Conference League: Chelsea host Shamrock as home nations handed huge ties in UEFA draw
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Shamrock Rovers will travel to double European Champions Chelsea in the new-look UEFA Europa Conference League.
The Republic of Ireland champions have also been handed an eye-catching trip to Northern Ireland to play Larne โ the first team from the country to reach the latter stages of a UEFA club competition.
๐ฅ Our League Phase opponents have now been confirmedโฆ
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Chelsea (A)
๐จ๐พ APOEL (H)
๐ฆ๐น SK Rapid (A)
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ The New Saints (H)
๐ง๐ฆ Borac (H)
๐ด Larne (A)#RoversInEurope l #UECLdraw pic.twitter.com/A8uIms155mโ Shamrock Rovers FC (@ShamrockRovers) August 30, 2024
The New Saints, who also made history as the first side from the League of Wales to qualify, will cross the Irish Sea to face Shamrock and head to Italy to take on Serie A giants Fiorentina.
The Welsh champions, who play their home games across the border in Oswestry, Shropshire, have also been given a mouth-watering home tie against Greek giants Panathinaikos โ who have reached the last-eight of the European Cup on five occasions and lost the 1971 final to Ajax.
Chelsea will make the reverse trip to Greece as part of their six-game schedule.
As with the Champions League and Europa League, for the first time this season all the qualifiers will be in one 36-team league phase, rather than eight four-team groups.
At Friday afternoonโs draw in Monaco a new computer software was used to give each team three home games and three away ties.
The top-eight sides in the table after the initial phase ends in December go straight into the last-16, with the sides finishing 9th to 24th facing a two-legged knockout tie to join them.
The teams in 25th to 36th will be eliminated from European competition entirely.
We are ๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ป๐ฒ.
We are ๐จ๐๐๐ ๐๐ผ๐ป๐ณ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ด๐๐ฒ.โค๏ธ๐ @europacnfleague #WeAreLarne #ForTheTown pic.twitter.com/Um5fK5xUjY
โ Larne Football Club ๐ (@larnefc) August 29, 2024
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The draw
Chelsea will host Gent, Shamrock Rovers and FC Noah (Armenia)
They will visit Heidenheim, Astana (Kazhakstan) and Panathinaikos.
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Hearts will host Heidenheim, Omonoia Nicosia and Petrocub (Moldova).
They will visit Copenhagen, Cercle Bruges and Dinamo Minsk
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Shamrock Rovers will host Apoel Nicosia, The New Saints and Borac (Bosnia).
They will visit Chelsea, Rapid Vienna and Larne.
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The New Saints will host Djurgardens, Astana and Panathinaikos
They will visit Fiorentina, Shamrock Rovers and Celje (Slovenia).
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Larne will host Gent, Shamrock Rovers and St Gallen.
They will visit Molde, Olimpija (Slovenia) and Dinamo Minsk.
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The fixture order and dates will be released by UEFA on Saturday.
Our opponents in the league phase of the 2024-25 UEFA Conference League have been confirmed!#UECL | @europacnfleague pic.twitter.com/d6VEpWi5hK
โ The New Saints FC (@tnsfc) August 30, 2024
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