Unsurprisingly, the OGC Nice is the first Ligue 1 club to start its pre-season preparation. The end of the holidays is for this weekend! Franck Haise finds his players next Monday and the Aiglons will carefully follow the second qualifying round of the Champions League. The Niçoise training finished fourth in the ranking behind PSG, OM and AS Monaco and will have to start in the 3rd round of LDC qualifications. Before any dams to access the league phase.
It is very simple: due to its UEFA coefficient, the gym will appear in the second hat of the draw for the 3rd round and in the second hat of the drawing of the dams in the event of qualification. Nice knows its five opponents in this C1 qualifications league: Benfica (which currently plays the club World Cup in the United States), Club Bruges, Feyenoord, Rangers and Panathinaikos.
Bruges, Feyenoord and the Rangers will enter the third qualifying round like Nice, but the Rangers and the Pana compete in the second round, on July 22 or 23 on the outward journey and on the return. Glasgow's formation was the head of the 2nd round draw and came across the possible opponent best classified at the UEFA coefficient, Panathinaikos therefore, while the Servette and Brann Bergen were the other two possibilities.
OGC Nice in front of the favorites
To be clearer, the French Riviera could have hoped for a Rangers-Servette or a Rangers-Brann then an elimination of the Scottish cador in order to potentially fall on the Servette or Brann in the 3rd round. This will not be the case. Gaëtan Laborde and his teammates will face the best four teams (at the UEFA coefficient) in the third qualification round.
The OGC Nice will know its opponent on the third round on July 21, during a draw made before the 2nd Tour de Qualif. It could therefore be Benfica, Club Bruges, Feyenoord and the winner of Rangers-Panathinaikos. For meetings programmed on August 5 and 6 then on August 12 and 13, before the start of Ligue 1 on the weekend of 16. Fenerbahçe, the winner of Brann-Salzburg and the winner of Viktoria Plzen-Servette complete the Hats 2 but Nice will not confront any of these teams, neither in the 2nd round, nor in play-offs. So.
