Europa League First Round Recap

A total of 100 teams began their UEFA Europa League adventure yesterday as the First Qualifying Round took place all over Europe. It was a very mixed bag of results for clubs in Britain and Ireland with representation from clubs in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic.

Although Glasgow Rangers won thanks to a Kenny Miller strike they will probably asking themselves how they have not got more of an advantage going into the return leg with Luxembourg’s Progres Niedercorn. A tie which is still very much in the balance.

St Johnstone went behind twice and ultimately ended up losing 2-1 to Lithuanian side FK Trakai, while Bala Town of Wales suffered the same fate as they lost to Liechtenstein’s biggest club FC Vaduz (the country does not have a league system and only the cup winners are represented in Europe)

Connah’s Quay Nomads of the Welsh Premier League take a slender advantage into their second leg tie with an impressive 1-0 win over HJK Helsinki while there were very mixed fortunes for clubs on both sides of the Irish border. While Bangor City lost to Denmark’s Lyngby 1-0

There were heavy defeats for both Coleraine of the Northern Irish Premiership and Derry City of the League Of Ireland. Coleraine were thumped 7-0 by Haugesund of Norway while Derry suffered a 6-1 loss at the hands of Midtjylland.

Ballymena United were dealt a 3-0 loss at the hands of Norwegian opposition once again, this time Odd Grenland being the victors, while LOI outfit Shamrock Rovers picked up a crucial win in Iceland as they beat Stjarnan by just a single goal and Cork City beat Estonia’s Levadia Tallinn 2-0 away from home

Here is a rundown of all the first leg Europa League scores

 

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Maccabi Tel Aviv	Match 1	Tirana	2–0	6 Jul
Mladost Lučani	Match 2	Inter Baku	0–3	6 Jul
Shirak	Match 3	Gorica	0–2	6 Jul
Shkëndija	Match 4[A]	Dacia Chișinău	3–0	6 Jul
Trenčín	Match 5	Torpedo Kutaisi	5–1	6 Jul
Kairat	Match 6	Atlantas	6–0	6 Jul
Chikhura Sachkhere	Match 7	Rheindorf Altach	0–1	6 Jul
Zira	Match 8	Differdange 03	2–0	6 Jul
Levski Sofia	Match 9	Sutjeska Nikšić	3–1	6 Jul
Lech Poznań	Match 10	Pelister	4–0	6 Jul
Beitar Jerusalem	Match 11	Vasas	4–3	6 Jul
Fola Esch	Match 12	Milsami Orhei	2–1	6 Jul
Vojvodina	Match 13	Ružomberok	2–1	6 Jul
Irtysh Pavlodar	Match 14	Dunav Ruse	1–0	6 Jul
Mladost Podgorica	Match 15	Gandzasar Kapan	1–0	6 Jul
Široki Brijeg	Match 16[A]	Ordabasy	2–0	6 Jul
Partizani Tirana	Match 17	Botev Plovdiv	1–3	6 Jul
Pyunik	Match 18[A]	Slovan Bratislava	1–4	6 Jul
Dinamo Batumi	Match 19[A]	Jagiellonia Białystok	0–1	6 Jul
Videoton	Match 20	Balzan	2–0	4 Jul
Red Star Belgrade	Match 21	Floriana	3–0	6 Jul
UE Santa Coloma	Match 22	Osijek	0–2	6 Jul
Tre Penne	Match 23[A]	Rabotnički	0–1	6 Jul
Željezničar Sarajevo	Match 24	Zeta	1–0	6 Jul
St Joseph’s	Match 25[A]	AEL Limassol	0–4	6 Jul
Valletta	Match 26	Folgore	2–0	6 Jul
Zaria Bălți	Match 27	Sarajevo	2–1	6 Jul
Rangers	Match 28	Progrès Niederkorn	1–0	4 Jul
AEK Larnaca	Match 29	Lincoln Red Imps	5–0	6 Jul
Skënderbeu Korçë	Match 30	Sant Julià	1–0	6 Jul
Ventspils	Match 31	Valur	0–0	6 Jul
Bala Town	Match 32	Vaduz	1–2	6 Jul
Domžale	Match 33	Flora Tallinn	2–0	6 Jul
Midtjylland	Match 34	Derry City	6–1	6 Jul
Haugesund	Match 35	Coleraine	7–0	6 Jul
St Johnstone	Match 36	Trakai	1–2	6 Jul
VPS	Match 37	Olimpija Ljubljana	1–0	6 Jul
Crusaders	Match 38	Liepāja	3–1	6 Jul
Dinamo Minsk	Match 39	NSÍ Runavík	2–1	6 Jul
Stjarnan	Match 40	Shamrock Rovers	0–1	6 Jul
Odd	Match 41	Ballymena United	3–0	6 Jul
Connah’s Quay Nomads	Match 42	HJK	1–0	6 Jul
Nõmme Kalju	Match 43	B36 Tórshavn	2–1	6 Jul
Ferencváros	Match 44	Jelgava	2–0	6 Jul
IFK Norrköping	Match 45	Prishtina	5–0	6 Jul
Shakhtyor Soligorsk	Match 46	Sūduva Marijampolė	0–0	6 Jul
KR	Match 47[A]	SJK	0–0	6 Jul
Levadia Tallinn	Match 48	Cork City	0–2	6 Jul
Lyngby	Match 49	Bangor City	1–0	6 Jul
KÍ	Match 50[A]	AIK	0–0	6 Jul