Champions League

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full details on www.uefa.com

The full list of qualifiers is nearly complete (some leagues are in their last series of games) so you'll soon know who you'll be up against. As it lies now, here are some of the teams that are waiting in the first qualifying rounds

HJK Helsinki (FIN), Dinamo Tiblisi (GEO), KR Reykjavik (ISL), Barry Town (WAL), FC Skonto (LAT), Glentoran (NIR), HB Tashawn (FAR)... i think that's the Faroe Islands and the lowest ranked side FC Irtysh Pavludas (KAZ).

Percentages favour a long plane journey for the away leg, most sides are in eastern europe, for the fans that will travel i hope you get iceland, great spot and shouldn't be too strong a side. If you do get through, some of the teams in the second qualifying round are

Celtic, Anderlecht, Rosenborg and CSKA Moscow. I wonder who you'd like to get and hate to get from these four.

[James]

draws for that is on friday btw
details of draw to be posted here *ahem* live

*said in bill herlihy voice*

on foot.ie

ok we'll hold it there

[pete]

Oky dokey, looks like Bohs be seeded in the 1st qualifying draw?

Can anyone remember if Bohs use their club ranking points or the irish ranking for seeding purposes? Me thinks is the club ranking points?

Seeds?
CYP Q1 Omonia Nicosia FC 5.082
FIN Q1 HJK Helsinki 10.604
LAT Q1 FC Skonto 6.332
GEO Q1 FC Dinamo Tbilisi 2.833
MOL Q1 FC Sheriff Tiraspol 2.916
ISL Q1 KR Reykjavík 1.749
BLS Q1 FC BATE Borisov 1.708
LIT Q1 FBK Kaunas 1.999
IRL Q1 Bohemian FC 3.665
MKD Q1 FK Vardar 1.748
MLT Q1 Sliema Wanderers FC 1.499
WAL Q1 Barry Town AFC 1.082

Non-seeds?
EST Q1 FC Flora 0.832
BHZ Q1 FK Leotar 2.166
ARM Q1 FC Pyunik 1.082
NIR Q1 Glentoran FC 0.749
ALB Q1 SK Tirana 0.915
AZE Q1 -
FAR Q1 HB Tórshavn 0.583
LIE Q1
LUX Q1 CS Grevenmacher 0.666
AND Q1 -
SMR Q1 -
KAZ Q1 FC Irtysh Pavlodar 0.250

be handy if an eL team got some luck for a change drawing the Andorrans or someone...

[James]

bohs use their own ranking cause i think its around double the EL ranking

[d13bohs]

We can also get the Welsh or Maltese champions, Barry Town or Sliema Wanderers, you have San Marino, Liechtenstein and Andorra in your list but a.f.a.i.k. they don't have a championship (I know there is only 1 team in Liechtenstein and they play in the Swiss or Austrian league)

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Clubs use their national ratings only if they've not gotten a result in a non-qualifying round in the UEFA Cup or Champions' League in the previous five years, in which case I think they get their club co-efficient plus half their national co-efficient or something like that.

San Marino and Andorra both have championships - don't know if their teams play in the Champions' League though - they might have one qualifier into the UEFA.

FC Vaduz play in Switzerland.

[d13bohs]

FC Vaduz, couldn't think of their name! Neither San Marino's nor Andorra's champions get into the champions league so the list of teams we could face in the first round is as follows:

BLS Q1 FC BATE Borisov 1.708
MLT Q1 Sliema Wanderers FC 1.499
WAL Q1 Barry Town AFC 1.082
EST Q1 FC Flora 0.832
ARM Q1 FC Pyunik 1.082
NIR Q1 Glentoran FC 0.749
ALB Q1 SK Tirana 0.915
FAR Q1 HB Tórshavn 0.583
LUX Q1 CS Grevenmacher 0.666
KAZ Q1 FC Irtysh Pavlodar 0.250

My personal preference would be CS Grevenmacher, should be able to beat them even on current form and Luxembourg is not difficult to get to. Estonia is good once you get there but getting there is difficult.