Breaking down First Qualifying Round of the Europa League Part 1
July 9th 2011 19:17
The 2011/2012 Europa League started with a bang. With over 52 clubs playing in the first round the excitement was extreme.
Over the next five posts i will breakdown each match-up and give the next opponent for the club.
The first five teams advancing to the second round of the Europa League are:
1. FC Shakhter Karagandy of Kazakhstan. Karagandy defeated Koper 2-1 in the second leg and 3-2 on aggregate to advance to play St. Patrick's Athletic FC from the Republic of Ireland. Karagandy will host the first match. St. Patrick's also came thru the first round qualifying.
2. Metalurgi Rustavi of Georgia. Rustavi drew in their second leg 1-1 but won 2-1 on aggregate to defeat Banants. Rustavi will host the next team on our list.
3. FC Irtysh Pavlodar of Kazakhstan. Irtysh won the second leg of their match-up with Jagiellonia Bialystok 2-0 to steal the match-up 2-1 on aggregate. Irtysh will be on the road for the first leg of the second round against the previous mention team Metalurgi Rustavi.
4. Ferencvarosi TC of Hungary. Ferencvarosi defeated Ulisses 2-0 in the second leg and 5-0 overall to advance to the next round where the will meet Aalesunds FK of Norway who defeated Neath in the First round. Ferencvarosi will be at home.
5. KS Flamurtari of Albania. Flamurtari Lost the second leg to Buducnost Podgorica 2-1 but won the aggregate 4-3. They advance to meet FK Jablonec of Czech Republic in the next round. Jablonec will host Flamurtari. This will be Jablonec's first match of the Europa League.
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