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

I would say Roma.. but then they will probably not take it seriously.

I'll go with Kiev and Sheva - I'll follow him closely, like always, till he retires.

I'd love that to happen, isn't next season his last?

Thun eliminated Palermo on away goals yesterday. Another Italian team humiliated in Europa League

Watching the draw was depressing. Team after team I'd literally never heard of.

Welcome to the reality of flopping in the CL qualifying rounds.

Failing to make the group stage can financially hurt a team BIG time.

Let's hope Nacional get the job done then!

Rangers (one of the CL dropouts) got NK Maribor. A nice 'glamorous' trip to Slovenia.

Ahhh, the bowels of European football.

Ah, I see. Oh well, let's hope they have to go to Eastern Europe at least to F them up even more.

Last time SVN played ENG played i think you only won 2-1 because of a sickening dive by Rooney and the other goal was a deflected shot...

I hate being "that guy" but i do feel that my country is taking a needless beating here...

What? I'm not sure why you're taking this negatively. If anything it's because I want them to travel a long distance and lose. I fail to see how this is mocking Eastern European teams.

Anyways, didn't we play at WC2010?

Ah, I see. Oh well, let's hope they have to go to Eastern Europe at least to F (*)them up even more.

I realize i said i wrote last time and not one of the last times... sorry about the misspeak
Ok because i read

I assumed by the construction of sentance you were hoping they (rangers) would **** up Maribor *more*(?!). Meaning there were already ****** up and since no argument was presented, i assumed you saying more meant you already assumed they were ****** up.

I guess context is lost in writing, I apologize if i misread it...

Sweet...xenophobia...

Justify a country from the so-called "bowels" of Europe is ranked 39 spots higher on Fifa's rankings then your scotland with +/- 1/3 of it's population.

The EL is constantly discredited as a boring competition but smaller-country teams beat out european giants every year and it's really exciting for those teams' fan-base. I follow Maribor a bit and they are a really young team with alot of potential. I know from your end of the draw, it seems like a useless match, but for people like my cousin(avid Maribor fan) it's as big a match as he may see all year.

I wasn't talking about Rangers. I am hoping Birmingham have to go to Eastern Europe (added cost, worse lag and colder temperatures) which would F them up.

Don't technically Rangers have to go to the Baltic nations too? That's where Slovenia is, right?

Hearts would struggle to stay in the Football League down here, that was just embarassing. There's certainly some League 2 sides as good as them.

Hearts would struggle to stay in the Football League down here, that was just embarassing. There's certainly some League 2 sides as good as them.

I'm sure of it, and Celtic drew at home to FC Sion, Rangers lost to NK Maribor ('in the bowels of Europe') not the best advert for the Scottish League.

Meh, I'm not kidding anyone, the level of Scottish football is dire. Rangers and Celtic have potential to be much better - but they need out of the SPL.

I'm sure of it, and Celtic drew at home to FC Sion, Rangers lost to NK Maribor ('in the bowels of Europe') not the best advert for the Scottish League.

Yeah if you joined another league, the obvious being the EPL then you would have more allure. But I'm like a lot of people on this matter, if you want to join you take the same route as everyone else, in starting from the bottom and working your way to the Prem. Which feasibly wouldn't work for clubs your size, so I just don't see what can be done about it.

I think if Rangers and Celtic made the switch the EPL they would do quite well. I don't think much of either squad right now, but you have to take into account they'd be making £30m+ a year more than they do now with the EPL tv money.

Newcastle got relegated on that money. Leeds collapsed years ago. Big teams have failed in the EPL and its riches.

If the OF went to England, it would be much safer to build up to the EPL by starting maybe at League 2 and then get themselves healthily into the EPL.

But it would be years before either broke the top 10.

Leeds collapsed because of Ridsdale to be fair. They spent copious amounts of money and never actually won anything, they easily had the best team on paper at the start of the last decade and still won nothing.

League 2 isn't the bottom, that's a bit of an issue as there's still non-league sides etc. The issue I see is how would you support yourselves on that? I mean are you telling me that a - there won't be fallout from them joining the ENGLISH league (come on, we know there will be) and b - they are going to come close to selling out a ground when they are playing Aldershot, Wycombe & Torquay? So how would you cover costs of the ground, etc. And say goodbye to 99% of your players. It's a tough one really, it would take some planning to say the least.

They spent the same as Rangers did - about 70M. Rangers survived. Only just, mind you.

Put it this way, Spurs turnover is about 150m. Our equivalent, Hearts, have a turnover of £8M.

What is the turnover of clubs in the lower leagues?

Well Ridsdale spent money they didn't have on the basis they'd qualify for the CL year in, year out, which they didn't.

It's not in the millions in League 2. There are big spenders like Crawley, but they are financed by rich owners not their turnover.