PAOK in Europe 2023-2024 (News, Draws, Rankings)

[Soprano76]

Pleasantly surprised reading the initial replies in this thread from several months ago and seeing how (rightfully) pessimistic everyone was. Team really proved us wrong. 

[Blackhawk]

Even if Legia wins we will be in 9th place in the rankings.

[Blackhawk]

Here are the group seedings:

GROUP 1

Eintracht Frankfurt	GER	77,000
Dinamo Zagreb	CRO	55,000
Club Brugge	BEL	54,000
AZ Alkmaar	HOL	47,500
AA Gent	BEL	37,500
Fenerbahce Istanbul	TUR	30,000
Lille OSC	FRA	30,000
Ferencvaros Budapest	HUN	27,000

GROUP 2

PAOK Thessaloniki	GRE	25,000
Slovan Bratislava	SVK	24,500
Maccabi Tel Aviv	ISR	24,000
Viktoria Plzen	CZE	22,000
Aston Villa	ENG	21,914
Ludogorets Razgad	BUL	21,000
Bodo Glimpt	NOR	20,000
Fiorentina	ITA	20,000

GROUP 3

KRC Genk	BEL	18,000
Zorya Luhansk	UKR	16,000
Besiktas Istanbul	TUR	14,000
FK Astana	KAZ	14,000
Legia Warsaw	POL	11,000
HJK Helsinki	FIN	11,000
Spartak Trnava	SVK	10,500
Olimpija Ljubljana	SLO	9,000

GROUP 4

Zrinjski Mostar	BIH	8,500
FC Aberdeen	SCO	8,000
KI Klaksvik	ICE	8,000
FK Cukaricki	SER	6,475
FC Lugano	SWI	6,335
Breidablik	ICE	6,000
FC Nordsjaelland	DEN	5,565
FC Ballkani	KOS	3,000

 

[pash]

D'oh.

Gimme the Belgians or the Hungarians, I guess. Besiktas the ones to avoid in pot 3.

[Athens4]

Split opinions at the fan club tonight. Some saying that Group 2 is better as we avoid Aston Villa, Fiorentina and Slovan. Others saying Group 1 is better as we get to play against better teams.

Personally, I would like:

Group 1: Alkmaar or Lille
Group 3: Legia, Ljubljana or HJK
Group 4: Aberdeen, Nordsjaelland or one of the Icelandic teams

When this was pointed out at the fan club it was noted by another fellow that I just want to go to Iceland for my own pleasure. He isn't entirely wrong.

[PaokCT]

We have so far got 4.2 million Euros for our European run

[pash]

Yeah I think pot 2 is actually the better pot. We can beat any of the teams in pot 1 (though it won't be easy).

I think I'd want (in order):

1: Lille, AZ Alkmaar

3: Spartak Trnava, HJK, Ljubljana

4: Aberdeen, Mostar

 

I mostly just want to avoid Astana and Besiktas in pot 3.

[pash]

Just now, pash said:

Been ages since I could get excited about this thread.

15 is gonna be tough, but we have some big advantages over all of the teams here (i.e., how many teams we have in the competition). Unfortunately two of those teams will be bottom seeds in their groups, so don't expect miracles. I would say, though, we'd want to hope we get drawn against teams from these countries. It would be extra icing on the cake of any of our teams make it to the knockout stages at the expense of anyone from, say, Israel.

13		Serbia	6.000	5.500	9.500	5.375	1.000	27.375	3/ 5
14		Denmark	5.125	4.125	7.800	5.900	4.000	26.950	2/ 4
15		Norway	3.750	6.500	7.625	5.750	3.000	26.625	2/ 4
16		Israel	2.375	7.000	6.750	6.250	3.250	25.625	2/ 4
17		Ukraine	7.200	6.800	4.200	5.700	1.700	25.600	2/ 5
18		Czech Republic	2.500	6.600	6.700	6.750	2.500	25.050	3/ 4
19		Greece	4.900	5.100	8.000	2.125	3.000	23.125	4/ 5
20		Croatia	4.375	5.900	6.000	3.375	2.875	22.525	1/ 4
21		Poland	2.125	4.000	4.625	7.750	3.875	22.375	2/ 4
22		Sweden	5.750	2.500	5.125	6.250	1.875	21.500	1/ 4

 

Quoting myself from the coefficients thread so we can see who we'd want to get drawn against (we definitely have some potential here for our draw).

BTW Turkey's league is ranked 9th in UEFA. Ugh. I guess mortgaging your future does pay off.

[Dutch Eagle]

Draw is today 15:30 EEST. 

For some fun do a mock draw yourself:

https://draw.inker.one/#/ecl/gs/2023

[Athens4]

Just realised I am already away for the first two matchdays. Classic.

[PaokCT]

Did the draw simulator and got :

AZ

PAOK

Astana

Balkani

 

I would gladly take that draw. 

[Blackhawk]

I want Ferencvaros in our group as I will be in Budapest in October. Would be nice if PAOK played in Budapest around that time.

[PaokCT]

It's on live now 

https://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaconferenceleague/draws/2024/2001792/

[Blackhawk]

And the draw results are:

Eintracht Frankfurt
PAOK Thessaloniki
HJK Helsinki
FC Aberdeen

[PaokCT]

Frankfurt ugh

[Dutch Eagle]

Eintracht Frankfurt from pot 1

[pash]

Frankfurt ughhhh

[pash]

I already hate the hosts

[Blackhawk]

The top seeded club. That's why we needed to be among the top 8 in the seedings.

[pash]

Group B is looking like a real easy group

[PaokCT]

Helsinki

[pash]

At least we get Helsinki!

[Dutch Eagle]

Pot 3: HJK Helsinki

[PaokCT]

Aberdeen

[pash]

Aberdeen, NICE