⚽UEFA Europa Conference League Discussion Thread -- 2021/22 Winner: Roma!

[Juggy777]

Thank you cygan for the update of teams, I'll add it into OP for that, and what's strange for me in fact is that I actually recognise at least 1 name from each group;) Maybe Europa League has crept into my mind, or betting on those games that played on during Covid lockdown!

My personal picks: Batumi (Georgia), Wroclaw (Poland), Yereven (Armenia) -- all have been very good to me in betting haha:)

@buwaytress, thanks for making this thread, I was looking for it .
Personally, I don't like idea of this tournament. I call it Europa League for peasants. Yes, this tournament gives chances for clubs from small league to play in Europe. Even teams from my country have fairly good chances to reach group stage. But on the other hand, this tournament had closed doors to Europa League for many clubs and leagues. As said above by @mv1986, good teams from Greece, cyprus or Switzerland now are separated from elite.
There is some big clubs like Spurs or Roma who will have to play there. It's interesting what attitude towards this tournament they will have. I doubt that their are going to play with main squads there.
Conference League games will be played on Thursdays, same as Europa league. I doubt that many neutral fans is going to watch it, unless you're supporter of team which play there.

You're welcome:) I was asked to, and well, maybe we get a unique breed of supporters in here from countries not normally in Champs League? I know if my country were in a popular thread I'd be even more active! Where are you from?

I had no idea we wouldn't be seeing Greece or Switzerland in Europa, which sounds strange but absolutely right now I check the qualification routes! Imagine Basel and Young Boys out of Europa? Panathinaikos, wow. But prize money wise, it's almost the same and these "big" teams might feel they have a better chance to win in Conference? Maybe they don't argue as much.

@buwaytress it would be nice if you regularly post detailed updates about the team you plan to wager on, cause I barely know teams in this league and not many here look like they’ll be wagering in this league. Also about the money part what if the fans give it a miss, then won’t UEFA have to reconsider the status of this league or the league has enough cash to run despite the poor response from the fans.

[buwaytress]

@buwaytress it would be nice if you regularly post detailed updates about the team you plan to wager on, cause I barely know teams in this league and not many here look like they’ll be wagering in this league. Also about the money part what if the fans give it a miss, then won’t UEFA have to reconsider the status of this league or the league has enough cash to run despite the poor response from the fans.

I actually already do have my own daily thread on my picks but I'm just a value gambler, and with Sunday gambler sized bets =) I can't pretend to be an expert but I do like backing the underdog.

But sure, I'll remember to check back in here to put my picks. I bet on Inter Club d'Escaldes on both the Prelims, won the first one around 8/1 but lost last night.

The league has almost equal cash to Europa in terms of prize money. It's going to be big for those who never get the chance to watch their teams in Europe. I think this might just have its own appeal.

[LTU_btc]

You're welcome:) I was asked to, and well, maybe we get a unique breed of supporters in here from countries not normally in Champs League? I know if my country were in a popular thread I'd be even more active! Where are you from?

I had no idea we wouldn't be seeing Greece or Switzerland in Europa, which sounds strange but absolutely right now I check the qualification routes! Imagine Basel and Young Boys out of Europa? Panathinaikos, wow. But prize money wise, it's almost the same and these "big" teams might feel they have a better chance to win in Conference? Maybe they don't argue as much.

I'm from Lithuania and clubs from my country never played in group stage of Champions or Europa league. Though, if Conference league would had started few years earlier, we would had club in group stage 3 years in a row.
Qualifying round will begin next week and our clubs got quite good opponents which we can beat - clubs from Gibraltar and Latvia and one club got automatically promoted to next round (no idea why). If they will pass 1st round, they earn some money and ranking points for our league.
By the way, does anyone remember another UEFA tournament - Intertoto Cup? It was tournament with strange format and didn't gained much interest.

[LTU_btc]

So, today we have 30 1st round qualifying games, so, enough opportunities to make bet. Though, even for me who follow early qualifying rounds of UEFA tournaments, some names of teams are never heard before.
Liepaja - Struga - home win @1.70
Riga FC  - Klaksvik - home win @1.75 (big value bet IMHO, though Klaklsvik known for good defense)
Suduva - Valmiera - under 2.5 @1.72
Zilina - Dila Gori - over 2.5 @1.60
Europa - Zalgiris Kaunas - away win @1.77 (big value bet)
Tre Penne - Dinamo Batumi - no BTTS @1.57
Maribor - Urartu - over 2.5 @1.55
Quite many bets, but I prefer multiple small bets on such game than few bigger ones. And don't risk to put much money on teams which aren't known at all for me.

[alegotardo]

So, today we have 30 1st round qualifying games, so, enough opportunities to make bet. Though, even for me who follow early qualifying rounds of UEFA tournaments, some names of teams are never heard before.

So, imagine for those who are from outside Europe, despite enjoying and following European football closely, I don't know any of the teams you listed.
I was seriously thinking about doing some research and some betting just so I wouldn't miss the opportunity, but it's hard to gamble with luck alone.

I think the best strategy is to monitor the teams' performance in the next games and place bets towards the end of the championship or simply not betting here.

[tomahawk9]

so, enough opportunities to make bet.

idk my dude...i doubt anyone here (or anywhere) knows those teams even existed. I can imagine the players of those semi-professional teams on their way to their regular job sometimes asking to themselves "what was the name of the club i play for again?" lol

Unless you're familiar with any those teams, i would skip those games. You're taking a huge risk by going in completely blind, unless, you're betting pocket money and feel generous enough to give some to the bookmakers

you might find some value in Maribor - Urartu. I remember seeing Maribor in the CL a few times, surely they can take care of Urartu just fine

[Karartma1]

And here there's another useless competition where we can lose our hard earned money via betting!
Of course, I'm in!
Fehervar-Ararat Over 2,5 goals
Inter Turku-Puskas Akademia Over 2,5 goals
Birkirkara-La Fiorita Over 2,5 goals
Siroki Brijeg-Vllaznia Over 2,5 goals
Sant Julià-Gzira United Over 2,5 goals

These are my picks with absolutely no clue of what I'm betting on, never heard of these teams before. Therefore I might be very correct and win the bet! Trust me! 

[Joca97]

And here there's another useless competition where we can lose our hard earned money via betting!
Of course, I'm in!
Fehervar-Ararat Over 2,5 goals
Inter Turku-Puskas Akademia Over 2,5 goals
Birkirkara-La Fiorita Over 2,5 goals
Siroki Brijeg-Vllaznia Over 2,5 goals
Sant Julià-Gzira United Over 2,5 goals

These are my picks with absolutely no clue of what I'm betting on, never heard of these teams before. Therefore I might be very correct and win the bet! Trust me! 

These are all low quality teams so there should be lots of goals between all of these teams.But still its the first game of the season so i dont know if they will all go into over but it can happen easily

[ILuckyGuyI]

I examined the teams in the big leagues in Europe which have qualified for the ECL. I saw that there were teams like Tottenham, Roma and Feyenoord. Maybe not Feyenoord but I think Tottenham and Roma are one of the favourites for the title surely.

[hahay]

Honestly, I am not familiar with the participating teams in this tournament but even so, there are some teams that I sometimes choose in random bets. But still, with the lack of familiarity for the teams in this tournament, it makes me have to check more about which country the team is from. This is the first season which I think will still lack fans, because this tournament is also rarely exposed to the media and to be honest I also only just found out about this tournament with this thread.

[snipie]

Honestly, I am not familiar with the participating teams in this tournament but even so, there are some teams that I sometimes choose in random bets. But still, with the lack of familiarity for the teams in this tournament, it makes me have to check more about which country the team is from. This is the first season which I think will still lack fans, because this tournament is also rarely exposed to the media and to be honest I also only just found out about this tournament with this thread.

That's why it is relevant to create that thread
Since it is the first edition with pretty much new teams for us, we never heard about it and we have no idea how good/miserable they are then it is normal to have suspicion about how relevant this competition will be. In the next years and I would say even at a later stage, they will be much attraction to its games.

[Juggy777]

Honestly, I am not familiar with the participating teams in this tournament but even so, there are some teams that I sometimes choose in random bets. But still, with the lack of familiarity for the teams in this tournament, it makes me have to check more about which country the team is from. This is the first season which I think will still lack fans, because this tournament is also rarely exposed to the media and to be honest I also only just found out about this tournament with this thread.

That's why it is relevant to create that thread
Since it is the first edition with pretty much new teams for us, we never heard about it and we have no idea how good/miserable they are then it is normal to have suspicion about how relevant this competition will be. In the next years and I would say even at a later stage, they will be much attraction to its games.

@snipe indeed this thread will be really helpful when the tournament begins, because I’m sure someone will be updating odds and post their predictions here. Furthermore I believe that Tottenham will have an excellent chance of winning it, and if they don’t win it then maybe they’ll need a new coach again.

[buwaytress]

So we had THIRTY games last night, and I stupidly bet on some that I've been familiar with (and may have mentioned earlier are the ones I'm looking at). They've brought me some small joy in their domestic leagues but I guess here is where they see just how far they've come in a new competition against champions from other similar leagues (in terms of coefficients).

My picks from yesterday and their results:
Batumi (won 4-0)
Ararat (drew 1-1)
Slask Wroclaw (won 2-1)
Noah (won 1-0)

I love them Caucascus teams =p

[LTU_btc]

So, imagine for those who are from outside Europe, despite enjoying and following European football closely, I don't know any of the teams you listed.
I was seriously thinking about doing some research and some betting just so I wouldn't miss the opportunity, but it's hard to gamble with luck alone.

Yeah, I can imagine that. Probably it would be same if I'd try to bet on Asia Champion league qualifiers .

idk my dude...i doubt anyone here (or anywhere) knows those teams even existed. I can imagine the players of those semi-professional teams on their way to their regular job sometimes asking to themselves "what was the name of the club i play for again?" lol

Unless you're familiar with any those teams, i would skip those games. You're taking a huge risk by going in completely blind, unless, you're betting pocket money and feel generous enough to give some to the bookmakers

you might find some value in Maribor - Urartu. I remember seeing Maribor in the CL a few times, surely they can take care of Urartu just fine

Personally, I'm familiar with some of these teams. Clubs from my country play in these early qualifying rounds, they never reach group stage. I follow such qualifying games for more than 10 years, so I have some clue about. Though, it doesn't always bring luck in betting.
And yeah, it's true that part of these teams aren't even professional, especially from countries like Gibraltar, Andora, San Marino or Faore Islands, but sometimes they manage to beat fully pro teams and reach 2nd round.

[DU18]

Honestly, I am not familiar with the participating teams in this tournament but even so, there are some teams that I sometimes choose in random bets. But still, with the lack of familiarity for the teams in this tournament, it makes me have to check more about which country the team is from. This is the first season which I think will still lack fans, because this tournament is also rarely exposed to the media and to be honest I also only just found out about this tournament with this thread.

I think this is very reasonable, because the competition is still very new and of course there will be very few football fans who know the format and also the teams competing in the competition now, maybe if the competition goes well enough in the first season, I am very sure if the conference league in the future will be able to become one of the competitions that is quite prestigious in my opinion, as is the case with the champions and european leagues which have become a competition that has indeed become very global and has also become the target of clubs and football players to be able to play in these competitions.

[Joca97]

So we had THIRTY games last night, and I stupidly bet on some that I've been familiar with (and may have mentioned earlier are the ones I'm looking at). They've brought me some small joy in their domestic leagues but I guess here is where they see just how far they've come in a new competition against champions from other similar leagues (in terms of coefficients).

My picks from yesterday and their results:
Batumi (won 4-0)
Ararat (drew 1-1)
Slask Wroclaw (won 2-1)
Noah (won 1-0)

I love them Caucascus teams =p

Well this brings joy to small countries. But all of these teams 95% of them or more wont even make it to the group stage i guess. A lot harder teams are from the second qualification round. Most of these teams all of us dont even know about so this is mostly blind betting in this first round.

[buwaytress]

We have a huge number of games with one already ongoing (and it's my pals Ararat who're 1-0 up now as the underdogs woohoo!).

Too long to list, but full schedule is here: https://www.livescores.com/soccer/europa-conference-league/qualification/ with stats and live scores, so why not, right?

As I've mentioned before, my teams supported are from the Caucasus, so that's also Noah, Batumi I can recognise playing tonight. Give them some love, gentlemen!

[LTU_btc]

My bets for today games:
Urartu vs Mribor - away win @1.75
Kauno Zalgiris vs Europa - home win @1.95. In 1st leg Zalgiris were completely outplayed by amateurs from Gibraltar, but I don't expect similar scenario today.
Runavik vs Honka - away win @1.63
Dinamo Batumi vs Tre Penne - over 3.5 @1.70
Klaksvik vs Riga - BTTS @1.55
Hesperange vs Domzale - w-away win @1.55

We have a huge number of games with one already ongoing (and it's my pals Ararat who're 1-0 up now as the underdogs woohoo!).

What odds for Ararat win was? I think this result is quite big surprise.

[buwaytress]

What odds for Ararat win was? I think this result is quite big surprise.

Was 5/1 but went down below as the match approached. Even managed to double the lead towards the end. If Noah complete it too (12/1), I'll be ecstatic. But they're already down a goal heh heh.

Good picks for you, they all ML bets? I actually bet on Europa last season when they were in Europa League but the best they did were draw, so perhaps the wise bet for them is handicaps since they don't seem to want to win either. Huge, huge underdogs!

Tre Penne is at 50/1 haha, was even 60 at one point but I don't mind taking them even against my own favourite. Go San Marino =D

[alegotardo]

I think this is very reasonable, because the competition is still very new and of course there will be very few football fans who know the format and also the teams competing in the competition now, maybe if the competition goes well enough in the first season, I am very sure if the conference league in the future will be able to become one of the competitions that is quite prestigious in my opinion, as is the case with the champions and european leagues which have become a competition that has indeed become very global and has also become the target of clubs and football players to be able to play in these competitions.

Yeap, I also see it as a competition that has a lot of potentials to become famous.
I'm still trying to get to know the teams better and make some bets "here and there" without the intention of winning anything right now, just forcing myself to get to know the teams better and be able to make more accurate bets.
It's been fun despite stealing me more time than anticipated.

I just hope that soon we will have more sites accepting bets in this competition.