SHAMROCK ROVERS WILL be among the sides in today’s draw for the Europa Conference League group phase: the first time an Irish side has been involved in the third-tier competition.
Rovers’ co-efficient ranking means they will be among the third seeds in today’s draw, which takes place in Istanbul from 1pm. They are one of 10 sides dropping into the competition having lost the play-off round for the Europa League.
The draw will decide eight groups of four teams, consisting of a team from each of the four pots. Teams will play each other home and away across six matchdays, with the games quashed into a tighter schedule than normal to allow for the winter World Cup.
The winner of each group will advance to the last-16 phase, with the group runner-up advancing to the last-32, where they will meet sides who finished third in their Europa League group. Rovers have confirmed they will play all of their home games at Tallaght Stadium.
Here’s the draw in full, with Rovers to face one side from each of pots one, two, and four.
Clubs are listed according to their co-efficient ranking, with Villarreal, semi-finalists in the Champions League last season, the top-ranked side in the competition.
This is the second edition of the competition, with Jose Mourinho’s Roma winning the inaugural tournament last season.
Pot One
- Villarreal (Spain)
- FC Basel (Switzerland)
- Slavia Prague (Czech Republic)
- AZ Alkmaar (Netherlands)
- Gent (Belgium)
- Istanbul Basaksehir (Turkey)
- Partizan Belgrade (Serbia)
- West Ham United (England)
Pot Two
- CFR Cluj (Romania)
- Molde (Norway)
- FCSB (Romania)
- Fiorentina (Italy)
- FC Koln (Germany)
- Hapoel Beer-Sheva (Israel)
- Apollon Limassol (Cyprus)
- Slovan Bratislava (Slovakia)
Pot Three
- Nice (France)
- Anderlecht (Belgium)
- Zalgiris Vilnius (Lithuania)
- Austria Wien (Austria)
- Hearts (Scotland)
- Shamrock Rovers (Republic of Ireland)
- Sivasspor (Turkey)
- FC Vaduz (Liechtenstein)
Pot Four
- Dnipro (Ukraine)
- Lech Poznan (Poland)
- FC Slovacko (Czech Republic)
- Silkeborg (Denmark)
- Djurgardens (Sweden)
- Pyunik Yerevan (Armenia)
- RFS Riga (Latvia)
- FC Ballkani (Kosovo)
Europa Conference League Group Stage Dates
Matchday 1: 8 September 2022
Matchday 2: 15 September 2022
Matchday 3: 6 October 2022
Matchday 4: 13 October 2022
Matchday 5: 27 October 2022
Matchday 6: 3 November 2022
Jamie Cudmore up against O’Connell yet again. This one could get spicy.
Culmore isn’t fit to lace O Connells boots.
Cudmore is a thug and O’Connell is a legend of the game. No competition.
I agree Cudmore is a thug. But jesus he put in a shift today. Credit where credit is due and all that…
Cudmore and Lee smashed OConnell &Co backwards all night long.
Cmon the red army.
Best dressing room ever!!
I hope Munster don’t lose.they done enough whinging on here when they won against ulster the other week.imagine the cribs and crystal from them if they lose
Christmas can come early tonight…..Come on Munster!
Jesus Christ munster are brutal
A loss would end Munsters interest? That’s a tad presumptuous, a loss would be a major setback but they’d still have every chance to go through!
Come on Munster!!
Which Clermont will show up??should be a great contest..
Munsters game plan.
Do nothing for ages.
Get into the Clermont half
Drop the ball
Some first half performance from clermont, one of the best I’ve seen from an away side at thomond park.
Well done Clermont. Massive defense. Better team all round. Munster just not at the races today.
Munster tackling isn’t great.
Amazing from Clermont. Convincing winners. Completely deserved that. Their fans were amazing too. #16th man.
Munster need to pull out socks up rapidly. Keep it simple… simple.
Barnes… the rules apply to both teams hy the way
So many knock-on’s at crucial moments, most of them from Cronin.
Not good enough at this level.
Does wayne barnes be watching something entirely different to the rest of us?
thetruth, we’re not blaming the referee this time. He was 80% correct all evening. Munster just did not play the way we hoped they would.
#BringinJOE in for this team talk
Munster half backs are awful today.
They were behind a failing breakdown, so Murray was under enormous pressure all the time, so I wouldn’t blame him too much, but Keatley was pretty poor all round I thought.
Munster are just handing this game to Claremont
Clermont may have the points so far, but watching Munster, I can’t see them losing this. Come on the boys in red.
Wrong Peter.
All smart after the fact, eh, captain hindsight?
Munster made basic errors. Our kicking game was very poor. We butchered three separate mauls by dropping the ball and set piece was hit and miss. Injury meant there weren’t quality bench players to call upon and just beaten at our own game by a superior side.
keatley’s kicks tonight…??!
Media’s darling Conor
Murray’s kicks were even worse. Gerry Thornley won’t be able to do his usual love in if he’s reporting this game.
Clermont were up for this match tonight. Hugely intense & Munster couldn’t deal with it especially up front where Munster planned to dominate.
Some match as intense as a full test match.