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From Swansea to Tel Aviv
Now that domestic competitions have finished, Motherwell fans can examine the list of likely opponents in the 3rd Qualifying Round of the Europa League. We could travel anywhere from Wales to Israel! The 58 teams at this stage of the competition will be seeded so we can anticipate facing one of the 29 highest ranked sides. Before the draw competitors will be split into groups of 10 or 12 (half seeded and half unseeded). Motherwell's UEFA coefficient is 7.038 and that places us 10th in the unseeded group. Assuming seeded teams win their earlier rounds our opponent will come from this list :- Team Country/Coeff vfb Stuttgart Ger 59.922 Rubin Kazan ** Rus 58.266 Sevilla Esp 55.105 Standard Liege ** Bel 45. 880 Udinese Ita 42.829 Club Brugge Bel 36.880 Hapoel Tel-Aviv ** Isr 29.575 Sparta Praha ** Cze 29.245 AS Saint Ettiene Fra 26.800 Lech Poznan Pol 23.650 Trabzorispor ** Tur 21.400 AaB Aalborg ** Den 19.640 Anorthosis Famagusta ** Cyp 17.366 Rosenborg BK Nor 16.835 FC Zurich Sui 16.785 Swansea City Eng 16.592 MSK Zilina * Svk 15.841 Bursaspor Tur 14.900 FC Utrecht Ned 13.945 Maccabi Haifa ** Isr 13.575 Rapid Wien Aut 13.075 Metalurg Donetsk Ukr 12.451 Levski Sofia Bul 11.950 Estoril Praia Por 11.833 Sturm Graz ** Aut 11.575 Omonia Nicosia ‘ Cyp 10.366 Chernomorets Odesa *a Ukr 9.951 Vitesse Arnhem Ned 9.945 DVSC Debrecen ** Hun 9.850 * ** Assumes success in earlier rounds Data from Bert Kassies brilliant site. Top seeds are Stuttgart while the lowest standing possibility is Debrecen from Hungary. The shortest journey will be to Swansea while the longest would be to Tel Aviv in Israel. The identities of the pre-draw groupings is made known ahead of the draw (on Friday 19 July) so keen travellers will be able to make some hasty preparations in the event that the draw provides a single opponent. The 2nd Qualifying Round will be complete on Thursday 25 July so it might be that we will have as little as one week to make arrangements for the expedition.
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