Potential Opponents

Having a look at the lower ranked seeded teams:

Partizan:
- Entered the Champions League qualifiers in 24/25 and were eliminated by Dinamo Kyiv 9-2 on aggregate.
- They dropped into the Europe Qualifiers where they were eliminated by Lugano 3-2 on aggregate.
- They dropped into Conference League qualifiers where they were eliminated by Gent 2-0 on aggregate.

Sheriff Tiraspol
- Entered Europa League in Q1 and scraped passed Azerbaijani outfit Zira FC on pens
- Elimated at Q2 stage by Elfsborg 3-0 on aggregate.
- Dropped into Q3 of conference league and were eliminated by Nk Olymija of Slovenia 4-0 on aggregate.

Lugano
Entered Europe with guaranteed group stage football.
- Elimated from Champions League Q by Fenerbahce 6-4 on aggregate.
- Beat Partizan in Europa Q3 but then eliminated in playoff round by Besiktas 8-4 on aggregate.
- Dropped into Conference groups where they progressed to the last 16 before being eliminated by NK Celje from Slovenia on pens.

Above 3 are beatable. All depends on who we keep and our recruitment. Important matches in July is far from ideal as we, like other clubs, will make signing close to the transfer window closing.

I don't think Lugano are potential opponents any more. Could be Young Boys.

I wonder what the Partizan.net summary of Hibs says. :greengrin

So all 3 were in Europe last year?

Lugano looked to have made the best go of it out of the 3 there.

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Having a look at the lower ranked seeded teams:

Partizan:
- Entered the Champions League qualifiers in 24/25 and were eliminated by Dinamo Kyiv 9-2 on aggregate.
- They dropped into the Europe Qualifiers where they were eliminated by Lugano 3-2 on aggregate.
- They dropped into Conference League qualifiers where they were eliminated by Gent 2-0 on aggregate.

Sheriff Tiraspol
- Entered Europa League in Q1 and scraped passed Azerbaijani outfit Zira FC on pens
- Elimated at Q2 stage by Elfsborg 3-0 on aggregate.
- Dropped into Q3 of conference league and were eliminated by Nk Olymija of Slovenia 4-0 on aggregate.

Lugano
Entered Europe with guaranteed group stage football.
- Elimated from Champions League Q by Fenerbahce 6-4 on aggregate.
- Beat Partizan in Europa Q3 but then eliminated in playoff round by Besiktas 8-4 on aggregate.
- Dropped into Conference groups where they progressed to the last 16 before being eliminated by NK Celje from Slovenia on pens.

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No longer lugano but young boys. Who would absolutely scud us. Recent champions league experience.

Does anyone know the potential conference league ties. If think it's pretty likely we get beat in the first Europa game so more interested in the conference teams?

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No longer lugano but young boys. Who would absolutely scud us. Recent champions league experience.

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I hope you are not going to Europe, given your negative take on almost everything.

No chance we’re winning the Europa league 2nd qualifier.

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I hope you are not going to Europe, given your negative take on almost everything.

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Not negative just realistic. I'll obviously support hibs with everything I've got. However, young boys are a vastly experienced European side compared to us.

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No chance we’re winning the Europa league 2nd qualifier.

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How's that?

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No chance we’re winning the Europa league 2nd qualifier.

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Really? Based on what? Your opinion or something more substantial?

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No chance we’re winning the Europa league 2nd qualifier.

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If we were to lose the Europa league 2nd qualifying round, what round of the conference league do we go in to?

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How's that?

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You seriously think we’ll beat some of those teams over 2 legs in our first competitive games?

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No chance we’re winning the Europa league 2nd qualifier.

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I think our best chance of getting groups is to lose that tie anyway, then get drawn against a team in conference Q3 that we could beat on a good day, but that has a good enough coefficient for us to then be seeded in the play off.

Not sure who we could play that meets that criteria this year, but last year there were sides like omonia, cercle brugge, Astana where that could have worked out

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Not negative just realistic. I'll obviously support hibs with everything I've got. However, young boys are a vastly experienced European side compared to us.

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No, you are being hysterical and negative. The draw hasn't even been made and you already have us out. Take a break.

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You seriously think we’ll beat some of those teams over 2 legs in our first competitive games?

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We could easily put out any of those teams over 2 legs, with a bit of luck.

None of them are as good as either of the old firm right now, who we've been showing up well against recently.

Aberdeen managed to beat Frankfurt in the groups a couple of years ago.

Looks at previous years qualifying results and there's always loads of minor upsets and a couple of really big ones

Pardon my ignorance but is “Partizan” aka Partizan Belgrade ?!

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You seriously think we’ll beat some of those teams over 2 legs in our first competitive games?

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I'm not saying we will, I'm also not saying we have no chance. We've always got a chance.

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We could easily put out any of those teams over 2 legs, with a bit of luck.

None of them are as good as either of the old firm right now, who we've been showing up well against recently.

Aberdeen managed to beat Frankfurt in the groups a couple of years ago.

Looks at previous years qualifying results and there's always loads of minor upsets and a couple of really big ones

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Exactly. We can beat any of these teams at ER. Away games will be very difficult no doubt. But it's like saying we'd have no chance against Rangers over 2 legs. Absolute nonsense.

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Exactly. We can beat any of these teams at ER. Away games will be very difficult no doubt. But it's like saying we'd have no chance against Rangers over 2 legs. Absolute nonsense.

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We have no chance.

We’ve beaten Celtic and Rangers this season, who in turn would be expected to prevail against any team on this list.

The fact that we play home and away makes it harder but this ‘no chance’ chat is wrong.

We absolutely have a chance.

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We have no chance.

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So we'd have no chance against Rangers who have beaten teams like these in the past 2 seasons?

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So we'd have no chance against Rangers who have beaten teams like these in the past 2 seasons?

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No.

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We have no chance.

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Just like Aberdeen had no chance yesterday.

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We could easily put out any of those teams over 2 legs, with a bit of luck.

None of them are as good as either of the old firm right now, who we've been showing up well against recently.

Aberdeen managed to beat Frankfurt in the groups a couple of years ago.

Looks at previous years qualifying results and there's always loads of minor upsets and a couple of really big ones

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We unfortunately don’t carry the luck though do we. Our best league season in years yet we get undone by Celtic losing a final against that Aberdeen team. McGregors first ever loss in a final and Rodgers first defeat at Hampden. Only when hibs are involved eh

Some of the jokers on this thread have convinced me that taking a break from posting until the draw is made, is a good idea.

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We have no chance.

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bit like aberdeen having zero chance of beating celtic

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Just like Aberdeen had no chance yesterday.

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Exactly! Just what I was thinking.

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Some of the jokers on this thread have convinced me that taking a break from posting until the draw is made, is a good idea.

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Not a bad shout Dave. Place is full of them at the moment.

If we win the Europa league qualifier at the stage we enter are we guaranteed group stage football in either the Europa or conference?

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If we win the Europa league qualifier at the stage we enter are we guaranteed group stage football in either the Europa or conference?

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no we need to win 2nd and 3rd round games in Europa league to get to the play off stage that would guarantee at least conference league group stages

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If we win the Europa league qualifier at the stage we enter are we guaranteed group stage football in either the Europa or conference?

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No, this should explain it -

https://x.com/scottmillar1/status/19...17d3EF8v8uwmNw

Fully understand we will play a seeded side in the Europa League 2nd qualifying round.

Will be very difficult to overcome one of these, particularly a high seed. However, if we somehow progress the 3rd qualifying round might be slightly easier. If we knock out a seed, we take this seeded score and may become a seeded team (if our new seed co-efficient is high enough compared to other sides in this round). Noticed there are two unseeded sides already in the 3rd qualifying round we could have a chance against Wolfsberg (Austria) & Fredrikstad (Norway), both good trips an aw. Win this we will have European group stage football until Christmas no matter what happens.

Just clutching at straws after yesterday's debacle.

See since the draw for each round happens before the previous round is decided, if we lost in the Europa, would we replace a seeded team in the conference?


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We have as much a chance as the Irish mob who the Celtc striker who played yesterday was on loan to. They made the groups, we are the third best team in Scotland and it's time to look forward, positively. If they can make not only the groups but the qualifying rounds of the conference, with a little bit of luck in the draw for a change there's no reason we cannae either. No seeded team in the first games especially will want to play us.

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See since the draw for each round happens before the previous round is decided, if we lost in the Europa, would we replace a seeded team in the conference?

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It's possible, but I doubt it. Particularly if we get knocked out of the Europa League 2nd qualifying round and therefore don't improve our co-efficient score.

Our co-efficient score is low, think it's 7.07. This is unlikely to make us a seed in either competition unless we knock out a couple of sides which will improve it.

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We have no chance.

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You dont understand sport, clearly.

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See since the draw for each round happens before the previous round is decided, if we lost in the Europa, would we replace a seeded team in the conference?


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Club coefficients | UEFA rankings | UEFA.com use the country filter to view teams hibs coefficient is 4.5 while scotlands as a nation is 7.11 so we take the higher of the 2 (7.11) that cant change until next season
exception is an unseeded team beating a seeded team then the unseeded team takes the seeded team coefficient for next round only

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It's possible, but I doubt it. Particularly if we get knocked out of the Europa League 2nd qualifying round and therefore don't improve our co-efficient score.

Our co-efficient score is low, think it's 7.07. This is unlikely to make us a seed in either competition unless we knock out a couple of sides which will improve it.

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pretty sure it doesnt increase until following season 26/27

One of the best experiences I’ve had as a Hibs supporters was Aston Villa away which came as an unseeded team in a tie we got put out of.

I understand the financial implications to what happened yesterday but I’ll let the board worry about that, I don’t think if we’d have got it we would have gone on a wild spending spree. The black knights and Gordon’s have high ambitions for us regardless of what happened yesterday and they don’t need the cash to allow us to invest.

We’re not going to win a European competition so for me it’s all about making memories and we still have plenty opportunity to do so.

Disappointing not to have guaranteed group stages football but that shouldn’t dampen the excitement of the draws ahead. If we have learned anything about this team and management it’s that we shouldn’t write them off before the draw is even made.

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It's possible, but I doubt it. Particularly if we get knocked out of the Europa League 2nd qualifying round and therefore don't improve our co-efficient score.

Our co-efficient score is low, think it's 7.07. This is unlikely to make us a seed in either competition unless we knock out a couple of sides which will improve it.

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That’s our coefficient for this year, it can’t be affected now.

What strikes me is a number of the seeded teams (Partizan, Braga, the Moldovans, Shakhtar) are well frequented with each other in the competition and tend to be well matched when they play each other with one goal in it. They are also stacked with foreign aging talent. They have had a few years to build up cash reserves we dont have, look better equipped on paper than us to compete but have been eliminated by ‘poorer’ sides than them before.

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You dont understand sport, clearly.

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Aberdeen had absolutely no chance yesterday.

I’ve seen Hearts play against supposed big teams in Europe recently and felt they were their for the taken if Hearts didn’t do what they normally do and shat the bed.

Aberdeen beat Frankfurt recently.

We’ve put out Greek and Swiss opposition recently,

We’re now benefiting from the ambitious Black Knight group who will want us to tackle this challenge head on and will back us accordingly to do so.

Look how well Rangers have done in Europe recently and since about 12 games into last season have been no better than us.

There’s loads of reasons we still have a chance, we just have to hope the people running the club and team aren’t as defeatist as some of our fans.

In terms of "no chance", I would have given us no chance of finishing 3rd in November

I'm putting nothing past this team, was a sickener yesterday, but I've got more faith in this Hibs side after this season than I've had in years, yesterday doesn't change that

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I don't think Lugano are potential opponents any more. Could be Young Boys.

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If Basel win the cup then it’s back to being Lugano…they play a second tier side in the final

The same losers giving us no chance now were the ones who had us relegated in November and were calling for Gray’s head.

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If we win the Europa league qualifier at the stage we enter are we guaranteed group stage football in either the Europa or conference?

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No. Would still have to win two more rounds I think.

Lugano would be great for an away day (they play European games in Geneva).

Tiraspol would mean no away day as you can't travel to Moldova.

Partizan not sure about. You can get indirect flights to Belgrade but UK gov advice is cautious about travelling there.

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You dont understand sport, clearly.

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I understand that, for some, it is the triumph of hope over experience.

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I understand that, for some, it is the triumph of hope over experience.

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Are you doubling down that we have ZERO, nada, eff all chance? Explain your thinking.

It is what it is we have had a terrific season when we are on it we are as good as anyone need to be positive and give it a bash

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Lugano would be great for an away day (they play European games in Geneva).

Tiraspol would mean no away day as you can't travel to Moldova.

Partizan not sure about. You can get indirect flights to Belgrade but UK gov advice is cautious about travelling there.

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Lugano no longer in it as place taken by young boys

Its worth noting that Uefa do a sort of regionalisation of the draw which is announced on the day of the draw. This narrows down potential opponents further.

Its larely based on geography of course, but given so many teams means you can still face teams from further away.

We'll be competitive in every qualifying game regardless of opposition. Not once this season under gray was this anything other than the case and that includes champions league Celtic, Europa league rangers and conference league hearts

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Lugano no longer in it as place taken by young boys

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See post #45 above - if Basel win cup (which they should) then Lugano are possible opponents.

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If Basel win the cup then it’s back to being Lugano…they play a second tier side in the final

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FFS, I’m no waiting on another cup final result am I, no sure I can handle that 😜

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It's possible, but I doubt it. Particularly if we get knocked out of the Europa League 2nd qualifying round and therefore don't improve our co-efficient score.

Our co-efficient score is low, think it's 7.07. This is unlikely to make us a seed in either competition unless we knock out a couple of sides which will improve it.

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The Wikipedia page for the Conference League has the loser of the EL match involving Hibs as confirmed unseeded for the Conference League Qualifying Round 3

If it's Shakhtar they play their Euro matches in Gelsenkirchen (Schalke's ground). Decent trip but empty stadium with very few home fans understandably.

I can’t believe there are folk that give us no chance of progressing in a tie that hasn’t been drawn yet.

We’re obviously going to need a wee bit luck in the draw but there are going to be ties that are winnable along the line. There will be winnable ties in there.

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I can’t believe there are folk that give us no chance of progressing in a tie that hasn’t been drawn yet.

We’re obviously going to need a wee bit luck in the draw but there are going to be ties that are winnable along the line. There will be winnable ties in there.

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I wonder what the stats are (capital Greens ears hopefully pricking up as I type) for unseeded teams beating seeded teams in this round.

In the last couple of years I’d expect the seeded teams to have a high % of progressing but I really doubt if it’s a 100% success rate for the seeded sides.

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I can’t believe there are folk that give us no chance of progressing in a tie that hasn’t been drawn yet.

We’re obviously going to need a wee bit luck in the draw but there are going to be ties that are winnable along the line. There will be winnable ties in there.

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Exactly. Lee Johnson managed us through a tie against seeded Luzern.

Was seriously pissed off yesterday but it’s eased today. We done all we could and fair play to Aberdeen beating Celtic in a cup final.

Looking at it, winning 2 ties out of 3 in whichever competition maybe isn’t as far fetched as we think. Yes, we need a favourable draw but I’m a bit more confident we have an idea of better players to bring in and SDG has the squad in a good place. Fingers crossed we can do it and shove it down the throats of those who are enjoying our bad luck

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I wonder what the stats are (capital Greens ears hopefully pricking up as I type) for unseeded teams beating seeded teams in this round.

In the last couple of years I’d expect the seeded teams to have a high % of progressing but I really doubt if it’s a 100% success rate for the seeded sides.

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Only one of the eight ties last year. Elfsborg beat Sheriff.

Ajax Netherlands 4–1 Serbia Vojvodina
Ružomberok Slovakia 0–3 Turkey Trabzonspor
Wisła Kraków Poland 2–8 Austria Rapid Wien
Kilmarnock Scotland 1–2 Belgium Cercle Brugge
Molde Norway 5–4 Denmark Silkeborg
Corvinul Hunedoara Romania 0–1 Croatia Rijeka
Braga Portugal 7–0 Israel Maccabi Petah Tikva
Panathinaikos Greece 6–1 Bulgaria Botev Plovdiv
Sheriff Tiraspol Moldova 0–3 Sweden IF Elfsborg

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Only one of the eight ties last year. Elfsborg beat Sheriff.

Ajax Netherlands 4–1 Serbia Vojvodina
Ružomberok Slovakia 0–3 Turkey Trabzonspor
Wisła Kraków Poland 2–8 Austria Rapid Wien
Kilmarnock Scotland 1–2 Belgium Cercle Brugge
Molde Norway 5–4 Denmark Silkeborg
Corvinul Hunedoara Romania 0–1 Croatia Rijeka
Braga Portugal 7–0 Israel Maccabi Petah Tikva
Panathinaikos Greece 6–1 Bulgaria Botev Plovdiv
Sheriff Tiraspol Moldova 0–3 Sweden IF Elfsborg

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So you’re saying there’s a chance? 😃

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So you’re saying there’s a chance? 😃

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There's always a chance. We aren't a small club and we have a manager who gets the best out his players.

We are really well suited to playing "better" teams, much more effective without the ball which is how we will have to play in Europe.

Whatever happens, I'll be there.

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Not negative just realistic. I'll obviously support hibs with everything I've got. However, young boys are a vastly experienced European side compared to us.

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Didn't realise the draw had been made yet.

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Didn't realise the draw had been made yet.

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Are you not paying attention? We may as well just withdraw as we have no chance.

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See post #45 above - if Basel win cup (which they should) then Lugano are possible opponents.

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was going by

2025–26 UEFA Europa League - Wikipedia


so young boys will get route we should have got if it had went to plan and lugano will get same as us:thumbsup:

The issue we have is that alot of these sides (pretty much all from looking at the list) have a lot of European experience, whilst looking at our record we don’t. When a draw is made many of us instantly look at the clubs’ European record on wikipedia.

Of course we have to start somewhere, but looking at some names and thinking they are beatable, only to look at their track record and who they have faced in recent times and it suddenly looks trickier.

Apologies if this sounds negative, the stuffing has been taken out me a bit since yesterday, but I firmly believe the key is catching a side at the right time, even if they are a bit more well known/experienced.

In terms of the bigger teams being mentioned, obvs hard to progress but for away day potential:

Midjtylland - not great, hard place to get to in Denmark.

Braga - decent, not far by train from Porto or Vigo in North of Spain.

Dynamo Kyiv - good, flights to Dussedorf or Cologne then good train network in Germany.

Legia Warsaw - good.

Anderlecht- good

Cluj - more accessible than I might have thought- flights via Dublin or London.

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In terms of the bigger teams being mentioned, obvs hard to progress but for away day potential:

Midjtylland - not great, hard place to get to in Denmark.

Braga - decent, not far by train from Porto or Vigo in North of Spain.

Dynamo Kyiv - good, flights to Dussedorf or Cologne then good train network in Germany.

Legia Warsaw - good.

Anderlecht- good

Cluj - more accessible than I might have thought- flights via Dublin or London.

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I’m in Albufeira on the date of one of the legs. Just been having a quick look and I see they’ve selfishly decided to place Braga in the furthest away point in Portugal from where I’m going to be. Even by train it looks like it’s an ordeal to get to.

If we happen to draw them I’ll maybe get in touch to see if they can move it somewhere a bit more accessible for me.

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Exactly. Lee Johnson managed us through a tie against seeded Luzern.

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Talking of Streaky Lee, he was at Wembley yesterday for the play off final.

When do the draw(s) take place ?

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When do the draw(s) take place ?

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I saw a post earlier which said 18th June

Opinions, don't you just love all the expert opinions on here, let the fun begin 😂

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I saw a post earlier which said 18th June

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In terms of the bigger teams being mentioned, obvs hard to progress but for away day potential:

Midjtylland - not great, hard place to get to in Denmark.

Braga - decent, not far by train from Porto or Vigo in North of Spain.

Dynamo Kyiv - good, flights to Dussedorf or Cologne then good train network in Germany.

Legia Warsaw - good.

Anderlecht- good

Cluj - more accessible than I might have thought- flights via Dublin or London.

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Even Chisinău for Sheriff would be good. £300 return ish and would be cheap when there.

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So you’re saying there’s a chance? 😃

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX5jNnDMfxA

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I’m in Albufeira on the date of one of the legs. Just been having a quick look and I see they’ve selfishly decided to place Braga in the furthest away point in Portugal from where I’m going to be. Even by train it looks like it’s an ordeal to get to.

If we happen to draw them I’ll maybe get in touch to see if they can move it somewhere a bit more accessible for me.

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TBF you can get cheap flights from Faro to Porto - then its only an hour on the train away to Braga, so not too bad!!

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Even Chisinău for Sheriff would be good. £300 return ish and would be cheap when there.

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I had read that Sheriff had been granted permission to play back in Tiraspol, but looks like it was actually blocked by Uefa so you're right, would prob be ok if they play in Chisinau!

So far as I can see, we now have Braga, Young Boys and Anderlecht as seeds. Shakhtar, Partizan and Legia Warsaw to add to that providing they win first round ties. Plus two other winners of first round ties.

Guessing, at this stage, the two unknowns might give us the best opportunity to progress looking at that list.

This has probably been covered but I’m just trying to get it all straight. Bit of luck definitely needed with the draw.

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In terms of the bigger teams being mentioned, obvs hard to progress but for away day potential:

Midjtylland - not great, hard place to get to in Denmark.

Braga - decent, not far by train from Porto or Vigo in North of Spain.

Dynamo Kyiv - good, flights to Dussedorf or Cologne then good train network in Germany.

Legia Warsaw - good.

Anderlecht- good

Cluj - more accessible than I might have thought- flights via Dublin or London.

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I wonder what the stats are (capital Greens ears hopefully pricking up as I type) for unseeded teams beating seeded teams in this round.

In the last couple of years I’d expect the seeded teams to have a high % of progressing but I really doubt if it’s a 100% success rate for the seeded sides.

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25% success rate for unseeded sides.

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So far as I can see, we now have Braga, Young Boys and Anderlecht as seeds. Shakhtar, Partizan and Legia Warsaw to add to that providing they win first round ties. Plus two other winners of first round ties.

Guessing, at this stage, the two unknowns might give us the best opportunity to progress looking at that list.

This has probably been covered but I’m just trying to get it all straight. Bit of luck definitely needed with the draw.

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Scotland's Coefficient website has just posted an article on their website which says the following:

Four teams will be definite possible opponents as they enter in this round (Braga, Midtjylland, Anderlecht and Lugano), however the other four teams are only a ‘projection’ based on club coefficient assumptions. The assumption is that teams with the higher coefficient progress from EL QR1 (Shakhtar, Legia Warsaw, Partizan Belgrade and Sheriff).

He is normally spot on with info and he's just updated the article an hour ago....

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Scotland's Coefficient website has just posted an article on their website which says the following:

Four teams will be definite possible opponents as they enter in this round (Braga, Midtjylland, Anderlecht and Lugano), however the other four teams are only a ‘projection’ based on club coefficient assumptions. The assumption is that teams with the higher coefficient progress from EL QR1 (Shakhtar, Legia Warsaw, Partizan Belgrade and Sheriff).

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We’re not beating any of them over 2 legs

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We’re not beating any of them over 2 legs

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We have more chance than the bottom six poppy thieves.

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We’re not beating any of them over 2 legs

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According to the article our estimated squad value (15m Euros) is almost twice that of Sheriff Tiraspol - so that would be our best chance by some distance.

Legia and Partisan have 2x higher estimated squad values than us - so we should make those games competitive. Midtyland and Lugano 4x higher, Anderlecht 6.5x, Braga 8x and Donestk 11x.

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I'm not having that. I'm confident if we got the Moldovans we'd beat them. I'd fancy us against Partizan as well.
I think we're a good side at the moment and whilst wouldn't be favourites I wouldn't write us off against any of them.
Best draw for me would be Sheriff

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Originally Posted by jonny

I'm not having that. I'm confident if we got the Moldovans we'd beat them. I'd fancy us against Partizan as well.
I think we're a good side at the moment and whilst wouldn't be favourites I wouldn't write us off against any of them.
Best draw for me would be Sheriff

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Agreed.

May also depends on when our opponents league season starts.

If we are a week or two ahead of our opponent in terms of preparing for the new season, that could be a huge leveller.

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Originally Posted by LaMotta

Scotland's Coefficient website has just posted an article on their website which says the following:

Four teams will be definite possible opponents as they enter in this round (Braga, Midtjylland, Anderlecht and Lugano), however the other four teams are only a ‘projection’ based on club coefficient assumptions. The assumption is that teams with the higher coefficient progress from EL QR1 (Shakhtar, Legia Warsaw, Partizan Belgrade and Sheriff).

He is normally spot on with info and he's just updated the article an hour ago....

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Cheers.

Braga, Shakhtar, Warsaw and Anderlecht beat us. On the plus side, some decent trips.

The others, I think we’d at least have a chance. We’ve beaten a Swiss team recently who aren’t dissimilar to Lugano and competed with a team from the Danish league previously. Partizan are a name but not done anything over the last couple of years in Europe. Sherriff, we’d have a chance against.

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Originally Posted by S4uzee

We’re not beating any of them over 2 legs

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Lugano maybe, can't see them being any better than Luzern. Agree the rest of them have decent and recent form in Europe. The one I would want to avoid most is Braga :duck:might turn a bit messy against them.

For any of that lot kind of hope we have the first leg at home.

We do have the consolation of falling into the the Conference 3rd round qualifying round which might be winnable. However, it's likely we will hit a biggie at the Conference League play off stage as we did last time with Villa.

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Originally Posted by B.H.F.C

Cheers.

Braga, Shakhtar, Warsaw and Anderlecht beat us. On the plus side, some decent trips.

The others, I think we’d at least have a chance. We’ve beaten a Swiss team recently who aren’t dissimilar to Lugano and competed with a team from the Danish league previously. Partizan are a name but not done anything over the last couple of years in Europe. Sherriff, we’d have a chance against.

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agreed:agree:

Lugano have a decent squad it seems, but their average attendance is less than 4000. Their European fixture crowds played in Geneva were tiny - see here: https://www.footballwebpages.co.uk/lugano/attendances

Its a trek from Lugano to Geneva, there would potentially be more Hibs fans there than home fans.

Midtylland average less than 10000.

We’ll play Roma.


In the final :greengrin

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Originally Posted by B.H.F.C

Cheers.

Braga, Shakhtar, Warsaw and Anderlecht beat us. On the plus side, some decent trips.

The others, I think we’d at least have a chance. We’ve beaten a Swiss team recently who aren’t dissimilar to Lugano and competed with a team from the Danish league previously. Partizan are a name but not done anything over the last couple of years in Europe. Sherriff, we’d have a chance against.

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Sheriff beat Real Madrid at the Bernabeu only 4 years ago

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Originally Posted by LaMotta

agreed:agree:

Lugano have a decent squad it seems, but their average attendance is less than 4000. Their Euroepan fixtures played in Geneva were tiny - see here: https://www.footballwebpages.co.uk/lugano/attendances

Its a trek from Lugano to Geneva, there would potentially be more Hibs fans there than home fans.

Midtylland average less than 10000.

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Only a couple of points between them and Luzern this season if we look at that as some kind of benchmark.

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Originally Posted by B.H.F.C

Only a couple of points between them and Luzern this season if we look at that as some kind of benchmark.

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I felt we rode our luck a bit against Luzern although we’re a better team now than then

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Originally Posted by S4uzee

Sheriff beat Real Madrid at the Bernabeu only 4 years ago

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Absolutely no idea but I’m guessing they’ll have lost a lot of that team since then?

No question they’ll still be a decent, more than competent team but I suspect that team from 4 years ago was a once in a generation side for them that’s unlikely ever to be repeated again.

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Originally Posted by S4uzee

We’re not beating any of them over 2 legs

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Are they any bigger than say Rangers? I guarantee we would back ourselves to beat them over two legs.

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Originally Posted by S4uzee

Sheriff beat Real Madrid at the Bernabeu only 4 years ago

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4 years ago a work colleague's son was in nappies, but all fine now.

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I felt we rode our luck a bit against Luzern although we’re a better team now than then

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Not sure I would agree with that. 5-3 win over the two legs. We started and ended the game in Luzern better than them too , although it was backs to the wall in-between.