play
Russia - Zenit st Petersburg
Ukraine - Dynamo Kiev
Romania - too early to tell - could be any of FIFA.com - Romania: - League table

 

as long as its no arsenal again lol! wouldnt want a ukrainian team or russion if im honest.

 

Yeah i'm the same too. Wouldn't want Russian or Ukranian. Knowing us though, we'll get the hardest tie possible!

 

Braga, Ajax, Zenit, Olympiakos and Dynamo. All difficult ties, as well as the romanian teams.

Would love to get into the CL. The real test is the 'arsenal' round.

 

see if we get though to play off we could get spurs and see the return of keano

but all they teams above will give us a game,we are in no position to think we can beat anyone at the moment

 

Which team will be the runner up in Belgium is far form certain. My home team Gent is currently second, but it could also be Club Brugge or Sint-Truiden. Celtic should be able to beat Gent or Sint-Truiden, but Club Brugge could be a bit more difficult. I have seen Anderlecht (league winners) play a couple of times this season and they would hammer Celtic for sure. A game between Celtic and Gent would be very interesting for me (remember that they already met in 1984).

 

Think we wont be seeded in both games.

Really want Manchester City finishing 4th in England cause we cant draw them as they would be unseeded also. Still could get 2 very hard matches.

 

if we go out in the 3rd qualifying round? do we go into the europa agian?

 

i wouldnt mind getting * out of europe all together and just concentrating on the league

 

The losing team from each of the UEFA Champions League third qualifying round ties will go into the UEFA Europa League play-offs.

• The losing team from each of the UEFA Champions League play-off ties will go into the UEFA Europa League group stage.

Format on UEFA.COM

 

According to the ET we only play 1 qualifying round against one of those teams. Read above. So apparently, no chance of facing a team from England.

Not sure why it's different but they didn't say we COULD face teams from. They've specifically stated we go into 3rd qualifying round to play one of those teams!

 

if we get put out in the 3rd round we have to qualify for europa, if we get knocked out 4th we go in to europa group stages

 

If we go out in the 3rd qualifier, we will be seeded for the Europa League play-offs

 

Ah my bad, it wasn't clear from the ET. Surely we can't be expected to play these teams in the initial round?

Last season Moscow was the hardest game we could have got compared to the others. This year seems like we will be playing much harder teams. I guess that means we are unseeded!

 

i know the teams will be a wee bit diffrent but last season europa play offs had a few big names in there

UEFA.com - UEFA Europa League - Matches 2010

 

we play 2 the 3rd qualifying round against teams shown above and 4th qualifying round against 4th placed teams from spain, england etc.

 

Seems like a difficult road whatever the path to the CL proper.

 

Have we ever played a Greek team?

 

cheers lads!

 

We'll need ridiculous luck with the draw and on the pitch to get into the CL, we got neither this season.

Just cant see us doing it.