[Milan Are Brilli...]

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HOLDERS: Porto (Portuguese)

Europa League/UEFA Cup Recent Winners (Since '92):

92/93 Juventus
93/94 Inter Milan
94/95 Parma
95/96 Bayern Munich
96/97 Schalke 04
97/98 Inter Milan
98/99 Parma
99/00 Galatasaray
00/01 Liverpool
01/02 Feyenoord
02/03 Porto
03/04 Valencia
04/05 CSKA Moscow
05/06 Sevilla
06/07 Sevilla
07/08 Zenit St. Petersburg
08/09 Shakhtar Donetsk
09/10 Atlético Madrid
10/11 Porto

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1st Round Qualifying (2 legs - home & away):

KR Reykjavík (8) v ÍF Fuglafjørður (2)
Daugava Daugavpils (1) v Tromsø (7)
Elfsborg (5) v Fola Esch (1)
The New Saints (2) v Cliftonville (1)
Honka (2) v Nõmme Kalju (0)
Fulham (3) v NSÍ Runavík (0)
ÍBV Vestmannaeyar (1) v St Patrick's Athletic (2)
Häcken (6) v Käerjéng 97 (2)
Aalesund (6) v Neath (1)
Renova (3) v Glentoran (3-pens)
Koper (2) v Shakhter Karagandy (3)
Banga Gargždai (0) v Qarabağ (7)
Paks (5) v UE Santa Coloma (0)
Rabotnički (7) v Narva Trans (1)
Rad (9) v Tre Penne (1)
Budućnost Podgorica (3) v Flamurtari Vlorë (4)
Ulisses (0) v Ferencváros (5)
Jagiellonia Białystok (1) v Irtysh Pavlodar (2)
Minsk (3) v Olimpik-Suvalan (2)
Dinamo Tbilisi (5) v Milsami Orhei (1)
Varaždin (6) v Lusitanos (1)
Banants (1) v Olimpi Rustavi (2)
Birkirkara (1) v Vllaznia Shkodër (2)
Široki Brijeg (0) v Olimpija Ljubljana (3)
Spartak Trnava (4) v Zeta (2)

2nd Round Qualifying (2 legs - home & away):

Olimpi Rustavi (3) v Irtysh Pavlodar (1)
Sūduva Marijampolė (1) v Elfsborg (4)
Metalurg Skopje (2) v Lokomotiv Sofia (3)
Sant Julià (0) v Bnei Yehuda (4)
Željezničar (1) v Sheriff Tiraspol (0)
KuPS (1) v Gaz Metan Mediaş (2)
Minsk (2) v Gaziantepspor (5)
Iskra-Stal (2) v Varaždin (4)
Tauras Tauragė (2) v ADO Den Haag (5)
Glentoran (0) v Vorskla Poltava (5)
Juvenes/Dogana (0) v Rabotnički (4)
Örebro (0) v Sarajevo (2)
Crusaders (1) v Fulham (7)
Llanelli (2) v Dinamo Tbilisi (6)
Floriana (0) v AEK Larnaca (9)
Shakhtsyor Salihorsk (2) v Ventspils (4)
Flamurtari Vlorë (1) v Jablonec (7)
KR Reykjavík (3) v Žilina (2)
Mika (0) v Vålerenga (2)
Olimpija Ljubljana (3) v Bohemians (1)
Domžale (2) v Split (5)
Differdange 03 (1) v Levadia Tallinn (0)
Tirana (1) v Spartak Trnava (3)
Ferencváros (3) v Aalesund (4)
Liepājas Metalurgs (1) v Red Bull Salzburg (4)
Rad (1) v Olympiakos Volou (2)
The New Saints (3) v Midtjylland (8)
Kecskemét (1) v Aktobe (1 - away goals)
Häcken (3) v Honka (0)
Gagra (2) v Anorthosis (3)
Vaduz (3 - away goals) v Vojvodina (3)
Rudar (0) v Austria Wien (5)
Śląsk Wrocław (3 - away goals) v Dundee United (3)
Shakhter Karagandy (2) v St Patrick's Athletic (3)
EB/Streymur (1) v Qarabağ (1 - away goals)
FH (1) v Nacional (3)
Paks (4) v Tromsø (1)
TPS (0) v Westerlo (1)
Khazar Lankaran (1) v Maccabi Tel Aviv (3)
Vllaznia Shkodër (1) v Thun (2)

3rd Round Qualifying (2 legs - home & away):
1st Leg - 28th July | 2nd Leg - 4th August

Atlético Madrid v Strømsgodset
Young Boys v Westerlo
Ventspils v Red Star Belgrade
Alania Vladikavkaz v Aktobe
AEK Larnaca v Mladá Boleslav
Željezničar v Maccabi Tel Aviv
AZ Alkmaar v Jablonec
Olimpija Ljubljana v Austria Wien
Bursaspor v Gomel
Aalesund v Elfsborg
Gaziantepspor v Legia Warsaw
Hapoel Tel Aviv v Vaduz
Metalurgist Rustavi v Rennes
Levski Sofia v Spartak Trnava
Midtjylland v Vitória Guimarães
Dinamo Bucureşti v Varaždin
Karpaty Lviv v St Patrick's Athletic
Palermo v Thun
KR Reykjavík v Dinamo Tbilisi
Omonia v ADO Den Haag
Red Bull Salzburg v Senica
Club Brugge v Qarabağ
Differdange 03 v Olympiakos Volou
Mainz 05 v Gaz Metan Mediaş
Bnei Yehuda v Helsingborg
Stoke City v Hajduk Split
Anorthosis v Rabotnički
Sparta Prague v Sarajevo
Vorskla Poltava v Sligo Rovers
Paks v Heart of Midlothian
Śląsk Wrocław v Lokomotiv Sofia
Nacional v Häcken
Ried v Brøndby
Vålerenga v PAOK
Split v Fulham

This post has been edited by Milan Are Brilliant: Jul 24 2011, 09:18 AM

[Jack Bauer]

F@cking typical. Italian teams don't deserve 4 CL spots.

[X-Offender]

F@cking typical. Italian teams don't deserve 4 CL spots.

Sad but true. Italian football has really gone downhill after Calciopoli. If it wasn't for the odd Milan in 2007 and Inter in 2010, we'd be looking at a mediocre record.

[Jack Sparrow]

Sad but true. Italian football has really gone downhill after Calciopoli. If it wasn't for the odd Milan in 2007 and Inter in 2010, we'd be looking at a mediocre record.

I actually blame the coaching appointment. You are taking a coach with a completely different coaching mentality and putting him in charge of a squad of relative veterans in the Italian style.

And this to boot has been a coach who has mostly handled youngsters. It will take time. Maybe at least December if they all row in the same direction.