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Europa League qualifying rounds draw groups
Author: luckyluke
Date: 22-04-2013, 13:38
Are there any news about grouping clubs in qualifying rounds?
or is it going to be gray zone as usual?

Re: Europa League qualifying rounds draw groups
Author: luckyluke
Date: 22-04-2013, 14:13
I have found one article in this season regulations about this:

Article 9
Group formations
9.01 For the qualifying phase and the play-off draws, the UEFA administration may form groups, in accordance with the principles set by the Club Competitions Committee.

Re: Europa League qualifying rounds draw groups
Author: Forza-AZ
Date: 22-04-2013, 14:47
There is no fixed (regional) grouping. UEFA might form regional zones for the early rounds, but how they are shaped can be different each year.

Re: Europa League qualifying rounds draw groups
Author: Nixda
Date: 22-04-2013, 15:30
Yeah they start with checking the "usual" regions and how many teams are there in the round to make the draw(s) for. Then they change teams to get "better" groups fitting their criteria:

- balance team coefficients between the groups
- country protection

Base pattern is many times a list like:

01-08
16-09
17-24
....

and use the columns as groups.

Re: Europa League qualifying rounds draw groups
Author: shisraelit
Date: 22-04-2013, 19:31
Edited by: shisraelit
at: 22-04-2013, 19:42
last year HEre in the forum gandZasar eB streymur surprised all,like renOva gLentoran two yeArs ago.for me regional groups are very unfair,because its fair tHat a team qualified to europe goes in all europe not only in same countries