Europa League 2025-26

[eamonn]

¡EuroCelta de nuevo por favor!

[olaftab]

Freiburg CC >> Hamburg or Bremen

Basel, Stuttgart or Zurich are closest

haha, yes. I shouldn't have reached for Freiburg, a suburb in Hamburg.

[rjp]

Viktoria Plzeň CC >> Prague

Yes.  It'll take about an hour to an hour and a half.

[rougegorge]

Just guessing at travel to some of the less known places. Correct me if I am wrong:
Viktoria Plzeň CC >> Prague
Freiburg CC >> Hamburg or Bremen
Celta Vigo >> Porto? Nearest Spanish airport?
Go Ahead Eagles >> Amsterdam
Brann >> Bergen or ??

Airport in Vigo served by Ryanair but not every day. Santiago de Compostela has daily Ryanair flights - about an hour's drive to Vigo.

A few other possibles:
Braga are a cert - >>Porto
Genk are a cert - >> Eindhoven, Brussels
Midtjylland a cert - >> Aarhus
Ludogorets probable - >> Varna
Utrecht probable - >> Amsterdam
Malmo very likely - >> Copenhagen
FCSB likely - >> Bucharest
If Samsunspor get through - that is more of a challenge via Istanbul

[Somniloquism]

So we could actually get Forest then?

Not in the group stage. Unless they’ve changed that rule.

I don't think they have entirely. I think they have mentioned countries with five or six teams in the same competition could be matched in the League stages but not for us in Europa. In the champs league 3 English teams are in pot 1 (along with two from Spain, two German, France and Italy), so if they do have to have an all English league tie it might be between them.

[rougegorge]

So this is how the pots should look for the draw.

Pot 1

Roma
Porto
Rangers
Feyenoord
Lille
Dinamo Zagreb
Real Betis
Salzburg
Aston Villa

Pot 2

Fenerbahce
Braga
Red Star Belgrade
Lyon
PAOK Salonika
Viktoria Plzen
Ferencvaros
Celtic
Maccabi Tel Aviv

Pot 3

Young Boys
Basel
Midtjylland
Freiburg
Ludogorets
Nottingham Forest
Sturm Graz
FCSB
Nice

Pot 4

Bologna
Celta Vigo
Stuttgart
Panathinaikos
Malmo
Go Ahead Eagles
Utrecht
Genk
Brann Bergen

[cdbearsfan]

We will be at home in November to a team I want to watch when I am on holiday and at home to the genocidal twats when I'm not away but will be banned from attending.

[kippaxvilla2]

So we could actually get Forest then?

It certainly possible that we could end up playing them at some point in the competition between September and May.

Thank you Sir.

[kippaxvilla2]

It’s great for Freiburg.  Keeping the dream alive.

[Reuben]

It’s great for Freiburg.  Keeping the dream alive.

I recall that song being used as outro music in a Villa VHS - possibly The Villenium!  Am sure it was narrated by some 'comic' presenter from the era who I can picture but whose name I don't recall. 

[kippaxvilla2]

Dave Ismay?

[Reuben]

Dave Ismay?

Think it was Bob Mills.  Not 100% sure of this or what video.... I'll have to Google, or leave as a quiz question for the anoraks on here - assuming I never dreamt it!

[kippaxvilla2]

Bob Mills the Palace fan?

[Sexual Ealing]

Orient.

[cdbearsfan]

WANT: Porto, Feyenoord, Red Star.

DO NOT WANT: Maccabi or any team we have played before.

Away from home in November, ta.