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Europa League 2012-13 - QF: Basel (SUI)

Details of revenue distribution for 2012-13 EL have been announced by UEFA.

Teams will receive €1.3m (2011-12: €1.0m) for participating in the group stage plus €200,000 for each win and €100,000 for each draw (2011-12: €140,000 and €70,000). Further amounts are awarded for each knockout stage reached. The EL winner will receive a total of €7.0m (2011-12: €4.6m) from progressing through the knockout rounds.

In addition, the teams will receive a share of the market pool of €83.5m (2011-12: €60m) distributed according to the proportional value of each television market of the countries participating at each round. Spurs will also benefit from the English share of the market pool being divided between 3 teams this season (assuming Liverpool and Saudi Sportswashing Machine reach the group stage) compared to 4 English teams in the groups last year. Assuming it's shared between 3, I estimate the English teams will each receive around €2.8m (2011-12: €1.5m) from the market pool for the group stage.

http://www.uefa.com/uefa/management/finance/news/newsid=1845777.html

Peanuts, you make your money from the Europa League out of extra match day revenue (ticket sales/pies etc).
 
We are in group one so could be drawn with any of the unseeded teams

UEFA Europa League play-off draw
Seeded
Group 1
AZ Alkmaar (NED)
FC Internazionale Milano (ITA)
APOEL FC (CYP)
FK Partizan (SRB)
Saudi Sportswashing Machine FC (ENG)

Unseeded
FC Vaslui (ROU)
Atromitos FC (GRE)
FC Anzhi Makhachkala (RUS
Tromsø IL (NOR)
Neftçi PFK (AZE)

Just hope we can avoid Anzhi.

Liverpool could get any of the following;

Debreceni VSC (HUN)
CS Maritimo (POR)
Heart of Midlothian FC (SCO)
Molde FK (NOR)
HJK Helsinki (FIN)

COYT! (Come On You Tromsø!) Will be difficult no matter who, although APOEL and Partizan are probably the easier one.

Hoping Liverpool get Molde, will be fun to see a Norwegian team up against PL opposition and Molde's manager is Ole Gunnar Solskjær (former Manu player) so perhaps a bit of rivalry.
 
Champions League playoff draw:

Basel v CFR Cluj

Helsingborgs IF v Celtic

AEL v Anderlecht

BATE v Hapoel Kiryat Shmona

Dinamo Zagreb v Maribor

Braga v Udinese

Spartak Moscow v Fenerbahce

Malaga v Panathinaikos

Borussia M'Gladbach v Dynamo Kiev

Lille v FC Copenhagen

Ties to be played 21-22 and 28-29 August
 
Still tinkles me off seeing Celtic in the champions league, what's the point, really?

We finished above Chelsea, Liverpool, Saudi Sportswashing Machine. They finished above a div three team and Dundee United....
 
Tonight's match between Anarthosis and Dila has been abandonded after the away team scored twice, in the 78th and 80th minute, to take the lead on aggregate.

Playoff draw tomorrow, 12.30 pm.

Seeded: Inter, Liverpool, Marseille, Sporting Lisbon, CSKA Moscow, PSV, Bordeaux, Twente, Stuttgart, Metalist Kharkiv, Athletic Bilbao, AZ Alkmaar, Club Brugge, APOEL Nicosia, Hapoel Tel-Aviv, Hannover, Lazio, PAOK, Steaua Bucuresti, Sparta Praha, Rosenborg, Herenveen, Trabzonspor, Saudi Sportswashing Machine, Young Boys, Levante, Racing Genk, Partizan Belgrade, Viktoria Plzen, Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, FC Vaslui

Unseeded: Bursaspor, Dinamo Bucuresti, Feyenoord, Maritimo, Rapid Wien, Legia Warzaw, Dinamo Moscow, Red Star Belgrade, Sheriff Tiraspol, Anzhi, Debrecen, Atromitos, Hearts, Motherwell, Midtjylland, Lokeren, Luzern, AIK Stockholm, Slovan Liberec, Horsens, Slask Wroclaw, Helsinki, Tromsø, Ekranas, Molde, Fehervar, Dudelange, Neftchi Baku, Dila Gori, Mura Murska Sobota, Zeta Golubovci

Romanian team Vaslui were rather hard done by. Because the game between Anorthosis Famagusta and Dila Gori was abandoned and technically not resolved UEFA placed "the winner of .." into the play off draw with the highest coefficient of the two teams (which was Famagusta). Dila Gori would have been unseeded and will clearly be awarded the tie but instead "Famagusta / Dila Gori" were seeded and Vaslui dropped into the unseeded section - where they drew Inter!
 
Hatem Ben Arfa will miss the start of Saudi Sportswashing Machine's Europa League campaign as he serves a suspension dating back to 2010.

Alan Pardew and his players will fly out to Greece on Wednesday for their first leg of their play-off clash with Atromitos, but the Frenchman will not be with them as he starts a three-match ban incurred during time at his former club Marseille.

The 25-year-old, whose late penalty against Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday evening got Saudi Sportswashing Machine off to a winning start in the Premier League, was sent off in Marseille's 2-1 home defeat by Benfica in March 2010 which saw them miss out on a place in the Europa League quarter-finals. Ben Arfa joined Saudi Sportswashing Machine on loan later that year and has had no opportunity since to serve his ban.

He will miss both legs of the tie against the Greeks and the first game of the group stage, if Saudi Sportswashing Machine progress.
 
CL Playoffs 1st leg:

Spartak Moscow 2 - 1 Fenerbahce
Basel 1 - 2 CFR Cluj
FC Copenhagen 1 - 0 Lille
Helsingborg 0 - 2 Celtic
Monchengladbach 1 - 3 Dynamo Kyiv
 
Hatem Ben Arfa will miss the start of Saudi Sportswashing Machine's Europa League campaign as he serves a suspension dating back to 2010.

Alan Pardew and his players will fly out to Greece on Wednesday for their first leg of their play-off clash with Atromitos, but the Frenchman will not be with them as he starts a three-match ban incurred during time at his former club Marseille.

The 25-year-old, whose late penalty against Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday evening got Saudi Sportswashing Machine off to a winning start in the Premier League, was sent off in Marseille's 2-1 home defeat by Benfica in March 2010 which saw them miss out on a place in the Europa League quarter-finals. Ben Arfa joined Saudi Sportswashing Machine on loan later that year and has had no opportunity since to serve his ban.

He will miss both legs of the tie against the Greeks and the first game of the group stage, if Saudi Sportswashing Machine progress.

As long as we don't make the same blunder we did with Lee Bowyer, who ended up serving a 12 match ban when it should have been 6!

He wouldn't have gone out to Athens anyway, might have featured in the return leg. We will be playing a reserve team against Atromitos because they refused to move the game to Wednesday and the Premier League refused to move out Chelsea game to the Sunday so we are playing Thursday and Saturday.
 
Our squad that has travelled to Athens;

Romain Amalfitano, Vurnon Anita, Gael Bigirimana, Yohan Cabaye, Adam Campbell, Patinkle Cisse, Dan Gosling, Jonas Gutierrez, Steve Harper, Tim Krul, Sylvain Marveaux, Gabriel Obertan, James Perch, Davide Santon, Danny Simpson, James Tavernier, Ryan Taylor, Steven Taylor, Mike Williamson.
 
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