Europa League
European draw day for Olympiakos, Panathinaikos and Aris: they get to know their next opponents
On Tuesday afternoon (February 8, 2:00 p.m., LIVE Sportish) Olympiacos will learn an opponent or a pair of opponents in the Europa League playoffs, while at 3:00 p.m. (LIVE Sportish) Panathinaikos, Aris and the red-whites will learn their opponents in the as part of the Conference League Playoffs.
Three teams will take part in the draw in Nyon on Tuesday (1 August) and get to know opponents for the Europa League and Europa Conference League playoffs.
Olympiacos will kick things off (2:00 p.m., LIVE Sportish), taking part in two draws on Tuesday. First, he will take part in the Europa League playoff draw, where he will find himself if he gets past Slovan Bratislava, while he will also find an opponent for the Conference League in case he is eliminated by the Slovaks. Let’s see in detail.
Olympiacos’ potential opponents in the Europa League
On Monday (1 August), UEFA made changes to the Europa League play-off draw. In particular, there is no restriction on playing against teams from the same country and the only restriction that exists due to a tense political atmosphere is for teams from Azerbaijan and Armenia.
The “Red-Whites” find against them a team from the first priority group, these are:
- Gent (Belgium)
- Austria (Austria)
- hearts (Scotland)
- Sivasspor (Turkey)
- Dnipro (Ukraine)
- Silkeborg (Denmark)
Your potential opponent can come from the second priority group, the teams eliminated in the 3rd round of Champions League qualification and will be 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)
Possible opponents in the Conference League
Of course, Olympiacos take part in the Europa Conference League draw an hour later so they know their opponent in case they fail to overtake Slovan Bratislava.
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)
Expected opponents of Panathinaikos – Aris in the Conference League
On Monday (1/8) Panathinaikos and Aris were divided into “sub-groups” and got to know their potential opponents with a view to Tuesday’s Conference League playoff draw.
It should be remembered that both Greek teams are among the strongest in this process, having inherited the coefficients of their two opponents (Slavia Prague and Maccabi Tel Aviv respectively).
The Greens’ potential opponents include Yiannis Papanikolaou’s Rakov and Stratos Svarnas, while Lefski Sofias, who missed PAOK in the second qualifying round of the competition, could be on the way.
On the other hand, Aris fell to more difficult teams as they didn’t avoid Nis, but so did Vitoria Guimaraes (a pair with Marko Livaya’s Hajduk) and Konyaspor.
The opponents of Panathinaikos
- Rakov (Poland) / Spartak Trnava (Slovakia)
- MOL Fehervar (Hungary) / Petrocube (Moldova)
- Levski (Bulgaria) / Hamrun (Malta)
- Lugano (Switzerland) / Hapoel Beer Sheva (Israel)
The enemies of Mars
- Nice, France)
- Hajduk Split (Croatia) / Vitoria Guimaraes (Portugal)
- Vaduz (Liechtenstein) / Konyaspor (Turkey)
- Viking (Norway) / Sligo Rovers (Northern Ireland)
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.
All important moments of the match are available in LIVE mode Telegram Sport.ua
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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