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My favourite footballing time of the year is approaching again, and it's
got little to do with any oversized tournament that forces me to set the
alarm to 5am.
Qualification scheme:
https://kassiesa.net/uefa/files/2024-27-uefa-club-competitions-scheme.png
Draw for Champions League 1st Qualifying Round (July 7/8 and July 14/15)
* = seeded team
Winners go to CLQ2, Losers go to ConfLQ2 (Champions Path)
The two losers of the Lincoln Red Imps/Inter Escaldes and Tre
Fiori/Larne ties will receive a bye to ConfLQ3 instead of ConfLQ2
It's the second year in a row that those boons are received by the ties involving the Red Imps and the Sammarinese champions.
Sabah FK (AZE) v The New Saints FC (WAL)*
Floriana FC (MLT) v Shamrock Rovers FC (IRL)*
FC Flora (EST)* v FC Iberia 1999 (GEO)
Lincoln Red Imps FC (GIB)* v Inter Club d'Escaldes (AND)
SP Tre Fiori (SMR) v Larne FC (NIR)*
FC Ararat-Armenia (ARM) v Riga FC (LAT)*
FK Vardar (MKD) v KuPS (FIN)*
FK Kauno ++algiris (LTU) v KF Drita (KOS)*
FK ML Vitebsk (BLR) v CS Universitatea Craiova (ROM)*
FC Petrocub H|<nce+Oti (MDA)* v KF Egnatia (ALB)
FK Borac Banja Luka (BIH)* v PFC Levski Sofia (BUL)
KF V|!kingur (ISL)* v ETO FC (HUN)
FC Kairat (KAZ)* v FK Sutjeska (MNE)
K|i (FAR)* v FC Atert Bissen (LUX)
European debuts for ML ('Maxline') Vitebsk, and for the shock winners
(on goal difference) of the 2025-26 Luxembourg league, Atert from the 3,000-souls town of Bissen.
Draw for Champions League 2nd Qualifying Round (July 21/22 and 28/29)
* = seeded team
Winners go to CLQ3, Losers go to ELQ3
The winners of these ties are already guaranteed at least Conference
League group stage (for teams in the Champions Path), or Europa League
group stage (for teams in the League Path)
Champions Path
Mj|nllby AIF (SWE) v Lincoln Red Imps FC (GIB)/Inter Club d'Escaldes (AND)*
SP Tre Fiori (SMR)/Larne FC (NIR) v FK Crvena zvezda (SRB)*
Sabah FK (AZE)/The New Saints FC (WAL) v FK Vardar (MKD)/KuPS (FIN)*
K|i (FAR)/FC Atert Bissen (LUX) v FK Kauno ++algiris (LTU)/KF Drita (KOS)*
AGF (DEN) v KKS Lech Pozna+a (POL)*
FC Ararat-Armenia (ARM)/Riga FC (LAT) v Floriana FC (MLT)/Shamrock
Rovers FC (IRL)*
FK Borac Banja Luka (BIH)/PFC Levski Sofia (BUL)* v FK ML Vitebsk
(BLR)/CS Universitatea Craiova (ROM)
AC Omonoia (CYP)* v FC Kairat (KAZ)/FK Sutjeska (MNE)
FC Thun (SUI) v GNK Dinamo Zagreb (CRO)*
KF V|!kingur (ISL)/ETO FC (HUN) v Hapoel Be'er-Sheva FC (ISR)*
FC Flora (EST)/FC Iberia 1999 (GEO) v +aK Slovan Bratislava (SLK)*
FC Petrocub H|<nce+Oti (MDA)/KF Egnatia (ALB) v NK Celje*
League Path
Fenerbah|oe SK (TUR)* v G||rnik Zabrze (POL)
SK Sturm Graz (AUT)* v Heart of Midlothian FC (SCO)
As Jesper has already alluded to in an earlier post, some weird seedings
due to higher-ranked nations like Sweden (European debut altogether for Mj|nllby), Switzerland, or Denmark sending domestic champions with little
to none European pedigree.
Ciao,
Werner
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