[kevbrunton]

With the 3rd round of qualifying now complete, the stage is set for the drawing tomorrow. The 32 teams are:

Automatic Qualifiers:

Ajax (Hol)
Arsenal (Eng)
Bayer Leverkusen (Ger)
Borussia Dortmund (Ger)
Deportivo La Coruna (Spa)
Galatsaray (Tur)
Juventus (Ita)
Lens (Fra)
Liverpool (Eng)
Olympique Lyonnais (Fra)
Olympiakos Piraeus (Gre)
PSV Eindhoven (Hol)
Real Madrid (Spa)
Roma (Ita)
Spartak Moscow (Rus)
Valencia (Spa)

The other qualifiers are:

AC Milan (Ita)
AEK Athens (Gre)
Auxerre (Fra)
Barcelona (Spa)
Basel (Swi)
Bayern Munich (Ger)
Club Brugge (Bel)
Dynamo Kiev (Ukr)
Feyenoord (Hol)
Haifa (Isr)
Inter Milan (Ita)
Lokomotiv Moscow (Rus)
Manchester United (Eng)
Newcastle United (Eng)
Racing Genk (Bel)
Rosenborg (Nor)


The final team count by country is:

Spain, Italy & England -- 4 each
Germany, Holland & France -- 3 each
Belgium, Greece & Russia -- 2 each
Israel, Norway, Switzerland, Turkey & Ukraine -- 1 each.

[Spartak]

Here are the seedings:

Pot 1
Real Madrid
Bayern Munich
Manchester United
FC Barcelona
Valencia
Juventus
Arsenal
Internazionale

Pot 2
Deportivo La Coruna
Bayer Leverkusen
Liverpool
Galatasaray
AS Roma
Olympique Lyon
Borussia Dortmund
Feyenoord

Pot 3
AC Milan
PSV Eindhoven
Dynamo Kiev
Spartak Moscow
Lokomotiv Moscow
Olympiakos Piraeus
AEK Athens
Ajax

Pot 4
Rosenborg BK
RC Lens
Newcastle United
Club Brugge
AJ Auxerre
Racing Genk
Maccabi Haifa
FC Basel

[Clan]

How the hell did Inter pull that one off???????

[NASL Fan]

Originally posted by Clanblue
How the hell did Inter pull that one off???????

Isn't it all derived from some coefficient system? Looks like Inter is the 8th seed, which is a bit surprising since Bayer Leverkusen, CL finalists last year, are 10th.

And I bet you the advertisers are really thrilled to see the last two teams at the bottom there in the "lucrative" CL... Maccabi Haifa and FC Basel

[Clan]

They do use some sort of ranking system, but i didn't think Inter would make it.
Deportivo, bayer and the scouse have done well in the past few yeras whilst Inter ae all have been noted for their early dismisals from European competition.

Wonder if they will be playing games in Israel or forcing them to play their "home" games elsewhere.

[Spartak]

Go here for the full list of rankings.
http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Ekassiesa/bert/uefa/trank02.html

[thepremierleague]

Newcastle are way ahead of any of the crap in pot 4. They haven't been in Europe enough though, and have been pretty crap the last 4 years before Bobby took over.

On current form however Newcastle should be in pot 3 at least, and Inter pot 2.

[Syncope]

http://www.uefa.com/competitions/UCL...sId=31360.html

[AFCA]

PSV are both in pot 2 and 3.

[SueB]

Inter won the UEFA Cup not too many years ago. There is no difference in for the sake of the coefficients between winning a game in the UEFA Cup and winning games in the Champions League.