Potential Opponents

[Hibees1973]

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Apologies if this has already been said but looking at the teams in the QR1 draw, Partizan Belgrade and FC Prishtina will be kept apart in the pre draw groupings. Meaning the winners of both ties will then also be kept apart in our draw on Wednesday.

Might no mean much for us but be interesting to see who Prishtina get on Tuesday to at least then narrow down who one of the seeded teams will be in each grouping on Wednesday

It is interesting to me this kind of thing. How UEFA do their pre-draw gymnastics around current geopolitical issues is fascinating. If we progress further in either competition we are likely to be affected some way.

[Fro62_in_Leith]

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Apparently shakhtar will play their home games in Poland , behind closed doors.

Just read that Shakhtar will play their R1 and R2 games in Ljubljana.

[Fro62_in_Leith]

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[Bishop Hibee]

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Tough opponents but it would be a great trip for us fans.

[Frazerbob]

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Visited that stadium with Scotland a few years back. Great city!

[LaMotta]

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Just read that Shakhtar will play their R1 and R2 games in Ljubljana.

That's the third country/city I've read they'll play in (Schalke, Krakow now Ljubljana.) Yet don't see it confirmed officially anywhere. Going to be tricky booking things if we get them....

[HIBS NUTS]

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Just read that Shakhtar will play their R1 and R2 games in Ljubljana.

Aye Slovenian, is it hard to get to

[Thatdayinmay16]

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Aye Slovenian, is it hard to get to

Just checked via SkyScanner, no direct flights, but can connect via Germany.

Seems easy enough to get too.

[JasonC1875]

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Just checked via SkyScanner, no direct flights, but can connect via Germany.

Seems easy enough to get too.

Decent transport links from Venice, Trieste and Zagreb too

[SteveHFC]

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Just checked via SkyScanner, no direct flights, but can connect via Germany.

Seems easy enough to get too.

last time we played in slovenia went manchester to munich then car, remember being in mcds early on match day and guy appeared with couple of kids in a car drove all the way

[DIXIHIBS]

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last time we played in slovenia went manchester to munich then car, remember being in mcds early on match day and guy appeared with couple of kids in a car drove all the way

Done similar for Scotland game. Flight to Munich then train through the Alps to Ljubljana...scenic trip

[Garymcl]

You can fly from Gatwick

[theonlywayisup]

For those who want to see possible opponents, this Wiki site is usually up to date.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025...play-off_round

[bingo70]

I think the draw for the round before us, is tomorrow, will that have any relevance to us and worth keeping an eye out for?

I feel like it does have some relevance and we should pay attention to it, I’m just not entirely sure why so was hoping someone more intelligent than me could join the dots for me please?

[Fergus52]

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For those who want to see possible opponents, this Wiki site is usually up to date.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025...play-off_round

Bert Kassies is usually more accurate than the wiki

Seeding in the Europa League 2025/2026

[Fergus52]

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I think the draw for the round before us, is tomorrow, will that have any relevance to us and worth keeping an eye out for?

I feel like it does have some relevance and we should pay attention to it, I’m just not entirely sure why so was hoping someone more intelligent than me could join the dots for me please?

It doesn't have a massive bearing imo.

out of the teams we could draw in Q2: Shakhtar, Legia, Partizan and Sheriff are all in this Q1 draw.

All 4 would be massive favourites against any of the Q1 teams, so whoever they get won't make a massive difference either way.

Of the unseeded Q1 teams the best are probably Hacken or AEK Larnaca, so if any of the mentioned seeded teams were drawn against them then Hibs would benefit if they caused an upset as we could end up playing one of them instead of Shakhtar or Legia etc.

[Thatdayinmay16]

Knowing our luck it'll be Hapoel Be'er Sheva.

Tbf they shouldn't be in the competition, but that's a conversation for another day.

[HUTCHYHIBBY]

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Aye Slovenian, is it hard to get to

We stopped off there on the way to Maribor, lovely wee place. Nice wee funicular railway up to the castle if you like that sort of thing.

[LaMotta]

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It doesn't have a massive bearing imo.

out of the teams we could draw in Q2: Shakhtar, Legia, Partizan and Sheriff are all in this Q1 draw.

All 4 would be massive favourites against any of the Q1 teams, so whoever they get won't make a massive difference either way.

Of the unseeded Q1 teams the best are probably Hacken or AEK Larnaca, so if any of the mentioned seeded teams were drawn against them then Hibs would benefit if they caused an upset as we could end up playing one of them instead of Shakhtar or Legia etc.

So this is all the teams in the Q1 draw tomorrow. Could we not potentially get Cluj, Hapoel, Celje or Trnava (or their Q1 opponents) as well?

[JasonC1875]

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So this is all the teams in the Q1 draw tomorrow. Could we not potentially get Cluj, Hapoel, Celje or Trnava (or their Q1 opponents) as well?

Winners of those ties are unseeded on Wednesday (as are we) so no

[LaMotta]

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Winners of those ties are unseeded on Wednesday (as are we) so no

Perfect cheers!

[CapitalGreen]

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It doesn't have a massive bearing imo.

out of the teams we could draw in Q2: Shakhtar, Legia, Partizan and Sheriff are all in this Q1 draw.

All 4 would be massive favourites against any of the Q1 teams, so whoever they get won't make a massive difference either way.

Of the unseeded Q1 teams the best are probably Hacken or AEK Larnaca, so if any of the mentioned seeded teams were drawn against them then Hibs would benefit if they caused an upset as we could end up playing one of them instead of Shakhtar or Legia etc.

I don’t think Sheriff would be massive favourites, their European results were awful last season.

Also in terms of the unseeded teams, PAKS eliminated Larnaca 5-0 on aggregate last season so will be one of the stronger teams.

[Paulie Walnuts]

So are we still thinking because of the unofficial regionalisation that we can only really get Anderlecht, Braga, Midjtylland or Lugano? Or is there now Cluj, Shaktar etc in the mix?

[CapitalGreen]

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So are we still thinking because of the unofficial regionalisation that we can only really get Anderlecht, Braga, Midjtylland or Lugano? Or is there now Cluj, Shaktar etc in the mix?

No, there isn’t really any hard and fast rule of how teams are regionalised. I’ve seen a lot of people predict it on an East/West basis but historical draw groupings suggest this isn’t really how it’s necessarily done.

[SteveHFC]

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So are we still thinking because of the unofficial regionalisation that we can only really get Anderlecht, Braga, Midjtylland or Lugano? Or is there now Cluj, Shaktar etc in the mix?

we Can't get Cluj, trnava, hapoel or celji or whoever beats them as they all go to unseeded in our round

[Bristolhibby]

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Visited that stadium with Scotland a few years back. Great city!

I’ll second that. Quality place.

J

[SunshineOnLeith]

Sheriff to draw Larnaca, we play the winner. Larnaca upset Sheriff, Hibs away in Cyprus. Dancer.

[CapitalGreen]

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Sheriff to draw Larnaca, we play the winner. Larnaca upset Sheriff, Hibs away in Cyprus. Dancer.

Cyprus in July 🥵

[SteveHFC]

reports that 1st round draw had no groupings appears not to be the case it does
UEFA Europa League first qualifying round draw | UEFA Europa League 2025/26 | UEFA.com

[SunshineOnLeith]

From the groupings, Hacken probably the only unseeded team from group 1 who might be tricky for Shakhtar/Sheriff, but any of the unseeded teams in group 2 could be a banana skin for Legia or Partizan.

Does anyone have any idea how they produce these groups? Azerbaijan and Finland in the same group?