Shamrock Rovers will journey to double European Champions Chelsea within the new-look UEFA Europa Convention League.
The Republic of Eire champions have additionally been handed an attention grabbing journey to Northern Eire to play Larne – the primary staff from the nation to succeed in the latter levels of a UEFA membership competitors.
🥁 Our League Part opponents have now been confirmed…
🏴 Chelsea (A)
🇨🇾 APOEL (H)
🇦🇹 SK Fast (A)
🏴 The New Saints (H)
🇧🇦 Borac (H)
🔴 Larne (A)#RoversInEurope l #UECLdraw pic.twitter.com/A8uIms155m— Shamrock Rovers FC (@ShamrockRovers) August 30, 2024
The New Saints, who additionally made historical past as the primary aspect from the League of Wales to qualify, will cross the Irish Sea to face Shamrock and head to Italy to tackle Serie A giants Fiorentina.
The Welsh champions, who play their residence video games throughout the border in Oswestry, Shropshire, have additionally been given a mouth-watering residence tie in opposition to Greek giants Panathinaikos – who’ve reached the last-eight of the European Cup on 5 events and misplaced the 1971 closing to Ajax.
Chelsea will make the reverse journey to Greece as a part of their six-game schedule.
As with the Champions League and Europa League, for the primary time this season all of the qualifiers can be in a single 36-team league section, relatively than eight four-team teams.
At Friday afternoon’s attract Monaco a brand new laptop software program was used to offer every staff three residence video games and three away ties.
The highest-eight sides within the desk after the preliminary section ends in December go straight into the last-16, with the edges ending ninth to twenty fourth going through a two-legged knockout tie to affix them.
The groups in twenty fifth to thirty sixth can be eradicated from European competitors totally.
We’re 𝗟𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗲.
We’re 𝗨𝗘𝗙𝗔 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗴𝘂𝗲.❤️🌍 @europacnfleague #WeAreLarne #ForTheTown pic.twitter.com/Um5fK5xUjY
— Larne Soccer Membership 🏆 (@larnefc) August 29, 2024
The draw
Chelsea will host Gent, Shamrock Rovers and FC Noah (Armenia)
They’ll go to Heidenheim, Astana (Kazhakstan) and Panathinaikos.
Hearts will host Heidenheim, Omonoia Nicosia and Petrocub (Moldova).
They’ll go to Copenhagen, Cercle Bruges and Dinamo Minsk
Shamrock Rovers will host Apoel Nicosia, The New Saints and Borac (Bosnia).
They’ll go to Chelsea, Fast Vienna and Larne.
The New Saints will host Djurgardens, Astana and Panathinaikos
They’ll go to Fiorentina, Shamrock Rovers and Celje (Slovenia).
Larne will host Gent, Shamrock Rovers and St Gallen.
They’ll go to Molde, Olimpija (Slovenia) and Dinamo Minsk.
The fixture order and dates can be launched by UEFA on Saturday.
Our opponents within the league section of the 2024-25 UEFA Convention League have been confirmed!#UECL | @europacnfleague pic.twitter.com/d6VEpWi5hK
— The New Saints FC (@tnsfc) August 30, 2024
