GENEVA (AP) – Seven-time European champion AC Milan faced Shamrock Rovers of Ireland at the time of Europa League qualifying on Monday.
The tiebreaker match is scheduled for 17 September enthusiasts at Dublin’s 8,000-seat Shamrock Rovers stadium.
Milan travelled to Ireland forty-five years ago to draw 0-0 with Athlone Town in a first leg at the circular time of the UEFA Cup. Milan won the lap fit 3-0.
Milan has not played in the Champions League since 2014 and is returning to the festival at the level of time after accepting a one-year suspension due to a violation of UEFA’s monetary rules.
Tottenham, a Champions League finalist 15 months ago, also showed up an away match in Bulgaria against Lokomotiv Plovdiv.
UEFA has ordered that all Europa League qualifying rounds be single-match matches due to the tight schedule of a back-and-down season due to a pandemic.
Milan and Tottenham will have to go through 3 qualifying rounds to be part of the draw of the organization of 48 teams scheduled for October 2 in Athens.
Other teams, such as PSV Eindhoven and Sporting Lisbon, will participate in Tuesday’s 3rd qualifying round draw.
The organizations that have qualified for the organisational level are Arsenal, Leicester, Napoli, Rome, Bayer Leverkusen and CSKA Moscow.
Among the 46 toures made on Monday, The Champions League regular Galatasaray, attracted by Azerbaijan Nephestai, two-time UEFA Cup champion Gothenburg, will welcome Copenhagen and Wolfsburg attracted to Albania against Kukus.
UEFA has proposed 4 impartial countries, Cyprus, Greece, Hungary and Poland, as characteristics to accommodate whether a country cannot accommodate an adjustment due to skill restrictions imposed to involve the coronavirus.
Monday’s draw included league winners who moved to the Europa League after being eliminated in the Champions League qualifying rounds in August.
Two of them lately seem pleasing to the Court of Arbitration for Sport who oppose UEFA’s court orders to lose. UEFA declined to comment on the cases on Monday.
Slovan Bratislava of Slovakia and Drita of Kosovo were denied the opportunity to play through the local government, in the Faroe Islands and Switzerland, respectively, after testing the positive players in COVID-19 the pre-match checks required by UEFA. Urgent CAS verdicts are expected this week.
Two games which were postponed last week in the first qualifying round after players tested positive have been given rescheduled dates.
Nemme Kalju of Estonia and Mura from Slovenia will travel to Budapest in impartial Hungary to play their fit on 10 September. Maccabi Haifa will receive the city of Bosnia and Herzegovina on September 9 in Israel.
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