UCL 22/23

[RangersMedia 35,961]

Russian teams booted out. 

We will enter in QR3 - meaning if we lose we are guaranteed Europa League group stage football. 

The calibre of team we can get in the draw (currently): Club Brugge/PAOK/PSV/Sturm Graz - leagues are still ongoing and there's still a race for 2nd in some of these countries

We'll be seeded, but being seeded doesn't really impact on the difficulty of the draw sadly. 

https://editorial.uefa.com/resources/0275-150c59d5441f-67604db55a6f-1000/adapted_access_list_for_the_2022-23_uefa_champions_league_uefa_europa_league_and_uefa_europa_conference_league.pdf

Key dates:

July 18 2022 - Draw for 3rd qualifying round
August 1 2022 - Draw for play-off round 

3rd round dates:
1st leg - 2/3 August 2022
2nd leg - 9 August 2022

Playoff round dates:
1st leg - 18 August 2022
2nd leg - 23/24 August 2022

Potential opponents update:

3rd round

Union SG

Play-off round

Dynamo Kyiv or Sturm Graz

Monaco or PSV 

[RFC55 108,841]

Good chance to make it tbh 

[6superbarry6 14,159]

Irrelevant when we win Europa League 

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2 minutes ago, RFC55 said:

Good chance to make it tbh 

We are going to need to do our business really early in the window mate and hope the draw is kind - would much rather a Sturm Graz than a Club Brugge. Entering at round 3 helps, it means the league will start the weekend before the 1st leg so we'll have had a full pre-season in and a competitive domestic game

[6superbarry6 14,159]

3 minutes ago, RFC55 said:

Good chance to make it tbh 

Was on a plate last year fucking Malmö and Ludogorets to get past 😫 only winning Europa can make up for this fuck up of a season. 

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1 minute ago, 6superbarry6 said:

Irrelevant when we win Europa League 

Aye obviously this all goes out the window if we win the Europa League, we'd enter the UCL in Pot 1

[chris182 6,289]

Good news

[Vanoli 4,625]

Scum have made qualifiers look harder than they are over the years. As did we with the Malmo farce tbf.

With the levels we've hit in Europe this season there's no reason to assume we've no chance. The looming rebuild might be a problem though. 

[STEPPS BOY 73,890]

6 minutes ago, psb07158 said:

We are going to need to do our business really early in the window mate and hope the draw is kind - would much rather a Sturm Graz than a Club Brugge. Entering at round 3 helps, it means the league will start the weekend before the 1st leg so we'll have had a full pre-season in and a competitive domestic game

 

Announce James McAtee on last day of summer transfer window.

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1 minute ago, STEPPS BOY said:

 

Announce James McAtee on last day of summer transfer window.

Shaun Rooney and Scott Allan on pre-contracts 

[Jimfanciesthedude 24,540]

Even if we are thrown into a tough tie, i think gio is way more equipped as a manager to get us there, defo think he'd have got us in this year, at HT at home he'd have changed it to suit us with them being a man down 

[Jimfanciesthedude 24,540]

Just now, psb07158 said:

Shaun Rooney and Scott Allan on pre-contracts 

Need another centre half as souttar will be crocked by then 

[G.E.C. 18,760]

Would we not have to enter the Europa playoff if we went out round three again?

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2 minutes ago, G.E.C. said:

Would we not have to enter the Europa playoff if we went out round three again?

No, automatically into the groups and we'd be Pot 1 seeds (based on the seeding of teams in last year's tournament)

[RossS1873 1,656]

We are guaranteed ECL groups, not EL

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Just now, RossS1873 said:

We are guaranteed ECL groups, not EL

Nah, EL - see below:

 

[RossS1873 1,656]

2 minutes ago, psb07158 said:

Nah, EL - see below:

 

It just says we can't not reach groups. 

if we lose the CL 3rd round we go into the EL play off, the same as this year, and if we lose that, we go into the ECL groups. Unless it's changed

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1 minute ago, RossS1873 said:

It just says we can't not reach groups. 

if we lose the CL 3rd round we go into the EL play off, the same as this year, and if we lose that, we go into the ECL groups

No - this year we were in the Champions route, losers of that in QR3 fall into the Europa play-off, but we'd be in the League path this year and the losers of this fall into the groups of the Europa

[SkylineBlue 23,327]

Skov Olsen to score for Brugge and knock us out imo.

[RossS1873 1,656]

Just now, psb07158 said:

No - this year we were in the Champions route, losers of that in QR3 fall into the Europa play-off, but we'd be in the League path this year and the losers of this fall into the groups of the Europa

Ahh I see. I thought the paths were basically to determine who you play

[Rangers_no1 32,463]

On one hand its good we dont need to worry about Q2, on the other hand we will likely be behind fitness wise to our Q3 opponent's.

Also lose extra country coefficient points and revenue from ticket sales.

[GetToTheChoppa 6,873]

Coefficient points system is a lot of shite. That lot have gained everything based on our performances in Europe.

That's a disgrace. Needs changed.

[Iggy666 2,881]

29 minutes ago, GetToTheChoppa said:

Coefficient points system is a lot of shite. That lot have gained everything based on our performances in Europe.

That's a disgrace. Needs changed.

Wouldn't have mattered if we hadn't shit the bed in the league. Them benefitting from our euro success is entirely on us, not the unfairness of the system.

[Bad Robot 21,148]

Irrelevant as we we’re beating the Germans in the final of the EL.

[Broxi 11,484]

33 minutes ago, GetToTheChoppa said:

Coefficient points system is a lot of shite. That lot have gained everything based on our performances in Europe.

That's a disgrace. Needs changed.

They've won more coefficient points towards the automatic qualification. 

Although that will be in a 5 year window which will start from when we were still shit. In the last 3/4 years then yes we would have contributed more it's irrelevant anyway. It's out fault we fucked the league up. We both started on 0 points and had the same prize at the end of it.