UCL Campaign 2019/2020

Celtic seeding score of 31.000 sees them definitely seeded for the first 3 rounds and most likely the playoff should they get there.

After Liverpool and Tottenham securing UCL group qualification due to their league position the 11th ranked team in UEFA Access list Red Bull Salzburg have today automatically qualified for the group stages.

If Chelsea win the UEL final they have already qualified for the UCL groups by finishing 4th in EPL therefore the third place team in France with automatically qualify

Time to get the money out Pedro and speculate to accumulate.

Usual suspects in rounds 2 and 3 await- Rosenborg and Astana but some serious danger lurks in the unseeded section all the way through!!!

 

Draw and match Dates

18 June: First & second qualifying round draw

9/10 July: First qualifying round, first leg
16/17 July: First qualifying round, second leg

22 July: Third qualifying round draw

23/24 July: Second qualifying round, first leg
30/31 July: Second qualifying round, second leg

5 August: Play-off round draw

6/7 August: Third qualifying round, first leg
13 August: Third qualifying round, second leg

20/21 August: Play-off round, first leg
27/28 August: Play-off round, second leg

29 August: Group stage draw

 

Celtic are top seeds for the UEFA Champions League 2019-2020 qualificatiers 1st rd.
Their possible opponents for 1st rd are as follows

Tre-Penne - San Marino
Ararat-Armenia from Armenia
Suduva - Lithuania
Valletta - Malta
Piast Gliwice - Poland
Sarajevo - Bosnia
CFR Cluj - Romania
Ferencvaros - Hungary
Nomme Kalju - Estonia
Sutjeska - Montenegro
Partizani - Albania
Valur - Iceland
Linfield - N Ire
HB Torshavn - Faroes
Riga - Latvia
Saburtalo - Georgia

Draw will be made on Tue 18th June (Same day as Sevco court case result)
1st rd ties will be played on either 9th or 10th July and either 16th or 17th July

Celtic will be seeded until at least the Play Offs

 

Would avoid Cluj and ferencvaros, anyone else rather avoid Linfield as dont want all the crap they will bring dont want to try an injure players

 

Give us Suduva. Good memories for us all

 

@Drakhan already thread open mate can mods merge?

 

Seeded all the way!

 

Not even heard of 50% of those teams...

Hopefully that’s good!

It just * me off every time that genuine multiple national champions and winners of the fkn trophy have to qualify at all.

It’s mere crumbs .. but I hope the ‘heritage clubs’ proposal sticks.

 

Gies Linfield, the bigotry at Parkhead against them was * brilliant.

 

As for heritage proposal here is a list of EVERY team still in existence that has won a European Football trophy.
A total of 66 teams.

Celtic
Real Madrid
AC Milan
Barcelona
Liverpool
Bayern Munich
Ajax
Inter Milan
Juventus
Manchester United
Porto
Chelsea
Feyenoord
Benfica
Nottingham Forest
Hamburg SV
PSV Eindhoven
Borussia Dortmund
Red Star Belgrade
Aston Villa
Marseille
Steaua Bucharest
Sevilla
Atletico Madrid
Tottenham Hotspur
Parma
Anderlecht
Borussia Moenchengladbach
IFK Goteborg
Valencia
Zenit Saint Petersburg
Eintracht Frankfurt
Ipswich Town
Bayer Leverkusen
Napoli
Schalke 04
Galatasaray
CSKA Moscow
Shakhtar Donetsk
Dynamo Kiev
Paris Saint-Germain
Slovan Bratislava
Manchester City
Arsenal
Real Zaragoza
Ferencvaros
Dinamo Zagreb
Fiorentina
West Ham United
Sampdoria
Sporting CP
Aberdeen
Magdeburg
Dinamo Tibilisi
Everton
Mechelen
Werder Bremen
Lazio
Valencia
Leeds United
Newcastle United
Roma
Braga
Lokomotiv Leipzig
Inter Bratislava
Polonia Bytom

to make up the rest of the 128 teams to make a new CL set up here are the teams NOT already on the list that have just won their leagues plus some NOT already on list that have won their major domestic cup trophy (will add them once got the reamaining 2 league winners still to be found.

Red Bull Salzburg
Young Boys of Berne
PAOK
FC Copenhagen
APOEL
CFR Cluj
AIK
BATE Borisov
Astana
Rosenborg
Maribor
Sheriff Tiraspol
FK Partizani
Valur
Shkendija
HJK Helsinki
Dundalk
Riga FC
Nomme Kalju
Suduva Marijampole
Saburtalo Tibilisi
Valletta
F91 Dudelange
Linfield
The New Saints
HB Torshavn
Lincoln Red Imps
Sarajevo
Qarabag
Piast Gliwice
Sutjeska Niksic
Feronikeli
FC Santa Coloma
Genk
Ludogorets Razgrad
Tre Penne
so still 25 teams to add discounting teams already on list.
The comp would be set up as follows:
No seedings
1s rd knock out rd totalling 128 teams playing 64 Home and away ties
2nd rd knock out rd totalling 64 teams playing 32 home and away ties
3rd rd totalling 8 groups of 4 playing home and away
4th rd Rd of 32 Knock out rd home and away
5th rd of 16 knock out rd home and away
QF rd of 8 knock out rd home and away
SF rd of 4 knock out rd home and away
Final 2. 1 match
Every team that has won a Europen trophy in their existing history will automatically qualify for CL.

 

It's a load of pish this tournie now.

 

Best thing for us would be to go out in the 1st tie. Maybe get pelters for that but it's how i feel. We'll have enough rebuilding to do without the extra burden of European football and let's face it this side isn't remotely good enough for the CL group stage, it's barely good enough for the EL ffs and that would be the biggest drain of all with Thursday night fixtures followed by Sunday domestic games. It's not like we'd spend the extra money either so why bother.

 

Great idea let’s lump pressure on the manager being first rounded then watch all our big players like Edouard etc try to move away! Eat into the cash and end up having to punt McGregor or Tierney in 6-12 months time to make up the shortfall!

 

Good news..

 

Not like we would spend the extra money? Where the * do you think money for extended contracts goes? Mcgregor, Tierney, Ntcham, Rogic and Forrest were all given pay rises not to * off.

 

Would like to avoid Cluj and Piast.

 

We didn't qualify for the CL group stage last season and there was no mass exodus of players. Dembele left but that was always the plan anyway, buy low sell high after a season or two. His sale can't be put down to non-qualification because he was offered to Brighton the season before(didn't go through because they wouldn't match our valuation) when we did qualify. The board have said several times that they do not budget for CL football, as is correct and sensible, so any CL money is a bonus not an expected revenue stream. I don't say an early European exit next season would be a blessing in disguise lightly but i do think it would optimise our chances of doing the 10 which, IMO at least, should be the priority.

 

I would personally take Torshavn, Linfield or Red Imps if they get through all semi close weakish teams. We should be able to beat all teams we come against. If only Dundalk weren't seeded.

 

R1: Linfield
R2: TNS
R3: Maribor
R4: Astana