Is LoI qualification for Champions' League/Europa League realistic?

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Originally Posted by kdjaC

Champions league is a possibility with the new draw but again look at the 5 Bohs could have got had they gone to the final round, some scary teams in it.

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Chamions have an easier route to the Euopea league. If Rovers win their first round game, they'll then play at least 2 more rounds. ONly have to win one of them to qualify

We just have to look back on last season. TNS lost to Anderlecht after beating Boh's. For having gotten to that next round, TNS dropped into the Europa League play-offs where they faced CSKA Sofia, the Bulgarian side Cillian Sheridan signed a three-year deal with.
If our league champion can get by the first round like TNS did having beaten Boh's, it is where the possibilities can open up. In some countries clubs being involved in the Europa League group stages has gotten great coverage in their media.

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Originally Posted by abcd

The Europa League can be achieved but it requires a couple of teams to really have their act together and not be relying on a European run to keep them going financially.
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Champions League is pipe dream stuff in the medium term at least.

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Agreed. LoI clubs are a good bit away from qualifying for the EL group stages as well. If clubs can get their act together as you say, they can at least look to make the play-off stages on a more consistent basis.

abcd, Sheriff are an exception, I wouldn't put them in the same category of any of the lower ranked nations clubs - especially ours. In 2005 I went with a team to Transdnestria (the breakaway Soviet republic in Moldovia) to look at the structures they had. The club is magnificent. Their facilities are top class, amazing stadium, training facilities, back up etc. Now the region itself is built on purely criminal enterprise - mainly smuggling - and is without any type of law and the head man owns the club and everything in the country. But the club are very good at doing what they do - and they've made progress. Then again, criminal enterprise and LOI clubs doesn't see too incongruous :-)

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Originally Posted by Spudulika

Then again, criminal enterprise and LOI clubs doesn't see too incongruous :-)

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not too new to the league either... (ask Shels fans) ;)

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Originally Posted by SkStu

not too new to the league either... (ask Shels fans) ;)

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ahem, people, glasshouses, Roddy Collins :-) Seriously though, what I saw in Tiraspol was depressing, but reading an Indo "exclusive" can have no equal! LOI at least lets us think we're above it all!