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Champions League Qualifying 2018/19; 1st Round - Alashkert (ARM). Away first. 2nd Round - Valur Reykjavic (ISL) or Rosenborg (NOR). Home first.
Topic Started: 27 Feb 2018, 10:42 AM (112,723 Views)
TheScotsman
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tenerifetim
27 Feb 2018, 10:42 AM
The new rules for next season's qualifying & Champions League are published - heavy going to get through ! :nono:
https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/news/newsid=2499801.html#/

Club Coefficients are here

https://www.uefa.com/memberassociations/uefarankings/club/index.html

Someone's missing ? :rubeyes:
Oh! Wait, they're down in 265 th - They're coming ! :comp:

https://www.uefa.com/memberassociations/uefarankings/club/index.html
Progress are 422nd out of 442 clubs!
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Something positive, among all this depressed stuff, it's easier now for league champions to reach Europa league group stages. You get automatically in, if you loose in the playoff stage, where there's a possibility Celtic won't be seeded, in all other rounds Celtic must lose against unseeded opponent, well, that's not new, what's new is that now league champions will play ONLY among themselves for 8 Europa league spots. So, Celtic must lose against unseeded opponent, and then enters the path where plays against other losers, where Celtic will be always seeded, to enter Europa league. It's easier that way, than how it was earlier, where you could get some top-to-mid-table club from a better league in the last round before reaching Europa league group stage.

So, it may be a bit harder to reach CL group stage, but it's easier to reach EL group stage, as far as Celtic is concerned.
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Scotty_Bhoy_7
27 Feb 2018, 12:34 PM
The worst thing for me is the Italians getting 4 places.

Outwith Juve, what the eff have Italian teams done in recent years to mitigate 4 automatic places??
Indeed!

With the rules on coefficient points for qualifying too, it makes it much harder to knock any country out of the top 4.

A ridiculous scenario.

It's about time clubs from smaller countries told Uefa to shove it and break away.
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Kingslim
27 Feb 2018, 12:16 PM
2 x ST’s, 4 qualifiers, then CL tickets in the space of 3 months.

Wife will be delighted.

Pray for Slim :pray:
1st thing that entered my head.

Celtic better get their pricing right for this or my two sons can beat it. :ph43r:
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Considering the standard of opposition in this extra qualifying round, I'll look on it as a positive of an extra competitive game before we play a better standard of team in the later qualifiers.
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if the failure of other scottish clubs in europe impacts on us significantly we should be helping them and they should all be working together

- loans of players (can you time limit these to qualifiers) and BR and NL can do coaching classes for likes of murty and badger to help them do something in europe
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I see Sevco’s 10 year coefficient has been boosted by adding the dead club’s coefficient from before 2012
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FunkyMonk
27 Feb 2018, 12:28 PM
Kingslim
27 Feb 2018, 12:16 PM
2 x ST’s, 4 qualifiers, then CL tickets in the space of 3 months.

Wife will be delighted.

Pray for Slim :pray:
Better hide the price increase from her then :brickwall:
In for a penny in for a pound. :ph43r:

SC final if we get there too :lol:
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Dubz
27 Feb 2018, 12:49 PM
Kingslim
27 Feb 2018, 12:16 PM
2 x ST’s, 4 qualifiers, then CL tickets in the space of 3 months.

Wife will be delighted.

Pray for Slim :pray:
1st thing that entered my head.

Celtic better get their pricing right for this or my two sons can beat it. :ph43r:
:lol:
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ronny_is_not_da_man
27 Feb 2018, 12:17 PM
Leave the effers to their own devices and get the rest together and form a breakway.
Won't happen.

You see what the CL money does to our accounts. We'd be reckless to abandon £15+ million for something that may not even get off the ground.
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spuddy
27 Feb 2018, 01:01 PM
I see Sevco’s 10 year coefficient has been boosted by adding the dead club’s coefficient from before 2012
They have taken the national associations total rather than there own. (It's whatever one is higher) . They only have 0.25 for last five seasons. So basically they are riding on rest of Scotlands or mainly our past performances.
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Just a guess, but I think Celtic may include the first 2 home qualifiers in the SB
Will justify a price increase a bit
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There's less room for error, but we are still likely to be seeded to get Champions League till Xmas and Europa League after that.

The sheer length of our seasons now is a massive issue though.
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Dannybhoy95
27 Feb 2018, 01:06 PM
ronny_is_not_da_man
27 Feb 2018, 12:17 PM
Leave the effers to their own devices and get the rest together and form a breakway.
Won't happen.

You see what the CL money does to our accounts. We'd be reckless to abandon £15+ million for something that may not even get off the ground.
Probably wont but if you market it right, and the teams breaking away are good enough, there will be undoubted interest.

Something needs to change beacuse you can only comfort yourself so much with the "aye but we are just there for the money" defence. Whilst it's the case it's getting soul destroying watching our regular pumpings :angry:
Edited by ronny_is_not_da_man, 27 Feb 2018, 01:34 PM.
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tenerifetim
27 Feb 2018, 10:42 AM
The new rules for next season's qualifying & Champions League are published - heavy going to get through ! :nono:
https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/news/newsid=2499801.html#/

Club Coefficients are here

https://www.uefa.com/memberassociations/uefarankings/club/index.html

Someone's missing ? :rubeyes:
Oh! Wait, they're down in 265 th - They're coming ! :comp:

https://www.uefa.com/memberassociations/uefarankings/club/index.html
Zenit 17th. Knew they were nae bad.

Highest ranked English club: 8th. But they get their four places by right. ;)
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Right, can we get the 'eff EUfa' banners out for tomorrow night?
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I've not had a chance to read the article, are we still in the Champions route and face the same standard of team we have for the past few seasons? It is a farce we need to face yet another round but if it is the case we are playing an extra tie against the likes of The Imps and facing the same level of team we have in the latter rounds then it isn't the worst changes we could have been up against.

We really need to be looking at restructuring domestic football to play less domestic games though. Surely a few league games could be scrapped from the 38 we currently play? The League cup should either be scrapped entirely or expand that lower league cup they have to include the SPFL teams not involved in Europe to generate a bit more income for the loss of a few league games.
Edited by Greenock_Celt, 27 Feb 2018, 01:47 PM.
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27 Feb 2018, 01:14 PM
There's less room for error, but we are still likely to be seeded to get Champions League till Xmas and Europa League after that.

The sheer length of our seasons now is a massive issue though.
Which is why we should play a reserve squad in the betfred cup
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pablo5
27 Feb 2018, 01:14 PM
There's less room for error, but we are still likely to be seeded to get Champions League till Xmas and Europa League after that.

The sheer length of our seasons now is a massive issue though.
Not absolutely sure how the standard of club we're facing will change, but assuming it isn't a huge shift and we don't get seriously unlucky in the draw then it should be relative diddy teams for our first two qualifiers....therefore we should be able to use a good few kids and fringe players in these rounds allowing the key players to have a slightly longer summer break before getting the full squad up to speed for rounds 3 & 4 of the qualifiers and the start of the domestic season.

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For me its not just the teams we have to play in the first couple of rounds but how early we are playing. Its crazy how early these European campaigns start.
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