UEFA Europa Conference League - Alkmaar, Legia and Zrinjski

[AV82EC]

Looks like we’re in Pot 2 in the draw.

[Brazilian Villain]

Pots officially announced at 8am tomorrow, draw at 1.30pm.

[AV82EC]

Someone’s put something on X with all the pots already but I can’t get a link.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Pot 1
Germany Eintracht Frankfurt CC: 77.000
Croatia Dinamo Zagreb CC: 55.000
Belgium Club Brugge CC: 54.000
Netherlands AZ CC: 47.500
Belgium Gent CC: 37.500
Turkey Fenerbahçe CC: 30.000
France Lille CC: 30.000
Hungary Ferencváros CC: 27.000
Pot 2
Greece PAOK CC: 25.000
Slovakia Slovan Bratislava CC: 24.500
Israel Maccabi Tel Aviv CC: 24.000
Czech Republic Viktoria Plzeň CC: 22.000
England Aston Villa CC: 21.914
Bulgaria Ludogorets Razgrad CC: 21.000
Italy Fiorentina CC: 20.000
Pot 2 or 3
Norway Bodř/Glimt CC: 20.000
Pot 3
Belgium Genk CC: 18.000
Ukraine Zorya Luhansk CC: 16.000
Kazakhstan Astana CC: 14.000
Turkey Beşiktaş CC: 14.000
Finland HJK CC: 11.000
Slovakia Spartak Trnava CC: 10.500
Slovenia Olimpija Ljubljana CC: 9.000
Pot 4
Bosnia and Herzegovina Zrinjski Mostar CC: 8.500
Faroe Islands KÍ CC: 8.000
Sweden [[Hacken] CC: 8.000
Serbia Čukarički CC: 6.475
Switzerland Lugano CC: 6.335
Iceland Breiđablik CC: 6.000
Denmark Nordsjćlland CC: 5.565
Kosovo Ballkani CC: 3.000

The draw for the group stage will be held on 1 September 2023. The 32 teams will be drawn into eight groups of four. For the draw, the teams will be seeded into four pots, each of eight teams, based on their Club coefficients (CC).[20] Teams from the same association and, for political reasons, teams from Serbia and Kosovo could not be drawn into the same group.

Breiđablik, Čukarički, KÍ, Olimpija Ljubljana and Zrinjski Mostar will make their debut appearances in a UEFA competition group stage. Breiđablik, KÍ and Zrinjski Mostar will be the first teams from Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Bosnia and Herzegovina, respectively, to play in a UEFA competition group stage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023%E2%80%9324_UEFA_Europa_Conference_League

[Somniloquism]

Shouldn't be scared of any of those teams in pot 1.

Anyway,

Lille, Genk and KI are the ones I would want.

[PeterWithesShin]

Zagreb, Astana,  Ballkani.

[AV82EC]

Ferencvaros, Lubljiana and Lugano for me.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

There's a nice little map showing the location of all the teams. Apart from Astana which being on a longtitude further east than Kabul is not shown. They are the Europa Conference equivalent of Norwich.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023%E2%80%9324_UEFA_Europa_Conference_League

[Small Rodent]

My dad worked in Almaty in Kazakhstan. It was right on the eastern border.

10 hour flight…5 hour flight over Europe, 5 hour flight over Kazakh!!! It’s huge.

If we get Astana and you can afford it, it will be a once in a lifetime experience.

In Almaty it was no different than being in many Eastern Europe cities. Bars trying to be “Western” and the old Architecture was very 30s/40s/50s apartments.

[rougegorge]

I think the kindest draw in terms of opponents could be:
Ferencvaros
HJK Helsinki
Breidablik

The toughest could be:
Eintracht Frankfurt
Besiktas
Nordsjaelland

[tomd2103]

Aren't Aberdeen in it?

[AV84]

Aren't Aberdeen in it?

They're in pot4, I think. Hacken are the Swedish team they lost to tonight, so they shouldn't be there.

[ADVILLAFAN]

Don't think we can draw Fiorentina, as we are both in pot 2.

[Meanwood Villa]

Would like to visit Zagreb but their fans are bell ends

[PaulTheVillan]

Would like to visit Zagreb but their fans are bell ends

Amazing place. I went in 2010.