In the aftermath of the drawing of the Champions League (Thursday 6 p.m.), it was the Europa League's turn to unveil its calendar during a print scheduled for Friday at 12 noon. LOSC, OL and OGC Nice will know their eight European opponents. The DOGUES and the Gones finished 4th and 5th in Ligue 1 (and the Lyonnais took advantage of the French Cup won by PSG against the Stade de Reims), while the Aiglons were eliminated from the 3rd qualifying round of the LDC.
Exactly as in C1, the 36 participants are distributed in four hats and will inherit two opponents per hat (one at home, one outside), which will determine a general classification with the first eight directly qualified in the knockout stages. If the Europa League dams are concluding this Thursday, we now know the composition of the head of the heads of the series with the eliminated of the Champions dams.
The Rangers, humiliated by the Bruges club (1-3, 0-6), land in the first hat of the Europa League alongside AS Roma, FC Porto, Feyenoord, Lille, Dinamo Zagreb, Real Betis, Salzburg and Aston Villa! Lille and Lyonnais and Gones can expect heavy. Finishing in the first eight to avoid dams (for the following 16 teams) could be a complicated mission.
The Fener to avoid for LOSC, OL and Nice
It is in hat 2 that the three Ligue 1 clubs will have to avoid bullets (there are no more balls to draw in a bowl since a computer makes the prints of the three European competitions). José Mourinho's Fenerbahçe was eliminated from the C1 by Benfica (1-0) and we will find the Stambouliote formation in hat 2 of the Europa League, with Milan Skriniar, Fred, Sofyan Amrabat, Youssef En-Nesyri and Jhon Duran in its ranks!
And it's not over. In the last two hats of the Europa League are representatives of Premier League, Liga, Serie A and Bundesliga, namely Nottingham Forest (7th in the English championship and which takes the place of Crystal Palace), the Celta de Vigo, Bologna as well as Stuttgart and Friborg. Celtic, Ferencvaros, Belgrade Red Star, FC Basel and Sturm Graz are the other paid teams of the Champions League dams.
