Well our day of destiny is upon us 

Anyone got any great preferences about where the adventure will take us 

Not long to wait to find out now.

Of the 48 sides that will contest the group stage this autumn, 16 are already known: Villarreal CF, FC Augsburg, FC Schalke 04, Liverpool FC, Tottenham Hotspur FC, ACF Fiorentina, SSC Napoli, SC Braga, Olympique de Marseille, FC Lokomotiv Moskva, FC Groningen, FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, RSC Anderlecht, Be?ikta? JK, Asteras Tripolis FC, FC Sion.

 

Of the remaining 32 teams, 22 come from qualifying, which begins at the end of June and culminates in August's play-offs. Then there are ten teams that transfer from the UEFA Champions League after losing that competition's play-offs.

 

Interesting that FC Gronigen go straight into group stages despite early exit from competition at our hands last year

Allegedly we can get one from the following in 1st round

 

Bala Town FC (WAL)

KF Shkëndija (MKD)

SJK Seinäjoki (FIN)

Glenavon FC (NIR)

Víkingur (FRO)

 

Would like to think we will get past all of the above.

Of the 48 sides that will contest the group stage this autumn, 16 are already known: Villarreal CF, FC Augsburg, FC Schalke 04, Liverpool FC, Tottenham Hotspur FC, ACF Fiorentina, SSC Napoli, SC Braga, Olympique de Marseille, FC Lokomotiv Moskva, FC Groningen, FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, RSC Anderlecht, Be?ikta? JK, Asteras Tripolis FC, FC Sion.

 

Of the remaining 32 teams, 22 come from qualifying, which begins at the end of June and culminates in August's play-offs. Then there are ten teams that transfer from the UEFA Champions League after losing that competition's play-offs.

 

Interesting that FC Groningen go straight into group stages despite early exit from competition at our hands last year

 

Surely that's just because they finished higher in the league?

 

I'd agree Jute, if we failed to get past those, it would be pretty embarrassing.

link for live coverage of draw if anyone is interested.

 

http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/season=2015/draws/index.html

We got KF Shkëndija (MKD) with first leg away.

Aberdeen vs FC shkendija (Macedonia)

 

Alashkvert (Armenia) vs St Johnstone

 

Strange regionalisation there for us to draw a team from Macedonia ???

Strange regionalisation there for us to draw a team from Macedonia ???

 

Was wondering that myself, St. Johnstone have some team from Albania    Wouldn't fancy that myself, on or off the pitch.

Was wondering that myself, St. Johnstone have some team from Albania    Wouldn't fancy that myself, on or off the pitch.

 

Or Armenia even

Or Armenia even

 

Right you are!

I've been hearing that their fans are a bit hardcore and don't like away fans much....

 

They seem....interesting. 

So get through to the second round and we play in Croatia FFS

If we get to third round we will take Rijeka's seeding.

McInnes on SSN just now

Difficult draw, tough team, heat a problem, but confident and capable of beating Macedonians and doesn't want to comment on potential second round opponents.

Feels we need luck on our side, wants to repeat success of European campaign last season, and hope to improve as we go along.

Feels our squad is strong, competition for places, hopes to sign another one or two before window closes but not before European games.

Any improvement on last season domestically or in Europe is progress for AFC etc etc....

Rijeka beat both Feyenord and Standard Liege over two legs last year and drew with Sevilla at home also.

 

Going to be tough to get through this

Rijeka beat both Feyenord and Standard Liege over two legs last year and drew with Sevilla at home also.

 

Going to be tough to get through this

 

Rijeka are a tough team

Away game against Shkendija is being shown by Premier Sports according to their website.

 

http://www.premiersports.tv/football/european-qualifiers-2015/

Away game against Shkendija is being shown by Premier Sports according to their website.

 

http://www.premiersports.tv/football/european-qualifiers-2015/

 

Brilliant news, will be ordering it again tomorrow 

 

Club have released news for any supporters going:

 

http://www.afc.co.uk/news/6391.php#.VZK_U_lVhBd

Away game against Shkendija is being shown by Premier Sports according to their website.

 

http://www.premiersports.tv/football/european-qualifiers-2015/

 

Nice one, I get it as part of my Virgin Media Big Khauna deal.

Nice one, I get it as part of my Virgin Media Big Khauna deal.

 

That is a tasty deal.

That is a tasty deal.

 

 

I'd recommend Sprite as an accompaniment.

For anyone looking to watch the game tomorrow. The foundry, Triple Kirks, Black Dog, The Bobbin and Murdos will all be showing the game

Malone's in Edinburgh also supposed to be showing Dons game.

Anyone else have problems with signing up for this yesterday?  Wouldn't let me past the second stage after i'd filled my details in 

 

Preview from last friday on Northsound 1 :

 

https://audioboom.com/boos/3334059-listen-dons-europa-league-pre-match-preview