This is the discussion thread for the Europa League.

Champions League thread is here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5163249
Europa Conference League thread is here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5342840

Hi guys! So the old UEFA lounge was closed. And kenzawak's closed his thread for last season too... I'm loathe to open new threads every season, what do you think? Can we have this as the perma thread or a new one every season?


COVID happened, United scuppered it all in the final and Villareal won their first major trophy during the COVID season.


Eintracht Frankfurt beat Glasgow Rangers on penalties after taking the game to extra time on 1-1. They went the entire campaign undefeated, and knocked out Barca along the way.

@buwaytress keep this thread permanent no need to close this one and open a new thread every season, as other sport threads too are permanent eg cricket and tennis one. University Men’s team won’t last long in this competition not even sure how they managed to make it so far. Zidane is back as the coach of Real Madrid can he win the trophy again?, or will Liverpool be able to defend it that’s what we should be discussing.

@buwaytress, I think that we need separate threads for Champions and Europa leagues. This thread will become messy eventually when everything is mixed in one place.
In preliminary round we can see mainly weak teams from semi-professional leagues. Next weak when first qualifying round will start, we will see stronger and more known teams joining like Celtic, Crvena Zvezda, Rangers and others.

I have some knowledge about smaller European leagues, so I often bet on the qualification games. It's possible to find very good odds in some matches, especially in live games.

I second this. This thread will get unreadable and unfollowable if we keep everything at one place!

Regarding the games I wouldnt bet a cent right now. In such low quality games everything can happen, way too risky for me

@LTU and the rest. OK fine, renamed to Europa League only;) Thanks for the feedback.

@Juggy, well, the Mets Uni team actually won last night, they unfortunately lost progress thanks to Europe's away goal rule so no fairy tale there.

@LTU Yeah in general I like to look for good value in the latter and group stages too, and I generally have good fortune. I especially think when teams meet for the first time, they're unknown entities, and if you have just a tiny bit of knowledge about them, you might know more than the bookies.

Rangers are my darkhorses for this tourney, but not just because Stevie G, they're actually getting better with every game!

I think one thread per competition and per season is better. It makes things easier to follow.
It might also prevent them from being locked.
Thanks for opening these two new ones.

This is very correct, this is the sort of games I usually stay away or go through proper research before trying to place a bet or predict them.
When two weak teams play, it's more difficult to choose between them, this stages are pretty tricky.
I think having the thread every season would be best, and it'll help to keep it clean and reduce the possibility of it turning to a spam thread.

43 matches will be played today in Europa league qualifiers. Mostly we will see smaller and less known teams playing. But I will post few my bets.
Riteriai win vs Klaksvik @1.77, Hapoel Beer Sheva win vs Laci @1.35, Domzale win vs Balzan @1.47, Brann win vs Shamrock Rovers @1.5, Debrecen win vs Kukes @1.38 and Haugesund win vs Cliftonville @1.63.
I'm not going to play with big money today because betting on such games is quite risky and we already saw some big surprises in previous days.

I hardly ever play with big money, and for me big is even $50 to $100! AND I don't post them here either, call me superstitious but I post my beer money bets only. And it's not even really beer money, it's really money I'm prepared to lose. I find the $5 bets are a lot more enjoyable than $50!

On to the games though, I have a hard time making my picks too. Precious little to dig up from the news on team preps from these leagues but I actually chose the underdog in one of yours. Shamrock Rovers are from a scrappy league (Ireland) but they are in the thick of 2nd spot in their league with shitty form, 1 win and 2 losses in the past 5 games.

Brann are in a much better league but are scrambling in 5th and equally poor form. Of course they should have better quality still being in a more competitive league that actually has a Champs League spot haha, but still, luck of the Irish?

No, it wasn't parlay. It would be fastest way to lose money. And as I see, I already lost few bets - not the best day so far...
They are from Gibraltar. I don't knowe history of their name, but now I see that they are playing against Legia and result is 0:0 at 65 minute. Draw in this game would be big sensation.