Europa League
Olympiacos: Change in Europa League playoff draw brings Maccabi back as a possible opponent
On Monday (1 August) UEFA changed the draw for the Europa League playoffs, Maccabi Haifa is now one of Olympiacos’ potential opponents. Unless there is another change and restrictions in the candidate pairs shortly before the intervention on Tuesday (2 August).
On Monday (1 August), UEFA changed the draw for the Europa League playoffs on Tuesday (2 August), in which Olympiacos will also take part. There is no restriction to compete against teams from the same country. There is only a restriction for Azerbaijan and Armenia due to the tense political atmosphere.
This changed Olympiakos’ potential Europa League opponent ahead of Tuesday’s draw from what was known in previous days.
This means that the “Red-Whites” not only have a team as candidate opponents that can only come from the first priority group, but also from the second priority group, i.e. the teams that are excluded from the 3rd qualifying round of the Champions League.
In fact, UEFA has downgraded Omonia from the first priority group compared to previous days and dropped it into the fourth priority group. The potential Olympiakos opponent can either come from the first priority group, i.e. one of the following:
- Gent (Belgium)
- Austria (Austria)
- hearts (Scotland)
- Sivasspor (Turkey)
- Dnipro (Ukraine)
- Silkeborg (Denmark)
These can arise from the second priority group, the teams eliminated in the 3rd round of Champions League qualification and being the losers of the following couples.
Of course, the question here is whether Olympiacos or any other team from the pre-stage team can get in the way. For example, if the “red and white” can be redrawn with Maccabi Haifa based on the current data.
This of course seems a bit strange and maybe at the last moment – just before the draw – UEFA will impose some restrictions on the pairings. Anyway, based on today’s data, Olympiacos may fall with the pairs losers:
- Maccabi Haifa (Israel) or Apollo Limassol (Cyprus)
- Karabakh (Azerbaijan) or Ferentsvaros (Hungary)
- Ludogorets (Bulgaria) or Dynamo Zagreb (Croatian)
- sheriff (Moldova) or Pilsen (Czech Republic)
- Bodo shine (Norway) or Salgiris Vilnius (Lithuania)
- Red Star (Serbia) or Punic (Armenia)
Nothing changes in the conference league opponent
Olympiacos will of course take part in the Europa Conference League draw, with the draw taking place on Tuesday (2/8) at 15:00 CET. So if he can’t get past Slovan Bratislava, he’ll know his opponent from now on.
The contenders for the Conference League Playoffs have been known since last week and will come from the following pairings. Always in case Olympiacos is eliminated from the Europa League, of course.
- viking (Iceland) – Leh (Poland)
- Riga (Latvia) – hibernian (Malta)
- Balkans (Kosovo) – Claxwick (Faroe Islands)
- Zrinsky (Bosnia) – tom ball (Kazakhstan)
- Shakhtar (Belarus) – Cluj-Napoca (Romania)
The reason UEFA made the change
The reason why UEFA changed the Europa League play-off draw has to do with Article 13(5) which states that the teams qualify for the play-off and are drawn according to the principles of the Competitions Committee, and bAccording to the announcement, at least eight champions must play against each other in the playoffs for at least four to qualify.
Source: sport 24
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Europa League
Poland took the lead. Who is competing for an additional place in the Champions League?
The two countries with the highest UEFA coefficient at the end of a season will gain an additional entry. Champions League 2026/27.
Like last year, 36 clubs will compete in the main stage of the European Cup main tournament. Two of these will be determined by rating.
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The two best-ranked countries in the 2025/26 season will each send one more team to the 2026/27 Champions League.
Next single season rankings:
- P.Olsha (13,625), England (13,486), Germany (12,285), Cyprus (11,406), Italy (11,250), Spain (11,218), France (10,714), Portugal (10,600), Greece (9,500), Denmark (9,500)
The top two countries on this list will be given an additional place in the 2026/27 Champions League.
Leadership Poland It’s about getting bonuses in the Conference League. Three Polish clubs reached the LK play-offs at the same time: Rakow, Lech and Jagiellonia. And only Legia Warsaw withdrew from the tournament.
Ukrainian It ranks 15th among 55 countries in the UEFA single season rankings with 6,812. Shakhtar Donetsk advanced directly to the 1/8 finals of the Conference League and Dynamo Kiev was eliminated from the tournament.
UEFA coefficient For national associations, it is calculated based on the total number of points scored by all clubs in the country. 2 points are awarded for a win, 1 point for a draw, and bonus points are also taken into account. Points received in the qualifying rounds are multiplied by 0.5 times. The total amount is divided by the number of teams representing the country in the European Cup season.
Race for two additional places in the 2026/27 Champions League (top 10)
Top 15 countries in the UEFA rankings for the 2025/26 season
UEFA five-year rankings
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english team Aston VillaThe player continues to show incredible form and has already won his 10th consecutive victory in different tournaments.
The successful series includes 7 Premier League matches and 3 Europa League matches. This is a new club record for Aston Villa.
The last win came on 21 December, when the home team beat Manchester United 2-1 at Villa Park in Birmingham.
This winning streak has allowed Aston Villa to secure a place in the top 3 (36 points) of the Premier League standings, ahead of Arsenal (39) and Man City (37).
In the Europa League, Unai Emery’s team safely passed the league stage and entered the top 3 together with Lyon and Mittjylland (15 points out of 18).
Aston Villa’s 10-match winning streak
- 21.12. 19:30. nuclear submarine Aston Villa – Manchester United – 2:1
- 14.12. 16:00. nuclear submarine West Ham – Aston Villa – 2:3
- 11.12. 22:00. LE. Basel-Aston Villa-1:2
- 06.12. 14:30. nuclear submarine Aston Villa – Arsenal – 2:1
- 03.12. 21:30. nuclear submarine Brighton – Aston Villa – 3:4
- 30.11. 16:05. nuclear submarine Aston Villa – Wolverhampton – 1:0
- 27.11. 19:45. LE. Aston Villa – Young Men – 2:1
- 23.11. 16:00. nuclear submarine Leeds – Aston Villa – 1:2
- 09.11. 16:00. nuclear submarine Aston Villa – Bournemouth – 4:0
- 06.11. 22:00. LE. Aston Villa – Maccabi Tel Aviv – 2:0
Aston Villa’s winning streak in the 2025/26 season
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Ukrainian defender Nottingham Forest Alexander Zinchenko He shared his feelings after his team beat Utrecht (2:1) in the main round of the Europa League.
“It’s a great feeling. First of all, I’m back. Secondly, it’s an incredible feeling to win a match. Getting three points today was very important for us. As you can see, it was a difficult match. But at the end of the match, I think we got what we wanted and let’s continue like that.”
“As a defender you always want to keep a clean sheet, but unfortunately we couldn’t do that today. So it’s something we need to work on in the future.”
“This is one of those matches where whoever wins the most challenges in different areas of the field will win the match. Today we won many more goals which helped us a lot in the game. But to be honest, even the opportunities we created, including me, we should have scored and finished this match earlier,” said Zinchenko.
Nottingham Forest is in 11th place in the rankings with 11 points after 6 matches in the Europa League this season.
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