Friday, August 7, 2009

[football] Champions League Qualifiers: Arsenal Faces Celtic


Arsenal will face Celtic and Atletico Madrid will face Panthanaikos in the final qualifiers of the UEFA Champions League. In the draw decide today the teams had two different groups depending upon the way they have reached the qualifiers. The champion teams of lower ranking federations were in the Champions Route. They were drawn as follows:

FC Sheriff (Macedonia) vs Olympiakos (Greece)
FC Salzburg (Austria) vs M Hafia FC (Israel)
FK Ventspils (Latvia) vs FC Zurich (Switzerland)
FC Copenhagen (Denmark) vs APOEL FC (Serbia)
PFC Levskki Sofia (Bulgaria) vs Debrecan (Hungary)

The non-champion teams from higher ranked federations who had to play the qualifiers were in the non-champions route. The draw is as follwed:

Olympique Lyon (France) vs RSC Andrelecht (Belgium)
Celtic FC (Scotland) vs Arsenal FC(England)
FC Timisoara (Romania) vs VFB Stuttgart (Germany)
Sporting CP (Portugal) vs Fiorentina (Italy)
Panthanaikos (Greece) vs Atletico Madrid (Spain)

The matches will be played on 18, 19 and 25, 26 th of august.

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