IL is dream first round draw really.
Crusaders are in there this year seeded. Coleraine are unseeded, and the playoff winner (Glenavon or Ballymena) will likely be unseeded too.
Cheap to get to and very winnable, it's what you want.
But it doesn't feel like a European trip. Linfield was the least fun trip we had last summer, though it did enable us to play in Sweden which was brilliant. I suppose if you can guarantee the win (which you probably can 90% of the time) then its fine because you get the second round.
Speaking of money
http://www.the42.ie/dundalk-europa-l...81067-May2017/
Nice incentive for Cork next season now !
#DundalkFC - First Irish club to win an away game in Europe (1963), first Irish club to win points in a group stage in Europe (2016).
Dundalk were better off in the years when they were poor, it was a healthy kind of poverty where every man had the moral courage to take the responsibility to improve the situation.
Chelsea win the U-18 Premier League title, so that's now 2 of 8 for UCD.
Anderlecht will make it 3 if they win away to second-place Club Brugge this weekend, though that's obviously far from a certainty.
But tis panning out well for us so far.
FAO Derry/Cork/Rovers fans, I done an update on next months draw. It would also apply to Cork and Derry.
Quick update on our draw.
Most leagues have finished at this stage but there are still some teams to be confirmed due to cup finals. Aberdeen will be parachuted to Round 2 as United or Ajax will leave a vacant group stage spot causing every teams to move up a place.
Although Uefa dont officially 'Region' teams they have done so to a certain extent still. Here's the latest prediction of teams we can face.
Lyngby BK Den
FC Midtjylland Den
FC Levadia Tallinn Est
Nõmme Kalju Est
HJK Fin
KR Ice
Stjarnan Ice
FK Haugesund Nor
Odds BK Nor
FK Ventspils Lat
Crusaders N.Ire
Rangers Sco
St. Johnstone Sco
IFK Norrköping Swe
AIK Stockholm Swe
There are two Luxembourg teams who are currently unseeded but could become seeded if results go in their favour in other leagues.
Could be seeded:
FC Differdange 03
CS Fola Esch
If we also were to draw any of the below teams in the first round and beat them we will be seeded in the second round!*
Seeded in region:
FC Midtjylland Den
HJK Fin
FK Ventspils Lat
Odds BK Nor
St. Johnstone Sco
AIK Stockholm Swe
Updated Excel of the latest seeding status for the europa league, it's updated daily and accurate: https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?...AEY2-peVXk6VaI
*You take your opponents seeding if you beat them.
Kazakh and Belorussian teams generally get included in the "North". I don't see any Polish teams in your list either.
Belarus are now generally 'northern'.
It's worth noting that regionalisation isn't guaranteed either. There's no actual rules (at least public ones) regarding it. In the past five years, four have been regionalised, 2015-16 wasn't. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015%E...alifying_round
Apparently UEFA make a decision on regionalisation the night before the draw.
just to point out that Dundalk's seeding is currently missing out on being seeded by 0.011. Had one more seeded team missed out... goes to show...had they managed one more draw at any point....
Probably another team would effect that?
If UCD had held on against Slovan for five more minutes, would Dundalk be seeded?
Can't see anyway rovers would be seeded they are miles off
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