MONACO (AP) – The Europa League draw set two rematches of the European Cup final in Germany on Friday at Israeli club Mackabi Tel-Aviv.
1970 European champion Fayenode hosts Celtic in the league phase game, while Nottingham Forest hosts a home game against Swedish Side Marmo. This was a semi-professional team that lost the title match of the English club’s European Cup in 1979.
Maccabi Tel-Aviv flees the game against Stuttgart and Freiburg in Germany, and also heads out to Aston Villa and Paok in Greece in Birmingham, England.
The Israeli club has played a game organized by UEFA in a neutral country for security reasons during the conflict in Gaza, and Mackabi Tel-Aviv held a European game this season in Baccatopola, Serbia.
Maccabi Tel-Aviv’s home game is against Dinamo Zagreb, Lyon, Midtjylland and Bologna.
Coach Giampierogaspeni, who won the Europa League in Atalanta two seasons ago, will make two trips to Glasgow to play fierce Glasgow rivals Celtic and Rangers among eight opponents.
The Europa League uses the same 36-team league format as the Champions League. Teams play eight different opponents in the league stage and are ranked on a single stand table.
Villa was one of 11 teams in Friday’s draw, which he played in the Champions League last season, but coach Unai Emery is a four-time Europa League winner, three times with Sevilla and one with Villarreal.
The villa enemy slate includes a trip to Fenerbafe. I broke up with manager Jose Mourinho Early Friday.
Forest is located in the second tier Europa League instead of Crystal Palace. Crystal Palace is the winner of the English FA Cup, demoted by UEFA in a complex case related to owners who bet on multiple clubs. The Palace will play in the conference league instead.
Mori and his Portuguese coach Nuno Espirito Santo play two opponents from Portugal at home, then in Braga.
The top eight teams will go straight to the 16th round in March. The team went from 9th to 24th in the Knockout Playoffs in February. The lower 12 teams will be eliminated.
The 36 Europa League teams share a prize of 565 million euros ($659 million). Each club is guaranteed at least 4.3 million euros ($5 million).
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