[Albion] ***Europa League Group Stage Draw - Official Thread***

[Frutos]

Kick off at 12pm, and these are the pots:

- We can't draw any other English team

- Win our group and we're straight into the Last 16

- Finish 2nd and we have a play-off against one of the third-placed finishers from the CL groups for a place in the Last 16

- Finish 3rd and we drop to the play-off round of the Conference League to play one of their group runners-up for a place in the Last 16 of that.

 

[Frutos]

You can watch live here:

 

[HCxUK]

Ajax, Betis/Sporting, Servette

 

[um bongo molongo]

In terms of getting through (as opposed to just nice places to go) we could get very different levels of ‘hard mode’ from that lot. Equally I doubt many sides would want us from pot 3…

 

[Hamilton]

Ajax, Marseille & AEK please

(Sporting would be nice too.)

Not bothered about getting through. More interested in finishing 6th again and or winning a cup. Dreamland!

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

If we finish second and lose the playoffs game do we drop down to the conference?

 

[Frutos]

If we finish second and lose the playoffs game do we drop down to the conference?

Nope.

 

[Frutos]

If you'd said a few years ago that we'd likely be announcing a loan deal for Barcelona's #10 on the same day as our first appearance in a European draw, you'd have been told your meds needed adjusting.

 

[Mental Lental]

Equally I doubt many sides would want us from pot 3…

Lol you think? Imagine being that Azerbaijan team at the arse end of pot 2 and they get US out of all those other teams in pot 3. They're all gonna be like "fuuuuuuuuck!"

Roy Kent style.

 

[A1X]

This draw could be Europa season defining

 

[Jim in the West]

Whatever happens, this thing has already improved my European geography!

 

[Justice]

If you'd said a few years ago that we'd likely be announcing a loan deal for Barcelona's #10 on the same day as our first appearance in a European draw, you'd have been told your meds needed adjusting.

Anything and everything is possible with TB at the helm. And to think he still likes to sit on a train with a six pack going to an away game, so cool.

 

[hart's shirt]

Said on the Qualifying thread that I've got a sneaky feeling we'll end up in Cyprus with Aris. A NSC all-inclusive and round the pool.

Atalanta and one of the French teams in Pot 2 for a couple of shorter trips.

 

[Red Squirrel]

My prediction is Rangers Olympiacos Servette

My dog ate my car keys so I can't go into work today, shame

 

[Gwylan]

Whatever happens, this thing has already improved my European geography!

I was saying to Mrs Gwylan, geography teachers in Brighton should be jumping at this chance to get their kids interested in the subject

 

[maidstoneseagull]

My prediction is Roma Olympiacos Servette

 

[Yoda]

If we finish second and lose the playoffs game do we drop down to the conference?

Group winners advance directly to round of 16
Group runners-up advance to knockout round play-offs (vs 3r placed Champions League Teams)
Third-placed teams enter Europa Conference League knockout round play-offs

 

[Barry Izbak]

Rangers
Qarabag
Toulouse

please

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Rangers, Marseille and Topola: Ultrastatic.

 

[Deleted member 37369]

Group winners advance directly to round of 16
Group runners-up advance to knockout round play-offs (vs 3r placed Champions League Teams)
Third-placed teams enter Europa Conference League knockout round play-offs

Don't think that answers @deletebeepbeepbeep question ...

As a group runner up - if you loose the play off game, are you out of Europe altogether or do you then drop to Conference League?