Dynamo Kyiv, having failed to overcome the Portuguese Benfica in the playoffs of the Champions League qualification, will now continue to fight in the Europa League group stage. During the draw for this stage of the tournament, the Ukrainian club will either be in the first or second pot.
As a reminder, there are 32 teams in the group stage of the Europa League. More than half of the participants in this stage are already known - this is the winner of the last season's Conference League represented by Roma, 11 teams from countries with the highest positions in the UEFA coefficients table, 4 losers of the 3rd qualifying round of the Champions League, who played along the "path of non-champions" ( "Storm", "Monaco", "Midtjylland", "Union Saint-Gilloise"), as well as 3 losers of the playoffs of the Champions League qualifying round - Dynamo Kiev, Serbian "Crvena Zvezda" and Azerbaijan "Qarabagh".
The remaining places in the Europa League group stage will be distributed as follows. 10 tickets will be given to the winning teams of the playoff round of this tournament. 3 more places will go to the losers at the end of the Champions League qualifying play-off round (the remaining return matches of this stage will take place today).
During the Europa League group stage draw, the 32 participants in this stage of the tournament will be divided into 4 pots of 8 teams each according to their UEFA club coefficients
Dynamo Kyiv (UEFA odds 44,000) will either end up in Pot 1 or Pot 2 in the draw. If in the Europa League group stage simultaneously Rangers (50.250) and Dynamo Zagreb (49.500) will come out, then Dynamo Kiev will get into the 2nd pot, but if at least one of these two clubs makes it to the Champions League group stage, then Lucescu's team will be in 1 th basket.
In the playoff round of the Champions League. Rangers compete with the Dutch PSV, and Dinamo Zagreb with the Norwegian Bodø-Glimpt. And I must say that the intrigue in these confrontations remains, since the first matches ended with the following results: Rangers - PSV - 2: 2, Boude-Glimt - Dynamo Zg - 1: 0. Recall that the winners of these "junctions" will receive tickets to the Champions League group stage, and the losers will continue to fight in the Europa League group stage.
If we assume that in the remaining play-offs of the Champions League and Europa League qualifiers, the teams with the highest UEFA club coefficient in the pair will be the winners, then the composition of the pots during the draw of the Europa League group stage will take on the following form.
As can be seen from the composition of the first pot, if Rangers (50.250) and Dynamo Zagreb (49.500) are in the group stage, Dynamo Kyiv (44.000) will be forced out to the conditionally first position of the second pot.
Europa League group stage draw. Preliminary composition of the baskets
(club coefficients are indicated opposite)
Basket 1
"Roma" (Rome, Italy) — 100.000
"Manchester United" (England) — 105.000
"Arsenal" (London, England) — 80.000
"Lazio" (Rome, Italy) — 53.000
"Braga" (Portugal) — 46.000
"Red Star" (Belgrade, Serbia) — 46.000
"DYNAMO" (Kyiv, Ukraine) — 44.000
* Olympiacos (Piraeus, Greece) — 41.000
Basket 2
Feyenoord (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) — 40.000
"Rennes" (France) — 33.000
** PSV (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) — 33.000
"Monaco" (France) — 26.000
"Real Sociedad" (Spain) — 26.000
"Karabakh" (Aghdam, Azerbaijan) — 25.000
* "Malmo" (Sweden) — 23.500
* Ludogorets (Razgrad, Bulgaria) — 23.000
Basket 3
* "Sheriff" (Tiraspol, Moldova) — 22.500
"Betis" (Seville, Spain) — 21.000
Freiburg (Germany) — 15.042
"Union" (Berlin, Germany) — 15.042
"Nantes" (France) — 12.016
* "Ghent" (Belgium) — 27.500
Midtjylland (Herning, Denmark) — 19.000
** Boude-Glimt (Bode, Norway) — 17.000
Basket 4
* "Ferencvaros" (Budapest, Hungary) — 15.500
* Fenerbahce (Istanbul, Turkey) — 14.500
* HIK (Helsinki, Finland) — 8.500
"Storm" (Graz, Austria) — 7.700
* AEK (Larnaca, Cyprus) — 7.500
* "Hearts" (Edinburgh, Scotland) — 7.380
"Union St. Gilloise" (Brussels, Belgium) — 6.120
** Trabzonspor (Trabzon, Turkey) — 5.500
* - teams that will compete in the playoff round of the Europa League qualification.
** - teams that will compete in the playoff round of the Champions League qualification.
We add that the draw for the group stage of the Europa League will take place next Friday, August 26.
