0% Villa - European Teams you no longer hear of?

[Small Rodent]

Newport County - Cup Winners Cup Quarter Finalists 1981

Llansantfraid (now TNS) - Welsh Cup Winners 1996 and Cup Winners Cup qualifiers

[Clampy]

Who was there dodgy chairman. Bernard Tapin?

Did'nt he write for Elton John?

[The Man With A Stick]

I remember Villa getting beaten by a Deportivo team containing an unknown (to me) Rivaldo and being absolutely disgusted.

I know Bebeto played but I didn't know Rivaldo did ?

That's right, Rivaldo wasn't there when we played them but they had a few other Brazillians such as that bloke who played til he was about 40, Mauro Silva was it?

[Chico Hamilton III]

Vitoria Guimaraes.

Remember seeing Peter Withe score a hattrick against them in a 5-0 win (1983?)

Never heard of them before or since

[TopDeck113]

Newport County - Cup Winners Cup Quarter Finalists 1981

Llansantfraid (now TNS) - Welsh Cup Winners 1996 and Cup Winners Cup qualifiers

I only recently learnt about another Welsh side Borough United

[ADVILLAFAN]

Harfjonnefernjadorjamorjnerfherder

Hafnarfjordur are in the Champion's League qualifiers I think, won their league.

As did MSK Zilina.

Newport County don't enter the Welsh Cup anymore, but have just been promoted to the Conference (Blue Square Premier).

[VillaZogmariner]

Real Oviedo
Boavista

[Astral Weeks]

Standard Liege

[PaulTheVillan]

Celta Vigo

[UK Redsox]

Montpellier
Torino
Verona
Pisa

"Yer just a small part of Cheltenham, a small part of Cheltenhammmmmmmmmm"

[peter w]

Carl Zeiss Jena
Oester Vaxjo
Nantes
Bastia
Sochaux
Lokomotiv Plovdiv
Matra Racing

Wasn't that a shit mid engined sports car?

As I vaguely recall they were another paris team. Were big with pots of cash for a year or two. I think they had another name as well before - I guess - Matra Racing sponsored them. Weren't they Red Star or somthing? I'll have a look now.

[peter w]

Carl Zeiss Jena
Oester Vaxjo
Nantes
Bastia
Sochaux
Lokomotiv Plovdiv
Matra Racing

Wasn't that a shit mid engined sports car?

As I vaguely recall they were another paris team. Were big with pots of cash for a year or two. I think they had another name as well before - I guess - Matra Racing sponsored them. Weren't they Red Star or somthing? I'll have a look now.

Sous une tutelle plus ou moins marquée de la part du Racing club de France depuis la création de la section football en 1896, le Racing a surtout connu deux périodes de professionnalisme.

La première, la plus longue, de 1932 à 1966, sous le nom de Racing Club de Paris, voit ce dernier compter parmi les clubs les plus redoutables du championnat de France, grâce à ses joueurs vedettes et à son jeu spectaculaire : cette période se solde par un doublé coupe-championnat en 1936, et par quatre autres coupes de France. 17 septembre 1950, 39 448 spectateurs assistent à la réception du Stade rennais, ce qui constitue le record d'affluence du club.

Le Racing renaît sous le nom de Racing Paris 1 puis de Matra Racing, sous l'impulsion de Jean-Luc Lagardère, dans les années 1980. Mais il ne parvient pas à s'installer en première division, après une promotion en 1984, et lâchée par son investisseur l'équipe est reléguée tout en guise d'adieux la finale de coupe de France en 1990. Touché par des déboires financiers chroniques, le club est depuis resté dans l'amateurisme.


You get the drift.

[peter w]

Colne Dynamoes

[Goldstone Villa]

I hadn't heard any mention of Lech Poznan for ages but I've just Googled them and it seems that they have regularly qualified for the UEFA Cup/ Europa League in recent years.

[TheSandman]

Fortuna Sittard

As I was writing this, I was thinking have I made this up ?

Freddie used to play for them if I recall. So did a few other big stars who played for PSV when they were young.

A few people have mentioned Aberdeen. They were in the Europa last year (Knocked out by some jokers early on) and the year before they beat FC Copenhagen 4-0 to get in the knockout stages where they drew with Bayern Munich before being absolutely thrashed in the second leg.