Champions League Thread 2016/2017

[TBM]

Draw for the qualifiers tomorrow

Who is in the play-off draw?
Champions route:
Seeded
Viktoria Plzeň (CZE)
FC Salzburg (AUT)
Celtic (SCO)
APOEL (CYP)
Legia Warszawa (POL)

Unseeded
Dinamo Zagreb (CRO)
Ludogorets Razgrad (BUL)
FC København (DEN)
Hapoel Beer-Sheva (ISR)
Dundalk (IRL)

League route:
Seeded
Manchester City* (ENG)
Porto* (POR)
Villarreal* (ESP)
Ajax (NED)
Borussia Mönchengladbach* (GER)

Unseeded
Roma* (ITA)
Steaua București (ROU)
Monaco (FRA)
Young Boys (SUI)
Rostov (RUS) 1

*Automatic entrants

[stealthpapes]

Dundalk's a bit of a story, right, as they're now guaranteed a group stage in something. When was the last time Ireland had a team at that stage?

[Stranded]

Dundalk's a bit of a story, right, as they're now guaranteed a group stage in something. When was the last time Ireland had a team at that stage?

Weren't Shamrock Rovers in a Europa League group with Spurs about 4 or 5 seasons ago?

[From Despair To Where?]

Yeah, we signed Karl Sheppard from them in the window after they get knocked out.

[TBM]

Manchester City have been drawn against Romanian side Steaua Bucharest in the Champions League play-off round.

Scottish champions Celtic face Israel side Hapoel Beer Sheva while Irish champions Dundalk have been drawn against Poland's Legia Warsaw.

[stealthpapes]

Dundalk's a bit of a story, right, as they're now guaranteed a group stage in something. When was the last time Ireland had a team at that stage?

Weren't Shamrock Rovers in a Europa League group with Spurs about 4 or 5 seasons ago?

Oh.

OK then!

[Brum Royal]

The draw for the group stages is this afternoon

If you needed reminding, these are the pots for tonight's draw at 17:00 BST:

Pot 1: Real Madrid, Barcelona, Leicester City, Bayern Mnich, Juventus, Benfica, Paris St-Germain, CSKA Moscow

Pot 2: Atletico Madrid, Borussia Dortmund, Arsenal, Manchester City, Sevilla, Porto, Napoli, Bayer Leverkusen

Pot 3: Basel, Tottenham, Dynamo Kiev, Lyon, PSV Eindhoven, Sporting Lisbon, Club Brugge, Monchengladbach

Pot 4: Celtic, Monaco, Besiktas, Legia Warsaw, Dinamo Zagreb, Ludogorets Razgrad, Kobenhavn, Rostov

Pot one are teams that won their domestic title. And the other pots are arranged by Uefa coefficient ranking.

No two clubs from the same country can be in the same group - and neither can clubs from Russia and Ukraine.

[Sanguine]

Atletico, Lyon and Besiktas about as bad as it could get for Leicester.
In fact I'd say Lyon are the only real danger in the third and fourth pots - so only Spurs could get dragged into a 'group of death' with, say, Barcelona and Dortmund.

[TBM]

You just know that its set up for Man City to get either Barca or Bayern - with Arsenal getting the other that City don't.

[Hendo]

Atletico, Lyon and Besiktas about as bad as it could get for Leicester.
In fact I'd say Lyon are the only real danger in the third and fourth pots - so only Spurs could get dragged into a 'group of death' with, say, Barcelona and Dortmund.

Basel have got a terrific record against English clubs recently so I wouldn't rule them out but on the whole, I agree.

Anyone from that Pot 2 would be a dangerous opponent.

[Silver Fox]

Everyone in pots 2,3 and 4 would be thrilled to get Leicester I reckon, except maybe Celtic, but they're scared of everyone

[double d]

Man City has always had the shitty draws in the CL

[Winston Smith]

[sputnik]

End of the road for SpuROFLs!

[Winston Smith]

Juventus fan stabbed in Seville.

Apparently 40-50 Sevilla fans with their faces covered up attacked a bar after the match in the south of the city, smashed the place up and got a bit stabby.

[No Fixed Abode]

End of the road for SpuROFLs!

I bet they really fancied their chances when they saw the group they were in too.

[genome]

Seen a lot of Chelsea, Liverpool and West Ham fans giving them stick on Twitter. Bit rich

[No Fixed Abode]

Seen a lot of Chelsea, Liverpool and West Ham fans giving them stick on Twitter. Bit rich

Agree with you on Liverpool and West Ham. Our pedigree in the CL is much, much better than those two.

[genome]

Liverpool's european pedigree is also better, but to mock a team for exiting the Champions League early when you didn't even qualify is a bit belmontish

[No Fixed Abode]

Liverpool's european pedigree is also better, but to mock a team for exiting the Champions League early when you didn't even qualify is a bit belmontish

I said CL pedigree.

Reading aren't in the Premier League so is it belmontish, as Readings fans to give a team like Chelsea, United or Arsenal stick when they lose? Ya know - like at HT at the Mad Stad when a score comes through and there's a big cheer one of the big clubs are getting beaten.......